France to ban social media for under-15s, aims for September 2026 start
TL;DR France has a completed draft bill proposing a ban on social media use by under-15s and a separate ban…
MonoGame Foundation Announces New Sponsor Support and Funding Options
TL;DR The MonoGame Foundation published a "New Sponsor Announcement" on Dec. 30, 2025, outlining multiple ways the project can be…
Scaffolding to Superhuman: Curriculum Learning Beats 2048 and Tetris
TL;DR An individual researcher used PufferLib, extensive hyperparameter sweeps and curated curricula to train agents that outperform a terabyte-scale search…
OpenAI Reportedly Outpaces All Major Startups in Employee Pay
TL;DR A Wall Street Journal report says OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history. The…
Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF and Docker
TL;DR An engineer investigating intermittent HTTP 499 errors on an Envoy network proxy used OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) to capture…
Galaxy S26 leaks point to new Camera Assistant video and autofocus tools
TL;DR Code discovered in a One UI 8.5 beta suggests Samsung will add video softening and finer autofocus controls to…
Leaked footage suggests Galaxy S26 Ultra sports a raised camera island
TL;DR Photos and a short video shared by OnLeaks on X appear to show dummy Galaxy S26 Ultra units with…
Net neutrality keeps flipping: rules return, then disappear again
TL;DR Net neutrality protections in the U.S. have repeatedly been enacted and rescinded over roughly the last 15 years. The…
Top 10 government and legal startups selected for TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2025
TL;DR TechCrunch published a curated list of 10 government- and legal-focused startups drawn from its Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. The…