Monthly Highlights
5911.
A Theory of Dumb: Why Are IQ Scores Suddenly Falling? (nymag.com)
5912.
What Was the First Bookmark? (bookmarkstuff.com)
5913.
Texas Attorney General Sues Epic for Gatekeeping Medical Data (texasattorneygeneral.gov)
5914.
Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards (economist.com)
5915.
Western carmakers 'in fight for lives' against Chinese rivals, says Ford boss (theguardian.com)
5916.
The Rise of the 'Just in Case' MRI (nytimes.com)
5917.
I ran out of money, spent my savings on a Hong Kong prostitute,& became a commie (docs.google.com)
5918.
I built Jelly: an SSH-only social space (no passwords, no emails)
5919.
Ask HN: Why do maintainers spend time reviewing my code?
5920.
Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen (cnn.com)
5921.
Age of "Don't do it yourself" (blog.rybarix.com)
5922.
U.S. Citizens and Chinese Nationals Arrested for Exporting AI Tech to China (justice.gov)
5923.
Due to relentless AI scrapers notabug.org is currently down (notabug.org)
5924.
Adobe to Buy Semrush for $1.9B (techcrunch.com)
5925.
SpeedTest data shows Apple's N1 chip lifts the floor on iPhone WiFi performance (arstechnica.com)
5926.
Just ten species make up almost half the weight of all wild mammals (ourworldindata.org)
5927.
ShowHN: YouReadTube (youreadtube.com)
5928.
Browserbench.ai is launched to evaluate browser runtimes for AI Agents (browserbench.ai)
5929.
We Shut Down Double Finance (YC W24) (jjmaxwell4.com)
5930.
National Security Strategy of the United States of America [pdf] (whitehouse.gov)
5931.
OpenAI Ads Are Coming (twitter.com)
5932.
The War Department Unleashes AI on New GenAI.mil Platform (war.gov)
5933.
Is a 50-year mortgage that much crazier than a 30-year one? (npr.org)
5934.
Seattle passes 70% college grads for first time (seattletimes.com)
5935.
Every log must fire: applying Chekhov's gun to cybersecurity incident reports (andreafortuna.org)
5936.
Most US Teens Use YouTube and TikTok Daily–Some 'Almost Constantly,' Survey Says (nytimes.com)
5937.
Show HN: The notepad that thinks in numbers (numla.app)
5938.
Tangible AI Dungeons and Dragons (fab.cba.mit.edu)
5939.
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind (politico.com)
5940.
Got burned by an Apple ICLR paper – it was withdrawn after my Public Comment (twitter.com)