🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
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On March 5, 2012, Egyptian revolutionaries raided the State Security Investigations (SSI) service in Cairo, uncovering evidence of torture and surveillance, including documents about the spying software FinFisher. Skype, once pioneering in end-to-end encryption, is now set to shut down on May 5, 2025.
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The article argues that while AI has achieved remarkable feats, current systems differ significantly from the human brain in structure and function. True artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains elusive and undefined. Researchers highlight modularity and generalizability as key brain features absent in today's AI.
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Developer Namanyay Goel criticizes new junior coders for over-relying on AI tools like Copilot and GPT, leading to a lack of foundational programming knowledge. He argues this dependency sacrifices deep understanding for quick fixes, potentially harming future development skills.
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Alex Bellos introduces a new Sudoku variant invented by Alf Smith, named Posidoku. In this version, there are no numeric clues, only cells colored gold. Numbers in gold cells must describe their position in their row, column, or box, adding complexity.
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A new book, "The Technological Republic" by Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska, argues for a stronger collaboration between Silicon Valley and the US government to utilize AI for national security. The authors criticize the tech industry's consumer focus and advocate for AI's strategic deployment.
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Signal's popularity surged in the Netherlands, topping app charts on both iOS and Android due to privacy concerns and distrust of Big Tech, especially following Trump's reelection. App downloads increased by 958% from December 2024 to February 2025.
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BYD has introduced a roof-mounted drone launch platform called "Lingyuan" for all its models, developed in collaboration with DJI. Exclusively available in China, the system costs around $2,197 and includes a DJI drone and video editing apps.
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⭐ 5243, 🖖 344
Open-source Auth0/Clerk alternative
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⭐ 2860, 🖖 250
Cost-efficient and pluggable Infrastructure components for GenAI inference
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⭐ 191, 🖖 12
AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system
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⭐ 181, 🖖 2
Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go
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⭐ 2793, 🖖 309
Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS
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