🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.
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The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.
Read more on Wikipedia
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NASA is pausing its lunar Gateway station and repurposing its core Power and Propulsion Element into SR‑1 Freedom, a nuclear‑electric propulsion demo to Mars by 2028, carrying “Skyfall” helicopters to scout ice-rich human landing sites and prove space fission reactors.
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Cohere launched Transcribe, a lightweight open source speech recognition model for consumer GPUs, supporting 14 languages. It outperforms major rivals on Hugging Face’s ASR leaderboard, is free via API, and will integrate into Cohere’s North platform amid strong enterprise growth.
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Mistral launched Voxtral TTS, a small, real-time, open-source text-to-speech model for edge devices. It supports nine languages, rapid custom voice cloning, and natural-sounding multilingual speech, positioning Mistral against ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI for enterprise voice applications.
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A 29-year, 2C-warming experiment in Colorado’s alpine meadows showed wildflowers and grasses rapidly giving way to drought-tolerant shrubs, with major soil microbe shifts. Similar “shrubification” is accelerating in cold regions globally, threatening unique ecosystems and reinforcing climate-driven carbon emissions.
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Google warns that by 2029 powerful quantum computers may break today’s encryption, threatening banks, governments and tech firms. It urges rapid migration to post‑quantum cryptography, as adversaries may already be harvesting encrypted data to decrypt once quantum capability arrives.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff can recite 20,000 digits of pi in 5 hours. He doesn't remember them; he just recomputes them on the fly using only `O(log n)` space.
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⭐ 2607, 🖖 234
Make any website your CLI. A powerful, AI-native runtime for seamless browser automation and dynamic web data extraction.
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⭐ 2301, 🖖 340
OpenClaw for Teams
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⭐ 4182, 🖖 291
Warcraft III Peon voice notifications (+ more!) for Claude Code, Codex, IDEs, and any AI agent. Stop babysitting your terminal. Employ a Peon today.
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⭐ 2213, 🖖 115
An open source user-empowering data visualization Vue 3 components library for eloquent data storytelling
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⭐ 2622, 🖖 216
The Foundation project
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