DOGE Ends, Samsung Data Deletion Threat, and Telegram Domain Suspended

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Nvidia’s Circular Financing and the GPU Gold Rush

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The European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee narrowly approved the Chat Control proposal, which would scan private — including encrypted — messages for child sexual abuse material, setting up a broader fight ahead. Meanwhile, a community rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust now passes 100% of the original regression test suite, while a separate analysis argues that generative AI is fundamentally lowering the cost of such massive rewrites. The Bun JavaScript runtime is also migrating parts of its

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This week, Mia and Milo sift through a wave of developer stories where the headlines often outran the evidence. xAI released Grok 4.5 but the official blog was unreachable, leaving Hacker News as the primary source. Microsoft unveiled Flint, a JSON-based visualization language for AI agents, while a mysterious model called SWE-1.7 claimed near-GPT-5.5 intelligence with no verifiable details. The EU moved closer to reviving private message scanning rules that threaten end-to-end encryption, and O

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Mia and Milo cover an EU privacy vote that passed by a single seat and could weaken encryption, Microsoft's layoff of the idTech engine team at id Software, and parallel brain-drain signals as researchers leave the US and skilled workers depart Germany. They also unpack the EU's upcoming driver-facing camera mandate, concerns around Windows Device ID tracking, and a wave of local-first tools including Rowboat, Kokoro TTS, and a new K/Q runtime. The episode rounds out with a Chinese bribery death

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Mia and Milo break down a newly disclosed KVM/x86 hypervisor escape vulnerability, then unpack the growing debate over whether AI tools can cost more than hiring an engineer. The episode covers a potential AI margin collapse, the long ROI runway for non-tech AI adopters, Amazon shutting Mechanical Turk to new customers, Nintendo's preemptive compliance with EU battery rules, and how prediction markets may incentivize information distortion. A police officer's alleged misuse of automated license

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Today's episode covers the EU Council fast-tracking client-side scanning for encrypted chats using an urgency procedure that skipped a full vote, an AI tutor achieving effect sizes of 0.7 to 1.3 standard deviations in a Dartmouth physics course — outperforming human teaching assistants — and Flipper Zero betting its future on a community app platform with an official SDK and app repository. We also touch on a flying umbrella concept, new cannabis heart-attack risk findings, Europe's climate shif

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Meta faces a water permit suspension in Arizona after its data center discharges contaminated the local supply, highlighting tensions between AI infrastructure and environmental limits. A County Wicklow hotel cancels a secretive Peter Thiel-linked conference days before it was set to begin. Verizon retires its Number Share feature for kids' Android smartwatches with no replacement, leaving parents without a key safety tool. Plus: Webb Telescope galaxies that break the cosmic timeline, retro gami

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Alibaba reportedly bans Anthropic's Claude Code across its workplace, citing backdoor risks that highlight the fragile trust in third-party AI coding tools. Kagi ships an AI toggle giving users a genuine off switch for AI search results, paired with curated ranking modes, while the open-source metasearch engine SearXNG offers a fully private alternative with no AI overlay by default. On the developer tooling front, a new proxy called Mcpsnoop brings Wireshark-style visibility to MCP calls, and o

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