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Computer Use Models (geohot.github.io)
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Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness (arxiv.org)
Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global''s rise and reckoning (restofworld.org)
Nob – Turn any terminal AI-powered (Open Source) (github.com)
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Swipe Ready AI Dating Photo Generator (swipeready.net)
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Microsoft Updates Windows ''To Stop Users from Downloading Google Chrome'' (www.forbes.com)
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance (www.science.org)
Blackbox open source agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal (github.com)
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Yosemite bear-proof food locker latching systems (marydonahue.org)
GitHub 95 (github95.vercel.app)
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RFC1087 Ethics and the Internet (1989) (www.ietf.org)
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A quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades is solved (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Linux Foundation Annual Report 2025 (www.linuxfoundation.org)
Why OpenAI’s Move to Skills Matters If You’re Shipping AI Agents (medium.com)
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AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No (www.mindprison.cc)
Google works with Meta on TorchTPU to enhance TPU compatibility with PyTorch (www.reuters.com)
Rust''s Block Pattern (notgull.net)
Hasbro Think-a-Tron [video] (www.youtube.com)
TikTok inks deal with investors to keep operating in U.S. (www.cbc.ca)
Agent Skills (agentskills.io)
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Firefox 146.0.1 fixes two high risk security vulnerabilities (www.mozilla.org)
Murder of Portuguese plasma physicist in U.S. witnessed by daughter (www.portugalresident.com)
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Alzheimer''s disease starts in childhood in polluted Mexico City (2020) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company in 6B deal (www.today.com)
Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
TikTok signs deal to give U.S. operations to Oracle-led investor group (www.npr.org)
PyOxy: A single file Python distribution written in Rust (pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io)
Nobody Reads Your Logs (nobodyreadsyourlogs.com)
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Colorado steel mill halts rail shipments to BNSF and UP (www.trains.com)
Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)
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Workplace 2026 will be increasingly intelligent, interconnected, human-centred (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Bruno v3 Preview Release (github.com)
To Understand the US in 2026, Travel to Texas (www.bloomberg.com)
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Shoelace Knots (www.fieggen.com)
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SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA – The Linux Kernel Documentation (docs.kernel.org)
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Lakera''s Gandalf (gandalf.lakera.ai)
ByteDance signs deal to sell majority of TikTok US (www.bbc.co.uk)
Coding Intelligence Asymptotics (fi-le.net)
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TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture (www.reuters.com)
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North Korean hackers stole a record 2B of crypto in 2025, Chainalysis says (www.coindesk.com)
How to Use AI as a Real Software Engineering Tool (chat.engineer)
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FBI dismantles alleged 70M crypto laundering operation (www.theregister.com)
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Purdue makes ''AI working competency'' a graduation requirement (www.theregister.com)
Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science (www.cs251.com)
LLM-Interview-Questions-and-Answers: 100 LLM interview questions with answers (github.com)
Kdenlive 25.12 Video Editor Brings New Docking System, Menu Restructuring (www.phoronix.com)
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TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
GrapheneOS blocks WhatsApp 0-day 0-click RCE exploit (twitter.com)
Evidence shows deadly Brown, MIT shootings may be linked, sources say (www.foxnews.com)
Trump signs executive order reclassifying cannabis (www.cnbc.com)
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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful (www.theregister.com)
The M5 is an ARMv9 marvel, but iPadOS acts as a 5.1mm cage (substack.com)
The Internet Loves Peptide Therapy. Is It a Miracle Cure? (www.nytimes.com)
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The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (www.openculture.com)
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AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything (kottke.org)
House Democrats share new Epstein photos featuring Sergey Brin and Bill Gates (www.businessinsider.com)
How Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize (www.construction-physics.com)
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Denmark says Russia was behind two ''destructive and disruptive'' cyber-attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Can you visualize what NYC smells like? Yes, turns out, you can (huggingface.co)
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Starlink 35956 suffered a failure with venting of the propulsion tank (bsky.app)
CVSS 10.0 HPE OneView RCE bug identified (www.scworld.com)
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New X-ray images show interstellar comet as it makes closest approach to Earth (www.cnn.com)
Bill Gates and Sergey Brin Among Newly Released Epstein Photos (www.ft.com)
LionsOS Design, Implementation and Performance (arxiv.org)
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Trump media group agrees 6B merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (www.ft.com)
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LLMs'' impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality (arstechnica.com)
Two Kinds of Vibe Coding (davidbau.com)
Model hallucinations aren''t random. They have geometric structure (arxiv.org)
Most Top-Achieving Adults Werent Elite Specialists in Childhood, New Study Finds (www.wsj.com)
FAA Warns of Military Aircraft Flying Undetected in Caribbean (www.bloomberg.com)
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Obscure Polish company launches 122.88TB PCIe 5.0 immersion cooled SSD (www.techradar.com)
Scientists skip key US meetings – and seize on smaller alternatives (www.nature.com)
Supporting FLOSS: My end-of-year donations (tzovar.as)
Lovable bags 330M at 6.6B valuation in Europe''s biggest AI builder bet (techfundingnews.com)
Dataset of 33k human evaluations across 33 AI models (huggingface.co)
''Mars camp'': The extreme adventure that wants to turn tourists into astronauts (www.cnn.com)
ASCII Yin Yang (count-quota-18418512.figma.site)
Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? (www.newyorker.com)
WorldPlay: Real-Time Interactive World Modeling (arxiv.org)
North Korean infiltrator caught at Amazon due to 110ms keystroke lag (www.tomshardware.com)
YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI Making Fake Movie Trailers Seen by Millions (deadline.com)
Geerling: Apple didn''t have to go this hard - Testing LLMs using RDMA [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Trump signs executive order to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I to III (www.whitehouse.gov)
Why Trump''s social media company is merging with a fusion power firm (www.washingtonpost.com)
Our Series B: 330M raised at 6.6B valuation (age-of-the-builder.lovable.app)
Jan Koum (WhatsApp cofounder) tops AIPAC donor list (www.trackaipac.com)
StikDebug Removed from App Store, Developer Account Terminated (twitter.com)
Screen Takeover Attack in AI Tool Acquired for 1B (www.promptarmor.com)
Treat Emacs as an Elisp Runtime Using Eask (www.jcs-profile.com)
Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? There''s a lifeline (www.zdnet.com)
Snowflake Postgres Is Now Available in Public Preview (www.snowflake.com)
Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models (blog.google)
Zero Inflation (thetontineengine.substack.com)
Study suggests recent tundra fires ''exceed anything in past 3k years (phys.org)
Xata: Instant branches of your Postgres with anonymized production data (xata.io)
Just Use AI (justfuckinguseai.com)
1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work (www.theverge.com)
President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research (www.nytimes.com)
How to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick (kibty.town)
Elon Musk''s SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can''t sell (electrek.co)
Bias gives ''swing state'' voters more influence over US trade policy (phys.org)
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus. (www.wsj.com)
Drafta Email – Inbox Zero Has Never Been Easier (drafta.email)
Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto (cepr.net)
Trump signs executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug (apnews.com)
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)
Vibe Coding Is Creating a Generation of Sorcerer''s Apprentices (russellmiller2.substack.com)
Internet 2025: Bigger, more fragile than ever and fundamentally rewired by AI (www.zdnet.com)
Trump Media bets on fusion energy with 6B TAE deal (www.reuters.com)
Bedford: FAA lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees during shutdown (www.politico.com)
The measurement problem in software engineering (maestroai.substack.com)
We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)
Top Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools – Pen America (pen.org)
Micron Forecasts DRAM Shortages Beyond 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)
Gregg Shorthand (en.wikipedia.org)
Worktrees and Tmux and Claude, Oh My Zsh (www.richsnapp.com)
China built its ''Manhattan Project'' to rival the West in AI chips (www.japantimes.co.jp)
China''s unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs (www.bbc.com)
GitHub Wrap – Your GitHub Year in Review (www.indiehackers.com)
Please learn how to use your computer (www.niemanlab.org)
Free Vibe Coding eBook (www.amazon.com)
The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (en.wikipedia.org)
Railway knows better than you (anukari.com)
Embedded Analytics as Code (evidence.dev)
GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills (github.blog)
Micron stock soars 12% as memory prices skyrocket and shortages persist (www.cnbc.com)
Tech provider for NHS England confirms data breach (techcrunch.com)
Trump Media Discovers Nuclear Fusion (www.bloomberg.com)
Datasetiq – open-source Pandas wrapper for 6M economic series (www.datasetiq.com)
FunctionGemma 270M Model (blog.google)
CUDA de Grâce: Nvidia vulnerability, deep dive, and runtime security detection (stealthium.io)
YouTube Shuts Down Fake AI Movie Trailer Channels Watched by Millions (deadline.com)
Clip: Utility that copies to the clipboard for easy context for AI chats (github.com)
4k Nosebleeds: The Freakout over World Cup Ticket Prices (www.wsj.com)
Conductor: Context-driven development for Gemini CLI (developers.googleblog.com)
Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)
MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in Mass (nypost.com)
GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com)
Levels.fyi End of Year Pay Report 2025 (www.levels.fyi)
Flux Operator Web UI (fluxoperator.dev)
Join Us If you''ve had enough (markmbello.substack.com)
Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data (noyb.eu)
The Oscars is moving to YouTube (www.techradar.com)
Trump moves to shut down climate research lab, calls its work "alarmism" (www.axios.com)
iOS Backup Machine (github.com)
I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing (nik.art)
You can now verify Google AI-generated videos in the Gemini app (blog.google)
China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab (www.tomshardware.com)
Normcore 3 released (docs.normcore.io)
Converting a typewriter into a physical Claude terminal (benbyfax.substack.com)
''You learn tricks to reduce it'': the smart bins measuring food waste in S. Korea (www.theguardian.com)
We added Kafka - Apache Iceberg ingestion to OLake (open source) (olake.io)
Mystery Drones, Or Maybe UFOs, Over Sweetwater County Are ''The New Normal'' (cowboystatedaily.com)
There''s no such thing as a fake feather [video] (www.youtube.com)
"Mother of All Demos" (1968) (www.youtube.com)
I figured out how to stop making engines and start making games [video] (www.youtube.com)