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🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.
📅 This Day in History
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The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
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Microsoft is upgrading Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with a new “Agent Mode.” It can now actively edit files, perform multi-step changes, and update presentations while preserving styles, becoming the default experience for most Microsoft 365 subscribers.
Nilay Patel argues “software brain” — viewing everything as data to optimize — blinds tech leaders to why people, especially Gen Z, dislike AI: it threatens jobs, warps institutions, and tries to force messy human life into rigid, automated systems.
💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day

When your code is killed by SIGJEFF, it never runs again.
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