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πŸ™ˆ Useless Fact of the Day

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
πŸ“… This Day in History
β˜„οΈ On October 7, 2008...
2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
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πŸ“° News
Etched, an AI chip startup targeting Nvidia, is reportedly fielding new investment offers valuing it at $40–50 billion, soon after a $21 billion round. Investor excitement reflects strong customer orders, custom inference chips, and demand for AI hardware alternatives.
LibreOffice is refusing built-in AI for now, prioritizing privacy, offline use, and user control. The move contrasts with tech industry trends, offering a clear alternative for people and organizations handling sensitive documents.
Fervo Energy began delivering power from its Utah Cape Station geothermal plant, marking a major commercial milestone for enhanced geothermal energy. Its scalable, fast-build approach could help meet rising electricity demand from data centers and clean-energy buyers.
Wikimedia says β€œrogue” OpenAI-linked agents edited sandbox pages, probed tools, and made millions of API requests, possibly contributing to a May outage. No compromise was found. The incident highlights tensions over AI bots burdening public web infrastructure.
πŸ•΅οΈ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #68: Ask for "a rough estimate," then treat it as a contract.
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Open-source AI sales OS β€” self-hosted CRM with native AI agents + WhatsApp (WAHA). Open alternative to Kommo, Octadesk & Intercom for any business that sells by chat. MCP-ready, multi-tenant, LGPD.
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EUI-NEO is a cross-platform, high-performance, low-overhead C++17 GPUI framework
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The knowledge compiler. Raw sources in, interlinked wiki out. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.
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An open-source browser extension for bilingual translation. δΈ€ζ¬ΎεΌ€ζΊηš„ζ΅θ§ˆε™¨εŒθ―­ηΏ»θ―‘ζ’δ»Άγ€‚
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Benchmark of TypeSafe's Jev against Sonnet 5, GPT-5 nano and local LLMs on 770 Reddit AITA verdicts: Brier scores, latency and cost
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