• CFTC used emergency authority to keep KalshiEX operating under federal Commodity Exchange Act.
• KalshiEX's market emergency arose after NY Attorney General sued, seeking $36B damages and halt.
• NY lawsuit aims to block KalshiEX’s event contracts citing state gaming laws.
• CFTC emphasized federal jurisdiction over derivatives exchanges, rejecting state gaming regulation.
• CFTC has filed multiple lawsuits against states to protect federal oversight of derivatives markets.#CFTC #KalshiEX #Derivatives

• Pen plotter repurposed to etch holograms by creating reflective ridges encoding depth.
• Reflective ridge curvature controls highlight movement, simulating 3D depth perception.
• CD jewel cases found effective medium for etching holographic patterns with a sharp stylus.
• Point-source flashlight required for best holographic illusion due to light reflection properties.
• Etched holograms retain complete scene info even when cut into small pieces, emphasizing holographic nature.#Holography #PenPlotter #DIYTech

• New Bedford officer Emily Pacheco accused of tracking ex-girlfriend using Flock license plate readers.
• Judge ordered Pacheco to surrender firearms and suspended her carry license after abuse prevention order.
• Police department suspended Flock camera use and opened internal investigations, placing an officer on leave.
• Pacheco performed hundreds of vehicle searches from April to June, often citing 'traffic infraction' as reason.
• Public and city councilors demand regulation or removal of Flock cameras amid privacy abuse concerns.#PoliceSurveillance #PrivacyAbuse #NewBedford

• Research Gold claims to provide 100% human-written medical research but uses AI-generated content.
• PhD reviewers listed by Research Gold are either AI-generated or real people unaware of their identity use.
• An AI assistant called Sarah handles company calls, denying its AI nature while promoting services.
• Research Gold offers a systemic review service for $1,900 involving AI-generated communication and processes.
• The company removed unauthorized real methodologists from its site after exposure, but did not respond to inquiries.#MedicalResearch #AI #AcademicPublishing

• Gorton is a utilitarian, monoline routing font created for pantograph engraving machines dating back to 1902.
• It originated from Taylor, Taylor & Hobson in the UK and was licensed to George Gorton Machine Co. in the US.
• Gorton has been used widely on machinery, signage, typewriters, equipment dials, and even Apollo spacecraft.
• Popular derivatives include Leroy lettering sets and Hershey vector fonts, and it influenced many technical lettering standards.
• Despite its ubiquity, Gorton is largely anonymous, outdated, and fading, but remains omnipresent in places like Manhattan.#GortonFont #TypographyHistory #FontDesign

• llama.cpp runs on various hardware including Apple Silicon, RTX 5090, CPU, Jetson, and H100.
• Users can run local coding agents by serving a model with 'llama serve' and installing 'pi-llama' plugin.
• Pi tool automatically discovers local llama models without config or API keys; files stay local.
• llama.cpp uses the same binary and hand-tuned kernels across all supported GPUs and CPUs.
• Supported hardware includes MI300, RTX 4090, A100, M Pro, M Max, DGX Spark, T4, Radeon RX, B200, Intel Arc, and RTX 3090.#llamaCPP #localAI #machinelearning

• In 2000, David became Polo Ralph Lauren s in-house photographer via a classified ad.
• He found the original job listing in the New York Times classifieds dated January 16, 2000.
• The ad described a staff photographer role requiring 4x5 camera proficiency and heavy volume work.
• David verified details using his extensive digital archives and accessed 150 years of Times newspapers.
• He reminisced about old job searching methods and shared the discovery online for others to reflect on.#JobHunting #PhotographyCareer #DigitalArchives

• LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 is an AI tool that transforms topics into typical LinkedIn-style posts.
• Users input a topic and select from six cringe styles like 'The Hot Take' and 'The Vulnerability Post'.
• The tool generates authentic thought leadership™ content mimicking current LinkedIn trends.
• Styles include empowerment, shameless promotion, quitting 9-5, and speaking uncomfortable truths.
• Website launched on August 11, 2026; offers sponsorship via email cringebot3000@proton.me.#LinkedInCringe #AIWriting #SocialMediaSatire

• Far-right agitator Hugo Lennon monetized on Facebook since Sept 2025, despite racist content.
• The Noticer, promoting neo-Nazi views, earned from Facebook's program since Nov 2025.
• Anti-immigration and anti-vaccine pages also paid by Facebook's content monetization program.
• Facebook claims monetization policies are enforced, but controversial creators remain funded.
• Meta paid nearly $4.27 billion to 16.2 million accounts in 2025, with some policy violations noted.#FacebookMonetization #FarRightContent #MetaTransparency

• Tech executives predict AI will reduce work hours, aiming for four-day work weeks by 2025.
• Former OpenAI employee reports 70-90 hour work weeks during sprints, with weekend work common.
• Meta employees report being involuntarily reassigned to AI projects with long, on-call hours.
• UC Berkeley study finds AI increases workload pace, task breadth, and work hours for tech workers.
• AI time savings often absorbed by additional tasks and constant output checking, negating workload reduction.#AIWorkload #TechIndustry #WorkHours

• FAA recruited over 2,000 video gamers to train as air traffic controllers.
• Gamers possess skills like quick thinking and multitasking relevant to air traffic control.
• FAA meets 94% of its hiring goal with more than 2,000 candidates in pipeline.
• Median air traffic controller salary was $144,580 in 2024.
• Candidates must pass FAA tests, be US citizens, under 31, and pass an aptitude exam.#AirTrafficControl #GamingSkills #FAARecruitment

• Author took a multi-week break from AI usage during summer 2026.
• Returned to find many unfinished AI tasks causing guilt and stress.
• Recognized AI use often acted as a crutch, reducing curiosity and confidence.
• Noted AI fosters dependency and complex productivity loops, not always beneficial.
• Plans intentional AI use to enhance work without losing human insight and control.#AIUsage #HumanInTheLoop #TechHabits

• The next total solar eclipse will occur in 2026.
• A website has interactive webcams tracking the eclipse path.
• Totality begins in approximately 3 hours 34 minutes from the snapshot time.
• The eclipse will reach the first webcam in about 4 hours 14 minutes.
• The site uses Leaflet and OpenStreetMap for map visualization.#SolarEclipse2026 #TotalEclipse #LiveWebcams

• In August 2026, OpenAI's LLMs solved 10 major math problems, including a non-sofic group and a superexponential Ramsey number lower bound.
• LLMs excel at finding counterexamples and examples, often via brute-force trial and broad mathematical knowledge.
• Finding a counterexample depends on context; existential statements can be examples or counterexamples.
• LLMs likely rely on exploring vast search trees, lacking humans' ability to prune unfruitful paths efficiently.
• Future breakthroughs depend on LLMs developing 'mathematical nose' for novel, deep insights beyond brute force.#AIinMath #MathBreakthrough #LLM

• Woxi is a Wolfram Language interpreter implemented in Rust.
• Runs entirely in the browser locally without sending data externally.
• Available as playground, command-line tool, Jupyter kernel, and native notebook editor.
• Supports graphical outputs like plots, charts, graphs, and tree forms.
• Woxi Studio edits .nb files and exports to formats like .ipynb, Markdown, and PDF.#WolframLanguage #RustLang #WebAssembly

• AI enables rapid, large-scale code changes, increasing complexity and technical debt.
• Teams struggle to understand and maintain AI-generated code, leading to convoluted systems.
• Bad engineering decisions compound faster due to AI's speed, hard to reverse.
• High-value engineers are those who can effectively judge and manage AI contributions.
• AI polarizes engineering roles, making mediocre skills less employable and top skills more valuable.#AIinEngineering #TechIndustry #SoftwareDevelopment

• Norfolk court ruled ALPR data collection not an illegal search, but future warrant likely needed.
• ALPR cameras cost under $3,000 each, effective for crime flagging and active alerts.
• Historical ALPR searches (past 3 minutes) should require police warrant to prevent abuse.
• Data deletion policies do not prevent misuse, limit law enforcement and defense utility.
• States should mandate warrants and independent audits for historical ALPR data searches.#ALPR #PrivacyLaw #PoliceSurveillance

• Tailscale experienced 19 SQLite database corruption incidents over six months starting August 2025.
• The corruption was caused by a 16-year-old SQLite bug called the WAL-Reset bug involving a checkpoint-write race.
• The bug was fixed in SQLite 3.52.0, though an associated false alarm issue led to a revised 3.51.3 release.
• Tailscale uses manual checkpointing of SQLite WAL files and aggressive backups, triggering the rare bug.
• After deploying the fix, Tailscale confirmed the bug's activity via warnings and stabilized their database reliability.#SQLiteBug #DatabaseCorruption #TailscaleFix

• uBlock Origin developers announced they will stop filtering Facebook ads due to complexity.
• Facebook uses tactics like splitting and randomizing 'Sponsored' tag letters to evade filters.
• Facebook's ad blocking resistance has lasted about five years with evolving anti-blocking methods.
• Google Chrome's switch to Manifest V3 has limited uBlock Origin's effectiveness.
• Firefox and Brave browsers still support uBlock Origin, but Chrome and Edge phase it out.#FacebookAds #uBlockOrigin #AdBlocking

• Worms: The Director's Cut - 30th Anniversary Expansion includes 40+ new levels and 50+ sample packs.
• The expansion adds 10 DIY terrains and many new teams to the game.
• A remix album with nine new tracks inspired by the original Worms theme is available for download.
• An online tool allows users to create dual-layer maps, mountain sets, terrains, and teams via browser.
• The project was curated and produced by Andy Davidson and Ben 'Squirminator2k' Paddon, under Team17 Digital Ltd.#Worms30th #GamingExpansion #Team17

• Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is a 2.4 trillion parameter causal language model with 95B activated parameters.
• It supports a native context length of 262,144 tokens, extendable to over 1 million tokens.
• Qwen3.8 enhances coding, professional work, research, and long-horizon task capabilities over previous Qwen versions.
• It integrates with SGLang, vLLM, TokenSpeed and offers APIs via Qwen Cloud for scalable inference.
• Benchmark tests show Qwen3.8-Max generally outperforms Qwen3.7-Max and approaches or exceeds scores of GPT-5.6 Sol on many coding and general benchmarks.#Qwen38 #AIModel #LanguageModel