Video of man believed to be Alex Pretti with feds 11 days before his death [video] (www.youtube.com)
Semiconductors will see an end of history (eventually) (splittinginfinity.substack.com)
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Trump voters support military intervention in more countries (www.politico.com)
US Company Ubiquiti Aids Russian Military [video] (www.youtube.com)
Open Gaming Collective – Unified gaming-focused components for Linux ecosystem (opengamingcollective.org)
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What Is Consciousness? (stng.substack.com)
Apple Signs Deal for Brandon Sanderson''s ''Cosmere'' Universe Movies and TV Shows (www.macrumors.com)
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Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Cyber Weapon (www.wsj.com)
Tesla discontinues Model X and S vehicles as Elon Musk pivots to robotics (www.theguardian.com)
Age of 100x Developer (system32.ai)
Bank of America''s Struggles with Nvidia AI (www.businessinsider.com)
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You''re Probably Drinking Too Much Water (samswellnessbrief.substack.com)
Deism (en.wikipedia.org)
Ross Stevens Donates 100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian 200k (www.townandcountrymag.com)
Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X (techcrunch.com)
Sensory Room at SFO (www.flysfo.com)
Mobol: Modal for COBOL (github.com)
One Year with Kagi (blog.eliperkins.com)
snapshot.debian.org (snapshot.debian.org)
BunnyCDN Is Having an Outage (status.bunny.net)
The Hazardous Interface: SQL Injection Is a Protocol Defect (2026) [pdf] (github.com)
I reverse-engineered Netflix''s 4K restrictions (github.com)
Developmental BPA leads to female masculinization and male feminization (2025) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Please Don''t Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In (www.mcsweeneys.net)
Markdown Tables Have Never Looked Better (2025) (charm.land)
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex (lpeproject.org)
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State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming (prestonbyrne.com)
XChat (Twitter E2EE) Security Review by Trail of Bits [pdf] (github.com)
Chiune Sugihara (en.wikipedia.org)
The UK paid 4.1M for a bookmarks site (mahadk.com)
Seatbelt Basalt (en.wikipedia.org)
Starbucks scraps 250k cap on boss''s use of company jet (www.bbc.com)
Thanks for Sharing Your Venmo (Vimeo) Story (ben1777.substack.com)
FAA ignored warnings before DCA crash: "100% preventable"—federal investigators (www.washingtonpost.com)
Software as Bonsai (substack.com)
NASA''s James Webb Space Telescope sees farthest galaxy (science.nasa.gov)
Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots (www.theverge.com)
Tesla ending Models S and X production (www.cnbc.com)
Streets of Minneapolis (brucespringsteen.net)
I watched the Challenger shuttle disaster from Mission Control – 40 years ago (www.zdnet.com)
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Linux after Linus? Kernel community drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds (www.zdnet.com)
A C like dialect that transpiles to rust (github.com)
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We got Claude to teach open models how to write CUDA kernels (huggingface.co)
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A detachable crawling robotic hand (www.nature.com)
Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple''s design team (9to5mac.com)
Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets (www.city-journal.org)
ICE''s Secret Watchlists of Americans (www.kenklippenstein.com)
IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67% (newsroom.ibm.com)
Burner phones and lead-lined bags: a history of UK security tactics in China (www.theguardian.com)
AppleUnsold (appleunsold.com)
Major US city (LA) takes bold decision to ban single-use printer cartridges (www.techradar.com)
Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index (github.com)
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Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy (jellyfin.org)
Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up (www.axios.com)
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Europe must act urgently and stop outsourcing defence, says EU''s Kallas (www.bbc.com)
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Meta Q4 2025 Earnings Call (investor.atmeta.com)
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H3 – A Drinking Club with a Running Problem (www.hhh.org.uk)
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Software Company Bonds Drop as Investors'' AI Worries Mount (www.bloomberg.com)
Goodbye Perl (github.com)
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Behind the Scenes of Metropolis (1927): Old Photos from a Cinematic Masterpiece (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
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Kprotect: Kernel-Level Security Engine (github.com)
Meta Reports Q4 and Full Year 2025 Results (investor.atmeta.com)
Alpine: The modern AI-native productivity suite (www.alpine.inc)
Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App (www.macrumors.com)
The Rise and Recent Decline of Tesla''s Share of the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market (www.mdpi.com)
Lad-A2A: How AI agents find each other on local networks (lad-a2a.org)
Coleman Laws (www.kcoleman.me)
Academic Slop Just Reached a New Low (jadarma.github.io)
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The Jevons Paradox of AI and New Industries of Creativity (kamilas.substack.com)
Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford (www.lrb.co.uk)
RoboCop: A Glorious, Scathing Satire of America (reactormag.com)
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Vibe coding is making design patterns worth it again (thefakeborzi.itch.io)
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Where did southern Australia''s record-breaking heatwave come from? (theconversation.com)
Tesla''s unsupervised robotaxis vanish after earnings announcement (electrek.co)
China''s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed US Power Grid (www.bloomberg.com)
Stoicism-as-a-Service (SaaS) (indianspotlighttime.substack.com)
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Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all (www.joinformal.com)
Did Don DeLillo invent the racy hockey novel? (www.nytimes.com)
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Native Linux VST plugin directory (linuxmusic.rocks)
New Books Aren''t Worth Reading (www.atlaspress.co)
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GOG now using AI generated images on their store (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Feds maintain 3.5 – 3.75% rate (www.federalreserve.gov)
Bertrand Russell on Apricots (peterhousehold.blogspot.com)
Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings (www.engadget.com)
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Anthropic CEO of AI Threat to Jobs: Unemployed or Very-Low-Wage Underclass Looms (www.investopedia.com)
Flapping Airplanes (twitter.com)
Raymarched DX12 GPU Benchmark Will Destroy Your RTX 5090 Even at 480p (gaming67.com)
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The Media Has Gender Derangement Syndrome (www.broadview.news)
A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com)
Boxlite: Embedded micro-VM runtime for AI agents (github.com)
Nemorize: Courses built around spaced repetition, not watch time (nemorize.com)
Updates to Gemini in Google Chrome for macOS, Windows and Chromebook Plus (twitter.com)
Federal agents involved in Minneapolis shooting placed on administrative leave (www.cbsnews.com)
Spanish scientists successfully eliminate pancreatic cancer in mice (en.cibercuba.com)
US embassy removes flags with names of fallen Danish soldiers (www.euractiv.com)
French streamer Deezer reveals that 28% of music uploaded to platform is AI-gen (www.euronews.com)
Founder cracked firefighting – now he''s creating an AI gold mine (techcrunch.com)
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IsoCity: City Building Simulation Game (github.com)
Researchers Are Using A.I. To Decode the Human Genome (www.nytimes.com)
Open Problems with Claude''s Constitution (thezvi.substack.com)
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Ring Denies Rumors That Its Footage Is Used by ICE (www.nytimes.com)
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LM Studio 0.4.0 (lmstudio.ai)
Groop – No AI. No Influencers. No Algorithms. No Tracking (www.joingroop.app)
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2004Scape (2004.lostcity.rs)
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Yarn 6 Preview (written in Rust) (yarn6.netlify.app)
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Artemis II–first manned moon mission in 52 years–could launch as early as Feb 6 (www.nytimes.com)
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Star Trek: Planet of the Titans: The Film That Almost Changed Starfleet History (www.womansworld.com)
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Apple, Suppliers Are Counting the Cost of iPhone Air Failure (www.culpium.com)
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Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026) (gist.github.com)
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LZW-X: Beyond Exact-Match Compression (github.com)
Journalism lost its (open source) culture of sharing (source.opennews.org)
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ADS-B data spoofed as VANCE 1 drew the JD Vance meme picture over Mar-a-Lago (twitter.com)
UpScrolled (en.wikipedia.org)
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Claude Code and core dumps: Finding the radio stream that hosed our servers (blog.marcua.net)
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US tobacco brands bypass Instagram rules restricting youth access to content (bmjgroup.com)
Software in a Post-Abundance World (newsletter.terminalprompt.com)
Google settles for 68M after lawsuit claimed it recorded users (thehill.com)
How to Build a Copilot Agent (www.honeybadger.io)
Two Cities Under Siege (radleybalko.substack.com)
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AI Agent Hallucinations: Causes, Types, and How to Prevent Tool Errors (manveerc.substack.com)
The surprising engineering choices behind Claude Code''s TUI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Specs Inc (newsroom.snap.com)
AI First Designer School (www.skool.com)
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Bellingcat supplements local news coverage with forensic analysis in U.S. cities (www.niemanlab.org)
Scientists achieve pancreatic tumour regression in breakthrough study (www.euronews.com)
Code review is dead, long live code review (evnm.substack.com)
Valve faces lawsuit over developer commissions on Steam (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Vacuum Engine (en.wikipedia.org)
Bananapedia (github.com)
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Signs of Terry Pratchett''s dementia appear in Discworld years before diagnosis (boingboing.net)
Vibe Coding is an E-Bike for the Mind (steviep.xyz)
From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked (www.popsci.com)
My Dad''s Altair 8800s from 1975 with correspondence with Ed Roberts (at auction) (www.rrauction.com)
My Take on AI Coding (quickchat.ai)
Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (www.dimamik.com)
Superpowers – An agentic skills framework for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode (github.com)
Capgemini in turmoil over its work with ICE (www.lemonde.fr)
TikTok alternative UpScrolled surges amid censorship fears (restofworld.org)
Clipper Chip (en.wikipedia.org)
Social media addiction trials unsealed docs show platforms designed to hook kids (dispatch.techoversight.org)
Bitbucket Down? (status.atlassian.com)
Asthma-related depression may be biologically distinct from primary depression (medicalxpress.com)
Moltbot-safe: a minimal, permissioned, sandboxed execution engine for AI agents (github.com)
Monoliths were faster when humans were the bottleneck. AI changes that (jpaldea.substack.com)
Celibacy taught me I''m too clever to find love (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Despite AI chip boom and record high stock price, ASML to lay off employees (www.tomshardware.com)
Lightweight Sentry.io Alternative with Session Replay (rejourney.co)
Who''s Vibe Coding? The Data Doesn''t Match the Hype (octomind.dev)
I built an AI slop generator to survive the content economy (danielvaughan.org)
I reached 2000 on Chess.com by studying solely with my own app (chessvision.ai)
Google searches per U.S. user fell nearly 20% YoY (searchengineland.com)
SlopOS: A tiny OS with the userland and parts of kernel in Scheme (github.com)
Spotify''s Crackdown on Anna''s Archive Domains Hits a Jurisdiction Snag (torrentfreak.com)
Trump''s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
Why wired headphones are swinging back into style (www.cnn.com)
Almost every second private PC in Germany still runs on Windows 10 (www.igorslab.de)
EU, Vietnam to agree to boost work on minerals, chips, "trusted" 5G (www.reuters.com)
Ralph-Claude-code: Autonomous loop for Claude Code, intelligent exit detection (github.com)
0.6 Workers per Retiree: The Trades Are Bleeding Out (talk24.ai)
Mistral Vibe [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dinosaur that vanished twice: How WWII nearly erased Spinosaurus from history (bigthink.com)
Ups will cut 30K more jobs after 2025 layoffs as it unwinds Amazon partnership (nypost.com)
A Scheme Primer (2025) (files.spritely.institute)
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian''s style guide checker (theguardian.engineering)
We read the JSON Schema spec so you don''t have to (blog.dottxt.ai)
Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency (www.reuters.com)
Trump claims secret ''discombobulator'' weapon was used to help capture Maduro (www.msn.com)
Slopcraft and the LLM Society (habla.news)
Dole Kemp 96 Web Site (www.dolekemp96.org)
Removing analytics from all my sites (baty.net)
Linux kernel community has a contingency plan to replace Linus Torvalds (github.com)
Principles for Human-Rights Centred Application of the DSA: A Global Perspective (www.eff.org)
Ukraine says more than 80% of enemy targets now destroyed by drones (www.defensenews.com)
Linux-Affinity-Installer: Run Affinity on Linux (github.com)
Club Random Podcast: Dan Farah [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting (worksonmymachine.ai)
What breaks when you ship AI in production (akarshc.com)
Local AI Agents will win (twitter.com)
Sheaf – A Functional Language for Differentiable Programs (sheaf-lang.org)
AI Coding Companies Struggle to Make Money [video] (www.youtube.com)
Every val gets a database – Val Town Blog (blog.val.town)
Everyone''s Mad at Airbnb. This Map Explains What We Should Blame Instead (laurenleek.substack.com)
The case for paying whistleblowers to report on export violations (www.the-substrate.net)
AI at work is anti-labor by design (henry.codes)
WTF Happened in 2012? (wtfhappened2012.com)
Stop Applying to Job Portals. Start Applying to Companies (neon-hire.vercel.app)
Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Positions (www.bloomberg.com)
Europe''s tech job market faces a talent shortage (www.index.dev)
Mail carrier suspended after Facebook post about winter storm safety concerns (www.fox19.com)
Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
Chinese Dissident Sues X for Wrongful Account Suspension and Foreign Pressure (www.theepochtimes.com)
Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (www.himthe.dev)
America''s coming war over AI regulation (www.technologyreview.com)
Human Brain Emulation (www.asimov.press)
Metaphors for Biology: Time (www.asimov.press)
US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers (arstechnica.com)
Streaming JSON in just 200 lines of JavaScript (krasimirtsonev.com)
Ecuador says ICE agent tried to enter consulate in Minneapolis (www.reuters.com)
Minnesota''s Rent-Control Strategy Is Becoming a Cautionary Tale (www.wsj.com)
B-21 and Fighters Prepare for Disruptive Software-Led Change (2020) (aviationweek.com)
Low-cost model aircraft-level liquid rocket hover test [video] (www.youtube.com)
A 2x Faster Rollup? (thundraa.com)
People Hate Data Centers, So the Industry Is Spending Millions to Rebrand Them (www.motherjones.com)
App leaks users'' masturbation habits (www.404media.co)
When Every Network is 192.168.1.x (netrinos.com)
Catching a Model Rocket Like SpaceX [video] (www.youtube.com)
GitHub – BenjaminPoilve/minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com)
Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (www.bloomberg.com)
Stop guessing what to build. Start with what people can''t stop complaining about (problemdigest.com)
On Political Power (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
China Targeted Downing Street Phones for Years (www.theregister.com)
LibrePCB 2.0 with new slint.rs based UI (librepcb.org)
AI agent skills are scattered everywhere, so I indexed 10k (ai-skills.io)
The Productivity Ceiling of AI Coding Tools (pushtoprod.substack.com)
Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch (arstechnica.com)
We Cut Token Usage by 83% and Still Hit 90% Retrieval Precision (www.byterover.dev)
Pillbugs Are Getting Top Dollar Online. Poachers Have Noticed (www.nytimes.com)
Russia''s 1.2M casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since WW2 (www.cnn.com)
Tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible (www.marginalia.nu)
Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email (www.bbc.co.uk)
I left my own startup to not become my father (paoramen.fika.bar)
AI Transformation Is Not an IT Project, It''s a Leadership Mandate (clickup.com)
Ancient Martian Beach Discovered (phys.org)