🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
📰 News
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope plan to create the first “movie” of the M87 supermassive black hole, tracking its rotating disk and jets. The project should clarify black hole spin, growth, and galaxy-shaping jets, challenging their “cosmic vacuum cleaner” reputation.
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo, a “reasoning” AI for self-driving cars that handles rare, complex road situations and explains its decisions, plus new Vera Rubin chips delivering up to 5x AI performance, as it races rivals in autonomous driving and AI infrastructure.
YC-backed Bucket Robotics builds vision software that inspects surface defects in manufactured parts using simulated defects from CAD, avoiding manual labeling and extra hardware. At CES 2026, it drew strong interest from auto and defense, pursuing dual-use industrial automation opportunities.
The article argues AI makes surface-level creativity easy, shifting what’s truly valuable toward “thisness”: the specific, lived experiences only you can bring. As AI flattens old creative “metas,” personal perspective and hard-won difficulty become the new creative edge.
AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT are enabling non-coders to quickly build “micro” or “vibe-coded” personal apps—small, disposable, hyper-specific tools for things like dining choices, health tracking, chores, or tickets—hinting at a future where many people build instead of buy apps.
Elon Musk says X will fully open-source its recommendation and ad algorithms, updating code and developer notes every four weeks. The move follows criticism over harmful content, alleged political bias, French investigations, and past complaints that earlier “open source” efforts were incomplete.
NASA’s new $20 million Pandora small satellite will monitor stars hosting exoplanets to separate stellar “noise” from planetary atmospheric signals in James Webb data, preventing false detections of molecules like water and methane and maximizing Webb’s habitability studies.
NSW coroner’s inquiry warns lithium-ion batteries in ebikes and e-scooters are a rapidly growing fire threat, causing “jet-like” flames, toxic fumes and recent deaths. It highlights unsafe charging, cheap/incorrect chargers, DIY repairs and urges strict safety rules and education.
China has blocked imports of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, despite US export approval and a new 25% US tariff. Suppliers halted production amid confusion over whether China’s move is temporary, strategic leverage, or aimed at boosting domestic chip development.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Health, a dedicated, more private tab for health queries that can connect to medical records and wellness apps for personalized answers. It’s not approved for diagnosis or treatment, raising concerns about safety, mental health use, and data privacy.
💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day

A [now-deleted Google+ thread](https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/TSDhe5CvaFe), [quoted](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/45g4he/comment/d001vav) by a Reddit user
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