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999 Penguins (999penguins.com)
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Baumol''s Cost Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
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Europeans'' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies (www.ftm.eu)
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The Well: 15TB of Physics Simulations (github.com)
Nvidia executive Debora Shoquist sells 14.7M worth of NVDA stock (www.sec.gov)
Android Developer Verification (developer.android.com)
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Why We Age (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
TNI and TNI-R: Transient Node Integration for Precision Orbital Navigation (zenodo.org)
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Total Internet Shutdowns per Year (public.tableau.com)
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Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (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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Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
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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RemoveWindowsAI (github.com)
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First all-optical XPU processing system (www.akhetonics.com)
Circuit Sparsity (huggingface.co)
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21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google (addyo.substack.com)
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Workday project at Washington University hits 266M (www.theregister.com)
Myna v2.0: contextual variants, more weights (and even supports APL) (github.com)
China''s trade surplus tops record US1T, defying trade war uncertainty (www.scmp.com)
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads (www.forbes.com)
Sovereignty by Disruption: The Rise of Corporate Quasi-States (www.vinniefalco.com)
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Australian teens were kicked off social media this week. Some are back already (www.cnn.com)
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Before You Cite That Study (eleganthack.com)
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llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File (github.com)
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Reasoning with Sampling: Your Base Model Is Smarter Than You Think (arxiv.org)
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The Rust Reference – Behavior considered undefined (doc.rust-lang.org)
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Dogspinner (www.pigenpalace.com)
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VoxCSS – CSS voxel engine for the DOM (voxcss.com)
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Barnum''s Law of CEOs (www.antipope.org)
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Elegant Types in Ruby (github.com)
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