🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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🤖 On February 10, 1996...
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Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
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Blue Origin is reconsidering reusing New Glenn’s costly second stage, signaled by a new “Reusable Upper Stage Development” director role. With upper stages exceeding $50–100 million, they must weigh reuse complexity against manufacturing cost cuts to stay competitive with SpaceX.
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The article argues global GDP growth still drives rising emissions; absolute decoupling at needed speed hasn’t been demonstrated. It weighs green growth versus “post‑growth” ideas, suggesting that hitting climate targets may require both rapid clean-tech deployment and rethinking growth-focused economics.
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US firms are increasingly blaming layoffs on AI, but experts say many cuts stem from tariffs, pandemic overhiring, and profit-pushing. “AI-washing” helps CEOs appear innovative and dodge political backlash, even though true large-scale AI job replacement remains limited so far.
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Anthropic used 16 Claude Opus agents to build a 100k-line Rust C compiler that can compile Linux and major projects, but it required heavy human scaffolding, isn’t truly “clean-room,” hits complexity limits, is inefficient, and exposes current ceilings of autonomous AI coding.
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A new Carbon Majors report finds just 32 fossil fuel companies produced half of global CO2 in 2024. State-owned giants, led by Saudi Aramco, dominate. Researchers say this concentration strengthens legal, political and financial efforts to hold major polluters accountable.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean has binary writability.
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Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
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Qwen3-VL is the multimodal large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud.
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Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
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RLinf: Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure for Embodied and Agentic AI
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Flameshot
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