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Stories from 2026-07-18

1. LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)

2. GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)

3. Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)

4. Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)

5. What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (data.stackexchange.com)

6. Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)

7. TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/badchemical)

8. Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)

9. If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)

10. Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)

11. Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)

12. Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)

13. Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com/moonshine-ai)

14. Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)

15. The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)

16. Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)

17. Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)

18. I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)

19. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (nytimes.com)

20. Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)

21. I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)

22. Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)

23. The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)

24. Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)

25. EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)

26. An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)

27. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)

28. Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)

29. Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (acm.org)

30. The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold (isomorphiclabs.com)

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