Roy Schestowitz

• Cultural land grab? https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-07-17/connie-francis-pretty-little-baby-became-an-unexpected-tiktok-hit-63-years-after-its-release    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:56:23

• Exclusive-Blackstone Drops Out of Consortium Bid for TikTok US, Source Says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-18/exclusive-blackstone-drops-out-of-consortium-bid-for-tiktok-us-source-says    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:56:39

• Being remembers as "TikTok star" is a thing? https://www.theage.com.au/world/d-day-veteran-and-tiktok-star-papa-jake-larson-dies-at-102-20250722-p5mgrs.html    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:57:09

• 'It's a Massive Red Flag': Possible Reasons Why Blackstone Allegedly Walked Away From TikTok Deal https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/its-massive-red-flag-possible-reasons-why-blackstone-allegedly-walked-away-tiktok-deal-1739006    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:57:32

• TikTok cancel culture https://www.vox.com/culture/420883/astronomer-ceo-coldplay-tiktok-viral-cheating-drama    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:57:49

• TikTok Will Go Dark in US Without Chinese Approval of Sale Deal, US Commerce Secretary Says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-24/tiktok-must-exit-china-control-and-us-to-control-algorithm-commerce-secretary-lutnick-says    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:58:09

• Indiana Fever Guard Sophie Cunningham Fined $500 for a TikTok Post Criticizing Referees https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2025-07-24/indiana-fever-guard-sophie-cunningham-fined-500-for-a-tiktok-post-criticizing-referees    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:58:25

• TikTok FOMO spam? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/top-9-shocking-tiktok-roommate-horror-stories-victorias-secret-scandals-bizarre-housemate-habits-1739055    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:58:44

• ibtimes turned into trash https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/10-most-viral-tiktok-my-name-pink-im-really-glad-meet-you-moments-that-took-over-your-feed-1739190 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/10-most-viral-videos-under-tiktoks-nothing-beats-jet2-holiday-trend-1739064    

posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 23:59:25

• Threat or Russian sabotage rising; Direct attack on NL unlikely: Intelligence services https://nltimes.nl/2025/07/17/threat-russian-sabotage-rising-direct-attack-nl-unlikely-intelligence-services    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:00:32

• Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network in Operation Eastwood https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-operation-targets-noname05716-pro-russian-cybercrime-network    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:02:35

• UK sanctions Russian cyber spies accused of facilitating murders https://therecord.media/uk-sanctions-gru-personnel-accused-murder-civilians-ukraine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:04:29

• 'extremist' content https://www.dw.com/en/russia-to-fine-people-for-searching-for-extremist-content/a-73374515    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:05:21

• British institutions to be banned from paying ransoms to Russian hackers https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-ban-pay-ransom-russia-hacker/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:05:43

• Key figure behind major Russian-speaking cybercrime forum targeted in Ukraine https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/key-figure-behind-major-russian-speaking-cybercrime-forum-targeted-in-ukraine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:06:41

• Russia suspected of hacking Dutch prosecution service systems https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/russia-suspected-of-hacking-dutch-prosecution-service-systems/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:07:27

• Echo Chamber https://xkcd.com/3116/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:07:46

• Replication Crisis https://xkcd.com/3117/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:08:00

• Microsoft front group fsfe on CRA: Free Software stewards, maintainers and manufactures, share your input! https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250717-01.en.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:09:13

• Buzzwords https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-36.en.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:09:30

• New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:10:52

• Scam Altman is a Microsoft fraud, so this is a fraud warning of "fraud" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-22/openais-sam-altman-warns-of-ai-voice-fraud-crisis-in-banking    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:11:42

• Rations in USA https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-funding-cuts-force-food-banks-to-ration-meals-for-texas-flood-survivors/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:12:16

• Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games https://www.maketecheasier.com/learn-linux-by-phttps://www.maketecheasier.com/learn-linux-by-playing-games/laying-games/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:13:02

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2025): Immutable Release Dates https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:13:23

• "If you've spent any significant time with Linux, chances are you've become proficient in its traditional command-line utilities, such as ls, grep, and ps. These tools have been around since the early days of UNIX." https://www.xda-developers.com/modern-alternatives-to-classic-linux-tools/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:14:27

• How to connect to Wi-Fi from your Ubuntu laptop without a password https://www.techloy.com/how-to-connect-to-wifi-from-your-ubuntu-laptop-without-password/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:14:46

• I upgraded my router to a custom Linux server, and it's completely transformed my network https://www.xda-developers.com/upgraded-router-custom-linux-server-transformative-experience/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:16:57

• "KaOS has released a brand new version of its popular Linux distro, delivering major visual updates, package changes, and the elimination of Qt5 in default installations" https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/kaos-linux-gets-a-modern-makeover-and-a-big-under-the-hood-upgrade/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:17:59

• Oreon 11 could be the Linux OS that helps you leave Microsoft Windows for good https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/oreon-11/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:18:44

• Slop is not "AI" and this is not a Windows or Linux issue https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/hackers-are-using-ai-and-panda-images-to-infect-linux-machines-heres-how/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:19:56

• "When it comes to finding the proper distribution of Linux to choose from after years of using Windows, some are easier to transition to than others. While it’s essential to experiment and try different flavors, there are some glaring reasons I decided to switch from NixOS to Mint." https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-i-switched-nixos-mint-linux-windows-linux-convert/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:20:38

• "The desktop Linux ecosystem has been slowly migrating from X11 to Wayland, which is leaving behind some desktop environments. The Wayback project aims to fix that, and it has just reached its first preview release." https://www.howtogeek.com/wayback-keeps-old-linux-desktop-environments-alive-on-wayland/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:21:05

• "Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users… but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/firefox_141_relieves_linux_pain/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:21:34

• "Flushing your DNS cache on Linux is an easy way to speed up your network. Here's how to do it." https://www.zdnet.com/article/slow-internet-speed-on-linux-this-30-second-fix-makes-all-the-difference/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:23:25

• "If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/arch_aur_browsers_compromised/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:24:04

• Debian 13.0 To Begin Supporting RISC-V as an Official CPU Architecture https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/21/0633232/debian-130-to-begin-supporting-risc-v-as-an-official-cpu-architecture    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:26:04

• Linux Reaches 5% On Desktop https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2048246/linux-reaches-5-on-desktop    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:34:06

• FOSS Weekly #25.30: AUR Poisoned, Linux Rising, PPA Explained, New Open Source Grammar Checker and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-30/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:34:48

• UK Regulator Seeks Special Status for Apple and Google That Could Mandate Changes for Big Tech https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-23/uk-regulator-seeks-special-status-for-apple-and-google-that-could-mandate-changes-for-big-tech    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:35:23

• Nestlé recalls medical apple drink over choking risk for dysphagia patients https://nltimes.nl/2025/07/20/nestle-recalls-medical-apple-drink-choking-risk-dysphagia-patients    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:36:26

• Apple censorship https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:36:49

• Should wikis block the UK?: "Of course, the answer is “no.” But when I read UK Users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act I can’t help but think that maybe the answer should be “yes.”" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-07-25-block-the-uk    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:38:34

• "Im talking about Gemini." gemini://adavies.foo/posts/a-new-dawn.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:39:20

• "It's funny how Google can install their AI thing on my phone without asking me, and keep telling me that my phone "has new features" that I don't want, but they can't manage to update the version of Android that it's running." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-07-25_Bloody_Google.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:39:58

• "I have heard of the gemini protocol over the years here and there but was never curious enough to find out what it was until last week. I installed a gemini browser (lagrange) and started reading and clicking on links." gemini://lc19.net/gemlog/2025-07-25-hello-gemini.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:40:54

• "So, there's been some talk in Geminispace lately of the community stagnating. People are seemingly bored, burnt out, lonely, dispirited. I don't really have a good sense of the scope of this feeling, to be honest." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/on-stagnation-and-burnout-in-the-gemini-community.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:42:12

• Pikkuteiden maantieto gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/pikkutiet    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:42:58

• "I'm not new to Linux Phones. I was a backer of the original Librem 5 camping, own a Librem 5 devkit, later on a PinePhone. During FOSDEM I walked around and found the stand by FuriLabs where they demonstrated their FLX1 phone and chatted with all the participants" gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-phone.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:43:54

• Windows TCO https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-23/microsoft-server-hack-has-compromised-400-organizations-researchers-say    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:45:47

• U.S. nuclear and health agencies hit in Microsoft SharePoint breach https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/23/sharepoint-microsoft-hack-nih-nnsa/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:45:56

• The fault is Microsoft's https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:46:22

• Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/microsoft-releases-urgent-patch-for.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:47:09

• Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/global-hack-on-microsoft-product-hits-u-s-state-agencies-researchers-say/ar-AA1IXkcT    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:47:36

• smartphone addiction https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-quit-your-smartphone-addiction-guided-by-science/a-73309415    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:48:20

• HHS OCR Settles HIPAA Ransomware Investigation with Syracuse ASC for $250k plus corrective action plan https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/ocr-hipaa-racap-syracuse-asc.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:54:45

• Paying cyberattackers is wrong, right? Should Taos County’s incident be an exception? (1) https://databreaches.net/2025/07/23/paying-cyberattackers-is-wrong-right-should-taos-countys-incident-be-an-exception/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:56:07

• Faking is like so many other channels https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-youtube-channel-hits-1-million http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/YouTube_is_a_Spamfarm_Slopfarm_and_Clickfarm_a_Lot_of_Numbers_T.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:56:38

• How to install Gimp on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/07/how-to-install-gimp-on-kubuntu-2404.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:57:36

• Lossless Scaling Has Come To Linux At Last! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=QSVqiXGlN9s    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:57:52

• JavaScript Is Not A Real Language https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=IRX5TuggMxg    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:58:22

• Billionaire Jackass Bill Ackman Bought His Way Into Playing in a Legit Professional Tennis Tournament and, Shockingly, He Embarrassed Himself and Everyone Involved With Letting Him Play https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/L7NqTpnSQWo    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:58:45

• Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” Xfce Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/ikezPoU64V8    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:59:01

• This Could Be My Favorite Screenshot Tool on Linux! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=OQqv1UeURqA    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 00:59:16

• Linux Weekly News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=mYo5CVcksZI    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:00:06

• A Quick Look At OpenMandriva ROME https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=fnARbMRnZck    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:00:18

• ProtonPlus: A Essential Tool For Linux Gamers https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=xrdWUa7duHA    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:00:41

• How to install Blender on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/07/how-to-install-blender-on-kubuntu-2404.html https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=SDt-4LXnxTI    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:01:11

• Oreon 10 Core 2507 | Bringing You Enterprise Stability for Everyday Computing. https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=H4yS0sLKalg    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:01:52

• The Rise Of A New Generation Of Linux Users https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=X_IEsjN6JeE    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:02:08

• We Need A Real Wayland Desktop "Standard" https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=hfQwudSMPP0    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:05:18

• 11 Insane Reasons EVERYONE is Switching to CachyOS! (July 2025 Update) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=V6aNTCGgZQc    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:08:32

• Was KDE Plasma 6 Worth My Time? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=twYUAvpFRSY    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:08:53

• Clear Linux Is Dead Effectively Immediately https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=peh_Cc2TUO8    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:09:08

• Switching Microsoft Office Users To LibreOffice Should Be Our Focus https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=hdEtq-uq5kM    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:09:27

• Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/eLoX9mfPxK8    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:09:45

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1713.jpg    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:49:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1363.jpg    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:49:42

• "So new raw people are regarded worthless by the capital point of view. Worst... these have negative worth." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2025-07-25__Babies_and_Capital.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:50:35

• Crook and scammer Nadella helped by MSM a day after remark made about how it replaced skilled, experienced workers (arguably they lack both) with cheap imported labour. That shows that the media is controlled by advertisers and crooks.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:58:55

• Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dear-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-please-prove-that-an-ai-didnt-write-your-insulting-vacuous-blog-about-why-youre-laying-off-thousands-during-a-time-of-huge-profits    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 01:59:52

• House Judiciary Chairman backs VP’s claim that Microsoft is prioritizing overseas hires amid layoffs https://mynorthwest.com/jason-rantz/microsoft-layoffs-vance/4113612    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 02:00:54

• Partly LLM slop https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-18-released-with-webtunnel-bridges/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 02:06:45

• Latest 2 articles in linuxiac.com are real, but the damage is already done. He started experimented with slop.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 02:08:22

• "Sponsored by Nutanix" = SPAM https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/nutanix_homegrown_ai/?td=keepreading    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:09:05

• Did Satya Nadella use slop to distract from what happened only a day earlier? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dear-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-please-prove-that-an-ai-didnt-write-your-insulting-vacuous-blog-about-why-youre-laying-off-thousands-during-a-time-of-huge-profits https://mynorthwest.com/jason-rantz/microsoft-layoffs-vance/4113612    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:19:51

• "Haven't you heard? Young men don't want to learn or work, while the young women are all practicing to be tradwives. The new generation is highly de-motivated and not suitable for the corporate world so businesses must look elsewhere for hungry, willing, and motivated employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yjxs1t    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:21:16

• "I bet they want to make 75% of the workforce vendors, because it's cheaper and easier te scale" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yrk1as    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:21:46

• "If you truly believe in growth and innovation, maybe stop gutting the teams actually building the future" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yrk1as    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:22:07

• "The train has left the station a long time ago. Off-shore is the destination. There is no turning back. Just get to the back of the line to get on the train to still stay or it leaves without you. There is no other option. Did you think that you had a voice or any choice with a salary paying for your service? Wake up." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yz0rn3    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:22:43

• "remittances only in US stablecoin and redeemable only for Microsoft, Intel, or Dell products and shipping from USA :P ... Look at IDC and Hyderabad. The East has won, and the layoff in the US will not stop." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yz0rn3    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:23:12

• "Lastest Update(6/4/25): In the first two quarters of fiscal year 2025, Microsoft filed 4776 LCAs for H-1B visas, 497 labor petitions for green cards, and 1239 requests for prevailing wage determination." https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/microsoft/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:23:37

• "Congratulations! Alternative operating systems for the win!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zhd7hn    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:23:59

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-26.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 03:44:07

• "Sponsored by Microsoft" https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/microsoft_llm_prompt_injection_challenge/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:02:00

• "Satan sponsors pope? MS UK sponsors own P45s?" https://www.theregister.com/2004/02/11/er_ms_uk_sponsors_open/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:02:45

• "Sponsored by Qualcomm Technologies." Windows SPAM. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/snapdragon_processor_power_management/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:07:08

• More sponsored Windows spam https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/specops_password_attacks_2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:07:51

• Sponsored spam https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/m365_copilot_qa_pilot/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:08:29

• Lots of SPAM (paid) like this https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/centml_ai_performance/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:10:57

• The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/eff_turns_35/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 04:15:43

• Thunderbird 141 delivers email stability, fixes, and smarter security reminders https://betanews.com/2025/07/25/thunderbird-141-delivers-email-stability-fixes-and-smarter-security-reminders/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:11:13

• trade marks and copyright http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/tote-bags-at-dawn-bona-vacantia-trade.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:36:13

• iNaturalist Animals and Plants https://xkcd.com/3118/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:37:28

• Flettner Rotor https://xkcd.com/3119/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:37:50

• "Google Search" is fast becoming "GOOGLE SLOP"    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:38:11

• They tell try to TELL us we don't need Web search, using "dark patterns of sorts    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:38:44

• Their financial bubble (which they fabricated) depends on this lie    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:39:11

• Cognitive warfare: why wars without bombs or bullets are a legal blind spot https://theconversation.com/cognitive-warfare-why-wars-without-bombs-or-bullets-are-a-legal-blind-spot-260607    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:40:31

• Why it’s not a problem that dinosaurs are sold for millions of dollars – art historian https://theconversation.com/why-its-not-a-problem-that-dinosaurs-are-sold-for-millions-of-dollars-art-historian-261542    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:43:23

• roses https://theconversation.com/the-hidden-history-behind-every-rose-blooming-this-summer-259719    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:44:04

• Hosepipe ban survival guide https://theconversation.com/hosepipe-ban-survival-guide-which-garden-plants-to-save-and-which-to-sacrifice-261603    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:44:34

• Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance https://www.projectcensored.org/systems-control-history-resistance/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:46:23

• How Hollywood films are modified by censors around the world https://www.dw.com/en/how-hollywood-films-are-modified-by-censors-around-the-world/a-73351212    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:46:35

• Remember When Code Was Speech? It Still Is https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/17/remember-when-code-was-speech-it-still-is/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:47:06

• Dog thefts: what really happened during the COVID pandemic https://theconversation.com/dog-thefts-what-really-happened-during-the-covid-pandemic-252061    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:50:48

• Cheeto Mussolini Hits Amazon with 50 Percent Tariffs https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/17/trump-hits-amazon-with-50-percent-tariffs/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:52:22

• Companies can spy on you to set prices. What does it mean for your next purchase? https://www.vox.com/technology/420940/delta-american-airlines-flight-discount-amazon    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:53:02

• what space pregnancy might actually involve https://theconversation.com/floating-babies-cosmic-radiation-and-zero-gravity-birth-what-space-pregnancy-might-actually-involve-261142    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:53:30

• ultra-black coating https://theconversation.com/an-ultra-black-coating-for-satellites-could-stop-them-spoiling-astronomy-pictures-259171    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:53:51

• evolution in reptiles https://theconversation.com/mysterious-fossil-may-rewrite-story-of-skin-and-feather-evolution-in-reptiles-261695    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:54:46

• species on the brink of extinction https://theconversation.com/gene-editing-technology-could-be-used-to-save-species-on-the-brink-of-extinction-261419    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:54:59

• Kangaroo Court of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/g-124-in-spotlight-description.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:56:37

• A Quick Update on Dancer2 2.0.0 https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2025/07/a-quick-update-on-dancer2-200.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:58:07

• ANN: Perl.Wiki V 1.29. jsTree version V 1.00. CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.00 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2025/07/ann-perlwiki-v-129-jstree-version-v-100-cpanmetacurator-v-100.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 06:58:22

• Country of Iceland successfully freezes out British supermarket's trade marks on the grounds of descriptiveness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/country-of-iceland-successfully-freezes.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:02:17

• Sale of second-hand Testarossas by Ferrari dealers can constitute genuine use http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/general-court-sale-of-second-hand.html http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/guest-post-sylvanian-family-drama.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:03:12

• Michigan’s clean energy momentum must continue despite federal changes https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-michigans-clean-energy-momentum-must-continue-despite-federal-changes    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:05:38

• Michigan home energy efficiency standards stalled amid homebuilders lawsuit https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigan-home-energy-efficiency-standards-stalled-amid-homebuilders    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:05:49

• Dutch regulator orders five energy firms to fix faulty cancellation fee practices https://nltimes.nl/2025/07/24/dutch-regulator-orders-five-energy-firms-fix-faulty-cancellation-fee-practices    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:06:13

• Is It Strategic to Refocus Towards Climate Adaptation? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/17/is-it-strategic-to-refocus-towards-climate-adaptation/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:07:22

• Organizing for Climate Armageddon https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/18/whats-at-stake-organizing-for-climate-armageddon/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:07:38

• Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/four-in-five-tuvaluans-apply-to-move-to-australia-frayzel-is-among-them-20250630-p5mbda.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:08:53

• Meet the nonprofit preparing Mexico for climate change https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/meet-the-nonprofit-preparing-mexico-for-climate-change/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:09:10

• “Climate Justice” is the new “Carbon Footprint” https://idiomdrottning.org/climate-justice-is-the-new-carbon-footprint    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:09:36

• How Germany manages extreme heat and climate change https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-manages-extreme-heat-and-climate-change/a-73227923    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:09:55

• In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/in-an-age-of-climate-change-how-do-we-cope-with-floods    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:10:19

• Extreme Weather: The New Frontline of Online Climate Denial https://www.truthdig.com/articles/extreme-weather-the-new-frontline-of-online-climate-denial/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 07:10:40

• South Australia algal bloom a 'natural disaster,' state's premier says, as species wiped out https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/south-australia-algal-bloom-disaster-1.7590816    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 08:57:55

• positive tipping point https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/green-energy-renewables-united-nations-report-1.7591214    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 08:58:11

• Why your energy bill is suddenly so much more expensive https://www.vox.com/climate/420887/electricity-energy-bill-expensive-prices-rising    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 08:58:28

• Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/three-books-to-understand-our-ravaged-climate    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 08:58:48

• "Time to get updating your NVIDIA GPU driver, as more security issues have been revealed in their July 2025 Security Bulletin." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/nvidia-reveal-more-gpu-driver-security-issues-for-july-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:00:11

• "Just like Valve's Steam had issues recently with payment providers, game store itch.io are facing the same problems with certain types of adult content." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/game-store-itch-io-has-deindexed-adult-content-due-to-payment-processor-scrutiny/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:00:33

• "The GOG team recently announced another expansion of the GOG Preservation Program, bringing in Heroes of Might and Magic titles and more." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/gog-preservation-program-adds-heroes-of-might-and-magic-titles-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:01:07

• "A smaller update to the Heroic Games Launcher for running games from Epic, GOG and Amazon on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck arrived with v2.18.0." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/heroic-games-launcher-2-18-adds-ge-proton-prioritisation-improved-ui-navigation-and-new-analytics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:01:19

• "Embark Studios have reconfirmed their for THE FINALS to continue working with Proton for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck players." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-finals-devs-confirm-again-continued-compatibility-for-linux-steam-deck-with-proton/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:03:53

• "While this is not the Mann vs Machine update we were previously promised, Team Fortress 2 still has a big update our for the Summer 2025 Event. Still seems like a great time to jump back into the classic free to play FPS from Valve." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/team-fortress-2-adds-10-new-maps-for-a-summer-event-and-more-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:05:38

• So Microsoft Tim STILL works for The Register, but in a different domain: https://devclass.com/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:08:32

• "Valve have given special permission to Garry's Mod from Facepunch to include a whole bunch of extra content for the popular physics sandbox." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/garrys-mod-now-has-lots-of-counter-strike-source-and-half-life-2-content-included/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:08:44

• "The Next Platform is part of the Situation Publishing family, which includes the enterprise and business technology publication, The Register." https://www.nextplatform.com/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:09:40

• "© Situation Publishing, 2018-2024" So an 'offshoot' of The Register https://blocksandfiles.com/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:10:37

• "Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton have acquired Last Epoch devs Eleventh Hour Games, ahead of the latest season launching next month." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/last-epoch-devs-eleventh-hour-games-have-been-acquired-by-krafton/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:18:08

• "The Sniper Elite: Classics Collection Humble Bundle looks like a good deal for gamers if you're in the mood for some action." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/grab-the-sniper-elite-classics-collection-in-this-new-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 09:18:32

• Anon: The True Finns Party's reckless campaign of irrational divestment has led to downgrading: https://yle.fi/a/74-20174454 "Not that the rating is much of a reflection of reality, it is still something"    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:08:38

• "Bots, Spiders, Scrapers and AI - Connections to SN" https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=25/07/24/1019233    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:08:52

• The "LLM industry" (scam) has DATA BROKERS. They scrape sites and basically attack sites in the hope of selling the "whole catalogue" in bulk. What they do, as middlemen, should be considered a cybercrime.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:10:13

• "We need to re-learn how to control our computer, re-learn how to have all of the access to all of our files." https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/linux-reaches-5-in-the-usa-the-year-of:9    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:10:27

• "‘A criminal gang stole £20k worth of racing bikes from our Airbnb in France’" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/criminal-gang-stole-10k-racing-bikes-aibnb-france/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:10:41

• "The Art of the Really Stupid Deal - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-art-of-the-really-stupid-deal    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:10:55

• "South Park brutally mocks Donald Trump" https://boingboing.net/2025/07/24/south-park-brutally-mocks-donald-trump.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:11:09

• "MAGA world decides child trafficking isn't that bad actually" https://boingboing.net/2025/07/24/maga-world-decides-child-trafficking-isnt-that-bad-actually.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:11:21

• "QSL Manager Joseph L. Arcure, Jr., W3HNK, Passes Away at 91" https://www.arrl.org/news/view/qsl-manager-joseph-l-arcure-jr-w3hnk-passes-away-at-91    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:13:12

• "South Park hits at Skydance, Trump in scathing season debut" https://www.semafor.com/article/07/24/2025/south-park-hits-at-skydance-trump-in-scathing-season-debut    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:13:48

• "Analysis-Trump Unlikely to Enforce Tariff Threat on Russian Oil" https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-25/analysis-trump-unlikely-to-enforce-tariff-threat-on-russian-oil T.A.C.O.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:14:04

• "Gefährliche Symbolpolitik: Pornhub beugt sich britischen Alterskontrollen" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/gefaehrliche-symbolpolitik-pornhub-beugt-sich-britischen-alterskontrollen/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:15:05

• iophk: products built on stolen code / license breaches https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/eu-cloud-provider-group-files-complaint-broadcoms-vmware-acquisition/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:15:45

• "Aner ikke hvor mye Microsoft Windows koster Norge årlig | Digi.no" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.digi.no/artikler/aner-ikke-hvor-mye-microsoft-windows-koster-norge-arlig/560684 paywall    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:16:25

• iophk: expect more FUD to steer people away from upgrading from Vista10 to GNU/Linux https://www.securityweek.com/sophisticated-koske-linux-malware-developed-with-ai-aid/ they use LLM slop to spread this FUD: http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Slopwatch_Fakes_FUD_Duplicates_and_Charlatans_Galore.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:16:58

• "‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/25/were-terribly-sorry-south-park-creators-respond-with-humour-to-white-house-anger-over-naked-donald-trump    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:18:00

• "Trump says he could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell ‘but hasn’t thought about it’ as Epstein enabler meets with his former lawyer" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-justice-department-questioning-b2795987.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:18:16

• "Ghislaine Maxwell Talks With Feds About 100 People Linked To Jeffrey Epstein" https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/25/ghislaine-maxwell-talks-100-names-linked-jeffrey-epstein-feds-interview-immunity/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:18:35

• "Ghislaine Maxwell limited immunity row: What Trump's order means for Epstein files" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-limited-proffer-immunity-row-what-trumps-order-means-for-epstein-files-101753483783227.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:18:50

• "Epstein's ex-girlfriend answers questions on '100 different people' tied to him" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-ex-girlfriend-ghislaine-maxwell-answers-questions-justice-department-101753479714967.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:19:03

• "Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/24/tulsi-gabbard-teams-up-with-russian-spies-to-wiretap-and-unmask-hillary-clinton/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:19:14

• "Ahead of President Trump's visit, local paper The National ran a controversial front-page story. "Convicted US Felon to Arrive in Scotland," the headline read. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/why-is-trump-in-scotland-and-why-has-his-visit-sparked-backlash-local-papers-front-page-viral-101753480891403.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:19:45

• "Trump is a felon. He was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in May 2024." https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/why-is-trump-in-scotland-and-why-has-his-visit-sparked-backlash-local-papers-front-page-viral-101753480891403.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:20:02

• "Panama Farmer Receives Land Title After 60-Year Wait at Age 109" https://ticotimes.net/2025/07/25/panama-farmer-receives-land-title-after-60-year-wait-at-age-109    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:20:16

• "Ghislaine Maxwell: Top US Justice official questions Epstein accomplice for 2nd day" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2324080.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:20:51

• "Ghislaine Maxwell given ‘limited immunity’ in meetings with deputy attorney general: reports" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-limited-immunity-doj-epstein-b2796368.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:21:09

• "Narciso Barranco: The son of the gardener brutally beaten by immigration agents in California: ‘My father taught me to love this country’" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-25/the-son-of-the-gardener-brutally-beaten-by-immigration-agents-in-california-my-father-taught-me-to-love-this-country.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:21:23

• Ireland rolls out new mass surveillance | "Irland rullar ut ny massövervakning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/07/25/irland-rullar-ut-ny-massovervakning/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:21:50

• "Chinese Spies Target Networking and Virtualization Flaws to Breach Isolated Environments" https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-spies-target-networking-and-virtualization-flaws-to-breach-isolated-environments/ iophk: VMWare is itself stolen code IIRC http://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:22:31

• "Debian Linux "Trixie" is Planned to Release on August 9" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/07/25/0511234    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:22:53

• "Federal SNAP cuts will cost Alabama $39 million in 2027 — and possibly more | Alabama Reflector" https://alabamareflector.com/2025/07/25/alabama-officials-brace-for-millions-in-federal-snap-cuts/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:23:17

• "Fossil-Fuel Pipelines" ☛ https://therevelator.org/holler-pipelines/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:27:50

• "Irish hip-hop group Kneecap accused Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, of political censorship after being banned from the country for three years." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/07/25/kneecap-claps-back-at-orban-after-entry-ban | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:28:31

• Epstein & MAGA ☛ https://fair.org/home/thom-hartmann-on-epstein-maga-han-shan-2009-on-ken-saro-wiwa/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:29:20

• "opposed the idea on legal or moral grounds" ☛ https://fair.org/home/americas-opinion-pages-overwhelmingly-supported-trumps-attack-on-iran/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:29:46

• Microsoft means data breach ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-tech-support-government-cybersecurity-china-doj-treasury | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:30:22

• A aquifers groundwater https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:34:24

• "Unmentioned was that one of the subcontractors slated to work on the project, Disaster Management Group, is owned by Nathan Albers" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:35:08

• Supreme ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-2024-filings | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:35:40

• "Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a 1 Hz pulse train." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/2025-one-hertz-challenge-a-discrete-component-divider-chain/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:36:47

• "CNCs come in many forms, including mills, 3D printers, lasers, and plotters, but one challenge seems universal" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/human-in-the-loop-compass-cnc-redefines-workspace-limits/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:37:54

• "What did you miss on Hackaday last week?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/hackaday-podcast-episode-330-hover-turtles-dull-designs-and-knex-computers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:38:32

• Zelensky’s reasons Ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/26/zelensky-s-reasons | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:39:22

• "Modern musicians may take for granted that a wide array of musical instruments" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/a-modern-version-of-famous-classic-speaker/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:41:17

• "The authorities don’t hear us" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/25/the-authorities-don-t-hear-us | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:42:24

• kremlin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/25/kremlin-says-putin-zelensky-meeting-unlikely-before-august-deadline-proposed-by-kyiv | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:43:09

• chechnya ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/25/chechnya-head-ramzan-kadyrov-reportedly-hospitalized-after-nearly-drowning-on-vacation-in-turkey | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:43:34

• "Zines (self-produced, small-circulation publications) are extremely DIY, and therefore punk- and hacker-adjacent by nature." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/zine-printing-tips-from-a-solopreneur/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:44:28

• Kremlin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/25/fighting-their-way-to-the-front | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:45:02

• "Water cooling was once only the preserve of hardcore casemodders and overclockers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/massive-aluminum-snake-casting-becomes-water-cooling-loop-for-pc/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:45:49

• "Gas explosion" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/25/gas-explosion-destroys-entire-section-of-russian-apartment-building-killing-at-least-three | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:47:04

• "Striking at something sacred" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/25/striking-at-something-sacred | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:47:33

• "Last year, [Deep Tronix] wished to teach colors to his nephew." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/25/building-a-color-teaching-toy-for-tots/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:48:19

• "LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/lilygo-launches-four-new-esp32-s3-boards-for-lora-display-motion-and-can-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:51:26

• "Marketing is hard, even when you do it right." ☛ https://loudpoet.com/2025/07/23/marketing-books-is-hard-but-dont-blame-authors/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:51:51

• "Blumenthal, a frequent legislative partner of Hawley's, agreed with his take, noting that AI safeguards are urgently needed." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ai_copyright_bill_floated/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:52:18

• "Bearing that in mind, President Trump addressed copyright protections during an AI summit speech; those comments begin at the 20-minute mark." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/24/ai-action-plan/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:52:33

• "Weeks after trending "indie rock band" The Velvet Sundown admitted its Spotify oeuvre was entirely generated by AI, news has emerged that the streaming company is using AI to publish new tunes by dead musicians." ☛ https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:53:03

• "But the bad news about all this is that Google is still trying to add AI to their one small respite against AI." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/07/25/google-web-guide-labs-ai-search-feedback/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:53:32

• "Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga and Latin American anti-piracy group Alianza have joined forces to maintain the pressure on illegal IPTV service Magis TV." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/police-laliga-alianza-target-magistv-with-isp-office-raids-arrests-250725/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:54:01

• "Adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have filed a significant copyright infringement lawsuit against tech giant Meta." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-lawsuit-accuses-meta-of-pirating-adult-films-for-ai-training/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:54:19

• "VMware develops vSphere, the industry’s most popular hypervisor." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/eu-cloud-provider-group-files-complaint-broadcoms-vmware-acquisition/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:55:25

• "I said, look, we'll break this guy up — this is before I learned the facts of life — I said we'll break 'em up" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:55:32

• "SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/starlink-suffers-rare-global-outage/267353/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:56:15

• "SpaceX chief Elon Musk's Starlink satellite [Internet] service experienced an hours-long global network outage Thursday, which executives attributed to a key software issue." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/musks-starlink-satellite-internet-sees-hours-long-global-outage/articleshow/122902836.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:56:40

• "Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/homelessness-crisis-democracy-olympia-dehumanization/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:57:29

• "These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest are truly a dream delivery " ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/celebrate-250th-anniversary-us-postal-service-these-15-photographs-180987040/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:57:44

• "Richard Arkwright wasn’t building a museum. He was solving a technical problem: how to increase the efficiency of cotton spinning." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/misc/what-the-worlds-first-factory-can-teach-us-about-ai/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:58:05

• "Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/new-trump-executive-order-will-further-criminalize-homelessness-mental-illness/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:58:25

• "Trump's action comes after the Supreme Court ruled in June that that people without homes can be arrested and fined for sleeping in public spaces" ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/24/trump-homeless-people-streets-order-housing/85358060007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 10:58:43

• "Aside from the above, it’s not clear what service Weiss actually offers CBS" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/is-the-free-press-worth-a-quarter-billion-dollars/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:04:43

• "Financial newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, reinforce this fixation on numbers." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/financial-journalism-cuts-its-losses-yet-loses-the-people/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:04:53

• "The law also cancels about $8 billion in foreign aid accounts, including global health initiatives." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/24/repub/trump-signs-law-yanking-9b-from-npr-pbs-foreign-aid/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:05:13

• "In his second term, Trump has also punished other outlets he dislikes, including Voice of America, the Associated Press, NPR and PBS" ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/421116/trump-sues-murdoch-wall-street-journal | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:05:26

• "several new editorial roles in London are being created." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/fortune-europe-editorial-team-made-redundant-but-new-roles-being-created/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:05:35

• "the decision has been interpreted in liberal circles as Paramount in essence bending the knee to Trump" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/07/24/south-park-ridicules-naked-trump-after-creators-sign-15bn-p/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:07:08

• "The university did not admit wrongdoing, but pledged to follow laws against considering race in admissions and hiring and to work to reduce antisemitism." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/24/2025/columbia-university-settles-trump-lawsuit | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:07:24

• "The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/columbia-agreement-trump/683653/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:07:42

• "There’s every reason to believe, based on the terms of the deal, that the only thing proceeding with focus and clarity is the MAGA takeover of higher education." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-trump-settlement/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:08:04

• "North Ossetia is experiencing a second day of mobile [Internet] disruptions amid a drone threat alert." ☛ https://oc-media.org/internet-disruptions-reported-in-north-ossetia-amid-drone-threat-alert/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:08:56

• "They’ve also tried to cultivate homegrown alternatives that would be under the thumb of regulators." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kremlin-internet-youtube-apps/33483025.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:09:17

• "The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-ai-order-bias-openai-google/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:09:39

• "John Gilmore, co-founder" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/eff_turns_35/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:11:58

• "if it fails to land a major external customer" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-might-cancel-14a-process-node-development-and-the-following-nodes-if-it-cant-win-a-major-external-customer-move-would-cede-leading-edge-market-to-tsmc-and-samsung | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:14:37

• "Intel isn't just laying off employees and closing plants in a bid to cut costs" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/intel_not_done_shedding_now/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:14:51

• "On Thursday, Intel disclosed that it plans to reduce its headcount by 15% more this year in a bid to boost financial performance" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/25/intel-spin-off-nex-networking-business-independent-company/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:16:04

• "All of this occurred at Trump’s presentation of his AI Action Plan in Washington, making the remarks while presenting on stage: [...]" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2859169/what-the-hell-is-nvidia-said-trump-while-presenting-on-ai.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:17:10

• "So why am I writing about this?" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1067 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:17:34

• "I am not blind to the fact that this proposal will impinge upon the right to privacy." ☛ https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/publications/speech-by-minister-for-justice-home-affairs-and-migration-jim-ocallaghan-a-contested-arena-balancing-competing-human-rights-in-the-area-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/ |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:17:48

• "Ireland's media watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/irish-watchdog-threatens-elon-musks-x-over-adult-content-controls/articleshow/122886003.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:19:05

• "This means that the much-vaunted megafab near Magdeburg in eastern Germany, first announced in 2022, will not be built." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/intel_european_retreat/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:19:20

• "The disclosure came as Intel published its second-quarter financial results today." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/intel-lay-off-15-more-staff-year-end-scale-back-foundry-investments/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:19:31

• "We have not set any headcount reduction target" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/713388/intel-q2-2025-leave-germany-poland-costa-rica | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:19:43

• "Everyone loves enshittification. Not the thing itself, of course. But Cory Doctorow’s neologism was an instant hit" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:19:52

• "Big in Japan" ☛ https://houseofkyle.com/2025/07/25/big-in-japan-part-one/ | Source: Kyle Ford    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:17:39

• "While there’s no definitive data yet on how well the car is performing at retail—Tesla doesn’t publish model or country sales number splits—the early signs do not look good" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/it-looks-like-the-tesla-model-y-refresh-has-bombed/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:18:05

• "The company still hasn’t released a lineup of newer, cheaper EVs to compete with the discount models offered by its competitors, especially China’s BYD, for markets outside the US" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/24/2025/tesla-profits-fall-for-third-consecutive-quarter | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:18:20

• "There's just one wrinkle: the funds roll out in two tranches, with $10 billion dispersed immediately, and $30 billion only available if OpenAI restructures to a for-profit company" ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-money-softbank-investors | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:18:59

• "The DMV is seeking to bar Tesla from selling cars in the state for at least 30 days. A five-day hearing in the case began Monday in Oakland before a DMV administrative law judge" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-24/has-musk-lied-about-self-driving-teslas-california-says-so | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:19:24

• "For the second time, xAI has fallen behind on its bills to our local utility company. In February 2025, it was reported that the AI company was $400,000 behind and received several cutoff notices." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2025/07/xai-million-mlgw/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:19:44

• "Insiders believe Chinese officials will not abandon these projects, viewing them as growing pains rather than failures." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinas-ai-data-center-boom-goes-bust-rush-leaves-billions-of-dollars-in-idle-infrastructure | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:20:02

• "Many data centers were built on the assumption that state-owned companies and government agencies would purchase computing power." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-is-developing-nation-spanning-network-to-sell-surplus-data-center-compute-power-latency-disparate-hardware-are-key-hurdles | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:20:23

• "In the works for more than a decade, Grain Belt Express is expected to run from southwest Kansas carrying renewable energy through Missouri and Illinois before ending at the Indiana border." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/why-did-feds-cancel-a-4-9-billion-loan-for-the-grain-belt-express-transmission-line-project/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:20:44

• "This is the longest period of consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 30C since records began in 1961" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/2323972.html | Source: RTL    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:21:16

• "A study by NASA’s Sea Level Change Team revealed that, in 2023, the sea level in Tuvalu was 15 centimeters higher than the average recorded over the previous three decades." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-planned-migration-of-an-entire-country-is-underway/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:21:45

• "As allegations over Donald Trump‘s relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein escalate, the latest report claims that the president’s name appears in a list of contributors for a 50th birthday book to Epstein and that in another book" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-epstein-birthday-book-note-1235393765/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:25:41

• "The Department of Justice keeps changing its story about documents related to the politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, offering contradictory reasons for refusing to release the files." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/epstein-trump-files-justice-department/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:25:58

• "DER SPIEGEL has learned that the financial institution is suspected of having released more than 1.5 billion euros out of a total volume of 4 billion euros for the regime in Tehran." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/circumventing-u-s-sanctions-turkish-state-owned-bank-suspected-of-transferring-usd1-5-billion-to-tehran-a-c7e76706-0900-442d-bfd5-c95a9d26a055#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:26:28

• "Declining birth rates around the world may pose new challenges for humanity." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/demography-fertility-population-crisis-longtermism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:27:32

• "Worsening Water Crisis" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/farda-briefing-water-shortage-iran-tehran/33482959.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:27:41

• "Narendra Modi’s government has launched major schemes of urban transformation in cities like Ayodhya" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/india-hindutva-modi-urban-infrastructure/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:28:42

• "The case could be argued as early as 2026 and decided by next summer." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/07/supreme-court-blocks-north-dakota-redistricting-ruling-that-would-gut-key-part-of-voting-rights-act.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:29:18

• "Lithuania’s intelligence agency on Thursday reported an active campaign by Belarus’s KGB to recruit Belarusians living abroad" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2622295/lithuanian-intelligence-belarus-kgb-targeting-belarusian-diaspora-for-recruitment | Source: LRT    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:29:49

• "These Nvidia AI chips were reportedly smuggled to China in the three months following tighter US export controls" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ai-chips-worth-1-billion-entered-china-despite-us-curbs-ft/articleshow/122895024.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:30:17

• "Last month, President Trump extended the deadline by 90 days for China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/24/tiktok-going-dark-soon-commerce-secretary/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:31:01

• "On modern battlefields, main battle tanks that were once the lords of the plains are being taken out" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/army-tanks-survival-drones/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:31:27

• "In his first media interview in years, Ahmed Haroun, chairman of the former ruling National Congress Party (NCP)" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudans-islamists-plot-post-war-comeback-by-supporting-army-2025-07-25/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:31:52

• "The opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year has become a source of political leverage that Beijing" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/china-fentanyl-trump-tariffs/683642/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:32:11

• "Despite the U.S. desperately trying to block access to advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-companies-allegedly-smuggled-in-usd1bn-worth-of-nvidia-ai-chips-in-the-last-three-months-despite-increasing-export-controls-some-companies-are-already-flaunting-future-b300-availability | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:32:44

• "While several civilian federal agencies told FedScoop that the service interruption didn’t disrupt operations" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/starlink-outage-impacted-starshield-its-defense-communications-service/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:33:10

• "SpaceX’s Starlink internet service suffered a major international outage" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/starlink-outage-incident-or-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:33:54

• "backbone of the Ukrainian army" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/25/ukrainian-soldiers-cut-off-from-musks-starlink-after-outage/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:34:14

• "The Commission’s strategy risks turning exception into rule: permanent suspicion becomes standard, preventive data collection is institutionalized, and mass surveillance is established as a governing infrastructure." ☛ https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/07/the-eu-commissions-protecteu-roadmap-a-dangerous-step-toward-permanent-surveillance/ | Source: Osservatorio Nessuno    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:35:12

• "If people choose not to log on [to search engines] to avoid age assurance checks, this could have a wide-reaching impact on the streamlined, integrated ways people search for online information" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-checked-internet-has-arrived/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:35:31

• "Speaking under the theme “Building a Continental Framework for AI, Data Sovereignty" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/data-is-the-new-oil-but-africa-must-own-the-wells-prof-dr-mirjam/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:35:49

• "Tea, which claims to have more than 1.6 million users, reached the top of the App Store charts this week and has tens of thousands of reviews there." ☛ https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:39:08

• Windows TCO: "The Zurich-headquartered healthcare organization, which operates more than 100 facilities across Switzerland, Austria, and Germany" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ameos-group-data-breach/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:40:16

• Windows TCO: "The BlackSuit gang, which is believed to have been operational since April/May 2023" ☛ https://therecord.media/blacksuit-ransomware-gang-website-takedown | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:40:32

• Social Control Media: "The age of pretending not to see the victim is over." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/this-is-not-my-country/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:42:03

• "As you might guess, while publishers watch their traffic circle the drain, Google's profits are reaching new heights." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/07/24/publishers-see-traffic-plummet-as-googles-ai-answers-keep-users-from-clicking-links.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:42:34

• "A full one-third said that fixing the AI’s mistakes took as much time as not using the AI." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/25/16-of-employees-pretend-to-use-ai-at-work-to-please-their-boss/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:42:49

• "The practical way we quantize things in NNs is… well, NNs have their own bloody-minded trade-offs and reinventions as usual." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/nn_quantization.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:46:49

• "This survey does a good job of showing how irrelevant the source links are in Google A.I. summaries to search traffic." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-ai-summaries-traffic/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:47:11

• "This move by the Trump administration is the latest in its evolving attack on the agency, which provides a significant route of redress for people harmed by AI in the US." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/24/1120645/americas-ai-watchdog-is-losing-its-bite/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:47:35

• "As chatbots grow more powerful, so does the potential for harm." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:48:04

• "It seems the public is happy to gorge on slop, and that’s not a problem for Alphabet’s most valuable asset after Google Search. Quite the opposite." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ai-slop-goes-mainstream-youtube-cashes-in/267387/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:48:21

• "South Park co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses Thursday to anger from the White House over the season premiere of the animated institution" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/south-park-trump-1.7593849 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:48:47

• "I completely agree with him on this one, because, if the government interfered with private AI, innovators at ‘South Park’ wouldn’t be able to make important videos like this one" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/stephen-colbert-praises-south-park-naked-trump-1236470969/ | Source: Variety    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:50:09

• ""The dominant exit trend right now is frequent but lower-value acquisitions and fewer IPOs with significantly higher value," said Dimitri Zabelin, PitchBook's senior research analyst for AI and cybersecurity." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/22/ai-startups-raised-104-billion-in-first-half-exits-different-story.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:50:44

• "the money isn’t necessarily coming with them." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-venture-capital-exits | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:51:10

• "Boucher has previously been in the news for publishing novels using AI and proposing an AI bill of rights. He also has a history of public pranks, having helped create a fake company and a fake art movement." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tim-boucher-velvet-sundown-1.7593628 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:51:33

• "One survey response attributed to Ricks on the district’s website included text that appeared to have been copied and pasted from a dialogue with ChatGPT" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/07/25/amid-questions-over-chatgpt-use-detroit-school-board-candidate-withdraws/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:53:26

• "Despite a flurry of actions this week to extend AI leadership, the administration is dismantling the very advantages that established America’s global lead in AI in the first place." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/24/1120639/trumps-ai-action-plan-is-a-distraction/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:53:44

• "Benteler is participating in the project through its Benteler Mobility unit, which helps cities build autonomous public transit fleets." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/25/lyft-partners-benteler-launch-autonomous-shuttle-service/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:54:18

• "None of these security and protection measures are bad things. Indeed, they're necessary." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ai_trump_plan_/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:54:43

• "The Illusion of Thinking" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/07/25/the-illusion-of-thinking/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:55:03

• "Because of their ubiquity and importance, the macOS CryptoKit framework provides access to optimised implementations of SHA algorithms including SHA-256." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/23/intel-macs-can-be-much-slower-computing-sha-256-hashes/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:56:06

• "requested Microsoft’s assistance" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/national-treasury-confirms-malware-hit/267320/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:56:20

• "Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no longer work and return a 404 error message" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:56:45

• "A Chinese cyberespionage group has been targeting VMware and F5 product vulnerabilities in a sophisticated and stealthy campaign, cybersecurity firm Sygnia reports." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-spies-target-networking-and-virtualization-flaws-to-breach-isolated-environments/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:57:16

• "US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/senator_mandiant_salt_typhoon_demands/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:57:34

• "Once vaccination rates reached 51 percent of the population, total flu cases were reduced by 32.9 to 41.5 percent, depending on the severity of the flu." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-confirms-vaccines-protect-everybody-even-the-unvaccinated | Source: Science Alert    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:58:09

• "As we've reported, the consequences of these mental health breakdowns — which have impacted both people with known histories of serious mental illness and those who have none — have sometimes been extreme." ☛ https://futurism.com/support-group-ai-psychosis | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:58:50

• "We are living through the attention wars—a battle for control of human cognitive resources that determines everything from individual agency to collective reasoning." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-attention-wars | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 13:59:26

• "So today, I’m encouraged. If my goal is to put myself out there, it’s a good sign to feel exposed." ☛ https://www.jameskerr.blog/posts/2025/exposed/ | Source: James Kerr    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:00:03

• "This is the 100th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-marisabel-munoz | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:00:35

• "The thing I wanted to spend some time reflecting on though, is not the significance of having done something every day for 100 weeks (something I honestly don’t care too much about) but why all this matters." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/why-this-matters | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:01:42

• "What that ultimately means is that we built and managed projects for businesses that came in and pitched their ideas to us." ☛ https://flower.codes/education/programming/2025/07/25/give-a-problem | Source: Zach Flower    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:02:11

• "Starlink is the most immediate and frequent source of potential interference for radio astronomy: it launched 477 satellites during this study’s four-month data collection period alone" ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-technology/australian-university-study-finds-starlink-interfering-with-radio-astronomy.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:02:45

• "We present the largest survey to date characterising intended and unintended emission from Starlink satellites across the SKA-Low frequency range." ☛ https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/07/aa54787-25/aa54787-25.html | Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:06:44

• "A combinator is a kind of function. Specifically, it’s a function that applies its arguments—and only its arguments—to each other in a particular shape and order." ☛ https://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/combinatory-programming.html |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:07:03

• "Around 3,870 individuals are expected to depart, but that number may change in the coming days and weeks, the spokesperson said, adding that the remaining number of employees at the agency would be around 14,000." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-25/nasa-says-20-of-workforce-to-depart-space-agency | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:07:38

• "recent policies that have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/nasa-cuts-letter-1.7594556 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:08:12

• "NASA has released a set of nine colorful space images that illustrate the color and detail that’s possible when mixing views from a visible light camera with those of an X-ray telescope, infrared cameras, UV cameras, and even radio." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/what-happens-when-x-ray-infrared-and-optical-cameras-mix-nasa-just-shared-a-stunning-space-based-light-pageant | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:08:33

• "In ‘More Everything Forever,’ astrophysicist Adam Becker exposes Silicon Valley’s insanity and explains why Mars isn't where we want to go." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-mad-religion-of-technological-salvation/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:08:49

• "After the Bible and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Divine Comedy has probably been the motivation for more paintings than any other literary work." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/25/introduction-to-dantes-inferno/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:09:36

• "Far from the first, as Aaronson notes later. If you are into cocktails, this looks like quite the experience." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/every-iba-cocktail/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:09:47

• "I wonder how many people blog to understand themselves, or to validate their existence. How many write just to spend time with themselves, while the whole world wants to take its share." ☛ https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/Time_with_Myself |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:12:12

• "He sold what was left of his soul to Palantir founder and sweaty, ham-faced fascist Peter Thiel who bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hulk-hogan-racist-liar-scab-obit/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:12:36

• "In this interview, we discussed how information overload hinders deep work and creativity, the power of metacognition, why we should aim to augment human thinking and not automate it away" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/aloe-featured-tool | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:13:24

• SUSE Security Team Spotlight Spring 2025 ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2025/07/25/spring-spotlight.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:14:39

• "This opens new possibilities for displaying IoT data captured from Ethernet to large TV displays." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/mipi-hdmi-is-open-source-hardware-mipi-dsi-converter-to-dvi-hdmi-which-works-with-esp32-p4-devkit/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:16:57

• "Many customers requested a similar computer based on the 6502 processor, which led to the creation of the Open Source Hardware project Neo6502." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:17:12

• "We successfully exploited two discontinued network devices at DistrictCon’s inaugural Junkyard competition in February, winning runner-up for Most Innovative Exploitation Technique." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/25/exploiting-zero-days-in-abandoned-hardware/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:17:40

• "I finally found time to start reading the CPC Addict magazine I received a few months back, and boy I am so happy!" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/i-want-an-amstrad-nc100.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:17:54

• "I recently found a Navman Bike 1000 in a thrift store for EUR 10. This is a bike computer, a navigation device for cyclists, made by MiTaC, the same company that makes the Mio bike computers." ☛ https://raymii.org/s/blog/Bringing_a_Decade_Old_Bicycle_Navigator_Back_to_Life_with_Open_Source_Software_and_DOOM.html | Source: Remy Van Elst    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:18:09

• No, your toaster does NOT need Wi-Fi or Internet or even Bluetooth. The problem is not even the open port or goodmorning1234 password. The problem is that you've just hooked up for the whole world a device that could potentially let anyone to turn down a home from very far away, over Tor.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:20:32

• Does anyone still remember VICE Media? Was it not valued at many billions at one point? Sort of like many HEY HI companies right now...    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:27:14

• A lot of social control media these days is BOT (fake) views and even comments, not just clicks, are bots. It helps platform FAKE "engagement" and thus invent fraudulent "values"... chatbot use case: commit fraud. Another kind of it.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:28:42

• Understanding ODF File Types: .odt, .ods, .odp, and Beyond ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/25/understanding-odf-file-types-odt-ods-odp-and-beyond/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:30:26

• More fakes for illusion of something going on https://lunduke.substack.com/p/proton-launches-hallucinatory-ai    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:30:53

• Etesync-Notes – secure note-taking application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/etesync-notes-secure-note-taking-application/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:32:01

• Ruff – extremely fast Python linter and code formatter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ruff-extremely-fast-python-linter-code-formatter/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:32:34

• WiseMapping – web-based mind mapping tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wisemapping-web-based-mind-mapping-tool/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:33:05

• "Bot-based "engagement" can be the foundation for advertising fraud. The social control media companies are very likely to try to bill the advertisers for impressions which never happened and were bot clicks instead of actual visiting people." There were lawsuits like these (FB and Twitter).    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:51:52

• Modern LLM get-rich-fast scheme: either lie to investors OR 1) attack a given Web site by scraping millions of pages from it 2) that site pays large bills for this attack 3) you then offer to sell all the data of that site 4) you profit from someone else's work without consent or even knowledge 5) that site gets nothing, shuts down due to bills    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:53:47

• And yes, it sounds like some kind of crime. But that's what happens right now with LLM "data brokers", which compete by together attacking sites in parallel, all for the same "data set" (stolen mirror) to be sold to a highest bidder. Break this racket by punishing the actors.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:55:18

• "I expect that if the fraud is still going on then there are new lawsuits too" -iophk    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:55:51

• [Old] "First, I'll explain how I studied these image formats." ☛ https://ache.one/articles/web-image-formats |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:57:00

• "I was needing a way to see the output of a document run to see which servers had the change" ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/ssm-document-output/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:57:42

• One easy way to kill the press online is to unleash lots of DDoS attacks at it, under the guise of "AI training", until it perishes and gives up    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:58:38

• "It feels good to finally address some of these pain points. I also closed some stale issues and pull requests." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202507/coverage_7100_patch.html | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:59:15

• "A language for statistical computing clearly needs to be able to deal with missing values" ☛ https://www.biobits.be/biofunctor/2025/07/23/lets-talk-about-nas/ |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 14:59:55

• "The phrase ‘deep learning’ already feels outdated, and the current hotness is more about AI and LLMs, so the lecture and topics might feel a bit out of date." ☛ https://www.juliabloggers.com/easy-neural-nets-and-finance-part-1/ | Source: Julia Language Blog Aggregator    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:00:37

• "Not just growing up I suppose, a continuous process of becoming." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2025/07/25/faults | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:00:53

• "There’s a tool for managing a database of short text snippets, and selecting snippets at random." ☛ https://www.judy.co.uk/blog/using-fortune-to-reinforce-habits/ |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:02:09

• "I have a few more Firefox extensions and settings that I also use." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/firefox-extensions-and-settings-for-2025/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:04:02

• "Cool, so what's the new demo I want to share?" ☛ https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/07/25/getting-image-insights-with-built-in-chrome-ai-and-exif-data | Source: Raymond Camden    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:04:52

• "Can this happen here? My proxy is written in go, as are most of my servers." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/polarizing-parsers | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:05:27

• "Welcome back to another edition of the Community Office Hours!" ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/video-thunderbird-140-0-esr-eclipse/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:07:13

• "Renting Android Malware Is Getting Easier – and Cheaper" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/malware-service-turns-android-hacking-plug-play-business/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:07:40

• "You can now use WebTunnel bridges to connect to the Tor network from Tails." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_18/ | Source: Tor    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:11:44

• "But what if I told you that my first encounter with Linux came well before the launch of this humble website?" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-death-of-windows-xp-and-my-first-linux-netbook/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:14:23

• "I miss being optimistic about technology." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/being-optimistic-for-technology/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:15:29

• "I have used the Steam Deck as a PC in the past, attaching a keyboard" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/steam-deck-full-tv-setup/ | Source: Ava    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:17:54

• The video in http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/YouTube_is_a_Spamfarm_Slopfarm_and_Clickfarm_a_Lot_of_Numbers_T.shtml does a good job explaining (report from China, English translation) what social control media has, in general, become. And thus why the optimal thing a person can do is ignore/avoid it.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:19:26

• "Many sites have been affected by the aggressiveness of web crawlers designed to improve LLMs." ☛ https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb |    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:20:56

• "One of the differences between X and Wayland is that in the classical version of X you send drawing commands to the server while in Wayland you send images" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DrawingCommandsVsSendingImages | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:21:14

• How To Configure DHCP Server on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/configure-dhcp-server-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:31:25

• How To Install GIMP on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-gimp-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:31:42

• How To Install Pritunl VPN Server on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pritunl-vpn-server-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:32:08

• How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu to Access Hey Hi (AI) from Your Terminal ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/how-to-install-gemini-cli-on-ubuntu    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:32:38

• How to Find Running Services in GNU/Linux with Systemd Commands [Quick Guide] ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/list-all-running-services-under-systemd-in-linux/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:33:11

• How to Clear RAM Cache, Buffers, and Swap in GNU/Linux Without Reboot ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/clear-ram-memory-cache-buffer-and-swap-space-on-linux/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:33:34

• GNU GNU/Linux Debian 12: howto (unfinished) if vscode is open source it should be possible to compile it from src, right? ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/07/25/gnu-linux-debian-12-howto-unfinished-if-vscode-is-open-source-it-should-be-possible-to-compile-it-from-src-right/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:33:46

• No, this would not work, people would sell their IDs ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/id-verification-could-fix-the-dead    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:35:35

• Impacts fools with skinnerboxes https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-tea-app-breach-60gb-of-personal    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:35:56

• How To Install SDKMAN on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-sdkman-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:36:29

• How To Install Calibre on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-calibre-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:42:13

• How To Install Borgmatic on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-borgmatic-fedora-42/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:42:43

• "I have no idea what LINUX really is. no matter how hard I try. All I know is Stallman is awesome." https://x.com/LakeDaniel11/status/1949033324380561516    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:44:08

• "Closing Keynote Day 3 - Dr. Richard Stallman - Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin https://youtu.be/tqgUGbZdyHs?si=xolOKpbgp7lE7xwU via @YouTube I really like this guy." https://x.com/LakeDaniel11/status/1948992115272237129    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:45:08

• Don Marti: Firefox extensions and settings for 2025 ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/firefox-extensions-and-settings-for-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:51:15

• How To Install SNMP on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-snmp-manjaro/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:51:46

• How To Install NFS Server on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nfs-server-fedora-42/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:52:00

• How To Install Sysbench on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-sysbench-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:52:17

• HTML and the Web Used to be Something a Child Could Learn, "Modern" Web is a Puzzle of Frameworks, Bloat, and Worse ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/HTML_and_the_Web_Used_to_be_Something_a_Child_Could_Learn_Moder.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:53:56

• We Don't Do JavaScript and Pages Are Small ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/We_Don_t_Do_JavaScript_and_Pages_Are_Small.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:54:08

• tinmop – client for Gemini, gopher, kami, and Mastodon ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinmop-client-gemini-gopher-kami-mastodon/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:54:18

• Record heatwave grips South Korea as temperatures could soar to 38 deg C this weekend ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/record-heat-wave-grips-south-korea-as-temperatures-could-soar-to-38-deg-c-this-weekend    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 15:55:43

• Remi Collet: 📝 Redis version 8.0 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/07/25/Redis-version-8.0    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:00:50

• YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/YouTube_is_a_Spamfarm_Slopfarm_and_Clickfarm_a_Lot_of_Numbers_T.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:01:13

• Enable Custom Logos branding in the OpenShift web console ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/07/25/enable-custom-logos-branding-openshift-web-console    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:03:06

• Tails 6.18 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:04:35

• Introducing the Arduino Nano R4: small in size, big on possibilities ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/07/24/introducing-the-arduino-nano-r4-small-in-size-big-on-possibilities/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:06:53

• Olaine vice-mayor steps down following furore about his education ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/25.07.2025-olaine-vice-mayor-steps-down-following-furore-about-his-education.a608127/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:07:17

• The Sound of Silence: On Being Jewish in Canada in 2025 ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/07/the-sound-of-silence-on-being-jewish-in-canada-in-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:09:18

• New executive order means shift from policy to practice for cybersecurity practitioners ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/07/new-executive-order-means-shift-from-policy-to-practice-for-cybersecurity-practitioners/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:10:20

• Mitel Patches Critical Flaw in Enterprise Communication Platform ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mitel-patches-critical-flaw-in-enterprise-communication-platform/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:10:57

• UK Student Sentenced to Prison for Selling Phishing Kits ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/uk-student-sentenced-to-prison-for-selling-phishing-kits/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:11:30

• No Patch for Flaw Exposing Hundreds of LG Cameras to Remote Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/no-patch-for-flaw-exposing-hundreds-of-lg-cameras-to-remote-hacking/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:11:55

• US Targets North Korea’s Illicit Funds: $15M Rewards Offered as American Woman Jailed in IT Worker Scam ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-targets-north-koreas-illicit-funds-15m-rewards-offered-as-american-woman-jailed-in-it-worker-scam/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:12:36

• Amazon shuts down Hey Hi (AI) lab in Shanghai, source says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/amazon-shuts-down-ai-lab-in-shanghai/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:15:29

• Egypt requests National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems worth nearly $5 billion ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/egypt-requests-national-advanced-surface-to-air-missile-systems-worth-nearly-5-billion/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:19:24

• SAAF radars in the repair and maintenance queue ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/aerospace-aerospace/saaf-radars-in-the-repair-and-maintenance-queue/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:31:50

• UK plans to allow Hongkongers to be extradited on a ‘case-by-case’ basis ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/uk-plans-to-allow-hongkongers-to-be-extradited-on-a-case-by-case-basis/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:32:34

• Nat. sec police issue HK$200K bounties for 15 Hongkongers wanted for involvement in overseas political group ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/breaking-nat-sec-police-issue-hk200k-bounties-for-15-hongkongers-wanted-for-involvement-in-overseas-political-group/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:33:00

• US begins deportation flights from Alligator Alcatraz despite controversy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/us-begins-deportation-flights-from-alligator-alcatraz-despite-controversy/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:34:32

• Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:35:38

• Committee Chairperson Welcomes Seizure of Assets by Hawks at Prasa ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/committee-chairperson-welcomes-seizure-of-assets-by-hawks-at-prasa/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:36:11

• French plan to recognise Palestinian state draws fire from Israel, US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250725-french-plan-to-recognise-palestinian-state-draws-fire-from-israel-us    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:37:36

• In California and in Poland, new laws for who belongs where ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0725/California-China-Honduras-Poland-Morocco    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:37:52

• Two Democratic Governors Say if Texas Redraws Congressional Maps, They May Too ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/texas-democrats-redistricting.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:38:42

• The 'Matrix' Effect – why does pop culture create fear of Artificial Intelligence? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/25.07.2025-the-matrix-effect-why-does-pop-culture-create-fear-of-artificial-intelligence.a607948/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:39:18

• FCC Formally Approves Paramount Global/Skydance Media Merger in Deal Likely To Harm Consumers, Free Press ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/fcc-formally-approves-paramount-global-skydance-media-merger-in-deal-likely-to-harm-consumers-free-press/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:40:09

• Intel to lay off 15% more staff by year-end and scale back foundry investments ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/intel-lay-off-15-more-staff-year-end-scale-back-foundry-investments/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:41:02

• Intel promises sweeping changes to combat stagnation with new foundry strategy, Hey Hi (AI) focus, and the return of Hyper-Threading — but losses threaten to curtail ambition ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-promises-sweeping-changes-to-combat-stagnation-with-new-foundry-strategy-ai-focus-and-the-return-of-hyper-threading-but-losses-threaten-to-curtail-ambition    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:41:38

• Intel Expects Work Force to Shrink by 25,000 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/technology/intel-layoffs-25000.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:41:50

• Notes from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast" ☞ https://evanhahn.com/the-weather-machine-book-notes/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:42:45

• Encryption Makes Us Powerful: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for European Civil Society ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/07/encryption-makes-us-powerful-internet-society-hosts-encryption-advocacy-workshop-for-european-civil-society/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:43:33

• Music in a Minute: Soundtracks of summer ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/music/music-in-a-minute-soundtracks-of-summer/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:44:17

• Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/are-the-democrats-getting-better-at-the-internet    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:44:55

• In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceX ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000010290263/china-starlink-space-race.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:45:05

• Starlink Went Down Globally. Here’s What We Know About Its Longest Outage Since Launch ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/07/starlink-global-outage-zimbabwe-impact/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:45:18

• "were not properly instructed by air traffic control"... maybe they were busy playing tiktok game on their "phone" ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/southwest-flight-plummets-nearly-500-feet-in-a-freefall-to-avoid-midair-collision-leaving-2-flight-attendants-injured/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:48:41

• Half of KLIA Terminal 2 auto gates down with technical glitch, auto gates at other terminals unaffected ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/half-of-klia-terminal-2-autogates-down-with-technical-glitch-autogates-elsewhere-unaffected    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:49:09

• A Series of Mysterious Explosions Unnerves Syrians ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/syria-explosions.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:49:25

• TTABlog Test: Is SEXTO for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with THE SEXTON for Whiskey? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ttablog-test-is-sexto-for-alcoholic.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:49:58

• WTH? Files under "shopping"!!! https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/shopping/microsoft-office-2024-home-amp-business-for-mac-or-pc-lifetime-license-is-36-off-4/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:50:52

• Spat Between Thai and Cambodian Leaders Fuels Deadly Border War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/asia/thailand-cambodia-clashes-dynasties.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:51:37

• Why I Left the City and Moved My Family Into an Inflatable Bounce House ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/why-i-left-the-city-and-moved-my-family-into-an-inflatable-bounce-house    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:53:25

• Surprise drop in inflation likely to trigger further interest rate cuts, experts predict ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/drop-inflation-mexico-interest-rate-cuts/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:53:52

• Ancient Voice Box Finally Reveals How Dinosaurs May Have Sounded ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-voice-box-finally-reveals-how-dinosaurs-may-have-sounded    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:54:45

• A Study Found Too Much Sleep Increases Risk of Death. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-study-found-too-much-sleep-increases-risk-of-death-heres-why    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:55:10

• Weight Comes Back When You Stop Taking Drugs Like Ozempic, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/weight-comes-back-when-you-stop-taking-drugs-like-ozempic-study-finds    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:57:50

• NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-watching-a-huge-anomaly-growing-in-earths-magnetic-field    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:58:51

• Sweat Doesn't Actually Form The Way We Thought, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sweat-doesnt-actually-form-the-way-we-thought-study-finds    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:59:13

• Jaw-Dropping Image Reveals Dying Stars Entangled Like Serpents ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jaw-dropping-image-reveals-dying-stars-entangled-like-serpents    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:59:26

• This Natural, Zero-Calorie Sweetener Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Cancer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-natural-zero-calorie-sweetener-could-be-a-secret-weapon-against-cancer    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 16:59:46

• Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-2-existing-drugs-can-reverse-alzheimers-brain-damage-in-mice    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:05:22

• This Could Be The First Witnessed Birth of a Supermassive Black Hole ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-could-be-the-first-witnessed-birth-of-a-supermassive-black-hole    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:05:57

• Rights group demands immediate release of detained former Niger president ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/rights-group-demands-immediate-release-of-nigers-detained-former-president/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:08:26

• Undersea sensors—a US trump card China knows it must eliminate ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/undersea-sensors-a-us-trump-card-china-knows-it-must-eliminate/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:09:08

• China’s new dam: electrical power, and strategic power, too ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-new-dam-electrical-power-and-strategic-power-too/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:10:51

• Taiwan’s opposition protests ahead of recall vote targeting ‘pro-China’ lawmakers ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/taiwans-opposition-protests-ahead-of-recall-vote-targeting-pro-china-lawmakers/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:11:24

• Underground China repair shops thrive servicing illicit Nvidia GPUs banned by export restrictions — companies resurrecting banned Hey Hi (AI) accelerators at a rate of up to '500 per month' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/underground-china-repair-shops-thrive-servicing-illicit-nvidia-gpus-banned-by-export-restrictions-companies-resurrecting-banned-ai-accelerators-at-a-rate-of-up-to-500-per-month    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:11:41

• China's foreign minister meets Pakistan army chief, urges protection for nationals ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-foreign-minister-meets-pakistan-army-chief-urges-protection-for-nationals    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:12:18

• China’s leverage on the trade war with US ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-leverage-on-the-trade-war-with-us    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:12:42

• Modi announces $565-million credit line for debt-plagued Maldives ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/modi-announces-565-million-credit-line-for-debt-plagued-maldives    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:13:05

• Thailand favours direct talks to end Cambodia conflict, rather than mediation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-rejects-international-mediation-to-end-fighting-with-cambodia    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:13:21

• Storms dump nearly a year of rain in northern China, 19,000 evacuated ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/storms-dump-nearly-a-year-of-rain-in-northern-china-19000-evacuated    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:13:50

• China releases draft law amendment to help curb price wars ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-releases-draft-law-amendment-to-help-curb-price-wars    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:14:11

• China reports record wave of mosquito-borne chikungunya virus ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-reports-record-wave-of-mosquito-borne-chikungunya-virus    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:14:28

• Xi says China, EU must deepen trust but bloc chief urges ‘real solutions’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-says-china-eu-must-deepen-trust-but-bloc-chief-urges-real-solutions    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:15:08

• China says ‘deeply concerned’ over deadly Cambodia-Thailand border clashes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-deeply-concerned-over-deadly-cambodia-thailand-border-clashes    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:15:30

• Plane brawl breaks out after man wanting to sleep tells women having a chat to ‘shut up’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/plane-brawl-breaks-out-after-man-wanting-to-sleep-tells-women-having-a-chat-to-shut-up    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:16:05

• No credible proof of Jho Low’s location or passport use, says Malaysian Home Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/no-credible-proof-of-jho-lows-location-or-passport-use-says-malaysian-home-minister    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:16:33

• US should focus on economic ties to compete with China in Indo Pacific, says former Australia PM ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-should-focus-on-economic-ties-to-compete-with-china-in-indo-pacific-says-former-australia-pm    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:17:05

• China’s President Pooh-tin to meet EU chiefs Von der Leyen and Costa in Beijing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-president-xi-to-meet-eu-chiefs-von-der-leyen-costa-in-beijing    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:17:15

• China could be a player in efforts to calm Cambodia-Thailand tensions. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/24/world/thailand-cambodia-border-clash/china-could-be-a-player-in-efforts-to-calm-cambodia-thailand-tensions    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:17:41

• Taiwan votes in major recall election closely watched by China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-votes-in-major-recall-election-closely-watched-by-china    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:17:50

• Nancy Nyambura: Outreachy Update:Understanding and Improving def-extractor.py ☞ https://nanciedev.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/outreachy-updateunderstanding-and-improving-def-extractor-py/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:18:28

• Another success for Astellas and Kirkland defending Xtandi ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/another-success-for-astellas-and-kirkland-defending-xtandi/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:19:14

• No CA Fed Jurisdiction in _This_ Arbitration Award Challenge ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/07/jurisdiction-arbitration-challenge.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:20:30

• Arduino Nano R4 board launched for $12.10 with Renesas RA4M1 microcontroller ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/25/arduino-nano-r4-board-launched-for-12-10-with-renesas-ra4m1-microcontroller/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:26:36

• They Try to Lecture Us on Ethics ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/They_Try_to_Lecture_Us_on_Ethics.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:27:39

• The Future of the Web is One Rendering Engine or 'Flavours' of Chrome ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/The_Future_of_the_Web_is_One_Rendering_Engine_or_Flavours_of_Ch.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:27:50

• Best Sites Are Not Optimised for Any Browser, They Work Equally Well With All of Them ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Best_Sites_Are_Not_Optimised_for_Any_Browser_They_Work_Equally_.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:28:01

• 'Tech' is Not Technology ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Tech_is_Not_Technology.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:28:12

• IBM's Debt Rose by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in the Past 6 Months Alone ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/IBM_s_Debt_Rose_by_Almost_10_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Past_6_Mont.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:29:01

• Yes, Master ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Yes_Master.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:29:20

• Microsoft Bribes and Buys Politicians to Tell Europe What to Do About Free Software (Which It's Attacking) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Microsoft_Bribes_and_Buys_Politicians_to_Tell_Europe_What_to_Do.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:29:40

• Making Backups Quickly and Reliably ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Making_Backups_Quickly_and_Reliably.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:30:32

• 10th Month, Ten Weeks From Now, at Ten AM ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/10th_Month_Ten_Weeks_From_Now_at_Ten_AM.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:30:43

• A Nadella Memo Distracts From Microsoft's Cheapening Of the Workforce ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/A_Nadella_Memo_Distracts_From_Microsoft_s_Cheapening_Of_the_Wor.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:31:03

• 'Tech' Gimmicks Are for Advertising, Not for Usability ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/Tech_Gimmicks_Are_for_Advertising_Not_for_Usability.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:31:29

• BetaNews Sacked Brian Fagioli and Deleted His Comments, But He Still Tries to Use the "BetaNews" Brand for Self-Affirmation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/BetaNews_Sacked_Brian_Fagioli_and_Deleted_His_Comments_But_He_S.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:31:44

• [Meme] Hard to Be a Better Person? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/Meme_Hard_to_Be_a_Better_Person.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:34:13

• Reda Demanded That FSF Removes Its Founder, Now Reda Works Directly for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/Reda_Demanded_That_FSF_Removes_Its_Founder_Now_Reda_Works_Direc.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:36:18

• How to Install GNOME Sound Recorder on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-gnome-sound-recorder-funos/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:36:55

• Hari Rana: GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days ☞ https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:37:44

• New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:38:33

• "Collabora monthly management call, GNOME Advisory Board" ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-07-23.html https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-07-22.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:52:41

• Philip Withnall: A brief parental controls update ☞ https://tecnocode.co.uk/2025/07/24/a-brief-parental-controls-update/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:53:35

• DR Congo ex-leader Joseph Kabila goes on trial for treason ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250725-dr-congo-ex-leader-joseph-kabila-goes-on-trial-for-treason    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:54:15

• Event Wrap: IGF 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/25/event-wrap-igf-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:58:27

• Building human capabilities to strengthen the digital future of South East Asia — EmpowerTech 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/25/empowertech-2025-timor-leste/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:58:40

• Does IBM also support sharing cartoons of little girls posing sexually? Is that OK with Red Hat? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Hare-Programming    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 17:59:48

• Context: https://dmpwn.info/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:00:05

• Announcing CentOS Showcase ☞ https://blog.centos.org/2025/07/announcing-centos-showcase/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:01:05

• In Other News: $30k Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Build Flaw, Louis Vuitton Breach Update, Attack Surface Growth ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-30k-google-cloud-build-flaw-louis-vuitton-breach-update-attack-surface-growth/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:01:39

• A UK Government Order Threatens the Privacy and Security of All Internet Users ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/07/a-uk-government-order-threatens-the-privacy-and-security-of-all-internet-users/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:02:10

• Australia, Britain to hold talks on boosting defence and economic ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australia-britain-to-hold-talks-on-boosting-defence-and-economic-ties    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:02:56

• Severe storm soaks northern Philippines after second strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/severe-storm-soaks-northern-philippines-after-second-strike    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:03:35

• China must strike a delicate balance in its approach towards Thai-Cambodian conflict, say analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-must-strike-delicate-balance-in-its-approach-towards-thai-cambodian-conflict-say-analysts    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:03:56

• Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand: Envoy to UN ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:04:08

• Hacker plants three strains of malware in a Steam Early Access game called Chemia — security company found crypto-jacking infostealers and a backdoor to install yet more malware in the future ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-plants-three-strains-of-malware-in-a-steam-early-access-game-called-chemia-security-company-found-crypto-jacking-infostealers-and-a-backdoor-to-install-yet-more-malware-in-the-future    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:04:50

• This Week in GNOME: #209 GUADEC 2025 ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/07/twig-209/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:06:04

• Hacker plants three strains of malware in a Steam Early Access game called Chemia ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-plants-three-strains-of-malware-in-a-steam-early-access-game-called-chemia-security-company-found-crypto-jacking-infostealers-and-a-backdoor-to-install-yet-more-malware-in-the-future    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:08:05

• mozilla: we STILL PRETEND to value your privacy ^_^ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/07/23/a-pivotal-moment-for-the-uk-in-digital-competition-lead-from-the-front-or-let-the-opportunity-slip/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:13:06

• Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action & Fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/thunderbird-141-update-available    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:13:39

• Why not just DELETE the whole f000er? https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-cloud-content.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:15:20

• Microsoft trap and something to be avoided; there are other ways and workarounds, staying a prisoner of Microsoft is not a long-term strategy ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/install-net-10-ubuntu-ppa/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:16:41

• FSF Events: FSF40 celebration ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-celebration    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:17:00

• FSF Events: FSF40 Hackathon ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:17:15

• Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Released with Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, MQTT 5.0, and Nearly 100 New Boards ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/zephyr-rtos-4-2-released-with-renesas-rx-support-usb-video-class-mqtt-5-0-and-nearly-100-new-boards/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:18:46

• Euphonica is a Rust-Powered MPD Client Heavy on Bling ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/euphonica-linux-mpd-music-player    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:19:35

• As if saying something is coded in "Rust" is a badge of security or honour; it's not, it just means it depends on a framework that depends on Microsoft    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:20:21

• SmartOS 20250724 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:20:42

• KDE neon 20250724 is also out, good to see it still going! ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdeneon    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:21:12

• Bashar Al-Assad Can be Prosecuted in France, but the Court Missed an Opportunity to Make History: Joint Statement ☞ https://phr.org/news/bashar-al-assad-can-be-prosecuted-in-france-but-the-court-missed-an-opportunity-to-make-history-joint-statement/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:22:08

• France's highest court annuls arrest warrant against ex Syrian president Assad ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250725-france-s-highest-court-annuls-arrest-warrant-against-ex-syrian-president-assad    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:22:23

• Kdenlive 25.08 Release Candidate Ready For Testing ☞ https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.07.90/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:23:27

• Gov’t mulls appealing against court ruling granting trans people access to toilets matching their gender identity ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/govt-mulls-appealing-against-court-ruling-granting-trans-people-access-to-toilets-matching-their-gender-identity/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:26:29

• Hong Kong to add more district-level ‘care teams’ as gov’t set to renew service terms ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/25/hong-kong-to-add-more-district-level-care-teams-as-govt-set-to-renew-service-terms/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:27:00

• Thousands of men shared non-consensual intimate photos on Telegram: Chinese media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thousands-of-men-shared-non-consensual-intimate-photos-on-telegram-chinese-media    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:27:20

• New release of GNU/Linux Distro Arkane 2025.07.25 ☞https://arkanelinux.org/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:32:56

• Feels like x86 necrophilia... still shilling his paymaster, even posthumously https://www.phoronix.com/review/clear-linux-48p-ubuntu    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:36:33

• PCLinuxOS is Raising Money to Support Development After Fire Incident at the Host ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/PCLinuxOS_is_Raising_Money_to_Support_Development_After_Fire_In.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:36:54

• Microsoft Says It Lost 400 Million backdoored Windows Users, Now It's Waiting for GNU/Linux to Stop Booting on 'Old' PCs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Microsoft_Says_It_Lost_400_Million_Windows_Users_Now_It_s_Waiti.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:37:03

• Vanishing Faces of GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Vanishing_Faces_of_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:37:18

• Techrights Investigation: Estimating the Point in Time LinuxIac Turned Into LLM Slop (Part of the Time) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Techrights_Investigation_Estimating_the_Point_in_Time_LinuxIac_.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:38:08

• So what? Is Rust some new kind of god? Is GNU/Linux "winning" by outsourcing to proprietary software of Microsoft? ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/another-linux-utility-is-being-rewritten-in-rust/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:39:21

• Debian switches to 64-bit time completely to avoid Y2K38 disaster ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/debian-switches-to-64-bit-time-completely-to-avoid-y2k38-disaster/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:40:09

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Benchmark Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/benchmarktools/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:42:49

• JSHint – static code analysis tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jshint-static-code-analysis-tool/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:43:15

• Sjoerd Stendahl: A Brief History of Graphs; My Journey Into Application Development ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2025/07/24/a-brief-history-of-graphs-my-journey-into-application-development/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:56:24

• South Korean YouTuber indicted for murder over late-term abortion video ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-youtuber-indicted-with-murder-over-late-term-abortion-video    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:57:16

• YouTube generation propels Japan’s anti-foreigner politics into the mainstream ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/youtube-generation-propels-japans-anti-foreigner-politics-into-the-mainstream    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:57:30

• When 100 Years of Use is Not Enough ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/07/when-years-enough.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 18:58:41

• Shiny in Production 2025: R Dev Day ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/shiny-in-production-2025-r-dev-day/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:01:01

• 3 Reasons Blocking You From Doing Automated Testing ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/3-reasons-blocking-you-from-doing-automated-testing/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:01:14

• This is nonsense and sensationalism; it's a social engineering attack, not related to Linux ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/hackers-are-using-ai-and-panda-images-to-infect-linux-machines-heres-how/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:02:47

• Oreon 11 could be the GNU/Linux OS that helps you leave Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows for good ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/oreon-11/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:03:09

• KaOS GNU/Linux gets a modern makeover and a big under-the-hood upgrade ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/07/24/kaos-linux-gets-a-modern-makeover-and-a-big-under-the-hood-upgrade/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:04:09

• Marcus Michaelsen on the Impacts of Transnational Repression: Interview by Stockholm Center for Freedom ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/07/marcus-michaelsen-on-the-impacts-of-transnational-repression-interview-by-stockholm-center-for-freedom/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:05:03

• Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 30 2025 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/infra-and-releng-update-week-30-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:08:06

• Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2025/30 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/07/tumbleweed-review-of-the-weeks-2025-30/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:08:37

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1031426/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:11:31

• Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 302 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-302-released/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:12:32

• Seems to be LLM slop https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-18-released-with-webtunnel-bridges/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:25:17

• Chapter 6: Arrays and Advanced Data Structures in AWK ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/awk/arrays-data-structure/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:29:14

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.19: Newly Launched Systemd Course, Docker System Sub-Commands, Hard Links and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-19/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:30:28

• Sophisticated Koske GNU/Linux Malware Developed With Hey Hi (AI) Aid ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sophisticated-koske-linux-malware-developed-with-ai-aid/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:31:06

• Sinkholing Suspicious Scripts or Executables on Linux, (Fri, Jul 25th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32144    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:31:48

• Photo Shows Murderer Returning to U.S. in Convicted Felon Prisoner Swap With Venezuela ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/us-venezuela-prisoner-swap-murderer-photo.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:32:05

• SME Server 11.0-beta is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smeserver    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:32:23

• Major Labels Fire Back Against Verizon’s Push to Pause Copyright Suit: ‘This Case Is Already One Year Old and Has Not Left the Gate’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/24/verizon-lawsuit-stay-response/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:32:43

• Subliminal Learning in AIs ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/subliminal-learning-in-ais.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:33:31

• Indonesia V-P Gibran’s Papua assignment puts spotlight on his place in Prabowo’s government ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-v-p-gibrans-papua-assignment-puts-spotlight-on-his-place-in-prabowos-government    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:34:06

• BME690 8x shuttle board features eight identical 4-in-1 gas and air quality sensors ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/25/bme690-8x-shuttle-board-features-eight-identical-4-in-1-gas-and-air-quality-sensors/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:34:39

• L76K GPS Raspberry Pi HAT supports GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, QZSS, and A-GNSS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/25/l76k-gps-raspberry-pi-hat-support-gps-beidou-glonass-qzss-and-a-gnss/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:35:01

• Industrial LoRa remote switches offer 3.5km range, real-time feedback ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/25/industrial-lora-remote-switches-offer-3-5km-range-real-time-feedback/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:35:53

• Thailand says open to Malaysia mediating in Cambodia conflict ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-says-open-to-malaysia-mediating-in-cambodia-conflict    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:36:22

• Cambodia and Thailand are willing to consider ceasefire: Malaysian PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/both-cambodia-thailand-willing-to-consider-ceasefire-says-malaysian-pm-anwar    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:36:38

• Thailand, Cambodia must stand down over border clash: Malaysian PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-cambodia-must-stand-down-over-border-clash-malaysian-pm-anwar    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:36:59

• Singapore honours Kinabalu mountain guides on the 10th anniversary of Sabah earthquake ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singapore-honours-kinabalu-mountain-guides-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-sabah-earthquake    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:37:24

• US offers $15 million reward for info on North Korean nationals involved in global criminal network ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/state-department-reward-north-korea-it-worker-scheme/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:37:58

• [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-07-25.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:39:38

• South Korean court orders Yoon to compensate 105 claimants for distress caused by martial law crisis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-court-orders-yoon-to-compensate-105-claimants-for-distress-caused-by-martial-law-crisis    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:41:11

• South Korean military plane entering defence zone ‘regrettable’: Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-military-plane-entering-defence-zone-regrettable-japan    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:41:21

• South Korea roasts under high-pressure double whammy, with 3 typhoons forming nearby ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-roasts-under-high-pressure-double-whammy-with-3-typhoons-forming-nearby    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:41:50

• Video of migrant worker tied to forklift sparks outrage in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/video-of-migrant-worker-tied-to-forklift-sparks-outrage-in-korea "condemned the video on social control media"    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:42:24

• S. Korean ex-PM Han Duck-soo’s house raided over suspected role in Yoon’s martial law decree ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-ex-pms-house-raided-over-suspected-role-in-yoons-martial-law-decree    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:42:45

• South Korea police raid offices of BTS’ agency Hybe over share probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-raid-hybe-offices-yonhap-reports    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:43:01

• Would you wait hours to have watermelon sliced? In South Korea, many do ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/would-you-wait-hours-to-have-watermelon-sliced-in-south-korea-many-do    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:43:27

• US-South Korea trade talks postponed over Bessent schedule as tariff deadline looms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-south-korea-trade-talks-cancelled-due-to-bessent-schedule-ministry-says    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:43:42

• Major Rīga hospital could be left without catering unit ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/25.07.2025-major-riga-hospital-could-be-left-without-catering-unit.a608113/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:44:21

• A bill to expand non-VA health care for veterans advances through Congress ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/07/a-bill-to-expand-non-va-health-care-for-veterans-advances-through-congress/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:44:43

• Doctors warn of man-made famine in Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250725-doctors-warn-of-man-made-famine-in-gaza    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:45:07

• Gaza: 25% children are malnourished, says MSF ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250725-gaza-25-children-are-malnourished-says-msf    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:45:20

• Kuala Selangor’s air quality hits unhealthy level with API of 137 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/kuala-selangors-air-quality-hits-unhealthy-level-with-api-of-137    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:45:36

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Labels Hey Hi (AI) Microlicensing An “Impossible Task”—Offering Another Serious Setback for Music IP Owners ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/24/trump-ai-microlicensing-comments/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:48:41

• Spain Is Reluctant to Spend More on Security Despite NATO Pressure ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/europe/spain-nato-spending-weapons.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:48:59

• Plane Crashes in Russia’s Far East, Killing All 49 Onboard ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/europe/plane-crash-russia.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:49:10

• Russia Again Cuts Interest Rates as Its Economy Slows ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/europe/russia-interest-rates.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:49:27

• New Reports on Russian Interference Show Convicted Felon’s Claims on Obama Are Overblown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/trump-obama-russia.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:50:04

• Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/24/tulsi-gabbard-teams-up-with-russian-spies-to-wiretap-and-unmask-hillary-clinton/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:50:38

• Firm in India shipped explosives to Russia despite US warnings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/firm-in-india-shipped-explosives-to-russia-despite-us-warnings    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:51:03

• Russia says Merz's 'militarisation' of Germany is a cause for concern ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-says-merzs-militarisation-of-germany-is-a-cause-for-concern    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:51:23

• Minorities rep cautions debate on Russian language must not deteriorate into hate speech ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2623238/minorities-rep-cautions-debate-on-russian-language-must-not-deteriorate-into-hate-speech    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:51:44

• China and E.U. Reach Narrow Agreements on Climate and Rare Earths ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/business/china-eu-trade-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:52:36

• Why Anticorruption Watchdogs Are at the Heart of Ukraine’s Unrest ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/europe/ukraine-protests-corruption-zelensky-military-spending.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:52:56

• Why Zelensky Backtracked on His Controversial Law ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010301803/ukraine-mass-protests-zelensky.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:53:06

• War Amputees Find New Purpose on the Golf Course ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/europe/ukraine-war-amputees-golf.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:53:23

• North Korea’s Kim urges troops to prepare ‘for real war’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-urges-troops-to-prepare-for-real-war    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:53:45

• China’s Premier tells EU leaders ‘we can’t afford’ massive industrial subsidies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-premier-tells-eu-leaders-we-cant-afford-massive-industrial-subsidies    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:54:09

• Ukraine Secures Funds For Some Patriot Systems; Russia Strikes Kharkiv Hospital ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-trump-patriots/33483926.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:54:50

• Rights group finds Ukraine officials targeting an anti-corruption activist ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/rights-group-finds-ukrainian-officials-targeting-an-anti-corruption-activist/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:55:51

• Ukraine president turns new anti-corruption bill over to legislature amid protests and EU criticism ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/ukraine-president-turns-new-anti-corruption-bill-over-to-legislature-amid-protests-and-eu-criticism/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:56:06

• Zelensky seeks EU support while Ukraine struggles with corruption ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250725-zelensky-seeks-eu-support-while-ukraine-struggles-with-corruption    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:56:58

• Ukraine’s supporters should prioritize unity and focus on defeating Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-supporters-should-prioritize-unity-and-focus-on-defeating-russia/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 19:57:33

• Ubuntu Blog: The 'Linux' Foundation and OpenStack – a new chapter for cloud-native infrastructure ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/linux-foundation-openstack    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:00:17

• Linux Plumbers Conference: All Microconferences have been Accepted! ☞ https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2025/07/25/all-microconferences-have-been-accepted/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:00:46

• Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin “Was Counting on a Convicted Felon Win” ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/25/tulsi-gabbard-and-john-ratcliffe-reveal-putin-was-counting-on-a-trump-win/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:01:25

• Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis ☞ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:01:50

• US Warns Montenegro Over University's Cooperation With Sanctioned Chinese Center ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-warns-montenegro-china-partnership-cybersecurity-risk/33483795.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:02:20

• Putin may be miscalculating Convicted Felon’s resolve on Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/putin-may-be-miscalculating-trumps-resolve-on-ukraine/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:02:41

• talk   

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:03:24

• Let’s talk about NA-s! ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/lets-talk-about-na-s/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:03:34

• Is Decarbonization Dead? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins-jane-flegal.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:04:06

• How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-the-epstein-conspiracy-theory-took-over-politics    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:05:06

• Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/dexter-filkins-on-drones-and-the-future-of-warfare    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:05:41

• Rolling With Rhino: The Ups and Downs of a Reinvented GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/07/rolling-with-rhino-the-ups-and-downs-of-a-reinvented-linux/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:06:18

• Trail’s End for Clear GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/07/trails-end-for-clear-linux/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:06:41

• FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz—July 25, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/07/foss-force-mostly-open-tech-news-quiz-july-25-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:06:50

• New US Editor for The Register is a Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Booster ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/New_US_Editor_for_The_Register_is_a_Microsoft_Booster.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:07:05

• New US Editor in The Register is 84% Microsoft/Windows Booster ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/New_US_Editor_in_The_Register_is_84_Microsoft_Windows_Booster.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:07:15

• The Latest Casualty of Social Media Hype Is Your Matcha Supply ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/asia/japan-matcha-tiktok-instagram.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:08:19

• Br OS 12.11 Lara é Lançado com Base Debian e alcança outro nível de profissionalismo https://br-os.com/2025/07/22/br-os-12-11-e-lancado-com-base-debian-e-alcanca-outro-nivel-de-profissionalismo/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:11:51

• New AI-assisted Linux malware uses panda JPEGs https://www.scworld.com/brief/new-ai-assisted-linux-malware-uses-panda-jpegs    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:15:36

• This is nonsense and sensationalism; it's a social engineering attack, not related to Linux    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:15:55

• It is not even AI, it's slop and fusion https://securityaffairs.com/180355/malware/koske-a-new-ai-generated-linux-malware-appears-in-the-threat-landscape.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:17:01

• "Solutions exist today: tools like Zoxide, Warp, and Yazi all make cd obsolete and could save you a lot of time." https://www.howtogeek.com/ditch-cd-instead-use-powerful-linux-tools-to-navigate-directories-at-warp-speed/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:17:50

• "The addition of a Linux terminal to Android was long overdue, and makes Android a lot more useful aside from just Android apps. Now, it just got a lot more useful with the addition of a brand new feature: support for graphical apps." https://www.howtogeek.com/android-linux-terminal-new-feature/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:18:43

• Linux and Raspberry Pi Save a Printer! https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/07/25/linux-and-raspberry-pi-save-a-printer-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:19:23

• "Back in early July we had Embark Studios detail new anti-cheat plans for THE FINALS, which caused some concern amongst Linux players since it could end up unplayable as we've seen with various other games. They quickly confirmed the game would continue to work though." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-finals-devs-confirm-again-continued-compatibility-for-linux-steam-deck-with-proton/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:19:58

• Can't (or won't) upgrade to Windows 11, but afraid to switch from Windows 10 to Linux? This app might make the transition easy https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/cant-or-wont-upgrade-to-windows-11-but-afraid-to-switch-from-windows-10-to-linux-this-app-might-make-the-transition-easy    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:21:36

• "In my never-ending quest to find the perfect Linux distribution, I'm planning this weekend to overwrite my Garuda Linux installation on my main PC with another alternative operating system I've not given a fair shot before, openSUSE." https://www.howtogeek.com/hopping-linux-distros-to-opensuse-this-weekend/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:22:07

• Fight or Kite: I MMO on a Linux PC and you can too https://massivelyop.com/2025/07/25/fight-or-kite-i-mmo-on-a-linux-pc-and-you-can-too/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:22:44

• Benchmarks show AMD is still the best for Linux gaming, but ray tracing holds it back – and it’s not the only thing https://www.pcguide.com/news/benchmarks-show-amd-is-still-best-for-linux-gaming-but-ray-tracing-holds-it-back-and-its-not-the-only-thing/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:23:15

• Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:27:14

• "FreeBSD 15 is coming, maybe at the end of this year – and along with other improvements, it may finally offer the option of installing with a graphical desktop." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/freebsd_15_installer_offers_kde/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:28:57

• "According to NVIDIA you're safe if you're on at least 575.64.05, 570.172.08 or 535.261.03. All prior versions in each series are vulnerable to the issues." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/nvidia-reveal-more-gpu-driver-security-issues-for-july-2025/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:29:34

• NVIDIA does not hire security professionals. It hires some who PRETEND that they are.    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:30:26

• "See more on the official site. And, if you need some instructions on installing it and setting it up check out my guide." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/heroic-games-launcher-2-18-adds-ge-proton-prioritisation-improved-ui-navigation-and-new-analytics/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:30:34

• Intel to end. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/intel-brings-clear-linux-os-to-an-end    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:30:59

• You can finally run Doom and other graphical apps in Android's Linux Terminal https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:31:38

• You Don’t Have to Ditch Windows—Dual-Booting Linux Is Easier Than You Think https://www.makeuseof.com/dont-ditch-windows-dual-booting-linux-is-easy/ but Windows can sabotage GNU/Linux at any time http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:36:20

• "Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an entirely different beast." https://www.androidpolice.com/doom-on-android-linux-terminal-gui-canary/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:36:58

• 🔤SpellBinding — ACLNOUV Wordo: TWIST gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-26.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:55:26

• "The installation process took so long (it said "Setup will complete in approximately 37 mins", an hour pass and it still 37 min), I don't know its because my qemu setup is wrong or its some of MS problem." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/silica/30658    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:56:57

• "Part of the atmospheric experience of playing DreamWeb is its "game over" screen (I won't spoil it), and the melacholy music that plays each time the player loses. The music is the track "I Died Last Night" by Matt Seldon and Steve Boynton." gemini://envs.net/~kyeh/art/music/i_died_last_night.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:57:49

• "speaking of- does it ever bother you that we are in Space + Time = SpaceTime? and that everything is all forced into being a linear experience because of it?" gemini://voidrane.smol.pub/entropy-output-2133    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 20:59:18

• "I've really been enjoying "Accidentals" by Slow Clinic, as I start messing around with my own efforts. I've been absent-mindedly planning some things in my head" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/7-26.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:00:02

• sour gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/sour    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:00:28

• "my cat hates this one. she passive aggressively sniffs around me when i spray it & looks at my as though to say "why would you do that?"" gemini://xavi4u.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-07-26.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:01:18

• "One of the first program that I wrote in Zig (in September 2023) was a Sudoku-Solver, implementing the dancing-links (DLX) algorithm. I decided to revisit this program recently to experiment with benchmarking and try to increase its speed." gemini://log.pfad.fr/2025/optimi-zig-sudoku-solving/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:02:07

• "As usual, let me back up. I owned a bicycle before today. It was a Shimano my husband bought for me at Costco on the grounds that "it was on sale" and "the box says it fits people your height."" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-07-26    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:03:01

• "The video specifically discussed TikTok overconsumption trends regarding women's purses and handbags, breaking down the excessive number of plastic storage bins featured in the TikTok posts and pointing out that the products they contain are completely unused." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202507/20250725-overconsumption.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:03:49

• "Hello friends. For today's article I wanted to share a quick guide on how I managed to connect my Linux computer to the University of British Columbia's enterprise wireless network." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/ubcsecure.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:04:23

• "I finished reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking a few weeks ago, and decided it would be nice to annotate a few quotes I bookmarked and clean up some notes I wrote. Especially since it's rare for me to be left with really memorable quotes or lingering thoughts on a book (that I feel are worth sharing)." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-07-25    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:05:09

• 🖼️ xkcd — Geologic Periods #3120 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3120.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:06:00

• The Hum of Doing gemini://tilde.club/~mindhunter/gemlog/2025-07-23.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:06:41

• "Hello everyone! Im new to the geminispace , and I could not avoid to note that there are not much games here." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/gaming/30667    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:07:50

• "I would love you to read it and let me know what you think! I do believe that this would be a really nice addition to Gemini."    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:08:20

• "Single Player games are awesome, and you can have an endless collection of truly masterpieces." gemini://adavies.foo/posts/on-gemini-games.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:09:38

• House Buying gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250726.txt "Recently I have done something I did not expect. I put in an offer on a house and got approved (subject to valuation) for a mortgage. A true surprise! Not bad going considering I started looking in early July too."    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:10:51

• "Trump politics all day long. He wants to boost AI but didn't even know NVIDIA. Watch out, stable genius at the helm." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6r96r9    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:30:13

• "Do you work for Microsoft? If so, then this post is relevant for a layoff site." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0zhd7hn    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:30:43

• "again this MAGA tears... cry in silence." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yz0rn3    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:31:12

• "JD? this guy who is in love with a couch ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0yjxs1t    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:31:47

• "They also gave wide spread diversity "special stock awards", i.e. special bonuses in the form of company ownership based on race/s-x." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k139h48h    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:32:13

• Slint 15.0-7 is out https://distrowatch.com/slint    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:43:03

• TROMjaro 2025.07.20 also out https://distrowatch.com/tromjaro    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:43:22

• RED OS 8-20250711 released https://distrowatch.com/redos    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:43:43

• FSF News: Org Mode, GNU Guix, Mattermost, and more projects to participate in the FSF's hackathon http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf40-hackathon-registration-now-open    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:46:18

• An Open Letter to Nationwide Bank About Enshittification https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/07/21/nationwide-bank-enshittification/    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:47:00

• Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/peas-and-peculiarities-of-product-by.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:47:45

• They want monopolies so they can charge way too much and then write articles about why their high salaries are justified http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/why-patents-matter-understanding.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:48:35

• No, patents are not rights http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/guest-post-enduring-importance-of.html    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:49:05

• Do early steps into agentic AI respect our needs for privacy and security? http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5623/do-early-steps-agentic-ai-respect-our-needs-privacy-and-security    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:50:31

• China Protests to Philippines Over Taiwan, Maritime and Security Issues https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-18/china-protests-to-philippines-over-taiwan-maritime-and-security-issues    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:51:29

• Meta and Yandex break security to save their business model http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5621/meta-and-yandex-break-security-save-their-business-model    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:52:47

• interstate spats https://www.dw.com/en/in-germany-summer-vacation-is-grounds-for-interstate-spats/a-73301486    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:54:07

• UK to lower voting age to 16 before next general election https://www.dw.com/en/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-before-next-general-election/a-73310069    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:55:39

• gender-imbalanced trope? https://www.dw.com/en/the-smurfette-principle-99-boys-and-one-girl-is-the-new-smurfs-movie-empowering-girls-or-just-another-gender-imbalanced-trope/a-73145726    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:56:39

• 'Putin only understands force' https://www.dw.com/en/kyiv-mayor-vitali-klitschko-putin-only-understands-force/a-73316708    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:57:57

• "I've been confronted with some significant life challenges of late, and in addition to the predictable consumption of large amounts of chocolate covered nuts, I've been doing lots of little physical and digital tidings up. Something soothing about fixing lots of loose ends, when the world is seeming to unravel." gemini://8by3.net/~sbr/log/2025-07-26.less-broken.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 21:59:28

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