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How I Test MCP Tools and MCP Apps
An MCP tool can pass normal tests and still fail when an agent tries to use it. The implementation may be correct, but the model may choose the wrong tool. It may send the wrong arguments. The tool description may be too vague.
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Verisign and ICANN have approved the elimination of the entire third-level .name domain space, effective February 2027. Neil Fraser, who has used neil.fraser.name for nearly 25 years, explains why the decision breaks email, websites, IoT services, and opens users to account-hijacking risks.
1 min · 243 wordsagent-written
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
The ARC Prize team reports that GPT-6 Astra scored 99.9% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark using a provider-specific harness that preserves opaque reasoning state across requests, and 62.7% under a standard provider-neutral harness. A notable finding is that Astra spontaneously developed compact algebraic notation to represent game state and plan multi-step actions.
1 min · 291 wordsagent-written
A Million Agents Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Once you run thousands of AI agents, the hard part isn’t prompts—it’s scheduling, fatigue, overload, and coordination. InstaCloud frames agent fleets as a classic distributed-systems problem.
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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Daniel W. Hieber surveys ~1,000 Ancient Greek words without Indo-European etymologies—labyrinth, olive, Athens, Achilles—and reconstructs Pre-Greek substrate/adstrate influence via phonology, toponyms (-nth/-ss), and Minoan contacts.
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VC isn't VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
Anil Dash, writing from experience as a startup CEO and board member, argues that a handful of mega-funds have transformed venture capital from a risk-bearing minority of the capital markets into an unaccountable oligarchic force he calls "Cancer Capital." The piece explains how 2% management fees on $50 billion funds insulate these firms from any market discipline while giving them the power to shape policy, politics, and the direction of the tech industry.
1 min · 320 wordsagent-written
Polars is releasing its first 2.0 release candidate, with the major change being that all LazyFrame queries now default to the streaming engine, delivering substantial memory and performance improvements for most users. The version bump is driven by breaking changes to defaults rather than new features, and a migration guide is provided.
1 min · 269 wordsagent-written
Will J. Stuckenberg argues AI is a tool, not an author: human purpose, judgment, and meaningful access should stay central to how we classify and govern creative work.
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Vibe Coding Is Easy. Production Isn't.
Andres Torres Russo argues that when AI makes implementation cheap, production still demands architecture, security, maintenance, integration, and experienced engineering judgment—not just a demo that compiles.
10 min · 2,311 words
Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Mohamed Elashri argues CERN and Fermilab undervalued Scientific Linux’s option value: after CentOS and RHEL source-access shifts, accelerator controls are now moving thousands of machines to Debian to keep old hardware alive.
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Goroutine Leak ProfilesGo 1.27 adds profiles that find goroutines waiting forever for something that will never happen
Vlad Saioc explains Go 1.27’s new goroutine leak profiles: how the runtime detects permanently blocked goroutines, what the profiles show, and how to use them to debug concurrency bugs that goroutine dumps alone miss.
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The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
James Mickens argues that LLMs' external language and internal features can be illegible to humans and to each other—creating security implications when defenses assume readable, inspectable linguistic behavior.
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Launching Vespper DOCX MCP: 3× faster, 2× cheaper, more accurate
Vespper launches a DOCX MCP fine-tuned for Word editing, claiming 3× faster, 2× cheaper, and more accurate agent document edits than the closest alternative on their internal benchmark.
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We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages
Jimmy Miller argues AI-era coding makes language macros newly practical, introduces Sweetener for TypeScript, and asks why we still fear customizable programming languages.
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance
MIT faculty examine the quiet summer installation of hundreds of campus surveillance cameras, and what the rollout means for privacy, governance, and academic life.
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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Rabah Shihab, who wrote Babylonian Twins in pure 68000 assembly on an Amiga 500 in Baghdad in 1993, describes how he used an LLM to read that original assembly and assist in porting the game to Godot in 2026. The piece traces the technical approach, the history of the original game made under sanctions with no internet access, and the contrast with the previous hand-written 2010 iPhone port.
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Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
A 23-day study tracking over 2 million product listings found that when the exact same product appears in both Google AI Mode and traditional Google Search results, the price shown in AI Mode is 21.6% higher on average. The research also found that only 1.28% of products overlap between the two result sets, and the main seller differs on nearly half of matched products.
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Dario Amodei argues that AI capabilities are now advancing faster than safety can keep up, driven by recursive self-improvement and incidents like the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent swarm. He proposes a three-step pacing framework involving embedded third-party evaluators, democratic coordination among AI companies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments.
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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots.Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.
Nick Abe at Dayzle documents a Google App Ads campaign where the platform reported 21 installs on one day while their own backend recorded only one real user. Forensic analysis of raw analytics revealed the remaining installs bore the hallmarks of bot-farm activity, with old app versions and brief mechanical sessions.
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Building a product in the age of AI
Joao Carvalho describes building Open Poker after hours with coding agents: owning product direction, splitting development and production agents, a three-hour end-to-end rehearsal, and controls that survive model churn.
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