AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens
https://www.rosenfeld.page/articles/programming/2026_09_02_ai_agents_and_the_refactoring_that_never_happens/
https://www.rosenfeld.page/articles/programming/2026_09_02_ai_agents_and_the_refactoring_that_never_happens/
Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf
https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf
Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o
Bbc
Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Nigeria - Africa's most populous country - is proving a tough market for ride-hailing services.
METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident
https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident
metr.org
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/netherlands-gold-dutch-central-bank-uk-us-and-canada-geopolitical-unrest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/netherlands-gold-dutch-central-bank-uk-us-and-canada-geopolitical-unrest
the Guardian
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’
Bank says gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily and the move will allow it to respond more rapidly in a ‘crisis situation’
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)
https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and-instead-of-binning-it-spent-three-years-testing-13000-seeds-in-a-spare-bedroom-the-bacteria-living-in-those-warts-made-barley/
https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and-instead-of-binning-it-spent-three-years-testing-13000-seeds-in-a-spare-bedroom-the-bacteria-living-in-those-warts-made-barley/
ScienceBlog
Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts and, instead of binning it, spent three years testing 13,000…
When three teenagers glimpsed what others dismissed as plant disease, they saw a path to solving agriculture's nitrogen problem—and the scientific establishment's skepticism only made them dig deeper.
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/japan-new-speed-limit-30kmh-narrow-city-streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/japan-new-speed-limit-30kmh-narrow-city-streets
the Guardian
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer