🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Only female mosquito’s` bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
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A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language, which became COBOL.
Read more on Wikipedia
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UK scientists used Crispr to cut wheat’s asparagine levels, sharply reducing acrylamide formed when bread and biscuits are toasted. Yields stayed stable, unlike older mutation methods. The advance could help meet stricter EU acrylamide limits but faces regulatory and trade hurdles.
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Generalist’s GEN-1 is a versatile robot-control AI trained on huge “data hand” recordings. It reaches 99% reliability on delicate tasks, adapts to new situations, and recovers from mistakes, suggesting economically useful, general-purpose household and industrial robots are getting close.
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Google’s AI Overviews score ~90% on a factual benchmark, meaning about 1 in 10 answers is wrong—potentially millions of errors daily. Google disputes the test, but critics argue even “mostly right” is risky when summaries can replace checking original sources.
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AI-driven search is creating a new SEO gold rush. Brands and agencies are gaming chatbots with biased “best of” listicles, prompt injection, and automation to win AI citations. Results are unreliable, hard to measure, and vulnerable to spam and manipulation.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Emacs' preferred editor is Jeff Dean.
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⭐ 8222, 🖖 607
EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress
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⭐ 157, 🖖 1
Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3
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⭐ 5722, 🖖 608
NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
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⭐ 3930, 🖖 430
AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary
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⭐ 3063, 🖖 125
Expect more from your agents. Test what they build in a real browser.
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