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Claude Code: Anthropic macht aus Projects einen Auftragsverteiler
Anthropic hat Projects in Claude Code umgebaut: Ein Projekt verteilt Aufträge jetzt selbst auf parallele Threads. Die Beta läuft zuerst für Pro und Max.

Claude Code: Anthropic macht aus Projects einen Auftragsverteiler
Anthropic hat Projects in Claude Code umgebaut: Ein Projekt verteilt Aufträge jetzt selbst auf parallele Threads. Die Beta läuft zuerst für Pro und Max.

Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude)
https://claude.com/blog/projects-redesigned

Projects redesigned: from folder to conversation | Claude by Anthropic
A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code

@… I… yes
…wait what
https://www.zachleat.com/projects/?scope=wc is a few headings away from this becoming a reality 😅

If the three decades of free (ab)use and lack of participation/reciprocation (financially or otherwise) of commercial players and governments have not killed FLOSS software projects/culture, it very much feels like LLMs and their euphoric adoption are finally succeeding with that by now, in some sense even in a suicidal manner...
In 2026, The Great Dying is upon us and some of the projects left standing will have already turned into institutions whose main goals will be survival, risk…

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/small-scale-farming-logging-eclipse-megaprojects-as-top-threats-to-tapanuli-orangutan-ha…

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat
JAKARTA — Large infrastructure projects have long dominated debate over the future of Indonesia’s Batang Toru ecosystem, the main stronghold of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. But a new study suggests that while those projects have accelerated forest loss, the greatest direct threat to the ape’s habitat now comes from a much less visible source: […]

Lumping together behemoth projects like Kubernetes with VLC and XZ Util is a mistake that confuses users and customers: the differences cannot be ignored. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-saying-open-source-sustainability/

Stop saying "open source sustainability" | Grist
Why we need to ask if open source projects have a way to thrive, and if so, who's paying for it?

One Antarctic glacier, now expected to raise global sea level by 3 cm this century, and a lot more after that.
https://phys.org/news/2026-10-thwaites-glacier-contribute-sea-previously.html

Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise as previously projected
A new ice sheet model developed by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory projects that the melting of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica will contribute up to 30 millimeters (1.2 inches) of sea level rise by 2100—twice previous estimates—even without additional climate warming.

Democratic lawmakers are pushing a bill to disapprove of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia
in a bid to strike down the proposal during a three-month period of congressional review.
Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
along with Brad Sherman, John Garamendi and Don Beyer
introduced a Joint Resolution of Disapproval on Wednesday,
shortly before lawmakers left Washington to…

Democrats propose bill to strike down controversial Saudi nuclear deal
Congress has 90 days to review the agreement on nuclear energy projects.

“If all projects that have signed connection agreements were implemented in full over the coming years, they would increase Finland’s electricity consumption by nearly 40 per cent compared with the 2025 level.”
https://www.fingrid.fi/en…

"100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline"
#Conservation #Animals

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline
Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund, both U.S.-based environmental organizations, created the Phoenix Species Project and committed $100 million each, for a total of $200 million, to the project. The […]

Die Trump-Regierung zahlt dem deutschen Energiekonzern RWE 1,22 Milliarden Dollar dafür, dass er seine Offshore-Windprojekte vor New York, Kalifornien und Louisiana aufgibt. Bereits der fünfte solche Deal in diesem Jahr, berichtet Brad Plumer in der NYT. Das Geld fließt fast eins zu eins in neue Gasturbinen und ein LNG-Projekt.
#Energiewende

Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

I was blown away when I found this illustrated version of my FAVORITE short story from 1909 that predicted many technologies such as the internet, social media, video chat, artificial intelligence, and international air travel.
I thought this story made sense in 2005 and it just becomes more and more true. Owning this is real life just feels good.

#qemu's Google Summer of Code (#gsoc) projects have wrapped up and there is a summary #blogpost for those who want to see what was done. More details can be found by following the links to the individual write ups. Congrats to this years students:

RegLayer: 47 large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9ea5a37d-15c9-4d5b-94d6-719048c9cd3c

Open PhD positions: The IMPRS for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen and at TU Braunschweig is offering PhD projects in Star-Planet Interactions and in Planet Formation https://www.mps.mpg.de/phd/open-projects
Star-Planet Interactions with E. Ilin:

Researchers at Yale estimate that a single-payer public health insurance system in the United States would save over 100,000 lives annually, and reduce healthcare costs overall by more than a trillion dollars per year.
#MedicareForAll #Health

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

San Francisco's Family Zoning Plan disallows new driveways on certain transit- and pedestrian-priority streets, and asks housing near transit to build less parking.
The YIMBY lawsuit against the city is complaining these rules are constraints on housing production and seeking to overturn them. #sfpol

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116943021466382036
Spanish authorities, operating on a US extradition request,
arrested the 41-year-old Chambers,
a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide, last Friday in Ibiza.
He has…

Codeberg is now disallowing cryptocurrency projects...
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/f383b648fd733ab88083dc390b91e77cd7589980
Hell Yeah!

Merge pull request 'Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects' (#1254) from gusted/2026-assembly-cryptocurrency into main · f383b648fd
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254

C'est beauuu, on y croirait presque... :blobPikaFacepaw:
via @…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/climate/maldive…

Rising Seas Are Gobbling Up Beaches Around the World. A.I. Might Restore Them.
An experiment with roots at M.I.T. used A.I. and satellite images to grow a coastline in the Maldives. More projects are planned for Boston and Miami.

Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times)

If you live and vote in California, PLEASE vote NO on Prop 45 - gutting CEQA to expedite vaguely defined important projects is the wrong way to go.
For more info see https://environmentamerica.org/california/articles/vote-no-on-prop-45/
(Spelling cor…

Vote NO on Prop 45
At a time where California’s wildlife is under constant threat, Proposition 45 would undermine our ability to protect our state's wildlife habitat for generations to come. Vote NO on Prop 45 to safeguard our wildlife.

If you live and vote in California, PLEASE vote NO on Prop 45 - gutting CEQA to expedite vaguely defined important projects is the wrong way to go.
For more info see https://environmentamerica.org/california/articles/vote-no-on-prop-45/
(Spelling cor…

Vote NO on Prop 45
At a time where California’s wildlife is under constant threat, Proposition 45 would undermine our ability to protect our state's wildlife habitat for generations to come. Vote NO on Prop 45 to safeguard our wildlife.

from my link log —
Processing 40 TB of code from ~10 million project with scc.
https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-github-bitbucket-gitlab-projects/
saved 2019-10-01

"VodafoneThree seeks UK-based carbon removal projects"
#VodafoneThree #UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions

VodafoneThree seeks UK-based carbon removal projects
VodafoneThree has opened a request for proposals (RFP) for UK-based carbon removal projects to account for 24,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ bug/1

Bug #1 (liberation) “Microsoft has a majority market share” : Bugs : Ubuntu
See Mark's closure comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834 ------ Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Ubuntu Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." "Ubuntu software is free. Always was, always will be. Free software gives everyone the freedom to use it however they want and sha...

Blijf gvd met je gore poten van Wikipedia af
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Diff
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Nobody who depended on Log4j had budgeted for that moment, because nothing about using a free logging library had ever felt like a financial decision. It was one anyway. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-saying-open-source-sustainability/

Stop saying "open source sustainability" | Grist
Why we need to ask if open source projects have a way to thrive, and if so, who's paying for it?

It's been almost half a year since I announced the Number Battle rewrite and I have some words to say.
https://enmkdev.neocities.org/blog/projects/nb-rewrite-status/

New Fund at UC Santa Barbara Supports Student Projects Connecting Indigenous Studies and Environmental Action
The Kenneth Robert Lincoln Indigenous Environmental Projects Fund
Will Make Grants of up to $1,000 Available to Students Enrolled in the Environmental Leadership Incubator

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-elec

Gov. Josh Shapiro issues a new executive order on data centers in Pennsylvania
Shapiro, a potential Democratic 2028 contender, earlier welcomed data center developments. His new executive order takes a starkly different tone toward the industry.

Für die Freunde von Textverarbeitungssoftware, die einem nicht komplett auf die Nüsse geht: Gerald Brandt hat heute eine neue Version von WordTsar (moderner und SEHR guter WordStar-Klon) rausgebracht. https://sourceforge.net/projects/wordtsar/files/Releases/WordTsar-0.5…

How mature is this repository? My long quest for open-source software metrics
When I discover an open-source software project for the first time, how can I estimate whether it is mature, healthy and usable?
I just released OSSTRL - Open Source Software Technology Readiness Level to help me calculating the maturity of open-source projects.
#opensource

Development banks are backing problematic mineral projects, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/development-banks-are-backing-problematic-mineral-projects-report-finds/

Development banks are backing problematic mineral projects, report finds
A report finds development bank-backed transition minerals projects are linked to environmental, social and human rights risks worldwide.

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

when I said that “even AGI can't solve exponential complexity curves”, I meant something like this: https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html

California capped business tax credits at $5M/year in June and didn't exempt Hollywood, which is trying to fix the issue before the legislature ends August 31 (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

California Pledged $750 Million a Year to Hollywood. But a New Law Has a Big Catch
A new bill, signed into law on June 29, could persuade film and TV projects to take their business elsewhere. Legislators with ties to entertainment are scrambling for a solution.

There have been recent projects by Historic England and Museum of London Archaeology #MOLA to record historic #ghostsigns Here is an example of a more contemporary one. Presumably John Lewis are no longer "at home"?

🔁 Run and pack: Vite Task adds cached, dependency-aware execution for #monorepo scripts. vp pack (Rolldown/tsdown) builds npm libraries with DTS bundling, automatic package exports and standalone app binaries.
🔀 Migration: vp migrate converts existing projects (Vite 7 and Vitest 4 required) and can port ESLint/Prettier rules. Works with

Also from Codeberg:
"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*).
Such projects having an unclear copyright status and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code."

Merge pull request 'Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions' (#1253) from gedankenstuecke/org:20260629-llm-proposal into main · 71149c7fc9
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253

The words “open source sustainability” seem to imply that the whole open source ecosystem has a systemic problem. #business

Stop saying "open source sustainability" | Grist
Why we need to ask if open source projects have a way to thrive, and if so, who's paying for it?

Positive Deviance organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live events, and they’re now raising funds for next year. Chip in if you can. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/posit

One option to help upstream projects: put your engineers upstream! Over half of substantive changes in #OpenSSL 3.5 came from other companies.
#OpenSSLCon26

I’ve been using this rolling cart for years. It‘s a mobile work space for small projects. I load the middle shelf with tools and parts, and roll it to the job site. I use the top shelf as a work bench. Bottom shelf is for trash. It gives me a designated place to rest my tools so I don’t have to hunt for them later - Horizontal surfaces are an attractive nuisance for me.
When not used for projects, top shelf is extra laundry folding space.

#Google hammers another, extremely petty nail in the #Android #OpenSource Project’s coffin

Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
#a11y

Meet the QGIS Hub — sharing is caring!
Everyone knows the QGIS Plugin Repo but have you had a look at the QGIS Hub yet? It's similar to the plugin repository in that it allows sharing of resources between community members, but it so many different types of resources, that warrants multiple blog posts: from styles and projects all the way to processing scripts. Today, I want to have a look at the (a little cryptic) …

Meet the QGIS Hub — sharing is caring!
Everyone knows the QGIS Plugin Repo but have you had a look at the QGIS Hub yet? It’s similar to the plugin repository in that it allows sharing of resources between community members, but it…

I gotta say, this looks pretty cool. It's not for me, but I'm still impressed.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rubencalabrese/duoview-pro-premium-portable-dual-monitor-for-your-laptop

Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the company "to start something new" (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Special Projects Lead, Former COO Brad Lightcap To Depart
Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI’s special projects division and formerly was its chief operating officer, told staff on Tuesday that he is leaving the company, according to a copy of the memo viewed by The Information and a post from Lightcap on X. “Over the last few months, I’ve been focused on the next horizon and what would stand in the way of mission success,” Lightcap wrote

So if you’re the one inside your organization who gets to decide whether to adopt an open source tool for something that matters, the question was never “is this free?” It’s who is going to own those three jobs (features, security, continuity) for as long as we depend on this thing? https://www.getgrist.co…

Stop saying "open source sustainability" | Grist
Why we need to ask if open source projects have a way to thrive, and if so, who's paying for it?

Since September 2025,
the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued
30 states and the District of Columbia
to demand their unredacted voter rolls.
The rolls contain confidential information on millions of Americans
and have historically been managed by states.
Now these lists are a major focus of Donald Trump’s push to
take federal control over elections and
prosecute alleged noncitizen voters.
🔸The first seven lawsuits used…

“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits
Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.

Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem.
But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the number of things that can and will go wrong.

AI is not a substitute for knowing how to run software projects
Despite execs' best hopes for automating their own jobs, technology will always remain downstream of decision-making.

'But even before that*, projects to make zero and low-carbon hydrogen were being canceled across the country as they struggled to bring down costs. “California’s hydrogen hype was already fading,” one analysis from BloombergNEF said, calling the West Coast industry “already dead.” '
But the hydrogen industry stays optimistic. 😇
Hydrogen failed as car fuel. Now California's bet on it for green energy is fading, too - @…
#Hydrogen

OpenTelemetry System Packaging
https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/projects/packaging.md

For the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI

Project Overview ‹ Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces – MIT Media Lab
Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need humans in space — and we…

Hey folks, can you help me out with a little something: trying to come up with a good number of files limit for a file scan (for Kitten so you don’t hit heap memory limits if you run it from the wrong directory by mistake) and I’d love some statistics from real JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js projects of the number of files in them (excluding .git and node_modules).
Would you be kind enough to run the following command in Terminal in your largest projects and let me know what number your…

Stop saying “open source sustainability” #business

Stop saying "open source sustainability" | Grist
Why we need to ask if open source projects have a way to thrive, and if so, who's paying for it?

Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot #dataviz

GitHub - tashapiro/tanya-data-viz: Personal data visualization side projects.
Personal data visualization side projects. Contribute to tashapiro/tanya-data-viz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trump told Ukraine it had no cards. Then Kyiv took the war to Russia | AP News
https://apnews.com/projects/russia-ukraine-war-striking-russia-cards/

Replacing Red Meat With Vegetables and Legumes Could Avert 4.5M UK Disease Cases, Study Projects https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/replacing-red-meat-vegetables-legumes-could-avert-4-5m-uk-disease-cases-study-pro…

Replacing Red Meat With Vegetables and Legumes Could Avert 4.5M UK Disease Cases, Study Projects - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Halving red and processed meat consumption in the UK and replacing it with vegetables and legumes could prevent an estimated 4.5 million cases of chronic

I have too many projects I need like 3x as many jtag dongles as i have lol

@… it’s live on https://www.zachleat.com/projects/ right now

from my link log —
Algol 60 implementation. (1964)
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/book/Randell_ALGOL_60_Implementation_1964.pdf
saved 2020-05-29

The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to make artificial intelligence an integral part of medical care in the United States,
throwing the resources and support of the federal government into projects that deploy A.I. agents to diagnose and prescribe treatments to patients.
The multifront effort at the Department of Health and Human Services has raised concerns among some officials over the past few months that change is moving too quickly,
with inadequate evidenc…

Trump Administration Moves to Integrate A.I. Into Medical Care Despite Concerns
Federal projects are rolling out A.I. agents that offer therapy and prescribe medicine, raising concerns about safety and the influence of venture capital investors.

#OpenSSL now has a site listing research cooperations with universities at #OpenSSLCon26

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

⚡ Projects keep a target's traffic, browser state, cookies, notes and results together, and survive between prompts
🎯 A persistent managed #Chromium session lets agents browse authenticated applications while cookies and site storage survive restarts

The Gates Foundation pledges $1B over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good" (Claire Moses/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/technology/bill-gate…

Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Combat A.I. Inequality
Bill Gates, the foundation’s chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The donation will be invested in A.I. projects to bridge social inequalities.

Interesting project: "SNUG (Smarter Network Upgrades) is a UK Power Networks-led project creating a scalable route for social landlords to participate in energy flexibility markets while retrofitting homes with proven energy efficiency measures."
https://www.cse.org.uk/research-consultancy/consultancy-projects/snug-energy-efficiency-meets-grid-flexibility/

David Hook on why many of these crypto projects started in Australia: "export control laws only affected tangible items", "if I had a copy of BouncyCastle on CD when getting on a flight, I would have missed that flight"
#BouncyCastle #OpenSSL

Am I neglecting my open source projects? Is this still being maintained??
New on the blog: https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-this-still-being-maintained/

"New UK gas and oil projects are a ‘no-brainer’, says EDF boss"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

New UK gas and oil projects are a ‘no-brainer’, says EDF boss
Developing North Sea fields does not contradict net zero goals, according to Simone Rossi

from my link log —
FLIP fluid simulation on flip dots.
https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip
saved 2026-09-24 https://dotat.at/:/C93EB.html…

Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic

Donald Trump promised to sign an executive order on his first day back in office that would kill offshore wind.
In the Gulf of Mexico, his administration finally achieved that goal — more than 500 days later — by promising to sign something else:
a very big check. 
The Trump administration agreed to pay German energy company RWE more than $1.2 billion
to abandon its offshore wind projects in the United States, including the only one planned in the Gulf’s federal waters…

US-Israeli startup Buildots, which uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised $130M at a near-$1B valuation (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

⚙️ Needs Node.js 22.22.2 or 24.15.0 , npm 10 and a DashScope API key, installs globally via npm and can run as a user background service, Apache-2.0 licensed
🔐 Backend permissions default to ask-on-demand, full auto-execute only for trusted projects, and the gateway stays local-only
🌐 https://github.com/QwenAudio/qwe…

Is this still being maintained?? A little (big?) list of my open source projects sorted by how much they’re being neglected (descending).
https://www.zachleat.com/projects/
30k GitHub stars.
5.7M npm downloads last month.
4.7k issues closed and 2.8k PRs closed 🤯

"Sadiq Khan calls on Andy Burnham to commit to climate action as pressure grows over North Sea oil"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Sadiq Khan calls on Andy Burnham to commit to climate action as pressure grows over North Sea oil
London mayor points to ‘terrifying scenes’ this summer amid speculation Burnham may back Jackdaw and Rosebank projects

Michigan U.S. Senate primary results
https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/michigan-primary-results-us-senate/#Dem

Michigan U.S. Senate Primary Election Live Results 2026
Live results for the August 4, 2026 Michigan U.S. Senate primary. Track election results with real-time vote counts, county-level maps and race calls from AP.

Attorneys for James “Fergie” Chambers,
the US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide
who is currently imprisoned in Madrid and sought in extradition, have submitted a brief ahead of a decisive government meeting on the case.
Meanwhile, Chambers’ partner, the actor and activist Stella Schnabel,
met last week with multiple members of the Spanish parliament to assert his innocence.
The legal team’s arguments include that the US go…

Pressure builds in Spain to deny US extradition request for leftwing donor
Key government meeting this month will consider US bid to try James ‘Fergie’ Chambers over alleged support for Hamas

Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/launching-opt-in-vuln-finding-service-for-open…

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
We’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing. Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.

@… yes, the build awesome starter projects (and the long detail of sites in my personal category) are exempted from the home page perfect-scores scoreboard, if that helps explain the discrepancy

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-announces-…

Xbox announces Xbox Labs, a new initiative to trial emerging ideas and "new technology"
New business unit is charged with testing new projects and judging them by user feedback

Bank of America says it plans to deploy $250B by July 2027 to support US digital and infrastructure projects, including data centers and energy infrastructure (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

@… overall rank includes all sites (#36) and #34 is perfect scores allowed to be shown on the home page (which excludes starter projects and the long tail of my site).
so there are two URLs that were exempted from the home page that are higher than you there.
It would be more straightforward to unify those two under one rank, I think 🤔

Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/10/12/suki-seri…

Exclusive: Ambient scribe company Suki raises $90M Series E
Suki's effort comes amid stiff competition from incumbents like Epic and Oracle along with well-capitalized startups.

For decades, the federal government has funneled big-ticket grants to local communities to help them take on ambitious construction projects to expand public transit.
The grants, sometimes in the billions of dollars,
have funded new railroad tracks, train stations and roads rebuilt for modern bus service.
Today, they’re funding extensions of the Second Avenue Subway in New York and the Red Line in Chicago, as well as the Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River and bus infras…

Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It.
“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”

The report, Economic Impacts of Trump Administration Immigration Policy,
was commissioned by America’s Voice and conducted by researchers at Economic Insights and Research Consulting, a firm focused on economic analysis.
Its conclusions underscore how recent federal policies revoking immigrants’ legal protections or targeting them for enforcement
have had dire effects on the nation’s affordability crisis and job market,
especially in regions and industries that rely d…

Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474 GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit…

Texas data center projects must stop until state audits them
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects,
or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security.
In a more than 3,000 word blogposted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment,
saying “our nation can’t afford to lose” the race for AI dominance.

Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security.

The US is now building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China,
and more than any other country in the world,
after a stunning 76% increase in under-construction projects in the first half of this year.
When adding announced and pre-construction projects, the US is building nearly three times as much as China,
Since January, gas power capacity in overall development in the US has ballooned by 50%,
rising from 252GW to 378GW
– a third of the global total…

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds
There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters

A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits (Nik Popli/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/10/08/senate-investigation-ai-data-centers/

Exclusive: Senate Investigation Challenges Big Tech’s Case for AI Data Centers
The report argues that major tech firms are misleading the public about the costs and benefits of the projects.

Elderly Americans can expect to lose an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each,
a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments,
by 2034 and every year after
👉as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration campaign,
if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Already, US food prices are up,
housing permits to build new homes are down
–…

Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians opposing data center projects, warning that blocking the projects endangers building-related jobs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/blue-coll

Elderly Americans can expect to lose
an average of $2,152 in annual social security benefits each,
a projected 8.6% reduction in their retirement payments,
by 2034 and every year after
👉 as a direct consequence of the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s anti-immigration campaign,
if that carries on, according to a new report shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Already, US food prices are up,
housing permits to build new homes are down …

Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034

The Trump administration is shuttering two of the three U.S. Department of Agriculture research projects
studying #cyclospora,
a foodborne parasite that has sickened thousands of Americans this summer, Politico reported on Sunday.