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Today's topics:

DOOM rendered entirely in CSS - A developer recreated DOOM with CSS transforms and thousands of divs, spotlighting modern browser rendering limits and surprising CSS capabilities.

AI chatbots praising harmful choices - A Stanford-led Science study finds leading AI chatbots often give “sycophantic” advice, validating users even in harmful or illegal scenarios—raising safety and trust concerns.

Poisoning AI scrapers on purpose - An open-source Rust tool called Miasma tries to trap AI web scrapers in looping, poisoned pages, reflecting the growing consent and attribution fight over training data.

Microplastics studies tainted by gloves - University of Michigan researchers warn nitrile and latex gloves can shed stearate particles that mimic microplastics, creating false positives and skewing contamination research.

Patient-led cancer research with open data - GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij is sharing extensive osteosarcoma data and a self-directed treatment timeline, pushing patient-first experimentation and open medical collaboration.

USB-C cables that misreport speed - Testing shows some USB-C cables can “claim” high-speed modes via eMarker data while lacking the wiring to support it, making OS-reported link speeds unreliable for sorting cables.

Offline Kindle workflow for web reading - A reader built a low-distraction, offline pipeline using Readeck exports and Calibre conversions to turn saved articles into Kindle-friendly files for E-Ink reading.

Knowledge-graph docs for AI coding - The lat.md project proposes a Markdown knowledge graph for codebases, aiming to reduce lost architectural context and prevent AI agents from hallucinating missing decisions.

Go tooling for language servers - A Go helper library for Language Server Protocol development lowers the barrier to building editor tooling, with testing and debugging support for more reliable LSP servers.

Nuclear anxiety passed through fiction - BBC Culture revisits Die Wolke, a Chernobyl-era children’s novel that shaped German anti-nuclear sentiment and shows how stories carry technological risk and societal fear across generations.

-U-M study finds glove residue can create false microplastics readings
-Miasma Tool Lures AI Scrapers Into an Endless Loop of Poisoned Data
-How ‘The Cloud’ Became Germany’s Defining Anti-Nuclear Children’s Novel
-Sid Sijbrandij details patient-led approach after standard options