Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
NY Times
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
His departure came days after the company cut 30 percent of the staff. He will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, the chief financial officer, the company said.
Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
GitHub
GitHub - localgpt-app/localgpt
Contribute to localgpt-app/localgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
That Joe Scott
Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
It’s been talked about for a while (in fact I covered this 6 years ago), but a lot of things have been said about the potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. This global current…
Why there is no official statement from Substack about the data leak
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-phone-numbers/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-phone-numbers/
TechCrunch
Substack confirms data breach affects users' email addresses and phone numbers | TechCrunch
Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025 but wasn't discovered until early February.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
the Guardian
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
LLMs as Language Compilers: Lessons from Fortran for the Future of Coding
https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/australian-outback-nuclear-tests-listening-warramunga-facility/106307478
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/australian-outback-nuclear-tests-listening-warramunga-facility/106307478
www.abc.net.au
In the Australian outback listening for nuclear tests is more important than ever
As the New START treaty curbing the US and Russian nuclear weapons programs expires, the work we do here in the red centre has become more important than ever before.
Dave Farber has passed away
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/bitcoin-drops-below-70-000-as-forced-deleveraging-accelerates
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/bitcoin-drops-below-70-000-as-forced-deleveraging-accelerates
Bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Drops Below $70,000, Wiping Out Gain Since Trump’s Win
Bitcoin tumbled below $61,000, as the unwinding of leveraged bets and broader market turbulence deepened a selloff that has wiped out all of the gains since President Donald Trump’s election set off a speculative rush into cryptocurrencies.
Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/
https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/
blog.hofstede.it
Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing | Larvitz Blog
How I obtained my own AS number and IPv6 prefix, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, and built a tunnel overlay to bring globally routable addresses to servers that already have provider-assigned IPv6 - using dual-FIB policy routing to make both coexist.
Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/noam-chomskys-wife-responds-to-epstein
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/noam-chomskys-wife-responds-to-epstein
www.aaronmate.net
Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."
Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41506004/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41506004/
PubMed
Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia - PubMed
This study expands the evidence of a beneficial association of omega-3 and LOD to EOD as well. These findings suggest that an increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids earlier in life may slow the development of EOD. Additional research is needed to confirm…