🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded himself singing "Au clair de la lune" on his phonautograph, producing the oldest known recording of an audible human voice (audio featured).
Read more on Wikipedia
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DHH now codes via AI “agents,” barely typing himself. Powerful LLMs plus Rails enable fast, high‑quality output. Seniors gain leverage; juniors risk falling behind. 37signals doubles down on designer‑builders, CLIs, and shorter cycles, while insisting on aesthetics, review, and work‑life balance.
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Russia’s GRU-linked APT28 hijacked 18,000–40,000 outdated MikroTik/TP-Link home/office routers in 120 countries, rewriting DNS to intercept Microsoft 365 logins and steal OAuth tokens. Attack relied on unpatched, end‑of‑life devices and users bypassing TLS certificate warnings.
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The article explains tests showing Google’s AI Overviews are about 90% accurate, meaning roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong—potentially millions of errors daily. It highlights benchmark disputes, model trade-offs, and concerns that users may overtrust flawed AI summaries.
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Anthropic is quietly testing Claude Mythos, a powerful cybersecurity AI, with select big tech and security firms after leaks raised concerns. Mythos can find massive numbers of zero-day flaws but also potentially exploit them, so Anthropic is restricting access and coordinating with US authorities.
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Google quietly launched Eloquent, an offline-first iOS dictation app using on-device Gemma ASR and optional Gemini cloud cleanup. It removes filler words, rewrites text (key points/formal/short/long), tracks stats, supports custom vocabulary, and hints at an upcoming system-wide Android keyboard version.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean mines bitcoins. In his head.
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⭐ 12683, 🖖 1235
Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.
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⭐ 127, 🖖 9
Vit: Git for Video Editing
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⭐ 4196, 🖖 308
Harden Windows Safely, Securely using Official Supported Microsoft methods and proper explanation | Always up-to-date and works with the latest build of Windows | Provides tools and Guides for Personal, Enterprise, Government and Military security levels | SLSA Level 3 Compliant for Secure Development and Build Process | Apps Available on MS Store✨
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⭐ 6, 🖖 0
Can an AI model fit on a single pixel?
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⭐ 3401, 🖖 105
A very fast linker for Linux
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