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2026 Spiel Des Jahres Winners: JinxO, Rebirth and Mooki Island (wericmartin.com)

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The Five Sisters Race is underway (instagram.com)

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Neocities: Create your own free website (neocities.org)

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Communities turn to barter-style crop swaps to combat cost-of-living crisis (abc.net.au)

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Programming thought experiment: stuck in a room with a PC without an OS (reddit.com)

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Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (2007) (github.com/nornagon)

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TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024) (atthis.link)

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The secret operation to move the Bayeux Tapestry (nationalgeographic.com)

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Lindsey Graham has died (washingtonpost.com)

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RetroAchievements (retroachievements.org)

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Sodas with a Doctorate (bsky.app)

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Generating Effects (othermeans.substack.com)

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Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (thebulwark.com)

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The Chud Vision of Roman History (acoup.blog)

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Associate Editors resign from Statistics and Computing editorial board (columbia.edu)

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Whitegoods that aren't, but should be (rubenerd.au)

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Earliest example of right-handedness found in Australian fossils (cnn.com)

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Anne Frank Diaries: ECJ strengthens geoblocking despite VPN circumvention (heise.de)

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Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech (theringer.com)

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Bonnie Tyler latest: Legendary rock singer dies 'unexpectedly' in Portugal (sky.com)

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The potential role of iron fuel in Europe's clean energy transition (cell.com)

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What's the Point of Sex, Anyway? (newyorker.com)

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Is Life Just Different? (quantamagazine.org)

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UK Farage's election gamble could see him face one challenger Count Binface (reuters.com)

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WebAssembly runtime may still be no runtime at all (00f.net)

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Off By: Exploiting a Use-After-Free in the Linux Kernel (exodusintel.com)

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How feminism has made me a better scientist (2018) (columbia.edu)

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PDF 2.0: New Features, Real-World Impact (pdfa.org)

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Celebrating 15 years of SAP's involvement in the OpenJDK (mostlynerdless.de)

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Roosevelt Pursues the Boat Thieves (2015) (nps.gov)

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Trump's red card call stirs political storm around World Cup (cnn.com)

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Chamberlain murder trial artefacts paint picture of frenzy around 1982 case (abc.net.au)

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FIFA lifts Balogun's World Cup suspension after Trump calls Infantino (france24.com)

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Eclipse Enclave (eclipse.org)

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Describing All My Photos (alexwlchan.net)

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Systemd by Example – The Systemd Playground (systemd-by-example.com)

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code-on-incus: Give each AI agent its own isolated machine with root (github.com/mensfeld)

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Rare things become common at scale (2014) (asmartbear.com)

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Floci: a fast, free, and open-source local AWS service emulator (floci.io)

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China's electromagnetic rocket launch technology (indiatimes.com)

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Write Code, Not Specs (softwaredoug.com)

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Bhopal's '90-degree' bridge turns out to bend 118 degrees (2025) (organiser.org)

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I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me. (2020) (politico.com)

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In "Stalin's Apostles," spies relied on their pedigrees to evade suspicion (csmonitor.com)

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'The Book of Birds': Not just identifying avian species, but relating to them (csmonitor.com)

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At Dog School, children gain a sense of achievement (csmonitor.com)

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Newsletters in 2026: $10 per month is default price (pressgazette.co.uk)

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Gen Z Was Told We Could Save the World. Is It Silly to Think We Still Can? (teenvogue.com)

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A Unique Strategy for Creating and Crowdfunding Games: 6 Questions (stonemaiergames.com)

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Teen Girls' Suicide Rates Are Rising in Many Countries Around the World (afterbabel.com)

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"I am struggling to think who would want to read this book" (2025) (davidbessis.substack.com)

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The security of modern password expiration (2010) (acm.org)

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Does AI Have Speech Rights? (cjr.org)

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Roosevelt Would Not Understand the E.U.'S Antitrust Fine Against Google (2017) (newyorker.com)

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Kim Dotcom's legal battle to stay in NZ and avoid extradition to the US (rnz.co.nz)

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The cannibalistic trade-off: Why human cannibalism emerges (pnas.org)

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A bug I ran into when using Java Modules (reddit.com)

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Likelihood, and Maximum Likelihood, in Statistics (bactra.org)

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What MkDocs 2.0 means for your documentation projects (squidfunk.github.io)

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Valve Explains Why It Doesn't Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms (daringfireball.net)

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Amsterdam Invented the Fire Department (worksinprogress.co)

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Russia's plan to drill in Arctic revives controversial theory of 'endless oil' (science.org)

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The CC Founders Fireside Chat (creativecommons.org)

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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer (2021) (david-colson.com)

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We Need a Way to Prove Personhood Online (noemamag.com)

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A pediatrician stands by her parenting advice despite a backlash (cnn.com)

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Big Data File Formats (luminousmen.substack.com)

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Faith, Freedom, Family, Place – An Ethnographic Study (redassociates.com)

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What Should We Optimize Away? (autodidacts.io)

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Germans are researching their Nazi past as the far right urges them to move on (cnn.com)

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We Answered 35 of Your Civ VII History Questions (steampowered.com)

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Lenovo saying RAM prices may never go back to how they were (rockpapershotgun.com)

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The Rust Book Maintenance (chriskrycho.com)

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iOS 27 Makes the Shortcuts App Less Intimidating (macrumors.com)

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JEP Draft: Deprecate the macOS/X64 Port for Removal (openjdk.org)

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I owe my life to a 1913 road rage incident (plover.com)

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Chronic Pain: The Science of Unlearning Pain (zeit.de)

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BadBlocker: 11M Users, One Server Call Away from Compromise (island.io)

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Politico owner Axel Springer doubles down on corporate principles (jewishinsider.com)

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Influential Books on Ethics (thecollector.com)

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Potatoes Reshaped People's DNA (smithsonianmag.com)

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Calling everything AI-generated is lazy (00f.net)

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US Supreme Court scales back Roundup cancer lawsuits (reuters.com)

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Austin Carter, 30, was disarmed by a drone, a possible first in law enforcement (foxnews.com)

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Fossils of archaic human found in a cave are the same sex (cnn.com)

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Apple Shares Video on How Pro Surfers Use Apple Watch During Competition (macrumors.com)

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Alexis Peskine uses nails, gold, and plants to depict the African diaspora (cnn.com)

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New York lawmaker says it's 'sad' that a cafe banned him (theguardian.com)

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Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation (whitehouse.gov)

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I don't believe, I know (2019) (onlinedigeditions.com)

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The Lure of "Magic Bullets" in Reforming Schools (larrycuban.wordpress.com)

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Over 1M Pages About Comics (ingebrigtsen.no)

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Stad Ship Tunnel (snohetta.com)

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Xfwl4's First Preview Release (spurint.org)

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Leipzig accuses conductor of inappropriate conduct (slippedisc.com)

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Search has its own bitter lesson (softwaredoug.com)

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MSYS2 and the No-Fuss Way to Get More GNU into Your Windows (hackaday.com)

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Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers (davidrevoy.com)

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Squidbleed (calif.io)

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Hilarious German Compound Nouns you won't want to miss (rayburntours.com)