Saturday, September 19
Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026
Fluorine Bleach Edition
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Fluorine Bleach Edition
Top Story
- The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified. (Wikipedia)
Of course the people who live in that part of Bolivia knew about it all along - that's why it has a common name, the tilcayo. It's related to the oncilla, which is related to the ocelot, but genetic comparisons showed that it it a distinct species.
The funny part is that while it does have a common name, nobody knows where the name comes from; it's not derived from a Spanish or native word. It's called the tilcayo because that's what it's called.
Tech News
- A researcher at OpenAI - where "researcher" apparent means "someone who wasn't shoved into nearly enough lockers as a child" claims that airgapped AI systems can communicate by overclocking their CPUs and using their thermal sensors to pick up changes in ambient temperature. (WCCFTech)
Assume a spherical cow of uniform density.
- Researchers - yes - used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts. (The Register)
Not nearly enough lockers.
- Flash floods can be avoided using this one simple trick. (The Verge)
Build underwater.
- Today: Move the Set type from the standard library to a builtin because (a) not all languages in the compiler suite could build a generic themselves based on available primitives and (b) it not only made it faster but fixed a case where performance was quadratic with set size. Continuing work on the Ada twins of all the standard library modules and completing the Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon compiler.
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