Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
AP News
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment company Deere & Co., known as John Deere.
Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
connectsci.au
Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Peptides isolated from the venom of the Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider are promising candidates for potential new treatments to protect honeybee hives from a deadly parasite.Researchers tested spider and scorpion venoms for their…
AI changes the economics of software rewrites
https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
the truth as I see it now
AI slop starts with the codebase itself. · the truth as I see it now
AI changes rewrite economics because codebases with clear, common patterns get more leverage than proprietary or inconsistent systems.
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
GitHub
GitHub - malisper/pgrust: Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests - malisper/pgrust
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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/P646Yw6-founding-account-executive
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/P646Yw6-founding-account-executive
Y Combinator
Founding Account Executive at CollectWise | Y Combinator
About Us
CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt
collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re
doing so at…
CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt
collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re
doing so at…
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/
How-To Geek
Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
It’s supposed to be a decentralized service, after all...
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844517
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844517
How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom
https://entire.io/blog/how-version-control-will-evolve-for-the-agent-boom
https://entire.io/blog/how-version-control-will-evolve-for-the-agent-boom
Entire
How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom
To meet the demand of the agent boom, Git hosting must return to its original promise: a distributed network of many hosts.
Show HN: 92% of US city websites fail Ada accessibility
https://accesslumens.com/research/state-of-us-local-government-accessibility-2026
https://accesslumens.com/research/state-of-us-local-government-accessibility-2026
Accesslumens
The State of US Local Government Accessibility 2026
The ADA Title II web deadline passed on April 24, 2026. We scanned 221 US city government sites for WCAG 2.2 failures: 42% still have a critical barrier, 45% fail the criterion most cited in ADA lawsuits, and a city's CMS vendor predicts its risk.