🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.
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Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester, having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Researchers doped double‑walled carbon nanotube fibers with tetrachloroaluminate, boosting conductivity up to ~15x, approaching aluminum and rivalling copper by weight. The dopant degrades in air, but the work maps a path toward lighter, stronger, copper‑like electrical wiring.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is finished early and under budget, using repurposed spy-satellite optics. Launching to L2, it will survey huge infrared sky areas, study dark energy, discover thousands of exoplanets, and test next‑generation coronagraph technology.
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NIST scientists replicated a major 2007 torsion-balance experiment to refine the gravitational constant “Big G.” Their decade-long study got a slightly lower value but didn’t resolve existing discrepancies, instead adding a high-quality data point and improved techniques for ultra-precise force measurements.
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Popular Python package `element-data` was compromised via a vulnerable GitHub Action, letting attackers steal signing keys and push malicious version 0.23.3 that exfiltrates credentials. Users must uninstall 0.23.3, upgrade to 0.23.4, delete caches, and rotate all exposed secrets.
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Anthropic’s “Project Deal” used AI agents as buyers and sellers in a real-money internal marketplace. Advanced models got better deals, but users didn’t notice, revealing hidden “agent quality” gaps and suggesting AI negotiators could quietly disadvantage less-represented participants.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean got promoted to level 11 in a system where max level is 10.
(Actually true!)
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Make Any Website & Tool Your CLI. A universal CLI Hub and AI-native runtime. Transform any website, Electron app, or local binary into a standardized command-line interface. Built for AI Agents to discover, learn, and execute tools seamlessly via a unified AGENT.md integration.
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A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code by TÂCHES.
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Multi-agent coding assistant with a sandboxed Rust execution engine
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OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
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