Berkshire Hathaway just reported a record $397.4 billion in cash and T-bills, 59% of its investable portfolio. After fourteen straight quarters of net Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a record $397.4 billion in cash after fourteen straight quarters of net…

Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.

I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope…

Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop - clawkwork/clawk

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

For background on Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Act, see prior Signpost coverage: "Legal status of Wikimedia projects 'unclear' under potential European legislation" (Special report, February 4, 2023, analysis from when the Online Safety Act was still…

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.

Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and…

A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.

Behemoths like Meta and Reddit might have to create teen-friendly versions.

My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured.

Post-kanban, agent-native planning. Humans write objectives. Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex decompose, execute, and check in.

CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. - marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser