AI Tools & Agents
A Google Search Console MCP server turns your real click/impression/ranking data into a plain-language weekly SEO standup. Link
Claude Science: a Mac/Linux AI workbench for scientists, with code-backed figures and 60+ science skills and connectors. Link
plain-writing-skill: an agent skill that enforces plain-language writing and shows a diff of what changed. Link
A skill that turns any PDF or EPUB into an expert you can query on demand, answering straight from the actual pages. Link
One dev ran the same spec through every coding agent in parallel and let each build its own resume backend. Link
Turned Daniel Miessler's "prompts to run when Fable comes back" into a portable agent skill for harness, security, and strategy audits. Link
Crypto & Web3
How Ethereum block building actually works today — a competitive market of specialized builders fighting over blockspace, not simple transaction inclusion. Link
Cloudflare announced a Monetization Gateway — any site can charge for pages, APIs, or MCP tools, settled in stablecoins over x402. Link
base.app: "it pays to be here." Link
Mindset & Ideas
Geoffrey Litt makes the case that understanding the code your agents write still matters, and shows how to do it efficiently. Link
The most profitable skill of the 21st century isn't AI. Link
Privacy & Security
Google open-sourced its Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries, letting apps verify facts like age without revealing personal data — feeds into the EU's EUDI Wallet push. Link
X/Twitter's new deanonymization flow locks accounts until they hand over biometric data or scan a QR code that leaks device info.
SearXNG: a free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine that doesn't track or profile users. Link
Brave shipped "Containers" — per-tab isolation of cookies, storage, and cache, the feature Firefox users have loved for years. Link
Cops are about to get license-plate readers that also track your iPhone and AirPods in public. Link
Football & Sport
Unbeaten, untouchable, unbelievable: Cape Verde's World Cup run.
Senegal's no-celebration mentality after equalising — get the ball down and push straight back for more.
Ståle Solbakken's likely Norway XI against France tonight.
Kalshi is now the official prediction-market partner of the FIFA World Cup.
Anti-drone tech — counter-drone systems and drone first responders — is deployed across 11 host cities for this World Cup. Link
Elliott Anderson's profile will need to change a lot under Maresca at City — higher up, between the lines, attacking the box.
Misc Worth Reading
Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to a unique email address. Link
Wordgard: a new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror. Link
iPhone 18 and 18e will reportedly jump to 9GB RAM, per Ming-Chi Kuo's latest industry checks.
From Hacker News
Claude Code is steganographically marking requests — 2435 pts. Link
Android Developer Verification: threat masquerading as protection — 1705 pts. Link
Half-Baked Product — 1344 pts. Link
Claude Sonnet 5 — 1261 pts. Link
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development — 1188 pts. Link
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait, 74. No, 88 — 1027 pts. Link
Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech — 1019 pts. Link
Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — 970 pts. Link
For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides — 949 pts. Link
Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data — 946 pts. Link
That's a wrap. See you next Sunday — kazani
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