28 links from the last 24 hours · 11 November 2026
I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest.
LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models
Here is a curiosity: an archive that can be constructed using a single GNU tar invocation, that is extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on what tool you use.
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Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
Mike Lothian owns a docking station (or dock) that uses a DisplayLink chipset that had, at leas [...]
10 November 2026
5.3 — Blender
Gaussian splats, DLSS denoising, light dispersion, EEVEE fisheye, Outliner sorting, ripple video editing, and so much more.
Smart home devices should work without the internet — Do Code That Matters
Rule one is that nothing in my house needs a vendor's server to work. The rest of the rules I follow after ten years of home automation, plus both talks I gave on it, slide by slide.
Microsoft employee price list from 1987 - The Old New Thing
The Microsoft product catalog.
Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected
It’s been a really bad month (and year) for OT cybersecurity. From a wave of new, high-impact vulnerabilities, to attacks on supermarket refrigerators, to attacks on blood banks, we’ve …
AlphaProof Code agents wrote over three million lines of machine-checked proof in Lean to verify the core cryptographic protections in Signal down to machine instructions.
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Sure mate, buy me a bloody coffee
I don’t usually get involved in the internet reply-fest du jour, but this time I thought I’d give it a go. It involves coffee, just in case you wondered.
Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
Two Amazon engineers swapped Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a decision model in one of the world's biggest internal ticketing systems.
Yonkers Rises is an animated 3D diorama of New York City in which a giant mech, cut from the Yonkers boundary, rises from the ground and walks through Manhattan, Brooklyn, …
Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution …
Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing …
November 9th, 2026 by
LLMs can make complete multi-level games that are fun.
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember
Muse Ember is our smallest and most efficient model, designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day.
LLM access to models by Anthropic, including the Claude series
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven’t unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. …
If the Windows Update hot patcher checks that the function hasn't already been patched, does that mean you can't install two hot-patches? - The Old New Thing
It knows what it did.
Modern optimization and scaling laws for k-means clustering
Terminal2Shell: Critical flaw grants instant shell access on every major OS
Researchers disclose a 55-year-old vulnerability affecting macOS, Windows and Linux. Exploitation is trivial and requires no special tools. No patch exists.
GitHub - thisisme6598/gemini_files: Documentation of Gemini File Leaking Behavior
Documentation of Gemini File Leaking Behavior. Contribute to thisisme6598/gemini_files development by creating an account on GitHub.
When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 - CNX Software
Raspberry Pi has announced yet another price increase, this time for most models with 16GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB now sells for $385, an $80
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (time per Intelligence Index task & time to first answer token), context window & more.