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Today's topics:

Axios npm supply-chain compromise - Axios, one of npm’s most-used HTTP clients, was compromised via maintainer account hijack and a malicious dependency with a postinstall RAT—classic supply-chain risk for CI and dev laptops.

Apple Silicon LLM speedups - Ollama previewed an MLX-based macOS build targeting Apple Silicon performance, plus NVFP4 support—signaling continued pressure to run capable AI locally with lower latency.

Time-series foundation model release - Google Research open-sourced TimesFM 2.5, a pretrained time-series forecasting foundation model with longer context and updated APIs—making cross-domain forecasting and uncertainty estimates more accessible.

Token-efficient AI coding prompts - A community repo proposes a CLAUDE.md that cuts response verbosity to save tokens, improving consistency for agent loops—highlighting the trade-off between added context and output savings.

Government apps and mobile tracking - A critique of an official White House Android app alleges excessive permissions and third-party trackers, raising privacy and civil-liberties questions about government mobile software and data pipelines.

Artemis II heat-shield safety debate - An essay argues NASA shouldn’t crew Artemis II until Orion’s heat-shield damage from Artemis I is fully understood, framing the issue as safety culture versus schedule pressure.

Honda P2 humanoid robotics milestone - IEEE recognized Honda’s 1996 P2 as a key milestone in stable autonomous biped walking, underscoring how foundational balance control shaped today’s humanoid robot wave.

TinyAPL combinators and tacit code - TinyAPL documentation maps classic combinators to APL-style primitives, helping developers reason about point-free composition and build more reliable tacit programs.

Why writing still matters - A commentary warns that LLM-written prose can erode thinking and trust, suggesting teams use AI for support work while keeping the core reasoning and authorship human.

-Malicious axios Releases on npm Added Hidden Dependency to Drop Cross-Platform RAT
-Ollama Previews MLX-Powered Acceleration on Apple Silicon with NVFP4 and Smarter Caching
-Essay Warns Orion Heat-Shield Damage Makes Crewed Artemis II Too Risky
-GitHub project offers drop-in CLAUDE.md rules to cut Claude Code verbosity and output tokens
-Google Research Updates TimesFM Time-Series Foundation Model to Version 2.5
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