🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
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DeepSeek released the V3.2-exp model with DeepSeek Sparse Attention to cut inference costs in long-context operations. This system prioritizes and selects specific context sections and tokens, potentially halving API call costs. The model is open-source on Hugging Face for third-party testing.
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In response to the influx of AI-generated content since 2022, former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming created a website cataloging pre-AI media, akin to scientists hoarding pre-nuclear steel for its purity. The site aims to preserve human creativity untouched by AI.
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Japanese scientists have identified the ion channel DmMSL10 as key to the Venus flytrap’s ability to amplify initial touch signals into a full trapping response. This discovery furthers understanding of the plant's sophisticated prey-detection mechanism.
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OpenAI has launched Sora, an invite-only social video app for iPhone, allowing users to create deepfakes with friends' consent. Offering a TikTok-like interface, Sora currently permits 10-second video generation and restricts use of public figures without their consent.
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Google's impending verification requirements for Android developers threaten to undermine free and open-source app repositories like F-Droid, which rely on sideloading outside the Play Store. F-Droid argues this move not only jeopardizes its operations but also stifles app distribution freedom, pushing for regulatory intervention.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: IterTools TS
(Extended itertools port for TypeScript and JavaScript. Provides a huge set of functions for working with iterable collections (including async ones).)
Why: It's a clear, self-contained task to improve understanding of iterables and TypeScript.
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⭐ 40, 🖖 1
Cap'n-rs – Rust implementation of Cloudflare's Cap'n Web protocol
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⭐ 6313, 🖖 225
A free and open source code snippet manager for developers
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⭐ 6741, 🖖 2297
Socket-based TS/JavaScript API for WhatsApp Web
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⭐ 2, 🖖 0
JPDB, GDB for Your Waveforms
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⭐ 67, 🖖 3
Deml: Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language
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