MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +

This meme is getting out of hand, but it's actually not far from reality 🤣

Every big tech CEO is now proclaiming that there’s an AI bubble but don’t worry they’ll survive the bubble bursting but you can’t say the same for startups. I can’t escape the assumption they’re all talking about OpenAI.

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says "we failed our customers and the broader Internet" when a Cloudflare issue "impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us" (Dane Knecht/@dok2001) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It's amazing the way technology has worked to free us from creative intellectual labour so that we can devote more time to more important things, like gravedigging

It’s 1999 and every company on earth is throwing millions into “putting a dot com on the end of it and ship it!”

Life just isn't the same without Bibawen

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025) Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs https://thenewstack.io/f...#FFmpeg#Google#OpenSource

Secure your passwords, keep them yours! 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗫𝗖 is the open-source alternative—private, offline, and always free. 🔒 #OpenSource #StaySafe https://os-sci.com

Weda : une attaque qui interroge la résilience des solutions SaaS dans la santé www.solutions-numeriques.com/weda-une-att...

i wish i had a human gdb, set breakpoint, query internal state. some people make no sense and i just wish i had a tool to introspect. i wonder if humans come with symbol tables.

Food for thought/discussion. 🧪

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is fragmenting on its way back out from the Sun. 🧪🔭 www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...

"Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity... Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms." nltimes.nl/2025/11/12/d...

Billet du 11 Novembre. Liberté académique : neutralité, loyauté et devoir de réserve (II) rogueesr.fr/liberte-acad...

La différence entre eux et nous, la raison pour laquelle ils ne pourront jamais nous vaincre, c'est que nous, nous sommes intéressés par le savoir. Bravo !

Il faudra faire la sociologie de ces cénacles où des collègues décident en toute opacité des limites des libertés académiques

Sébastien Le Fol qui défendait l'académie face à la linguiste Julie Neveux a dit, tout éploré, "Aujourd'hui les gens écoutent plus les linguistes atterrés que les académiciens" Vous faites ça, vous? 😇 cc @tract-linguistes.org

Il y a bien des gens qui écoutent des historiennes et des historiens plutôt que Louis Sarkozy sur Napoléon, que voulez-vous que je vous dise, on vit une époque!... 😪 (vous pouvez rejoindre l'association des linguistes atterrées ici ! www.tract-linguistes.org )

This is a dust devil... on Mars.

OK, so now the UK, Norway, Australia and Denmark are all investigating buses made by China's Yutong Group for security risks. www.ft.com/content/07ec...

Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.

Tonight’s vintage cover, PKD. ⚡️A dramatic way to say that revolution starts local, but ok. 😆

"To obtain the capital they need, hyperscalers have leveraged a growing list of complex debt-financing options ... That shift is fueling speculation that A.I. investments are turning into a game of musical chairs whose financial instruments are reminiscent of the 2008 financial crisis." Vibe shift.

The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything

The DeepSeek moment underestimated the talent portion & overfocused on training capital in N of GPUs. The rest of 2025 has been living through that reality with Kimi, GLM, Ant Ling, Meituan... The burden of proof is back on scaling if AI will be in the hands of a few companies.

Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace.

The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Enterprises adopting copilots face risks like data leaks. Learn how visibility, standards, and oversight can turn them into secure, productive tools. #artificialintelligence

The Gootloader malware loader operation has returned after a 7-month absence and is once again performing SEO poisoning to promote fake websites that distribute the malware.

😊 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

Had a look around the library in Gangnam as it’s quite a destination location itself. Found this illustrated C++ book.

🚨 New Blog Post 🚨 I just finished this monster of a blog post! How to listen to database changes through the Postgres WAL! This is all @filipecabaco.com's fault who nerd-sniped me into low-level Postgres details! Click here to suffer too: peterullrich.com/listen-to-da... #ElixirLang #Postgres

The Visual Studio C++ linker randomly crashing with a useless error message for the last few weeks isn't urgent or anything, take your time guys.

programming out of context for the day, C++ edition

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#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich. 16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked). #astrophotography 🔭

I heard it’s Godzilla Day :) #ゴジラ

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

The problem with experts... imgs.xkcd.com/comics/avera...

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.