🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Barbie`s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane (pictured) with an unassisted takeoff.
Read more on Wikipedia
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A Bay Area startup, Seneca, is supplying Aspen with five autonomous firefighting drones that deploy foam to slow small wildfires before crews arrive. Linked to AI detection cameras, they’re intended for rapid early suppression, especially in remote terrain without local aircraft.
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Researchers found nine serious flaws in cheap IP KVM devices from four vendors, some allowing unauthenticated root access. Many are internet‑exposed, effectively giving attackers physical-level control of attached systems. Some patches exist, others don’t; experts urge scanning, strong passwords, and VPN-only access.
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Engineers tracked fireflies in 3D and used LED mimics to uncover simple “local rules” behind their synchronized flashes. Each male adjusts timing slightly to neighbors, following a phase‑response curve—an integrate‑and‑fire model that may inform circadian, neural, and swarm systems.
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Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5, blending traditional 3D graphics with generative AI to predict and fill in game visuals, boosting realism with less compute. Jensen Huang says this fusion of structured data and AI will reshape industries beyond gaming, especially enterprise analytics.
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AI coding agents boost short-term output but often harm quality and reliability. The article lists real incidents at Anthropic, Amazon, and others, showing outages, sloppy UX, and tech debt. Solution: stronger architecture leadership, stricter reviews, validation, and revived QA practices.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean's watch displays seconds since January 1st, 1970. He is never late.
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⭐ 142, 🖖 5
Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust
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⭐ 22756, 🖖 2720
π RuView: WiFi DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
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⭐ 2617, 🖖 148
Run web applications on AWS Lambda
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⭐ 2377, 🖖 123
A free, open-source Screen Studio alternative that adds auto-zoom, cursor animations and more to your screen recordings.
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⭐ 2427, 🖖 126
Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
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