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The Value of Things – Journal.stuffwithstuff.com (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
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Specs.md – AI-native development framework (specs.md)
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Direct-to-Cell Satellite Internet (www.direct2cell.org)
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400M-pixel superconducting delay-line camera with 30-ps readout circuit (pubs.aip.org)
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Google shutting down Gmailify after nearly 10 years (9to5google.com)
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Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump''s inauguration fund (2024) (www.npr.org)
Grainrad: Browser ASCII/Dithering Tool (grainrad.com)
Markdown Viewer – Get This Extension for Firefox (En-US) (addons.mozilla.org)
Using Information Entropy to Make Choices / Choose Experiments (blog.demofox.org)
Daxfs Proposed as Newest Linux File-System (www.phoronix.com)
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Hybrid and electric semi truck sales topped 231,000 units 2025 – in China alone (electrek.co)
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I don''t write code anymore – I sculpt it (www.jerpint.io)
We didn''t ask for ''smart'' cars – so why are we getting them? (www.autocar.co.uk)
Policy-Based Routing on an OpenWrt Router (dariusz.wieckiewicz.org)
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Lennart Poettering and the Cause of Civility (www.linux-magazine.com)
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The case for active management when so few outperform the S&P 500 (www.startribune.com)
AI Tribalism (nolanlawson.com)
Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (gulbenkian.pt)
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Gmail, Facebook and other account credentials exposed (www.scworld.com)
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Poland''s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (arstechnica.com)
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What Will People Think? (domofutu.substack.com)
If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that''s it for me (old.reddit.com)
Davos 2026: Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (www.weforum.org)
What Happened to X? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Trump administration unlawfully suspended EV charger program, U.S. judge rules (www.cnbc.com)
GitLab patch release 18.8.2 released (about.gitlab.com)
Syntux: JSON to UI for Websites (www.getsyntux.com)
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Agent orchestration for the timid (substack.com)
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ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis (www.theverge.com)
StackWarp security vulnerability that exploits a synchronization bug AMD Zen 1–5 (stackwarpattack.com)
J.K. Lundblad on X: "Rise of the Reflyable Rocket (Part 1)" / X (twitter.com)
JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool (json-render.dev)
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Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown (time.com)
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git-pkgs: A Git subcommand that indexes dependency changes into a database (git-pkgs.dev)
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Wix plans to let AI write most code, leaving engineers to redefine their role (www.calcalistech.com)
Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (github.com)
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Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents (www.nytimes.com)
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NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)
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MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40k Music Videos and Commercials (www.openculture.com)
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UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of ''Global Water Bankruptcy'' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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FBI agent who investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned (www.cnn.com)
Multo ante natus eram (1995) (multicians.org)
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ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop (www.science.org)
OpenWV: Open Reimplementation of Google''s Widevine Content Decryption Module For (github.com)
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3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades (hessammehr.github.io)
Speculative frenzy catapults silver above 100/oz (www.reuters.com)
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US Army Poorly Prepared for Arctic: Finnish Forced Surrender During Exercise (militarnyi.com)
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk''s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Installing Gnome on OpenBSD 7.8 (btxx.org)
Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch (www.theregister.com)
Hacker taps Raspberry Pi to turn Wi-Fi signals into wall art (www.theregister.com)
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In Praise of Artificial Learning (carlhendrick.substack.com)
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Mountains of evidence proving causatively social media affects mental health (www.afterbabel.com)
Claude Code''s new hidden feature: Swarms (twitter.com)
AI is reshaping police detective work, starting with cold cases (www.axios.com)
DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis warns AI investment looks ''bubble-like'' (www.ft.com)
OT Cybersecurity Memes You''ll Feel in Your Soul (www.emberot.com)
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First chatbot creator dedicated his life to publicizing the threat posed by A.I (www.smithsonianmag.com)
ttyrecall: Recall, but for terminals (github.com)
LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented like daylight (www.nature.com)
We posted a job. Then came the AI slop, impersonator and recruiter scam (themarkup.org)
AI coding is having its NFT moment (moio.medium.com)
Curl Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program over AI Slop Overrun (itsfoss.com)
FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion (hamishcampbell.com)
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XHTML Club (xhtml.club)
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MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked (www.windowscentral.com)
The Cognitive Cost of Glass: Why I switched back to paper for active recall. (turbulencegains.com)
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Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why refreshing the analytics page destroys your productivity (medium.com)
Ejabberd 26.01 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication (www.process-one.net)
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Apple Cash is making instant transfers more expensive soon (9to5mac.com)
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Claude Code disproportionately benefits those who touch type (til.andrew-quinn.me)
VPinFE a VPinball Front End for Linux, Mac and Windows (github.com)
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Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% (www.theregister.com)
Psychopathic female criminals show unexpected patterns of emotional processing (www.psypost.org)
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Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for ''Race Science'' (www.nytimes.com)
Asbestos found in children''s play sand sold in UK (www.theguardian.com)
What does it feel like to be an agent? (liamconnell.github.io)
JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator (vic20.games)
A terminal-based coding agent (shittycodingagent.ai)
Monster High Characters (monster-high-characters.com)
Forgotten Polygons: Multimodal Large Language Models Are Shape-Blind (arxiv.org)
Objective-S (objective.st)
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