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A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces (a2ui.org)
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VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot (www.heise.de)
November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and m (servo.org)
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OpenAI''s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company (www.wired.com)
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The Laffer Curve in Action (rodgercuddington.substack.com)
Snowflake Major Outage (status.snowflake.com)
Global Known_hosts for SSH Services (knownhosts.net)
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ChatterBox Turbo – Open Weight TTS Model (huggingface.co)
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Netflix Live Origin (netflixtechblog.com)
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O''saasy License Agreement (osaasy.dev)
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3D Environments from Single Images (www.spaitial.ai)
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Neil Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death (web.archive.org)
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Modalz Modalz Modalz (modalzmodalzmodalz.com)
Substack forces users to download app to read content (twitter.com)
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Oracle: Let It Fall, Let It Fall, Let It Fall (seekingalpha.com)
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Deep Agent Framework, the Pydantic AI Way (vstorm-co.github.io)
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Simple Network Paging Protocol (en.wikipedia.org)
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Sharp (apple.github.io)
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Pragtical Editor v3.8.0 Release (pragtical.dev)
AI Didn''t Steal Your Job–Invisible Labor Did (github.com)
3D scene reconstruction from a single image (github.com)
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Earth and Sun (2019) (ciechanow.ski)
8M Users'' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions (www.koi.ai)
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Australia''s social media ban carries health warning for Big Tech investors (www.ft.com)
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New citizenship rules for Canadians born or adopted abroad are now in effect (www.canada.ca)
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I''m Just Having Fun (jyn.dev)
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The last product to get cancelled (www.ablg.io)
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PayPal Applies to Become a Bank as US Loosens Regulatory Reins (www.bloomberg.com)
OpenAI Deal to License Disney Characters Is Entirely in Stock (www.bloomberg.com)
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Z3 Internals (Draft) (z3prover.github.io)
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US puts 31B tech ''prosperity deal'' with Britain on ice (www.theguardian.com)
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Ford pulls the plug on the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck (www.npr.org)
YC launch – we automate BDRs (withcheetah.com)
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Google AI summaries are ruining recipe writers: ''It''s an extinction event'' (www.theguardian.com)
The Lost Generation (www.compactmag.com)
Merriam-Webster''s human editors have chosen ''slop'' as the 2025 Word of the Year (bsky.app)
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Starting Infinite (www.nvs.xyz)
Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign (www.washingtonpost.com)
50% of researchers now use AI for peer review – often against guidance (www.nature.com)
Against Scale (tante.cc)
JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (www.reuters.com)
Spain to launch 60 monthly nationwide public transport pass (www.theguardian.com)
What can I do with ReScript? (rescript-lang.org)
Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of F-150 Truck (www.wsj.com)
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Researchers reveal bias in a widely used measure of algorithm performance (www.santafe.edu)
Meko – A High-Performance E-Ink Bluetooth Music Player with Tactile Controls (github.com)
A Better Judging Algorithm for the Largest Hackathon in Wisconsin (ben.enterprises)
Publisher under fire after ''fake'' citations found in AI ethics guide (www.thetimes.com)
Virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal Public API v3.0 (themains.github.io)
nowindows (www.fefe.de)
UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones (arstechnica.com)
Amazon''s Aggressive Push to Get Cops Using AI Surveillance (www.forbes.com)
Ukrainian Security Service Struck the Varshavianka (Kilo) Submarine (old.reddit.com)
I made a network throttle tool controlled by a Chrome extension (github.com)
Full screen ads in iOS at OS level interactions (imgur.com)
Croppy (croppyapp.com)
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AI-powered night-vision binoculars that can see things in the dark from a mile (www.digitalcameraworld.com)
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Phreeli, no ID cell service provider (www.phreeli.com)
The US Supreme Court''s TikTok ruling is a scandal (www.theguardian.com)
Enlightenment Window Manager (www.enlightenment.org)
Interstellar Arc Serves Up Alien Foxes, Exoplanets, and VR Carl Sagan (www.wired.com)
TLA Modeling Tips (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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Tesla Robotaxi spotted without a safety driver in Austin; Musk confirms testing (electrek.co)
Stephen Miller''s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State (newrepublic.com)
Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (www.wired.com)
Controlling Blood Sugar Cut Heart Disease Risk in Half, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)
Nasdaq to submit paperwork with SEC for round-the-clock trading (www.reuters.com)
Errors in Rust: A Deep Dive (www.halcyon.hr)
Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf] (clemens.endorphin.org)
Agentfs: Filesystem for Agents (github.com)
OpenCommit (github.com)
Aldosterone: The Forgotten Hormone (www.medscape.com)
Nex Playground (www.nexplayground.com)
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Nvidia''s B200: Keeping the CUDA Juggernaut Rolling Ft Verda, Formerly DataCrunch (chipsandcheese.com)
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Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue (www.reuters.com)
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Apple''s New TV Intro Has Zero CGI [video] (www.youtube.com)
QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source (www.timestored.com)
Plaao''s Balls – Watch simulated balls fight to the death (plaao.net)
Cloud: Row in Bavaria over billion-euro Microsoft contract without tender (www.heise.de)
From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries (www.abc.net.au)
Some dolphins have orca friends. Scientists have figured out what''s going on (www.cnn.com)
Albania''s AI Minister Is an AI (kryeministria.al)
NY taxpayers fund Cuomo''s 21M legal bill (boingboing.net)
Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign streams – and experts are worried (www.techradar.com)
Yann LeCun on why LLMs and AGI are "total BS" [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros? To copy, not kill, traditional TV (theconversation.com)
Ukraine strikes Russian submarine in Black Sea port with underwater drones (www.cnn.com)
The Year in Trump Cashing In (www.newyorker.com)
"Are warnings of superintelligence ''inevitability'' masking a grab for power?" (slashdot.org)
Be a Problem-Solver Not a Politician (mo42.bearblog.dev)
China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns (www.theregister.com)
What''s behind the battle between The Mission District and SF tech companies (www.sfchronicle.com)
I used Claude Code to write a piano web app (jcurcioconsulting.com)
1/4 of US-Trained Scientists Eventually Leave. Is the US Giving Away Its Edge? (arxiv.org)
The Future of Radiation Safety Is Lies, I Guess (aphyr.com)
Interpreters Everywhere [video] (www.youtube.com)
Taiwan May Restart Nuclear Power Plant in 2028, Minister Says (www.energyconnects.com)
Sol – Audio Livestreaming Hardware (evenings.fm)
Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility (en.wikipedia.org)
Mister Mxyzptlk (en.wikipedia.org)
Antigravity prompt injection: Read browser local storage remotely (introvertmac.wordpress.com)
The appropriate amount of effort is zero (expandingawareness.org)
Fortescue Infinity Train 14.5 MWh battery that never needs charging [update] (electrek.co)
Google discontinuing their dark web report (support.google.com)
Ukraine hits Russian submarine with underwater drones (www.euronews.com)
Crypto mogul aims to build Caribbean utopia outside local courts (www.cryptopolitan.com)
AI Is About to Empty Madison Avenue (www.wsj.com)
Echidna 2.3 released with symbolic execution, Foundry integration and more (github.com)
My honest feelings about Nvidia as a company (fuck-nvidia.su)
Motherfucking Website (motherfuckingwebsite.com)
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Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker with Nemotron 3 (www.wired.com)
Upcoming Changes to Let''s Encrypt Certificates (community.letsencrypt.org)
Revolutions of 1989 (en.wikipedia.org)
Speech to Speech Qwen3-Omni visualization tool (qwen3-omni-mechanics-gui-website.vercel.app)
Sodium borohydride a better Hydrogen storage, transport solution than Ammonia (energiesmedia.com)
Google Launches A2UI: Where It Fits Alongside AG-UI and MCP (developers.googleblog.com)
Privacy Advocates Worry About "Robot Army" of Surveillance Cameras in Jackson (cowboystatedaily.com)
Umbrel – Personal Cloud (umbrel.com)
Indian Slop Scam company Giga ML caught in scandals (twitter.com)
"Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone''s phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
MI6 chief: Tech giants are closer to running the world than politicians (inews.co.uk)
Structured Outputs Create False Confidence (boundaryml.com)
United 777-200 Fleet Faces an Uncertain Future After Dulles Engine Failure (liveandletsfly.com)
LastPass Rebuilt Trust in the Digital Age (www.wired.com)
HashiCorp no longer offers a free plan for Terraform Cloud (www.hashicorp.com)
Learning a new programming language with an LLM (feeding.cloud.geek.nz)
To connect across politics, try saying what you oppose (phys.org)
US Government launches ''Tech Force'' to hire AI talent (www.cnn.com)
"Slop" to the top: Merriam-Webster''s word of the year is here (www.axios.com)
How big tech is taking over the European economy, according to Tim Wu [video] (www.youtube.com)
D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)
FlashCheck-270M: Open weights for fact verification (Apache 2.0, WASM Demo) (huggingface.co)
Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest (www.reuters.com)
Tesla Is Testing Robotaxis Without Safety Drivers – Or Riders (gizmodo.com)
Nutty Narrows Bridge (www.mylongview.com)
Proxmox "shared" LVM CSI plugin (github.com)
Going beyond Ruby: Writing a simple C extension (www.aha.io)
Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites before making 550th SpaceX landing (www.space.com)
Lidar maker Luminar files for bankruptcy (investors.luminartech.com)
Understanding Watchmaking, the Beginning of a Journey (the-naked-watchmaker-masterclass.thinkific.com)
Literal Enshittification: ''Smart'' Toilets Play Fast and Loose with Pooping Data (www.techdirt.com)
Git in 30 Minutes: A Beginner''s Guide for Technical Writers (git30minutes.com)
We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency (blog.globalping.io)
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The European Union Changes Course on Digital Legislation (www.lawfaremedia.org)
What the Twin Cities Tell Us About Fixing the Housing Crisis (www.wsj.com)
PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search (github.com)
Moving to SF, America (firstdistro.com)
How We Use AI Coding Agents (www.daft.ai)
Indexing UberEats'' Inventory of Billions of Items in Realtime (www.uber.com)
Certificate Transparency (en.wikipedia.org)
IWGB Union Says Rockstar''s Statement Is Filled with "Disinformation" (www.gamespot.com)
ElevenLabs is giving 22k to open source projects it relies on (elevenlabs.io)
Gemini provides automated feedback for theoretical computer scientists (research.google)
Australia''s Social Media Ban Was Pushed by Gambling Ad Agency (www.techdirt.com)
Tech''s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom (www.nytimes.com)
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)
Anticloaking (incoherency.co.uk)
JPMorgan Steps Further into Crypto with Tokenized Money Fund (www.wsj.com)
Apple Patches Two Zero-Days Tied to Mysterious Exploited Chrome Flaw (www.securityweek.com)
Roomba Maker iRobot Swept into Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China (arstechnica.com)
Accumulation by Dispossession (en.wikipedia.org)
How to Not Be Replaced by AI (www.maxberry.ca)
Yellow Dog Linux (archiveos.org)
The jobs where people are using AI the most (www.axios.com)
When Healthcare Breaches Happen: Insights from Two Years of HHS OCR Data (www.mimirsec.com)
HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China''s PC push collide (www.tomshardware.com)
FBI Foils New Year''s Eve Attacks in Southern California (www.cnn.com)
Court Authorizes Unmasking Subpoena in Copyright Case–DMCA Subpoena to GoDaddy (blog.ericgoldman.org)
How your lost bag ended up for sale in Alabama (www.bbc.com)
US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases (apnews.com)