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GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying (gijn.org)
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Fedora Linux 45 (fedoramagazine.org)
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'Our Risk, Their Reward': Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers (www.wired.com)
Israel linked to far-right great replacement theory influence campaign (www.thenational.scot)
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Firefox Security and Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q3 (attackanddefense.dev)
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AI chatbots are becoming political advisers. Their answers can mislead voters (www.npr.org)
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Neural nets learn to program neural nets with fast weights (2021) (people.idsia.ch)
Congress is banning many hemp products in December (www.cnn.com)
Thermomasculinity; overclocking, tech fair and politics (www.siliqoon.com)
Rhabdomyolysis (my.clevelandclinic.org)
US Hedge Funds Just Sold Every AI Stock They Bought Since 2025 (finance.yahoo.com)
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Railway Caught Hacking Competitor (twitter.com)
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Digital Exercise-Based Interventions for Balance in Older Adults (Meta-Analysis) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Down, Fanfic Authors Buried It with 2000 Takedown Notices (www.404media.co)
I Just Wanted Gmail Notifications, So Claude Built Me an App (twitter.com)
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Critical thinking when agents do the work (twitter.com)
OpenSUSE Leap 16.1 (en.opensuse.org)
The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona (arstechnica.com)
Fossil fuels played a negligible role in the rise of atmospheric CO₂ (twitter.com)
Regulators Take over as Paraguay's Ueno Bank Falters (www.theparaguaypost.com)
Iterate over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0 (www.swift.org)
Pivot or Perish (www.porp.lol)
Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars (www.theregister.com)
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Canonical: Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy (canonical.com)
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GSLM2 MultiStream Speech Rep Learning and Gen Spoken Language Modeling (arxiv.org)
Signatures in mineralized blood cells of a 115M-year-old dinosaur bone (www.pnas.org)
What Would a U.S. Telecommunications Act 2.0 Look Like? (spectrum.ieee.org)
Can AI ever build itself? A deeper look into autonomous AI research (www.nachoplanas.com)
The Mystery of the Snowden Saga – Solved (backlit.neocities.org)
Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream (spectrum.ieee.org)
Periodical Cicadas (en.wikipedia.org)
The cryptography behind e-voting (and why paper ballots are still essential) (blog.trailofbits.com)
Polar vortex disruption comes early (www.bostonglobe.com)
Practical Preimages for 19 and 20-Step SHA-256 with Standard Padding (arxiv.org)
Most popular programming languages now – and good news on developer job growth (www.zdnet.com)
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Thoughts as Thinkers: the biology and computer science of inspiration [video] (www.youtube.com)
Post-Training Atlas (github.com)
CVEGen – Every month's CVEs, painted into a poster (cvegen.art)
The State of Python Profiling in 2026 (p403n1x87.github.io)
Cavapdf: Search across all your pdf's (cavapdf.com)
Open Counter: book a small business by talking – Amazon Developer Hackathon (github.com)
The PHP2Shell Vulnerability Heralds Cybersecurity Hell (spectrum.ieee.org)
Against Supplements (www.worksinprogress.news)
Scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored (www.bbc.com)
Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns It May Be 'Imminently' Close to RSI (epyhia.com)
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Large Hadron Collider finds evidence of one-in-ten-billion particle decay (home.cern)
Hand-Cranked Device Can Tell You Your Blood Type and Red Cell Levels in a Minute (www.sciencealert.com)
We Open Sourced the Flapping Airplanes Megakernel (twitter.com)
Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects (2019) (kottke.org)
Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
Thinking in Traits (corrode.dev)
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UniFi Cloud Storage (blog.ui.com)
Euclidean, Spherical, and Projective Geometry (www.johndcook.com)
Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)
US order to purge Acronis tied to years of scrutiny over Russian ties (www.nextgov.com)
Reddit tells Australian court it isn't social media, calls under-16 ban 'inept' (www.techspot.com)
Watching the Watchers: Analysis of Smart TV Automatic Content Recognition (watchingthewatchers.github.io)
Affinity for iPad (www.affinity.studio)
The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple (www.wsj.com)
What is Starshield? A look at SpaceX's military satellite network (www.space.com)
'A serious failure': CPS prosecutor cites fake case after AI search (www.theguardian.com)
The Brain Injury That Made Edward Freytag a Musical Genius (www.nytimes.com)
A Moscow stray became the first dog in orbit – and an animal rights icon (www.washingtonpost.com)
Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered (www.cam.ac.uk)
Physicists Knock at the Door of the Zeptoverse (www.cam.ac.uk)
From Columbine to Teotihuacán: The Rise of Nihilistic Violence in Latin America (gnet-research.org)
Finding Forgotten CloudFormation Stacks (stackmuster.com)
Harms of the Generative AI (andreyor.st)
The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores 'Smart' TV Spying Opt Out Requests (www.techdirt.com)
Perverse Incentive (en.wikipedia.org)
Wicked Problem (en.wikipedia.org)
Fastest GitHub Actions Runners (runs-on.com)
nRF71 Series: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread, and On-Device AI on a Single Chip (www.nordicsemi.com)
AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes (www.theregister.com)
Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver malware (www.theregister.com)
Itch.io adding Generative AI disclosure filtering to few more places on the site (bsky.app)
SUSE Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce Due to AI and Automation (www.phoronix.com)
Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem (www.techdirt.com)
Ten harness patterns that you can apply to a real repo (deepsense.ai)
What Is a Complicated/Complex/Wicked Problem (www.fluxlinks.com)
Anthropic IPO filing: 1.7B quarterly payroll, about 107K per employee monthly (www.techspot.com)
GitHub pull_request_target blocked by default December 2 (github.blog)
App builders ask EU to make social graphs portable (digitalfreedomofmovement.eu)
Splitting text to manage context for agents and humans (www.youtube.com)
First FDA IND Approval Using Only Human Vascularized Organoids (2025) (qureator.com)
The Olfactory Experience of Nature (worldsensorium.com)
FDA Actions to Accelerate and Modernize Early and Late Clinical Development (www.fda.gov)
Blade Runner: More Human Than Human (blue-continuum.com)
WARC (en.wikipedia.org)
Agentic AI's real risk: losing the plot (alokda.wordpress.com)
Reviewer-gates: Trading speed for correctness with Claude (alexitc.com)
The SaaS apocalypse started in October (mackgrenfell.com)
Apple warns of 'unprecedented' rise in memory chip prices (www.theguardian.com)
What 3,060 AI tools state about GDPR and EU data hosting (monthly, rule-based) (www.gateonai.com)
Free SEO site audit tool (shodenltd.com)
Cometary impacts an unlikely pathway towards the origins of life on Earth (www.nature.com)
Free Scholarship Test – Data Science with AI (www.instagram.com)
A vasomechanic treatment to increase the efflux of human brain proteins (www.nature.com)
AI Nutrition Labels, a New Tool Measuring AI's Impact on Human Wellbeing (www.media.mit.edu)
AI agents hallucinate prices: LLM grounding with live data (blog.apify.com)
Major test for Australia's social media ban begins in High Court (www.bbc.com)
Verify, Then Vote: Overturning Wrong Majorities in Multi-Agent LLMs (github.com)
The Attack, the Ransom and the Unexpected Outcome (blogbychris.net)
The Midterm Downturn (www.reuters.com)
How AI is creating a lopsided US economy (www.abc.net.au)