Viral news today

/r/all📄  me_irl
📄  Alysa Liu jumps for joy on the podium (photo by Matthew Stockman for Getty)
📄  86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejects AI data center offer of $15 million to sell his land. Instead, he sold development rights to a conservation fund for $2 million
📄  I became a dad last night
📄  gross 🤮
📄  Bill Burr is the man who wrote the 2003 NIST manual that recommended password changes every 90 days. He now regrets creating that guideline because it just encourages people to make small alterations to weak passwords ("password1" to "password2").
📄  Dont' mess with Caesar
📄  Alysa Liu 🇺🇸 takes gold following the women's figure skating free skate 🥇
📄  A generous person gave our shelter a banana; it’s really popular with the kittens.
📄  [35M] never had a girlfriend
📄  FBI: We are releasing the alien files. The files:
📄  Everything is getting better for little Punch as the older monkeys came to support him. The monkey that went viral on social media in the past few days is starting to get some company.
📄  The snow on top of this canopy was melting through the holes and refreezing again.
📄  Alysa Liu celebrates what would be an eventual Gold medal Performance in Women's figure skating single. She is first member of Team USA to win Gold in this event since 2002.
📄  Alysa Liu with her Olympic figure skating gold medal in Women Single Skating!
📄  Meirl

HackerNews📄  Keep Android Open
📄  Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
📄  I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
📄  Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
📄  I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer
📄  Lil' Fun Langs
📄  Facebook is cooked
📄  Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
📄  Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
📄  Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
📄  The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
📄  How to Review an AUR Package
📄  Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
📄  Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health
📄  A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh
📄  Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
📄  Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously

/r/Programming Daily📄  Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot [December outage]
📄  AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode
📄  A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++
📄  How I made a shooter game in 64 KB
📄  No Skill. No Taste.
📄  ThunderKittens 2.0: Even Faster Kernels for Your GPUs
📄  JEP draft: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview)
📄  Open Source Software Projects Are Brands
📄  I built the same PostgreSQL REST API in 6 languages — here's how the database libraries compare
📄  Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database
📄  Dont make N+1 queries because you forgot a column in a Raw Query
📄  Investigating the SuperNote Notebook Format
📄  A Practical Security Audit for Builders
📄  Can Regular Expressions Be Safely Reused Across Languages?
📄  SOLID in FP: Open-Closed, or Why I Love When Code Won't Compile

/r/Technology Daily📄  Harmful chemicals found in dozens of popular headphones
📄  Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology
📄  Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake / Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools.
📄  FBI says ATM 'jackpotting' attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash
📄  Newsom backs social media restrictions for teens under 16
📄  Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator Vincent Driessen calls it out: "The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy."
📄  Tesla loses bid to overturn $243M Autopilot verdict
📄  Meta cuts staff stock awards for a second straight year
📄  Ring reportedly plans to ‘zero out crime’ with controversial tech
📄  Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer
📄  New AI Data Leaks - More Than 1 Billion IDs And Photos Exposed
📄  DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Thank you, Bluepoint Games.
📄  In regards to the recent Pokemon RedFire/GreenLeaf announcement, it's at least a welcoming alternative over this...
📄  Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US: 'We're not just going away on this'
📄  Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission
📄  I'm trying out cult games. My first pick this year was XCOM. And it's definitely a great game
📄  Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen have been added to the Coming Soon section of the Nintendo Switch eShop and are available to pre-order
📄  Xcom designer Jake Solomon announces that his new studio is shutting down. He also gives a brief look into the now cancelled life sim they were making
📄  I swear, there’s a boss somewhere in that wall of bullets.
📄  Nier Automata "to be continued," Square Enix says, giving stunned fans some hope as the Yoko Taro-led JRPG flies past 10 million copies sold
📄  Pokemon FireRed Version and Pokemon LeafGreen Version Trailer
📄  While Consumer Console Spend Has Only Grown 2.3% over the Past Five Years, PC Spend has Grown 30%
📄  Age of Empires 2 Added Voice Chat, but Forgot to Ask Players for Permission

Lobste.rs how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
 Plasma 6.6 released
 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
 Gentoo on Codeberg
 A programmer's loss of identity
 I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
 Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
 The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
 Rise of the Triforce
 How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
 Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
 DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation
 Poor Deming never stood a chance

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  Donald Trump called Prince Andrew’s arrest over Epstein connections 'a shame’. What do you think about this?
📄  Trump was caught sleeping at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting today. What are your thoughts on this?
📄  What actor’s mere presence makes you automatically lose interest in a movie or show?
📄  How does the world wide working class start organizing a massive general strike in protest of the elite class corruption brought to light in the Epstein Files?
📄  What is a basic adult skill that your brain just literally refuses to learn?
📄  What if Mountbatten Windsor testifies about trump? What do you think will happen if he testifies what he saw trump do on the island or mara lago?
📄  What’s the craziest hazing incident you’ve ever witnessed?
📄  What’s the wildest business idea you’ve seen someone actually make work?
📄  What’s something you’re done tolerating?
📄  What is a "point of no return" that you’ve crossed, where your life was permanently divided into 'before' and 'after'?
📄  What’s a random act of kindness you still think about years later?
📄  What’s the weirdest thing you’ve accepted as normal since COVID?

GNews Cats give genetic clues to better cancer treatments - Financial Times
 William Foege obituary: epidemiologist in smallpox success - The Times
 People are using Ozempic to drink less. We already have FDA-approved drugs for that. - Business Insider
 Scientists find a mechanism showing how exercise protects the brain - Medical Xpress
 Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution - Gizmodo
 Mystery of snowman-shaped space objects cracked - The Guardian
 Science fiction blinded us to the perils of settling Mars - Big Think
 From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round - Ars Technica
 The NCAA Selection Committee is Higher on Kentucky Than You Might Think - On3
 Top-ranked Canada, U.S. fall in women's Olympic curling semis - ESPN
 Veteran almost fails to make weight again for UFC Houston - MMA Fighting
 Gennaro Filice 2026 NFL mock draft 1.0: Jeremiyah Love cracks top five; Chiefs take WR Jordyn Tyson - NFL.com

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 Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
 Nasal spray could prevent infections from any flu strain
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 Methane surge in 2020 was linked to lower pollution during lockdowns
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