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🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
📅 This Day in History
🚀 On October 28, 1971...
Prospero, the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B in Woomera, South Australia.
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📰 News
A critical EDK2 UEFI flaw lets attackers with network access exploit PXE boot to run code before OS defenses load. Impact is mainly servers/data centers using network boot. Patching firmware is slow; disabling PXE boot reduces risk.
Police increasingly use ALPR data and AI to flag “suspicious” travel patterns, prompting ACLU privacy warnings. Critics say this enables warrantless tracking of innocent drivers, risks biased or mistaken stops, and is fueling backlash against firms like Flock.
Amazon is reportedly scaling back its Nova AI models after weak results and high costs, shifting resources toward a single frontier AI effort tied to robotics. The move suggests Amazon may prioritize practical automation over chasing consumer-facing chatbot hype.
🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #83: End the review with "but you know your area best!" then escalate.
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A new SOTA for RAG — an original retrieval architecture and an open-source knowledge base for humans and agents.
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Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers-compatible platform with Workers、KV、D1、R2、DO、Queues、Workflows、Cron、Cache、Images、Vectorize、AI Search、Artifacts、Static Assets、Service Bindings、Dynamic Workers、LogTail、Gateway in one Rust binary.
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HydraDB - fast graph database on object storage
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