🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
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American Civil War: In the world's first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Lumma Stealer malware, previously disrupted by global law enforcement, has returned “at scale” using deceptive ClickFix fake CAPTCHA lures and CastleLoader. Users are tricked into running terminal commands, leading to stealthy theft of credentials, documents, crypto wallets, 2FA tokens, and more.
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Russian-linked APT28 rapidly weaponized a new critical Microsoft Office flaw, launching a stealthy spear-phishing campaign against government, diplomatic, and transport targets. Using fileless, cloud-based backdoors, they exfiltrated emails and evaded detection, underscoring how little time defenders now have to patch.
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OpenAI’s Codex is a Rust-based, multi-agent coding assistant that runs long-lived “agent loops,” heavily sandboxed for safety. Over 90% of its code is Codex-written, with engineers acting as “agent managers.” It’s reshaping OpenAI’s software engineering speed, workflows, and review practices.
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SETI researchers say turbulent “space weather” near alien stars can smear narrow radio signals across many frequencies, making them too weak for current detection methods. This may partly explain the cosmic “silence” and suggests future searches should target higher, broader frequencies.
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Researchers showed large language models can link “anonymous” social media accounts to real identities by cross-referencing shared details across platforms. This makes de‑anonymisation, surveillance, and targeted scams cheaper and easier, prompting experts to call for stricter data access limits and stronger anonymisation practices.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Quora - the original question seems to still exist, at <https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts>, but the exact response I downloaded all those years ago is nowhere to be found.
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⭐ 350, 🖖 15
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
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⭐ 2616, 🖖 204
Jupyter extensions that help you write code faster: Context aware AI Chat, Autocomplete, and Spreadsheet
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⭐ 77, 🖖 2
PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug
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⭐ 14873, 🖖 1348
🪄 Create rich visualizations with AI
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⭐ 4497, 🖖 5348
Open-source file hosting solution based on CloudFlare (Image hosting/File storage/Cloud drive) / 基于 CloudFlare 的开源文件托管解决方案（图床/文件床/网盘）
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