Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/07/pa-house-passes-click-to-cancel-subscription-bills-as-court-throws-out-federal-rule.html
Pennlive Patriot-News
Pa. House passes ‘click-to-cancel’ subscription bills as court throws out federal rule
The proposed state laws are virtually identical to the Federal Trade Commission's “click-to-cancel” rules that were struck down by an appeals court this week.
In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month https://e360.yale.edu/digest/solar-biggest-power-source-europe-june-2025
Yale Environment 360
In a First, Solar Was Europe’s Biggest Source of Power Last Month
For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc’s power.
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJCfif1dPY
YouTube
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI
Andrew Ng on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepreneurship.
In this talk, he shares what he’s learning now:…
Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepreneurship.
In this talk, he shares what he’s learning now:…
ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
ETH Zurich
A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since https://medium.com/@mikehall314/im-more-proud-of-these-128-kilobytes-than-anything-i-ve-built-since-53706cfbdc18
Medium
I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since
I once worked with a UI designer who insisted it was impossible to create a product that was both within the Web Content Accessibility…
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai
The Verge
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Key researchers are joining Google DeepMind, too.
'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/123456-password-exposed-chats-for-64-million-mcdonalds-job-applicants/
BleepingComputer
'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States.
Show HN: RULER – Easily apply RL to any agent https://openpipe.ai/blog/ruler
OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model https://twitter.com/sama/status/1943837550369812814
X (formerly Twitter)
Sam Altman (@sama) on X
we planned to launch our open-weight model next week.
we are delaying it; we need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us.
while we trust the community will build great things with this…
we are delaying it; we need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us.
while we trust the community will build great things with this…
A software conference that advocates for quality https://bettersoftwareconference.com/
Bettersoftwareconference
Better Software Conference 2025
Software is getting worse. We are here to make it better.
Monorail – Turn CSS animations into interactive SVG graphs https://muffinman.io/monorail/
muffinman.io
Monorail
Monorail turns any CSS keyframe animation into an interactive graph
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html
NY Times
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf] https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity https://www.serdashop.com/HDDClicker
Serdashop
HDD Clicker
HDD Clicker generates HDD clicking sounds, based on HDD Led activity. It allows the nostalgic harddisk sound, while using modern SSD, CF or SD cards.
Introduction to Digital Filters (2024) https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/