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Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization (boilingsteam.com)
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China''s ZTE may pay over 1B to the US over foreign bribery allegations (www.reuters.com)
Pop-out car door handles could disappear for good (www.techradar.com)
French supermarket''s Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (www.youtube.com)
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BrowserPod: WebAssembly in-browser code sandboxes for Node, Python, and Rails (labs.leaningtech.com)
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Why Write Engineering Blogs (writethatblog.substack.com)
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Haskell Weekly – Issue 502 (haskellweekly.news)
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I Made ByteDance Voice Assistant Open Source Alternative (github.com)
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The Great Dictator''s Speech (1940) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Deequ - Unit Tests for Data (github.com)
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Metir AI: Your Second Brain (www.metirai.com)
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Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese Vessels Near China switched off AIs overnight (twitter.com)
Email Apnea (en.wikipedia.org)
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Productivity App with Conversational Capabilities (dashzz.com)
Prompt injection is not SQL injection (it may be worse) (www.ncsc.gov.uk)
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Shield protecting Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer blocks radiation (www.euronews.com)
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US forces take over sanctioned, stateless VLCC off Venezuela (www.lloydslist.com)
Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI report reveals 6x productivity gap btwn AI power users and everyone else (venturebeat.com)
What Designers Should Build (fantasy.co)
Shadow Enigma (shadowenigma.com)
Hundreds in Japan get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling (www.bbc.com)
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Proton now has an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet app (www.theverge.com)
Ireland''s first mobile phone call made 40 years ago (www.rte.ie)
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AI has entered the classroom – but is it the solution for overworked teachers? (www.bbc.com)
Stephen Hawking''s floppy disks: an interview with Leontien Talboom (www.aip.org)
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Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Skydiver dangles from plane 15,000ft in dramatic new footage of parachute snag (www.theaustralian.com.au)
ChatGPT and search ads used for malware distribution (eclecticlight.co)
Feedback on Integrated Security Platform (substack.com)
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Good Leadership Hinges on "Organizational Intelligence" (2020) (hbr.org)
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Qwen''s API platform for image/video generation (www.mulerouter.ai)
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How do salespeople use AI? (twitter.com)
The Unwritten Laws of Systems Engineering (1994) (evansopticalengineering.com)
Quilter''s AI designed a Linux computer that booted on the first try (venturebeat.com)
German government US authorities have access to EU cloud data (heise.de) (www.heise.de)
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Project Chrono an Open Source Multi-Physics Simulation Engine (projectchrono.org)
Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic (www.theguardian.com)
Threshold (studium.dev)
US Navy pledges 448M to test if Palantir is seaworthy (www.theregister.com)
AI Product Retention Crisis: Why Users Aren''t Staying (medium.com)
Pando (Tree) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Jetbrains Fixes 20 Year Old Feature Request (youtrack.jetbrains.com)
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I Like My F# Code Type Annotation-Free (www.planetgeek.ch)
Shapes Inc founders committed the cardinal sin of mass emailing by CCing (twitter.com)
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Transformers Must Hallucinate (medium.com)
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OpenAI (2015) (openai.com)
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China''s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity from Biggest Grid (www.wsj.com)
Is it possible to fix the "Power Law" problem in user-generated content? (ideavo.tripivo.co.in)
High Performance SSH/SCP (www.psc.edu)
Trump launches 1M ''gold card'' immigration visas (www.bbc.com)
A list of parks around the world that are perfect to sit down and enjoy a book (www.placestoread.xyz)
SEO poisoning with legit AI chats delivers AMOS stealer (www.huntress.com)
Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought (www.economist.com)
Instagram gives users control of their algorithms in new feature (abcnews.go.com)
Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows (www.nytimes.com)
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org)
Oracle Credit Risk Gauge Deteriorates After Earnings Report (www.bloomberg.com)
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Concord – an offline-first cognitive engine that runs on your computer (github.com)
Vibe Coding Is Depressing (law.gmnz.xyz)
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CEO of Chinese robotic company post video of himself getting kicked by his robot (www.businessinsider.com)
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Attention Economy (studium.dev)
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Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel (thenewstack.io)
The Normalization of Deviance in AI (embracethered.com)
Instacart''s AI-enabled pricing may bump up your grocery costs by as much as 23% (www.cbsnews.com)
EV school bus goes up in flames (abc7.com)
ASCII Art Archive (www.asciiart.eu)
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Significance of Numbers in Judaism (en.wikipedia.org)
DeepSeek is using Nvidia''s banned Blackwell AI chips (www.cnbc.com)
My experience with Lean 4 for general programming (quamserena.com)
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Cannabis dispensaries lead to reduced opioid prescriptions (medicalxpress.com)
Be Careful with GIDs in Rails (blog.julik.nl)
Online child sexual abuse surges by 26% in year (www.theguardian.com)
The devious art of lying by telling the truth (2017) (www.bbc.com)
Gogs 0-Day Exploited in the Wild (www.wiz.io)
Midjourney Is Alemwjsl (www.aadillpickle.com)
What border guards will look for on your socials, could be made to hand over DNA (www.afr.com)
Malaysia uncovers 1B in power theft losses from illegal crypto mining (www.theblock.co)
AI Researcher: Replacing scientists with AI is evil (twitter.com)
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (selfh.st)
Earliest fire-making dating back 400k years unearthed in Suffolk, England (www.nhm.ac.uk)
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China government-approved AI hw suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei in, Nvidia out (www.tomshardware.com)
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Agency Is Eating the World (giansegato.com)
MacKenzie Scott Announces 7B of Charitable Giving This Year (www.nytimes.com)
Pslscale.com – AI facial analysis for attractiveness scoring (pslscale.com)
Patterns.dev (www.patterns.dev)
Jonathan Blow new game announced. Uses new language and new engine (twitter.com)
Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (www.bloomberg.com)
Galea – the most sophisticated biosensing headset (galea.co)
San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi (apnews.com)
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U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro (www.nytimes.com)
Claude Code Space Invaders Game (space-invaders.centminmod.com)
Canada DND scrambles to figure out how to mobilize and equip a citizens'' army (www.cbc.ca)
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy (www.theatlantic.com)
Curiosity in Relationships (okaykoa.substack.com)
Understanding Carriage (seths.blog)
HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with TUI animation (github.com)
ClassicPress Version 2.6.0 is Out (www.classicpress.net)
Gatekeepers: The Traffic Controllers of the Gnome Village (www.happihacking.com)
SoC-2 is table stakes now. Here''s what matters for AI products (www.superagent.sh)
Tandy Advent Calendar (advent.pcotandy.org)
Undeciphered Writing Systems (en.wikipedia.org)
Blue Origin Might Make Starship Obsolete (wlockett.medium.com)
After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why? (arstechnica.com)
FixBot: We Built an AI That Knows How to Fix Things (www.ifixit.com)
Kiwis travelling to US could soon face new social media screening (www.1news.co.nz)
Lazard CEO says a Washington strategy now essential to get deals done (www.reuters.com)
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country (www.theguardian.com)
Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela (www.wsj.com)
The Logic of Cue (cuelang.org)
Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques (tratt.net)
RedisPlay (github.com)
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The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth (www.lemonde.fr)
Library of Time (libraryoftime.xyz)
NASA loses contact with Maven – spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade (www.theguardian.com)
Rep. Massie Introduces Bill to Remove the United States from NATO (massie.house.gov)
Elon Musk says Doge was ''somewhat successful'' but he would not do it again (www.bbc.com)
Oracle''s stock slides 11% on revenue miss (www.cnbc.com)
Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England (www.aljazeera.com)
Turn commits into user-friendly content (handleco.vercel.app)
Amazon copyright protection changed for Kindle Direct''s self-published e-books (techcrunch.com)
Residential solar panels can raise electricity rates (techxplore.com)
The Secret Life of Moles: What They''re Up to Underground (thenaturenetwork.co.uk)
Coldest air barrels into US as polar vortex threatens 17 states deadly freeze (www.dailymail.co.uk)
US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela (www.reuters.com)
Product Design Decisions and Metrics behind chat-to-video in Lumen5 (lumen5.com)
Electron Orbital Scanner (claude.ai)
New digital wallet to restrict social media access in Ireland for under-16s (www.irishtimes.com)
The (re)-prioritization of open-source AI – Pinterest (medium.com)
Adopters of ''zone zero'' fared better in L.A. County fires, investigation finds (www.latimes.com)
A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test (www.wired.com)
Omniclip – universal clipboard free from the Apple ecosystem (github.com)
What''s needed for AI agents to work (substack.com)
Glibc Now Enabling 2MB THP On AArch64 By Default For Better Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Solo-journaling RPGs and their benefits wrt writing [video] (www.youtube.com)
A high-performance document search engine built in Rust with WebAssembly support (github.com)
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over ''wasteful'' Calibri (www.bbc.com)
US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say (arstechnica.com)
Systemization of Knowledge: Security and Safety Challenges in MCP (arxiv.org)
Green Spaces Tied to Fewer Mental Health Hospitalizations (www.medscape.com)
Rails Updates: Schema-Enforced JSON Access, Postgres Type Decoding and More (rubyonrails.org)
What is eBPF? (oneuptime.com)
Libretro (www.libretro.com)
Intel, AMD Processors Affected by PCIe Vulnerabilities (www.securityweek.com)
Windows 3.1 ''Hot Dog Stand'' color scheme, original UI designer explains why (www.pcgamer.com)
AI browsing in Brave now available for early testing (brave.com)
As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in ''Code Red'' Mode (www.nytimes.com)
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal (en.wikipedia.org)
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? (buttondown.com)
Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons (alinpanaitiu.com)
The future for women investors is in danger (www.fastcompany.com)
Useful patterns for building HTML tools (simonwillison.net)
Hello World of AI Agents (debamitro.github.io)
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Why Not Everything Is Automated in Manufacturing (Yet) (itcanthink.substack.com)
Aegra - Open Source LangGraph Platform Alternative (github.com)
Sexual Intercourse-Related Injuries (reference.medscape.com)
Copilot Usage Report 2025 (microsoft.ai)
Human brains light up unexpectedly for chimp voices (elifesciences.org)
Most of What You Read on the Internet Is Written by Insane People (2018) (old.reddit.com)
After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses (arstechnica.com)
Determinate Nix 3.14.0: introducing a new command for visualizing Nix builds (determinate.systems)
Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI (techcrunch.com)
AI Turns the Firehose into a Funnel (www.niemanlab.org)
Danish Spy Agency Now Views US as a Possible Security Concern (www.bloomberg.com)
htpy: Generate HTML in Python (github.com)
Apple Services Experiencing Outage (www.apple.com)
ConfiQuiz – A quiz that scores how well-calibrated your confidence is (sneerajmohan.github.io)
Nature Method of the Year 2025: electron microscopy-based connectomics (www.nature.com)
Free users now get 100 credits/week on A2A Net (a2anet.com)
US seizes tanker near Venezuela, Trump says (www.bbc.com)
I ran DOOM on the Polkadot JAM blockchain on my laptop (www.youtube.com)
36 months and the Australia social media ban (2024) (bleepitybloopity.com)
Twitter (www.twitter.new)
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease (www.nature.com)
Italian cooking awarded Unesco cultural heritage status (www.bbc.co.uk)
SpaceX Installs Starlink Vending Machine in Iowa (www.pcmag.com)
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk, company says (www.axios.com)
Zimbabwe''s only female heart surgeon on medicine, misogyny & making a difference (www.theguardian.com)
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws (www.eff.org)