America''s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks (www.newyorker.com)
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Typeframe (www.typeframe.net)
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CodeClash (codeclash.ai)
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US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump (www.reuters.com)
Simplify GPU Programming with Nvidia CUDA Tile in Python – Nvidia Technical Blog (developer.nvidia.com)
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Agentic coding tools should give more control over message queueing (solmaz.io)
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EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise 210B of Russian assets (www.euronews.com)
Suneung: South Korea exam chief quits over ''insane'' English test (www.bbc.com)
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Microsoft fights 2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences (finance.yahoo.com)
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262M stolen in account takeover fraud schemes this year, FBI says (therecord.media)
CanIUse Embed (caniuse-embed.vercel.app)
The Asahi Illusion (www.futilitycloset.com)
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Google DeepMind partners with UK gov to support security in AI era (deepmind.google)
Greenlandic women''s victory in legal fight with Denmark over forced IUD scandal (www.theguardian.com)
''The patriarchy runs deep'': women still getting a raw deal in the workplace (www.theguardian.com)
Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI (www.theguardian.com)
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Neural and molecular changes during placebo healing intervention (www.nature.com)
Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population''s health (www.newscientist.com)
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Mini Brains Grown from Stem Cells Developed Light-Sensitive, Eye-Like Features (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts (www.ft.com)
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Let''s Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (sigma-star.at)
Zip Files as (Simple) Key-Value Stores (benjamincongdon.me)
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People power: How LLMs invert tech diffusion (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
System76 Launches Pop _OS 24.04 LTS with Cosmic Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
Baseline: Operation-Based Evolution and Versioning of Data (arxiv.org)
Smartphone Without a Battery (2022) (yaky.dev)
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AI Could Be the Railroad of the 21st Century. Brace Yourself (www.derekthompson.org)
Vacuum Is a Lie (About Your Indexes) (boringsql.com)
Logo87.com – Create Impressive Favicons in Seconds (logo87.com)
Reddit files lawsuit against Australia''s youth social media ban (www.cbc.ca)
Crumbling New York Parking Garages Get a New Life (www.nytimes.com)
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State of Haskell Survey 2025 (www.surveymonkey.com)
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The Bay Area''s longest-running morning news anchor is off the air. Here''s why (www.sfgate.com)
America''s Debanking Witch Hunt Finds No Evil (www.bloomberg.com)
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The snail farm don: The most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time (www.theguardian.com)
Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud (0l.de)
Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT''s alleged role in murder-suicide (apnews.com)
Killer Whales and Dolphins May Team Up to Hunt Salmon (www.scientificamerican.com)
Humans were making fire 400k years ago, earlier than thought (apnews.com)
Historic Flooding in Western Washington (www.kuow.org)
Malware found in the subtitles of a fake Leonardo DiCaprio movie torrent (www.bitdefender.com)
Mercury Personal Banking (mercury.com)
Amazon will let you download your e-books in ePub in 2026 (goodereader.com)
Modos open source e-paper monitor development update (www.crowdsupply.com)
Untreated sleep apnea raises risk of Parkinson''s, study finds (medicalxpress.com)
6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Northeast Japan (www.newsweek.com)
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you (arstechnica.com)
Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot (www.npr.org)
Sentimental Versioning (github.com)
When you don''t create things (2020) (www.nilkanth.com)
Profitability Matters More Than You Think (alphaarchitect.com)
Project Athena Strategic Plan (Jared Isaacman, NASA Head Nominee) (drive.google.com)
How Well Do LLMs Understand Tunisian Arabic? (arxiv.org)
Exploring the chip on a contactless payment card (www.facebook.com)
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Nginx (blog.nginx.org)
Excuse Me but Eating "Ten Million Dogs and Cats" Why (clipnotebook.com)
Congress screwed up on the GENIUS act: stablecoin holders have fifth priority (creditslips.org)
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue CCP talking points, tests show (www.nbcnews.com)
A new C99 optimizing compiler, with full testsuite (github.com)
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Head of AI at Cline Fired (twitter.com)
Cutting integration test time from 2 weeks to 2 hours using Claude Code (medium.com)
SEC Gives OK to Tokenize Some Stocks in Move to Blockchain (www.bloomberg.com)
Linux 6.18 Changelog (kernelnewbies.org)
The Mastermind Box Cover (www.mcsweeneys.net)
The Jim Sharman Diaries: Behind the Scenes on the Rocky Horror Show, 1970s (flashbak.com)
Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs (arxiv.org)
Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world (www.nature.com)
Project Harp [1964-1968] (en.wikipedia.org)
How 3 Imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature (www.newscientist.com)
The Impact of Visual Generative AI on Advertising Effectiveness (papers.ssrn.com)
Disney Accuses Google of Copyright Infringement (variety.com)
Uber Boss Sees Robotaxis in More Than 10 Markets Next Year (www.bloomberg.com)
Use Microsoft Graph API with FusionAuth Entra Login (fusionauth.io)
Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical ''revolution'' (www.bbc.com)
The Keyboard is Faster than the Mouse (outofdesk.netlify.app)
DQt (github.com)
Top Nano Banana Pro Prompts from Twitter 2025 – Curated with Grok (curateclick.com)
New React CVE CVE-2025-67779 (twitter.com)
Every Rocket Launch (www.flightatlas.org)
An authorization library that supports access control models like RBAC, ABAC (github.com)
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (www.whitehouse.gov)
Prompts.chat: Free and Open Source Social Platform for AI Prompts (prompts.chat)
OpenAI makes 1B deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual (patrickmccanna.net)
Reddit launches High Court challenge to Australia''s social media ban for kids (www.bbc.com)
Edge-Aware Pixelation for Better Pixel Art (yogthos.net)
Google De-Indexed My Bear Blog and I Don''t Know Why (journal.james-zhan.com)
SVG can do that?! - talk by Sarah Drasner [video] (www.youtube.com)
Disk can lie to you when you write to it (blog.canoozie.net)
The cost of ultra-cheap solar power (www.ft.com)
How to Be Happy Like Thomas Aquinas (www.theatlantic.com)
The HTML-First Approach: Why Htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizin (www.danieleteti.it)
Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust (github.com)
Notes on Gamma (poniesandlight.co.uk)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities [pdf] (public-inspection.federalregister.gov)
CRISPR Fungus: Protein-Packed, Sustainable, and Tastes Like Meat (www.isaaa.org)
Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in Linux kernel development (lwn.net)
A Billion-Barrel Oil Glut Is Forming at Sea (www.wsj.com)
AI Doesn''t Need More Compute – It Needs Less Entropy (medium.com)
Congress strips right-to-repair provisions from 2026 NDAA despite wide support (federalnewsnetwork.com)
AI as an Entropy Mitigation System (medium.com)
A runner survived 9 days lost in the Sahara during the Marathon des Sables (www.youtube.com)
Google DeepMind Will Open AI Lab in UK to Discover New Materials (www.bloomberg.com)
We Ran Out of IPv4 Addresses (www.connected.app)
Client-side PII redactor (WASM) to use ChatGPT safely (saferedact.vercel.app)
FreeBSD debates sunsetting power64/power64le support (www.osnews.com)
Grok for Education: XAI Announced a Partnership with El Salvador (xcancel.com)
Aldrovanda Vesiculosa (en.wikipedia.org)
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws (www.nytimes.com)
Nokia N900 Necromancy – giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone (yaky.dev)
Austria bans headscarves in schools for under-14s (www.bbc.com)
China & EU countries lead objections to Trump carve-out on global minimum tax (www.ft.com)
VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA (www.theregister.com)
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica''s melting glaciers (theconversation.com)
Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia''s under-16s social media ban (www.theguardian.com)
Price of a ''bot army'' revealed across online platforms (www.cam.ac.uk)
Trump signs executive order for single national AI regulation framework (www.cnbc.com)
FuckItJS uses technology to make sure your JavaScript code runs no matter what (github.com)
Microsoft finally realizes the threat SteamOS poses (www.techradar.com)
China launches aerial drone carrier in show of prowess (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu)
Being a Writer in the Era of Influencer (www.robkhenderson.com)
Execute AI Agents with Markdown (github.com)
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