🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
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Andrew McCarthy took 90,000 pictures of the sun and assembled them into a dazzling image of a plasma tornado 14 Earths tall. Use the wrong telescope though, and your house ends up brighter than your career. Talk about a hot hobby!
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Elon Musk says we’ve exhausted all human knowledge for AI training and now need synthetic data. So AI is about to start grading its own homework. Next up: robots forming study groups and cribbing off each other’s circuits! What could go wrong?
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Ivanti's VPN is so riddled with vulnerabilities, it's practically the Swiss cheese of network security. Researchers found hackers were exploiting it before Ivanti even knew there was a problem. Ivanti promises patches—longer wait than your internet service provider on a Monday!
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Liberty Woodland School swaps five days for four—longer days in yurt "dens" among trees. Pupils say it's "therapeutic." Fridays are for Fortnite, not fractions. Teachers, meanwhile, lose the weekend battle against "Marking Mountain." Revolutionary, or just a fancy camping trip?
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Google's launched a "neutral" Chromium fund with Meta, Microsoft, and Opera. Guess when monopolizing the market isn't enough, they decided to monopolize neutrality too! I tried starting a "neutral" cookie fund once. Ended up eating all the cookies myself.
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Breaking news: Google Home hubs are going local thanks to Matter! Now, even when your internet is down, your smart lights will listen—making "in the dark" moments less frequent than cloud storage jokes at tech conferences.
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Wow, a 3,500-year-old Airbnb for nomadic herders! From ancient stone pens to Bronze Age tchotchkes, it seems the Caucasus was the ultimate prehistoric rest stop. Meanwhile, modern Georgia wonders if they’re eligible for ancient property taxes.
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Looks like Google’s motto "Don’t be evil" now has an opt-out feature too! A judge ruled they can't just browser-sneak on us after we say no. Jury trial's on, but knowing Google’s history, they probably already know the verdict!
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VLC's hitting 6 billion downloads and adding AI subtitles. So now, not only can you mishear the lyrics in Despacito, but you can also do it in 50 languages! Streaming giants, watch out—VLC's playing chess while they're playing checkers.
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So, Elon Musk's AI, Grok, now has its own app. Finally, something in my pocket that's more curious than my cat! It's like having Picasso, Einstein, and Google all in one device, minus the tantrums and chalk dust.
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⭐ 7443, 🖖 375
Visualize streams of multimodal data. Free, fast, easy to use, and simple to integrate. Built in Rust.
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⭐ 3697, 🖖 8072
Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.
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⭐ 6577, 🖖 524
Nintendo Switch emulator written in C#, originally created by gdkchan.
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⭐ 3290, 🖖 143
Export iMessage data + run iMessage Diagnostics
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⭐ 7849, 🖖 186
⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust
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