Nature - A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.”…

We value children more than ever. But we're suffocating them.

GitHub update on the postponement of the price increase for GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners to $0.002 per minute. Below is a screenshot of the update shared on X (@github).

Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground…

In this conversation, Robby speaks with Don MacKinnon, Lead Architect and Engineering Manager at Searchcraft, about reducing unnecessary complexity, choosing the right abstractions, and designing software for the long haul.

An independent review of the newly implemented National Security Act suggests that developers of encrypted messaging apps may be considered hostile actors. This, as lawmakers' pressure against encryption keeps growing.

... at least when you're doing research, not development

A growing number of schools across the country use AI-powered surveillance to detect guns and contraband, all in the name of making schools safer.

Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.

Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain…

Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/

I name my AI sub-agents after people who inspire me—not whimsy, but a practice for remembering who the work is actually for.

After 486Tang, I wanted to go back to where x86 started. The result is z8086: a 8086/8088 core that runs the original Intel microcode. Instead of hand‑coding hundreds of instructions, the core loads the recovered 512x21 ROM and recreates the micro‑architecture…

“The U.S. taxpayers have a right to this data.”

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …