Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
Express.co.uk
Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.
Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/
blog
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
How we spent under half a million dollars to build a 30 petabyte data storage cluster in downtown San Francisco
Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code
Alephic
The Magic of Claude Code
Claude Code combines a terminal-based Unix command interface with filesystem access to give LLMs persistent memory and seamless tool chaining, transforming it into a powerful agentic operating system for coding and note-taking. Its simple, composable approach…
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
Google
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail - Gmail Help
Starting January 2026, Gmail will no longer provide support for the following features: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied
Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
Mastodon
daniel:// stenberg:// (@[email protected])
Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, but still bugs and there could be one or two actual security flaws in there. Actually…
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets https://signal.org/blog/spqr/
Signal
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s resilience against future quantum computing threats while…
The collapse of the econ PhD job market https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-econ-phd-job
Chrisbrunet
The Collapse of the Econ PhD Job Market
What is an Economics PhD worth in 2025?
Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/
www.riksbank.se
Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
Read more on the Riksbank’s website.
Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html
CNBC
Jeff Bezos says AI is in an industrial bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits from the tech
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that artificial intelligence is showing signs of being in an "industrial bubble."
Zig builds are getting faster https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm
ScienceDaily
Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and carbon compounds. A colossal collision with Theia likely changed…
A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md
GitHub
AoC2023/More_Detailed_Comparison.md at master · johnperry-math/AoC2023
2023 Advent of Code in Ada. Contribute to johnperry-math/AoC2023 development by creating an account on GitHub.
ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving https://github.com/DebarghaG/proofofthought
GitHub
GitHub - DebarghaG/proofofthought: Proof of thought : LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving with multiple backend support…
Proof of thought : LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving with multiple backend support (SMT2 and JSON DSL) - DebarghaG/proofofthought
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936
Joins
NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available
A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.