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Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software

Figma's answer to the AI software sell-off
My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call. Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch, and OpenAI poaches another key Meta exec.

Cowboys Facing Criticism for NFL Offseason Move They Didn’t Make https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/facing-criticism-offseason-move-they-didnt-make/

Those libs were so fucking lucky Todd Blanche wasn't there to shoot them in the face four times for daring to interrupt church - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/01/19/those-libs-were-so-fucking-lucky-todd-blanche-wasnt-there-to-shoot-them-in-the-face-four-times-for-daring-to-interrupt-church/

2026 NFL Offseason: The Biggest Question Facing Each AFC Team https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-offseason-biggest-question-facing-each-afc-team

from my link log —
A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel.
https://www.rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
saved 2026-03-17

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

Good article with lots of quotable quotes. Here’s one:
“Lines of code, number of [pull requests], these are liabilities. These are not measures of engineering excellence.”
That’s a big “well duh” for anyone who’s been in the thick of the software engineering process for more than 15 seconds — but a whole lot of folks are about to learn this the hard way, as the article lays out.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

Die chinesische Mauer wird jetzt auf dem Meer "gebaut".
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Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/16/world/asia/china-ships-fish…

X says it has open sourced its "core recommendation system" on GitHub and that the system "ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/x-op

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies | TechCrunch
In a post to GitHub on Tuesday, the social media giant purported to share its secret sauce.

Cowboys facing $28 million George Pickens holdout fear https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-facing-28-million-george-pickens-holdout-fear/a9a85af7a08b6c9a26091619

2026 NFL Offseason: The Biggest Question Facing Each NFC Team https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-offseason-biggest-question-facing-each-nfc-team