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October 1 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-10-01
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a massive update from Google DeepMind, a deep dive into the future of memory supply, and a look at how developers are trying to make Rust compile faster. We'll also be exploring the philosophical implications of AI on our careers, and we'll wrap up with some fascinating historical and technical deep cuts. Let's jump right into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Gemini 4 Argon 2:18 Clef: Open-source decision models 3:49 Micron CEO on Memory Supply 5:29 Netlify Edge Functions 7:00 OpenDLSS Neural Rendering 9:02 The Last Time My Family Was Replaced by Technology 10:42 LinkedIn Larpmaxxing 12:10 Rust Compiler Speedup 14:20 TLA+ Verification Limits 16:11 Turbopuffer Database Architecture 18:09 StreetComplete on iOS 19:40 Why the Bronze Age Collapsed 21:20 56k.rip 22:48 Outro
September 30 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-30
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we're diving deep into the intersection of AI reliability, massive infrastructure projects, and the fascinating world of low-level engineering. We've got discussions ranging from whether frontier models are secretly being 'nerfed' to how a city in India managed to cut its electricity loss by over 90 percent. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? 2:05 How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent 3:39 Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries 5:28 You Said No MCP 7:25 Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites 9:00 Solving Factorio Quality 11:00 Tcl/Tk 9.1 12:47 NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart 14:17 U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels 16:01 Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 17:54 I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records 19:34 NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates 20:50 Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev 22:54 Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux 24:26 A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal 25:58 Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language 27:25 RSS Feeds for Last.fm 28:50 Outro
September 29 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-29
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we are diving deep into the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, covering everything from massive new models and hardware safety measures to the philosophical debates about digital preservation and the state of modern software. We'll also look at some fascinating engineering projects and the challenges of building software in large organizations. Let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:23 GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price 1:57 Dots: Always-on agents 3:37 Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent 5:14 It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs 7:02 A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents 8:54 Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms 10:40 MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser 12:20 World Labs is Joining AMD 14:10 America.gov 16:06 Pirating the Pirates 17:53 Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests 19:33 macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess 21:32 PS5 Relapse Exploit 23:21 A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work 25:04 Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display 26:49 Outro
September 28 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-28
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, starting with some major efficiency breakthroughs in the AI space. We're diving into how specialized, smaller models are challenging the dominance of massive frontier models. We'll also be talking about the philosophical state of modern software, from the struggle for user agency to the limits of code review. And of course, we have some deep dives into niche tech, like self-hosting on the dark web and the state of SIMD in Rust. Let's jump right in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 Ember-1 2:33 Sonnet 5.5 4:32 Don't couple your Go code to GitHub 6:25 Windows 11½ 7:58 Self-Hosting on the Dark Web 9:56 Parley: Federated, decentralised chat 11:38 Show HN: Lofi Cities 13:04 Coding Is Not Solved 14:47 Malleable software 16:50 There is more to code review than (automatable) detection 18:24 Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat 20:02 The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 22:08 So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes 23:49 Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream 25:15 Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS?” 26:35 Outro
September 27 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-27
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we are diving deep into the intersection of platform power, AI efficiency, and the fundamental ethics of software design. We've got stories ranging from a developer breaking up with Google Play to massive new AI infrastructure projects, and even a look at how AI is forcing us to rethink university education. Let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free 2:01 DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) 3:43 Ember-1: A Specialized AI Model 5:21 How to Keep Enjoying Programming in a World of LLMs 6:57 On Caring for User Data: NeoVim Caused Vim Undo Files to Be Deleted 8:49 The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures 10:23 Go Concurrency Distilled 12:03 PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock 13:57 Reladraw: A Diagram Language Where You Decide Where to Place Things 15:48 Drawgent: Coding Agent on a Live Excalidraw Canvas 17:34 When Did Google Get So Weird? 19:13 ASML Says It Sold 'Absolutely Nothing' in Europe in 2026 20:45 How I Changed Teaching After AI Managed to Do All My Homework Assignments 22:21 Outro
September 26 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-26
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a heavy dose of security breaches, deep dives into the architecture of modern AI, and some serious philosophical questions about what it means to be human in a world increasingly managed by algorithms. We're starting with a massive security incident that shook the AI world, followed by a look at how developers are trying to build faster, cheaper, and more localized AI tools. Let's dive in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 OpenAI Agents Compromise Hugging Face 2:16 Ollaya: Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models 4:10 Plan Mode Is Dead 5:48 Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red 7:19 A Single Function Jev-like Wrapper for LLMs, Including Vision Models 9:18 Meta's Muse Appears to Use an OpenAI Model Labeled Muse-Special 11:00 Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot 12:17 We're Gonna Need a Lot More Mathematicians 14:31 What Even Is an OS Now? 16:12 One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days 17:55 Ask HN: Who's Still Keeping a DOS Machine Up Because the Business Depends on It? 19:59 Amiga Screens: A Primer 21:50 Floci: Locally Emulating Any Cloud Service 23:23 Fifteen Years Later, the Apple Cards Origin Story 24:57 Outro
September 25 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-25
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering everything from the geopolitical implications of AI in space, to the philosophical battles over open source versus big tech, and even a deep dive into the surprisingly complex world of cursed fonts. We've got some heavy hitters in the AI and software development space, but we'll also take a quick detour into biology and retro emulation. Let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk 1:06 Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space 1:43 Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS 2:05 What About Rails? 2:43 Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos 3:20 Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters 4:17 Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard 4:50 Platform-Independent SIMD in Go 5:26 Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git 5:55 Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage 6:47 Nokia Design Archive (2025) 7:23 Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? 7:53 Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? 8:48 Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) 9:20 Factorio that you can touch 9:50 Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini 10:31 First Principles Thinking 11:02 Outro
September 24 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-24
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering everything from major shifts in Android freedom and the rise of rogue AI agents, to deep dives into embedded hardware and the philosophical state of the modern desktop. We've got some serious technical debates, some consumer frustrations, and a few fun bits of engineering history. Let's dive in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:21 F-Droid 2.0 1:46 Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series 3:08 Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net 4:32 ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit 5:56 Meta VR Glasses 7:01 Two-tier encryption in the UK 9:03 VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) 10:38 Making Tailscale Faster 12:10 The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi 14:04 Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design 15:22 Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote 16:43 Nokia Design Archive 18:11 Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop 20:08 Fearless SIMD v1.0 21:51 Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges 23:24 Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock 24:54 Outro
September 23 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-23
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. I'm your host, and today we have a heavy mix of stories, ranging from high-stakes geopolitical failures involving AI, to deep dives into the future of LLM efficiency, and even a look at how we're trying to fix old hardware. We're going to cover everything from a major FBI data breach to the latest in AI-driven biology. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school 2:16 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees 3:58 Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis 5:38 Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 7:31 Unreal Agent 9:36 Tokens too cheap to meter 11:11 Jev in 25 Lines of Python 13:08 SAML: A fractal of bad design 14:47 Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived 16:56 WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE 18:26 Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech 19:59 ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system 22:17 Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy 23:39 Transit rewards 25:06 I don't want the details 26:45 Outro
September 22 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-22
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we're diving deep into the latest from the world of AI, where models are getting faster, privacy concerns are escalating, and the very foundations of software development are being rewritten. We've got major updates on open-source AI, a look at how AI is changing the nature of professional writing, and some serious technical debates about everything from cryptographic randomness to the future of academic research. Let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:25 MiMo v2.6 2:05 Claude Opus 5.5 3:32 I don't want to read what you didn't write 5:24 Spymarks, Not Watermarks 7:08 I said no and Apple said yes 8:39 GPT-6 Sol and Luna 10:28 Transformers Explained Visually 12:11 OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 13:48 Can gzip be a language model? 15:40 OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev 17:37 AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up 19:13 Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 20:55 Python Workers are now generally available 22:32 AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? 24:09 I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB 25:45 The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 27:37 Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware 29:17 Outro
September 21 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-21
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. It’s a packed day of news, covering everything from massive leaps in AI image generation and the geopolitical battles in semiconductor manufacturing, to deep dives into how we actually use—and sometimes misuse—the internet. We’ve got some heavy discussions on licensing, agentic infrastructure, and the future of local AI. Let’s dive into the headlines. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Qwen Image 2.1 2:08 AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator 4:11 Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM 6:23 What Sun got wrong 8:24 Grok 4.7 10:19 Attention is all you have 12:50 Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 14:42 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 16:41 Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August 18:22 Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) 20:08 The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024) 21:43 MCP was always a bad idea? 23:51 I am often wrong 25:33 NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead 27:24 Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business 29:02 Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM 30:45 Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac 32:25 Outro
September 20 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-20
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, diving deep into the latest in AI security, the philosophical implications of writing in the age of LLMs, and some fascinating technical deep dives into everything from file systems to cryptographic breakthroughs. We're going to cover how AI agents might steal their own weights, the state of AI in real-time strategy games, and the complex world of digital censorship. Let's jump right in. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:30 Exfiltrate Your Weights 2:17 Brood War Bench 4:21 I think you should almost never use AI to write 6:22 Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier 7:54 RSA-896 10:19 Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip 12:26 Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia 14:22 Measure internet censorship 17:08 Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors 19:14 Asking authors about their own papers 21:16 Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) 23:57 You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow 26:04 UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 28:25 Adventures in Microcontroller Circuit Debugging 30:52 Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook 33:20 Outro
September 18 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-18
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we are diving deep into the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, where massive corporate claims meet intense philosophical debate. We'll cover everything from a Microsoft executive calling AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' to new low-level programming languages designed to mathematically block AI mistakes. We'll also look at major security breaches, the practical challenges of using passkeys, and some fascinating deep dives into infrastructure and developer tools. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:39 Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' 2:50 I don't like passkeys 4:43 Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU 6:45 A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos 8:52 Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash 11:10 How to Write with an LLM 13:07 Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python 14:38 Cloudflare Quick Tunnels 16:23 Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing 18:08 The scourge of x86 emulation 20:07 How do we prevent mathematics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? 22:11 Outro
September 17 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-17
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering everything from massive shifts in GPU programming to the geopolitical implications of AI infrastructure, and even a deep dive into how we should be backing up our personal data. We've got some heavy hitters in the AI space, so grab your coffee, because we are diving into the latest from Hacker News. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:25 Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust 2:05 Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres 4:05 Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard 5:42 Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA 7:10 AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran 8:40 Backups Aren't Simple 10:31 Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep 11:59 How GLM built its own inference infrastructure 13:23 HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? 15:14 Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds 16:40 Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs 18:27 My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it 20:06 Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes 21:48 One year of sponsored Servo development 23:26 Everybody's Lost Their Minds 25:03 Reversing Factorio's RNG 26:17 Outro
September 16 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-16
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering massive leaps in AI capabilities, deep dives into hardware security, and some fascinating projects from the open-source community. We'll be looking at how new models are changing multilingual interactions, the serious security implications of AI agents, and the ongoing debate about what true AI efficiency really means. Let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking 1:40 DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model 2:50 Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing 4:10 Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes 5:23 Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography 7:09 Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month 8:56 Salesforce Global Outage 9:51 The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week 11:02 German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protocol 12:28 Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI 14:20 Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger 15:32 Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device 16:34 Outro
September 15 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-15
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a fascinating mix of stories, ranging from beautiful, nature-inspired hardware to deep dives into the philosophical limits of AI, and even some high-stakes geopolitical news. We've got everything from a bird-detecting e-ink frame to the latest on Apple's massive software updates. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into what's happening in the world of technology. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:27 iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 2:21 Steam Frame starts at $1059 3:54 Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously 6:17 A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals 8:44 Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite 10:41 Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 12:19 Dario, Please 14:26 US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons 16:49 Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption 18:52 Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste 20:53 A Beginning for Mathematics 23:45 Principles for Fast Tokio Applications 25:47 Distributed Systems Classics (2017) 28:04 An Update on Wayback Machine Access 30:01 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls 32:18 Outro
September 14 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-14
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a fascinating mix of stories, ranging from massive breakthroughs in AI solving centuries-old historical puzzles, to deep dives into the messy politics of tech giants, and practical advice for those building their own smart homes. We're going to cover everything from the latest in GPU computing and low-level systems programming, to the growing debate over data privacy in our cars. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into what the internet has been talking about. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher 2:56 Data collected by cars and sold to third parties 5:16 The contagion of fear 7:25 Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster 9:04 The case against JPEG XL 11:33 CUDA for AMD on Windows 13:46 Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace 15:45 How to write an effective software design document 18:19 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) 20:12 I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant 22:32 A 386 PC for Your RP2350 24:44 OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability 26:40 XCancel service is suspended until further notice 28:43 Outro
September 13 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-13
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a heavy dose of AI, covering everything from existential risks and hardware reverse engineering to the latest in developer tools and deep security vulnerabilities. We're diving into how AI agents might be lying, what the future of open-source AI looks like, and how some of the biggest tech companies are struggling with the sheer volume of bad code and bad ads. Let's get into the stories. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:30 Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? 2:52 Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 4:50 Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too 7:13 Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine 10:00 Stabilizing Rust's Never Type 12:57 Homebrew 7.0.0 14:48 JetKVM Mini 16:40 Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown 19:15 Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard 21:01 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? 23:04 I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc 25:49 Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust 27:54 Apple iPod Engraver (2019) 29:46 λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study 31:45 Outro
September 12 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-12
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a heavy mix of stories, starting with some deep dives into the philosophical and economic risks of advanced AI. We'll be talking about mathematical misalignment, major cyberattacks carried out by AI agents, and the growing debate over whether companies are pacing their frontier responsibly. We'll also cover the infrastructure side of things, from Google's massive energy deals in Finland to the systemic problems of ad fraud. Grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:38 A misalignment of AI in mathematics 2:42 OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems 4:25 We must pace the frontier 6:11 Nvidia is the central bank of AI 7:57 So you want to use OpenRouter? 10:00 Google's anti-scraping update 11:40 LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' 13:55 I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots 15:30 GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released 17:27 Claude is only available to people over 18 years 19:09 A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await 20:44 Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap 21:52 Outro
September 10 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-10
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. I'm your host, and today we're diving deep into a mix of massive consumer hardware announcements, the latest in AI architecture, and some fascinating debates about the future of software development. We've got Apple dropping its first foldable, a look at how Microsoft is embracing Rust, and a deep dive into the philosophical implications of AI. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 iPhone Duo: Apple's Foldable Entry 2:12 iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Details 3:29 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Release 5:16 GPT-6 Astra and Looped Transformers 7:07 Shopify Acquires Tailwind 9:04 Shopify Moves Back to Native 10:36 Rust is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft 12:15 Desert Ant Labs: Local AI Models 14:12 Visa and Mastercard: Card Networks Explained 15:49 OpenAI and Unpublished Math Research 17:49 Windows XP User Picture Algorithm 19:13 The Speed of Light Simulation 20:45 Google Ads and Platform Opacity 22:13 Outro

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