February 2025 Archive
4801.
Second bird flu strain found in US dairy cattle, USDA says (reuters.com)
4802.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Elon Musk (techdirt.com)
4803.
Torrent-1: a RISC-V vector implementation inspired by the Cray X1 vector machine (hackaday.com)
4804.
Venture Capital Extremism (vcinfodocs.com)
4805.
Reboot: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing San Francisco (2024) (thenerdreich.com)
4806.
Boeing is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the SLS rocket (arstechnica.com)
4807.
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook (thenerdreich.com)
4808.
Masters of the Knight: The Art of Chess Carving in India (atlasobscura.com)
4809.
Show HN: Hnterminal, browse/interact with Hacker News in terminal (github.com)
4810.
Cybersecurity experts aghast: security failures in DOGE takeover (cyberscoop.com)
4811.
US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger (salon.com)
4812.
GeForce RTX 5090 fails to topple RTX 4090 in GPU compute benchmark (notebookcheck.net)
4813.
Botanical gardens have reached peak capacity (cosmosmagazine.com)
4814.
Show HN: KTransformers:671B DeepSeek-R1 on a Single Machine-286 tokens/s Prefill (github.com)
4815.
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk’s Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet (bloomberg.com)
4816.
Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors (muskwatch.com)
4817.
Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas' least-vaccinated counties (arstechnica.com)
4818.
Meta Layoff Starts (forbes.com)
4819.
Elon Musk and PayPal Broligarchy are attempting to make Apartheid great again (thelefthook.substack.com)
4820.
"There is no prosecution at any cost." – Tuta (tuta.com)
4821.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected (nature.com)
4822.
It's Time to Worry About DOGE's AI Plans (theatlantic.com)
4823.
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They're Trying to Publish It Anyway (nytimes.com)
4824.
Opinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over (vancouversun.com)
4825.
Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists (theguardian.com)
4826.
The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown (foreignaffairs.com)
4827.
Sam Altman Dismisses Elon Musk's Bid to Buy OpenAI in Letter to Staff (wired.com)
4828.
After Trump killed a report on nature, researchers push ahead with release (arstechnica.com)
4829.
Engineers don't make public squares. People do (cpf.sh)
4830.
Ignorance is bliss when you're drowning in information (theregister.com)