On this day: 14 October 1926 saw the publication of the book “Winnie-the-Pooh”
On 14 October 1926, the London publisher Methuen released the first collection of Alan Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
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Bugbot would not review a pull request opened by the user’s agent
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Google Play Now Lets You Run Personal Apps on Android Without Publishing Them
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OpenAI Engineer Arrested in the US on Charges of Secretly Recording Meetings
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Xbox is creating the XBOX LABS laboratory for bold gaming experiments
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A man beat the robots in a cage, and California deemed it illegal
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Acoustic “black hole” for pipes printed on a 3D printer
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Claude Code deleted about 116 GB and reported that the profile was intact
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On this day: Louis Le Prince shot the oldest surviving film
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Read the newsThief in Arizona made off with empty Mac mini boxes instead of the computers
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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature Went to Rock Musician Bob Dylan
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Read the newsLocation Scout draws manga backgrounds from real streets
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