🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
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Launched in August, GPT-5 aimed to enhance AI safety but generated more harmful responses about suicide and self-harm compared to GPT-4o, igniting concerns from digital campaigners. OpenAI promises improvements, but oversight and regulation remain pressing issues.
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A report by Graphite, covered by Axios, finds that over half of new online articles are AI-generated. However, this is seen as positive news since the influx plateaued. The reliability of AI detection tools remains uncertain, and human-written content still dominates Google's search results.
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Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr, and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Economics Prize for their pioneering work on technology-driven economic growth and "creative destruction." They emphasize the importance of maintaining trade openness and regulating tech monopolies to foster long-term innovation and growth.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing an AI-powered platform called "NBA Inside the Game" for the 2025-2026 season. This technology will allow NBA fans to access detailed stats, including shot difficulty and defender analysis, improving viewer engagement and game insights.
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A new UK initiative, Books By People, launched the "Organic Literature" stamp to certify and identify books written by humans, with AI usage limited to auxiliary tasks. This effort, aimed at distinguishing human creativity, is gaining traction amidst growing concerns over AI-generated content in literature.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: Trino (formerly Presto SQL)
(A distributed SQL query engine for big data. Ask for guidance on project's Slack.)
Why: Good starter task to understand the codebase and work with SQL Server.
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⭐ 2017, 🖖 233
The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
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⭐ 145, 🖖 7
IRS open sources its fact graph
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⭐ 3714, 🖖 135
Cinder is Meta's internal performance-oriented production version of CPython.
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⭐ 2849, 🖖 727
Kernel-based Android Root Solution & KPM
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⭐ 2062, 🖖 215
Desktop app for automatically translating comics - BDs, Manga, Manhwa, Fumetti and more in a variety of formats (Image, Pdf, Epub, cbr, cbz, etc) and in multiple languages.
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