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Friday, August 14, 202647 min read
Technical Practice · Expert Tools

Jujutsu undoes a botched rebase back to the exact original commit IDs

Every jj command commits the working copy and writes itself into one continuous operation log, and jj undo works by stepping back through that log to the exact prior state.

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Investing · Investing Course

Uber's stakes in other companies add more to its equity value than its debt subtracts

Working from Uber's own Q2 2026 filing, the two-step bridge from enterprise value to a price per share shows the stakes outweighing both the debt and the dilution.

10 min read9 sources
Current Affairs · Unbiased

Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Piracy Settlement Does Not Touch Its Training Ruling

Judge William Alsup had already ruled that training Claude on lawfully bought books was fair use and only its pirated library was not, leaving open whether the roughly $3,000 a work the settlement set for that piracy should govern AI training broadly or only the stolen copies that produced it.

9 min read14 sources
Daily Reading · Current Events

The Justice Department tells the Supreme Court both mail-voting rulings must fall together

Solicitor General D. John Sauer, already seeking a stay of one injunction against Trump's mail-voting order, asked the Court to make a second, nationwide injunction fall with it before ballots go out for the November 3 election.

8 min read14 sources
Daily Reading · Tech News

Auto mode becomes Claude Code's default, catching 800 dangerous commands human reviewers missed

The switch takes effect 14 August for Pro, Max, and Team plans, and rests on a study Anthropic designed, ran, and graded itself, in which human reviewers caught just 6 of the dangerous commands auto mode missed.

6 min read12 sources
Daily Reading · Word of the Day

Neglect explains why Samuel Maverick's cattle went unbranded

The record doesn't even agree on how Maverick got the cattle, and the principled-refusal version most people repeat traces to a single 2008 broadcast.

3 min read7 sources