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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-15.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Hollywood lawyers sharpen their knives for Seedance 2.0
▸ xAI's safety team might be ghosting us as Grok gets 'unhinged'
▸ Someone finally fixed Windows native development (allegedly)
Studios are up in arms about Seedance 2.0, a new AI video model that they claim is a 'blatant' copyright infringement machine. If you thought the writers' strike was dramatic, wait until the lawyers get involved with generative video.
A former employee claims safety is 'dead' at xAI and that Elon is actively pushing to make Grok 'more unhinged.' Finally, a chatbot that matches the chaotic energy of its owner's social media feed.
Discord is backing away slowly from a Peter Thiel-backed age verification firm. Nothing says 'we value your privacy' like cutting ties with a company famous for government surveillance tech.
Homeland Security is reportedly sending subpoenas to tech companies to identify users criticizing ICE. It's a grim reminder that your 'anonymous' shitposting might not be as anonymous as you think.
A brave soul decided that the current state of Windows native dev was a crime against humanity and built a solution. It's a bold claim, but if it saves us from one more hour of wrestling with MSVC configuration, give this person a Nobel Prize.
Sean Goedecke drops some knowledge on squeezing performance out of Large Language Models. It's not just about throwing more H100s at the problem; sometimes you need actual engineering cleverness to make the tokens go brrr.
If you thought LLMs were complicated, try mixing them with Colored Petri Nets for distributed applications. This is the kind of deep, theoretical computer science content that makes you feel smart just for bookmarking it.
While modern AAA games disappear into the server void, Flashpoint is doing the Lord's work by preserving over 200,000 web games. Your childhood procrastination habits are now safe for future generations.
NASA fixed the fuel leaks, but now they have a 'new problem' to solve before the next countdown test. Space is hard, but at this rate, we might get GTA 7 before we get back to the moon.
An open-source YouTube client that strips out the ads, the tracking, and the vertical video nonsense. It's the best way to watch content until Google inevitably breaks the API again.
Brown University created a beautiful visualization of probability theory. It's perfect for understanding statistics, or just staring at pretty moving shapes while you pretend to work.
Someone ported the classic 6DOF shooter Descent to the web. Now you can get motion sickness and disoriented in 3D space directly in Chrome, just like it's 1995.