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A fully autonomous Waymo was recorded driving straight into the middle of an active police standoff in Los Angeles. Officers taking cover, lights flashing, weapons drawn. The car still proceeded… | Noam Schwartz | 156 comments

I Found 15 Solo Capitalists Who Write Checks in 48 Hours ⚡ If you're tired of waiting 6 months for VC committees to say "maybe," these are the investors you should be pitching. Solo… | Vahid Fakhr | 29 comments

Gemini 3 can animate web designs like a senior designer

New $100B AI Bet — The Real Threat to NVIDIA

A Love Letter to Old Cars

Bluetongue: New suspected case discovered in Greyabbey - BBC News

Double lives of women farmers revealed through photo project - Farmers Weekly

Farmer reveals unexpected impacts after combining solar farm with crops: 'I think of myself as a shade peddler'

AI Computer Startup Hits $4.5 Billion Valuation in Seed Round - Bloomberg

Trump to announce $12 billion in tariff relief for U.S. farmers - The Washington Post

Ramanujan’s 100-Year-Old Pi Formula That Hides the Secrets of the Universe

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Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Raising a pre-seed/seed round? I'll help make some intros. I like to make sure no great deals are prevented from getting done, especially in December. (I invest in as many companies over holidays as… | Mike MacCombie | 30 comments

The Kaggle Book — Master Data Analysis and #DataScience Competitions with #MachineLearning, GenAI, and LLMs [2nd Edition]: https://t.co/DAHd3EDz8A via @PacktDataML

Bred heifers command premium despite market reality checks

New soil carbon map shows where the US is losing the most CO2 - Earth.com

Google Issues Critical Update For All Pixel Users—Attacks Confirmed

You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

Apple, Google send new round of cyber threat notifications to users around world | Reuters

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI - The Atlantic

I tried a smart ring that captured my thoughts and replicated my voice - it was trippier than expected | ZDNET

A simplified wearable device powered by a generative EMG network for hand-gesture recognition and gait prediction | Nature Sensors

Bridging the Beef-on-Dairy Divide - Dairy Herd

This startup built a Fitbit for your brain to combat chronic stress | TechCrunch

Calf ‘laundering’ revealed as key herds attempted to evade slaughter ban | Irish Independent

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You can attach a 30TB LTO-10 tape drive to an Apple Mac Mini, for SSD like speeds | TechRadar

The “impossible” LED breakthrough that changes everything | ScienceDaily

Lessons Learned After Trying MeshCore For Off-grid Text Messaging | Hackaday