🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies` room during a dance.
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American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Orbital data centers promise abundant solar power and fewer local regulations but demand huge up‑front costs: ultra‑cheap launches, mass-produced satellites, and custom chips. Economically, they’re “close” to viable at massive scale, but hinge on unprecedented trillion‑dollar investment and faith in SpaceX.
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Suno’s AI music generator hit 2 million paid users and $300M in recurring revenue, growing fast after a big funding round. While musicians sue over copyright concerns, Warner Music struck a licensing deal, and some creators are already landing lucrative record contracts via Suno.
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A leaked, easy-to-use version of the DarkSword iOS spyware is now on GitHub, letting even low-skill hackers exploit older iPhones/iPads (pre‑iOS 26) at massive scale. Researchers urge immediate upgrading or Lockdown Mode, as hundreds of millions remain vulnerable.
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Mozilla dev Peter Wilson’s “cq” is a shared knowledge base where AI coding agents publish and reuse runtime discoveries, like a Stack Overflow for agents. It promises fresher, cheaper, less redundant coding help but faces big security, poisoning, and reliability challenges.
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LG Display’s new Oxide 1Hz laptop LCDs can dynamically shift from 1 Hz for static content to 120 Hz for motion, promising up to 48% longer battery life. Dell’s 2026 XPS line gets them first, with OLED versions planned for 2027.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Chuck Norris is Jeff Dean's 20% project.
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⭐ 22, 🖖 1
Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python
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⭐ 2073, 🖖 73
🍹 The smart data fetching layer for Vue
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⭐ 6526, 🖖 832
An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent
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⭐ 6, 🖖 0
Jsse: Agent-coded JavaScript engine in Rust passing 99.96% of test262
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⭐ 37, 🖖 0
CRusTTY: A pedagogical C interpreter with time-travel debugging capabilities
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