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1. He Surprised This 100-Year-Old Veteran By Inviting Him To A Day At Disneyland And It’s The Sweetest Video We Have Ever Seen
(English/ChipChic)

... In his TikTok bio, he writes that he used to be homeless. But now that he’s back on his feet, he dedicates […] Read all  ...

2. The number that is too big for the universe
(English/newscientist)

TREE(3) is a number that turns up easily from just playing a simple mathematical game. Yet, it is so colossally large that it couldn't conceivably fit in our universe, writes Antonio Padilla Read all ...

3. Weight loss advice isn't based on good evidence
(English/newscientist)

The orthodoxy in most high income countries is that anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more is overweight, but evidence suggests the cut-off point should be a fair bit higher, writes Clare Wilson ...

4. Why I love the proliferation of green roofs and living walls
(English/newscientist)

Green roofs have existed for more than 2000 years, but, along with living walls, they are becoming more popular – and provide major eco-benefits, writes Beronda L. Montgomery Read all  ...

5. CodeSOD: The Device Search
(English/WTF)

... a SPECIFIC_DEVICE. Gilda writes: "Apparently this has been in the baseline code since before the project it is in was branched off so I don't know if anything was deleted between setting the specific_device_flag ...

6. Mistakenly calling AIs "sentient" is more dangerous than we think
(English/newscientist)

A Google engineer recently claimed an AI was alive and that it had hired a lawyer. If judges were to accept these claims, it could lead to AIs being frozen in their biased states, writes Annalee Newitz ...

7. SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World
(English/ieespectrum)

... permits generate controversy,” says Thomas Hazlett, a Clemson University economist who writes about bandwidth battles (and once served as FCC chief economist). But the rulings—and market activities that ...

8. This Tiny DIY Plotter Makes Labels On Masking Tape
(English/makezine)

... interesting direction. As you can see, they’ve made a tiny plotter that writes directly onto the masking tape, […] The post This Tiny DIY Plotter Makes Labels On Masking Tape appeared first ...

9. Sure, GitHub’s AI-assisted Copilot Writes Code for You, but Is It lLegal or Ethical?
(English/Linuxtoday)

... Writes Code for You, but Is It lLegal or Ethical? appeared first on Linux Today. Read all  ...

10. CodeSOD: Switching Notes
(English/WTF)

"The app I work on is a 1.2MLOC big-ball-o-wtf," writes Mark B. As with a lot of big piles of bad code, it's frequently hard to find a snippet that both represents the bad code and is concise ...

11. What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?
(English/newscientist)

When it comes to something as complex as space-time, intuition comes in different ways, depending on the level of science you have access to, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Read all  ...

12. Meta’s AI Takes an Unsupervised Step Forward
(English/ieespectrum)

... Bengio writes. He adds that “qualitative advances” in the field will be needed to really move the state of the art anywhere closer to human-scale AI. While he agrees with LeCun that the ability to reason ...

13. She’s In A Race Against Time To Save Her Best Friend Koda From Cancer
(English/ChipChic)

... me, you know Koda,” writes Sarah. “She’s my heart dog, my child, my best friend.” Sarah adopted Koda back in 2020 […] Read all  ...

14. This Dentist Went Viral For Giving Advice On What To Do If You Ever Get A Tooth Knocked Out
(English/ChipChic)

... and even posts her children’s dental experiences. In her bio, Dr. B writes that she is a “Board Certified Pediatric Dentist bringing fun & care […] Read all  ...

15. She Posted Photos Of Her Mom On Social Media For The Anniversary Of Her Passing, And Now Her Stepdad’s New Wife Is Furious With Her
(English/ChipChic)

... She includes photos of her mom and she writes about her too. After her mom passed away, her stepdad […] Read all  ...

16. This Teen Shamed Another Girl At School For Having A Nanny Who Writes Little Notes To Her In Her Lunch Box
(English/ChipChic)

A 16-year-old girl currently attends high school, and when she returned to school following her winter break, she noticed a new girl named Nicole had joined the school. She thought Nicole was “weird” ...

17. This Flight Attendant Pointed Out One Of The Major Downsides To Her Job That You Probably Never Thought Of, Before Addressing All Of The Highlights
(English/ChipChic)

... writes Serenity, as she explains in one of her TikTok videos that the flight she was working on landed […] Read all  ...

18. Her Brother Got A Girl Pregnant, And She Just Let This Girl Move In With Her
(English/ChipChic)

... women. “I love him with all my heart, but he’s a little bit of a jerk to women,” she writes. “I’ve tried […] Read all  ...

19. Five Lessons from ‘All Things Open’ on Hosting In-Person Events During COVID
(English/Linuxtoday)

Todd Lewis, the founder and chairperson at All Things Open, writes about the challenges of launching a major in-person event during the Age of COVID-19. The post Five Lessons from ‘All Things Open’ on ...

20. USBImager Download, Best Alternative to Etcher
(English/Linuxtoday)

Under Linux, there are many ways to put a bootable image on a USB stick or SD card. On the command line, the tool of choice is dd, which stands for disk dump and reads and writes hard disks, partitions ...

21. Linux Kernel 5.15 Will Have Improved NTFS File System Support
(English/Linuxtoday)

... FUSE-based open source NTFS driver, the Paragon’s NTFS3 driver undoubtedly wins in terms of functionality and performance. The driver fully supports reads, writes, and […] The post Linux Kernel 5.15 ...

22. Just 4 things to make this affordable IKEA Kitchen Island
(English/ikeahacker)

... since gathered over 9,000 likes with 4600 retweets. She writes, “Wanted a kitchen island but my kitchen is not big and I didn’t have a lot of budget for it. Nevermind. Just DIY.” She ...

23. Her Mom Gave Her Husband-To-Be A Cruel Wedding Gift So She Told Her She’s Not Coming To The Wedding Unless She Apologizes
(English/ChipChic)

... issue. Her mom writes herself off as someone who is simply “brutally honest” but it’s far beyond just that. Her mom […] Read all  ...

24. Paragon’s NTFS3 Driver is About to Become A Part of the Linux Kernel
(English/Linuxtoday)

Paragon’s NTFS3 driver fully supports reads and writes and many other features not found with the existing Linux driver. This new driver is much better off for those needing to deal with Microsoft NTFS ...

25. Dad Writes Hilarious Review Of His Little Daughter’s ‘Restaurant’ And It’s The Best Thing You’ll See Today
(English/ChipChic)

Chris Kyle is the dad of an adorable little daughter named Ava who looks like she’s been keeping busy lately learning to cook. She even opened up her own restaurant in their home, and it seems that ...