OpenAI’s Codex still lacks a feature to exclude sensitive files globally or per repository, as a reopened GitHub issue highlights ongoing community interest without resolution. In legislation, the US Congress is poised to vote on the controversial KIDS Act, which would require age verification for virtually all online users, raising serious privacy concerns. On the hardware side, China’s new LineShine supercomputer has taken the top spot globally, surpassing the US with a CPU-only architecture delivering 2,198 exaflops. Meanwhile, Apple’s Vision Pro lead, Paul Meade, is leaving for OpenAI to join its hardware team amid organizational reshuffling. Lastly, an anonymous GitHub account mass-released undisclosed zero-days with AI-assisted fuzzing, sparking renewed attention around vulnerability disclosures.
AI
- Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days reveals a series of newly discovered serious vulnerabilities aided by AI-driven fuzzing workflows, with daily proof-of-concept drops scheduled.
- Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’ — The acclaimed author criticizes AI’s accuracy, citing her disappointing experience with Anthropic’s Claude, reminding users human oversight remains essential.
- Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth — The CEO of India’s NPCI highlights AI’s role in boosting user growth, fraud prevention, and credit distribution within India’s UPI payments ecosystem.
- Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM introduces a system that routes prompts offline, deterministically sending easy tasks to local models and hard tasks to expensive cloud models, saving cost and latency.
Security & Privacy
- Kids act would require age checks to get online outlines how the pending US KIDS Act would mandate platforms to verify users’ ages, enforce government-mandated content moderation, and regulate encrypted messaging—raising privacy and free expression alarms.
- A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex shows community calls for a shareable, deterministic mechanism to exclude sensitive or irrelevant files from Codex’s input, a feature still missing despite long-standing requests.
- Choosing a Public DNS Resolver provides an extensive guide to selecting DNS resolvers focused on privacy, speed, filtering, and logging policies, aiding users in improving security and performance.
- DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded details a complex Windows shell32.dll-related crash caused by recursive exception handling leading to stack overflow.
Hardware & Infrastructure
- China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer — China’s LineShine supercomputer now leads the TOP500 with 2,198 exaflops computed solely on CPUs, marking a major strategic and technological achievement amid US-China competition.
- AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide offers a detailed walk-through for configuring a two-node AMD cluster linked with Intel E810 network cards, enabling distributed inference on large ML models.
- Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI — Paul Meade, who led the Vision Pro headset project and Apple’s upcoming AI smart glasses, is moving to OpenAI’s hardware division amidst leadership changes at Apple.
- TMD’s keyless bike lock is a $280 solution to a $60 problem — A new Bluetooth-enabled keyless bike lock blends high-end materials and security certification but faces skepticism about its high price relative to traditional locks.
Streaming & Media
- Ad-free streaming is a luxury now analyzes the streaming sector’s shift toward ad-supported tiers as subscriber growth plateaus and prices rise, making ad-free experiences less common and more costly.
- Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’ — Instagram experimenting with new UI and controls to let users better tune what content appears in their feed, focusing on transparency and user preferences.
- Love Terminator 2? PlayStation Network Deletes 500+ Movies for UK Users — Sony is removing over 550 StudioCanal licensed films from the UK PlayStation Store due to licensing issues, sparking backlash.
Open Source & Developer Tools
- Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs — A minimalistic Bash-based static blog generator requires zero dependencies and lets users publish via a simple command, ideal for those wanting ultra-lightweight blogging setups.
- Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C — An interactive curriculum teaches users how to reverse engineer GameCube assembly into byte-for-byte matching C code, starting from scratch and grading submissions live.
- The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition provides a comprehensive tutorial on the historic MUMPS programming language, foundational for hospital systems written in the late 1960s.
Other
- Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep — The station’s latest podcast reads compliance and policy documents aloud to help listeners fall asleep, a quirky approach to fundraising for a 24/7 public radio station.
- Australia's Social Media Ban Isn't Working, Says Research — Peer-reviewed study finds that 85% of Australian teens still use social media despite the ban for under-16s, with fake accounts common.
- The curious case of the disappearing Polish S — An investigation into a decades-old hard-to-diagnose bug causing the Polish letter Ś to fail appearing when typed on certain platforms.
- SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son criticizes Musk’s vision for data centers in space as impractical and unlikely to impact AI capacity in the near term.
- The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers — A historical exploration of the Humboldt education model focused on independent thinking (content limited).