''Rescued men still owe hotel bill three weeks later'' (www.bbc.co.uk)
The "Discombobulator": Unpacking the Physics of the Weapon That Captured Maduro (medium.com)
Goomics – Google''s corporate culture revealed through internal comics [pdf] (goomics.net)
China Fertility Facts of the Day (marginalrevolution.com)
Sir Mark Tully has died (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Adviser of Highest EU Court Backs VPN Neutrality in Anne Frank Copyright Battle (torrentfreak.com)
Iran Limits Traders to 20 Minutes of Supervised Internet Access per Day (iranwire.com)
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AI Full-Stack App and Website Builder with Fewer Hallucinations, Runs Locally (www.elaric.ai)
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Agent Skills Threat Model (safedep.io)
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Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI (www.science.org)
I reverse-engineered Kindle to build on-demand AI audiobooks (blog.ryanbbrown.com)
Speed Vertigo: A New Kind of Engineering Debt (joshtuddenham.dev)
Ktor 3.4.0 (blog.jetbrains.com)
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Volvo EX60 Targets 400-Mile Range and Coffee-Stop Charging (www.thedrive.com)
Prosody IM 13.0.4 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua (blog.prosody.im)
Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint (github.com)
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D: First impressions [video] (www.youtube.com)
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LLMs Don''t Hallucinate – They Drift (figshare.com)
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Jesus in 404: Growing up in a secret nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (vincent404.substack.com)
Some Thoughts on AI (mattbruenig.com)
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67,800-year-old hand stencil is the oldest human-made art (arstechnica.com)
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Bouncy Ball will always bounce back (filipfila.wordpress.com)
Double Commander 1.2 (github.com)
Twenty-five percent without thinking (fakepixels.substack.com)
Reviving Life Is Strange: Before the Storm on Modern Linux with a Glibc Shim (blog.hofstede.it)
''Amelia'': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star (www.theguardian.com)
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State Terror Has Arrived (www.nytimes.com)
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Pity the Rich (www.gojiberries.io)
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Claude nails why Trump goes for resource rich lands (v98936.substack.com)
A Year of Building Uncloud (psviderski.substack.com)
Goose-friendly MCP server for conducting I Ching divinations (github.com)
Nvidia PersonaPlex: Natural Conversational AI with Any Role and Voice (research.nvidia.com)
Patterns in Konnakol (algorithmicpattern.org)
Rekko – Recover failed Stripe payments with automated SMS/email (rekko.io)
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Raise Animals – Unblocked Free Game, Roblox Game Guide, Codes (raiseanimals.run)
Past, present and future perspectives on the science of aging (www.nature.com)
Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content (www.theverge.com)
Video contradicts Trump''s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ''gunman'' (www.theguardian.com)
From –20k to 400k in a year. My LLM options trading experiment (scriptedalchemy.medium.com)
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Riemann Mapping Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
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Target 1: Baseten (www.silares.com)
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Jurassic Park: SGI Computers (2010) (www.sgistuff.net)
Disney to Pay 10M in FTC Children''s Data Settlement (natlawreview.com)
What Is Clawdbot? (and Why People Are Losing Their Minds over It) (twitter.com)
Neveragain.tech (neveragain.tech)
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What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously? (worksonmymachine.ai)
Managing High Performers (twitter.com)
World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok (www.newstatesman.com)
Earth''s Rotation Limits IBIS Performance to 6.3 Stops (thecentercolumn.com)
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Jurassic Park: Effects Team Brings Dinosaurs Back from Extinction (1993) (theasc.com)
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AI won''t take your job. A guy with a 599 Mac Mini and Claude will (webmatrices.com)
''Jurassic Park'' at 30: The Gift That Keeps on Giving (2023) (scriptmag.com)
Eightfold AI sued for job candidate reports without their consent (www.hrdive.com)
Clawdbot (clawd.bot)
Because Coordination Is Expensive (surfingcomplexity.blog)
Palantir has no place in UK public services (www.opendemocracy.net)
Stable-DiffCoder: Pushing the Frontier of Code Diffusion Large Language Models (bytedance-seed.github.io)
Ercot Dashboard (www.ercot.com)
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Trump Family''s 6.8B Fortune Is Increasingly Tied to Crypto (www.bloomberg.com)
TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here''s what''s changing (9to5mac.com)
ICE Launches "Operation Catch-of-the-Day" Across Maine (www.dhs.gov)
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ICE Is Not Like the Brownshirts, the Brownshirts Identified Themselves (www.mcsweeneys.net)
The Responsibility of Intellectuals (www.nybooks.com)
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AI Adoption Rates by Country (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net (www.cnn.com)
nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after 66 days (github.com)
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Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday (www.windowscentral.com)
Inside Anduril''s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program (www.twz.com)
Shared Garden (sharedgarden.io)
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David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware (arxiv.org)
OpenAI''s GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia (www.engadget.com)
Upcoming Relay Transition (docs.bsky.app)
Macintosh launched on Jan 24, 1984 and changed the world – eventually (2019) (appleinsider.com)
Federal agents shoot man dead in Minneapolis (www.ft.com)
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Breakmeifyoucan – Exploiting Keyspace and Relay Attacks in 3DES and AES NFC (breakmeifyoucan.com)
National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man (apnews.com)
Mark Carney Takes on Donald Trump and Emerges as a Global Political Star (www.nytimes.com)
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Life Is Not a Simulation but a Consistent Logical Theory (chfritz.github.io)
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My Comments Run on Email (ckardaris.github.io)
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Stabilized and Slow-Motion Video of the Murder of Alex Pretti (old.reddit.com)
Stochastic Terrorism (en.wikipedia.org)
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Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Adobe Photoshop Versions (www.phoronix.com)
Nvidia: Dynamic Memory Compression (developer.nvidia.com)
Peugeot''s "Hypersquare" Steering Wheel Prioritizes Novelty over UX (www.core77.com)
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GNU C Library 2.43 released with more C23 features, mseal and openat2 functions (www.phoronix.com)
The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years (daringfireball.net)
The Secretive VIP Programs That Keep Gamers Spending (www.nytimes.com)
Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found (lightbrd.com)
Everybody wants to be Thomas Bernhard (www.househousemagazine.com)
Failure to press button caused outage on train lines in Tokyo (www.asahi.com)
Hiltzik: Yes, California should tax billionaires'' wealth. Here''s why (www.latimes.com)
Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study (keck.usc.edu)
We are building a new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit (ladybird.org)
Unhappiness Is a Choice (andrewconner.com)
We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable (eclypsium.com)
The Value of Things – Journal.stuffwithstuff.com (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
Analysis of Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis [video] (www.youtube.com)
Specs.md – AI-native development framework (specs.md)
''The robot never gets tired'': Hyundai explains its Boston Dynamics Atlas robot (www.techradar.com)
Share your memories and explore the world together (photo.playglenn.com)
How the Lawyers Killed Practical Adult Education (markatwood.substack.com)
Direct-to-Cell Satellite Internet (www.direct2cell.org)
How One Steam Developer Made a Million Dollars Selling a Remote Access Trojan (outsidetheasylum.blog)
400M-pixel superconducting delay-line camera with 30-ps readout circuit (pubs.aip.org)
Elon Musk at Davos 2026: why technology could shape a more ''abundant future'' (www.weforum.org)
Google shutting down Gmailify after nearly 10 years (9to5google.com)
As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter (theconversation.com)
Informationism and the Fluid Self: Consciousness, Identity, Reality (www.yumiwillems.com)
Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology (theconversation.com)
Wake: Terminal History for Claude Code (crowprose.com)
Nurses in New York City Say They Deserve 200k a Year. Here''s Why. (www.nytimes.com)
Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk (mynorthwest.com)
Surge Protectors: Marketing vs. Reality (chameth.com)
Xiaomi Blames iPhone for EV Taking Off on Its Own (www.msn.com)
What Do Microbes Have to Do with How We Age? Everything (thewalrus.ca)
Gold tops 4,900/oz; silver and platinum extend record‑setting rally (www.reuters.com)
Musk vs. Altman (www.courtlistener.com)
MCP is the New GraphQL (nadeeshacabral.com)
ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools (www.wired.com)
The year is 1993, The Amiga is everything for me (old.reddit.com)
Surfaces with Klein bottle topology occur in fusion reactor fields (arxiv.org)
What These Cockpit Lights Mean – ATR Simulator Walkthrough – Dark Cockpit (www.youtube.com)
Fuel Economy Fraud: Closing Loopholes That Increase U.S. Oil Dependence (2005) [pdf] (www.ucs.org)
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)
CachyOS Starts 2026 by Switching to Plasma Login Manager, Live ISO Using Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Almost 12,000 flights canceled as major winter storm bears down across US (ktla.com)
Hybrid and electric semi truck sales topped 231,000 units 2025 – in China alone (electrek.co)
Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown (apnews.com)
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)
The chronically online will become a new underclass [video] (www.youtube.com)
Divergent creativity in humans and large language models (www.nature.com)
Im fucking serious, you can just do things (vibe.devpost.com)
Lennart Poettering and the Cause of Civility (www.linux-magazine.com)
Is ICE Running a Black Site in Minnesota? (neuburger.substack.com)
Continental Power, Maritime Power, and the Fight for a New World Order (www.foreignaffairs.com)
Ten Ways to Fool the Masses When Presenting Battery Research (2021) (chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Why AI Mentions Brands More Than It Recommends Them, and What That Means for SEO (www.flygen.ai)
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)
Okta warns of multiple vishing attacks that can defeat MFA (www.scworld.com)
Gmail, Facebook and other account credentials exposed (www.scworld.com)
A CLI to Tame OWASP Dependency-Track Version Sprawl in CI/CD (github.com)
Poland''s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (arstechnica.com)
New catalyst makes plastic upcycling 10x more efficient than platinum (www.sciencedaily.com)
The Writers Came at Night (www.metropolitanreview.org)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Failure (benoitessiambre.com)
Msty – privacy-first AI studio (msty.ai)
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)
Sally Mann Says ''Film Is So Expensive'' and Has Started Shooting Digital (petapixel.com)
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans (www.sciencedirect.com)
Java – Integrity by Design Through Ensuring Illegal States Are Unrepresentable (javajanitorjim.substack.com)
Clawdbot Bought Me a Car (aaronstuyvenberg.com)
Vertical Aerospace wants to ''democratize'' urban air travel with Valo air taxi (finance.yahoo.com)
How to Speak Davosian – For Beginners (www.swissinfo.ch)
How to audit medical bills against CPT codes and the No Surprises Act (suretyinsights.com)
Apple turning to Intel for future iPhone chips, analyst reaffirms (9to5mac.com)
Robotic Heart Surgery in Practice [video] (www.youtube.com)
I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog (micahcantor.com)
Grokking (en.wikipedia.org)
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have been making it worse (theconversation.com)
Teenage Engineering''s riddim n'' ting: a handheld reggae/dub groovebox and FX mic (teenage.engineering)
SyncForge – CRDT library faster than Yjs with full TypeScript support (github.com)
Women think artificial intelligence is riskier than men do, study finds (www.thebrighterside.news)
Native GFM macOS (iOS WIP) Markdown Rendering via TextKit2 (github.com)
Local AI Manifesto (github.com)
Everything I Thought I Knew About Flavor Was Wrong [video] (www.youtube.com)
Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) (albedo.com)
Canadian woman euthanized ''against her will'' after husband fed up caring for her (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Propositions about the New Romanticism (www.honest-broker.com)
I Was Diagnosed with ADHD in My Forties. It Explained Everything (www.wsj.com)
Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck? (newsletter.masterpoint.io)
Looks like Claude is having a stroke (twitter.com)
Bye Bye Gmail (m24tom.com)
CPNs, LLMs, and Distributed Applications (blog.sao.dev)
Clawdbot looks promising – worth time? (twitter.com)
Nvidia releases 8B model with learned 8x KV cache compression (huggingface.co)
I built Git for Minecraft for a hackathon and won [video] (www.youtube.com)
Agent orchestration for the timid (substack.com)
Gems: Little-Known Bash Features (slicker.me)
A wallet that never sleeps is probably not human (www.hugedomains.com)
Managing a million dollar pool with 15k lines of Go (nat-echlin.com)
Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think (martinalderson.com)
Testing Makes You Faster (Eventually) (gabor-kiss.com)
Graphene Will Reshape the Future by 2030 (www.youtube.com)
Oak-killing beetle reaches Ventura County, significantly expanding range (www.latimes.com)
Detained MN women help ICE agent having a seizure (www.startribune.com)
Pico: The tiniest coding agent (6 LoC) (github.com)
Claudito: A web interface for Claude Code that interacts with the CLI (github.com)
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)
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies (english.elpais.com)
The US Is Losing Top Tech Talent to India in the Wake of Trump''s H-1B Chaos (www.bloomberg.com)
The Concatative Language XY (www.nsl.com)
The Coming Second Copernican Revolution (www.noemamag.com)
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person (www.jstor.org)
Proxima Kósmos, Vol. II: Fictions and Futures (berggruen.org)
Microsoft Systems Journal (2024) (jacobfilipp.com)
How 911 Dispatchers Work [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Humble Android Calculator (medium.com)
Massive nanoparticles follow the rules of quantum mechanics (www.univie.ac.at)
The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture (www.wsj.com)
How WhatsApp Scaled to Billions of Users (singhajit.com)
BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp (www.birdy.chat)
Trump vs. Carney at Davos: One summit, two visions (www.chathamhouse.org)
Understanding Rust Closures (antoine.vandecreme.net)
Namecheap sued a YC founder personally after shutting down her startup''s domain (twitter.com)
Researchers Use D&D to Test AI''s Long-term Decision-making Abilities (today.ucsd.edu)
Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison (the-diy-life.com)
The social media ban that wasn''t (crookedtimber.org)
Hung by a Thread (campedersen.com)
Building the first open-source quantum computer (uwaterloo.ca)
Language Modeling Part 4: LSTMs (connorjdavis.substack.com)
Conservative and Christian? US right champions psychedelic drugs (www.theguardian.com)