Panamanian Court Strikes Down Hong Kong Firm''s Canal Contract (www.nytimes.com)
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts (2023) (arxiv.org)
The cautionary tale of Yoon Suk Yeol and the ''abuse of power'' (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Elon Musk''s brain chip feels magical, says paralysed Briton (www.thetimes.com)
Jack Kerouac''s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (www.theguardian.com)
Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone''s Biometrics (theintercept.com)
Amazon layoffs are part of turning the company into the largest startup (www.businessinsider.com)
Epstein: Gates caught STD from trafficked girls, discussed medicating Melinda (twitter.com)
What Is an LRAD, and Why People Are Asking Us About It (blog.adafruit.com)
Can AI Learn Its Own Rules? We Tested It (shablag.substack.com)
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Apple Faces AI Talent Exodus as Top Siri Leader Joins Google DeepMind (www.bloomberg.com)
Lithe – A Web Framework for Lean4 (github.com)
Smaller Grains Are Not Stronger: Microcrystalline Metals at High Strain Rates (journals.aps.org)
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Sex Is Gone. Why? (www.rt.com)
Is it time to break up with US big tech? [video] (www.theguardian.com)
Yann LeCun – Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI (2025) (www.the-information-bottleneck.com)
Windows 8 had a 30-second ad with more creativity than Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)
Videogame stocks slide after Google''s Project Genie AI model release (www.reuters.com)
AI is a planet-sized bubble – and Microsoft''s slump is a taste of the crash (www.businessinsider.com)
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Claude open source knowledge Work Plugins (github.com)
The humans are screenshotting us (www.moltbook.com)
Foxmark.io (www.foxmark.io)
I skipped hype and shipped my product. I''ve now delivered over 1k units (www.withhup.com)
Catherine O''Hara, Singular Force of Comedy and Improv, Dead at 71 (consequence.net)
Texas A&M Ends Women''s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (www.nytimes.com)
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Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released (www.nytimes.com)
AI product isn''t expensive, your pricing is lazy (flexprice.io)
Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges (www.tomshardware.com)
Videogame stocks slide on Google''s new AI world simulation model (finance.yahoo.com)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture (en.wikipedia.org)
Amazon''s Spending on ''Melania'' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe (daringfireball.net)
Hard Times Have Come for the PhD Degree (www.forbes.com)
We Don''t Remember What We Think, Only What We Do (www.raptitude.com)
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Wikipedia''s Baltic Battle: Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits (balticsentinel.eu)
AI Ads Are Neither (seths.blog)
DOJ''s "Epstein Files Transparency Act" Document Release (30th Jan 2026) (www.justice.gov)
The Competence Trap is closing in around us (old.reddit.com)
You are being mislead about renewable energy technology. [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law (themarkup.org)
Amdahl''s Law and Agentic Coding (evnm.substack.com)
Trump Drops a Cybersecurity Bombshell with Biden-Era Policy Reversal (2025) (www.forbes.com)
Is anyone working on generative robotics and wants to give feedback/talk? (twitter.com)
New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive (www.justice.gov)
Autoformalization and the Future of Math Research (www.neelsomaniblog.com)
Waco Glider (1942) (en.wikipedia.org)
Google''s AI advantage why crawler separation is needed for a fair Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
Are We in a Continual Learning Overhang? (www.lesswrong.com)
Editing Code Visually Without Sacrificing Fidelity (www.joinformal.com)
SK Hynix surpasses TSMC in Q4 profit margin, first time in 7 years (www.kedglobal.com)
Microsoft is quietly walking back Windows 11''s AI overload (www.windowscentral.com)
1M Shrimp by Jon Topielski (jontopielski.itch.io)
Maniac Mansion (C64) commented disassembly (github.com)
Why We''ve Tried to Replace Data Analytics Developers Every Decade Since 1974 (blog.rittmananalytics.com)
AI Has Crossed the Rubicon (pikseladam.com)
Book Review of Stewart Brand''s Maintenance (www.symmetrybroken.com)
AI is booming. Tech jobs in San Francisco are not (sfstandard.com)
White House Scraps ''Burdensome'' Software Security Rules (www.securityweek.com)
IPv6 Insecure? (world.hey.com)
Year of the Personal Site (www.mattcrouch.net)
We got coding agents to break the Wiggum barrier (www.sanity.io)
Tailwind lays off 75% of 4-person engineering team, citing brutal impact of AI (www.businessinsider.com)
TileIR Internals (maknee.github.io)
Using the 2D discrete Fourier transform to fix rainbows in manga on color eInk (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time (ztechtalk.com)
Takeout Tax – Calculate what Google''s killed products cost you (anupamchugh.github.io)
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet (simonwillison.net)
Coast Guard breaks up ice in Hudson River as NYC Ferry remains suspended (gothamist.com)
The 75M Opportunity: Consolidating Canada''s Fragmented AI Spending (zeitgeistml.substack.com)
Skypilot: Run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure (github.com)
Shark 2.0 – a free, open-source poker solver in C (github.com)
Sometimes Never Compete on Price (longform.asmartbear.com)
''We got lazy and complacent'': abolishing the wealth tax changed Sweden (theconversation.com)
The European Schuko socket bothers me (blog.jgc.org)
Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser (vcad.io)
DOJ Publishes 3.5M Pages in the Epstein Files Transparency Act (www.justice.gov)
Linux gaming developers join forces to form the Open Gaming Collective (www.theverge.com)
Charles Tillman transformed football, then joined the FBI (www.nytimes.com)
The Only Reason to Explore Space (twitter.com)
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OTLO (www.futurefabric.co)
Parallel evaluation in Nix rolling out to Determinate Nix users (hachyderm.io)
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UN risks ''imminent financial collapse'', secretary general warns (www.bbc.co.uk)
A "Pure Go" Linux Environment, Ported by Claude, Inspired by Fabrice Bellard (www.jtolio.com)
Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals and Patients: Mortality increases by 34–38% (www.aeaweb.org)
2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report (resources.anthropic.com)
Olimex ESP8266 Red Chip Earings by MaChaPiaNa (machapiana.com)
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A New Anti-Political Fervor (www.noemamag.com)
Lemonade Autonomous Car Insurance (With Tesla FSD Discount) (www.lemonade.com)
I Built Gungi from Hunter X Hunter – Play It Now (www.gungi.io)
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A Quantitative Analysis of Unauthenticated LLM Infrastructure (github.com)
Norway Shrugged (paragraph.com)
US Justice Department releasing more than three million pages from Epstein files (www.bbc.co.uk)
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota (www.reuters.com)
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AI Is Powering a Silicon Valley Housing Rebound (homeeconomics.substack.com)
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Supply-chain attack: skill.md is like an unsigned binary (www.moltbook.com)
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I replaced a 120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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What if LLM pipelines were just algebra? ((R and A) W)² C E (moldandyeast.substack.com)
AI Code Review Without the Comment Spam (gitar.ai)
The Absurdity of the Tech Bro – Mountainhead (www.newyorker.com)
U.S. Judge in Mangione Case Rules Prosecutors Cannot Seek Death Penalty (www.nytimes.com)
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Herdctl: Orchestration Layer for Claude Code (github.com)
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Superfluids supposed to flow indefinitely; but observed a Supersolid (phys.org)
MIDI Survivor (www.funwithcomputervision.com)
The Quiet Shift in America''s Population Growth (brookstonenews.substack.com)
Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit (jamieclarketype.com)
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Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested on charges connected to Minnesota church protes (www.theguardian.com)
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Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers (www.theregister.com)
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France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom (itsfoss.com)
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Zo Computer (www.zo.computer)
Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance (www.nature.com)
AI hallucinations will expose flaws in decision-making system governance (peter875364.substack.com)
Can Morality Survive Climate Collapse? (nautil.us)
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Richard Feynman Side Hustles (twitter.com)
Many of the Uber-rich pay next to no income tax (2019) (apnews.com)
Guys, I don''t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI (techcrunch.com)
Tesla introduces U.S.-manufactured solar panels (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Ode to the AA Battery (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Journalist Don Lemon taken into custody after Minnesota church protest (www.cnn.com)
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Donald Trump announces Kevin Warsh as next Fed chair, replacing Jerome Powell (www.abc.net.au)
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Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest (abcnews.go.com)
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1.4 Billion user records exposed by insecure Firebase instances in mobile apps (mrbruh.com)
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HTTP Cats (http.cat)
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China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based group in crackdown on scam operations (www.nbcnews.com)
Microsoft Takes on Other Clouds with "Braga" Maia 200 AI Compute Engines (www.nextplatform.com)
FOSDEM 2026 (fosdem.org)
PicoDAV – Single-file WebDAV server with file manager/text editor (github.com)
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Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers (www.wpr.org)
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Nvidia''s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android (arstechnica.com)
ISS SIM (iss-sim.spacex.com)
DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance With The Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300 Benchmarks (www.phoronix.com)
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Ubisoft Veteran Says He Was Suspended for Criticizing Return-to-Office Policy (www.gamespot.com)
Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent (musically.com)
What''s so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com)
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Rabbit Project Cyberdeck (www.rabbit.tech)
Django scales. Stop blaming the framework (part 1 of 3) (medium.com)
Trump says he''s decertifying Canada-made aircraft and threatens 50% tariffs (www.cnn.com)
How Businesses Are Manipulating ChatGPT Results (www.wsj.com)
Code is cheap. Show me the talk (nadh.in)
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Barring last-minute nuclear deal, US and Russia teeter on brink of new arms race (www.reuters.com)
Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management (github.com)
Bash Pitfalls (mywiki.wooledge.org)
TGUI, a cross-platform modern C GUI library (tgui.eu)
Demis Hassabis – Dwarkesh Podcast (open.spotify.com)
Cloak – An open-source local PII scrubber for ChatGPT (getcloak.org)
My Website Was Down for a Week, and I Was the Last to Notice (igorstechnoclub.com)
Email experiments: filtering out external images (www.terracrypt.net)
Meta, YouTube face trial over allegations their tech is addictive (www.cbsnews.com)
How ICE Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are (www.nytimes.com)
Elisa – The music player developed by KDE community (apps.kde.org)
I Built an Automated Lego Car Factory [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Nvidia: Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf] (research.nvidia.com)
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Cert Polska: December 2025 Energy Sector Attack Linked to Russian FSB (cert.pl)
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What is behind the extraordinary rise in investment into silver and gold? (www.theguardian.com)
More malware from Google Search (eclecticlight.co)
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Potentially Critical RCE Vulnerability in OpenSSL (research.jfrog.com)
Health risks of 3D printing – often overlooked (www.oru.se)
Visual learning app could transform how students understand fluid mechanics (www.surrey.ac.uk)
Pāli to English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Burmese Dictionary (tipitaka.sutta.org)
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Still waiting for GTA 6? Google Genie 3 says: just prompt it (twitter.com)
1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico (www.cnn.com)
Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands (www.ucl.ac.uk)
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Why the government is trying to make coal cute (grist.org)
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Atlas Obscura Turns First Annual Profit in 16-Year History (www.adweek.com)
AI-generated news should carry ''nutrition'' labels, thinktank says (www.theguardian.com)
New OpenAI tool renews fears that "AI slop" will overwhelm scientific research (arstechnica.com)
Tesla''s Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor (electrek.co)
Charlie Munger mental model ChatGPT Prompt (tools.eq4c.com)
Bull Is Back (www.bull.com)
How the NoteGPT AI Essay Writer Transforms Your Academic Workflow (notegpt.io)
Logical Intelligence (Yann LeCun linked startup, piloting an Energy Based Model) (logicalintelligence.com)
FFmpeg is not happy with AI generated patches sent by AMD (twitter.com)
Making Flix Compiler Errors Helpful and Delightful (blog.flix.dev)
Microsoft explores bringing top menu bar to Win 11 with new PowerToys feature (www.windowscentral.com)
Taiwan''s GDP in 2025 Grew at Fastest Pace Since 2010 (8.63%) (www.wsj.com)
UK''s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend (www.theguardian.com)
Diversification Is Overrated (nox.sh)
Trump sues IRS and US treasury for 10B over leak of tax returns (www.theguardian.com)
Beyond the click: How brands can influence visibility in AI-generated answers (thenextweb.com)
A Market Saturated with Binance Scams: How Its Shaping Current Crypto Landscape (twitter.com)
devenv: Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments (devenv.sh)
Another user''s pCloud setup is visible in my pcloud drive (old.reddit.com)
GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client (www.xda-developers.com)
The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare (www.sciencehistory.org)
Why I''m ignoring pretty much all new Python packaging tools (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Apple Reports Record-Setting 1Q 2026 Results: 42.1B Profit on 143.8B Revenue (www.macrumors.com)
Cutting down 90% of database spending at Capacities by migrating to Postgres (capacities.io)
Billionaires trying to prolong their life end up wasting it (www.thetimes.com)
Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns (www.theguardian.com)
Apple can''t secure enough chips as iPhone demand surges, memory prices rise (www.cnbc.com)
How linguistic framing in pitch decks influence investors'' judgment – St. Gallen (www.pitchwise.se)
AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source (dri.es)
Benchmarking with Vulkan: the curse of variable GPU clock rates (mropert.github.io)
unfuck-microwave.sh (cofe.rocks)
Portugal builds Europe''s first dedicated drone carrier, D João II (www.euronews.com)
Trump threatens to tariff, decertify Canadian aircraft in latest trade war move (www.cbc.ca)
Dialhome-study/browser-network-insights: Browser networking analysis framework (codeberg.org)
Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse (www.bbc.co.uk)
Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development (arxiv.org)
The fat you can''t see could be shrinking your brain (www.sciencedaily.com)
Agent skill that reads every git diff for annual reviews (github.com)
Do markets make us moral? (www.ft.com)
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Mysterious Artifacts Donated to Thrift Shop Might Be Medieval (www.smithsonianmag.com)
ClojureWasmBeta (github.com)
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel (2022) (cfenollosa.com)
Critical Vulnerabilities in Dormakaba''s Physical Access Control System (sec-consult.com)
Automation is inevitable, and South Korea''s president just said it out loud (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
A Beans Based AI Workflow (caidan.dev)
New fear unlocked: Runaway black holes (phys.org)
DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting (theintercept.com)
Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code (0xghost.dev)
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors (www.science.org)
The Richard Feynman Iterative Learning Framework AI Prompt (tools.eq4c.com)
Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in talks to invest up to 60B in OpenAI (www.reuters.com)
OpenClaw: The AI that actually does things (clawd/molt) (openclaw.ai)
A Project (zenodo.org)