news, !paper 2025-11-19

966 Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws / theverge.com / 1152

676 Meta Segment Anything Model 3 / ai.meta.com / 133

606 The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable / eff.org / 86

583 Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector / downdetectorsdowndetector.com / 169

550 Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable / theverge.com / 403

541 AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power / chrbutler.com / 430

481 Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max / openai.com / 314

464 Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship / aclu.org / 250

458 Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support / blog.thunderbird.net / 141

456 The Death of Arduino? / linkedin.com / 249

426 Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge / ntsb.gov:443 / 219

355 How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity / joanwestenberg.com / 258

338 A $1k AWS mistake / geocod.io / 261

334 Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board / cnbc.com / 378

316 I just want working RCS messaging / wt.gd / 312

313 Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use / psycnet.apa.org / 199

307 Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp / univie.ac.at / 132

297 Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board / github.com/PegorK / 51

270 Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards / mobomaps.com / 60

253 Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System / amoses.dev / 113

232 Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash / windowscentral.com / 374

209 Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory / element.io / 242

202 A down detector for down detector's down detector / downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com / 61

200 How Slide Rules Work / amenzwa.github.io / 59

197 What Killed Perl? / entropicthoughts.com / 433

196 The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects / shkspr.mobi / 155

191 Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150 / it-notes.dragas.net / 76

162 Self-hosting a NAT Gateway / awsistoohard.com / 122

146 Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing / mosaic.so / 134

138 How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? / theguardian.com / 124

136 Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders / nof1.ai / 95

136 Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation / github.com/tyfeld / 12

131 Gov. Abbott's office redacts pages of emails about Elon Musk / kut.org / 58

120 Measuring political bias in Claude / anthropic.com / 216

108 Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS / github.com/Mic92 / 31

106 CornHub / cornhub.website / 28

101 Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly / simonlermen.substack.com / 39

100 Tailscale Down / status.tailscale.com / 59

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