🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
CBS` "60 Minutes" is the only TV show without a theme song/music.
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The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.
Read more on Wikipedia
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A large Nature study found common measures of cognitive reappraisal—questionnaires, task ratings, and fMRI amygdala activity—barely align. This challenges assumptions behind emotion-regulation research and suggests scientists need better tools before making strong claims about CBT-related capacities.
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Fujifilm will invest $63 million to quintuple magnetic tape production by 2028, driven by AI’s exploding data storage needs. Tape remains valuable for enterprises because it’s cheap, durable, and can be air-gapped against ransomware.
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The New York Times and other publishers accuse Brave of scraping copyrighted articles, selling AI access, and enabling paywall bypassing. The case could intensify legal pressure on AI firms and browsers over content rights, licensing, and publisher revenue.
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Google says Videostrong intentionally embedded malware in 1.3 million Android devices, creating a botnet used for ad fraud, data theft, and proxy abuse. Google dismantled the backdoor, disrupted control servers, and banned the manufacturer from certified Android partnerships.
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🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #87:
Say "we should really document this" and document nothing.
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⭐ 9451, 🖖 603
Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.
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⭐ 2025, 🖖 358
Open-source persistent memory for AI agent pipelines (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) and Claude. REST API + knowledge graph + autonomous consolidation.
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⭐ 1278, 🖖 131
A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS, by Office Commun.
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⭐ 5494, 🖖 577
🕵️♂️ (2-in-1) Email & Username OSINT suite featuring native MCP support for deep data extraction just from a single Email/Username. Analyzes 2720+ actively maintained scan vectors (210+ email / 2510+ username) for security research, investigations, and digital footprinting.
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⭐ 12949, 🖖 1691
SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP.
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