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How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful (economist.com)

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Closure of Radio 4 on Long Wave (LW) (bbc.co.uk)

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Playing Doom on a Receipt Printer (hackaday.com)

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The Most Boring Book in the World (ei3lh.eu)

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Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year (sky.com)

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The science behind Japan's perfectly crafted vending machine drinks (monocle.com)

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Stop censoring books, teachers warn school libraries (sky.com)

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Switch Adapted Hungry Hungry Hippos (bobparadiso.com)

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French Senate votes to block social media access for under-15s (lbc.co.uk)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Honoured at Ulster University in Belfast (sky.com)

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US judge orders Trump administration to reopen Voice of America (bbc.co.uk)

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Thieves steal 12 tonnes of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe (rte.ie)

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LLMs on a PowerPC Mac (theresistornetwork.com)

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400 cuckoo clocks go on display as time springs forward (rte.ie)

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A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen (nytimes.com)

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Ireland's first mobile video call via satellite is made (rte.ie)

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Skeleton of Three Musketeers' d'Artagnan may have been found under Dutch church (sky.com)

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Galway astronomer leads team on discovery of new planet (rte.ie)

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Random Numbers, Persian Code: A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths (rferl.org)

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Ski lift demolished as glacier on Germany's highest mountain melts away (rte.ie)

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How the Iran war has seen the return of Cold War spycraft (rte.ie)

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Martial artist and actor Chuck Norris dies aged 86 (rte.ie)

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Horizon Quantum Debuts ObjectOriented Language for Programming Quantum Computers (horizonquantum.com)

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Identity of artist Banksy uncovered following investigation (rte.ie)

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Mysterious large steel cylinder disrupts traffic in Japan (rte.ie)

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Off-grid Dublin data centre fuelled by own power plant (rte.ie)

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Indonesia to ban 'high risk' social media for under-16s (sky.com)

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Meet the new vaccine developed to treat colds, flu and Covid (rte.ie)

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1983 Austin Maestro 1600 – Talking Dashboard [video] (youtube.com)

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Paramount strikes deal to buy Warner Bros Discovery for $110B (sky.com)

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Has Wordle run out of words? (rte.ie)

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How Long Will 50ml of Ink Last? (3 Different Nibs) (onepenshow.com)

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QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021) (theresistornetwork.com)

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Datvideo: Storing Video on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) (theresistornetwork.com)

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Man in Sicily trained his dog to illegally dump rubbish (sky.com)

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Barcelona's Sagrada Familia reaches maximum height (sky.com)

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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (2024) (arstechnica.com)

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Are you using an AI-generated password? It might be time to change it (sky.com)

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Govt to confirm plans for social media age restrictions (rte.ie)

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Valentine's Day gift for Winter Olympics athletes – more condoms (sky.com)

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UNESCO World Radio Day 2026 (unesco.org)

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Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek dies aged 48 (sky.com)

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A brief history of Exchange Team gifts over the years (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

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Texas Instruments to Acquire Silicon Labs (silabs.com)

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The house in Hereford that moved down High Town (herefordtimes.com)

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The last Morse code maritime radio station in North America [video] (youtube.com)

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Fire-juggling unicyclist caught performing on crossing (sky.com)

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Crotch enhancements: The latest controversy at the Winter Olympics (sky.com)

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Checking the Weather with a Home Made Satellite Dish (1973) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Ozzy Tape I Never Played: A Little Piece of Rock History Found in an Attic (sky.com)

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Boxer loses hairpiece in the ring and blames mother's shampoo (sky.com)

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Bitcoin's Quantum Computing Threat (bmpro.substack.com)

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HamClock has reached end-of-life (clearskyinstitute.com)

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British 2-year-old breaks two world records playing pool and snooker (upi.com)

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Amazon to cut 16,000 jobs globally to streamline operations (sky.com)

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UK authorities help seize 'narco sub' and record cocaine haul in Atlantic Ocean (sky.com)

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France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s (rte.ie)

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Galaxy S26 Ultra Leak Reveals Samsung's Built-In Privacy Screen Feature (techrepublic.com)

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Leader of the Snack: How Mars became a food behemoth (rte.ie)

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World record for endurance singing, 1976 (rte.ie)

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CLI for the New Commodore C64 Ultimate (github.com/cybersorcerer)

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What time you should arrive at cinema to avoid adverts (sky.com)

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Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) (azure.microsoft.com)

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Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say (reuters.com)

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Autodesk cuts 7% of workforce to redirect investments to AI, cloud (reuters.com)

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Sainsbury's expands facial recognition tech as theft declines (thegrocer.co.uk)

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Newbridge Cutlery to cease production of silver-plated tableware (rte.ie)

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World's Safest Airline Rankings for 2026 (airlineratings.com)

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RTÉ marks 100 years of Irish radio with GPO broadcasts (rte.ie)

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BBC 1 sound received in Texas, November 1981 [video] (youtube.com)

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CQ Serenade [pdf] (g4dmp.co.uk)

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Why some people turn off the lights – and others don't (rte.ie)

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Why robots still can't match humans – and what's holding them back (sky.com)

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Dynamic pricing: would you pay more for drinks in a pub at peak times? (rte.ie)

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Wankbahn – The Panoramic Mountain Wank (zugspitze.de)

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Irishman leading construction of world's largest ever telescope (rte.ie)

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Search British Royal Navy, Battle of Trafalgar Prize Book (findmypast.co.uk)

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Teaspoon Telegraph (ympt.co.uk)

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Norwich firm creates 'virus cocktails' to help farmers (edp24.co.uk)

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What was inside the Daft Punk Alive 2007 Pyramid? [video] (youtube.com)

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This Is 2RN (1926) (rte.ie)

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Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020) (cell.com)

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NHK's This Is Hi-Vision (1987 Analog HDTV) [video] (youtube.com)

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Brewing the perfect cup – Grinding out the maths behind coffee (ul.ie)

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Irish radio to celebrate 100 years in 2026 (rte.ie)

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Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages (techcrunch.com)

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How supermarkets turned loyalty cards into a data treasure trove (rte.ie)

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Is it better to shower in the morning or at night? (rte.ie)

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My frivolous CW superproject (and how it nearly broke me) (ei3lh.eu)

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Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021) (thenextweb.com)

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$400k worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco wholesale stores in US (sky.com)

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Mythbusting: Is a cold night at Stoke tough for players? (bbc.co.uk)

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What can you do with used wind turbine blades? (rte.ie)

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HoustonTracker2 – A Music Sequencer for the Texas TI-82 (irrlichtproject.de)

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The 'Race Against Time' to Save Music Legends' Decaying Tapes (nytimes.com)

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Judge wants $54M for lost pants (irishtimes.com)

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Office of the Ombudsman responding to cybersecurity incident (ombudsman.ie)

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Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout (rte.ie)

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Drivers fined after speed camera issue across major A-roads and motorways (sky.com)

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Shadow Enigma (shadowenigma.com)