ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps (www.wsj.com)
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Design Is Search (twitter.com)
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Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch (fil-c.org)
Send Me to Heaven (2013) (en.wikipedia.org)
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LogicStamp: Turn React/TS into AI-Ready Context (logicstamp.dev)
Color Contrast Tool Using APCA, the Candidate Contrast Method for WCAG 3 (www.color-contrast.dev)
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Gävle Goat (en.wikipedia.org)
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Laptop and Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged for Linux 6.19 (www.phoronix.com)
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Yale Shooting Problem (en.wikipedia.org)
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Event2Vec – interpretable embeddings for event sequences (github.com)
Cyber Essentials Supply Chain Playbook (www.ncsc.gov.uk)
Claude Code Plugins (claude-plugins.dev)
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Barnum''s Law of CEOs (www.antipope.org)
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Karen Wetterhahn (en.wikipedia.org)
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Lite³: A JSON-Compatible Zero-Copy Serialization Format (lite3.io)
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AI agent finds more security flaws than human hackers at Stanford (scienceclock.com)
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Great Green Wall (China) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Toppleware (hannibalglaser.dk)
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Philosophy Lectures on YouTube (jaredhenderson.substack.com)
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Slide Rule (en.wikipedia.org)
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Germany''s train service is one of Europe''s worst. How did it get so bad? (www.npr.org)
YouTube''s CEO limits his kids'' social media use – other tech bosses do the same (www.cnbc.com)
Texas Attorney General Sues Epic for Gatekeeping Medical Data (www.texasattorneygeneral.gov)
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