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.
Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-figure-03
FigureAI
Introducing Figure 03
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
Anthropic
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it
Miguelgrinberg
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…
Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps https://data-star.dev/
Datastar
The hypermedia framework.
Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/
OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year https://www.supergoodcode.com/mesh-shaders-in-the-current-year/
Supergoodcode
Mesh Shaders In The Current Year
It Happened.
I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery https://fulghum.io/album-cards
Jordan Fulghum
Album Cards: Rebuilding the Joy of Music Discovery for My 10-Year-Old
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.
The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/twin-towers-construction-photographs/
Rare Historical Photos
The World Trade Center Under Construction Through Fascinating Photos, 1966-1979 - Rare Historical Photos
The photographic journey of the construction of the World Trade Center buildings, a long-gone icon of New York City.