My take on AI and why TITANS is a leap forward (blog.laughingman.dev)
Googoosh, the Exiled Pop Star Who Unites Iran (www.theatlantic.com)
My Family''s Embryo Selection Process [genetic sequencing and analysis] (nudgedice.substack.com)
Will Turso Be the Better SQLite? (www.youtube.com)
Covid Vaccines Slashed Kids'' ER Visits by 76 Percent (www.scientificamerican.com)
Flights canceled as blackout leaves 1.4M without power in Brazil (www.cnn.com)
Surprise discovery under sands of Utah desert (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Apple wins partial reversal of sanctions in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Serious concerns about the rise in sycophantic and delusional outputs [pdf] (www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov)
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Stop Multitasking at Work: Better Productivity Methods (burkerecruiting.com)
Foundations: My 1999 (and Part of 2000) (michaeljburry.substack.com)
Higher Ed''s Dirtiest Secret (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
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Congress Kills Military "Right to Repair" (theintercept.com)
OpenAI: Ten Years (openai.com)
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The Farthest Christmas Tree (medium.com)
23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year (secondstreet.org)
The 1.4TB Bluff: Why my IDE thinks it''s 700x bigger than it is (gist.github.com)
Andrew Braybrook "Discography" (uridiumauthor.blogspot.com)
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AI Generated Art Is Unmonetizable (andyjarosz.substack.com)
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Pg_ClickHouse Postgres Extension (github.com)
My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (interconnected.org)
Pure-Go implementation without CGO dependency (github.com)
RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (www.ietf.org)
AI-led integrations: A faster alternative to iPaaS for legacy systems (isoform.ai)
US mass killings drop to 20-year low. Some policy shifts might be helping (www.csmonitor.com)
Oracle shares slide on 15B increase in data center spending (arstechnica.com)
A Friendly Response to Alex and Tyler''s Discussion About the Debt (www.theunseenandtheunsaid.com)
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Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads (www.nytimes.com)
Globalfoundries receives 495M euros for foundry expansion (www.heise.de)
Official MCP support for Google services (cloud.google.com)
Using LLMs at Oxide (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
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Atlantropa (en.wikipedia.org)
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Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
AI defense booms in UK and Germany as new wave of billion-dollar startups emerge (www.cnbc.com)
Zotero: Retracted item notifications with Retraction Watch integration (www.zotero.org)
Crypto mogul Do Kwon set for sentencing as victims tell of 40B stablecoin crash (apnews.com)
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev)
UC Berkeley professor used secret camera to catch PhD student sabotaging rival (www.msn.com)
Google faces EU antitrust investigation over AI Overviews, YouTube (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data (www.heise.de)
UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com)
Claude and Pokemon (www.lesswrong.com)
We are launching Bindu – where Agents talk, identify, trade (github.com)
Leaked files ''show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU'' (www.thetimes.com)
SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies and WSDL (labs.watchtowr.com)
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RAM scalping takes hold on eBay, some DDR5 selling for more than 2k (www.tomshardware.com)
100k Ordered to Evacuate as Rivers Rise in Washington State (www.nytimes.com)
2025 CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (cwe.mitre.org)
Tiny Word2Vec for Learners (github.com)
Em Dash in Reddit Comments (jonatron.github.io)
Installing Every NixOS Package (unnamed.website)
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Deno 2.6 (deno.com)
A ''Tatooine'' Planet Directly Imaged (www.centauri-dreams.org)
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Vercel for Back End (px.app)
Rivian Gen 3 Autonomy (twitter.com)
GPT-5.2 (openai.com)
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Regression Is All You Need (blog.tilderesearch.com)
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MDFlow – Markdown That Thinks (mdflow.dev)
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Google Interactions API (blog.google)
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Rivian Autonomy and AI Day (stories.rivian.com)
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Build with Gemini Deep Research (blog.google)
Microsoft won''t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps (www.theregister.com)
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation (lightpanda.io)
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Gang rape and sexual slavery widely employed by government and rebels in the DRC (www.reuters.com)
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Mandated or banned? Either way, women lose in the veil debate (globalvoices.org)
Click Here to Try a WebGL Snow Squall Driving Simulation – NOAA (www.weather.gov)
Half a million young Californians aren''t in school or work. Most are men (www.latimes.com)
GitHub Incident (www.githubstatus.com)
Slack dark patterns to make us "always-available" (www.tomechangosubanana.com)
GitHub Is Down (github.com)
A100s are more cost-efficient than H100s for small training tasks (cloudbreakr.substack.com)
Why Public Slack Chats Are Better Than Direct Messages (www.mooreds.com)
HTML to Docxjs XmlComponent Compiler (www.npmjs.com)
Why Hiring More Developers Slows You Down (www.capra-leadership.co.uk)
Voting machines said the budge proposal failed. A recount said otherwise (www.timesunion.com)
Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life (www.theregister.com)
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains (www.theregister.com)
STT orchestration: enhance your own transcription with SotA speaker diarization (www.pyannote.ai)
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Free Instagram Story Viewer for Anonymous Story Browsing (ig-stories-viewer.org)
''Architects of AI'' Named Time Magazine''s Person of the Year (www.bbc.com)
It Will Soon Be Curtains for the Movie Theater (www.wsj.com)
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Deprecate Like You Mean It (entropicthoughts.com)
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin''s Data (nautil.us)
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Trump Administration Rules Threaten Nobel Prizes Won by Immigrants (www.nytimes.com)
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What Is a Bus Mouse? A Technical History of Early Microsoft Mouse Interfaces (blog.smallshire.no)
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Pop Goes the Population Count? (xania.org)
The Architecture of "Not Bad": Decoding the Chinese Source Code of the Void (suggger.substack.com)
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AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)
The Architects of AI Are TIME''s 2025 Person of the Year (time.com)
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UK House of Lords amendment seeks client-side scanning to stop "viewing of CSAM" (alecmuffett.com)
How far are we from scaling up next-pixel prediction for image pretraining? (arxiv.org)
Streaming Speech Synthesis Without the Trade-Offs: Meet StreamFlow (arxiv.org)
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Pydantic-resolve: A solid tool for building graph-like data (github.com)
Disney making 1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (www.cnbc.com)
Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization (boilingsteam.com)
NATO''s Rutte warns against a war on the scale of that seen by past generations (www.reuters.com)
You aren''t gonna need it (en.wikipedia.org)
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com)
Quantum clues to consciousness: the brain may harness the zero-point field (phys.org)
Two Elegant Use Cases for Go Build Tags (btema.net)
Mrva: Terminal-first approach to CodeQL multi-repo variant analysis (blog.trailofbits.com)
Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land)
The Abundance Paradox: Why Netflix''s Acquisition Makes Sense in the Era of AI (twitter.com)
China''s ZTE may pay over 1B to the US over foreign bribery allegations (www.reuters.com)
Pop-out car door handles could disappear for good (www.techradar.com)
French supermarket''s Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ayaneo Pocket Play – A Gaming Phone with the Soul of a Handheld [video] (www.youtube.com)
27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? (www.nytimes.com)
Why No Fish Wants a Tongue-Eating Parasitic Louse in Its Mouth (animals.howstuffworks.com)
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (research.google)
Non-Interactive Apt (terokarvinen.com)
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Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems (arxiv.org)
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Setting up distributed compilations with sccache (blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)
The Golden Pin (www.thomas-morris.uk)
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Bhutan Debuts Gold-Backed Token on Solana (www.coindesk.com)
Study: One in ten boys identify as addicted to gaming, the warning signs (norwegianscitechnews.com)
World Inequality Report 2026: Executive Summary (wir2026.wid.world)
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Open AI admits that enterprise AI use still in the "early innings" (leaddev.com)
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet (www.theregister.com)
The most mentioned books across 3,593 podcast episodes this year (www.mavensignal.com)
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Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies (bigthink.com)
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Where to Read Leonardo da Vinci''s Notebooks Online (www.openculture.com)
The World Is Wrong about Your Attention Span (manujoseph.substack.com)
The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists (selsey.substack.com)
VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO (dfarq.homeip.net)
Haskell Weekly – Issue 502 (haskellweekly.news)
What Makes You Senior (terriblesoftware.org)
Walls of Text (reindeereffect.com)
Israel''s Operation Rising Lion Dismantled Iran from Within (www.hudson.org)
The Windows 11 Crisis [video] (www.youtube.com)
I Made ByteDance Voice Assistant Open Source Alternative (github.com)
What Trump Gets Right About Europe (www.nytimes.com)
The Great Dictator''s Speech (1940) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Deequ - Unit Tests for Data (github.com)
Backup your Apple voice memos as audio files (fabien.cool)
Metir AI: Your Second Brain (www.metirai.com)
FMDQ: Bonds erase N2.53T in two days as yields spike on supply shock (nairametrics.com)
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese Vessels Near China switched off AIs overnight (twitter.com)
Email Apnea (en.wikipedia.org)
Other People Might Just Not Have Your Problems (thingofthings.substack.com)
Productivity App with Conversational Capabilities (dashzz.com)
Prompt injection is not SQL injection (it may be worse) (www.ncsc.gov.uk)
Earliest botanical art hints at prehistoric mathematical thinking (phys.org)
McDonald''s removes AI-generated ad after backlash (www.theguardian.com)
Shield protecting Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer blocks radiation (www.euronews.com)
Can I get feedback on this product (mu.xyz)
US forces take over sanctioned, stateless VLCC off Venezuela (www.lloydslist.com)
Three in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI report reveals 6x productivity gap btwn AI power users and everyone else (venturebeat.com)
What Designers Should Build (fantasy.co)
Shadow Enigma (shadowenigma.com)
Hundreds in Japan get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling (www.bbc.com)