PEAKS No 38: Chips, Chat Control & Supply Chain Chaos

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🛡️ Security & Privacy

  • GrapheneOS reaffirms its no-ID, no-account policy, pledging to remain globally accessible to anyone without collecting personal information — even if device sales become restricted in certain regions. More
  • Sysdig launches runtime security purpose-built for AI coding agents, extending its cloud-native protection platform to monitor, detect, and respond to threats generated by agentic AI workflows. More
  • The TeamPCP supply chain campaign strikes PyPI again, this time compromising the popular LiteLLM and Telnyx packages with credential-stealing malware — and separately injecting malicious code into Trivy, Aqua Security's widely-used vulnerability scanner (March 19, 2026). Two must-reads on the same active threat actor. More (Datadog) · More (Wiz)
  • GitHub reverses course and will train AI on user data, quietly updating its policies to allow your public code to feed AI models — raising serious questions about consent and developer rights. More
  • Google implements post-quantum cryptography in Android, marking a major step toward hardening mobile devices against future quantum-era attacks. More
  • The EU Parliament kills Chat Control 1.0 in a one-vote thriller — the critical amendment rejecting automated mass scanning of private messages and photos passed by a single vote, with the derogation expiring April 3rd. Chat Control 2.0 negotiations are still ahead, so the fight isn't over. More (FightChatControl) · More (Patrick Breyer)
  • WeMove.eu is running a petition to keep Palantir out of Europe, pushing back against the surveillance tech company's expanding footprint in EU public institutions and government contracts. More

🛸 Tech

  • Manyana is Bram Cohen's (BitTorrent creator) bold new vision for version control, using CRDTs as the foundation for a fundamentally better, conflict-free approach to managing code history. More
  • Anthropic is bringing Claude to your Mac as a desktop agent, letting it directly control your computer to execute tasks on your behalf — a major leap toward truly agentic desktop AI. More
  • OpenAI is shutting down the Sora standalone app — the AI video generation tool is being retired, with the technology likely folded into ChatGPT as a native "video mode" going forward. More
  • A concise, practical collection of shell tricks that genuinely improve day-to-day life for Unix/Linux/FreeBSD engineers and sysadmins — from history navigation to power-user bash patterns. More
  • The "Heir" wearable is a coin-sized sensor that clips to any analog watch and adds step tracking and fitness data without replacing the timepiece you love. More
  • Leiden University researchers built tiny 3D-printed robots with no brain that can swim and navigate environments mimicking animal locomotion — all driven by physical mechanics alone. More
  • C++26 is officially done — the ISO C++ committee wrapped technical work on the new standard at its March 2026 meeting in London Croydon. More

🤖 AI

  • Arm announces the AGI CPU, a new class of production-ready silicon built on the Neoverse platform and designed specifically to power next-generation agentic AI cloud infrastructure — Arm's first chip designed with AGI workloads in mind. More
  • Google releases TurboQuant, a new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup with zero accuracy loss — meaning capable AI models could now run locally on a 16GB Mac Mini. More
  • Google's Lyria 3 Pro AI music model now generates longer tracks and is rolling out across more Google products, expanding access to high-quality AI-generated audio. More
  • Claude Code now supports web-based scheduled tasks, letting you define a prompt and have Claude run it automatically on a recurring cloud schedule — without your machine needing to be on. More
  • A deep dive into the anatomy of the .claude/ folder — a complete guide to CLAUDE.md, custom commands, skills, agents, and permission models for power users of Claude Code. More
  • CERN is burning tiny AI models directly into silicon to filter real-time data from the Large Hadron Collider, enabling microsecond-level inference that no traditional software stack could match. More

🛠️ Tools

  • Project NOMAD — 100% free, open-source offline knowledge and AI server. Knowledge that never goes offline.
  • gstack — Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 15 opinionated AI agent tools that role-play as CEO, Designer, Engineering Manager, Release Manager, and QA.
  • cmux — A native macOS terminal built on Ghostty for multitasking AI agents, featuring vertical tabs, notification rings, split panes, and a socket API for automation.
  • lnav — The Logfile Navigator: a powerful terminal tool to merge, tail, search, filter, and SQL-query log files with zero server setup.
  • VitruvianOS — A fast, reactive, highly integrated free and open-source Linux desktop environment inspired by the philosophy of thoughtful, minimal design.
  • Ensu — Ente's new offline LLM app that runs local AI models entirely on your device, with no cloud dependency and full privacy.
  • ARC-AGI-3 — The third iteration of the ARC Prize benchmark for measuring genuine AI reasoning, with the 2026 competition now live on Kaggle.
  • Algorithm Visualizer — Interactive, browser-based tool for visualizing how algorithms execute step by step in code — great for learning and teaching.
  • Cocoa Way — A native macOS Wayland compositor written in Rust using Smithay, letting you stream Linux GUI apps on macOS without XQuartz.
  • Miasma — Traps malicious web scrapers and AI crawlers in an endless, procedurally-generated poison pit to waste their time and pollute their datasets.

🎓 Misc

  • Claude Code Cheat Sheet — A beautifully maintained, always up-to-date reference for every Claude Code keyboard shortcut, slash command, and recent feature change.
  • Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people — A practical, no-nonsense guide to migrating repos, issues, PRs, and releases from GitHub to Codeberg with minimal friction.
  • legalize-es — All 8,600+ Spanish laws stored as a Git repository: every law is a Markdown file, every legislative reform is a commit. Brilliant use of version control for legal history. More

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