🦟 Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/welcome-to-necroprinting-3d-printer-nozzle-made-from-mosquitos-proboscis/
Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
'Welcome back to life' — Ukraine's HUR faked death of top anti-Putin Russian commander, claimed Kremlin bounty money: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/welcome-back-to-life-ukraines.html
New year celebrations around the world – in pictures
Auckland, New Zealand
A firework display from the top of Sky Tower welcomes in the new year.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/galle…
Super Bowl 49 broke the Seahawks. They’re back because they recaptured the magic that team lost https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010144/2026/02/02/super-bowl-60-seahawks-patriots-russell-wilson-malcolm-butler/
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14,000-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic staffer confirms its authenticity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/…
Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR)
⭐️faked the death of Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK),
⭐️and claimed the bounty placed on his head by Russia's intelligence service,
HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov revealed on Jan. 1.
"Welcome back to life," Budanov said on a Telegram video,
while congratulating Kapustin and the intelligence team involved in the operation
Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…