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Today's topics:

Rust tail calls beat assembly - Rust nightly’s new tail-call support helps an interpreter outrun hand-tuned ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon, spotlighting real-world compiler progress and portability tradeoffs.

AI shifts developer workflows - Developers are using AI agents for rapid prototyping, parser generation, and editor tooling, but stories this week emphasize human-led architecture, testing, and maintainability as the difference-maker.

Token pricing for coding AI - OpenAI’s Codex moves toward clearer token-based metering, changing how teams forecast costs across input-heavy prompts, cached context, and output-heavy code generation.

New languages and safer runtimes - From a Rust-like language that compiles to Go to a Lisp garbage collector that scans stacks and registers, projects are pushing safer abstractions while confronting messy platform realities.

Email data sharing controversy - A blogger traces a unique email address back to an alleged sales-intel data pipeline, raising privacy, consent, and potential GDPR compliance questions for SaaS user ecosystems.

Sauna heat and immune response - A controlled Finnish sauna session shows short-lived spikes in white blood cells without broad cytokine shifts, adding nuance to how heat stress may influence inflammation markers.

Artemis II views Moon’s far side - NASA’s Artemis II crew reports their first direct view of the Moon’s far side, a high-visibility validation of Orion’s deep-lunar trajectory ahead of future landing ambitions.

-Artemis II astronauts glimpse the Moon’s far side and photograph Orientale basin
-Developer ships SQLite devtools after AI-assisted build—and warns about the design tradeoffs
-Rust Nightly’s `become` Enables a Fast Tail-Call Interpreter for Uxn, With Mixed x86 and WASM Results
-GitHub project adds ‘caveman mode’ to Claude Code to cut token usage
-OpenAI shifts Codex pricing guidance to token-based credit rates during plan migration
-Study finds sauna session boosts circulating immune cells more than cytokines
-Lone Lisp Grows Up: Adding Conservative Stack and Register Scanning to Its Garbage Collector
-Blogger alleges BrowserStack user emails surfaced in Apollo.io database
-Nanocode proje