Daily Top Stories
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ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)
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First, make me care (gwern.net)
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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch (github.com)
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Yes, It's Fascism (theatlantic.com)
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Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback (consumerrights.wiki)
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Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only (restofworld.org)
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White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" (arstechnica.com)
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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant (github.com)
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019) (bbc.com)
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FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations (aerotime.aero)
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Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' (sciencealert.com)
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The browser is the sandbox (simonwillison.net)
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Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems (diljitpr.net)
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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal (iranintl.com)
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Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds (bbc.com)
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format (maplibre.org)
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The future of software engineering is SRE (swizec.com)
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I was right about ATProto key management (notes.nora.codes)
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ICE tells legal observer, 'We have a database, now you're a domestic terrorist' (reason.com)
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Canada (jenn.site)
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Vibe Coding Kills Open Source (arxiv.org)
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LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (nature.com)
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Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux (phoronix.com)
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Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water (sfgate.com)
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UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs (reclaimthenet.org)
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UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy' (smithsonianmag.com)
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The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen (github.com)
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Apple, What Have You Done? (onlinegoddess.net)
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Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs (tomaszmachnik.pl)
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Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update (windowslatest.com)