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πŸ™ˆ Useless Fact of the Day

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
πŸ“… This Day in History
πŸ›« On October 8, 1998...
A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
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πŸ“° News
Hackers compromised .gh, .sl, and .as domain registries to manipulate DNS and obtain fake TLS certificates for Google and others. Chrome blocked known bad certs, but Google warns domain owners to monitor certificate logs and tighten CA authorization.
Amazon’s β€œAbout You” settings reveal surprisingly specific, sometimes insulting inferences from shopping data, like personality traits or lifestyle assumptions. The viral discovery highlights how personalization can feel invasive, though users can edit or delete these profiles.
πŸ•΅οΈ Corporate Sabotage 101

Tip #69: Add "stretch goal" to the mandatory requirement.
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Repositories
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Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation.
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An arbitrage bot is a smart contract connected to an external automation script that controls its operation.
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The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant β€” blast radius, tests-to-run, quality deltas. Signatures at 74.7% fewer bytes than bodies; every guess labelled, every loss published. Paddle out with a map.
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Next-Generation of Chiaki (the open-source remote play client for PlayStation)
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Agent Substrate: the core system
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