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The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents - Slashdot
February 25, 2026 at 8:46:39 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/1751207/the-us-spent-30-billion-on-classroom-laptops-and-got-the-first-generation-less-capable-than-its-parents
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Molecular effects of indoor tanning | Science Advances
December 14, 2025 at 9:18:57 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4878
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Op shop purchase of The Hobbit could be worth tens of thousands if verified as first edition Tolkien - ABC News
November 8, 2025 at 4:17:07 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/tasmanian-woman-op-shop-selling-jrr-tolkien-the-hobbit/105921072
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Byte - a visual archive
October 10, 2025 at 8:15:36 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)
- https://byte.tsundoku.io/
Before Hackernews before Twitter blogs the web had been spun when internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat there *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of entire personal computing universe delivered on dead trees for generation hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998 its 277 issues chronicled Cambrian explosion microcomputer bare-metal kits dawn commercial internet. This zoomable map shows every page issue BYTE starting front cover first (top left) last final edition (bottom right) -
The Albums That Shaped Dubstep’s First Decade | Digs
August 31, 2025 at 10:16:33 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Music
The Albums That Shaped Dubstep’s First DecadeFrom Burial to Skream, discover the records that built a genre
- https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-dubstep-records/
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
August 16, 2025 at 9:23:30 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
- https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy/
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A Non-Sony Playstation Motherboard Replacement | Hackaday
July 27, 2025 at 1:53:46 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -The motherboard is known as the nsOne, meaning Not Sony’s One since this is the first motherboard built by a single person outside of Sony. It’s not based on any FPGAs or emulators and is completely compatible with all of the original hardware, chips, and other circuitry of the original Playstation
- https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/a-non-sony-playstation-motherboard-replacement/
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GIMP 3.0 Released - GIMP
March 18, 2025 at 2:36:35 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members
- https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
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Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024 | Climate crisis | The Guardian
January 10, 2025 at 8:14:07 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -R.I.P. Pariser Klimaabkommen
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/world-temperature-in-2024-exceeded-15c-for-first-time
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Lando Norris wins Abu Dhabi F1 GP as McLaren take first title since 1998 | Formula One | The Guardian
December 9, 2024 at 7:07:33 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -McLaren take first title since 1998
- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/08/lando-norris-wins-f1-abu-dhabi-gp-as-mcclaren-take-first-title-since-1998
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‘A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X | St Pauli | The Guardian
November 15, 2024 at 8:11:11 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/14/st-pauli-leave-x-first-major-football-club
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Kiss chaste: number of high school boys in Japan who have had first kiss falls to record lows | Japan | The Guardian
November 5, 2024 at 7:40:55 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -number of high school boys in Japan who have had first kiss falls to record lows
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/05/kiss-chaste-number-of-high-school-boys-in-japan-who-have-had-first-kiss-falls-to-1970s-levels
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Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ | Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars | The Guardian
September 19, 2024 at 7:24:36 AM GMT+2 * - permalink -Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/17/norway-electric-cars-outnumber-petrol-for-first-time-in-historic-milestone
