A longtime Claude Code user recounts accumulated frustrations that prompted a switch to the open-source Pi coding harness. The post cites 244 Claude Code releases this year, frequent system-prompt and tool-description changes, and built-in Bash instructions running nearly 3,000 tokens.
Asahi Linux announced it is moving all its repositories from the MIT license to GPLv2-or-later, citing attempts to lift unreleased code and rewrite it with AI to obscure its origin. An OpenBSD developer criticized the relicensing as potentially done without all prior contributors' consent.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the Mamdani administration must give ICE the names and birthdates of certain male residents at a city-run shelter on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx. A special master will identify residents with serious criminal histories, and the New York Immigration Coalition is urging the city to appeal.
A field guide catalogues demonstrated indirect prompt-injection attacks on AI agents including Claude, GPT, Gemini and Copilot, separating them from implementation bugs and supply-chain compromise. It cites named research and patched CVEs, while noting the evidence does not show widespread in-the-wild compromise.
Police arrested Diana Peng, 42, at a San Francisco home on 32nd Avenue while serving a search warrant, and she was booked on suspicion of fraud, firearms and narcotics offenses. A city lawsuit alleges she and Brandon Aadee used forged signatures to transfer a Sea Cliff home's deed, valued at about $4.4 million.
The article examines evidence that medieval people may have slept in two periods, weighing A. Roger Ekirch’s first- and second-sleep thesis against Niall Boyce’s 2023 challenge. It also describes medieval beds, shared sleeping arrangements and monastic night prayers.
MIT researchers used mRNA lipid nanoparticles to reprogram natural killer cells directly in mice, creating CAR NK cells without external manufacturing. The preclinical approach eliminated tumors in some models and let damaged liver tissue heal, though human safety and efficacy are untested.
CPU-Z Validator submissions show 32 GB remains the most common memory capacity at 37.2%, though that share fell 2.5% versus a year earlier, and 64 GB slipped to 7.3%. CPU-Z developer Doc TB says this is the first year-over-year drop in PC RAM capacity, with 16 GB climbing to 33.0% amid rising memory prices.
Mississippi is still tallying absentee and affidavit ballots that could make Democrat Scott Colom its first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. His race against Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith remains uncalled; counties face a Friday certification deadline and state law has no statewide recount.
The UK government is looking seriously at adding resale sites Vinted and eBay to its planned under-16 social media ban, culture secretary Lisa Nandy said. Both companies responded, and a complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released.
Over almost two years, 80-year-old Dona Joana gathered 33 hours of recorded evidence against armed drug traffickers on her Rio de Janeiro block. Her work helped bring down 36 people, but the victory came at a heavy personal cost.
Wagoe's creator describes version 1.1 of the Clojure framework, which enforces a Functional Core/Imperative Shell split across 28 libraries and adds permissions, roles and scopes. He also disclosed an access-control bug in 1.1.0's admin, fixed in 1.1.1 under advisory GHSA-g896-jm3g-34h6.
A comparison of the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL and Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra reports that the Galaxy has more powerful hardware and higher benchmark scores, plus faster wired charging. The Pixel offers a brighter display and competitive camera processing, while the older Galaxy can now be found at a lower price.
Led by Nathan Moore, Sandia National Laboratories simulations found that a nuclear X-ray burst's direction can sharply alter an asteroid's deflection, with one modeled asteroid's speed change varying nearly fivefold by aim. Icarus study used a model 1,600 times faster but still unable to predict whole-body breakup.
Diwali festivities across the Bay Area reflect a growing Indian-American community, which U.S. Census data show has more than doubled since 2010. San Francisco City Hall held its first Diwali celebration with Mayor Daniel Lurie, and the free San Francisco Diwali Festival continues Sunday at Yerba Buena Gardens.
Two GitHub issues describe Claude Code sending a signed-in user's account email to arbitrary websites in the User-Agent header and embedding the same address in every session's system prompt. Anthropic added a default-on cc-plugin-privacy mod in v2.1.317, though one reporter on v2.1.318 still observed the header leak.
NYC educator Caleb Haraguchi-Combs, who also raps, is receiving a $192,374 principal-level salary as project director for a proposed technology high school that was never approved or opened. The Department of Education says he is developing proposals; a DOE source disputes that and calls it a waste.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a 53-year-old Connecticut Democrat, was hospitalized after a stroke on Oct. 31, and his chief of staff said she was optimistic about a full recovery. Federal data show stroke incidence among adults 20 to 54 nearly doubled from 1993-94 to 2020, while prevalence rose in younger age groups.
Entire, led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, has introduced a Git forge built for collaboration between human developers and AI coding agents. It centers on trails with eval scores, review gates and continuous memory, plus open-source entire-graph and entire-brain tools.
Brodo 1.0.0 is a Rust library for sparse 3D volumes using a four-level tree modeled on OpenVDB, with companion crates for mesh-to-signed-distance conversion and command-line file inspection. It adds leaf-parallel updates, topology remapping, OpenVDB .vdb read/write, and requires 64-bit little-endian Rust 1.98 or newer.
Preclinical research found that a 24-hour fast increased Akkermansia muciniphila in the small intestine, whose propionate production helped prepare cells for recovery after radiation damage. Removing the bacterium eliminated the fasting benefit, and restoring it with fasting brought the effect back, though human studies are still needed.
The article proposes extending Nix with builtins that check whether a function accepts an argument and combine partial functions, plus an operator for branch syntax. It argues these additions could provide pattern matching while preserving laziness and error propagation.
The author, who maintains the open-source LoreKit memory tool, argues that the many competing ways coding agents store what they remember should share a common record model, naming conventions and a small set of operations over MCP, much as observability vendors converged on OpenTelemetry. Existing proposals largely handle export between vendors rather than live addressing by several tools at once.
Save the Chimps, a sanctuary near Fort Pierce, Florida, used a drone to deliver food and blankets to a chimpanzee named Kaleb after heavy rain flooded the internal roads staff normally use, the organization said. Its roughly 200 apes stayed safe, and about 20% of the property's roads were clear by Saturday as water receded.
tokio-tun, a Rust crate offering async bindings for TUN/TAP devices inside Tokio's event loop, has moved beyond Linux to support FreeBSD, macOS, iOS and Android, including wrapping raw file descriptors from platform VPN APIs. It also adds Linux kernel offload handling for GSO, GRO and virtio_net_hdr, aimed at cutting syscall and context-switch overhead on heavy workloads as the crate heads toward v1.0.