The US national debt will soon be growing faster than the economy itself (fortune.com)
US officially exists World Health Organization (abcnews.go.com)
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Rust Burn 0.20.0 Release: Unifying CPU and GPU Kernels with CubeCL (burn.dev)
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TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC Established Under U.S. Regulatory Requirements (newsroom.tiktok.com)
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ChatGPT Is a Dead-End (garymarcus.substack.com)
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U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization (www.nytimes.com)
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Walmart Commerce SDK for Unity video games (xcancel.com)
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AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate (www.lastweekinaws.com)
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Estonia Wikipedia being replaced by pro Kremlin narrative by editors (twitter.com)
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Cost-Effectiveness of Language Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection (www.mdpi.com)
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Computer vision papers reimplemented with minimal PyTorch code (github.com)
I was detained at Davos for my hardware prototype; Swiss police audited the Rust (www.semafor.com)
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Kona: Energy-Based Models (EBMs) for AI Reasoning (logicalintelligence.com)
Stunnel (www.stunnel.org)
Vibe a Guitar Pedal (polyend.com)
Thruflux – P2P file transfer over QUIC (github.com)
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Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems (charap.co)
Node.js: New HackerOne Signal Requirement for Vulnerability Reports (nodejs.org)
Penis Size, height, and body shape influence assessment of male attractiveness (journals.plos.org)
Lessons of Design (lessons.design)
Malignant Narcissism (en.wikipedia.org)
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SB138: State of Utah Mobile Operating System Designation (le.utah.gov)
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1.8-3.3x faster Embedding finetuning now in Unsloth (unsloth.ai)
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Exoplanets Beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone. I. Habitability – IOPscience (iopscience.iop.org)
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Capital One to buy fintech firm Brex in 5.15B deal (www.reuters.com)
Capital One Strikes 5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17) (www.wsj.com)
White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest (www.theguardian.com)
Iran''s 14-Day Blackout: The New, Silent Reality (mastodon.social)
Lisp Coding Standards v1.0 (franz.com)
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Vnccc: VNC Wrapped Claude Code (github.com)
Engineer at Elon Musk''s XAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Interview (gizmodo.com)
SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis (www.tomshardware.com)
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New DPRK Malware Uses Microsoft VSCode Dictionary Files (opensourcemalware.com)
OpenAI''s internal documents predict 14B loss in 2026 according to report (www.pcgamer.com)
Digital Gentrification: Building a future we remember instead of the one we want (kraa.io)
Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems – Microsoft says uninstall it (www.windowscentral.com)
Apple''s Siri Chatbot May Run on Google Servers (www.macrumors.com)
Habitable worlds may be more common than thought (www.jpost.com)
Mistral CEO:China lagging in AI is a ''fairy tale'' (www.msn.com)
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The Moral Education of an Alien Mind (www.lawfaremedia.org)
Service degradation on Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise) (status.cloud.microsoft)
''Organized syndicates'' fraudulently access health records, lawsuit says (www.washingtonpost.com)
Judge rejects DOJ''s initial attempt to bring charges against Don Lemon (www.cnn.com)
Joan Didion: Only Disconnect (www.writing.upenn.edu)
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Betting on Prediction Markets Is Their Job. They Make Millions. (www.nytimes.com)
The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons (aleximas.substack.com)
Lululemon – you''re wearing them wrong (financialpost.com)
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Vargai/SDK – JSX for AI Video. Declarative Programming Language for Claude Code (varg.ai)
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Theory X and Theory Y (en.wikipedia.org)
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Microsoft 365 Outage (twitter.com)
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Mana LLM OS (www.mana.space)
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The Post Correspondence Programming Language: Domino-oriented Programming (2015) (davidlazar.github.io)
Restretto – minimal REST client for Mac (www.restretto.app)
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Curl ending bug bounty program after flood of AI slop reports (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
U.S. murder rate hits lowest level since 1900, report says (www.axios.com)
AI code review needs specialized agents, not bigger models (www.qodo.ai)
First Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild (theconversation.com)
Microsoft Outlook products appear to be down (it''s not just you) (downdetector.com)
Tesla begins public unsupervised Robotaxi rides (twitter.com)
I Learned the First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way (css-tricks.com)
Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? (eieio.games)
In Davos, the AI bubble is always someone else''s problem (www.axios.com)
The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab (www.nytimes.com)
Money for nothing? Gas Town meme coin:unsolicited (newsletterhunt.com)
''Active'' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies (www.sciencealert.com)
Microsoft DCP is now open source (Developer Control Plane) (github.com)
LLM Agents Solve the Table Merging Problem (futuresearch.ai)
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The Magic Behind UUID in Swift, How Your App Generates Unique Identifiers (www.swiftdifferently.com)
Trump''s ''unpredictable'' policies to fuel multiyear shift from US, Pimco says (www.ft.com)
When Music Stopped Mattering (linernotesxr.substack.com)
I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file (hugodaniel.com)
Colorectal Cancer Is Now the Top Cause of Cancer Death in Younger People (www.wsj.com)
Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills (www.mintlify.com)
Distcc – distributed builds for C, C and Objective C (github.com)
EU-Mercosur trade deal stalled as MEPs send it for judicial review (www.politico.eu)
What''s Wrong with NIH Grants? (www.statecraft.pub)
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (Jan 22 1996) (www.nytimes.com)
Official Fundraising Platform of Ukraine (u24.gov.ua)
How to organize your Rust tests (blog.logrocket.com)
DaggerFFT: A Distributed FFT Framework Using Task Scheduling in Julia (arxiv.org)
As AI supercharges phishing scams, 1Password introduces built-in protection (1password.com)
Scaling of 2-D Semiconductor Nanoribbons for High-Performance Electronics (arxiv.org)
Inferact: A New Company from the Creators of vLLM (150M Seed) (inferact.ai)
Zelenskyy says Europe ''looks lost'' and living in ''Groundhog Day'' (www.euronews.com)
Y Combinator No Longer Investing in Canadian Companies (web.archive.org)
France seizes suspected Russian ''shadow fleet'' oil tanker in the Mediterranean (www.bbc.com)
NeuralVoid – Block AI Telemetry from Copilot, Grammarly, Adobe (github.com)
LiveKit raises 100M to build the backbone for voice AI (blog.livekit.io)
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Marginal Gains: From Worst to Olympic Gold (read.perspectiveship.com)
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Macron says 300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU (old.reddit.com)
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Linking Logs to Code: Introducing Statement IDs (www.bronto.io)
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CSS Optical Illusions (alvaromontoro.com)
Autodesk cuts 7% of workforce (1k jobs) to redirect investments to AI, cloud (finance.yahoo.com)
Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology (2025) (stackoverflow.blog)
We should probably stop disarming our future armed resistance (www.readtheline.ca)
Railway secures 100M to challenge AWS (venturebeat.com)
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llms.txt Isn''t Enough: The Real Way To Make Docs AI-Ready (docsalot.dev)
Grok Created Sexualized Images (www.nytimes.com)
Google Adds Your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to Enable "Personal Intelligence" (arstechnica.com)
STL Editing with FreeCAD (hackaday.com)
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless (www.economist.com)
Are you sure you want to leave YouTube? (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Liquid Cooling Gains Traction in Data Centers (semiengineering.com)
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Why Offline Learning Still Matters in 2026 (takuti.me)
ISC BIND vulnerability discovered and disclosed by Marlink Cyber (marlink.com)
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The Latency Stack (www.devcuration.com)
How can we make asking easier? (www.beyondwritingcode.com)
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)
US set to quit World Health Organization (www.reuters.com)
You''re in a computer literacy filter bubble (www.autodidacts.io)
Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance (constellation-io.com)
Conductivity of warm dense matter via ThZ spectroscopy and electron diffraction (www.nature.com)
Unbiased world news on a map – just facts, no editorial spin (apps.apple.com)
Why Your Voice Cloning Sounds Fake (and How to Fix It) (gradium.ai)
My friend built a tool to detect when to post on socials starting with this one (hadaa.app)
Notebook.link: The Future of Notebook Sharing (medium.com)
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Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot (www.cio.com)
Why there''s no European Google? And why it is a good thing (ploum.net)
Feynman on Why He Almost Quit Physics (www.youtube.com)
Claude Code Outage: Auth Issues (status.claude.com)
Ax Not UX (www.robkopel.me)
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Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios (www.bbc.co.uk)
Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready (waymo.com)
Stealing Isn''t Innovation – America''s creative community message against AI (www.stealingisntinnovation.com)
What Is the University For? – Remaining Human in the Transition to LLMs (comment.org)
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It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed (github.com)
A socratic dialogue over why drugs work at all (www.owlposting.com)
The BBN Fund (www.freaktakes.com)