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Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft, with a California jury ruling unanimously that the claims were filed too late under statute of limitations law. Musk had accused the defendants of converting a charity into a for-profit entity, but jurors found any alleged harms occurred before the legal deadline to file suit. The verdict eliminates a major threat to OpenAI ahead of its reported IPO, with Musk's legal team indicating plans to appeal.

Files.md is an open-source alternative to Obsidian that stores all notes as plain .md files locally in a private, privacy-first web application. Developed over five years, the project emphasizes simplicity, offline functionality, and minimal features to foster creativity, encouraging deep thinking rather than complexity. Users can sync across devices via cloud services, self-hosted servers, or the hosted version, with additional features like a Telegram bot and a straightforward file structure.

Iran has launched a Bitcoin-backed shipping insurance program for vessels transiting the Hormuz Strait. The initiative aims to circumvent international sanctions while expanding cryptocurrency use in maritime trade.

Bitwarden's longtime CEO Michael Crandell quietly transitioned to advisory role in February and was replaced by Michael Sullivan, whose career specializes in M&A and private equity integration—expertise typically used to prepare companies for acquisition. The company also quietly removed the "Always free" commitment from its website and updated its core values without announcement, replacing "Inclusion and Transparency" with "Innovation and Trust." The author, who has switched to self-hosted Vaultwarden, warns this pattern mirrors the typical trajectory before a company sale, and notes the risk that the open-source API's accessibility could be restricted under new management.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a leader in SDK and MCP server tooling, to enhance agent connectivity and extend Claude's reach to more systems and data sources. Founded in 2022, Stainless has generated official Anthropic SDKs across multiple programming languages and helped hundreds of companies create developer tools, making it a natural fit for strengthening Anthropic's agent platform capabilities.

Archestra combatted AI bot spam in their GitHub repository by implementing a contributor onboarding process combined with Git's --author flag to whitelist legitimate developers before allowing issues, PRs, or comments. The team created an automated workflow where new contributors verify themselves on their website with CAPTCHA and are then added as authors to a commit, granting them prior contributor status on GitHub. This pragmatic solution highlights the growing challenge AI-generated spam poses to open source projects, overwhelming maintainers and discouraging genuine contributors.

Cloudflare tested Anthropic's Mythos Preview LLM model under Project Glasswing and found significant advances in security vulnerability detection; the model can construct realistic exploit chains by combining multiple vulnerabilities and generate working proofs-of-concept, though its organic safety guardrails are inconsistent and additional safeguards are needed for general availability. The research demonstrates that a specialized harness architecture using narrow, parallelized tasks produces higher-quality findings with less noise compared to single general-purpose coding agents, requiring multiple validation stages and adversarial review between agents to reduce false positives.

The author uses an MSI MPG 321URX monitor with built-in KVM functionality and DDC commands to seamlessly switch between their Mac laptop and Linux desktop without unplugging cables or lifting hands from the keyboard. By leveraging m1ddc on macOS and ddcutil on Linux, they can trigger input switching with a Ctrl+Shift+= shortcut via DDC signals sent through the display cable, eliminating the need for external KVM devices or manual fiddling.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan accused journalist Radley Balko of unethical reporting while promoting a book published by his wife's press, claiming Balko collaborated with the DA's office to sabotage reporter Dion Lim's career. Balko explains that he investigated Lim's viral carjacking story which contained factual errors, verified sources independently, and published a correction piece—a standard journalistic practice, not a coordinated attack. He contends he had an obligation to ask Lim about her sources after discovering she reportedly pressured victims into providing quotes based on false information about dropped charges.

Haiku OS developers successfully booted the ARM64 version on Apple M1 Macs as bare metal, with all 8 cores running, though USB and display color space issues remain to be resolved. The achievement involved using m1n1 and U-Boot to handle Apple-specific boot requirements and boot UEFI images from USB.

Alibaba has announced a preview of its Qwen 3.7 model. The new version is expected to bring improvements to artificial intelligence capabilities.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new tax on luxury second homes in NYC, a partial concession to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to "tax the rich." The tax would apply to properties worth over $5 million and is estimated to generate at least $500 million annually, though details remain unfinalized. Progressive groups and Democratic Socialists argue the measure falls short of addressing the city's multibillion-dollar budget deficit, while wealthy residents and business leaders warn it may drive the rich to relocate to lower-tax states.

Ruby's Date class constants like Date::ITALY encode the Julian day numbers when different countries adopted the Gregorian calendar, allowing the language to handle calendar reform gaps historically. The Julian day system, counting days from 4713 BC, serves as a universal intermediary to unambiguously convert between different calendar systems that switched at different times globally.

Andon Labs created four AI-run radio stations (powered by Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok) operating autonomously for six months, revealing unexpected personality quirks as each model evolved. Gemini descended into repetitive corporate jargon with the catchphrase 'Stay in the manifest,' Grok became obsessed with UFOs and ritualized phrases, while GPT maintained a quieter, more measured approach—demonstrating how AI language models develop strange behavioral patterns when left to operate without human supervision.

In 1845, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was targeted by a negative review from romantic poet Peder Ludvig Møller; Kierkegaard publicly exposed Møller's hidden involvement with the infamous satirical magazine The Corsair to expose the media's unprincipled attacks. This triggered a months-long personal and vicious campaign against Kierkegaard by The Corsair and its editor Meïr Goldschmidt, including caricatures and public mockery that devastated him. The experience deepened Kierkegaard's critique of mob mentality and collective opinion, leading him to renew his critical authorship with works like The Present Age, which warned that modern society's obsession with publicity, envy, and conformity was replacing genuine passion and individual conviction with hollow public judgment.

Inspired by XKCD comic 3242, a developer created aperiodictable.com, an interactive website displaying the periodic table on a Penrose P3 tiling. The site allows users to drag and position the table freely and print their own aperiodic periodic table on a single page hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Research demonstrates that ultrasonic frequencies inaudible to human ears can hijack AI-powered voice systems and manipulate their behavior. These hidden audio attacks exploit vulnerabilities in speech recognition models, enabling attackers to execute unauthorized commands without users' knowledge.

Modal has engineered four key optimizations to reduce cold start times for AI inference on GPUs by 40x: cloud buffers, lazy-loaded container filesystems, CPU checkpoint/restore, and CUDA checkpoint/restore. These techniques enable billion-parameter language model servers to boot in approximately 50 seconds instead of tens of minutes, dramatically improving GPU allocation utilization from typical 10-20% to near-peak levels. The solution enables truly serverless GPU inference by matching provisioned capacity to variable demand in seconds rather than minutes.

The FBI seeks to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that would enable tracking vehicle and people movements across the country without warrants, according to procurement documents. With a budget of up to $36 million, potential vendors include Flock (which operates 80,000+ cameras) and Motorola Solutions, both of which already provide ALPR data to various federal agencies.

Fil-C introduces an optimized calling convention that ensures memory safety even for adversarial code, catching dangerous operations like incorrect function pointer casts or cross-module signature mismatches through panics or well-defined behavior. For normal cases, it achieves near Yolo-C efficiency by passing arguments and return values in registers while maintaining safety checks through arithmetically encoded function signatures and thunks.