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.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/
NobelPrize.org
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"
The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf] https://www.lua.org/doc/cola.pdf
A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad https://kau.sh/blog/usbi/
kau.sh
A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad - Kaushik Gopal's Website
A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad
One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/
POLITICO
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘Chat Control’ bill – POLITICO
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/sec-approves-texas-stock-exchange-txse/
CBS News
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new U.S. fully integrated exchange in decades
The SEC approved TXSE as a national securities exchange, paving the way for the first new, fully integrated U.S. stock exchange in decades — and the only one based in Texas.
We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-found-a-bug-in-gos-arm64-compiler/
The Cloudflare Blog
How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.