Viral news today

/r/all📄  In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring 10 billion dollars from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can therefore use the funds as he wishes
📄  me_irl
📄  Alysa Liu jumps for joy on the podium (photo by Matthew Stockman for Getty)
📄  In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring 10 billion dollars from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can therefore use the funds as he wishes
📄  President Trump falls asleep at the inaugural Board of peace meeting
📄  That pretty much sums me up
📄  Rapist Andrew Mountbatten Windsor spotted after being released from police custody
📄  Blursed Police
📄  I became a dad last night
📄  Alysa Liu 🇺🇸 takes gold following the women's figure skating free skate 🥇
📄  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").
📄  gross 🤮
📄  Thanks I hate it
📄  [35M] never had a girlfriend
📄  A generous person gave our shelter a banana; it’s really popular with the kittens.
📄  Punch update: he has made friends and one has started caring for him and grooming him

HackerNews📄  F-Droid: "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
📄  Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
📄  Lil' Fun Langs
📄  Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
📄  The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
📄  Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
📄  Legion Health (YC) Is Hiring Cracked SWEs for Autonomous Mental Health
📄  Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
📄  PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
📄  The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)
📄  Visible Spectra of the Elements
📄  The Popper Principle
📄  Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
📄  Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance
📄  Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

/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
📄  Farewell, Rust
📄  A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++
📄  How I made a shooter game in 64 KB
📄  No Skill. No Taste.
📄  Can Regular Expressions Be Safely Reused Across Languages?
📄  JEP draft: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview)
📄  Open Source Software Projects Are Brands
📄  Django ORM Standalone⁽¹⁾: Querying an existing database
📄  I built the same PostgreSQL REST API in 6 languages — here's how the database libraries compare
📄  A Practical Security Audit for Builders
📄  The Deceptively Simple Act of Writing to Disk
📄  Investigating the SuperNote Notebook Format
📄  Reconstructing Biscuit in Clojure

/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
📄  AMC Theatres Won’t Screen AI Short Film ‘Thanksgiving Day’ That Sparked Online Outrage: We Will ‘Not Participate’
📄  FBI says ATM 'jackpotting' attacks are on the rise, and netting hackers millions in stolen cash
📄  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.
📄  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."
📄  Meta cuts staff stock awards for a second straight year
📄  The algorithmic feed on X could be shifting political views toward conservatism
📄  Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer
📄  Ring reportedly plans to ‘zero out crime’ with controversial tech
📄  DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir

/r/Gaming Daily📄  In regards to the recent Pokemon RedFire/GreenLeaf announcement, it's at least a welcoming alternative over this...
📄  Slay the Spire 2 Early Access Trailer
📄  Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US: 'We're not just going away on this'
📄  Thank you, Bluepoint Games.
📄  Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission
📄  Nintendo always knows just what to say – after unofficial Pokemon TCG store was robbed of $100,000 at gunpoint, the publisher reached out with copyright "concerns"
📄  Bloomberg: Sony Shuts Down 'Demon's Souls' Remake Developer Bluepoint Games
📄  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

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/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?
📄  What’s a small habit that instantly makes someone 10x more attractive?
📄  What is a basic adult skill that your brain just literally refuses to learn?
📄  What’s something you’re done tolerating?
📄  What’s the loneliest moment you’ve experienced?
📄  What’s the wildest business idea you’ve seen someone actually make work?
📄  What’s a random act of kindness you still think about years later?
📄  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’s the weirdest thing you’ve accepted as normal since COVID?
📄  What’s a creepy or unexplained story you heard from your grandmother that still gives you chills?

GNews The Atlantic’s essay about measles was gut-wrenching. Some readers feel deceived. - The Washington Post
 Cats give genetic clues to better cancer treatments - Financial Times
 William Foege obituary: epidemiologist in smallpox success - The Times
 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
 Science fiction blinded us to the perils of settling Mars - Big Think
 This odd-looking new Spinosaurus is reviving an age-old debate - Yahoo
 The James Webb Space Telescope just mapped auroras on Uranus in 3D for the 1st time, and scientists are thrilled - Space
 Inter Miami CF Acquires International Roster Slot From New England Revolution - Inter Miami CF
 Morning Report | Mikey Musumeci fires back at Dillon Danis over comment - MMA Fighting
 The NCAA Selection Committee is Higher on Kentucky Than You Might Think - On3
 Sidney Crosby’s injury spotlights many Olympic hockey debates. Let’s get into all of them - TribLIVE.com

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