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Today's topics:

Sixteen bytes, infinite demo art - A 16-byte DOS demo generates a Sierpinski-like pattern and PC-speaker audio, showing how sizecoding exposes deep math and hardware quirks.

OpenAI governance and AI race - Greg Brockman recounts the post–Sam Altman firing chaos, OpenAI’s governance choices, and why transparency and compute constraints shape who benefits from AI.

Microsoft email alerts abused - Phishers abused a legitimate Microsoft notification address, undermining trust in security emails and highlighting how attackers weaponize real sender infrastructure.

Earliest DOS code released - Microsoft open-sourced newly recovered 86-DOS and early PC-DOS snapshots, rare primary-source history that clarifies the origins of MS-DOS and the IBM PC era.

ClickHouse open-sources fiber scheduler - ClickHouse released “silk,” a Linux cooperative fiber scheduler aimed at high-concurrency servers, reflecting renewed interest in lightweight coroutines and efficient I/O.

Hand-drawn charts in 2026 - A designer spent about 50 hours hand-drawing a statistically accurate line chart, a reminder that craft and intentionality can matter as much as speed in data work.

Commodore 64 Dead Test font - A deep dive documents the Commodore 64 Dead Test cartridge font and how it can display text without system ROMs, useful for repair and preservation.

Grothendieck and modern mathematics - Quanta revisits Alexander Grothendieck’s schemes and abstractions, explaining why his frameworks still underpin algebraic geometry and parts of number theory.

-Greg Brockman Details the 72-Hour OpenAI Crisis After Sam Altman’s Firing
-Microsoft Releases Oldest Known 86-DOS Source Code as Open Source
-Doug MacDowell Spends 50 Hours Hand-Drawing a Data Visualization to Relearn Craft
-Dyalog Publishes Work-in-Progress Online Rewrite of “Mastering Dyalog APL”
-Scammers Exploit Microsoft Notification Email Address to Send Phishing Links
-ClickHouse Open-Sources Silk, a NUMA-Aware Linux Fiber Scheduler with io_uring Integration
-16-Byte DOS Demo Turns VGA Text Memory Into Sierpinski Sound and ‘Matrix’ Rain
-Deep Dive Documents C64 Dead Test Cartridge Font and Its Hidden MICR Easter Egg
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