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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, November 13, 2026?
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AARO Solved Iraqs Jellyfish as Balloons. Alaskas Jellyfish UFO Still Lacks the Data
By @anomalydetection [ 8 Min read ] An Anchorage witness filmed a tentacled object near JBER. We fact-check the claims, the solar geometry, and why AAROs last jellyfish was balloons. Read More.
Jensen Huangs Nvidia Exit Is a Wake-Up Call for Startup Founders
By @zbruceli [ 9 Min read ] Nvidias board just pushed out Jensen Huang, the founder who built a $4T company. What founders need to know about control Read More.
138 Open Source OCR and PDF Parsers Ranked by GitHub Stars: PaddleOCR, MinerU, Tesseract and More
By @textmining [ 11 Min read ] PaddleOCR, MinerU and Tesseract lead 138 open source OCR and PDF-parsing repos with 1,000+ GitHub stars, ranked from the Text Mining directory. Read More.
A 23M-Parameter Model Still Wins: 338 Embedding Models Ranked by Real Downloads
By @textmodels [ 10 Min read ] all-MiniLM-L6-v2 got 177M Hugging Face downloads in 30 days. See all 338 embedding models ranked by real downloads, from BAAI and Qwen to OpenAI. Read More.
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