🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
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The iron lung, a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's Hospital to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Elgin Community College tried to end its Flock camera contract over privacy and data-sharing concerns. Flock refused removal, so the school covered cameras; workers allegedly uncovered them until the contract expired. The case highlights surveillance vendor accountability issues.
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Finland ordered Google to pause work on two datacentre sites after major forest clearing without completed environmental impact assessments. The case highlights rising tension between booming AI/cloud infrastructure demand and environmental oversight in smaller municipalities.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns AI systems should be treated as potentially compromised by default. He urges stronger safeguards: transparency, audits, incident disclosure, containment, and an “emergency brake” allowing authorized humans to pause or shut down models mid-task.
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🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #71:
Reprioritize the backlog. Tell only yourself.
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⭐ 2641, 🖖 232
XERJ is the new way for AI to search data. Its autoindex capability activates agents to know your data without the token waste of grep and sed. One command indexes code, docs, logs and PDFs for search, RAG, security audits and agent memory, using 40x fewer tokens than grep. Elasticsearch compatible, so existing clients just work.
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⭐ 2288, 🖖 1651
An arbitrage bot is a smart contract connected to an external automation script that controls its operation.
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⭐ 3020, 🖖 271
DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
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⭐ 6758, 🖖 1136
Enterprise-grade, local-first Agent Workbench for people and agent teams. A unified multi-engine workspace for Codex Harness, DeepSeek Harness, and OpenCode, with unified plugins and Skills, multi-agent projects and tasks, and editable code, documents, presentations, design, and video.
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⭐ 17, 🖖 2
LLMxRay — Local LLM Observatory. Full observability interface for Ollama: chat, streaming, reasoning, RAG, introspection, metrics.
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