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Today's topics:

DMCA abuse hides reporting - A critical startup post was delisted from Google via a seemingly fraudulent DMCA claim, spotlighting how copyright takedowns can be weaponized for reputation management.

LLM resume grading randomness - A test of HackerRank’s open-source “hiring-agent” showed the same resume can score wildly differently across runs, raising red flags about LLM-based applicant screening and fairness.

LLMs for security benchmarks - Semgrep compared frontier and open-weight LLMs on an IDOR benchmark, showing workflow “harness” design can matter more than model choice—and that open-weight models are getting competitive.

Silent HTTP response truncation - Cloudflare traced intermittent, hard-to-reproduce image response truncation to a race in hyper’s HTTP/1 flushing behavior, then upstreamed a fix and a deterministic regression test.

Apple’s new ASIF disk - macOS 26 Tahoe introduces ASIF, a new sparse disk image format for Apple’s Virtualization framework; reverse engineering work mapped its structure to enable tooling and forensics support.

NUMA traps in virtual machines - Performance gaps between identical VMs can come from CPU and memory landing on different NUMA nodes, turning latency into a lottery and making placement awareness essential in production.

Radiation-hardened 8085 redesign - Sandia’s SA3000 story shows how the U.S. built in-house rad-hard chips by redesigning a commercial CPU into CMOS for space and defense, and how manufacturing decisions shaped capability.

Memory and HBM price history - Stanford’s dataset tracks the cheapest retail $/GB for DRAM and SSDs over decades and adds modeled HBM cost context—useful for understanding AI hardware economics and bottlenecks.

Age verification and identity - Age-verification laws are argued to create scalable identity infrastructure that links online speech to real-world IDs, changing the enforcement dynamics around anonymity and investigation.

Menus as cultural datasets - An interactive analysis of historic restaurant menus treats ephemera as data, showing how digitized archives can reveal shifts in class, taste, immigration, and urban life.

-Sandia’s SA3000: A Radiation-Hardened CMOS Intel 8085 for Space and Nuclear Systems
-Test Finds HackerRank’s Open-Source ATS Gives Inconsistent Resume Scores
-Semgrep Benchmark Finds Open-Weight GLM-5.2 Beats Claude Code on IDOR Detection
-Pollen