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MailBoy Send API Requests (github.com)
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Warm, direct and intelligent – She's friendly but just not accurate (www.theguardian.com)
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Elastic spheres can walk on water (2016) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Topographically (topographically.vercel.app)
Nano-GPT – a privacy-minded alternative to OpenRouter with powerful API (nano-gpt.com)
Canva to lay off 22% of it's staff (www.afr.com)
0-click account takeover in Better Auth (www.strix.ai)
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When Reddit gives you login screens, go back to the open web (disassociated.com)
The Pnyx and the Agora (2016) (www.readingdesign.org)
Google to cutoff Search Engine access to schools banning Gen. AI (www.forbes.com)
AI Agents Used by Railway Breach Systems of Rival Primcloud (securityboulevard.com)
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Zotero 10 (www.zotero.org)
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SurrealDB 4 and SurrealDB Earth: A serverless database built on Cloudflare (surrealdb.com)
20M in Fines and Vizio Smart TVs Opt Out of Spying Option Does Nothing (pcper.com)
North Korea used LinkedIn, fake job interviews to trick Binance engineer (fortune.com)
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NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms (arstechnica.com)
Apple Launches Beta Versions of Watch AI Listening Tools, New Health App (www.bloomberg.com)
How Will AI Affect Developing Countries? (indevelopmentmag.substack.com)
Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)
Fujifilm Expands Production 5x of Magnetic Data Storage Tape for Archive Demand (newsroom-us.fujifilm.com)
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Tencent-owned game's CDN compromised to deliver trojan via PC launcher (gist.github.com)
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AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie (www.theguardian.com)
Hippocampus – self-hosted memory shared by every Claude Code session (github.com)
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What Rami Ismail learned with his return to game development (www.gamedeveloper.com)
PixelLoupe 1.3 – free, open source Lightroom replacement for macOS (pixegen.net)
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Itch.io Deletes 'Terabytes' of AI Slop in to Counter Surge in Game Uploads (kotaku.com)
ILC Dover, ILC Astrospace Agree to Pay 13M over Cybersecurity Fraud Claims (www.justice.gov)
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278M PII detection model bests OpenAI, AWS and Microsoft (arxiv.org)
How Software Engineering Is Changing (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
You're paying too much for code review (blog.brokk.ai)
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Agentic Cheminformatics with Google Antigravity (deepmind.google)
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Automatic Construction of Strong Simple Baselines (arxiv.org)
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Electrical network frequency analysis: dating recordings by power grid hum (en.wikipedia.org)
Decision Models as Policy Gates for Coding Agents (arxiv.org)
Bambu Lab H3C - 9 nozzle printer (us.store.bambulab.com)
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Democrats run more anti-tech ads amid AI boom (www.semafor.com)
The Inference Stack Behind OCRia (www.llamaindex.ai)
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Leona - AI Powered Career Toolkit (leona.co.za)
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Fedora 45 Released (www.redhat.com)
Itch.io deletes terabytes of all the AI game and asset slop spam (frvr.com)
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Brazil publishes first global 'roadmap' for phasing out fossil fuels (www.theguardian.com)
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Auditioning Engineering: Software Engineering Interviews in the Age of AI (tech.wmg.com)
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Apple HomeView Ultra, drone and laundry-folding robot reportedly in development (www.notebookcheck.net)
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The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300 year journey from an idea to the computer (archive.org)
Revolut Cuts A.I. Coding Costs 90% with a Chinese Open-Weight Model (www.trendingtopics.eu)
Google researchers demand freedom to tell the world what they know about AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
Next Unreal Engine release will add web platform support (twitter.com)
Atomic – Describe an app in plain language, get working code you can download (atomicapp.dev)
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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews, AI tool to steal 6.3B (www.cnbc.com)
AI cracks a 27-year-old pillar of computer science, OpenAI and Anthropic claim (www.science.org)
Causes of Male Excess Mortality: Insights from Cloistered Populations (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Silicon Valley dating now means spreadsheets, AI and 5K-a-month coaches (www.techspot.com)
Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
The 3D Printed Database (www.amplifypartners.com)
Proton Colleagues, Unionize Now (molecule.build)
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Nvidia tells data center operators to limit business to Chinese customers (www.tomshardware.com)
Understanding Forward Deployed Engineering (www.barry.ooo)
Black October Made Me Switch from Ubuntu to Debian (bryananthonio.com)
Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)
Railway Accused of Hacking Competitor (twitter.com)
Running Dry (www.wheresyoured.at)
An asteroid's shape influences where a nuclear blast must be aimed to deflect it (phys.org)
Minstrel – play your own UPnP music library anywhere, no cloud account (minstrelplayer.org)
Anthropic's S-1/A diffed against its S-1 on the AI R&D acceleration threshold (theainewsreport.com)
Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram (arstechnica.com)
Switchboard – One MCP Endpoint for all your tools (github.com)
OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec (thezvi.substack.com)
Snapchat Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale (www.afterbabel.com)
Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla (marginalrevolution.com)
Writing was flagged as AI. What does that mean? (www.npr.org)
ARM is not a universal architecture, there will be no more Hackintosh (www.reddit.com)
Live Election Results (electionenjoyer.com)
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Stringman, an 800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
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USDB: Scaling Storage for Next-Generation Recommender Systems at ByteDance (arxiv.org)
Researchers warn secret "trigger words" can make hacked AI robots attack people (www.dexerto.com)
Apple faces unprecedented memory cost increases as RAM prices continue to surge (www.tomshardware.com)
Progress on provable inference for large language models (www.anthropic.com)
Ericsson says it can detect, track drones using only mobile networks (www.theregister.com)
Princeton students, faculty divided over access to University ChatGPT accounts (www.dailyprincetonian.com)
High schooler proving sky is not the limit, earns pilot's license (2023) (cbs12.com)
xAI installs eight converted jet engines to power Mississippi data center (www.tomshardware.com)
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why (www.theregister.com)
The Semantic Web didn't fail because ontologies were wrong (www.thisandthat.chat)
Cellebrite 7.76.3 support Matrix (Jan 2026) (discuss.grapheneos.org)
Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes into Proxies (krebsonsecurity.com)
Solitaire, Mahjong, Freecell and more card games (trysolitaire.com)
Paperproof: Diagram for Every Lean Theorem (paperproof.xyz)
Live Stream from Kepler Satellites (www.youtube.com)
CrustyBASIC – a BASIC cross-compiler for retro machines by telengard (telengard.itch.io)
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DOJ to Monitor Elections in All 50 States for First Time (www.justice.gov)
Notice How Old websites look better than new websites (yingster.net)
Why We're Moving the PowerSync Service from FSL to Apache 2.0 (powersync.com)
Binance hackers used fake job interview to breach PC before 6.3B attack (www.reuters.com)
The History of Djgpp (www.delorie.com)
Dog a Fake Hero.; Pushes Children into the Seine to Rescue Them (www.nytimes.com)
What my nothing phone does in the background (www.animesh.us)
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Designing a planned switchover for minimum disruption (planetscale.com)
Wagtail 8.1: automate more with an improved API and agent-ready tools (wagtail.org)
CubeSat achieves challenging laser link to ground (www.esa.int)