80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again
https://www.microdos.in/en/research/alzheimers-case-report-psilocybin-speech
https://www.microdos.in/en/research/alzheimers-case-report-psilocybin-speech
www.microdos.in
Microdos.in - Personalized Microdosing
Personalisierte Mikrodosierungs-Berechnungen basierend auf wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen.
Late Bronze Age Collapse
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …
Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laylo/jobs/qce41D2-head-of-finance
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laylo/jobs/qce41D2-head-of-finance
Y Combinator
Head of Finance at Laylo | Y Combinator
The Story
Our founders, Alec and Sajan, started Laylo after watching the music industry get strip-mined by platforms that owned
the fan relationship and rented it back to artists. We're building the infrastructure for the next generation of
entertainment:…
Our founders, Alec and Sajan, started Laylo after watching the music industry get strip-mined by platforms that owned
the fan relationship and rented it back to artists. We're building the infrastructure for the next generation of
entertainment:…
Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept
ergo.org
Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept — Ergo
TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer science.
Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/
Smithsonian Magazine
Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed
Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-July/068430.html
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-July/068430.html
You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
https://www.minid.net/2026/7/10/ai-works-for-me
https://www.minid.net/2026/7/10/ai-works-for-me
www.minid.net
You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand - Minid.net
After 27 years of writing code, I have stopped spending time on a long list of small but painful engineering tasks. AI agents now handle commit messages, pull request descriptions, code comments, naming conventions, Git hygiene, issue tracking, and release…
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/
ZDNET
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites - for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy.
Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery
https://www.atomscale.ai/updates/our-thesis-atom-to-scale
https://www.atomscale.ai/updates/our-thesis-atom-to-scale
Atomscale
Atomscale | Charting the Path from Atom to Scale: Our Thesis
The materials of the future already exist — frontier intelligence can bring them to the world.
Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246
https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246
Google AI Developers Forum
Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
Hi Everyone - Firstly, I want to give my thanks to the Gemini team for providing access to such great models. It has been so helpful. We have some very specific workflows that rely on Gemini 2.5 Flash. Our internal benchmarks show that Gemini 3 flash does…
Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-tech-worker-wrongful-termination.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-tech-worker-wrongful-termination.html
Nytimes
Software Engineer’s Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker
A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.
Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moss/jobs/52LnqLQ-software-engineer-sdk
Y Combinator
Software Engineer - SDK at Moss | Y Combinator
We built Moss because Voice AI breaks when retrieval is slow. Most retrieval infrastructure was not built for real-time reasoning. It adds latency, breaks context mid-conversation, and becomes the bottleneck just as an AI product needs to feel instant.
Moss…
Moss…
Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/apple-openai-lawsuit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/apple-openai-lawsuit.html
Nytimes
Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets
The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to offer A.I. services on Apple devices, but their partnership has soured.
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
Brown
Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.