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• Five ACT students launch PART Telescopes to put $500 radio astronomy kits in rural schools

  The Narrabundah College team published open docs and software for capturing the 21 cm hydrogen line with off-the-shelf parts, backed by Science Mentors ACT.

• Zerostack ships a tiny Rust-native coding agent with Unix instincts

  A crates.io debut touts multi-model support, a TUI, sandboxed bash, and a permission system in an 8.9MB binary that idles near zero CPU.

• NVLabs unveils SANA-WM, a 2.6B world model that makes 60s 720p video on one GPU

  The NVIDIA research team says the open-source code can turn a single image plus a camera path into a minute-long, controllable clip; weights are listed as coming soon.

• Elon Musk faces a post-merger talent drain at SpaceXAI

  Over 50 staffers have exited since February, with at least 11 to Meta and 7 to Mira Murati's Thinking Machine Labs, per reporting cited by TechCrunch.

• NVIDIA SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model changes everything

  In a post on X, Roemmele says the model generates controllable, physics-rich, high-fidelity worlds; the post did not include a repo or paper link.

• Calif engineers say they built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

  The AI-first security shop reported a working MIE-surviving local kernel exploit to Apple after building it in five days with help from Mythos Preview.

• After Bench's collapse, Ian Crosby raises $10M for Synthetic, an autonomous AI bookkeeper

  Khosla Ventures leads the seed with Basis Set Ventures and Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke, backing a product Crosby says may not be possible yet.

• Spectre debuts as a contract-first systems language with immutability by default

  Docs outline compile-time contracts, manual memory control, and a translate-c path to pull existing C code into Spectre.

• Turso retires its $1,000 data-corruption bug bounty after AI slop flood

  CEO Glauber Costa says maintainers were drowning in LLM-made PRs and urges new OSS governance as the team’s SQLite-compatible engine marches toward 1.0.

• v0 adds agentic browser mode to test and debug the apps it builds

  The new mode navigates live UIs, critiques designs, debugs flows, and sends screenshots while it works, per a post on X.

• xAI releases early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding and automation

  SuperGrok Heavy subscribers can try the new command line tool at x.ai/cli as xAI asks for feedback to improve both the model and product.

• RevSwap.ai ships a satire of startup revenue games, complete with fake ARR and a FAQ

  An anonymous landing page skewers vanity metrics with a fake platform to “swap” dollars and book ARR, tapping a very real pressure founders feel to show traction fast.

• Freebuff debuts free coding agent, 5 daily hours on DeepSeek V4 Flash

  Freebuff ships globally with an ad-supported model, offering unlimited use in select ad-rich markets and open source model options in some regions.

• Avi Patel alleges General Catalyst co-led $31.5M seed into copycat of his startup Kled

  In a thread on X, the Kled founder says he spoke with GC for months and claims the firm backed a startup that copied Kled’s designs, site, and app.

• Feedr v0.8.0 ships in-article find for full-text reading in the terminal

  The open source TUI RSS reader now pairs full-article extraction with slash-to-search, smart-case matching, and keyboard navigation inside the terminal.

• Jarred Sumner merges Bun's Rust rewrite into main

  Bun's creator says the Rust port passes tests, trims 3-8 MB off the binary, stays neutral-to-faster in benchmarks, and brings compiler-assisted memory safety.

• GlycemicGPT ships v0.7.2 and lays funding rails for a hosted diabetes AI

  The open-source diabetes project publishes v0.7.2, adds an Open Collective fund via a FLOSS manifest, and points to a hosted service aimed at non-technical users.

• Jason Scott finishes 11-year rescue: 13,000 scanned manuals now live on Internet Archive

  The archivist who rallied a last-minute warehouse save says the loop is complete, with thousands of manuals digitized and accessible.

• Thomas Gazagnaire gets OCaml into orbit with Parsimoni's Borealis

  Running inside DPhi Space's ClusterGate-2 payload module, the pure-OCaml CCSDS stack brings end-to-end encrypted command and control with OTAR to low Earth orbit.

• Geoffrey Irving departs AISI, plans Bay Area nonprofit focused on AI alignment

  The former DeepMind researcher will remain an advisor at AISI and says he is recruiting senior researchers as he prepares a new nonprofit alignment org.

• Farm to Door launches map of 3,876 local farms and markets with raw dairy and CSA filters

  The site aggregates thousands of farm and market listings and flags delivery, shipping, and pickup options alongside filters for raw dairy, A2/A2 milk, CSA shares, and more.

• Skalpel AI opens 500-seat beta to tackle AI usage caps and costs

  Skalpel AI opens 500 early seats; the founder says the service targets cost control and usage-limit pain for developers.

• Aiphrodite aims to speed creative testing with AI customer personas

  Song introduces Aiphrodite, promising AI customer personas to pretest reactions to ads, PDPs and packaging so teams can iterate faster without surveys.

• Juan Andrade raises $2.7m seed for Caribou, an autonomous tax firm

  Blue Wire Capital, Y Combinator, TinyVC, and Venture Together back Caribou's $2.7m seed; Andrade shares a park video on why companies like Hadrian, OpenFX, Vertice, and others need it.