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FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
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Unsloth Desktop (unsloth.ai)
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Minimax H3 Max Live – An infinite broadcast is generated by the chat (www.twitch.tv)
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FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrast (www.wired.com)
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Some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess (jembendell.com)
AI should be illegal until we figure out how to deal with its consequences (ivanca.github.io)
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual (techcrunch.com)
Recombinant shingles vaccination and the risk of cardiovascular events (www.nature.com)
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Steve Jobs 8th Grade Science Fair Project: The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier (www.rrauction.com)
AI surveillance in schools raises safety and equity concerns (www.brookings.edu)
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Scientific articles are increasingly cryptic due to excess use of jargon (2022) (revistapesquisa.fapesp.br)
Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software (surfingcomplexity.blog)
US Kobo Sales Double? (www.publishersweekly.com)
California Passes AB-1856 for Open-Source Relief over Age Verification (www.phoronix.com)
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell Are Suing Anthropic (www.theverge.com)
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Nike, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings and Conference Call (www.businesswire.com)
Sextides (sextides.store)
A local scrubber for text you''re about to send to an LLM (github.com)
Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music (www.axios.com)
An 18B settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked (www.theguardian.com)
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Dr. Melvin Scheinman: 40th Anniversary of Catheter Ablation (ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu)
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
Covid Brain Fog May Not Be Irreversible (nautil.us)
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Google Reduced Pixel 11''s Security (twitter.com)
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Metric Spaces – An Interactive Exploration (evan-leach.github.io)
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Claude permanently raising weekly limits by 25% (bsky.app)
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Htmx and Django LiveView, side by side (en.andros.dev)
Introduction to Probability – 2nd Edition (open.umn.edu)
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Google further buries search results under AI mode (www.theverge.com)
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OpenLake: Fast, Durable Storage for LLM Inference and Training (www.theopenlake.com)
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Moonlight (www.themoonlight.io)
Determining if your branch is part of a GitHub Stacked PR (www.jvt.me)
ELPI – Embeddable Lambda Prolog Interpreter (github.com)
RFC draft-meow-mrrp-00 (www.ietf.org)
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ReactOS 0.4.16 (reactos.org)
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Oppo, Toyota chase India''s 100M-plus anime audience (www.thehindubusinessline.com)
Python CMS (self hosted and GDPR compliant) (aliothpress.com)
Stripe LLMS.txt with note to install latest (docs.stripe.com)
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Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack (uecker.codeberg.page)
Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor (www.tomshardware.com)
ASCII Art Video Stream (sometimes.digital)
Who was Nancy Grace Roman? NASA''s space telescope named after ''Mother of Hubble'' (www.space.com)
Gemini Notebook now lets you incorporate insights from books you own (blog.google)
Major security weaknesses found in leading open AI models (uwaterloo.ca)
Air Powered 64 Pixel Display [video] (www.youtube.com)
Tailored surface vibrations to improve aerodynamic performance in passenger jets (www.colorado.edu)
Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over 62 unpermitted gas turbines (www.tomshardware.com)
A Disillusioned Software Engineer explains LLMs to a Babylonian Scribe (avocadoslaw.substack.com)
A Scale Invariance Property of PCA (jslandy.com)
Build your web-based game with AI (quetab.com)
Google Showing Fewer PDF Files in Search (www.seroundtable.com)
Cancer is a Quantum System (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)
Data Exfiltration from Amazon Kiro via Prompt Injection (mindgard.ai)
Calibre eBook manager lets you generate AI book covers (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
How I Developed Regular Meditation Practice with Full Time Job for 6 Years (upekkhameditation.substack.com)
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A simple "copy this code" button in JavaScript (shkspr.mobi)
Agentic SQL for Free: Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB (motherduck.com)
Musk says Grok''s political lean is ''a function of SF Bay Area political views'' (tokenstead.ai)
Sabine Hossenfelder on "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (twitter.com)
SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview (store.steampowered.com)
Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread (www.yahoo.com)
Positorium: Database with features from RDBMS, graph, columnar, name-value DBs (github.com)
30% on AR-AGI-1 at 0.0007 per task (arxiv.org)
Intoxication Culture (theanarchistlibrary.org)
I''m teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)
How Boris Uses Claude Code (howborisusesclaudecode.com)
Twitter Viewer Service Discontinued (twitterwebviewer.com)
Alt text passes automated checks. That doesn''t mean it''s any good (github.blog)
For better or worse, Yayoi Kusama''s Infinity Rooms reshaped the world (www.cnn.com)
We made a new robot – Microduck [video] (www.youtube.com)
E.V. Sales Are Rising After the Gulf Oil Shock. Here''s Where. (www.nytimes.com)
Rational quantum mechanics: Testing quantum theory with quantum computers (www.pnas.org)
GentleOS/32 hobby OS for vintage 32-bit PCs (luke8086.dev)
Rig – Agentic Workflows in Rust (github.com)
7th Circuit Rules AI-Generated CSAM Is Protected Speach (media.ca7.uscourts.gov)
One ''absolutely prolific'' male bird is keeping his species alive in the U.K (www.cbc.ca)
Study links listening to live metal improves tolerance for pain, cold (gizmodo.com)
Being kicked out of the tech industry (www.jacky.wtf)
Tech backlash reaches fever pitch as AI angst collides with social media fears (www.cnbc.com)
POWBlock is a universal bot/DDoS defense primitive for any server (github.com)
What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (NYT) (www.nytimes.com)
Cod Wars (en.wikipedia.org)
Make AI Companies Criminally Liable for Preventable Harm (www.techpolicy.press)
Adversarial Interoperability (www.eff.org)
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I organize my Emacs configuration (en.andros.dev)
Berlin is being blackmailed by hackers, mayor says (www.bbc.co.uk)
Softwares that are not tools (harssh.substack.com)
VertiPaq: The in-memory, columnar query engine powering Microsoft analytics (www.ssp.sh)
"Hopefully a meteor will strike the Earth soon": Game devs talk GenAI witchhunts (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
AI Hallucination Cases Database (www.damiencharlotin.com)
Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says (www.nytimes.com)
Gertieboard Is an IBM PC/XT Clone That Blends Vintage and Modern Hardware (www.hackster.io)
How Hackathons Taught Me Not to Vibe Code (and What to Do Instead) (builder.aws.com)
Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website (www.theregister.com)
Ukrainian Farmer Finds Genius Way to Destroying Putin''s Empire [video] (www.youtube.com)
Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com)
Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale (www.uber.com)