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The Real Reason Why There Is No Nobel Prize For Mathematics Math permeates everything in the universe, except Nobel Prizes.

Why Is There No Nobel Prize For Mathematics? | IFLScience

https://www.iflscience.com/why-is-there-no-nobel-prize-for-mathematics-81147

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/nanochat/

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

Nato chief Mark Rutte jokes about 'limping' Russian submarine Moscow denies one of its vessels had to surface in the English Channel because of technical issues.

Nato chief Mark Rutte jokes about 'limping' Russian submarine

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgk2pn4v9lo

Wallandar and the rise of Nordic Noir
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct746q

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe

Guelph’s Peter Howitt Nobel win ‘a proud moment’ for Ontario universities where he studied and worked | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/peter-howitt-nobel-prize-economics-guelph-western-mcgill-9.6937046

#guelph

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? […]

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/no-fix-yet-for-attack-that-lets-hackers-pluck-2fa-codes-from-android-phones/

The Strange Saga of the Great Texas Space Shuttle Heist | Scientific American

https://archive.is/2025.10.13-112912/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moving-nasa-space-shuttle-to-texas-from-dc-could-damage-it-experts-say/

I had an interesting experience exiting Customs today. There were some folks from CDC who were asking folks to volunteer to do nasal swabs, to test for Covid, flu, and RSV. They asked where we'd been, where we lived in the US, if we'd had the relevant vaccines (they seemed surprised we'd had the […]

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety. The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying: John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News: "I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading." Reingold then quotes it saying: Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Ranked: The World's Top 30 Countries by Exports

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-exporters-in-the-world/

Science Under Siege — a rallying cry against the ‘forces of darkness’

https://archive.is/2025.10.09-140927/https://www.ft.com/content/c4dc2d34-d81a-43ea-b375-e1b23b231d93

Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement/

'Dieselgate': Five carmakers go on trial over emissions cheat claims The trial is the latest chapter of what has become known as the "dieselgate" scandal.

'Dieselgate': Five carmakers go on trial over emissions cheat claims

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr5epw8dweo

Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties Canada's foreign minister visits Delhi as the sides restore ties strained by a murder on Canadian soil.

Anita Anand: Canada foreign minister meets Indian PM Modi amid thawing ties

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9kd2e073wo

Lincoln’s Revolution - The Atlantic

https://archive.is/2025.10.10-123900/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/abraham-lincoln-revolution-founders-lessons/684332/

OpenAI partners with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips Chipping away at Nvidia’s dominance one deal at a time.

OpenAI partners with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/798827/openai-broadcom-custom-ai-chips

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email | ZDNET

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-replaces-microsoft-exchange-and-outlook-with-open-source-email/

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies | Second world war | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-of-bletchley-park-you-didnt-see-in-the-movies

Reposting every Monday until, for some reason, I can’t.

Not shocked
Not awed.
Not caving.
Not scared.
Not blinking.
Not packing it in.
Not coming to heel.
Not building bridges.
Not extending grace.
Not asking permission.
Not accepting the lies.
Not quitting.
Ever.

#NoKings #DefundFascism

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native language.

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/programming-assembly-artificial-intelligence/

The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on The rotors, first used in 1925 on a journey to Scotland, are being revived to help emissions in shipping.

The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dqznvxylqo

Your mum isn’t being radicalised by the Ringwraiths on Facebook. You know who the good guys are, you know who the bad guys are. It’s clear what needs to be done to sort out the creeping dark and someone with pure intentions is stepping up to do it.

This is key to Fellowship and LOTR as a whole: the lines of good and evil are very clearly drawn. There’s no what-aboutism to contend with. No one’s saying we should get Saruman on Question Time to defend his diabolical deforestation project or going, “I’m not saying that I agree with everything […]

‘Cosy and comforting’: why The Fellowship of the Ring is my feelgood movie The ongoing series of writers paying tribute to their easiest rewatches continues with an arduous yet immensely satisfying journey

‘Cosy and comforting’: why The Fellowship of the Ring is my feelgood movie | Lord of the Rings | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/13/lotr-fellowship-of-the-ring-feelgood-movie

Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake The Cube from NeXT, which was used to develop the WWW and Doom, was unveiled on October 12, 1988.

Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/steve-jobs-unveiled-the-next-computer-on-this-day-in-1988-the-cube-would-be-used-to-develop-the-www-doom-and-quake

Ranked: Countries With the Most High-Speed Rail in 2025

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-most-high-speed-rail-in-2025/