Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7
SpringerLink
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
Journal of the History of Biology - This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the...
Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
MIT News
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
I'm in love with a German film star
https://heatherburns.tech/2026/10/01/im-in-love-with-a-german-film-star/
https://heatherburns.tech/2026/10/01/im-in-love-with-a-german-film-star/
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
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Dan Roberts (@danintheory) on X
We've updated our GitHub math repo with 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals. The repo now has ~42% top-line results formalized. We will continue to update the repo with …
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Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
the Guardian
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of Red
US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/us-suspends-visa-program-for-tech-firms-including-microsoft
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/us-suspends-visa-program-for-tech-firms-including-microsoft
Bloomberg.com
US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft
The Trump administration accused Microsoft Corp., Adobe Inc. and a half-dozen other companies of abusing a US worker visa program and suspended them indefinitely from a longstanding immigration initiative that’s served as a crucial talent pipeline for Silicon…
US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-suspending-permanent-residency-program-for-microsoft-vance-says-2026-10-08/
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-suspending-permanent-residency-program-for-microsoft-vance-says-2026-10-08/
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
openrouter.ai
Step 5 Preview - API Pricing & Providers
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output…
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
https://blog.pentlander.com/the-deeply-impersonal-personalized-recruiter-mail/
https://blog.pentlander.com/the-deeply-impersonal-personalized-recruiter-mail/
Pentlander Blog
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
Lately I’ve encountered a new species of software engineer recruiter mail. It goes something like this:
Your work on infrastructure at Railway, along with y...
Your work on infrastructure at Railway, along with y...
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-keeps-1-1-1-1-out-of-piracy-blocking-escapes-penalties-in-france/
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-keeps-1-1-1-1-out-of-piracy-blocking-escapes-penalties-in-france/
Torrentfreak
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting Canal+'s request for penalties of €50,000 per site, per day. Interestingly…
The value of not getting to the point (2015)
https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances
https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-drake-urges-crypto-bunker-mode-as-ai-could-break-wallet-security-within-months
https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-drake-urges-crypto-bunker-mode-as-ai-could-break-wallet-security-within-months
Cointelegraph
Ethereum Researchers Warn AI Could Crack Crypto Before Q-Day
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has backed a warning from Ethereum researcher Justin Drake that advances in artificial intelligence could threaten the cryptographic algorithms used to secure crypto wallets.
I think we might lose public key cryptography
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975
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Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) on X
I’ve had a few people write to ask me to follow up on a (reply!) tweet I wrote that’s gotten a lot of retweets. I considered deleting it just to avoid the headache, but I think that would make peo…