Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees
https://www.404media.co/startups-brag-they-spend-more-money-on-ai-than-human-employees/
https://www.404media.co/startups-brag-they-spend-more-money-on-ai-than-human-employees/
404 Media
Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees
A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.
Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement
The Verge
Anker made its own AI chip
The Thus chip will first be in new earbuds.
Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/
https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/
LPE Project
Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-production-its-no-contest/
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-production-its-no-contest/
Anthropocene
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest.
In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.
The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-allan-review-an-unconventional-portrait-of-jg-ballard
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-allan-review-an-unconventional-portrait-of-jg-ballard
the Guardian
The Illuminated Man by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan review – an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
The biographer’s terminal illness and death is woven into this original and moving account of Ballard and his work
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
TechCrunch
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch
The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
Olive CSS: Lisp powered vanilla CSS utility-Class A la Tailwind
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/olive-css
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/olive-css
Codeberg.org
olive-css
Utility-class vanilla CSS framework inspired by Tailwind syntax, easy to learn and hack, written in Lisp (Guile Scheme)
OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/
https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/
OpenAI
Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise
OpenAI responds to the Axios supply chain attack by rotating macOS code signing certificates, updating apps, and confirming no user data was compromised.
Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
https://tempest.homemade.systems
https://tempest.homemade.systems
Tempest vs Tempest
The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
Borrow-checking without type-checking
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/
It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien
https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir
https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir
www.zig.art
It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for J.R.R. Tolkien: a humanist breakdown of surveillance architecture
Let's take back a term that once warned us about delusions of grandeur, careless leaders, and their ill-fated wars — and use it instead to better understand the risky nature of cloud platforms
A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/