🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
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In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
Read more on Wikipedia
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LIGO data show a sharp shortage of black holes around 45 solar masses, implying some very massive stars explode as “pair-instability” supernovae so violently they leave no black hole, supporting models of a true mass gap in black hole formation.
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The article recounts how a small Apple team invented QuickTime in the early ’90s, turning Macs into affordable, software-based multimedia machines. Their codec and time-based “track” system laid the groundwork for today’s digital audio, video, and rich media experiences.
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Nvidia’s new Auto Shader Compilation precompiles game shaders while your PC is idle, reducing in-game “compiling shaders” waits after driver updates. It’s opt‑in via the Nvidia App. Microsoft and Intel are building similar precompiled shader delivery systems.
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Researchers found two new “Rowhammer” attacks, GDDRHammer and GeForge, that flip bits in Nvidia GPU memory (RTX 3060, RTX 6000) to gain full root access to the host CPU. Risk is highest when IOMMU and ECC are disabled, especially in shared cloud setups.
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Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan suffered a large “system failure,” freezing at least 100 cars—some in fast lanes—and trapping riders for up to two hours. The incident heightens global concerns about robotaxi reliability, public safety, and dependence on complex infrastructure.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean doesn't use ECC memory. He anticipates cosmic rays and uses them to improve performance.
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⭐ 72, 🖖 4
React-Rewrite – Figma for localhost that directly edits your codebase
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⭐ 33192, 🖖 4684
Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
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⭐ 240, 🖖 8
Robust LLM extractor for websites in TypeScript
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⭐ 2188, 🖖 493
A simple, performant and scalable Jax LLM!
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⭐ 2085, 🖖 374
Personal AI, On Personal Devices
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