The signal in the feed.

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Building Gin: Simple over Easy

Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin

Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

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Even Honda is pivoting to data centers

Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.

Ithaca's king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer

"You gods don't speak in ways we understand."

Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first […]

After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

Penalty Shootouts: Is the Team That Kicks First More Likely to Win?

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first.

I Found 4 Bugs in an AI Student Platform — Here's What Was Actually Wrong

A GET endpoint inserting rows into a production database. { doubts, pagination } from an API that returned a plain array. Four separate bugs. One codebase. All found in the same sitting. This is a writeup of everything I found and fixed in DoubtDesk — an anonymous, AI-powered doubt-solving platform built for students to ask questions without fear and get instant answers. TypeScript, Next.js, Clerk auth, and a Postgres database on the backend. I'm writing this because every one of these bugs is s