Episode Details

Table of Contents

• AI Innovations and Regulations
  • Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
  • U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
  • U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
• Tech Nostalgia and Revivals
  • WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
  • Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
  • Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
• Technical Developments and Innovations
  • DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]
  • Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512
  • Fusion Programming Language
• Security and Threat Awareness
  • Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
  • Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression
  • MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control