News

  1. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  2. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (spectrum.ieee.org)
  3. Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md (code.claude.com)
  4. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  5. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  6. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  7. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  8. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
  9. The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security (arxiv.org)
  10. Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025) (arxiv.org)
  11. Saving another 100TB of RAM (blog.cloudflare.com)
  12. Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (developer.apple.com)
  13. Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug (donjon.ledger.com)
  14. Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain (www.newscientist.com)
  15. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  16. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (try.cloudflare.com)
  17. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  18. OpenJev (openjev.com)
  19. Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud (blog.ferstar.org)
  20. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  21. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (archive.org)
  22. Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)
  23. Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)
  24. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  25. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
  26. How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine (www.construction-physics.com)
  27. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  28. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour (www.sandordargo.com)
  29. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  31. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  32. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  33. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  35. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  37. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  38. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  39. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  40. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  41. A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig (antfly.io)
  42. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  43. Aside from that (push.cx)
  44. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  46. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  47. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  48. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  49. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  50. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  51. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  53. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  54. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  55. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  56. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  57. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)