Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | 111

blog.google
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business 25
nytimes.com
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
<a href="https://archive.ph/rlAbY" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/rlAbY</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-bid-force-ad-tech-sale-2026-09-02/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-b...</a>
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs | 14

Sourati, Zhivar | Karimi-Malekabadi, Farzan | Ozcan, Meltem | McDaniel, Colin | Ziabari, Alireza | Trager, Jackson | Tak, Ala N. | Chen, Meng | Morstatter, Fred | Dehghani, Morteza
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models | Nature Human Behaviour
Language is far more than a communication tool; it encodes a wealth of information about a personâs identity, psychological state and social context, providing valuable insights for diverse fields including psychology, marketing and healthcare. Across three studies spanning seven datasets in different domains and over 880,000 texts, we show that the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) as writing assistants is linked to declines in linguistic diversity, interfering with the societal and psychological insights language provides. While core content is retained when LLMs polish and rewrite texts, LLMs also homogenize writing styles, reducing writing-complexity variance by a statistically significant 21â50% across datasets and models (Pââ¤â0.05), and amplify patterns associated with dominant characteristics while suppressing others, emphasizing conformity over individuality. These trends hold across different LLMs, prompts and contexts, with potential implications for diagnostic processes, personalization efforts, hiring assessments and cultural preservation. Sourati et al. find that variance in writing complexity dropped on social media, news and scientific writing after ChatGPTâs release, a shift from individuality towards uniformity. LLM polishing strips cues to gender, age, ideology and moral values.
Three sites made 215,128 âbest softwareâ pages for AI. Perplexity cites them | 38

trellner.com
Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them | Trellner Research
Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.
Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) â Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s 19
news.ycombinator.com
Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) â Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
Hi HN,<p>Iâm Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx (<a href="https://ronanrx.com/">https://ronanrx.com/</a>). We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides.<p>The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks.<p>I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to building our factory. We used machine learning and computer vision to optimize production. We also vertically integrated almost everything. It worked. We built an efficient manufacturing operation and grew the business to 50 million dollars in revenue. Then people actually stopped caring about masks. Fair enough.<p>Around the same time, I decided to try and lose the weight I had gained while building the factory. I ate nothing but chicken for six months. While this diet got some results, I plateaued. My doctor suggested tirzepatide, a GLP-1 medication.<p>For me, losing weight was only the beginning. "Food noise" was gone. I showed less interest in other compulsive behavior. I stopped scrolling Instagram and quit biting my nails. But that was just the beginning. I was born with a congenital heart defect called aortic stenosis. My whole life doctors told me I'd need open heart surgery in my 40s (I am 45 now). After just 18 months using tirzepatide, my cardiologistâs began to think (and still thinks) my surgery could be pushed back until I am 70 or 80.<p>This was all happening when I was deciding what to work on next. I wanted to keep working on manufacturing. I didn't want to build another product that could be replicated by a frontier model. Pharmaceutical manufacturing was the best combination of digital, physical, biological, and regulatory infrastructure I could find. The thing that bothered me was how disconnected all of the pieces were: telehealth, EHR, prescriptions, dispensing software, production, shipping. No one company has it all.<p>GLP-1s come in a handful of predefined doses, but patients obviously aren't standardized: they respond differently, lose weight at different rates, experience different side effects, and may need very different doses. Compounding pharmacies can fill customized prescriptions, but they are not built like software companies. Workflows are manual, fragmented, and disconnected from the patientâs data. It's our goal to connect those pieces with RonanRx.<p>Patients either come to us directly or are referred by a physician. Once a patient is in our system, we collect medical records, current meds, labs, and data from wearables. Our software follows the prescription through drug formulation, compounding, quality testing, and drug dispensing and distribution.<p>The most interesting feature is the feedback loop. As the patient is undergoing treatment, their response becomes data that can be used by their doctor to modify the treatment. We keep the doctor in the feedback loop.<p>We make money by selling drugs we manufacture. Because people can buy directly from us, their price is usually 3x-10x more affordable. We can do this because we start at the molecule and own the entire stack from manufacturing through prescribing, dispensing, and delivery, instead of paying a chain of middlemen at every step.<p>We are beginning with GLP-1s and peptides since this was where I personally experienced the issue; however, we are more interested in the potential of patient-specific pharmaceutical manufacturing.<p>We would love your feedback, especially if you have built pharmacy, manufacturing, clinical infrastructure, EHRs, or any other regulated software. There are a lot of assumptions in this model that should be tested.
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex | 17

werwolv.net
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex | WerWolv
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
Fable 5.1 World Modeling | 22
PhiloLabs/fable51-worldsGitHub - PhiloLabs
GitHub - PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds: worlds via code, from fable 5.1 ¡ GitHub
worlds via code, from fable 5.1. Contribute to PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds development by creating an account on GitHub.
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? | 45

help.mistral.ai
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? | Mistral Help Center
Higher Multipoles of the Cow | 4
Lehmann, Benjamin V.
[2504.00506] Higher multipoles of the cow
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2504.00506: Higher multipoles of the cow
Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO | 6

eldermyr.com
Realms of Eldermyr â play now
Realms of Eldermyr: a free, browser-based multiplayer action-RPG. One living realm shared by everyone online. Click to play, no download.
Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters | 2
wasmi-labs.github.io
Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters | Wasmi Labs
The optimizations behind Wasmi 2.0, and how they compare to Wasm3 and Stitch.
Wendell Berry has died 22
nytimes.com
Wendell Berry has died
<a href="https://archive.ph/YP8Uz" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/YP8Uz</a><p><a href="https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/kentucky-writer-farmer-and-advocate-wendell-berry-dies-at-92/" rel="nofollow">https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/kentucky-writer-farme...</a><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wendell-berry-kentucky-born-author-advocated-simpler-life-died-92-rcna595476" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wendell-berry-kentucky-...</a><p><a href="https://www.honest-broker.com/p/wendell-berrys-nine-rules" rel="nofollow">https://www.honest-broker.com/p/wendell-berrys-nine-rules</a>
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them | 29

studyfinds.com
Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds
Aging brains may mix memories up, not just lose them, replaying experiences too broadly to keep the details straight.
Creating Backup Storage Sucks | 1
smarmelling.com
<smarmelling> â Creating backup storage sucks
Took way more than I thought. But it was fun
Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems | 12
cbsnews.com
Whistleblower warns Postal Service's new mail ballot system has "potentially catastrophic problems" - CBS News
The whistleblower, described by lawyers as a federal official, disclosed information about the Postal Service's new mail-voting procedures to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Exit the Cave | 24

turtlespace.blog
Exit the Cave - by Justin Andersun - Turtle's Pace
Ainât it fun, livinâ in the real world?
Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote) 0

nango.dev
Careers | Nango
From DevExp to high scale to API fragmentation, we work on hard problems.
Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) | 18
admiralcloudberg.medium.com
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS | 8

tweedegolf.nl
Async Rust vs RTOS showdown! â Tweede golf
It's time for another technical blog post about async Rust on embedded. This time we're going to pitch Embassy/Rust against FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller.
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest' | 1

theguardian.com
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing âgeopolitical unrestâ | Netherlands | The Guardian
Bank says gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily and the move will allow it to respond more rapidly in a âcrisis situationâ
Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] 7
images.gatesnotes.com
Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards | 10
clui.org
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Poisson Disk Sampling | 12
stripeacross.com
On Poisson Disk Sampling | Stripe Across
Stripe Across is a grog. We hope you enjoy it.
We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora | 8

blog.cloudflare.com
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora | Cloudflare Blog
Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.