🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.
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Gartner predicts that by 2030, all IT work will involve AI, with 25% of tasks done entirely by bots. While AI threatens entry-level IT jobs, it's not expected to cause massive job losses. Companies must adapt to AI's growing role efficiently.
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A breach of Salesloft's GitHub account allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens, enabling mass hackings of various Big Tech customers from March to June. The breach took six months to detect, affecting companies like Google and Cloudflare. The incident is now contained.
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OpenAI's research highlights why large language models like GPT-5 and ChatGPT still produce hallucinations—plausible but false statements—due to their training on word prediction without true-false labels. They advocate for evaluation models that penalize confident errors to reduce guessing.
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A study in Plos One reveals humans inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles daily, posing significant health risks including chronic pulmonary inflammation and potential lung cancer. Indoor air concentrations are higher due to poor ventilation and enclosed spaces with plastic products.
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OpenAI is producing "Critterz," an AI-powered animated film, to showcase AI's capabilities to Hollywood. With a budget under $30 million and a nine-month production schedule, OpenAI aims to prove AI's potential despite industry skepticism.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: IterTools TS
(Extended itertools port for TypeScript and JavaScript. Provides a huge set of functions for working with iterable collections (including async ones).)
Why: Simple function; good for learning about iterables and async in TypeScript.
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⭐ 14935, 🖖 1433
Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.
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⭐ 2659, 🖖 126
Kani Rust Verifier
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⭐ 5173, 🖖 381
Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
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⭐ 3316, 🖖 301
App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image
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⭐ 2950, 🖖 115
Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive or SSH compatible storage
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