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OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…

Many of the most influential personalities in the
“Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X
💥are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India,
a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.
The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.
It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, …

Powertoys 0.97: Neues Maus-Tool zum Cursor-„Durchscrollen“
Die Powertoys bringen in Version 0.97 ein neues Maus-Tool mit, das Monitor-Grenzen einreißt. Die Befehlspalette wurde verbessert.
https://www.

»Race-Condition-Tests in HTTP/3 — QuicDraw vorgestellt: Sicherheitsforscher schließen Lücke bei HTTP/3-Penetrationstests«
Zugegeben ich weiss nun nicht wie ich diesen Artikel nun einschätzen soll, ist dies Unsicherheitsmarketing oder was Ernstes? Ja Sicherheitslücken müssen behoben werden aber es wird auch öfters vieles als "Die Katastrophe" der IT-Sicherheit vermarktet was es nur bedingt ist
🔓

Rawgraphs is another tool to make figures without R: #dataviz #ui

Another interesting command line tool on #macOS explained by the wonderful Eclectic Light Company https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/24/convert-text-betwe…

Microsofts ungewöhnlicher Test: Claude Code von Anthropic im Fokus
Microsoft testet intensiv das KI-Entwicklungs-Tool Claude Code von Anthropic. Tausende Mitarbeiter nutzen es, auch für Produkte wie Windows und Microsoft 365.

What Pocket Health, Amazon Prime Vision's new tool, teaches us about QBs, OL and defenses https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916237/2025/12/24/pocket-health-insights-amazon-prime-vision/

🔄 CacheAligner: Stabilizes prefixes so provider caching actually works - up to 10x savings by fixing dynamic content like dates that break cache hits
📊 RollingWindow: Manages context within limits without breaking tool calls - drops oldest tool outputs first, never breaks system prompts or recent turns
🔧 Easy setup options: Proxy server works with any #OpenAI-compatible client with…

hm. i could easily write a tool that pushes a Docker image to any git-pages server

Oreo maker Mondelez has spent $40M on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to cut costs for the production of marketing content by 30% to 50% (Jessica DiNapoli/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 3705 nodes and 15167 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
-- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

In voorbereiding van een commissievergadering gebruikte ik, na eerst de stukken zelf te hebben gelezen, Gemini 3 als tool om mij te adviseren over de in te brengen punten. Heel makkelijk omdat alle stukken openbaar zijn en je deze dus kunt meegeven als context/kennis. Gemini vindt deels dingen die ik zelf had geconstateerd maar deels ook andere. Benieuwd hoe dit het werk in raden gaat veranderen. Risico, mensen gaan nog minder zelf lezen... 🙄

from my link log —
dirlock: manage encrypted directories using the Linux kernel's fscrypt API.
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/dirlock
saved 2025-12-23

Die Bing Webmaster Tools sind faktisch ein kostenloses SEO-Audit-Tool. 🛠️
Während die Google Search Console oft nur anzeigt, dass etwas nicht stimmt, liefert der Bing "Site Scan" eine tiefe technische Analyse. Wie bei teuren Profi-Tools.
Der Crawler findet Broken Links, fehlende Tags und SEO-Fehler, die Google gerne mal verschweigt.
Da der Import aus der GSC nur Sekunden dauert, bekommt man hier eine gratis Second Opinion für die eigene Seite. Sollte man nutzen. 💸…

Found a cool tool to create Apple Wallet passes.
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

Baltimore:
Cops swarm and handcuff a student after an AI tool mistook his bag of Doritos for a weapon | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-gun-omnilert-high-school-student-doritos-baltimore-b2851977.html

XAML, somewhere between XML and YAML, not to confuse with SAML.
https://github.com/dotnet/XAMLStudio

Great app. I've used it for many years. https://indieapps.space/@mp3tag/115756809912174858

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/meet-veronika-the-tool-using-cow/

😎 Social media research tool can lower political temperature—it could also lead to more user control over algorithms
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-tool-political-temperature.html

Some tips for debugging #Windows applications that do not start:
1. Run them via #wine. It can give you a useful error message (such as "this library is missing this symbol" rather than completely useless generic error code).
2. Wine has winedump tool that can be used to get information from DLLs and static libraries.
3. https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies is a good replacement for Dependency Walker that runs on Wine.

[OT] Dilbert? Salesforce steps back from AI: Executives reveal overconfidence in LLMs, pivot to deterministic automation https://opentools.ai/news/salesforce-steps-back-from-ai-executives-reveal-overconfidence-in-ll…

Use #Python for #Scripting!
https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Gold Panda:
🎵 500 Tool
#GoldPanda
https://goldpanda.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-1000-500-tool
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sMkenwtkXI0ihV84WKNQP

Foveated Rendering: Gratis-Tool bringt Eye-Tracking-Feature auf PC-VR-Headsets
Ein Gratis-Tool aktiviert Foveated Rendering auf zahlreichen PC-VR-Headsets und spart dadurch Rechenleistung bei aufwendigen VR-Spielen.
<…

Announcing Categories Helper
A tool I made, inspired by and building of a tool made by @…
This tool is designed to help you sort out categories in a Connections type categories game.
Some people have been using an alpha version of this tool for a week or so - thanks for the feedback.
Now in beta, ready for wider release.
It now supports g…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 27105 nodes and 334495 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

What’s a great example you love of a technical blog post (or similarly shaped writing) that:
- explains a tool, technique, technical idea
- by trying it to the author’s specific project or experience
- but also illuminates a larger concept, a bigger picture?
I don’t just want tutorials; I want writing that illuminates. I’m thinking of things where you read it and had a reaction like:
“Oh, FINALLY, I get it now!”
“What a nice example of _____!”
“This is great. I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to use / explain / teach a colleague to use _____.”
Looking for writing examplars to share with students. I want your favorites.

First-ever flexible #ToolUse seen in a #cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed | #ScientificAmerican

heise | Plattenspieler: Alternativer Audioplayer für Apple-Geräte im Test
Longplay zelebriert die stilvolle Wiedergabe kompletter Alben – etwas, was andere Apps so nicht bieten. Wir haben das Tool für Mac, iPhone und iPad getestet.

It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

“When we think of technology as a tool that can be used for good as well as evil, we also think that we are in control of why, when, and for what it is used. But this is only partly the case. We may decide to buy a car to drive ourselves to work. And thus we may think of the car as a tool to achieve our goal of getting to work as fast as possible. But we never made the decision that fast is better than slow. It’s an idea that comes with the car. So is the idea that it should be easy and conveni…

Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/claude-code-success-anthropic-business-model/…

🛡️ Safety guarantees: Never removes human content, never breaks tool ordering, parse failures pass through unchanged, explicit exceptions with context
🐍 Install via pip: headroom-ai with optional extras for relevance scoring, proxy server & HTML reports
https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom

Adobe Acrobat Studio: KI-Werkzeuge für PDFs, Präsentationen und Podcasts
Adobe ergänzt die PDF-Software Acrobat um KI-Funktionen, die Dokumente in Präsentationen oder Audiodateien umwandeln, und ein Tool zur Online-Zusammenarbeit.

I love how keybase is a poor man's web server monitoring tool.
#selfhosting

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p4#a260116p4

There's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …

And yes, put that pressure on Republicans too. Every horrible image that comes out of Minneapolis, the refrain should be “[NAME OF GOP TOOL] wanted this.” Put their name on what they did.

Meta launches a tool called content protection to let creators detect when their reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram and take action (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/face

“What began as an effort to identify individual officers has evolved into a far more ambitious accountability tool. Soon, organizers say, every incident will be mapped to who was there, which ICE facility or federal agency they came from, what vehicle they used, who led the team, and how many times they’ve appeared in other operations.”

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/x-still-allowing-sexualised-images-grok-ai-nudification

Incredible that #google makes it impossible to smoothly delete all your photos, either making you scroll select for hours or forcing you to use 3rd party tools like https://github.com/mrishab/google-phot

Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/

This is neat!
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115588155544171064

Something is broken in the #dotnet CLI tooling, specifically the cert tool. It can't seem to access localhost certificates, but it's happy to keep creating and installing new ones.
I can't even anymore... I'm so tired.
Note: It could also be Apple's fault with a Tahoe update. Who knows anymore? 🤷‍♂️

Of course, economic pressure isn't the only tool we have. Diversity of tactics is critical. I'm not going to tell anyone not to throw buckets of screws into the parking lots and driveways of ICE facilities or blockading facilities with burning dumpstes. Even if i don't promote those types of tactics, we should all STFU if we see people doing them. We all have a place. There are things we can all do. Everything is on the table and it should be, because ICE agents will intimidate you, steal your car, and even murder you for just filming them.
You can cower in fear, or you can stand up and fight with everything you have. Which or those do you want to remember yourself doing?

If you mirror uv (the Python tool), you get uwu.

macOS: Password Utility entsperrt FileVault und macht sudo Biometrie-fähig
Neu startende Remote-Macs, die sich nicht mehr steuern lassen, Passwort-Zwangseingaben statt Touch ID und mehr: Ein neues Tool soll dagegen helfen.

Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-ice-tool-that-tracks-entire-neighborhoods/

DfT have released a public version of their tool that shows the "connectivity" of any location in England and Wales, but because it doesn't use URLs meaningfully, the reports can't be bookmarked or shared.
(Which is the sort of thing I would hope comes up in a service assessment.)
https://connectivity-t…

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract

Interesting about how #Russia uses criminal networks to sabotage #Europe. https://icct.nl/publ…

Schön, mein Fedi Circle ist gewachsen. ☺️
#CyberCircleCreator #FediCircle

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@SciTania/115926824019955245
Cool demonstration of tool use in one cow!
The paper:
Flexible use of a multi-p…

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods #ice

📊 Unified observability with #OpenTelemetry distributed tracing integration & structured error codes providing complete auditable trail of every tool call
🔧 Robust resiliency features: deadlines, timeouts & automatic flow control prevent cascading failures from unresponsive tools
🌐 Polyglot development: generates code for 11 languages maintaining consistent strongly…

from my link log —
k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
saved 2020-11-28 https://

That I cannot type `CTRL ' e` and get `é` in this _extremely_ expensive #CAT (Computer Aided #Translation, not feline) tool for Windows and must resort to Windows ALT codes annoys the crap out of me. Like, we pay thousands of dollars for you every year and you can't handle é?

years wasted arguing about so-called 'free speech' when in reality that concept was just a tool brought up by some people trying to get away with having said something racist

You can only hope this is a point in time that causes team "I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid of surveillance tech" might wake the fuck up a bit.
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993

Does anybody know, by any rare chance, what measures the "European Union Anti-Coercion Tool" would try to apply to USA in case USA continues blackmailing the EU?

»Palantir-Chef — KI macht Einwanderung überflüssig:
Es werde mehr als genug offene Jobs für Bürger eines Landes geben, 'insbesondere solche mit einer Berufsausbildung", sagte Firmenchef Alex Karp beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos.«
Die KI ist ein Tool für den kapitalistischen Rassismus und Menschen verachtender kann Mann sich wohl kaum präsentieren.
🤨

Fray Detects #Concurrency Issues in #JVM Languages
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/fray-de

Me, shortly before 0500, chirpily singing along to my earphones as I make a pot of tea:
“🎶 Why don't you kill me?
I’m weak and numb and insignificant
How could I let this
Bring me back to my knees? 🎵”
#tool #undertow

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/snapchat-gives-parents-n…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 46404 nodes and 643319 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…

Amazon's AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/12/036215/amazons-ai-tool-listed-products-from-small-businesses-without-their-knowledge

Gegen Ordner-Chaos: Tool rüstet Vorschau im macOS-Finder nach
Wer große Mengen an Dateiordnern auf seinem Mac hat, verliert schnell den Überblick. Ein kleines Finder-Werkzeug hilft hier.
https://www.

'Add blood, forced smile': how Grok's nudification tool went viral (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/11/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p43#a260111p43

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…

»Windows 11—Neues Tool verspricht komplett KI-freies Betriebssystem:
#Microsoft integriert zunehmend künstliche Intelligenz in #Windows 11, doch nicht jeder Nutzer möchte #Copilot,

Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822833/google-antigravity-ide-coding-agent-…

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found
“the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
https://www.

La Suite Docs 3.10.0: Kollaborations-Tool erhält ODT-Export
Das Open-Source-Tool La Suite Docs unterstützt nun ODT-Export und verbessert Mobile-UX sowie Barrierefreiheit deutlich.
https://www.

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/15/google-dark-web-report-shutting-down/<…

According to sociologist
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
the AI future is for the rich.
Cottom’s contention is a bleak one — the idea that the most powerful billionaires in the world are using AI to seize total control of humanity
But she isn’t short on hope.
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansion vision of the future...
That’s my daring idea."

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an "AI cloud" with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000 Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Anthropic Cowork: Claude räumt Desktop auf – Research Preview gestartet
Anthropic hat ein neues Software-Tool namens Cowork vorgestellt. Es ist Claude Code ähnlich, soll aber deutlich leichter verwendbar sein.

Sources: US FTC is probing Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8% after hours (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ftc-…

Stanford-Tool kann politische Feindseligkeit auf X verringern
Polarisierende Beiträge im X-Feed beeinflussen die Einstellung gegenüber politisch Andersdenkenden. Kleine Änderungen im Feed wirken sich schnell positiv aus.

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Tesla: Neue Dashcam-Funktion zeigt detaillierte Telemetriedaten im Video
Mit dem „2025 Holiday Update“ erhalten Tesla-Fahrer Zugriff auf Telemetriedaten ihrer Dashcam-Videos – ein Open-Source-Tool macht sie sichtbar.

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/goog

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/ex-splunk-execs-…

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Guardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/security-startup-guardio-n…

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-…

France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fr…