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
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
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
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