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Mike Nesmith`s (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
πŸ“… This Day in History
πŸͺ On August 25, 1989...
The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
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Nine PBS risks losing 50TB of irreplaceable archives after its cloud provider, OSS, collapsed. Iron Mountain hosts the hardware but says it can’t access customer data. A judge ordered a court-supervised recovery effort to protect the station’s historical materials.
Amazon raised prices on Fire TVs, Echo, Kindle, and Eero devices, citing soaring memory and storage costs from the AI-driven RAM shortage. Consumers face broader electronics inflation, with shortages expected to persist until 2027 and stabilize around 2028.
Scientists induced a hibernation-like state in mice, wiping out over half their synapses, yet memories survived. The study suggests memories may depend less on individual synapses than on resilient clustered neural architecture, though causality remains unproven.
NASA-funded researchers are using engineered yeast to convert plastic and agricultural waste into edible proteins, fats and flavorings, then 3D-printing them into cookies. The idea targets space missions, disaster zones and sustainability, though safety approval and public acceptance remain hurdles.
πŸ•΅οΈ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #37: Link to the wrong version. Confidently.
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BookOrbit: Your Reading Space
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The open-source SDK for bringing any agent into any chat platform: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram - with native, Interactive UI.
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Apache Maka (Incubating) is a local-first AI agent workspace. Model messages, tool calls, tool results, permission decisions, and termination events are recorded as an append-only log.
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Open-Source AI research workbench with scientific agents for reproducible research and discovery.
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A Flutter LLM Chat Client. Support Mobile & Desktop.
πŸ™ GitHub Pulse
Microsoft’s Agent Lightning v1.0.1 is the first official release of a skill that helps coding agents improve other AI agents through benchmark-driven prompt, tool, workflow, model, and reasoning optimization, while enhancing CI, packaging, docs, and reporting.
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