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Today's topics:

Publishers block the Wayback Machine - EFF says major publishers like The New York Times are blocking Internet Archive crawling, threatening the Wayback Machine, web preservation, and verifiable journalism records amid AI scraping lawsuits.

Mamba-3 shifts AI toward inference - Together AI and collaborators released Mamba-3, a state space model optimized for inference latency and throughput, highlighting a broader shift toward deployment-heavy AI workloads like agents and RL.

Open-source coding agents go desktop - OpenCode shipped a beta desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, positioning a model-agnostic AI coding agent with privacy-first claims, multi-session workflows, and broad LLM provider support.

Atuin makes terminal history smarter - Atuin v18.13 improves shell history search speed and terminal UX, and adds an opt-in AI command helper with safety confirmations and privacy controls—useful for day-to-day developer workflows.

BYD pushes megawatt EV charging - BYD claims up to 1,500 kW “Flash Charger” speeds, reframing EV charging as an infrastructure and grid problem as much as a battery problem, despite impressive five-minute top-ups.

FFmpeg explained for app builders - A practical overview demystifies FFmpeg’s architecture—how tools map to libraries like libavformat and libavcodec—helping developers integrate decoding without getting lost in the ecosystem.

FilmKit brings Fujifilm tools to browser - FilmKit is an open-source, WebUSB-based preset manager and RAW converter for Fujifilm cameras that uses the camera’s own processor, offering a cross-platform, zero-install alternative in beta.

Molly guards and safer interfaces - A reflection on “molly guards” connects physical safety covers and software confirmations, and introduces ‘reverse molly guards’—timeouts and defaults that prevent long-running systems from stalling.

-OpenCode launches beta desktop app for its open-source AI coding agent
-Mamba-3 Debuts as an Inference-Optimized State Space Model with Open-Source Kernels
-FFmpeg 101: Understanding FFmpeg Tools, Libraries, and a Minimal Demux/Decode Loop
-BYD’s 1.5-Megawatt EV Charging Nears Gas-Pump Speeds, but Infrastructure Limits Remain
-Atuin v18.13 boosts search speed, adds Hex PTY proxy, and introduces opt-in shell AI
-Trigger.dev’s TRQL adds secure, tenant-isolated SQL querying on shared ClickHouse
-Glossary Explai