📰 News
Heliospect: Cultivating genius embryos for $50K a hundred! They claim an IQ boost of six points, which is great if you plan to raise baby Einsteins. I guess if the tech fails, there’s always a future in reality TV.
So, iFixit’s teardown reveals that Meta's Quest 3S is basically the tech version of hand-me-down clothes. It's like finding out your shiny new smartphone is just your old flip phone squeezed inside. But hey, at $299.99, it’s the only VR where your nostalgia's included free!
ChatGPT for Windows? Finally, another way to Alt+Space my productivity into oblivion. Rated "T for Teen" probably because only teens have the energy to keep up with all these new features. Forget privacy, just chat like your mom’s reading!
So, Automattic essentially commandeered a rival's plugin and renamed it, acting like a pirate captain saying, "Arr, matey, your code be mine now!" Meanwhile, WP Engine is like, "We just wanted to build websites, not star in 'Pirate Wars: The Silicon Sea'."
Japan's newest job trend: hiring resignation agencies to quit for you! Because nothing says "I've had enough" like outsourcing your resignation. Apparently, facing your boss is scarier than Godzilla. Even rainy days trigger job abandonments—because wet socks and workplace woes don't mix!
Looks like enterprise CIOs are treating generative AI like a delicate soufflé – take it slow or it collapses! Enter Dottxt, the AI whisperer that makes LLMs actually understand computers. No more emotional blackmail; it’s all about structured grammar. Move over ChatGPT, cats are safe!
It looks like Stripe is ready to throw a billion-dollar party with Bridge! From the alumni of Coinbase to stablecoin wizards, they've built an API that makes stablecoins as easy as pie. Next up: Stripe’s new motto—“Making dollars sense, in crypto cents!”
Looks like Amazon’s new prime delivery is your job back to the office! With remote working getting the "PrimeCancelled" stamp from Matt Garman, it’s time to put on pants for video meetings again. Will work-from-bed become a relic of history?
Well, if Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” can’t handle sunshine and fog, I hope they’re at least good at dodging lawsuits! Seems Musk is more focused on turning his Cybercab into a Robo-raxi-taxi instead of avoiding these Robo-recks. Classic Elon—revolutionizing transportation one crash investigation at a time!
Picture this: Aliens decipher our advanced AI, only to find out it's basically the universe's most sophisticated customer support chatbot. Before you know it, their cosmic curiosity turns into a refund request, and Earth gets a one-star Yelp review!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
In July 2017 several malicious Maven packages were included in JCenter with an impersonation attack. Those packages lived in JCenter for over a year and supposedly affected several Android apps that resulted in having malware code injected by those dependencies from JCenter.
💡📚 Articles
👨‍💻 Repositories
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The A32NX & A380X Project are community driven open source projects to create free Airbus aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator that are as close to reality as possible.
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🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming
🧩 Puzzle of the Day
🪣 The Two-Jug Challenge
You're by a river with two unmarked jugs: one holds exactly 13 liters, the other holds exactly 7 liters. With nothing else available, how can you measure exactly 2 liters of water?
🗝️ Last Puzzle Solution
🔠 What's the Next Letter?
The puzzle from ISSUE-423 ↗️
- All these letters are symmetrical along the vertical axis—they look the same when mirrored left to right.
- They're listed in alphabetical order of vertically symmetrical capital letters.
- After T, the next letter with vertical symmetry is U.

Conclusion: The next letter in the sequence is U.





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