Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro - It delivers substantial improvements across coding, 3D creation, financial research, and other agentic capabilities kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone blog.calif.io/p/iphone A couple of PDF exploits from iMessage and Signal leading to code execution, and an app that roots the phone. Also, they seem to have managed to make their malware survive a reboot, which is difficult.

Pixel Path - A Claude Code skill that turns any two places into a pixel-art fly-through of the real road github.com/jonwheatley/pixel…

The Disappointing Death of Deno: What Happened and the Perils of Venture Capital-Funded Open Source - It was not surprising to me that the Deno company got acquired, but that the result of the acquisition was the death of the Deno runtime brettcodes.com/the-disappoin…

Gartner Survey Finds Only 13% of CIOs Say Their Enterprise Has Realized Significant or Transformational Value from AI gartner.com/en/newsroom/pres…

Police in Japan likely to gain authority to hack phones to check messaging apps - on October 16, the Cabinet approved a bill to allow the police to remotely hack phones and examine encrypted messaging app data they suspect is being used to plan a crime soranews24.com/2026/10/21/po…

No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/sk…

Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public ones kadoa.com/energy-prices/insi… Was talking to a friend in Seattle about this, "In just two years, PSE’s electricity prices have increased 45%" seattletimes.com/seattle-new… they also seek to boost profit margin to 10.8%

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The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story - Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is the race towards stakeholder alignment doc.cc/articles/fastest-gun

Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emails - "Credit card information was not included among the affected information," say the publishers rockpapershotgun.com/residen…

Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions - "On complex NEJM cases, MAI-DxO achieved 83% diagnostic accuracy. Physicians achieved 22% without external reference resources and 36% with them" microsoft.ai/news/building-m…

Good Night, and Good Luck: AI, fear and what the job data says - Economics explains the crash. AI explains the shape of the recovery: fewer juniors, more seniors rpallas.xyz/good-night-and-g…

BMW Is Reportedly Offering Employees Up To €650,000 To Quit - The reported severance packages include early-exit bonuses and extra perks as BMW looks to cut around 8,000 jobs by the end of next year bmwblog.com/2026/10/19/bmw-o…

The first new sunscreen type in 25 years has arrived on US store shelves - bemotrizinol/BEMT, a skin-protecting chemical that’s long been a go-to option in Europe and other parts of the world apnews.com/article/bemotrizi…

What if I had joined that company? I received recruiting emails about these companies. The calculator shows how their growth would have changed the value of a hypothetical pay package jasonwillems.com/sites/what-…

Nobody is Thinking Anymore - There's a spec at least half-written by AI. There's a piece of code 80% written by AI. There's a strategy doc 60% written by AI. If everything is being written by AI, then there's very little thinking happening underneath it yusufaytas.com/nobody-is-thi…

Fixing web components friction points - I wanted to learn about web components, ended up creating a web component library called BareDOM, and then expanded my knowledge of how to use web components by creating projects that use web components avanelsas.github.io/foggy-gl…

Six months later, the best AI costs 20× less - We tracked the price and score of 500 AI models since 2022. Six months after a model takes the top score, one that matches it typically costs about 20 times less. A year later, 105 times less modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-mode…

AI Hasn't Spurred Widespread Layoffs Yet. Why Not? Companies still need human expertise for now, though roles might soon change as artificial intelligence handles more tasks library.hbs.edu/working-know…