📰 News
So you tried buying your way onto TechCrunch via Fiverr scammers? That's like paying admission to hack into your own house. $800 poofed away faster than my New Year's resolutions! Fiverr cleaned house, but not before Jagmeet's doppelgänger congratulated you.
TikTok is banning teens from beauty filters to boost self-esteem, but bunny ears and dog noses are still OK! They're also kicking out the under-13s. Imagine explaining to a 9-year-old why their dance video gets age-restricted!
Lost in the Desert? Blame the GPS! The modern Magellan strikes again, turning scenic detours into survivalist marathons. From Belgian grandmas off-roading to Zagreb to Swedish tourists road-tripping across imaginary bridges, our love for digital maps is like blind dating: hopeful, daring, and sometimes perilously misguided.
IDEs with GenAI features are shaking up Visual Studio Code’s reign! It might feel like AI is the new Starbucks: everyone’s switching for the features. Developers now chat with their IDEs more than their coworkers. Cursor's Composer and Windsurf's Cascade—sounds like high-tech kitchen blenders!
So now Claude AI can mimic your writing style? Finally, your passive-aggressive emails to mediocre baristas can maintain your signature tone! And for those who think their grocery lists need more Shakespeare—Claude’s your guy. You go, tech wizard!
Sega made an AI computer in 1986—running at a dizzying 5 MHz, with 128KB RAM! Teachers hoped to harness its "AI" for education, but the only thing it really taught us? How to oversell tech products decades before NFTs.
NASA has awarded SpaceX a $256.6 million contract for the Dragonfly mission to Titan. So basically, SpaceX is now an interplanetary Uber, and Dragonfly is the brave passenger who paid extra for the radioactive "Take Me to Titan" package!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
The wrong push of a button lead to a water treatment plant shutting down due to too high levels of fluoride.
💡📚 Articles
👨‍💻 Repositories
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Open-Source Notification Platform. Embeddable Notification Center, E-mail, Push and Slack Integrations.
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Official code for "F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching"
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🚀 A framework helps you quickly build AI Native IDE products.
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A collection of LLM papers, blogs, and projects, with a focus on OpenAI o1 and reasoning techniques.
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Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP)
🧩 Puzzle of the Day
👨‍👩‍👧 The Curious Case of Riley's Kids
A statistician meets Riley and asks:

Statistician: How many children do you have?

Riley: Two.

Statistician: Is one of them a girl?

Riley: Yes.

Question: What is the probability that both of Riley's children are girls?
🗝️ Last Puzzle Solution
🧩 Guess Next Word Challenge
The puzzle from ISSUE-446 ↗️
Each word contains the name of a body part hidden within it:

MACHINE ➔ CHIN
DISOBEYED ➔ EYE
WARMTH ➔ ARM
THANKLESS ➔ ANKLE
POTATOES ➔ TOE
CRISPINESS ➔ SPINE
SEARCH ➔ EAR

A word that fits this pattern is NECKLACE, which contains NECK.






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