🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.
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French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Qantas’ modified Airbus A350-1000ULR completed a record 24-hour Melbourne-to-Toulouse test flight, showcasing plans for nonstop Sydney-London services from 2027. The milestone highlights advances in ultra-long-haul aviation, though passenger comfort and operational viability remain key tests.
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South Korean stocks plunged as investors dumped chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix over fears of excessive AI spending, debt-funded datacentres, and rising Chinese competition. The sell-off signals growing doubts about whether the AI boom can justify its huge costs.
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Microsoft launched AI cybersecurity tools claiming better performance and lower costs than rivals. They automate vulnerability detection and response, but recent AI-agent breaches highlight risks. The key issue: defenders may need AI, yet must scrutinize it before production use.
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A judge suggested the Home Office may have used AI-generated false evidence to reject a Moroccan woman’s asylum claim. The missing document raises serious fairness concerns, especially given her allegations of forced marriage, rape and danger if returned.
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🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #18:
Forward a 47-message thread with one word: "Thoughts?"
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⭐ 4, 🖖 0
Let your AI agents call and text your actual iPhone — Claude Code plugin + agent skill
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⭐ 6, 🖖 0
Fully offline meeting notetaker for macOS — records, transcribes, and summarizes on-device with Whisper and a local LLM. Meeting detection, system-audio capture, ask-your-notes with timestamp citations. No cloud, no accounts.
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⭐ 4679, 🖖 573
Local-first healthcare AI: clinical NER & HIPAA PII de-identification that runs 100% on-device. 1,000+ medical models, 12 languages, Apple MLX + Python, no cloud, no patient data leaving your network. Apache-2.0
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⭐ 78112, 🖖 10655
An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.
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⭐ 256, 🖖 8
Go based GUI framework: practical, immediate mode, flexbox model
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UTM VMs on Apple M5 Pro fail to boot when networking is set to Bridged, hanging at startup. Host Only and Extended modes work, suggesting a compatibility issue between UTM’s bridged networking and newer Apple Silicon/macOS networking behavior.
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uv 0.12.0 emphasizes safer, standards-compliant packaging. Key changes: `uv init` creates packaged projects by default, legacy archive formats are rejected, risky wheels can’t overwrite Python interpreters, and stable releases are preferred before pre-releases.
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