THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026THE DAILY ORGAN OF SOFTWARE, SILICON & SITUATIONS VACANT⌘K SWITCHBOARD

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VOL. I — No. 303“ALL THE CODE THAT'S FIT TO SHIP”

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The Wire▮

+++Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?+++StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month +++We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 +++Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 +++Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS +++DoorDash to acquire Instacart +++How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)+++Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers +++Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet +++Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.+++For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue +++If IPv4 were land +++If-then-else had to be invented (2020)+++H.264 Is Magic (2016)+++NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto +++Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from +++The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR +++Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

+++Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?+++StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month +++We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 +++Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 +++Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS +++DoorDash to acquire Instacart +++How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)+++Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers +++Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet +++Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.+++For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue +++If IPv4 were land +++If-then-else had to be invented (2020)+++H.264 Is Magic (2016)+++NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto +++Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from +++The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR +++Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state

✦ The Day's Lead ✦

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

—HN WIRE · ▲668 · 169 comm. · 3h ago · (mistral.ai)

For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue

—HN WIRE · ▲147 · 92 comm. · 1h ago · (kadoa.com)

Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.

—HN WIRE · ▲156 · 142 comm. · 2h ago · (washingtonpost.com)

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

—HN WIRE · ▲113 · 51 comm. · 1h ago · (sidbala.com)

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

—HN WIRE · ▲1.5K · 281 comm. · 1d ago · (nullpt.rs)

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

—HN WIRE · ▲233 · 428 comm. · 5h ago · (about.doordash.com)

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

—HN WIRE · ▲718 · 624 comm. · 18h ago · (data.stackexchange.com)

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

—HN WIRE · ▲663 · 139 comm. · 17h ago · (divagr.com)

How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

—HN WIRE · ▲181 · 146 comm. · 6h ago · (publicpolicy.googleblog.com)

Full dispatches, Section C

✦ Situations Vacant ✦

Microsoft

Research Intern - Machine Intelligence

Cambridge, UK · posted 3h ago

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Arlington County, Arlington, VA · posted 3h ago

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AI Scientist Intern

Cambridge, MA · posted 3h ago

600+ more, Section B

✦ The Exchange — New Listings ✦

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✦ The Practical Mechanic ✦

The full column, Section E