news, !paper 2025-07-24

723 Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build / lwn.net / 541

648 Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth / twitter.com/premqnair / 493

451 There is no memory safety without thread safety / ralfj.de / 500

401 Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome / academic.oup.com / 458

392 Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) / quartr.com / 300

360 Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions / assemblingamerica.substack.com / 300

355 Open Source Maintenance Fee / github.com/wixtoolset / 229

325 Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content / itch.io / 319

313 Use Your Type System / dzombak.com / 331

287 Intel CEO Letter to Employees / morethanmoore.substack.com / 547

283 How Anthropic teams use Claude Code / anthropic.com / 238

278 PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data / avi.im / 127

266 Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage / starlink.com / 279

265 Two narratives about AI / calnewport.com / 241

255 Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds / npr.org / 382

253 Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023) / bitestring.com / 207

230 Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman / nhpr.org / 413

227 UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage / the-independent.com / 97

219 Positron – A next-generation data science IDE / positron.posit.co / 91

210 Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern / github.com/vet-run / 190

195 AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it / tomshardware.com / 3

169 Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group / ipnsig.org / 50

148 A list of changes to make it easier to build beautiful and walkable places / chrisbarber.co / 187

144 New Aarch64 Back End / ziglang.org / 59

143 A valid HTML zip bomb / ache.one / 37

140 American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms / fortune.com / 130

135 Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true / github.com/apache / 70

126 Revisiting Moneyball / djpardis.medium.com / 60

121 Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018) / quantamagazine.org / 49

120 Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice / news.emory.edu / 104

107 A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use / calculator.inference.ai / 32

101 When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens / caseorganic.medium.com / 86

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