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Today's topics:

Satellite-linked GNSS interference across Europe - An arXiv study links wide-area GNSS disruptions to Russian early-warning satellites in Molniya orbits, raising serious navigation, timing, and critical infrastructure risk.

Ladybird browser locks down contributions - Ladybird will stop accepting public pull requests, citing security and accountability concerns—especially as AI makes it easier to generate plausible but risky patches.

Redis 8.8 boosts real-time workloads - Redis Open Source 8.8 ships performance gains plus features for rate limiting, streams handling, and better observability—important for low-latency, high-throughput systems.

Databow unifies database command lines - Databow is an open-source CLI built on ADBC and Apache Arrow, aiming to make querying many databases feel consistent for developers and data teams.

Proof-of-Useful-Work blockchain reality check - A measurement study argues Pearl’s PoUW mining doesn’t deliver useful AI inference, highlighting verifiability problems and real-world resource costs like GPU market distortion.

Fine-tuning local LLMs for style - A technical writer fine-tuned small local models on old Microsoft manuals to recreate 80s–90s documentation voice, showing practical uses and limits of cheap style fine-tuning.

Quantum gravity codes and “magic” - New holographic quantum gravity work suggests “magic,” not just entanglement, may enable emergent space-time to curve—hinting why quantum computers could matter for gravity-like simulations.

-Study Attributes Wide-Area GNSS Interference to Russian Molniya-Orbit Early-Warning Satellites
-Ladybird Ends Public Pull Requests, Restricting Code Changes to Maintainers
-Holographic Quantum Gravity Links ‘Magic’ to Space-Time’s Ability to Curve
-Redis 8.8 adds new Array type, built-in rate limiting, and stream message NACKing
-Nango Promotes Remote, Open-Source Hiring for Product Integrations Team
-Databow Launches as a Unified ADBC-Based CLI for Querying Multiple Databases
-Study Finds Pearl Proof-of-Useful-Work Mining Delivers No Useful AI Inference
-Fine-tuning Local LLMs to Mimic 1990s Microsoft Documentation Style
-Bosworth Says New Quest Dev Tools Also Work on Meta Portal Devices


Episode Transcript

Satellite-linked GNSS interference across Europe
First up: a new arXiv paper argues