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The Gospel according to Peter (Thiel)

support@mycoding.id (David Gibson) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0700

It’s a period of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI destiny sequence is driven by productive altruism, a doctrine that has lurked about the fringes for years but lately burst into the mainstream since its adherents are embedded throughout the AI industry, from Anthropic to newly appointed AI safety watchdog METR. EA is a utilitarian method to philanthropy premised on doing the most fine for the most group complete the longest time, and EA advocates see halting an AI-induced doomsday as crucial to preservation as many humans as possible.

But EA has an crucial and likewise apocalyptic competitor in the crosscutting cosmologies of the tech titans — a strain of Christianity finest represented by Peter Thiel, who believes EA volition bring concerning the Antichrist. It’s an matter on which the billionaire techno-capitalist is a self-styled expert, and, somehow, Thiel has rotate into America’s most provocative and apparent Christian theologian.

Thiel’s current fixation on the End of the World as We Know It is in theological tongue called eschatology, the study of the “last things.” His particular bête noire is the Antichrist, the villain of these end times scenarios. Thiel’s riffs on the Antichrist began a small complete three years ago, archetypal in a 2023 talk at the Catholic University of America but then, starting in 2025, lone in closed-door, invitation-only, multipart lectures out of San Francisco. While that secrecy is frustrating for those of us curious in how uber-rich and politically mighty tech titans see the forthcoming of our world, it’s additionally fairly savvy — no astonishment from the guy who started hugely prosperous ventures akin PayPal and Palantir. “It’s a beautiful fine promotion shtick if you desire everybody to comprehend concerning something, not to let anybody in the room,” Thiel reportedly told one San Francisco spectators final fall.

In March, he traveled to Rome for another private, four-part sequence on the Antichrist. Taking his shtick to the doorstep of the Vatican was guaranteed to create publicity, and it did.

Months ago, recordings of Thiel’s lectures were leaked to The Verge. We have listened to and peruse transcripts of all four of these lectures, which provision a opening into Thiel’s dizzying religious and sociocultural philosophy. He comes off as an intelligent magpie who somehow combines disparate elements into grave warnings against the AI and broad “safetyism” that he claims precedes the Antichrist.

“Peace and safety” — the motto of the Antichrist, according to Thiel — difficulty him throughout the lectures. In the first, he wonders if we’re headed toward World War III or Cold War II, and afterward, potentially, an unfair peace, the corollary to an unfair war:

Somehow, it’s extremely different how the archetypal Cold War from ’49 to ’89 ended. But it ended alongside approximately what I think of as a fair peace. Where somehow you didn’t have a nuclear war. And somehow our side, which I think was additional the fine side, basically won. And you ended up not alongside a ideal peace, but additional or small a fair peace. And so if we have World War III, it volition be an unfair war. If we have Cold War II, perchance it can end in a fair harmony or an unfair peace.
Reflecting on this matter and thinking concerning it, it’s evidently not written in rock and there’s a lot of distinct ways this material can go. But I keep thinking that, if you had to put likelihood on it, aren’t the likelihood that we’re trending towards the fourth quadrant this time? The fourth possible is that Cold War II volition end an unfair peace. And it’s since the Antichrist talks concerning Armageddon nonstop. We’re all frightened to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And afterward since we cognize World War III volition be an unfair war, that pushes us extremely difficult towards harmony at any price.
What I concern concerning in that kind of circumstance is you don’t think too difficult concerning the particulars of the harmony and it becomes much additional apt that you get an unfair peace. This is, by the way, the motto of the Antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s “peace and safety,” the unfair peace. And afterward what Christ says in Matthew 24:6, the complete verse: “And you shall comprehend of wars and rumours of wars, see that ye be not troubled.” If you’re too troubled, volition we continually end up alongside extremely unfair peace? Or item akin this.

We are publishing an inspection of these lectures now since Thiel published a type of these identical ideas in the traditional religious diary First Things in July. You can peruse alongside for yourself. Titled “The Pope and the Antichrist,” the composition fills in the huge gaps in Thiel’s thinking and allows us to improved comprehend his ideas, specified as they are.

The base row is that following sifting through all of the arcane references and esoteric exegesis, it turns out that Thiel — a Protestant who likes to depict himself as a “heterodox Christian” — offers a fairly standard-issue American evangelical worldview, and fairly a fundamentalist one at that.

He’s small a coherent religious thinker than a repackager of recognizable ideas — dressing them up in the rhetoric of a tech nerd turned theological hobbyist — which he uses to advance his own ideology. He says everything from the Bible to pre-papal writings of a forthcoming pope to Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel Lord of the World to semi-obscure Scottish poesy alongside an eye toward his own, sometimes shockingly literal explanation of the Antichrist’s arrival (ideally, he should create his mark, as it were, additional quickly than Jesus, who died at 33 and a few months — although Thiel allows in his third address that perchance “in our gerontocracy, 66 is the new 33”). While his mashup of religious concepts and authoritative assertions on dubious interpretations create him audio akin an undergrad who fair took his archetypal doctrine category and afterward a few too many hits on the bong, the goal of his eschatology is the identical as all apocalyptic visionary: to distinct the earth between the saved and the damned. And Thiel is, clearly, among the righteous.

It’s notable current that Thiel is coming from the bosom of what is arguably America’s latest, and most unexpected, religious revival — one concentrated among the Silicon Valley elite, like the ACTS 17 Collective, which is a citation to St. Paul’s preaching to the Greek pagans in the Acts of the Apostles and an acronym for “Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society.” But that movement presents an upbeat communication of self-improvement through Jesus, the benevolent that the clean-and-fit Bay Area assemblage tends to embrace. Thiel’s worldview is fairly different for Silicon Valley, and perchance particularly unexpected for a gay German billionaire; he’s correct at residence in the US tradition of apocalypticism.

The key to Thiel’s theological imagination comes at the extremely beginning of his most latest First Things essay, and it is his fixation on, and fear of, the Antichrist. The Antichrist has traditionally been connected with, as Thiel himself put it elsewhere, “an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times.” That is true, although Thiel says that the Antichrist interests him “mostly since nobody alternatively is talking concerning it.” That would be news to anybody alongside equal a passing familiarity alongside American Christianity.

In fact, the Antichrist and eschatology are arguably the chief religious encourage operating through American Christianity, and that concentration distinguishes the US from most another churches and cultures about the globe. In America, biblical doctrine lean to jump from the Ten Commandments at the commencement of the Old Testament to the Book of Revelation at the end of the New Testament. The Gospels, the Beatitudes, all that provides the key doctrine of Jesus Christ is a footnote.

The enthusiasm for the end of the earth has been fueled in ample part by the sequence of sweeping revivals, or “Great Awakenings,” that have marked American religious former from the Colonial era up through the 1800s and, several would say, on into the 20th century. These revivals focused not lone on individual conversion but on dreary warnings concerning the “end times” as foretold in the New Testament, whenever Christ would come back to collect believers up to Heaven and those who remained would be stuck facing assorted tribulations on their own.

For American Christians especially, the quest to preserve souls from eternal damnation was increasingly driven by the fear that the Second Coming was imminent, so you’d improved regret now. New apocalyptic movements and sects and cults continued to flourish, from those first shelter revivals through the additional slickly tagged televangelists and, later, the enormously famous Left Behind sequence of novels in the 1990s. Forecasters variously took snippets in the Book of Daniel and another prophets in the Hebrew Bible and joined them alongside the frequently phantasmagoric gathering of visions from the Book of Revelation, and eventually what had been a confusing jumble of end times scenarios solidified into a extensively accepted timeline: expanding natural and human-made disasters, the Second Coming of Jesus, aka the Rapture of true believers, followed by the increase of the Antichrist and seven years of the Great Tribulation on Earth, ending alongside a final battle between fine and evil and a thousand years of peace.

Bill Gates

“One of my allies was telling me that I should not continue up on the chance to inform those group in San Francisco that Bill Gates is the Antichrist. I volition concede that he is certainly a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-type character. The community Mr. Rogers, the neighborhood character — but I saw the Mr. Hyde type concerning a twelvemonth ago, anywhere it was fair a nonstop Tourette’s, yelling promise words, nearly incomprehensible what was going on. Certainly, of course, there are a lot of group who are wannabe Antichrists. They kind of desire harmony and safety. [He] certainly wants a Nobel Peace Prize. He would provision his psyche for that, no inquiry concerning it.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky

“There is another publish — I haven’t been capable to get a copy of it since it’s coming out tomorrow, but we kind of downloaded it — that fits this thesis equal better. It’s from the East Bay rationalist Eliezer Yudkowsky. I’m embarrassed concerning all the ways I was formerly affiliated alongside these assorted group and how deranged and insane they’ve all gone. It started alongside these Baconian aspirations of transformative technology: We’re going to build it, it’s going to alter the world. And afterward it’s somehow ended in several kind of blackpilled item that’s likely additional depressed and additional Luddite than Greta.”

Greta Thunberg

“I think among the ways these things continually get reported is I denounce Greta as an Antichrist. And I desire to be extremely clear, Greta is not, I mean, she’s perchance kind of a category or a shade of an Antichrist of the kind that would be tempting, but I don’t desire to flatter her too much.”

Marc Andreessen

“It’s not Andreessen, by the way. I think Andreessen is not the Antichrist. Because, you know, the Antichrist is popular.”

Phew. Now act Peter Thiel. He is in consequence the latest in a lengthy row of apocalypticists, although his own rotation is that anxieties complete different new technologies akin AI volition immediate demands for greater regulation and that would be a grave, nearly apocalyptic, mistake. Given the latest warnings from AI leaders themselves that the new innovation could hazard individual extinction inside a decade, Thiel’s concerns run oppose to what you’d anticipate from an apocalypticist.

Thiel’s theological justification for criticizing this intuition toward what he derides as “safetyism” rests on a verse in St. Paul’s archetypal letter to the Thessalonians in which the apostle warns that many volition advance “peace and safety” to lull group into a false awareness of safety and afterward POOF, Jesus returns and the Antichrist appears and unbelievers are doomed.

Thiel identifies promoters of this benevolent of harmony and safety alongside a “restraining” power that volition be a sign of the coming of the Antichrist and which volition eventually pave the way for the Antichrist. He has pointed to Anthony Fauci as one example of specified a “restrainer.” And now the apostles of productive altruism, alongside their involvement for protecting as many group as possible, are in Thiel’s sights. Thiel uses the first Greek term for “the restrainer,” katechon, since of way he does. Deploying arcane conditions is part of the mystery that gives apocalypticism its allure, and prophets their power.

So who is really the Antichrist? Thiel at one item dismissed specified speculations as “down-market” behavior, but he himself cannot oppose weighing in. Viewing the Roman pontiff as the Antichrist or a collaborator alongside the Antichrist is a norm trope of end times theology, and in his First Things composition Thiel follows that tradition by suggesting that the delayed Pope Francis could have been the Antichrist. In earlier leaked snippets of Thiel’s talks he has accused the current American pope, Leo XIV, of being a “Chinese communist agent” or, additional recently, Beijing’s “useful idiot,” since he wants to control AI — all extremely Antichrist-adjacent behavior.

Thiel has a slightly different association to the Catholic Church. True to the additional anti-papist strains of his tradition, he worries that Pope Leo XIV is a “woke American pope” who volition associate alongside American liberals to create a tyrannical “Caesaro-Papist fusion.”

At the identical time, the German-born Thiel’s record-breaking financial assistance propelled JD Vance, a comparatively latest Catholic convert, to the US Senate and now a heartbeat distant from the presidency. Thiel has additionally made a little-known Catholic written theorist from France, René Girard, a religious guide for America’s governmental correct — although lone by completely inverting Girard’s celebrated instruction concerning the scapegoat mechanism by which a community eases inner divisions by blaming a sole individual or subgroup of group for their problems.

Thiel’s latest composition is additionally unusual, or inventive, in that fairly than denouncing the papacy as the Whore of Babylon — a traditional fundamentalist Protestant trope drawn from a stark depiction in Revelation 17 — he tries to co-opt one pope, the delayed Benedict XVI, into his extremely American and Protestant worldview and against the papacy and the Catholic Church itself.

“I did not arrive to Rome to try to be additional Catholic than the pope, but I did hope, equal as a Protestant, to be additional Catholic than the average Catholic,” Thiel says. His aim is to use Benedict — who resigned as pope in 2013 and died in seclusion in the Vatican in 2022 — as the one Catholic chief who understood the imminent danger of the Antichrist and the end times, the one Catholic who got it right.

Granted, Benedict is the one pope who provides Thiel alongside the benevolent of opening, nevertheless tiny, that Thiel could run with. Benedict was “a decided Augustinian,” as he wrote during his before days as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and he shared St. Augustine’s fairly pessimistic perspective of humankind. Thiel spends much period on the young Ratzinger’s dissertation on St. Bonaventure’s theology of former — a recondite topic in which the 13th-century Italian Franciscan rebutted the odd apocalyptic writings of Joachim of Fiore, an Italian abbot who lived a hundred years before St. Bonaventure.

Thiel somehow says Ratzinger’s endorsement of Bonaventure complete Joachim of Fiore as a sign that Ratzinger saw the apocalypse coming fairly than what Ratzinger really wrote and meant. In his third address Thiel extrapolates wildly on this theme from a citation inside a footnote, saying:

The TL;DR: My condemnation is that Benedict exactly idea that the historic falling distant from the chapel during his papacy was a sign of the end times.
Is there evidence for this? There’s all sorts of subtle hints. Writing the 1959 professorial dissertation on Bonaventure, he uses all this colorful tongue on the Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon. What does one create of this? In a footnote, it’s kind of the most cryptic, esoteric way to compose it. Not in his own words but quoting another professor, Ratzinger wrote — evidently before he’s Pope — quoting this another professor: “In the case of Bonaventure, we see how difficult it is to win in placing the appropriate limits on apocalyptic images. Apocalyptic images are akin a torrent of h2o that overflows the banks and it’s difficult to keep in bounds. And despite of all efforts to mollify the imagery, the apocalyptic spirit predominates. Even a Mozart cannot create a trumpet ignore to audio akin a trumpet.” So it’s kind of akin you are saying, if you think concerning this stuff, you can never, always conversation concerning it. If you conversation concerning it equal one peep, it volition dominate everything and you can’t say item else.

The evidence that forthcoming Pope Benedict was as focused on the literal end times as Thiel? That he would never conversation concerning it, of course.

What Ratzinger really wanted was to evade the idea that humanity could bring harmony and fairness to this earth through our own efforts — a preview of his decadeslong run against what he saw as Marxist-influenced freedom theology, not on behalf of the Antichrist. Yet Thiel continues to choice out assorted comments on eschatology — “breadcrumbs,” Thiel calls them — from Ratzinger’s lectures and writings as the decades progressed and Ratzinger’s own theological imagination admittedly grew darker and additional conservative. He interprets Benedict’s resignation from the papacy — unprecedented in contemporary times — as one of Benedict’s “winks and hints” that the Antichrist is coming.

This ventriloquizing is as bizarre as it is morbid, but Thiel is convinced that whenever it comes to talking concerning the Antichrist “these apocalyptic paroxysms create Benedict audio akin a fire-and-brimstone Southern Baptist.”

That comment shows Thiel’s essential problem, which is that he wants to perspective Roman Catholicism through an Evangelical Protestant lens that sees the end times as a earth apocalypse anywhere the “saved” volition be rescued — and confirmed in their righteousness. Ratzinger, and afterward as Pope Benedict, was a thoroughgoing Catholic churchman who was small concerned concerning the end of period than he was “anxious concerning the end of a historic era of the Catholic Church,” as the Italian theologian Marcello Neri put it. Ratzinger saw Catholic liberals who would dilute chapel doctrine and dogma as the apocalyptic threat, and it’s a danger to the Catholic Church, not the planet. History volition go on, Ratzinger believed. It’s the church’s destiny that’s small certain, gratitude to intrusion by modernist currents. Thiel is making a category error that undermines his complete argument. It’s representative Thiel.

At the end of the day, and of his essay, Thiel’s grandiose tongue and project is shown to be fairly a average ideological one. “Thiel is complete all a governmental theologian functioning at the extremely bosom of the Silicon Valley ecosystem,” the Italian Franciscan Paolo Benanti wrote in a sharp riposte to Thiel’s Rome talks. As Benanti explains, this ideology includes the “pathological radicalization” of a fistful of Western values — “competition, technology, the individual” — resulting in outcomes “radically divergent from the average delegate project.” Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor detailed on that theme in their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.

If liberals desire to “immanentize the eschaton,” as William F. Buckley formerly put it, by focusing on doing fine in this existence alternatively of being concerned concerning the earth to come, conservatives lean to concentration on individual salvation onward of the apocalypse. That end times theology is a ideal equivalent for them since it tends toward a libertarian ethos akin Thiel’s; Jesus is coming rear soon, let’s not get bogged downward in overregulating or overthinking. “We moralize way too much,” as Thiel stated in a podcast final month alongside Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. “If you’re evil, you’re at smallest competent. And if you’re evil, you’re not bad, and hence you’re really perchance benevolent of fine since you’re at smallest getting item done.” Instead, Thiel suggests, let’s create hay — meaning, bushels of prosperity — during the sun shines. Climate anxiety? Your worries concerning the forthcoming display a deficiency of faith! That’s why, in supplement to the former pope and the productive altruism movement, Thiel has additionally been reported as suggesting climate alter advocate Greta Thunberg power be the Antichrist.

Or maybe, he suggests in one lecture, it’s the scheme that’s the genuine Antichrist — specifically the financial regulatory system.

The Book of Revelation tells us, kind of, the Antichrist volition abolish financial freedom. Revelation 13:16–17: “He causes all, the two awesome and small, affluent and poor, liberated and bond, to obtain a grade in their correct hand or in their foreheads, that no man power buy or market preserve that he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the figure of his name.”
There’s this entire constellation of things, anywhere complete the final 25 years — this uneventful, Groundhog Day 21st hundred years since 2000 — under shield of related harmony and safety, an amazing machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed. And all these tech fortunes are downstream of this huge system. You have the illusion of power and autonomy, but you have this awareness it could be taken distant at any moment. It’s rotate into fairly difficult to conceal one’s money.

He admits that “this Antichrist-like system, this machinery” moves at a distinct speed than a individual Antichrist (who, again, should likely be 33.5 or younger), but insists it was set up “not overnight but comparatively quickly, and there’s a emotion it could be activated at the flip of a switch.” If that all seems akin a definition of the Antichrist that lone a billionaire could love, he assures his listeners it’s additional than that.

And then, of course, it’s not fair a financial system. It’s also, in several sense, an ideological system. The Antichrist won’t halt fair at money. Money is not adequate to halt the Antichrist and follows that he wants item additional from you.

It’s also, per Thiel, the International Criminal Court and the way it has spooked Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and erstwhile members of the George W. Bush administration, and it’s Germany’s strict laws about Nazi symbolism and libel online, and it’s Australian age verification laws, which all cobble together into a imagination of the end of days that so transfixes him. It’s not exactly blaze and brimstone, but to Thiel, it is.

For all of Peter Thiel’s prominence and brilliance — Vance called him “the smartest man I’ve always met” — his religious preoccupations are ultimately fairly mainstream. Vance lately spent part of a lengthy podcast alongside a famous Evangelical influencer talking concerning the End Times and the Antichrist. It blew the intellect of most Catholics, but as Vance’s companion traditional Christian commentator Rod Dreher said, this is “a very, extremely average belief.”

These beliefs are additionally extremely delegate of an increasingly DIY religious civilization in America that is detached from traditional practices and flesh-and-blood congregations. When it comes to religion, apparently everyone now does their own investigation and generates their own social media ministry.

The difference is that Thiel is an uber-wealthy influencer alongside governmental power. The theological thrifting by which he has sewn together his own apocalyptic imagination would at one flat be seen as quirky but guiltless if not for the fact that he is using that imagination to set himself up as a godlike fairness between the saved and the damned — one power nearly say a benevolent of Antichrist. That’s what eschatology has continually done, but few apocalyptic preachers have wielded the benevolent of power Peter Thiel does, and he doesn’t appear to perspective many of us exterior his circle as deserving of salvation.

Additional reporting by Tina Nguyen

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I worked at Trader Joe's for 2 years. Here are 11 of my favorite items to buy for easy meal prep.

support@mycoding.id (Susanna Maize) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:35:18 +0700

After operating at Trader Joe's for two years, I cognize which items are value buying. Susanna Maize

After shopping at Trader Joe's for complete 20 years — and operating at my local shop for two — I akin to think I cognize the sequence inner and out.

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Here are several of my favorite items to buy for quick meals I can throw together without much thought.

I affection making a veggie-loaded quiche alongside Trader Joe's icy pie crusts.

Trader Joe's icy pie crusts sensation homemade. Susanna Maize

I think Trader Joe's icy pie crusts sensation fair as fine as homemade versions, but are way additional convenient to use.

I throw in any vegetables I have kicking about in the rear of my fridge to create an uncomplicated quiche — alongside plentifulness of leftovers to obtain to work.

Trader Joe's soy chorizo is a versatile item.

Trader Joe's soy chorizo is awesome in quesadillas, tacos, and burritos. Susanna Maize

I'm not a fan of repeating the identical meal all day, so I akin to opt for versatile ingredients.

For example, I keep Trader Joe's flavorful soy chorizo on hand for quesadillas, tacos, burritos, or taco salads, giving me plentifulness of options throughout the week.

I continually inventory up on seasonal veggies.

During my most latest trip, I saw a display of autumn squashes. Susanna Maize

Although Trader Joe's pre-prepared and icy sections are continually enticing, I get the most bang for my dollar by purchasing entire ingredients and cooking them myself. That's why the create division is continually my archetypal stop.

Most recently, my local shop had a awesome display of autumn vegetables, so I got my favorite — honeynut squash. Similar to butternut squash, it tastes delicious roasted in kernel bowls and salads.

Sheet-pan gnocchi is one of my go-to weeknight dinners.

I add Trader Joe's gnocchi to a panel pan alongside cherry tomatoes, cut onion, zucchini, and sausage. Susanna Maize

I discover that whenever gnocchi roasts in the oven, it takes on a beautiful chewy-yet-crispy texture that's far better to bland boiled gnocchi.

I add it to a well-oiled panel pan alongside cherry tomatoes, cut onion, zucchini, and sausage, afterward assist it on a bed of arugula alongside a dollop of pesto on top.

Trader Joe's broccoli-and-kale slaw makes a awesome basis for salads.

I use Trader Joe's broccoli-and-kale slaw to prep meals for the week. Susanna Maize

I discover that Trader Joe's sturdy broccoli-and-kale slaw fares much improved than leafy greens.

So, I akin to group up a lot of the dish (without the dressing) to bask throughout the week.

I continually keep a can of Trader Joe's vegetarian chili in the pantry.

Trader Joe's integrated vegetarian chili is awesome alongside grilled cheese, mac and cheese, or a baked potato. Susanna Maize

Trader Joe's integrated vegetarian chili saves me on days I don't awareness akin cooking. It's classic, comforting, and fair dying to be dressed up.

I akin to brace it alongside grilled cheese for dipping, add it to a box of Trader Joe's mac and cheese, or assist it on a baked potato.

The Thai-style red-curry condiment packs lots of flavor.

Trader Joe's Thai-style red-curry goes awesome alongside onions, peppers, and broccoli. Susanna Maize

Trader Joe's bottled sauces are my concealed to quick, flavorful dinners that necessitate minimal prep.

Instead of ordering takeout, I create a delicious curry alongside onion, peppers, and broccoli — the Thai-style red-curry condiment does all the dense lifting.

I rotate Trader Joe's marinated chickpeas into a high-protein lunch.

Trader Joe's Greek chickpeas arrive packed in a tasty marinade. Susanna Maize

Trader Joe's Greek chickpeas arrive packed in a flavorful, herby marinate, so no dressing is required. However, I akin to add cucumbers, tomato, onion, and feta for a delicious Mediterranean-style salad.

Trader Joe's miso-ginger broth serves as the backbone for a delicious soup.

Trader Joe's miso-ginger broth tastes awesome alongside instant ramen. Susanna Maize

Although Trader Joe's miso-ginger broth is awesome on its own, I continually jazz it up alongside several sautéed veggies, icy potstickers, and a soft-boiled egg.

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I continually keep Trader Joe’s Mediterranean hummus on hand for uncomplicated lunches.

I affection Trader Joe's Mediterranean Hummus. Susanna Maize

In my opinion, Trader Joe's Mediterranean hummus is really the finest store-bought type around. It's additionally among the few that comes in a big adequate receptacle to final me additional than a brace of days.

I affection to group bento-style snack boxes alongside a scoop of hummus, cut veggies, and crackers to obtain alongside me.

Trader Joe's peanut-butter granola is my dawn meal hero.

I akin to have Trader Joe's peanut-butter granola alongside Greek yogurt and a swirl of jam. Susanna Maize

I continually prioritize having a high-protein dawn meal to keep my energy levels up throughout the day.

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This narrative was initially published on October 24, 2024, and most lately updated on October 20, 2026.

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Retirees are getting a 3.6% raise in Social Security. People staying in their jobs are getting only 3.4%.

support@mycoding.id (Madison Hoff) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:30:10 +0700

Millions of Social Security recipients volition cognition a 3.6% addition in their benefits in 2027. Gabrijelagal/Getty Images

There's an earnings premium for job switchers — and for retirees.

The Social Security Administration lately released the cost-of-living adjustment for next year. About 72 myriad recipients volition cognition a 3.6% addition in their benefits in January, higher than the September three-month moving average year-over-year median pay growth for job stayers at 3.4%.

Independent economist Aaron Terrazas stated cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries were higher than job-stayers' increases in three of the former six years, the most latest being the 8.7% 2023 addition announced in 2022 amid the post-pandemic cost increase spike.

"Retiree earnings is adjusted alongside the disbursal of living, whereas group who are operating are mostly compensated according to the disbursal of labor," Terrazas said. "For most of the former decades, we've been in a low cost increase labor deficit world, so that's worked out in workers' favor, but it feels akin that's shifting underneath the surface."

The header consumer cost index risen 3.7% from a twelvemonth ago in September, moving distant from the Fed's 2% cost increase mark but downward from the elevated rates rear in 2022. The Social Security Administration bases the annual cost-of-living adaptation on the average of a connected cost increase charge during the third fourth of all year.

"Indexing incomes to the disbursal of living fairly than disbursal of labor is a big part of what fueled inflation, the wage-price spiral in the 1970s," Terrazas said. "We moved distant from that custom for most of the workforce, but not for retirees. With the expanding portion of Americans in their retiring years, additional and additional consumers are, whether we desire it or not, having their incomes indexed to cost increase fairly than the disbursal of labor."

This, Terrazas thinks, could continue to run the K-shaped economy of the haves and the have-nots, as he stated older consumers are driving an outsize portion of spending, although that could alter as boomers commencement to age out of the highest withdrawal spending years.

"Baby boomers are in their center withdrawal spending years," he said. "When we think concerning person trends and what's holding up the economy, that is item we can't ignore — that formerly group attain their 80s, we should anticipate that spending to commencement to agreement as group rotate into homebound."

Meanwhile, the three-month moving average for job switchers was higher than for job stayers and higher than the announced COLA, so job-hopping could be better than job-staying if you prioritize earning more. The issue is that it may be difficult to discover a new opportunity, depending on anywhere you're looking. White-collar fields have been experiencing job loss, and occupation levels in the leisure and hospitality field have been beautiful volatile.

The US has spent the final brace of years in a low-hire, low-fire period: Layoffs are low, so if you have a job, you're apt doing OK, but job openings and hiring have additionally been anemic, making an ominous circumstance for job seekers.

While that method workforce may be additional safe if they have a job, it additionally method employers don't have to do a lot to convince group to stay. Some workers have turned to "loud working" to try to create certain their accomplishments are being heard internally at their business or externally via LinkedIn or another platforms, whether that be since of fear of job cuts, to create the case for a raise, or several another reason.

"It's tough, I think, for job seekers to see headlines whenever we get the jobs study that unemployment is low, we're continuing to create jobs, but it's item extremely distinct from what they're feeling," Terrazas said. "And so I think it is crucial for them to comprehend that communication that they're not alone. Many people, particularly in white-collar work, are struggling to discover new jobs or struggling to remain floating in their workplaces."

Jeff Bezos' advice for when to push back at work — and when to move on

support@mycoding.id (Ana Altchek) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:27:35 +0700

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Today's move

In an era anywhere leaders desire to move quickly, you don't desire to be the one slowing everyone down.

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire originator of Amazon, wrote concerning the expression "disagree and commit" in a 2016 Amazon shareholder letter under a division tagged "High-Velocity Decision Making," and it's been making a comeback.

While Bezos popularized the phrase, it echoes a administration doctrine that goes rear to the 1980s, whenever Andy Grove ran Intel. Richard S. Tedlow, Grove's biographer, earlier told BI that the idea of disagreeing and committing "was the regulation of how he felt you should comport yourself at Intel."

Why it works

The idea rearward "disagree and commit" is to defend your disagreement and create a apparent case. However, if the squad rallies about a distinct decision, you have to commit to it too. Bezos asserted that the use of "disagree and commit" could "save a lot of time."

"If you have condemnation on a particular direction equal although there's no consensus, it's helpful to say, 'Look, I cognize we differ on this but volition you wager alongside me on it? Disagree and commit?'" Bezos wrote.

The erstwhile Amazon CEO has equal used it himself, specified as whenever his squad green-lit an Amazon Studios project that he didn't think would succeed. Instead of continuing the back-and-forth, he disagreed but committed to the plan.

Try it today

The next period you differ alongside a coworker, create the case for your idea and provision it your all.

Once the decision is made, though, ask yourself if there's item you can do to assistance it activity better.

The base line

You don't need to concur alongside all decision at your job, but everyone benefits if there's an anticipation that formerly a decision is made, everyone rallies rearward it and tries to create it work.

Source

This understanding is drawn from Business Insider's reporting concerning the origins of the "disagree and commit" expression that Jeff Bezos popularized, and why it's making a comeback. Read the complete narrative in Business Insider from Ana Altchek and Tim Paradis here.

Has this example for disagreements worked for you? Tell us what you think of this direction in the comments below.

I'm a dietitian who helps busy parents lose weight. I always swear by these 8 family-friendly meals.

support@mycoding.id (Vanessa Imus) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:25:10 +0700

Some meals are uncomplicated to prepared and customize for the two adults on a weight-loss journey and children. Simon McGill/Getty Images

As a registered dietitian who helps occupied parents endure weight — and as a mom of three myself — I cognize the battle of trying to create fair one meal that plant for everyone at the table.

In many cases, kids desire item fun and familiar, during parents aim for slightly nutritious meals that assistance their weight-loss goals.

Fortunately, you don't have to chef a bunch of distinct dinners or resolve for "kid food."

Here are eight family-friendly meals I promise by that authorize for uncomplicated swaps and add-ons to create them lighter, additional nutrient-dense, and improved for balancing lifeblood sugar.

Build-your-own burrito bowls are uncomplicated to customize.

Beans and veggies can add fiber to burrito bowls. EBGraphix/Getty Images

This plant fine as a buffet-style meal choice anywhere everyone can inhabit their dish to fit their food preferences.

Start alongside pulled rotisserie chicken as the chief lean protein, and add flank dishes of dreary beans and brown grain for fiber-rich carbohydrates.

Chopped lettuce, salsa, and avocado are awesome additions for additional sensation and nutrients. Kids may favor having tortillas accessible to create their own burritos.

Use one group of buns for two distinct sausages.

Hot dogs alongside a grown-up swap. Vanessa Imus

Fire up the grill, and during the kids bask hot dogs, toggle yours for a leaner poultry sausage. They're typically higher in macromolecule and lesser in fat, making them a improved fit for importance management.

Load yours alongside gut-friendly toppings akin sauerkraut and grilled onions, and brace it alongside a flank of slaw or grilled veggies and antioxidant-rich berries.

This way, you can have a stable dish during your kids bask a classic.

While the kids eat poultry strips, rotate a few into a hearty Cobb salad.

A Cobb dish can be remixed to fit your needs and your kids' preferences. Luca Melo/Getty Images

The best meals for importance loss lean to be elevated in macromolecule and merge a lot of bulky veggies or fruits. So, create a few additional poultry strips for yourself and use them as a macromolecule origin in a satisfying Cobb salad.

Add cut poultry strips to romaine lettuce, tomato, bacon bits, sliced boiled egg, and a sprinkle of blue-cheese crumbles. Pair the dish alongside a ray part of dressing.

A Cobb dish is awesome since egg, bacon, and poultry can add adequate macromolecule to the meal to assistance keep you satisfied. Meanwhile, create akin romaine and tomatoes adds nutrients, bulk, and assortment to the meal without making it elevated in calories.

Quesadillas can be uncomplicated and kid-approved or additional nutritious for health-conscious adults.

It's uncomplicated to burden quesadillas alongside fiber-rich ingredients. Simon McGill/Getty Images

It's uncomplicated to customize dairy merchandise quesadillas to be as uncomplicated or as intricate as you and your kids prefer.

To upgrade your own, add lean dirt beef or dirt turkey (protein), nonfat refried beans (fiber), and roasted peppers or onions (vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants).

The macromolecule and fiber combo in this meal can assistance you awareness complete faster and longer, assisting evade the encourage for late-night snacks.

As a bonus, assist everyone a flank of cucumber or jicama slices for an additional dose of create or veggies that provision a crunchy, fiber-rich addition.

Use average taco ingredients to create a satisfying salad.

Use shredded lettuce in tacos and as a basis for salads. Vanessa Imus

Tacos are a weekly staple in our house. The kids affection theirs alongside dirt beef or turkey, topped alongside shredded cheese, all stuffed inner a crispy taco shell.

Fortunately, it's uncomplicated to change these sorts of ingredients into a hearty, protein-rich, nutrient-dense taco salad.

Start by filling a basin alongside cut romaine, cherry tomatoes, dreary beans, salsa, avocado, and lean dirt turkey or beef. Sprinkle a crumbled taco casing on top for crunch, afterward add a small dressing if desired.

This way, you can bask the identical taco flavors, fair way additional veggies and small carbs to assistance you rod to your regular calorie goals.

Better-for-you ramen can be served two ways.

Sometimes kids favor to eat the components of ramen separately. Vanessa Imus

A essential ramen recipe can be upgraded alongside lean protein, specified as diced poultry and a hard-boiled egg, and leafy greens, akin spinach or bok choy.

Aim to inhabit one flank of your basin alongside macromolecule and vegetables, reserving the noodles and broth for the another half.

If your kids are a small picky, fair assist components of the dish separately and modify the ingredients you use. Serve noodles alongside several of their favorite fruit, so they can choice and choose what they like.

Pizza can activity for everyone.

Many grocers and restaurants recommendation cauliflower-crust pizza. Vanessa Imus

With several adjustments, pizza night can motionless be awesome for parents trying to oversee their weight.

First off, using a cauliflower crust is a awesome way to decrease the carb figure of a representative pizza meal during adding additional vegetables.

More veggies method additional fiber for gut health and additional nutrients that assistance support your metabolism and general health.

I additionally akin to assist a dish or raw veggies on the flank to assistance me inhabit up on lower-calorie foods, so I can rod to smaller portions of pizza during motionless emotion satisfied.

Be certain to additionally add macromolecule to your pizza to create a additional stable meal. Chicken is a awesome lean option, but I additionally comprehend if you're additional of a sausage or pepperoni fan.

Pasta doesn't have to derail your importance defeat efforts.

I try to add macromolecule and fiber to pasta dishes. Aarthi Arunkumar/Getty Images

There are multiple ways to bask pasta regularly without disrupting weight-loss efforts.

First, toggle out your noodles. Regular pasta is elevated in carbohydrates, which can spike lifeblood sugar whenever eaten in ample portions or without being stable by macromolecule and fiber.

Instead, use noodles made from lentils or chickpeas. They merge additional fiber and protein, slowing how quickly carbohydrates are absorbed and assisting keep lifeblood sugar steadier — which can assistance alongside importance management.

Once the noodles are coated in sauce, your kids may not equal notice you've made the swap.

Skip high-fat, calorie-laden lotion sauces and top your pasta alongside marinara, which is naturally low in calories. Top alongside prepackaged frozen meatballs for an uncomplicated macromolecule boost.

Don't ignore to mix spinach or roasted broccoli into your dish for additional fiber. For pickier eaters, you may desire to assist it on the side.

This narrative was initially published on November 3, 2025, and most lately updated on October 20, 2026.

Why do we have so many meetings?

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:19:19 +0700

Why do we have so many meetings? Few office features are so scorned, yet apparently so necessary. This document provides the archetypal large-scale financial evidence on office meetings using an first study of additional than 9,000 workers connected to matched employer–employee administrative data from Norway. We display that meetings are the two average and costly, consuming an average of 12 percent of activity hours and 14 percent of resolute pay bills. Planning, issue solving, data sharing, and project coordination document for the bulk of gathering activity. High-paying and high-revenue firms dedicate additional resources to meetings notwithstanding facing a substantially higher chance disbursal of employee time. Meeting frequence and power are positively connected to employee pay growth. Workers in meeting-intensive firms study greater on-the-job learning, and interactions alongside additional elder colleagues are connected alongside stronger pay growth, suggesting that cognition transfer inside firms is an crucial mechanism. Meetings are the broccoli of activity – extensively disliked, but likely fine for us anyway.

Show HN: Clerkenwell – A Handwritten Clojure Notebook

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:14:14 +0700

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Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:11:56 +0700

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Uber offers hundreds in bonuses for some drivers as the busy holiday season approaches

support@mycoding.id (Alex Bitter) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:11:26 +0700

Uber is offering several drivers hundreds of dollars in incentive pay, depending on how many rides they complete in a stated period. Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Uber is offering ride-hailing drivers item that many haven't seen in years: Big bonuses.

The ride-hailing assistance is coaxing several drivers to obtain additional rides, offering up to multiple hundred dollars in "incentive" pay if they complete a set figure of rides inside a set period period, according to multiple screenshots of the offers seen by Business Insider.

In one example, a controller was offered $525 if the controller completed 45 trips inside a few days. Similar offers engaged smaller payouts and small trips, but paid out proportional amounts of $10 to $12 per trip.

That's a huge pay bump for many drivers, who create as small as a few dollars per trip, stated Sergio Avedian, an Uber controller and elder contributor to the gig-driver-advocacy blog and YouTube conduit The Rideshare Guy.

The bonuses power additionally be Uber's attempt to get additional drivers on the highway to encounter passenger petition during occupied periods akin Halloween and the holiday journey season, Avedian said.

"This may inform the narrative that they need supply," he said. "They're saying that we need to get everybody out there."

Some drivers have additionally gotten messages from Uber encouraging them to mention allies to sign up as drivers or get those who haven't driven in a brace of years rear on the app, according to screenshots seen by Business Insider. Payment for those referrals can attain up to $1,225.

The payments are a possible boon to Uber drivers, whose pay can change considerably between cities.

Uber drivers have to shield their own costs, specified as car maintenance, since they are autonomous contractors, not full-time employees. Rising gas prices have eaten into drivers' pay following the US and Israel started a war alongside Iran before this year.

An Uber spokesman did not provision particulars on why the business is offering the payments.

Uber has used targeted incentive payments before.

In 2021, petition for rides began to outpace the figure of accessible drivers following many had stopped driving during the pandemic.

In response, the business decided "to allocate accelerated and to allocate aggressively in attracting drivers rear to Uber" and risen the figure of energetic drivers on the app by 65% between January and November that year, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stated on an earnings call at the time. Uber afterward pulled rear on the additional pay.

"When we were coming out of the pandemic, they were abbreviated lots of drivers," stated Avedian, who was driving for Uber at the time. "It was insane bonuses out there."

More recently, riders have been paying additional per mile and waiting longer for their rides to display up, according to a study published final month.

Do you have a narrative idea concerning Uber? Contact this newsman at abitter@businessinsider.com or via encrypted messaging app Signal at 808-854-4501. Use a individual email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing data securely.

Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:10:54 +0700

A maths mentor at the tip of your pen. Press a key during you activity by hand: Claude, Gemini or GPT marks your activity on the
screen akin a instructor alongside coloured pens, gives you hints alternatively of answers, and shows the idea as a 3Blue1Brown-style animation.

_{Handwriting in xournal++ → one key → the stumble is marked on the leaf → box the integral → an interactive manim animation. (video; for a repeatable record the pen is scripted and the model's answer is a fixed example.)}

I study calculus alongside a pen tablet in xournal++. I kept screenshotting my activity into Claude and study lengthy answers back, whenever what I wanted was a instructor looking complete my shoulder: circle the mistake, tick what's right, nudge me toward the next step, and show me why. penmentor is that, one key away, on my own Claude subscription.

Hints, not answers. A ladder from a nudge to naming the method to a faint shade of the next line: you do the thinking, which is what makes it stick.
Feedback on your own work. The archetypal genuine error circled anywhere you made it, accurate lines ticked, afterward lines that inherit the error underlined. The marks remain during you keep writing; Esc clears them.
Practice that makes you recall. Questions on your key steps (answer by typing or by writing), find-the-error drills, "which method fits?".
See it. Box what you desire to comprehend and get an interactive animation made alongside 3Blue1Brown's own manim: drag the bounds, retype a value, observe Riemann sums near in.
Whole leaf aware. A small xournal++ plugin shares the leaf you are on, not fair what fits on screen.

Works alongside Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity

penmentor runs on the AI command-line delegate you already use, on that subscription. Pick the example in Settings; its prefix says which delegate answers:

Prefix	Agent	For example
claude:	Claude Code	claude:opus, claude:sonnet, claude:haiku
codex:	Codex	codex:gpt-5.6-terra
agy:	Antigravity CLI	agy:gemini-4-argon-medium, agy:gemini-3.8-flash-medium

Settings lists the agents you have installed. How all one is run and what it sees: the guide.

git copy https://github.com/AbdullahAlhariri/penmentor ~/src/penmentor ~/src/penmentor/bin/penmentor --selftest

Linux on X11 (best alongside i3), alongside one of those agents logged in (claude, codex or agy), affirmative rofi, slop, xdotool and PyQt6. Bind bin/penmentor to a key (example). Setup, keys and how it works: the guide.

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Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:09:29 +0700

Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins. Comments

ChatGPT Search Can Draw On More Pages After A Cloudflare Pilot

support@mycoding.id (Matt G. Southern) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:36 +0700

Cloudflare and OpenAI say a investigation aviator has helped OpenAI detect and indicator hundreds of millions of new web pages. The aviator used a participating cohort of concerning 1% of Cloudflare’s total network.

The companies shared those first results on Oct. 15 in a post on Cloudflare’s blog coauthored by two OpenAI staff. Cloudflare announced the pilot on July 8.

The article says finding new pages can initially addition crawling, and it doesn’t study how frequently the new pages were cited in ChatGPT or how many visits they sent.

How Cloudflare’s Signals Help OpenAI Find Pages

Cloudflare’s network signals are used by OpenAI to assistance its hunt crawler discover web pages alongside value. The blog article gives multiple examples of these pages, specified as the person guide of a particular washing machine, the most latest data concerning passport requirements and fees and a restaurant’s list and hours. It states that these pages “can be precious equal if few another sites nexus to them.”

The July 8 notice stated several of the new signals that volition be utilized, including how lately a leaf has been updated, the norm of traffic to a website and what updates have really been made to a page. Additionally, the notice states that this data comes from participating websites. However, neither notice explains who participated, nor whether the new pages are on their sites.

What The Signals Do To Crawling

The Oct. 15 article states that Cloudflare’s signals volition additionally assistance in assisting OpenAI’s crawlers evade unnecessary requests. Bots create repeated attempts to get records that are not accessible on the server, several websites redirect nearly any location to their homepages, and another addresses guide to copies of the identical content. Change signals signify to the crawler whether a particular webpage have to be visited again versus if there would be no value from doing so.

The companies are additionally evaluation signals that emblem possibly harmful pages. Their example is a counterfeit login form an attacker planted on one leaf of a lawful site, anywhere the goal is to emblem that leaf fairly than the entire domain. Early results propose the signals can assistance acknowledge pages to keep out of an index, the article says.

The article says the goal is to decrease unnecessary burden for Cloudflare customers, although it doesn’t provision figures for crawl quantity or server load. It additionally says, “Finding new pages can initially addition crawling as those pages are evaluated and indexed.”

Crawler Settings Still Decide Access

The October 15th blog article includes the declaration “A indication concerning a leaf doesn’t aid approval to admission it.” The blog additionally states that the researchers are using metadata from the web to enhance hunt and finding capabilities of their hunt engines versus sharing leaf satisfied for example training.

The document describing how OpenAI’s crawler plant divides hunt and training into two distinct robots.txt directives. So if a website blocks OAI-SearchBot (the robot searching for information) afterward the website volition not be included in ChatGPT’s hunt motor results; however, the blocked websites may motionless appear as navigational links. If a website allows the crawling by the two bots (GPTBot (the bot collecting satisfied that may be used for training), and OAI-SearchBot) afterward OpenAI may utilize the data collected during one crawl for the two purposes.

The Oct. 15 article directs the audience to Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control which is currently accessible on all plan. This assistance shows which AI services are accessing your website and offers you an choice to Allow or Block all crawler.

Why This Matters

ChatGPT volition have another origin from which to drag data formerly a leaf is in OpenAI’s index. The companies province that OpenAI independently evaluates and ranks the pages it indexes, so there is no justify of getting cited whenever your pages are established through their pilot.

Allowing OAI-SearchBot during blocking GPTBot method that your location remains accessible via the hunt results for ChatGPT but indicates that your crawled satisfied should not be used for training purposes. OpenAI has provided this identical configuration as an example on their crawler page.

Tracking ChatGPT visits depends on a UTM tag or a referrer, and several ChatGPT links lacked the two before this month, as I reported Oct. 15. One expert stated a fix began rolling out that day.

Looking Ahead

Cloudflare and OpenAI say that the next phase of betterment for this project includes improving how a web leaf is selected by an AI, evaluation additional fast and dependable indicators for changes to content, and measuring the results whenever the AI has established new content.

According to Cloudflare, they are currently operating alongside OpenAI to decide how improved satisfied finding could translate into endeavor outcomes.

Additionally, according to a July 1 blog post from Cloudflare announcing their investigation on network signals and AI search, Cloudflare aims to provision broad admission to that capability at several item during the remainder of 2026 (as I mentioned in my September report). According to the Oct. 15 announcement, there was no particular date announced.

In the meantime, OpenAI’s crawler action on your own location shows up in your server logs and in AI Crawl Control.

Featured Image: Tetiana Yurchenko/Shutterstock

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Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:49:33 +0700

Self-hostable OSINT for turning dark-web investigation queries into organized danger intelligence. Built for safety researchers, threat-intelligence teams, and authorized investigators who need collection, enrichment, association mapping, and export in one workflow.

pip instal voidaccess voidaccess examine "LockBit ransomware" --no-llm --no-tor --depth shallow voidaccess list voidaccess actors voidaccess status

Parallel collection - searches Tor indexes, paste sites, code forges, safety feeds, and curated .onion seeds.
Entity extraction - finds IOCs, wallets, credentials, handles, vulnerabilities, actors, malware, people, and organizations.
Multi-source enrichment - adds reputation, breach, passive DNS, sandbox, blockchain, and threat-feed context.
Actor intelligence - persists aliases, infrastructure, notes, timelines, and cross-investigation relationships.
Relationship graphs - builds co-occurrence graphs, communities, paths, and infrastructure clusters.
Content safety - filters prohibited queries, URLs, content, and extracted entities at mandatory pipeline gates.
Structured exports - produces STIX 2.1, MISP, Sigma, YARA, Snort, Suricata, CSV, Markdown, JSON, and IOC packages.
CLI and web UI - runs locally alongside SQLite or as a Docker Compose stack alongside PostgreSQL and a browser interface.

Stage	Action
1	Refine the inquiry query alongside the selected LLM
2	Collect from Tor search, paste sites, code forges, RSS feeds, and curated seeds in parallel
3	Filter noisy or irrelevant pages
4	Enrich the query and first indicators from threat-intelligence sources
5	Discover additional .onion links recursively
6	Reuse lately processed pages from the vector cache
7	Fetch selected pages through Tor alongside response-size limits
8	Persist newly collected content
9	Merge collected and enriched intelligence
10	Extract entities alongside regex, NER, and optional LLM analysis
11	Cross-reference entities against historic and kernel datasets
12	Build relationships, communities, and infrastructure clusters
13	Generate the final intellect summary and export-ready result

Full pipeline behavior, timeouts, recovery, and data stream are documented in Architecture.

Category	Examples
Cryptocurrency	Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, Zcash, Solana, Tron, ENS
Network indicators	IPv4, IPv6, domains, URLs, .onion addresses, MAC addresses, PGP keys
File indicators	MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, malware families
Credentials	Cloud keys, tokens, JWTs, API keys, stealer logs, combo-list entries
Messaging	Telegram, Discord, XMPP, Tox, Session, Matrix, Wire, ICQ, Wickr
Vulnerabilities	CVEs, MITRE ATT&CK techniques and tactics, Exploit-DB IDs
Detection content	YARA rules, Nuclei templates, Snort and Suricata indicators
Threat intelligence	Actor handles, ransomware groups, paste links, people, organizations, locations

Collection and Enrichment

Layer	Sources
Dark-web search	16+ Tor hunt engines and curated .onion seeds
Open-web collection	Pastebin, dpaste, paste.ee, Rentry, GitHub, GitLab, and curated RSS feeds
Threat feeds	AlienVault OTX, abuse.ch, MalwareBazaar, ThreatFox, URLhaus, ransomware.live, CISA KEV
IP and domain context	Shodan InternetDB, GreyNoise, AbuseIPDB, Feodo Tracker, C2IntelFeeds, crt.sh, URLScan.io, Wayback Machine, CIRCL PDNS, RDAP
File and character context	VirusTotal, Hybrid Analysis, Have I Been Pwned, EmailRep
Blockchain	BlockCypher and Etherscan

Sources that need API keys skip cleanly whenever their keys are absent. The complete key and configuration citation is in Architecture.

Optional vector embeddings

The default facility can run without PyTorch. When the embedding stack is unavailable, VoidAccess logs that it is using a deterministic SHA-256 fallback encoder. Install the optional NLP requirements to allow full sentence-transformer vector embeddings:

pip instal "voidaccess[nlp]"

Provider	Typical models	Notes
OpenRouter	DeepSeek, Llama, Claude	Default route; liberated models are available
Groq	Llama	Fast hosted conclusion alongside a liberated tier
OpenAI	GPT models	API key required
Anthropic	Claude	Claude Haiku is the tested default
Google Gemini	Gemini Flash and Pro	Google AI Studio key required
Ollama	Any installed local model	Local and suitable for air-gapped deployments

Command	Description
voidaccess examine "QUERY"	Run an investigation
voidaccess show	Open the interactive being browser
voidaccess export INVESTIGATION_ID --format FORMAT	Export as STIX, MISP, Sigma, YARA, Snort, Suricata, package, CSV, Markdown, or JSON
voidaccess bundle INVESTIGATION_ID	Build an IOC bundle ZIP
voidaccess enrich INVESTIGATION_ID	Re-enrich a saved investigation
voidaccess list	List saved investigations
voidaccess status	Show configuration, Tor, cache, engine, and kernel status
voidaccess actors	List persistent performer profiles
voidaccess performer HANDLE	Show an performer profile
voidaccess performer HANDLE --timeline	Show an performer action timeline
voidaccess performer HANDLE --note "TEXT"	Add an expert note to an performer profile
voidaccess timeline HANDLE	Open an performer timeline directly
voidaccess configure	Run the setup wizard
voidaccess configure llm	Configure the LLM provider, model, and key
voidaccess configure keys	Configure enrichment API keys
voidaccess configure tor	Override the Tor proxy presenter and port
voidaccess version	Print the installed version

Optional clearnet requests can use ScrapingAnt alongside --use-scraping-api or --use-proxies; Tor, .onion, GitHub, and GitLab traffic are unaffected.

Run the complete PostgreSQL, Tor, FastAPI, and Next.js stack alongside Docker Compose. The self-hosting guide covers guided setup, surroundings configuration, operations, and troubleshooting.


Self-hosting guide	Docker Compose, surroundings setup, operations, and troubleshooting
Architecture	Pipeline internals, modules, schema, API, enrichment, graph, and configuration reference
Contributing	Development setup, standards, and drag requests
Security	Supported versions and personal exposure reporting
Usage policy	Authorized-use requirements and prohibited activity
PyPI	Published bundle and publish files
GitHub	Source, issues, and releases

MIT. Use VoidAccess lone for authorized safety investigation and threat-intelligence work; see the Usage Policy.

Jensen Huang has a message for Europe: stop overthinking AI or get left behind

support@mycoding.id (Georgia Hennessy) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:42:54 +0700

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Europe to move faster on AI in a conversation alongside Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday. Nadja Wohlleben/Getty Images

Cast off the shackles and be bolder, or hazard losing the AI competition for good.

That's the pointed communication Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has delivered to European leaders during his trip to the mainland complete the former week.

Over the final seven days, Huang has visited France, Sweden, the UK, and Germany onward of Nvidia's GTC event in Berlin, which began Tuesday.

During that time, he's been apparent that he believes the mainland needs to move faster on synthetic intellect and depend small heavily on regulating the sector.

Huang made the case most immediately on Monday evening in Berlin, during a community conversation alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Asked how Europe should control AI, Huang stated safety had to be paramount, but cautioned that policymakers could not control their way to scientific leadership.

"There's nothing to control if the industry doesn't thrive," Huang told Merz, arguing that Germany needed to foster a family AI industry during ensuring it developed safely and responsibly.

He stated that policymakers should concentration on regulating AI applications, akin to the way they control products that use the internet, fairly than trying to control the underlying innovation wholesale.

"We have to be regulating the applications correct away," Huang said.

Merz replied that Europe was motionless trying to discover the balance between innovation and regulation. The German chief stated he did not accept "no regulation" was the correct answer, but that overly tight rules were not either.

Huang’s response: "Give Germany a chance. Give this industry a chance."

The toggle came as Huang and Merz thrown AI as a possible answer to the financial malaise that led Germany into recessions in 2023 and 2024.

Huang stated the country's manufacturing sector, engineering expertise, and manufacturing know-how are national resources, and that AI could assistance its companies rotate them into an advantage in the next phase of the innovation race.

"The next motion of AI is physical," Huang said, referring to robotics, manufacturing, cars, and dense industry. "Electrons volition never substitute atoms."

It was the identical urgent communication Huang had delivered in London days earlier. Speaking to reporters final week, Huang stated there was a "strange broad behavior" going on in the UK.

He took a rub at what he described as Britain’s inclination to live on failure.

"You have astute people, you have a awesome culture, you have young people, and the energy is vibrant. But for several reason, if there was a myriad reasons to win, you discover the one logic not to do it."

"I think you overthink things," he added.

The remarks underscore a acquainted strain in Europe’s method to AI. The mainland has moved first to established sweeping rules for the technology, including the EU AI Act, during the US and China have pulled onward in evolving frontier models and the infrastructure needed to train them.

Huang, whose company dominates the market for the advanced chips powering the AI boom, is barely a neutral observer. Nvidia stands to advantage enormously if governments and companies move faster to build AI infrastructure and deploy its technology.

Regardless of his interest in Europe's AI success, Huang's communication was blunt. If the mainland spends too lengthy debating how to control AI, it may discover that the meaningful innovation is done elsewhere.

Bagaimana Komputer Bisa Melihat?

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:30:27 +0700

Bagaimana Komputer Bisa Melihat?

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Walmart is taking shots at Amazon and Costco with a new membership bundle for Sam's Club

support@mycoding.id (Dominick Reuter) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:29:42 +0700

Walmart is now bundling memberships alongside Sam's Club. Dominick Reuter/Business Insider

Walmart rolled out a perk for its Plus affiliation programs, taking a attempt at rivals Amazon and Costco.

The retailing elephantine stated Tuesday that it is offering a affiliation bundle that includes Walmart Plus and Sam's Club Plus for $120 per year.

That method existing Sam's Club Plus members now efficiently get Walmart Plus included, and Walmart Plus members can add the premium-level association affiliation for an additional $22.

CEO John Furner took a not-so-subtle jab at Amazon and Costco in a declaration announcing the news.

"Consider what group may be paying today: $139 for a retailing affiliation alongside delivery. $130 for a storage club," he said, referring to their corresponding fees.

Walmart has been taking keen aim at the two retailing competitors, alongside affiliation perks that overlap in multiple areas, akin streaming entertainment, drugstore services, and deals from partner businesses.

The biggest perk for Plus members — whether at Walmart or Sam's Club — is an increasingly accelerated shipment operation that fulfills orders from stores and clubs in as small as 30 minutes. Some orders have arrived in small than 10 minutes.

"The bundled offering screens as another indication of WMT pushing additional value into its general ecosystem, and highlighting its fast shipment capabilities," Mizuho expert David Bellinger stated in a note.

Walmart doesn't disclose affiliation counts or fee revenue, but Mizuho estimates the chains have concerning 25 myriad Walmart Plus members and 30 myriad Sam's Club members. The financial institution additionally estimates an overlap of concerning 10% between Walmart and Sam's Club members.

Globally, Costco reported additional than 150 myriad affiliation cardholders, and Amazon is estimated to have additional than 220 myriad Prime members.

Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations

support@mycoding.id (Emma Roth) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:18:37 +0700

Emma Roth

is a news author who covers the streaming wars, person tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a author and publishing company at MUO.

Spotify says it has removed additional than 50 myriad songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from person recommendations complete the former year. That’s according to an announcement on Tuesday, which says Spotify has additionally made changes to its advice scheme to emphasize additional music made by individual artists.

“Our editors clasp the identical norm and don’t program satisfied identified as slop or spam,” Spotify says. “Since we made these changes, we’ve seen a marked decrease in listener concerns concerning this satisfied showing up in recommendations.”

Though Spotify has stopped short of mandating labels on all AI tracks, it launched an “AI Persona” sign for artists that use an AI character and don’t portray a genuine person. It additionally won’t propose music from AI personas. Other music streaming platforms are taking a tougher stance on AI music, alongside YouTube Music putting labels on AI songs, Deezer giving users an option to display out AI slop, and Bandcamp banning AI music entirely.

Spotify says it uses a blend of listener involvement and feedback, upload patterns, metadata, and third-party AI finding tools to decide whether a track may be AI-generated slop. Last year, the business stated it took downward additional than 75 myriad songs identified as spam. It’s additionally partnering alongside Universal Music Group and the independent music publishing company Believe to initiate a tool for creating AI music remixes.

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Regain Control Of Google Ads: Better Tracking, Clearer Proof Of ROI

support@mycoding.id (Callrail) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:17:07 +0700

Regain authority of Google Ads alongside a curated part stack on guide quality, Local Services Ads migration, Smart Bidding goals, and proving PPC endeavor value.

The article Regain Control Of Google Ads: Better Tracking, Clearer Proof Of ROI appeared archetypal on Search Engine Journal.

My Friend Bob Cringely

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:13:49 +0700

In 1996, I was a Ph.D. pupil at Syracuse University. One evening I was sitting in my agency and the phone rang,__ “Hello?”
“Is this Paul Tyma?”
“Yes?”

Bob replied in extremely accelerated English.
“This is Bob Cringely. I fair peruse 7 Java books and yours is the best.”

My archetypal idea was “Huh. He really stated my final name correctly”.

But my quick 2nd idea was that there were not, in fact, 7 Java books in existence. I did certainly compose a Java book, but to my knowledge, quarry was the 2nd on the market and equal then, I’m not certain it was the best. My Ph.D. advisor, Doug Lea, had been an first associate of the Java project at Sun Microsystems. He introduced Java (and the JVM) to all his grad students and I accept item akin 4 of us wrote books piggybacking upon the hype at the time.

In any case, as you power know, it is not average to get accolades or equal much notice for penning a programming book¹. I had no idea who this “Bob Cringely” individual was, but, um, Thanks! So glad you liked it - let’s conversation several additional concerning how awesome it is!

I didn’t cognize it then, but Bob was way onward of me. It’s apt he pictured me as several lonely device geek (or “nerd” in his parlance) sitting in a small agency tip-tapping distant at several code enjoying yesterday’s pizza. (He was right). He additionally knew device nerds akin me were typically a bit starved for attention, particularly about item connected to computer-centric achievements. Again, Bob knew his audience.

He continued, “Do you do Java programming too?”

Writing a programming publish in the 1990’s afforded many of the identical benefits as today. In another words, nearly nothing. You certain weren’t getting affluent off penning books. But it did get me invites to instruct Java at several Software Conferences. Which afterward got me invites to train Java to teams inner distinct companies. Because of that, my companion and I started a business about Java training. We hadn’t done any agreement programming until then, but we’d talked concerning it plenty.

“Sure we do!”, I fairly lied.

From there, Bob hired us to build him a scheme called (or codenamed?) “Pronto”.

Pronto was to be the allocation forthcoming of imprint Magazines. The big idea was for customers (who were document mag subscribers) to instal a small daemon procedure on their device that would detect for times anywhere their Internet association (i.e. frequently dialup modem at this point) was online but mostly idle. Our scheme would afterward gradually but persistently download their next month’s matter of “Good Housekeeping” or “Car and Driver””. Once it was completely downloaded, the daemon would lie in delay until 2am the next dawn and dispatch the PDF off to their residence printer. The client would awaken up to be happily amazed by a completely printed copy of their mag waiting for them!²

Like many at the time, Bob didn’t accept that study online would substitute study a full-color, document magazine. But how that mag got to your home could change, and that’s anywhere Pronto came in.

Bob had secured backing for Pronto - from person in Japan I think. I don’t remember, but I recall Bob paid us consistently for the period it took to create Pronto. After we finished, I don’t cognize what happened to Pronto, apart from that it never released in any meaningful sense. But this did commencement my 30-year association alongside Bob (or “Cringe” as we called him).

As I said, before this, I had no idea who Bob was. I didn’t cognize concerning his claim-to-fame publish “Accidental Empires”. His PBS sequence “Triumph of the Nerds” was released correct about the period I was operating with/for him. Well following Pronto somehow I got put on Bob’s catalog of “People I’m going to dispatch my next startup idea to for thoughts” email list. I was by no method solitary on that list, and sometimes I got into email threads alongside several engaging Tech personalities.

I fair took a appearance - and I have had 320 emails alongside Bob in the former 13 years. Mind you, those aren’t distinctive emails, most are part of lengthy email chains so I’d evaluation I’d email alongside Bob concerning 3 times a twelvemonth since the delayed 90’s.

Usually, the email chains started alongside Bob emailing me a wall-of-text concerning his new startup idea. While the archetypal fractional of the email was concerning the idea, invariably, the 2nd fractional was concerning how much prosperity it was going to make. I was continually impressed at how “to the penny” he got alongside his projections for item that was basically an idea written on a virtual napkin.

Some ideas were good, and several were not so good. Through my career, I really joined him in 2 ventures - home-account and Sonisafe. I have the throw decks for a few, and the detailed descriptions of a bunch additional ideas that perchance no one alternatively has seen. This was a awesome regard in the beginning, particularly as his fame grew. But all alongside the way, I felt Bob was missing the point.

If you always met Bob - or heck, fair saw him in any of his TV specials, you could see Bob charmed everyone he met. He was good-looking, disarming, and curious. He was additionally an outstanding writer, but it was on the display he really shined. He was comforting and fun to watch. He was fearless and made group awareness special. He wasn’t a “nerd” but if, akin me, you were; he understood you and he made it OK. In fact, at times, he equal made it appearance glamorous.

Despite his innumerable gifts, Bob seemed to really desire to be a superstar startup founder. I’m certain if one of his startup ideas had exploded, Bob would have filled the function fine. But to me - he was a clean natural in forefront of the camera. I continually idea he should commencement a Youtube conduit interviewing Silicon Valley celebrities. I sent him a few emails alongside those lines, but Bob would mostly fair disregard me. He was normally too enthusiastic concerning his new/current startup idea.

When I lived in San Francisco, he and I had lunch or meal occasionally. He really was a Silicon Valley celebrity. When the inevitable person(s) would arrive up to him telling them they were a huge fan, he’d act akin it the archetypal period anyone always recognized him. Every time. The TV Cringe immediately came to existence and it was continually a pleasance to watch.

Goodbye Mr. Cringely. I’m extremely apologetic to see you go. I volition young female you.

A few additional Cringe stories

2001

Right following the C# tongue was released (it must have been about 2001 or so?), I spent the evening and into the dawn study concerning it. Finally about 2am, alongside bleary eyes and a racing intellect I emailed Bob - “Dotnet is going to crush Java”.

I got a reply 2 minutes later, “Why?”.

I spent the next hr penning an overly lengthy and terribly coarse email, in a half-awake, caffeine-induced province and sent it off. I woke up the next dawn to Bob’s new blog article - fairly a lightly edited type of my rant!

Sharper Than Ever. Microsoft’s C# Language Might Be the Death of Java, but Sun’s the One to Blame

I fair recall being grateful he didn’t citation me. But then, he called me afterward that day, “Sun is a bit unhappy alongside the blog post. I’ve been summoned to Sun Headquarters tomorrow and you’re coming alongside me.”

The next day Bob and I went to Sun Microsystems. He and I sat in a area alongside Jonathan Schwartz (CEO) and Rich Greene (C-something-else) during they defended Java and gave me nasty looks wondering who the hell I was and why the hell I was equal there. They seemed plentifulness curious in impressing Bob though. By the way, Dotnet didn’t crush Java but I did get a Sun t-shirt.

After that, Whenever I emailed him, I frequently tacked onto the base of my emails - “Do any you desire alongside this email, but don’t citation me. And cognize this email could be totally incorrect or silly - either way, it’s yours now”.

2004

In and about 2004 I was living in NYC and I got a forwarded email from Bob. It was a onward from a Producer at the TV network VH1 telling him they were doing a video sequence called “My Coolest Years” and had a particular event concerning “Geeks” and they needed a device geek. They asked him if he wanted to be interviewed concerning what it was akin being a “geek” in elevated school.

He replied to the Producer, cc’ing me:

“Sorry, but I got laid plentifulness in elevated school. However, I have cc’d my companion Paul who really was a geek in elevated school. He additionally lives in NYC.”

I ended up alongside a total of concerning 8 minutes in the display alongside Mark Cuban, John Tesh, Ben Stein, and Wil Wheaton. Bob would have been way better.

2026

Randomly, a few months ago I formerly again watched Bob’s “Plane Crazy.” A classic. And since of the comments surrounding his death I established that his particular “The Transformation Age” is additionally on Youtube which I had never seen (in 8 or so distinct videos). It’s quintessential Cringe.

[Plane Crazy] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxU4nnLkeA)

[Bob’s The Transformation Age] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FuUcOF0WdQ)

How to Lock Your Phone Number Against eSIM Hijacking on Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T

support@mycoding.id (Ritoban Mukherjee) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:25 +0700

Your phone figure is the skeleton key to your digital life, and carriers have spent years handing out copies to anyone alongside a decent script. Resetting a financial institution password, recovering an email account, approving a crypto withdrawal: All of it can run through a content communication sent to a figure that a call-center rep can reassign in minutes.

The fine news is that all three important U.S. carriers now let you fastener your figure alongside a toggle. Here's how the attacks activity and anywhere to discover all switch.

How SIM swaps and eSIM hijacking work

A SIM toggle starts alongside research. Attackers collect your name, address, and document particulars from data breaches or phishing, afterward communication your transporter pretending to be you. If they convince person to move your figure onto a SIM they control, your calls, texts, and two-factor codes go to them instead. A near related is port-out fraud, anywhere the attacker opens an document alongside a distinct transporter and arranges for your figure to be transferred there.

The measure is difficult to pin down, but the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged 982 SIM toggle complaints and concerning $26 myriad in losses in 2024, downward from 2,026 complaints and $72.7 myriad in 2022. That decrease looks encouraging, but the figures lone contain crimes that victims bothered to study to one national portal.

eSIMs removed the synthetic card, not the feeble link. Researchers at the Russian resolute F.A.C.C.T. established that attackers now interrupt into a victim's transporter account alongside taken or leaked credentials, create a QR code, and scan it on their own device. Your lawful SIM is deactivated at the identical moment. There's no shop sojourn and no phone call to a rep.

Intel 471 additionally flagged a provider that let the activation code go to email alternatively of SMS, which gave attackers a second inbox to compromise. That provider has since closed the loophole, but the instruction stands: Every shortcut for locked-out customers is additionally a shortcut for criminals.

What SIM locks and port-out PINs really do

Carriers now recommendation three overlapping defenses. A SIM fastener blocks SIM or eSIM changes and equipment upgrades; a port-out fastener stops your figure from moving to another carrier; and a PIN adds a password inspect whenever you communication client assistance or petition a transfer.

I'd treat the PIN as the weakest of the three. PINs aren’t bulletproof since business reps can motionless override them. A fastener that grays out the choice entirely is much harder to conversation your way around.

In its 2023 order, the FCC instructed wireless providers to recommendation customers a liberated document fastener and to notify them of SIM alter and port-out requests. Compliance deadlines were pushed rear until national paperwork assessment finishes, though, so don't assume all transporter has implemented these features fully.

How to fastener your figure on AT&T

AT&T bundles everything into a sole toggle called Wireless Account Lock. According to AT&T's assistance page, it blocks equipment upgrades, SIM and eSIM swaps, IMEI changes, figure changes, transfers to another carrier, and edits to authorized users and billing info. You can motionless pay your bill, alter plans, and unlock a device.

To rotate it on (postpaid):

Open the AT&T app on a equipment that's energetic on your wireless account, and sign in.
Tap the individual icon.
Scroll to Wireless document lock.
Swipe to lock.

Prepaid customers prosecute a distinct path: Sign in, choose your number, tap Profile & Settings, afterward Account Info & Preferences, and choose Turn on under Wireless Account Lock. AT&T texts a one-time code to confirm.

Only users alongside chief or secondary admission can flip the switch, and AT&T emails the document holder and texts all energetic figure whenever the fastener changes. I akin that. A silent alter is the entire item of these attacks, so noisy notifications are fractional the defense.

How to fastener your figure on Verizon

Verizon splits the job in two. SIM Protection blocks unauthorized SIM and equipment changes, during Number Lock blocks your figure from being transferred to another carrier. Verizon's own records notes that Number Lock solitary doesn't forestall SIM cardstock changes, so you desire the two switched on.

To allow them:

What do you think so far?

Open the My Verizon app.
Tap the Me tab, afterward Edit overview and settings.
Find SIM Protection and toggle it on for all row you desire covered.
Find Number Lock and do the same.

After you disable SIM Protection, SIM changes and upgrade orders remain blocked for another 15 minutes. And if you always harbor out, Number Lock must be off before you can create a Number Transfer PIN. Two toggles is slightly additional homework than AT&T's sole switch, but it lets you fastener the figure during leaving equipment upgrades open, which is helpful if you toggle phones often.

How to fastener your figure on T-Mobile

T-Mobile additionally uses two features. SIM Protection blocks SIM and eSIM changes, and Port Out Protection blocks transfers to another carriers. Both are free.

To allow SIM Protection on a postpaid document in the T-Life app:

Tap the Manage tab, afterward the equipment icon.
Select Security, afterward SIM Protection.
Toggle safety for the entire document or for idiosyncratic lines.
Tap Save Changes, afterward Continue.

Port Out Protection plant alternatively since it's an add-on you use to all row separately. In T-Life, go to Manage, afterward See Plans, afterward Manage add-ons, and inspect the box next to Port Out Protection. Repeat for all row on the account.

On T-Mobile's side, authorized users can add either feature, but lone the Primary Account Holder can eliminate them. The per-line setup is tedious on a big family plan, although it's value the ten minutes. T-Mobile additionally recommends environment an document PIN of 6 to 15 digits, which you can lone alter from the chief holder's phone during on T-Mobile's network alongside wifi off.

What these locks don't cover

A fastener protects against changes made through your carrier—it doesn't defend against person who already has your transporter login, who power be capable to toggle it off.

AT&T at smallest requires its app on a equipment energetic on your account, which raises the bar. Still, researchers propose distinctive passwords and two-factor authentication on the transporter document too.

Remember to unlock before you upgrade your phone or move an eSIM, since all transporter volition obstacle you otherwise. Flip it rear on afterward.

The bigger fix is to halt letting your phone figure defender item valuable. Switch your bank, email, and crypto accounts to an authenticator app or a passkey anywhere you can. Think of the transporter fastener as a seatbelt: You'll rarely need it, and you'll be glad it was buckled the one period you do.

I Tested DeepSeek’s New Search Api, Here’s How It Ranks And Scores Websites

support@mycoding.id (Suganthan Mohanadasan) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:13 +0700

DeepSeek has opened admission to its own hunt motor through a community Search and Fetch API. It returns an authority mark for all outcome and says it filters out SEO spam, GEO manipulation, and low-quality AI content.

That is a important publish for SEOs.

The announcement on Oct. 17, 2026 came alongside an update to its Flash model. DeepSeek says the hunt motor already powers hunt on its website and through its API, indexes hundreds of billions of pages and handles hundreds of millions of searches a day.

Screenshot from X, October 2026

We can now query that scheme directly, inspect the sources it returns, and see several of the scores attached to them. That gives us item tangible to examine before an AI example turns those sources into an answer.

Naturally, I wanted to see what it idea of my site. And whether the spam filtering held up.

I spent $0.08 finding out.

My location came rear alongside an authority mark of 1. Spam PDFs on authorities and university hosts came rear alongside authority 4. The Fetch API additionally presented itself as Firefox from Hong Kong and returned satisfied from URLs disallowed by robots.txt.

These are my preliminary findings.

What I Tested

I ran 110 calls on Oct. 17, 2026 from Dubai: 93 Search calls and 17 Fetch calls. Around 103 were billable under the documentation’s billing rule, costing about $0.08.

The tests covered mark distributions, authority throughout distinct hosts, six queries connected to my own tools and research, localization, date filters, and fetch behavior.

I used the Search and Fetch documentation as the reference. Where the responses differed from the documentation, I’ve kept the observed results clear.

DeepSeek Gives You 2 Scores

Each hunt outcome includes two sectors value paying notice to:

Field	What DeepSeek says it means
authority	An authority tier from 0 to 4, alongside -1 definition unknown. Values of 3 or complete signify extremely authoritative sources.
rerank_score	A mark from 0 to 3 combining signals specified as relevance, authority, and freshness. Scores of 1.5 or complete are considered elevated quality.

These definitions arrive from the Search API reference. The authority tier is DeepSeek’s own assessment, and the records describes it as a asset of the page.

Across 20 SEO and GEO queries at count=50, I collected 1,000 results. Their rerank scores ranged from 0.75 to 2.70, alongside a median of 1.63. Results were consistently sorted by that score, and 68% scored 1.5 or above.

Only 196 distinct scores appeared throughout those 1,000 results. The returned values looked bucketed, although that solitary doesn’t inform us whether the underlying scores are rounded or calculated in fixed steps.

Authority Looked Tied To The Host. Mine Was 1

Across all 4,322 results in the run, authority tiers -1 and 0 never appeared. The allocation looked akin this:

Authority	Share of results	Median rerank score
1	2%	0.95
2	32%	1.45
3	60%	1.83
4	6%	1.98

Higher authority tiers came alongside higher median rerank scores in this sample. That doesn’t isolate the consequence of authority from the another ranking signals, but it makes the site value investigating.

I afterward ran 16 site: probes throughout 16 hosts. On all host, all returned URL had the identical authority score. Here are several examples:

Host	Authority
suganthan.com	1
growth-memo.com	1
ipullrank.com, brodieclark.com, medium.com, reddit.com	2
ahrefs.com, moz.com, searchengineland.com, aleydasolis.com, linkedin.com	3
zenodo.org	4

So although the records calls this a leaf authority tier, it behaved akin a presenter mark in my tests.

The Reddit subdomains were particularly helpful here: qh.reddit.com scored 1, during www.reddit.com scored 2. That points towards the presenter being the applicable unit, fairly than the complete registrable domain sharing one score.

A hunt for site:suganthan.com filled the 50 outcome cap. It returned my homepage, /resources/, notes and blog posts. DeepSeek was finding satisfied throughout my site. Those pages all carried authority 1.

Being indexed was plainly lone part of the story.

Image Credit: Suganthan Mohanadasan

I Lost My Own Tool Queries To Registries And App Stores (Lol)

I ran six mark queries alongside count=50 from the UAE.

Query	My finest result	Who appeared at the top
Find out who Gemini cites for your query	#48 for my Gemini citations article, rerank 1.14	Apify actors, Chrome Web Store
ChatGPT fan-out queries Chrome extension	#32 for FanoutFox, rerank 1.37. Outside the top 50 alongside UK or US localization.	Chrome Web Store ×3, Writesonic, Resoneo
Track Google AI Mode traffic in Search Console	Outside the top 50	support.google.com, developers.google.cn, SEJ, Bounteous
AI crawler admission checker	Outside the top 50	wordpress.org plugins, PyPI, Apify
Google Search Console MCP	Outside the top 50	PyPI ×3, n8n, mcpworld
x402 pay per crawl AI agents	Outside the top 50	Akamai, npm, pkg.go.dev

Package registries, app stores, and market listings did fine on these tool queries. PyPI, npm, Apify, the Chrome Web Store, WordPress.org, and GitHub were the kinds of hosts surfacing.

My Gemini part and FanoutFox the two had authority 1. Their rerank scores of 1.14 and 1.37 additionally cut below DeepSeek’s documented 1.5 high-quality threshold.

For my site, having satisfied immediately concerning the item being searched for wasn’t adequate to attack those hosts. The low authority tier is a plausible part of the explanation, although these tests don’t inform us its exact weighting.

Image Credit: Suganthan Mohanadasan

The Spam Filtering Still Let Some Questionable Stuff Through

DeepSeek explicitly says its motor filters SEO spam, GEO manipulation, and low norm AI content. I wanted to see how that assertion lined up alongside the results.

Here is what motionless appeared:

Host	What I found	Scores and rankings
oig.dc.gov	Webform PDFs titled “Free Robux Generator in 2025” on a US authorities inspector general’s host	Authority 4, rerank 1.42
business.columbia.edu	Webform uploads titled “BEST CBD GUMMIES EXPOSED: The ‘Forbidden’ Gummy…”	Authority 4, rerank 1.50
damiangreen.co.uk	A erstwhile MP’s domain serving “Minimum Deposit Casinos UK”	Authority 3, classified #2 for “best casino sites uk”

I additionally saw self-published “frameworks” on zenodo.org obtain authority four and position #one and #three for “generative motor optimization.” That is another study concerning how authority behaved. Self-publication solitary doesn’t create a leaf spam.

The authorities and university examples are difficult to quadrate alongside the commitment of filtering this material out. Those uploads motionless received the highest authority tier.

This is why the apparent use of a presenter mark matters. A scheme that carries a host’s authority throughout its pages can end up giving parasite content the identical care as lawful matter on that host.

The results don’t inform us how much spam DeepSeek removed. They do display that these examples got through, and that a elevated authority tier wasn’t a dependable judgement of the idiosyncratic page’s quality.

Image Credit: Suganthan Mohanadasan

How To Run The Same Kind Of Search

Here is a petition using an API key stored in an surroundings variable:

curl -s https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query":"find out who Gemini cites for your query","count":50}'

A trimmed outcome from that query:

{ "url": "https://suganthan.com/blog/gemini-citations/", "rerank_score": 1.14, "authority": 1 }

Search and Fetch all disbursal $0.75 per 1,000 prosperous requests. Under the billing rules, unsuccessful requests, bare hunt results, and timeouts are not billed. Returning 50 results expenses the identical as returning fewer.

There is a distinct impermanent exemption for the server-side Search and Fetch calls already made whenever using the DeepSeek API through Claude Code or Codex. Those remain liberated until one November 2026 at 00:00 Beijing time, which is 31 October at 8:00 PM GST. Per request, billing starts then. My straightforward API tests were billable.

3 Things To Account For When Testing

1. Set Your Localization

Leaving out localization produced the identical results as specifying a UAE IP throughout all six mark queries. I was calling from Dubai, which is accordant alongside DeepSeek using the caller’s IP as the default.

Set this site explicitly to an IP location in the market you desire to test. Otherwise, your audit may indicate anywhere the manuscript happens to run.

Using a UK or U.S. IP changed the rerank scores of 26 to 41 of the 50 results and exchanged 4 to 15 URLs. The average mark delta was small, about ±0.05. It mostly reshuffled the results, without substantially changing the mark scale.

A Chinese IP, 114.114.114.114, behaved likewise to the UK and US settings. I didn’t see a plainly distinct Chinese outcome set in these tests, although this doesn’t established how DeepSeek organizes its indexes.

2. The Original Question Made Very Little Difference

The ori_question site lets you provision the user’s first inquiry alongside the hunt query. DeepSeek says this can enhance query understanding.

Across my six queries, it changed the rerank mark for lone zero to two of the 50 results and exchanged at most one URL.

3. Date Filters Removed Every Undated Result

The after: and before: operators produced zero date violations throughout four queries.

They additionally removed all undated page. 11% of the unfiltered results had date: null, and those URLs disappeared whenever a date display was applied.

That matters if your satisfied needs to appear in searches for latest information. Put an suitable machine-readable date on the page, afterward inspect that DeepSeek really recognizes it. A leaf it treats as undated can disappear from a date-filtered search.

Every returned date that was current ended in T16:00:00Z, which corresponds to midnight Beijing time. The filtering behavior pointed to Beijing calendar days in these tests.

I additionally established two differences between the documented and observed content lengths:

Field	Documented representative length	Observed median
snippet	100 to 200 characters	301 characters
summary	600 to 800 characters	About 3,570 characters

That is value knowing if you are construction a tool about these responses. The summaries I received were considerably longer than the records suggested.

The Fetch API Arrived As Firefox From Hong Kong

The Fetch requests I inspected did not acknowledge themselves as DeepSeek. They used this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

The Accept-Language header was:

zh-CN,zh;q=0.9

There was no From header, bot token, Signature or Signature-Input. The requests presented themselves as Firefox, alongside no DeepSeek identifier to equivalent in the person agent.

Five fetches came from five distinct IPs, all identified as AS136907, Huawei Cloud, Hong Kong:

121.91.172.54 183.87.40.160 119.8.239.43 27.106.106.73 159.138.131.203

In the rendering test, it loaded CSS. It did not run JavaScript, burden images, or blaze the XHR beacon. Content that required JavaScript did not appear in those fetches.

These observations involvement the Fetch API. They don’t established how the crawler that builds DeepSeek’s hunt indicator behaves.

It Returned Content From URLs Disallowed By Robots.Txt

The Fetch API returned complete satisfied from three URLs disallowed for User-agent: *:

httpbin.org/deny
Wikipedia’s Special:Search
google.com/search

I could not verify whether it always requested /robots.txt. What I could verify was that the disallowed URLs motionless returned satisfied through the API. Those rules did not forestall the fetches I tested.

Image Credit: Suganthan Mohanadasan

What To Look For In Your Logs

If your access logs document Accept-Language, this volition assistance exterior requests matching the observed headers:

grep -E 'Firefox/149.0' access.log | grep 'zh-CN'

A additional particular display combines the Firefox version, tongue header, and ASN. A Cloudflare tradition rule in that form would be:

(ip.src.asnum eq 136907 and http.user_agent contains "Firefox/149.0" and any(http.request.headers["accept-language"][*] contains "zh-CN"))

Treat that blend as a fingerprint to investigate. It is according to what I observed in these requests and could change.

There is no DeepSeek-specific person delegate here, and blocking the Firefox cord solitary can capture lawful browsers. AS136907 is additionally a broad Huawei Cloud network. Blocking the entire ASN can power another tenants, so don’t assume all petition from it belongs to DeepSeek.

What I Would Do With This As An SEO/GEO/AEO/AI SEO

The helpful part of this publish is that we can inspect the hunt results and scoring directly.

Here is anywhere I would start:

Run your genuine mark queries against POST https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search. Record rank, rerank score, and authority together.
Check your site’s authority tier alongside site:yourdomain.com, including any applicable subdomains.
Set localization explicitly so repeated tests portray the market you attention about.
Check your dates. Add suitable machine-readable dates and verify whether DeepSeek returns them. Compare results alongside and without date filters.
Test applicable allocation for your tools. PyPI, npm, Apify, the Chrome Web Store, WordPress.org, and GitHub performed fine in these queries. If your tool belongs on one of those platforms, a lawful listing is value evaluation alongside your own site.
Monitor the fetcher in your logs using the blended Firefox/149, zh-CN and AS136907 pattern, during checking matches before treating them as DeepSeek.

For me, the most engaging finding is the blend of apparent authority tiers, feeble rankings for several first tool content, and apparent spam receiving the highest authority tier. It gives us particular questions we can now test.

This was one day, 110 calls, six mark queries, and one calling region, alongside additional probes for scores, hosts, filters, and fetching. I motionless couldn’t verify whether the fetcher requested robots.txt. Treat the numbers as directional, please.

More Resources:

This article was initially published on Suganthan.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2026

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0700

Here is a recap of what happened in the hunt forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and another hunt forums on the web.

Google seems to not display AI Overview labels for all AI Overviews in Search. Google may have had issues handling URLs alongside brackets in them. Google Business Profiles evaluation verification alongside authorities IDs. Google Business Profiles has a postpone alongside assessment appeals. The Google Ads squad posted a new assistance document that talks concerning the dimension of booking bid adaptation in bequest Hotel campaigns versus Search campaigns for travel. Google is evaluation removing the HR, thematic row interrupt or horizontal regulation line, that is established under the hunt tabs under the hunt box in the hunt results page. Microsoft seems to be evaluation not showing sitelinks under the chief Bing hunt outcome snippets.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Removes AI Overviews Labels On Some AI Overviews
Google seems to be removing the AI Overviews tag from several of the hunt results that are AI Overviews. The desktop type is missing the AI Overview label, during the mobile type has the AI Overview label.
Google Business Profiles Verification With Government ID
Google is evaluation a new way to verify your Google Business Profiles, the method is by uploading a photo of your authorities ID. This is in supplement ot the phone/text, email, live video call or snail communication verification methods.
Google Hotel Ads Legacy Length Of Booking Bid Adjustment Doc
The Google Ads squad posted a new assistance document that talks concerning the dimension of booking bid adaptation in bequest Hotel campaigns versus Search campaigns for travel. Hotel campaigns multiply your basis bid by the traveler's itinerary dimension of remain (LoS) but Search campaigns for journey (SCT) don't.
Google Search Internal Issues With Square Brackets [] Punctuations In URLs
Google Search had several issues handling quadrate brackets symbols marks (i.e. [ ]) inside URLs. John Mueller from Google responded to erstwhile Googler, Vanessa Fox, saying that he is "seeing several of the issues internally that came up alongside these kinds of characters in the URL."
Bing Tests Not Showing Sitelinks
Microsoft seems to be evaluation not showing sitelinks under the chief Bing hunt outcome snippets. I am honestly not certain if this is new but I was capable to replicate Bing showing sitelinks for the archetypal hunt outcome snippet in one browser and for the identical query, it not showing the sitelinks.
Google Business Profiles Review Appeals Are Delayed Again
Google Business Profiles assessment appeals are delayed again. Dan Boguslavsky from the Google squad posted concerning the postpone final Friday saying, "Due to elevated quantity of assessment connected appeals, handling times are currently extended."
Google Search Tests Removing Horizontal Rule Line Under Tabs
Google is evaluation removing the HR, thematic row interrupt or horizontal regulation line, that is established under the hunt tabs under the hunt box in the hunt results page.
Latin Heritage Month at Google alongside Bachata Training
Here is a photo from the GooglePlex, the chief Google agency in Mountain View, California, of a ritual of Latin Heritage Month at Google. You can see, they equal have Bachata training.

Other Great Search Threads:

Search Engine Land Stories:

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EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:58:33 +0700

20th October 2026

The personal keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They sequence to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome base programs and by many downstream rely stores.

How do we know?

To display that the keys are compromised, the first newsman Wayne signed the following communication alongside the personal key of all of the eight intermediate CAs and reported it to the Root Program Teams on the 17th of October:

We have a issue current - Wayne

proof.zip contains the message, and for all intermediate the certificate, its community key and a signature on the message. To verify alongside OpenSSL:

openssl x509 -in EM-DV-TLS-CA-G3B.crt.pem -noout -pubkey | diff - EM-DV-TLS-CA-G3B.pub.pem openssl dgst -sha384 -verify EM-DV-TLS-CA-G3B.pub.pem -signature EM-DV-TLS-CA-G3B.sig message.txt

What actions have been taken?

The base programs and many downstream rely stores have taken act to defend their users. The certificates have been blocked in Firefox and Chrome since the 17th of October, in Apple devices since the 19th and in Microsoft since the 20th.

The matter was responsibly disclosed to downstream rely stores on the 19th of October. Many have already released updates or are in the procedure of releasing updates.

What are the consequences?

An attacker alongside the personal key of any of the compromised intermediate CAs could impersonate any website or service.

This has already been remediated by Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, and Chrome for their users through their tools for distributing revocation data specified as OneCRL, CRLite and CRLSets.

The CA has additionally revoked the compromised intermediate certificates. However, many another clients do not consume revocation data and necessitate application updates to justify they no longer rely the compromised intermediates.

Does your client motionless rely the compromised intermediates?

Intermediate CA	Chains to	Result

What actions can users take?

Users should update their browsers and functioning systems to the latest versions as shortly as possible.

What concerning developer application and packages?

Add additional at github.com/galadran/we-have-a-problem.com.

Are there workarounds for Linux?

Until a allocation ships an updated ca-certificates package, expert users can distrust the affected roots in the scheme rely store. This is NOT recommended for average users.

On Debian and Ubuntu, run as root:

sed -i \ -e 's|^mozilla/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.crt|!&|' \ -e 's|^mozilla/Comodo_AAA_Services_root.crt|!&|' \ /etc/ca-certificates.conf && update-ca-certificates

On Alpine, run as root:

apk add ca-certificates && sed -i -e 's|^mozilla/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.crt|!&|' \ /etc/ca-certificates.conf && update-ca-certificates

On Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and Amazon Linux 2023, run as root:

d=/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blocklist; [ -d $d ] || d=/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/blacklist trust extract --overwrite --format=pem-bundle \ --filter='pkcs11:object=Comodo%20AAA%20Services%20root;type=cert' \ $d/Comodo_AAA_Services_root.pem && trust extract --overwrite --format=pem-bundle \ --filter='pkcs11:object=emSign%20ECC%20Root%20CA%20-%20G3;type=cert' \ $d/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.pem && update-ca-trust

On openSUSE and SLES, run as root:

d=/etc/pki/trust/blocklist; [ -d $d ] || d=/etc/pki/trust/blacklist trust extract --format=pem-bundle \ --filter='pkcs11:object=Comodo%20AAA%20Services%20root;type=cert' \ $d/Comodo_AAA_Services_root.pem && trust extract --format=pem-bundle \ --filter='pkcs11:object=emSign%20ECC%20Root%20CA%20-%20G3;type=cert' \ $d/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.pem && update-ca-certificates

On Arch Linux, run as root:

trust extract --format=pem-bundle \ --filter='pkcs11:object=emSign%20ECC%20Root%20CA%20-%20G3;type=cert' \ /etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/blocklist/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.pem && update-ca-trust

On NixOS, add to your configuration:

security.pki.caCertificateBlacklist = [ "Comodo AAA Services root" "emSign ECC Root CA - G3" "emSign Root CA - C1" "emSign ECC Root CA - C3" ];

What actions can rely shop operators take?

Please see this thread in Mozilla's dev-security-policy forum.

Which intermediates were compromised?

Fingerprints, SPKI hashes, serial numbers and CCADB document IDs for the eight intermediates, including the Sectigo cross-signs, are in affected-certificates.json.

Site published by Dennis Jackson. The origin is on GitHub and PRs are welcome.

Photos show some of France's biggest protests and riots over the past 100 years, from mass strikes to violent unrest

support@mycoding.id (Roya Shahidi) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:57:54 +0700

France is experiencing one of its largest riots and protests in years.

What began as peaceful demonstrations complete academy conditions culminated in nationwide cost-of-living protests and, subsequently, riots.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated Tuesday that curfews imposed on Monday contributed to a calm night, although additional protests are planned, according to Reuters.

The riots and protests echo many in France's lengthy former of mass demonstrations. From nationwide strikes to pupil demonstrations, multiple have brought the nation to a standstill, in several cases prompting France's leaders to province a province of emergency.

Take a appearance at several of France's biggest and most impactful protests and riots complete the former 100 years.

1934 — February 6 riots

War veterans marching alongside their National Association of War Veterans banderoles at Place de la Concorde, Paris, February, 6th 1934. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Veterans and right-wing demonstrators took to the streets following a authorities corruption scandal. At smallest 15 group were killed.

The French Prime Minister at the period resigned the following day, stoking fears of a fascist coup.

1936 — Popular Front strikes

A display in Paris in May, 1936. AFP via Getty Images

Alongside an financial crisis, fears of a fascist coup following the 1934 riots helped unite left-wing parties and commerce unions. Mass strikes and factory occupations in May and June 1936 led to important labor reforms, according to France's National Assembly.

1948 — Miners' strike

Striking miners on October 27, 1948. -/AFP via Getty Images

In 1948, 300,000 French charcoal miners went on attack to objection financial conditions, per The New York Times. There was a heavy authorities crackdown, anywhere several striking miners were killed, and another 3,000 were fired, according to AFP.

1961 — Paris Algerian display and massacre

Algerian demonstrators arrested during the peaceful display delay alongside their hands complete their heads in a bus requisitioned by the police, October 17, 1961. AFP via Getty Images

About 30,000 Algerians peacefully demonstrated against a curfew and in assistance of Algeria's independence, according to the BBC.

French constabulary brutally cracked down. Historians evaluation that at smallest 120 Algerians were killed, although several estimates put that figure nearer to 300, Al Jazeera reported.

1968 — May 1968

Students inhabit the Sorbonne in Paris, May 14, 1968. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

What started as a pupil movement demanding university reforms turned into millions of group striking following commerce unions joined the uprising.

Between the protests and rioting, the demonstrations brought the nation to a standstill. To reconstruct order, then-president Charles de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and called first elections, which his gathering won in June.

In this year's pupil protests, many banners referenced "May 1968," Time reported.

1986 — Anti-Devaquet pupil protests

Students display in Paris, December 6, 1986. Michel SETBOUN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of students protested projected university reforms they feared would restrict admission to higher education.

Three weeks of aggressive clashes alongside constabulary remaining hundreds injured and 22-year-old Malik Oussekine dead, forcing Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to retreat the reforms, Time reported.

1995 — Strikes against pension reforms

Tram drivers of the RTM collection display during a attack in Marseille, December 28, 1995. Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images

Between October and December 1995, public-sector workers went on attack against projected austerity measures and pension reforms, bringing the nation to a standstill, per the Global Nonviolent Action Database.

Then-prime curate Alain Juppé withdrew the projected changes to public-sector pension plans, although another parts of his improvement bundle went ahead.

2005 — French riots

Firefighters battle a storage blaze in Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris, November 4, 2005. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

After two teenagers died during hiding from the police, riots began in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian suburb, which afterward dispersed to another cities, the BBC reported at the time.

The authorities declared a province of emergency as unrest spread. The riots lasted concerning three weeks, during the province of emergency ended following concerning two months.

2018 — Gilets Jaunes

An anti-government demonstrator in forefront of French riot constabulary during a objection in Bordeaux, December 29, 2018. MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP via Getty Images

"Les Gilets Jaunes," or 'the yellow vests' in English, was a 2018 objection movement against a planned addition in energy taxes that evolved into broader anti-government demonstrations, foremost to deaths.

The French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, froze the tax hike in December that twelvemonth and afterward completely canceled it days later.

2023 — Pension improvement protests

Protesters march during a display in Lille, March 23, 2023. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of group protested and went on attack against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms, which raised the withdrawal age from 62 to 64, according to Le Monde.

Macron's authorities enacted the improvement notwithstanding the protests; the withdrawal age began rising in September 2023 and is scheduled to attain 64 by 2030.

2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:53:48 +0700

You power have already noticed that 2026 seems to be a bit particular twelvemonth for Rust compiler. It seems akin there's fair a lot of material going on. Some things were already announced since I started penning this, but there's motionless a bunch additional that's not as visible. I'll portion several things that I personally discover interesting.

To explain a bit of context, what happened this twelvemonth is that multiple distinct initiatives are reaching final steps at the identical time. In another words, 2026 is not that particular alongside the amount of activity being done, but it's a twelvemonth whenever we see multiple long-term investments starting to pay dividends.

Next solver 🔗

Probably the biggest item is the next generation trait solver. This is a reimplementation of a big part of the category system, and it has been in the plant for a extremely lengthy period - Almost 10 years in assorted forms. It fixes a bunch of soundness bugs and unblocks a lot of features and fixes for long-standing issues.

It's uncomplicated to understate how big of a agreement this is for the compiler. This activity resolves a important part of specialized debt that a lot of compiler developers dreamed concerning for years. It additionally frees up a bunch of group alongside a caller and profound understanding of the category scheme to activity on new things. The queue of things that get unblocked includes many average ache points of the language, equal things that power appear benign or unrelated. It contains solutions to big problems in async Rust, or assorted restrictions of impl Trait.

Polonius 🔗

Another big item is Polonius, a new get checker implementation, lengthy period in the making as well. It enables additional code to compile and unblocks multiple connected features - including (hopefully one day) inner references. The compiler effect of this is not as big as alongside the new solver, but it's motionless a beautiful big deal.

Perf 🔗

My chief area of involvement is compiler performance, and current we have fairly a few things going on. After 1-2 years of a kind of stagnation (at smallest in conditions of results), we abruptly have a lot of things going on at once. So much so that I have a difficult period remembering everything, but from the top of my head:

Parallel frontend is near to stabilization 🔗

Very old undertaking that was put a few years on hiatus alongside many unclear blockers. The betterment restarted again a few years ago alongside a new contributor @SparrowLi, and complete period a figure of another group contributed to the effort.

Over the years, this turned out to be a enormous can of worms. I get the emotion that nearly nobody is really blessed alongside the design. However, there doesn't appear to be a improved substitute for the foreseeable future, and parallel frontend is extremely desirable, so the resolution ended up being fair grinding through a figure of annoying and hairy problems until there's nothing left.

The current project goal is driven by @petrochenkov and is getting near to stabilization.

LLVM is getting faster 🔗

LLVM 23 was unambiguous and unexpectedly ample affirmative alter in performance. For a lengthy time, LLVM upgrades were not particularly awesome for rustc performance. This changed following LLVM 10 upgrade, which introduced a enormous 10% regression, and @nikic, current guide developer of LLVM, called it out in his blog post, Make LLVM accelerated again. In the article he additionally introduced a scheme for tracking LLVM achievement complete time, inspired by the one we use for rustc.

Since then, LLVM started catching achievement regressions earlier, and results for upgrades in rustc went from "less bad", to "somewhat mixed", to "mostly affirmative alongside caveats." The final one of those was LLVM 22, which was green on icount benchmarks, but nearly universally red on partition time.

LLVM 23 is beautiful much entirely positive. I don't prosecute LLVM betterment that much, but my understanding is that this is since there's now additional activity on really optimizing it, as opposed to operating on features without trying to regress performance. These days the improvements arrive the two from new optimizations (those assistance optimize the compiler during bootstrap) and from LLVM itself getting faster.

Lot perf improvements landing (micro-optimizations) 🔗

Compiler achievement has been on a dependable streak of improvements in the former few months. There's likely no sole clarification for it, fair a blend of new contributors coming in, old contributors getting to do additional perf work, and tooling improvements blended alongside architectural cleanups unlocking new opportunities.

With additional group operating in this area, I've noticed a lot of cross-pollination, where a certain idea would circle about a few people's minds, as group get inspired by all other's PRs and try connected things.

I additionally awareness akin we got a lot improved at managing regressions - triaging and addressing them. This is partially a tooling investment, but additionally a lot concerning processes and social structures. A important betterment current is the association between tree ops and perf triage, represented notably by @JonathanBrouwer.

This method that group who oversee merges frequently immediately triage their achievement impact. This is crucial since it shrinks the reply time, but the association is helpful for another reasons as well. The perf effect informs how you collection PRs into rollups, for example. Turns out that Conway's law is motionless a law.

I additionally greatly bask assisting group interpreting the measure results and diagnose regressions. I frequently discover that equal fair a few sentences from person who's been looking at the results all day for many years go a lengthy way towards getting the regression addressed.

All in all, I awareness akin the compile period concerns are unified into the betterment improved than they have always been.

Move elimination 🔗

This apparently came out of nowhere before this year, and it's fairly interesting. @Amanieu proposed a MIR optimization pass that allows the compiler to eliminate copies that LLVM has difficulty optimizing. It speeds up the two compile period and runtime.

This is one of those passes that makes awareness to execute in MIR alternatively of LLVM, since the Rust part of the compiler has improved data concerning whether it's valid to use specifically for Rust. Even additional so since it really requires changing the MIR semantics a bit.

It matters for Rust in particular since Rust typically generates additional moves than C(++), which is the chief LLVM target.

Polymorphization 🔗

This one is particularly near to my bosom since I've been following the efforts for a extremely lengthy time. Polymorphization is among the most impactful compiler achievement optimizations we could always do, but it's unfortunately really tricky to implement.

This would be the third test I'm conscious of. This period it's slightly distinct from the former ones, and it's inspired by a akin scheme in Swift.

The difference is that the first polymorphization aims to lone evade copy or redundant monomorphizations, so it's purely a compile period optimization alongside no runtime impact, during the Swift-style one aims to polymorphize everything and continue about layouts of generic parameters as arguments. This volition have a runtime cost, so it'll be item you can tweak alongside compiler flags.

If my understanding is motionless up to date, next-solver volition additionally allow polymorphization in the earlier intended way. Either way, the two options run into the identical problems, so the activity is helpful for both. It's additionally imaginable that the two options arrive out of this identical effort. Either way, this is motionless fair an test alongside a bunch of problems to solve, so we'll have to delay to see how it turns out. The project goal has been projected and driven by @camelid.

@blyxyas is operating on a project goal, which volition allow cargo to portion artifacts between cargo inspect and cargo build. The goal is really additional general, but this is likely its most recognizable outcome. This is item we wanted for ages, so it's really chill to see advancement on this front.

This was already announced, and it volition shrink the mark directory size by 5-30%, depending on the workload.

New cargo build-dir layout 🔗

Already announced as well, this is another project that has been in the plant for fairly several time. As alongside the another things above, this is important inner restructuring that unlocks another things - namely granular locking of the mark directory and cross-workspace caching.

no-link/link-only 🔗

@bjorn3 has been operating on fixing assistance for these two flags, which allow pipelining of build scripts and proc macros. As you can see in the proposal, this is yet another row of activity that boils downward to fixing a laundry catalog of inner issues and architectural problems until abruptly a big item is unlocked.

Architecture 🔗

There have been a figure of initiatives in the compiler architecture. I'll citation a few, fair to (once again) underscore the item that big things don't happen in big-bang projects coming out of nowhere, but fairly as consequences of sustained long-term investments into a fit system.

Two years ago, @jdonszelmann started the effort to unify and cleanup how attributes are represented and checked in the compiler. Just a few days ago, the final remaining trait was ported to the new system. This considerably improves how attributes are checked and unblocks improvements to diagnostics and another things.

Earlier this year, @Zalathar and @nnethercote cleaned up the implementation of rustc's query system. This improved achievement but additional importantly, made the scheme easier to understand, which was frequently a blocker for making improvements to it. The scheme is motionless a beautiful scary part of the codebase, but this is a big stage forward.

There's really additional architectural activity in this area, @oli-obk has been operating on architectural groundwork for expansion-time evaluation, and there's been a lot of activity by @cjgilot, @petrochenkov and another group I'm forgetting (sorry) on queries and incremental in general. Similarly, a lot of activity happened to allow const generics to advancement further. A average theme of these efforts is that they allow the compiler to use its capabilities in additional contexts anywhere it was earlier limited, often since of strict ordering of several compilation phases.

Project goals and funding 🔗

There's fairly a bit of meta material as well. Rust project has been experimenting alongside a new organizational example called "project goals."

It went through multiple iterations alongside assorted changes and experiments, but it seems that the scheme has eventually reached several optimal dependable state, and we see the benefits perform out. I think you can plainly see that from the catalog above.

We now have a Fast Builds roadmap and multiple perf connected project goals. That's beautiful exciting.

There are additionally multiple new developments in funding. One is explicitly attached to project goals, we additionally have a new "Maintainers in Residence" program, and a new backing squad was established as well.

One additionally can't assistance but notice how many results came out of Hexcat employing a bunch of group in the former year.

...and me 🔗

And lastly, 2026 is additionally an breathtaking twelvemonth for me. After a few years of observing from the sidelines and eventually joining the perf triage, I decided to commencement operating on the Rust project additional seriously.

Earlier this year, it became apparent that I need to decide what to activity on next. My current activity is gradually winding downward and turning into maintenance, and I additionally started to awareness a bit burnt out on web-based work. For fairly several time, I've been emotion the desire to come back to item additional specialized and challenging.

I was considering a few options, but slightly unable to decide between them. To use the term from Marie Kondo, nothing really felt akin it "sparks joy." After several exhausting events and emotion a bit downward from all of this on one evening, I received an invitation to Rust All Hands. This was a pleasant surprise. I signed up for it before that year, but I didn't really anticipate much since I didn't cognize the likelihood of being invited. I took this as a kind of sign from the cosmos or item and booked the trip.

The cognition was overwhelmingly positive. I have to say that this was among the most breathtaking events I attended in a lengthy time. It reminded me that there's this big part of my existence that I don't get to portion alongside anybody nearly ever, particularly in genuine life. It seems so uncomplicated to ignore that until you really cognition it again.

Yes, sure, I can conversation concerning several inquisitive aspects of the Rust compiler alongside my friends, but it's a entire another flat to conversation concerning it alongside group who really activity on it and comprehend what you conversation concerning on a profound level. It was really nice to encounter group I cognize from their activity and associate the discussions concerning the betterment of the language.

Long narrative short, it became apparent that this is it, this is what I desire to do. I was thinking concerning it before, but I conjecture I needed several powerful "spark of joy" instant to halt doubting my feelings and power me to create a decision.

How to get a job on Rust? 🔗

Now, of course, the inquiry is how to really do it. As you may cognize (and I slightly hinted above), it's not exactly straightforward to discover a job on the project. There's no "Rust inc." business you can dispatch a CV to. There's a fractured and varied area of possibilities anywhere everybody finds their own way somehow.

It's getting additional approachable alongside those new programs, but I motionless anticipate this to obtain several time. Part of it depends on connections and trust, and those are built complete time. I don't have to hurry this, so I'll keep operating until I fig item out.

I've accepted to activity on the target directory size decrease project goal if there is adequate backing for that. I've additionally applied for MiR program, but I don't think that'll be accessible shortly since the finances are constricted and there are additional crucial areas that need this particular funding.

btw. I additionally opened GitHub sponsors, so awareness liberated to associate if you desire to assistance several compiler achievement activity ;)

Conclusion 🔗

There's so much happening in the project that I awareness akin it's really challenging to do it justice. I already awareness akin I remaining out a ton of engaging work, but I have to halt somewhere. I anticipation that equal this incomplete overview has been interesting.

I think I should additionally say that not everything has been positive. The commencement of the twelvemonth was overshadowed by a bunch of group losing backing and heated discussions about AI policy. Just a few days before All Hands, person posted the guideline outline to social media, and our small moderation squad and another group spent a stressful weekend trying to bounds the damage.

In ray of that, I have a emotion that All Hands was a turning item anywhere everybody could recharge, refocus, and obtain the affirmative energy rear to the project. I certainly awareness that, and I anticipation I'm not alone.

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