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Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
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Christmas code-crackers: GCHQ reveals annual festive card for puzzle fans (www.theguardian.com)
My Small Mouth (www.stallman.org)
Browser extensions with a feed of personal dev blogs (www.alldevblogs.com)
Org-roam: A plain-text personal knowledge management system (www.orgroam.com)
Meshoptimizer 1.0 Released (zeux.io)
Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling (www.reuters.com)
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China adds domestic AI chips to official procurement list for first time (www.ft.com)
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Paul Krugman Talking with Paul Kedrosky (paulkrugman.substack.com)
UK porn traffic down since beginning of age checks but VPN use up, says Ofcom (www.theguardian.com)
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter (www.news9live.com)
A3: Avoid Memos with an Agenda (entropicthoughts.com)
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International Workshop on Plan 9: 2026 Edition (iwp9.org)
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Turner prize 2025: Nnena Kalu is first winner with learning disability (www.thetimes.com)
AI Model Timeline (www.aitimelines.club)
LearnFlux: AI-Powered Learning Assistant (www.learnflux.net)
Hydrostatic Pressure Induces Osteogenic Differentiation of Single Stem Cells (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Protocol Omega: Defining AI Identity via Topology Instead of Biological Mimicry (github.com)
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SpaceX to pursue 2026 IPO raising above 25B, source says (www.reuters.com)
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Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella (ja2-stracciatella.github.io)
The Artist''s Hand: AI Art Pioneers That Existed Before the Boom (nettricegaskins.medium.com)
What Is Software Design? (1992) (www.developerdotstar.com)
AI Is Killing Entry-Level Programming Jobs. But Could It Also Help Save Them? (thenewstack.io)
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A Climate Study Retraction for the Ages (www.wsj.com)
US plans to scrutinize foreign tourists'' social media history (www.nytimes.com)
HuggingFace Skills: Fine-tune any LLM with one sentence for 0.30 (huggingface.co)
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Nvidia allowed to sell its H200 chips to China, the gov takes a 25% cut (www.theguardian.com)
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Vercel Outage? (www.vercel-status.com)
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Microsoft investing 17.5B in India for AI and cloud, CEO Satya Nadella says (apnews.com)
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Human-to-Human Rabies via Solid Organ Transplantation from a Donor (www.cdc.gov)
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NPM Revokes Classic Tokens, as OpenJS Warns Maintainers About OIDC Gaps (socket.dev)
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Balanced Ternary Transformers: 93.8% Energy Reduction Using 1965 Soviet Research (zenodo.org)
LLM Council – Your Local Multi-Model AI Advisory Board (github.com)
Cybernetic Methods in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1976) (archive.org)
The Autobiography of JGB (www.newyorker.com)
Orchids – The Vibe Coding IDE (www.orchids.app)
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Linus Torvalds is ''a believer'' in using AI to maintain code (www.zdnet.com)
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Meesho Goes Public (www.ycombinator.com)
Dependable C (dependablec.org)
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DuckDB-terminal: A browser-based SQL Terminal for DuckDB powered by Ghostty (github.com)
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The Greenhushing Trap (sloanreview.mit.edu)
Canadian accused in plot to export Nvidia''s AI chips from US to China (nationalpost.com)
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UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer /Mice (www.umass.edu)
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224 Compression of Llama-70B with Higher Accuracy (Paper and Code) (zenodo.org)
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The Silicon Valley Campaign to Win Trump over on AI Regulation (www.wsj.com)
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Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) (www.utcp.io)
Trump''s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions (www.nytimes.com)
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Augment Context Engine SDK (docs.augmentcode.com)
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Canada''s accelerated pathway for H-1B visa holders (www.cicnews.com)
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition (krebsonsecurity.com)
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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (www.reuters.com)
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US International Trade Administration Shaped EU Censorship Against US Companies (foundationforfreedomonline.com)
SCOTUS swats NBA shot to limit class actions over data sharing with Meta (courthousenews.com)
Canadian universities aim to attract top global scholars with funding boost (www.reuters.com)
Google is powering a new US Military AI platform (www.theverge.com)
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Scientists Found the Secret to Roman Concrete in a Pompeii Living Room (www.zmescience.com)
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Theoretical Physics Slop (www.math.columbia.edu)
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Australian children just lost access to social media (www.cnn.com)
Australia''s Social Media Ban for People Under 16 Takes Effect (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI Is in Trouble (www.theatlantic.com)
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Coding Agents Are Outliers (vivekhaldar.com)
OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai)
Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (www.kroah.com)
Pigeons rival humans ability to spot cancer (2015) (www.sfgate.com)
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I Don''t Want to Be a Ping-Pong Ball Anymore (www.tristanisham.com)
The Politics of Superintelligence (www.noemamag.com)
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FDA to probe whether adult deaths linked to coronavirus vaccine (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Binary Range Expressions (www.proxylity.com)
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Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it''s costing the economy (www.cnbc.com)
10 Years of Let''s Encrypt Certificates (letsencrypt.org)
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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? (www.newyorker.com)
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Garment Color and Lighting (varietyiq.com)
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman (paulkrugman.substack.com)
NeurIPS 2025 Top Paper Breakdown: LLMs Are Collapsing into Artificial Hivemind (interviewready.io)
RAM Is Ruining Everything (www.theverge.com)
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Canada''s US Travel Boycott Is Backfiring in the Most Unexpected Way at US Border (www.thetravel.com)
Bidirectional association between sleep and physical activity (www.nature.com)
Ford teams up with Renault to make EVs that can rival Chinese brands (www.cnn.com)
PEP 811 – Defining Python Security Response Team Membership and Responsibilities (peps.python.org)
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Mastodon on EU Digital Sovereignty (mastodon.social)
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The War Department Unleashes AI on New GenAI.mil Platform (www.war.gov)
Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly (qtandeverything.blogspot.com)
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SpaceX to Pursue 2026 IPO Raising Far Above 30B (www.bloomberg.com)
Cockpit audio of Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to crash plane mid-flight (nypost.com)
Australian Age Assurance Technology Trial– Final Report (www.infrastructure.gov.au)
I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week (blog.shortround.space)
Zillow has removed extreme weather risk data (www.cnn.com)
OpenAI economist quits, alleging that they are verging into AI Advocacy (www.wired.com)
Japan''s exhaust filter experts attract carbon capture companies'' attention (asia.nikkei.com)
The Costs of Skipping a Time Clock in Business Operations (websitesquadron.com)
Small plug-in solar gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Lets Encrypt Certificate Lifetimes go from 90 days to 45 days (letsencrypt.org)
Context Engineering in Manus (rlancemartin.github.io)
Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (aaif.io)
U.S. F-18 fighter jets enter Venezuelan airspace for 40 minutes (www.miamiherald.com)
Traceroute Tool from Scratch in Go (kmcd.dev)
Meshoptimizer v1 Released (meshoptimizer.org)
Android bug breaking AirPods: 9k stars, user fix ignored (issuetracker.google.com)
Congress strips right-to-repair from military spending bill (www.theregister.com)
Django: What''s new in 6.0 – Adam Johnson (adamj.eu)
Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved cat from skunk (www.theguardian.com)
Giant squid recorded feeding near the surface (www.instagram.com)
EAMSA 512 (blog.redeaux.co)
MindEval: New benchmark shows 12 top LLMs fail at mental health care (swordhealth.com)
AI vs. Human Drivers – Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)
Pandas vs. Polars vs. DuckDB: A Data Scientist Guide to Choosing the Right Tool (codecut.ai)
The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)
Express JavaScript API sucks, so meebo (github.com)
The Year of the Linux Desktop Is Finally Here – But Not for Humans (mofeed.xyz)
Is It a Bubble? (www.oaktreecapital.com)
#1 Week of Building Cross a todo app that syncs to Notion and Obsidian (medium.com)
Happy Smallpox Eradication Day [video] (www.youtube.com)
Bazel Migrate to Bzlmod (blog.engflow.com)
Claude Code in Slack (claude.com)
Digital Nomads rejoice, .bali exists now (thebalisun.com)
We Need to Die (willllliam.com)
The Authoritarian Stack (authoritarian-stack.info)
Why the world should worry about stablecoins (www.ft.com)
The State of Solo Founding (solofounders.com)
We all grew up watching TV, so why is YouTube so different? (www.cubflix.com)
Federal Reserve Board requests input on potential changes to check services (www.federalreserve.gov)
Common Threads (pudding.cool)
OpenAI Appoints Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer (openai.com)
Linux Kernel Version Numbers (www.kroah.com)
Agentic AI Foundation (block.xyz)
Semiconductor industry enters ''giga cycle'' – scale of AI is rewriting economics (www.tomshardware.com)
We Manage Cloudflare with Infrastructure as Code (blog.cloudflare.com)
Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom (www.nytimes.com)
Progressives used to view schools as engines of social mobility (www.theatlantic.com)
Cisco AI''s A2A Scanner – New OSS Tool to Detect Threats in A2A Eco-System (github.com)
We are breaking the domain industry. On purpose (domainsforequity.com)
The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Slow and Dangerous Loss of Self (www.chrismdp.com)
Microsoft invests 17.5B in India to drive AI diffusion at population scale (news.microsoft.com)
Private Indices Are the New Public Indices (www.bloomberg.com)
Australian teens lose access to social media as ban takes effect (www.bbc.com)
Using LLM as a writing assistant (without the slop) (www.jampa.dev)
Japan warns of possible megaquake after powerful earthquake, 98-foot tsunami (www.cbsnews.com)
Why AI reading science fiction could be a problem (www.transformernews.ai)
MCP Joins the Agentic AI Foundation (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
Tessitura (en.wikipedia.org)
Modeling Spread of Misfolded Proteins in Alzheimer''s Disease Using Higher-Order (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
Base Pay Delivers 1-Step Crypto Payments (blog.base.dev)
More people crowdfunded basic needs in 2025, GoFundMe report shows (www.fastcompany.com)
Claude Island (github.com)
What I Wish I Knew When I Started in Identity (sphericalcowconsulting.com)
''Food and fossil fuel production causing 5B of environmental damage an hour'' (www.theguardian.com)
AI and the Future of Education (farza.substack.com)
500M, but Not a Single One More (www.effectivealtruism.org)
Instacart uses AI to charge customers different prices for the same items [video] (www.youtube.com)
10 Years of Let''s Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
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Quick Docker Tutorial to Run a Python Script (en.andros.dev)
So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences? (dylanbeattie.net)
The Birth of the Internet Troll (2014) (gizmodo.com)
Former Twitter Attorney Files for ''Twitter'' Trademark (www.gerbenlaw.com)
CT Teardown: AirPods Pro (3rd Generation) (www.lumafield.com)
The rise of the electrostate: China is leading on climate action (www.cbc.ca)
Anki: Old version beginning to fail with newer Python releases (2020) (bugs.debian.org)
Bee2Bee – Turn Google Colab and local machines into a unified P2P AI cluster (github.com)
Blurble – An anonymous confessions feed to combat the loneliness epidemic (blurble.manus.space)
Databricks Introduces OfficeQA Benchmark for Agents (www.databricks.com)
China frontline troops are testing portable quantum radio devices (www.scmp.com)
Mega-structures beneath Egypt''s Giza pyramids are confirmed by scientists (www.dailymail.co.uk)
''Big Short'' Investor Michael Burry Says OpenAI Is Headed for ''Netscape Fate'' (www.businessinsider.com)
The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (www.righto.com)
Please Don''t (hn.algolia.com)
China''s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew (www.theregister.com)
Authorities intercept drone carrying crab legs, Old Bay, weed for prison inmates (local12.com)
When NOT to Use Pydantic (ossa-ma.github.io)
Science-Backed Rules for Proper Router Placement (wi-fiplanet.com)
GLP-1s may weaken the pelvic floor, impacting women''s health (www.usatoday.com)
libxml2 is unmaintained (gitlab.gnome.org)
The men that take babies away from their mother (juliebindel.substack.com)
You Don''t Need an ORM [video] (www.youtube.com)
26,000 NZers'' devices infected with malware, cyber security agency warns (www.rnz.co.nz)
How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite? (learn.microsoft.com)
Tesla Barely Beats Jeep for Least Reliable Used Car, Owner Survey Says (www.thedrive.com)
Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam (www.theverge.com)
One Black Labor Union Changed American History (jacobin.com)
Hegseth: Today, we are unleashing GenAI.mil (genai.mil)
Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models (arxiv.org)
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Real power is deciding when to step down (www.bloomberg.com)
The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast (neuburger.substack.com)
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment (userinyerface.com)