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Ubuntu 25.04 is released today! The newest version is filled with fresh features, essential updates and other improvements. Question is: will you be trying it? #Linux

The amazing stunts by freerunner Dominic Di Tommaso [🏃 domtomato]

it's not how you start, it's how you finish

There’s no resolution to this version

Our cover this week.

Please explain it to me like I’m 5 years old….

Trump told me to "stop it". Wonder why he didn't think of that sooner.

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BREAKING: The University of Zurich has been using AI bots to secretly manipulate Redditors since November 2024. The scariest part? The bots were 6 times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation. More below🧵

There is a food vending machine for cats in Turkey, the seagulls meow pretending to be cats

This needs to be posted every now and then.

Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers. So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway. We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer. Anyway, here's how to access these libraries: Don't do this!

Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards. I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.

Free: Sci-Hub, a "pirate" website with access to 84M+ research papers. Free: Zotero, a reference manager. Free: Google NotebookLM, an AI-powered research assistant. Download papers from Sci-Hub directly to Zotero and read them with the help of NotebookLM. Here's how:

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1. Don't go to open-slum[.]org. Because there you will see links to LibGen, Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and Sci-Hub.