Zed is a type system that was developed with one question in mind: what do readers actually need? Not what looks good in a type specimen, but what works for the widest possible range of readers. We tested Zed with visually impaired patients at a French ophthalmology hospital and found that Zed Text outperformed Helvetica in terms of reading speed across all patient groups. Designed from scratch to perform different functions, it comes in two optical versions — Text and Display — with four variable axes and support for 547 languages, including endangered ones. It is available directly from the designers.

Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT  —  The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

Universal once sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong. New documents related to that case show how the owners of King Kong failed to win against Nintendo.

Samual Axon, reporting last week for Ars Technica:

Early this morning, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code npm package — but it was quickly discovered that package included a source map file, which could be used to access the entirety of Claude Code’s source — almost 2,000 TypeScript files and more than 512,000 lines of code.

Security researcher Chaofan Shou was the first to publicly point it out on X, with a link to an archive containing the files. The codebase was then put in a public GitHub repository, and it has been forked tens of thousands of times.

Anthropic publicly acknowledged the mistake in a statement to VentureBeat and other outlets, which reads:

Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal source code. No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed. This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach. We’re rolling out measures to prevent this from happening again.

Not exactly confidence inspiring, given how incredibly sensitive much of the material users give Claude and Claude Code access to. To say the least, it undermines the message that companies should trust their source code to Claude Code when Anthropic accidentally leaked their own source code.

Amazon's King of Meat is shutting down this week, and there's not much wisdom to gain from the live-service flop.