EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regs Wrote Oil Industry Argument Against Them (propublica.org)

ProPublica reports that EPA air official Aaron Szabo, who now leads efforts to loosen methane regulations, had previously helped draft a 2022 oil-industry letter opposing methane controls. The article says Szabo later pushed for delays and revisions to the Biden-era methane rules and solicited industry input, including specific regulatory language, through meetings and internal communications. Critics argue his prior lobbying suggests the EPA is being influenced by oil and gas interests while methane rules that would cut emissions are being weakened.

Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon (bbc.com)

NASA’s Artemis II crew, including Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, have begun orbiting around the Moon’s far side and described it as a new and unusual view. The astronauts shared a photo of the Orientale basin, which NASA says is the first time the entire basin has been seen by human eyes. The report also notes the Orion spacecraft’s distance from Earth as it continues the mission.

Trump uses expletive-ridden social media post to threaten Iran's infrastructure (theguardian.com)

In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump used abusive language while threatening to attack Iran’s energy and transport infrastructure unless Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. The Guardian reports Trump framed the warning as “Power Plant Day” and “Bridge Day,” and said he could reach a deal with Iran by Monday. The live coverage also notes concurrent reporting of drone damage to Kuwait’s energy facilities and airstrikes in Iran and Lebanon.

SPF/PC v4 for MS-DOS, FreeDOS, x86 (github.com)

MOSHIX’s GitHub repository provides SPF/PC v4, an MS-DOS (including FreeDOS/x86) “abandonware” SPF editor from around 1993. The project describes it as an ISPF-like panel and editing environment with an included REXX implementation, intended to run on DOSBox and also usable on Windows and MS-DOS.

Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz (japantoday.com)

Shipping data shows that since Thursday three Omani-operated tankers, a French-owned container ship and a Japanese-owned LNG carrier have crossed the Strait of Hormuz. The article says Iran had initially halted traffic after U.S.-Israeli strikes but later allowed passage for ships it deems friendly, and that some vessels adjusted their AIS settings while transiting. Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines reported its co-owned Sohar LNG crossed the strait, while other Japanese-linked ships remain stranded in the region.

Puzzlehunts (vikramsaraph.com)

The blog explains what puzzle hunts are—team competitions where solvers decode information from puzzles presented in many formats—and walks through the author’s experience across multiple hunts. It highlights a memorable 2015 Star Wars-themed example puzzle and then focuses on the MIT Mystery Hunt, describing the hunt’s structure, the team “Team Providence” (now “The Providence Bureau of Invest-Egg-Ations”), and how the prize works. The author also previews a few 2026 Hunt puzzles and notes that the winning team earns the right to write next year’s hunt.

Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)

Ben Hoyt argues that adding third-party dependencies increases supply-chain risk, especially because automated tools like Dependabot update them without much review. He points to recent compromises (including issues affecting both runtime and dev dependencies) to show attackers can use updated packages—or even compromised development tools—to steal credentials or take over projects. He recommends minimizing dependencies and being cautious with automated updates.

Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses (tandfonline.com)

The study reports that exposure to Finnish sauna heat changes immune responses, showing stronger activation patterns in immune cells than in cytokine responses. It examines how heat stress during sauna bathing may influence the body’s immune signaling and cellular activity.

Large language models are not the problem (nature.com) AI

In a commentary, Hiranya V. Peiris argues that anxiety about AI in science is misplaced: if a large language model can replicate someone’s scientific contribution, the issue lies less with the model than with what the field is doing to value and develop genuine work. The piece suggests that the concern signals a need for better standards or practices in research and training.

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com) AI

Lalit Maganti describes releasing “systaqlite,” a new set of SQLite developer tools built over three months using AI coding agents. He explains why SQLite parsing—made difficult by the lack of a formal specification and limited parser APIs—was the core obstacle, and how AI helped accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and learning topics like pretty-printing and editor extension development. He also argues that AI was a net positive only when paired with tight review and strong scaffolding, after an early AI-generated codebase became too fragile and was rewritten.

The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn't in a Hurry to Reopen Hormuz? (gcaptain.com)

The article argues that the key constraint on reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not physical factors like minesweepers, but the U.S. ability to make shipping transits viable—especially through war-risk insurance and related federal “backstop” arrangements. It claims that insurance providers’ war-risk coverage pullbacks effectively turned Hormuz access into an on/off switch controlled by Washington, limiting how quickly ships can pass without U.S. coordination. The author then suggests that if the U.S. chooses not to rush a naval reopening, it could pressure European and other stakeholders to accept broader U.S. maritime policy demands, using a historical “Earnest Will” style model as an analogy.

Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address (shkspr.mobi)

Terence Eden reports that an email address he used to sign up for BrowserStack was later contacted by a third party after Apollo.io provided the address, which BrowserStack allegedly shared via a customer contributor network. Eden says multiple attempts to get a response from BrowserStack were unsuccessful and speculates that user-contact data was being transferred outside the company. The post raises concerns about data sharing and potential privacy violations.

Iguanaworks has closed down. USB Infrared hardware open source maker (iguanaworks.net)

Iguanaworks says it has closed and no longer sells its USB IR transceiver hardware, but it will keep the documentation and open-source software available. The product is a USB device for sending and receiving 38 kHz infrared remote-control signals on Linux and Windows, supporting compatibility with LIRC/WinLIRC. The page also outlines three hardware variations with different wired emitter/receiver port configurations and up to four independent transmit channels on the dual-socket model.

Apple Rich Text Fundamentals (paper.pro)

The article explains how Apple’s NSAttributedString represents rich text as a plain string plus per-range attribute key–value pairs. It outlines the API areas for reading, updating, converting, and drawing attributed strings, then drills into styling attributes—starting with color options (foreground, background, stroke, underline, strike), and how they map to NSColor/UIColor. It also covers font-related attributes such as font name/size and typography controls like kern, baseline offset, superscript, and ligatures.

Goldman Sachs: biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit (bsky.app)

Goldman Sachs analysts, cited in the post, argue that a major global oil crisis could be imminent, asserting that the world may be running out of oil and warning of potentially severe economic and social impacts.

Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year (cnn.com)

CNN reports that Colorado has become the first U.S. state to ban arrests based solely on the results of inexpensive “colorimetric” field drug tests. Experts say these tests can have high false-positive rates and are prone to cross-reacting with common legal substances, leading to wrongful arrests and prolonged legal battles. The article highlights examples including arrests tied to bird droppings, cremated remains, and prescribed medication, and argues the policy shift is intended to require confirmatory lab testing before someone is arrested.

Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network (friendi.ca)

Friendica is presented as a free, decentralized social networking platform that lets users run their own server or join existing ones, with wall-to-wall posting and remote comments across compatible networks. The site highlights privacy controls (access lists, private groups, private messaging, and optional content expiration), interoperability with major federated protocols like ActivityPub, OStatus, and diaspora*, and features such as profiles, posts, photos, and events. It also notes the stable release “Blutwurz” 2026.01, which includes improvements and security fixes.

Two Planes Destroyed by U.S. During Rescue Operation (wsj.com)

The story reports that during a U.S. rescue operation, two MJ-130s special-operations aircraft were destroyed by U.S. forces.

Right to repair: Why the US military can't fix much of its own equipment (taskandpurpose.com)

The article argues that U.S. service members often can’t repair their own ships and aircraft because Pentagon contracts restrict access to technical data, leaving contractors as the only authorized fixers. It cites cases like F-35 maintenance delays and Littoral Combat Ship repairs that required contractor crews even for routine tasks. While “right to repair” legislation gained bipartisan support, it stalled in the last defense authorization process.

Shared mutable state in Rust (2022) (draft.ryhl.io)

The article explains how to safely share and mutate data in Rust across threads using Arc for shared ownership and Mutex for synchronized access. It recommends wrapping Arc/Mutex inside a custom struct to keep locking implementation details out of your API. For async code, it warns against holding a std::sync::Mutex lock across an .await (which can cause deadlocks) and shows patterns like locking only in non-async helper methods, illustrated with a debouncer example. It also discusses how the compiler typically catches the unsafe “mutex guard across await” case and briefly compares std mutexes with async locks and alternative approaches like RwLock or arc-swap.

SpaceX and OpenAI: The Mega IPO Grift [video] (youtube.com)

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Sad Story of My Google Workspace Account Suspension (zencapital.substack.com)

An Ajay CA says his single Google Workspace super-admin email was suspended after Google concluded his account was “hijacked,” despite him being the legitimate user traveling overseas. He describes removing a recovery phone number while abroad, after which verification steps and recovery attempts failed, leaving him unable to receive email or use key services like payroll and third-party tools that rely on Google authentication. Multiple support channels and cases reportedly didn’t resolve the issue over more than 40 hours, threatening time-sensitive business operations.

Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11 (howtogeek.com)

Canonical’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS update raises the distro’s minimum memory requirement to 6GB, along with a 2GHz dual-core CPU and 25GB of storage, up from the previous baseline. The change reflects modern multitasking and browser-heavy usage rather than Ubuntu becoming fundamentally more resource-hungry. The article notes that this narrows Ubuntu’s historical advantage over Windows 11’s 4GB minimum requirement, though Ubuntu will still install on lower-RAM systems with slower performance and lighter Ubuntu flavors remain options for older hardware.

Porting Go's strings package to C (antonz.org)

The post describes how Anton Zhiyanov ported Go’s core bytes and strings implementations to C as part of a broader Go-into-C subset project. It covers translating supporting packages like math/bits and unicode/utf8, handling cases like Go vs C operator precedence, and implementing non-allocating operations by reinterpreting byte slices as strings and using libc functions such as memcmp. For allocating APIs like Repeat and Builder/Buffer types, it introduces an explicit allocator interface (with a system-allocator default) and uses it to make allocations visible and controllable, then notes benchmarking against the original Go behavior.

China Edges Past U.S. in Global Approval Ratings (news.gallup.com)

Gallup reports that in its 2025 World Poll, China’s global leadership approval edged ahead of the United States, with a median of 36% approving of China versus 31% approving of the U.S. The gap—China’s widest in favor in nearly 20 years—appears driven mainly by a sharp drop in U.S. approval across many countries, including several U.S. allies, while China’s approval rose modestly. Disapproval of U.S. leadership reached 48% (a record high), leaving both countries with negative net approval worldwide overall.