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Replacing a cryptographic algorithm is rarely just a cryptography project. In DNSSEC, a stronger signature changes packet sizes, transport behavior, compatibility rules, and the meaning of a successful validation. Cloudflare’s first production step toward post-quantum DNSSEC is therefore less about dropping a new primitive into a library than about making the surrounding protocol migration safe enough to observe at Internet scale.

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Lottery tickets are famously poor investments, but the mathematics is subtler than that slogan suggests. Under rare circumstances, a jackpot can grow large enough to give a ticket a positive expected value. Even then, however, the bet may remain irrational for an individual. The distinction reveals both the power of expected value and the limits of reducing a life-changing gamble to a single average.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 10 report, “Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026”. The report is a casebook drawn from operations Anthropic says it detected and disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026. It spans cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, scams, weapons development, biological research, and attempts by rival labs to extract Claude’s capabilities.

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This summary covers The Economist’s August 22nd, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as China's spreading supply chains and published under the headline Routes and branches.

Globalisation is not retreating so much as changing address. Chinese manufacturers are building factories across the world, but the result is not a clean shift away from China. Instead, Chinese companies are extending their own industrial ecosystems into new countries, carrying suppliers, logistics networks and strategic technologies with them.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced the September 9 episode, an interview with Codex co-creator and OpenAI product leader Tibo Sottiaux about how the coding agent was built and how it is changing software work inside the company. The conversation’s strongest idea is that a useful coding agent is not merely a language model in a terminal. Its performance comes from a coupled system: the model, the harness around it, a reproducible execution environment, access to organizational context, and the tests and review practices that turn generated code into trusted changes.

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American Airlines passenger duct-taped to seat after mid-air meltdown loses his job (r/news)

• Different-Courage679: “Taped in front of a live audience.”
• Bcjglx: Are they rolling a die to decide when they blur his face out in the picture?
• Helios4242: Oh to legally be able to duct tape unruly customers

Eiffel Tower closed in row over women removed for Hindu group (r/news)

• daemenus: The French do love a strike. Good for her
• dinoderpwithapurpose: As a Hindu, I’m fully applauding the French. The delegate can f right off. Don’t make accommodations for groups that discriminate.
• ReggieCorneus: If they don’t want to interact with women, they have all the rights to do so at their own home. The moment they open the door that right goes away.

Gym bros, what sacred knowledge of getting Gains do you swear by and will always recommend? (r/AskReddit)

• FlaniganWackerMan: Most people over estimate what progress they can make in 6 weeks, but vastly underestimate what progress they can make in 6 months.
• CliveBixby1974: Consistency is key.
• flyingturkeycouchie: Even the shittiest workout is better than a skipped workout.

Medical professionals of reddit what is something so common yet so dangerous that people dont know about? (r/AskReddit)

• fgtrtdfgtrtdfgtrtd69: Socks and hardwood stairs
• buttermellow11: Diabetes. It will fuck everything up. Kidney failure, strokes, heart attacks, foot wounds (and infections and amputations as a result), the list goes on.
• Beneficial_Bed2537: Binge drinking and taking prescription drugs, so many accidental overdoses

Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed? Why? (r/AskReddit)

• Stars-in-the-night: Open. Why? Because the 8 pound lord and master of the house demands it.
• MpMeowMeow: closed. if there is a fire I want there to be some barrier to try and slow it down so I have a better chance to wake up.
• StormFallen9: Closed to keep the dogs in and the monsters/burglers/fire out

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Anthropic just asked me the craziest questions during my interview on Friday (Blind)

• kaizen (Meta): This is obviously satire but at this point a small part of me still doubts it
• GceB52 (Millennium Management): Testing fable safeguards live
• WNfP16 (Wiz): If we decided to murder you, would you still work for us?

I fear for the future of tech. This new generation of engineers is genuinely cooked (Blind)

• ㄗㄗ (ex-Google): Did you really think Amazon is hiring good engineers?
• Iknwyuan (ex-Bank of America): 10 years of onboarding and your process still lets people ship code they can’t explain?
• hiou (Silver Lake): This exact post existed in 2005 about copy-pasting from Stack Overflow. And in 1995 about IDEs. And in 1985 about compilers. The kids were fine every time.

Good Paying Remote Are So Hard To Get (Blind)

• yHoDjk9 (LinkedIn): You can’t retain tier 1 location salary and move to tier 2 or 3 for better COL. They’ll just adjust you down
• whysosrs (Coinbase): Coinbase is fully remote and pays well (400k+ fully remote as IC5), but the culture is highly team dependent. Company and industry is very volatile as well
• ygdfg (fuboTV): Google has offices all over the country. Why not move to another office (and a new team)?

A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city’s heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes (r/technology)

• National_World944: This works because Denmark already has district heating pipes under most of its cities. The data center just plugged in. The real engineering happened decades ago.
• Additional-Staff-326: This is good tech. This only works if the local area is already built for it or going to build for it. Cant retrofit most cities to do something like this.
• sirhackenslash: Yeah, but in america helping others is woke, so it’s global warming and you’ll like it

Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms (r/technology)

• kiwiboyus: This is a good approach and hopefully others will follow
• SnotRight: Queue some kind of “freedom of speech” bot campaign.
• Exciting_Turn_9559: Opaque algorithms should be illegal. It’s a matter of national security.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Managers with at Least 5 Direct Reports
• Topics: Database

Problem gist

The Employee table stores each employee’s ID, name, department, and manager ID. The task is to return the names of employees who manage at least five other employees directly.

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A moving-day question becomes geometry

A couch stuck at a hallway corner is an ordinary frustration. Strip away the furniture, gravity and extra dimensions, however, and it becomes a problem that resisted mathematicians for almost six decades: what is the largest rigid two-dimensional shape that can pass around a right-angle bend in a corridor one unit wide?

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s original September 8 publication claiming a result that, if it survives expert review, would close one of mathematics’ six remaining Millennium Prize problems. The announcement is remarkable for two reasons at once: a large AI-agent system appears to have produced a new proof at the frontier of mathematics, and the race to publish it has already raised difficult questions about priority, private model interactions, and how credit should work when human ideas and industrial-scale computation converge.