Roy Schestowitz

• 10 Taiwanese charged with spying for China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/14/10-taiwanese-charged-with-spying-for-china/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:46:57

• Chinese, Vietnamese leaders sign cooperation deals ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/15/chinese-vietnamese-leaders-sign-cooperation-deals/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:49:09

• Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/giant-robot-hand-china    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:49:34

• Calls grow to curb obscene content generated by Hey Hi (AI) in China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/calls-grow-to-curb-obscene-content-generated-by-ai-in-china    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:50:16

• Middle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/iran-war-imf-economic-growth.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:54:09

• Amid Iran War, Companies Look to Extend a Record Profit Run by Raising Prices ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:54:24

• Michigan: Elections clerk allegedly canceled, changed voter registrations ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-elections-clerk-allegedly-canceled-changed-voter-registrations/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:55:00

• Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/cory-doctorow-on-the-high-cost-of-living-with-the-ultra-rich    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:55:28

• I Feel So Sorry for My Hey Hi (AI) Sunglasses ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/magazine/ai-sunglasses-meta-zuckerberg.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:55:57

• Former Brazil intelligence chief arrested in US ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/former-brazil-intelligence-chief-arrested-in-us/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:57:53

• 'If we don't divide the land we're heading to apartheid': Ex-head of Israel's Shin Bet ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20260415-if-we-don-t-divide-the-land-we-re-heading-to-apartheid-ex-head-of-israel-s-shin-bet    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:58:25

• There’s Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/something-fundamentally-wrong-llms-communicate    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:59:29

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive Hey Hi (AI) Slop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-damage-public-image-offensive-ai-slop    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 03:59:48

• Man Who Threw Molotov at Scam Altman’s House Warned Hey Hi (AI) Will Exterminate Humankind ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/altman-mansion-molotov    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:00:10

• Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an Hey Hi (AI) “Songwriting” Class ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/berklee-college-ai-music    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:00:50

• Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training Hey Hi (AI) to Do Human Jobs ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mercor-training-ai-human-jobs-hack    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:01:16

• GSA looks to automate a million work hours, after losing nearly 40% of its workforce ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/gsa-looks-to-automate-a-million-work-hours-after-losing-nearly-40-of-its-workforce/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:01:38

• Live Nation and Ticketmaster Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-antitrust-trial-verdict-monopoly.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:02:21

• WSJ legal victory over Convicted Felon means his $10bn BillBC lawsuit likely to fail ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/wall-street-journal-legal-victory-over-trump-means-his-10bn-bbc-lawsuit-likely-to-fail/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:03:05

• Rights group urges new Hungary government to restore rule of law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-urges-new-hungary-government-to-restore-rule-of-law/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:03:41

• From Noise to Signal: Using Runtime Context to Win the Vulnerability Management Battle ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/04/15/from-noise-to-signal-using-runtime-context-to-win-the-vulnerability-management-battle/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:04:29

• Indonesia shouldn’t give blanket airspace access to the US ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/indonesia-shouldnt-give-blanket-airspace-access-to-the-us/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:06:03

• Ban on Mineral Exports Gives Zimbabwe Leverage With China ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/ban-on-mineral-exports-gives-zimbabwe-leverage-with-china/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ban-on-mineral-exports-gives-zimbabwe-leverage-with-china    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:06:36

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Go-To Justification for Contentious Decisions: National Security ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/white-house-ballroom-trump-national-security.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:07:14

• Xi tells Vietnam’s Lam keeping socialist path is ‘top priority’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-calls-for-strategic-clarity-political-security-with-vietnam    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:07:31

• Lithuania’s ruling coalition split on defence priorities, Seimas speaker says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2899140/lithuania-s-ruling-coalition-split-on-defence-priorities-seimas-speaker-says    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:07:57

• Hong Kong Journalists Association warns stalking of journalists has ‘chilling effect’ on press freedom ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/15/hong-kong-journalists-association-warns-stalking-of-journalists-has-chilling-effect-on-press-freedom/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:08:46

• 'War on women and girls' : Sexual violence the 'blueprint and strategy' of Sudan's brutal civil war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/war-on-women-and-girls-sexual-violence-the-blueprint-and-strategy-of-sudan-s-brutal-civil-war    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:09:06

• Live: Reports of possible Israel-Lebanon ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260415-live-reports-of-possible-israel-lebanon-ceasefire    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:09:31

• We’re only seeing the tip of the chip-smuggling iceberg ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-chip-smuggling-china-export-controls-enforcement-op-ed/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:10:08

• $10 Domain Could Have Handed Hackers 25k Endpoints, Including in OT and Gov Networks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/10-domain-could-have-handed-hackers-25k-endpoints-including-in-ot-and-gov-networks/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:12:07

• Two Vulnerabilities Patched in Ivanti Neurons for ITSM ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/two-vulnerabilities-patched-in-ivanti-neurons-for-itsm/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:12:29

• "I would love to know what percentage of the music on MP3 players back in the early 2000s was pirated, but the number has to be astronomical" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/where-did-the-mp3s-come-from/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:53:19

• "The case arises from years of litigation between Blacklock’s Reporter, a paywalled news service based in Ottawa, and the Canadian government" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/win-lose-or-draw-the-federal-court-of-appeal-overrules-a-key-copyright-case-on-procedural-grounds/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:53:33

• "Now, former friends and ex-associates excised from his world, along with musical collaborators, his record company and, of course, his fans, are coming to terms with a new chapter in the book of Bieber." ☛ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/justin-bieber-crisis-of-faith-1236191836/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:53:45

• "According to The Hollywood Reporter, that collapse created a long tail of financial pain." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/justin-bieber-200m-catalog-sale-financial-collapse-strategy-1792177 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:54:04

• Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:54:33

• "These incidents highlight growing concerns about scam apps, fleeceware VPNs" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3115356/whats-the-point-of-the-app-store-if-it-cant-protect-users.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:55:15

• "print-blocking censorware" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:55:57

• "But the costliest [Internet] is found in remote areas, where there may be few subscribers for telcos to sign up." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/iran_cheapest_broadband/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:57:44

• "We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6." ☛ https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197 |    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:58:09

• "Google had already disclosed my data without telling me. There was no opportunity to contest it." ☛ https://werd.io/google-broke-its-promise-to-me-now-ice-has-my-data/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:58:37

• "So, it comes as no surprise that cops who shouldn’t have any skin in the anti-ICE game are stepping up to punish people for daring to criticize the actions of those federal officers." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/15/acab-cops-are-bringing-delinquency-of-a-minor-charges-against-adults-who-assist-students-during-anti-ice-protests/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:58:54

• "And as a result, many of these eligible voters are likely to be disenfranchised in the upcoming election" ☛ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/16/civil-rights-advocates-fear-citizenship-verification-law-could-block-many-naturalized-voters/ | Source: The Indiana Capital Chronicle    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 04:59:09

• "Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case." ☛ https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/ |    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:06:34

• "Meenu Batra, a single mother of four adult U.S. citizens, was arrested March 17 by federal immigration officers at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, while on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a work trip" ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/courtroom-interpreter-detained-by-ice-meenu-batra/ | Source: CBS    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:06:55

• "Meenu Batra, an interpreter with more than 20 years of experience in immigration courts and a life built over three decades in the United States, was detained by immigration agents at an airport in South Texas while on her way to work." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-16/ice-detains-an-immigration-interpreter-in-texas-despite-her-decades-of-working-legally-in-the-us.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:07:49

• "Provincial security forces arrested Bouras on Sunday in front of his home in El-Bayadh. Later that evening, officers raided his residence, conducted a comprehensive search, and confiscated a laptop" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/04/algeria-re-arrests-freelance-journalist-hassan-bouras-ahead-of-popes-visit/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:08:41

• "It is still produced under licence from the BBC, meaning it adheres to stricter ad guidelines than most commercial titles, such as not being able to endorse products or imply political bias." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/apple-news-revenue-helped-bbc-science-focus-double-size-of-team/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:09:02

• "The new Standard Digital operation covers the brand’s digital journalism, commercial solutions, adtech and data management." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/standard-website-transfers-to-independent-with-around-30-staff-leaving/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:09:32

• "On Wednesday, the New Lenox Police Department in Illinois said officers responded to a "reported bomb threat" directed at a residence on Sojourn Road ... reportedly the home of the Chicago Pope's brother, Louis Prevost." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/16/pope-leo-brother-receives-bomb-threat/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:10:26

• "Putin’s “decision” had not previously been reported, and the document itself was never made publicly available." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/report-putin-secretly-authorized-jailing-of-russians-without-trial-for-opposing-war-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:10:41

• "More than 100 teenagers are currently facing prosecution in such cases, Memorial told The Moscow Times." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/at-15-he-became-one-of-russias-youngest-political-prisoners-hes-now-facing-new-charges-a92495 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:10:56

• "Major Russian websites and online services have begun blocking users who try to access them with virtual private networks, or VPNs, as the government ramps up its efforts to restrict the censorship-circumvention tools." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/russian-websites-begin-blocking-vpn-users-as-internet-controls-tighten-a92511 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:11:13

• "a portrait of Vladimir Putin in the background" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/04/17/russian-propagandist-s-interview-sparks-debate-over-whether-he-deserves-sympathy | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:12:02

• "because her portfolio as Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty" ☛ https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/henna-virkkunen/ | Source: Time    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:16:48

• "Virkkunen, who works as the EU's digital commissioner, was included in the publication's leaders category. Other categories include artists, innovators, and pioneers." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20220953 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:18:17

• "Helping the bad guys does feel bad but pushing them into the arms of organized crime feels worse. If you’re declaring them dead this way you might as well pull the trigger for real." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/outlaws | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:18:40

• "There is a concept in public life that has almost entirely disappeared, and its disappearance explains more about the current crisis than most of the things we spend our time arguing about." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/when-leaders-should-resign | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:19:15

• "woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/leo | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:19:35

• "Pulp Fiction Bible" ☛ https://www.9news.com.au/world/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-verse-pentagon-sermon-usa-politics-news/1ffd64d4-628f-49ec-be6f-51e32c83bfea | Source: 9NEWS    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:20:00

• "Fourteen states and scores of localities across the U.S. fail to disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax abatement programs." ☛ https://goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-tax-abatements-why-states-and-localities-must-disclose-these-soaring-revenue-losses/ | Source: Good Jobs First    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:20:25

• "For years, states have used incentives and tax breaks to compete for data centers, sought for their massive investment in construction and equipment." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:20:56

• "Adult-oriented businesses could soon have to post a warning label akin to those on tobacco and alcohol products" ☛ https://www.memphisflyer.com/from-porn-to-sex-trafficking-lawmakers-want-warning-labels-for-adult-businesses/ | Source: Memphis Flyer    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:21:21

• "About one-third of job cuts have occurred in the metal industry, while demand has also declined for information technology and other high-skilled workers, according to data from the country’s employment service." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2898364/ai-or-deindustrialisation-layoffs-surge-in-lithuania | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:22:06

• "When Iran began demanding payment in exchange for safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it offered the option to pay in cryptocurrency." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-iran-cryptocurrency-demands-explain-a-key-role-of-money-throughout-history-280768 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:22:44

• "A platform that pays contractors with USDC across multiple chains has a few options." ☛ https://www.circle.com/blog/pay-first-settle-later-with-cctp |    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:23:03

• "While some decoys are static, others are motorized to replicate mating rituals." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/robot-bird-decoys-work-for-good/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:23:33

• "Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned there could be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain restricted by the Iran war." ☛ https://www.thejournal.ie/europe-only-has-six-weeks-supply-of-jet-fuel-left-worlds-energy-watchdog-warns-7014806-Apr2026/ | Source: The Journal    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:26:07

• "Supporting both is very complex for vendors, so most don’t bother, especially considering most major operating systems support S0ix just fine now." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/let-sleeping-cpus-lie-s0ix/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:26:23

• "Other energy experts have similarly warned that a systemic jet fuel crisis is coming to Europe in the next few weeks, with one economist telling CNBC that there may be “severe cuts” to flights once that happens." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/europe-has-maybe-6-weeks-of-jet-fuel-left-top-energy-official-says/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:26:42

• "Germany has launched a new research initiative to assess whether lithium trapped in ancient saline brines found nearly 14,000 feet underground can be extracted to help power Europe’s electric vehicles (EVs)." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/germany-lithium-reserves-ev-energy | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:30:37

• "The UN just released its 2025 Global Climate Report, and, predictably, the outlook for our earth is incredibly dire." ☛ https://fair.org/home/climate-coverage-plunges-though-crisis-more-dire-than-ever/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:30:53

• "An extreme marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean off California is breaking daily temperature records, with scientists warning the deep, persistent system could affect coastal weather and ecosystems for months." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-16/ocean-california-sst-enso-blob-marine-warming | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:31:07

• "Yu began working for ByteDance in 2017, but was fired in 2018 as part of a 16-person layoff, according to ByteDance." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-whistleblower-asks-ninth-circuit-to-vacate-sanction-order/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:32:01

• "lost to history." ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-historians-seek-emergency-court-order-to-block-trump-effort-to-evade-presidential-records-act/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:32:11

• "every reporter who is covering this election at any level" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-2026-midterm-elections/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:32:20

• "The Colorado River, which supports seven Western states, is producing far less water than it did in the past." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/16/colorado-lawmakers-push-water-funding-release/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:33:27

• "Because there's a sense in which Bengio and I are worried about exactly the same thing. I'm terrified that our planet has been colonized by artificial lifeforms that we constructed, but which have slipped our control." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:34:18

• "The system comprised four defensive lines arranged in formidable layers: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/defense-in-depth-medieval-style.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:34:56

• "Silicon Valley’s outlook tended toward what I called technolibertarianism, the socially liberal but anti-regulation philosophy of Stewart Brand and Wired magazine" ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/ready-for-revolution/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:35:12

• "Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-in-2025-as-it-partnered-with-ice-pentagon/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:35:35

• "advising households to keep at least five days’ worth of essential supplies on hand: food, water, medicine, warm clothes, radios, hunting weapons, and ammunition" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/i-went-to-greenland-and-saw-a-warning-for-canada/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:36:04

• "An initial $200 billion request for additional funding for the war met with stiff opposition in Congress last month." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/04/16/white-house-offers-no-hint-of-iran-war-cost-as-it-seeks-military-funding-surge/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:36:25

• "mental incompetence." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/hes-losing-all-his-marbles | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:36:49

• "I want to make an argument that will make some people uncomfortable. Not because it is radical. Because it is obvious, and the obvious thing has not been said plainly enough." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-neo-confederate-party | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:37:06

• "As part of this effort, in June 2025, Cure53 conducted a penetration test and source code audit of TorVPN for Android" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/code-audit-tor-vpn/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:37:37

• "It’s insane to me that the Swedish police will be literally requiring every citizen to be a customer of one of these two American tech giants that among the richest megacorps in the world." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/e-leg | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:38:28

• "After that, when a person using the app wants to access a social network (minimum age: 13), pornographic site (minimum age: 18), or any other age-protected content, if they are logged in from a computer" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/europes-online-age-verification-app-is-here/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:40:28

• "cyber police intelligence monitoring on social networks" ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/a-citizen-arrested-in-marvdasht-for-selling-vpns/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:40:43

• "That means every single one of the five major advertising agency holding companies in the United States has now been successfully pressured by the federal government to stop using NewsGuard’s ratings." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/oh-look-the-maga-ftc-built-the-censorship-industrial-complex-it-was-screaming-about/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:41:03

• "I think it’s important to understand that, despite claims to the contrary, age verification is, inherently, a right-wing effort." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-age-verification-laws-dont-disappear-just-because-theyre-going-bipartisan/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:41:29

• "There are two points where notifications may betray your privacy: when they’re transmitted over cloud servers and once they land on the device. Let’s start with the cloud." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:42:04

• "This is not a Git vulnerability – commit metadata has always been relatively easy to fake unless additional controls like signing are enforced." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/git_identity_spoof_claude/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:42:34

• Windows TCO ☛ https://news.err.ee/1609998418/13-estonian-schoolchildren-suspected-of-ordering-a-cyberattack | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:43:01

• "Bluesky went down for half its users for about 8 hours on Monday." ☛ https://blainsmith.com/articles/unbounded-concurrency-is-a-foot-gun/ | Source: Blain Smith    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:47:52

• "What I didn’t realize, and what I should have known, is that there is a direct correlation between my reading and the amount of time I spend on TikTok." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/books/less-reading-more-tiktok/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:48:32

• "YouTube has read the room, and now allows you to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts from the app’s time management settings. This essentially means you can remove them from your app on both Android and iOS." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:48:46

• "Seriously! Are our LEGO-style animations actually violent?" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/youtube-suspends-pro-iran-channel-posting-lego-style-clips-mocking-donald-trump/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:49:09

• "I’ve been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview." ☛ https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/ | Source: Flyngpenguin    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:50:05

• "Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?" ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y | Source: Nature    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:50:57

• "I want you to think about “AI” in this sense." ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:51:27

• "At Oxford I focused my research and discussions on how we can use the tools of computational complexity to help us understand the power and limitations of machine learning." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/machine-learning-and-complexity.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:51:46

• "This is the sort of deal you see in a bubble — when a company that’s near-dead exploits its one asset, its stock market listing." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/16/shoe-company-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-and-the-stock-goes-up-580/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:52:05

• "If you don’t believe we are in a bubble you are in denial" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/failing-shoe-brand-pivot-to-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:52:35

• "It's the golden age for hyperscaled, badly-automated bullshit, overseen by the least ethical assholes America has to offer." ☛ https://karlbode.com/ai-artifice-and-authenticity/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:53:03

• "I've seen a continuous degradation to the UX of Claude Code over the last two months. Now with the release of Opus 4.7 it's really evident." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/the-claude-coding-vibes-are-getting-worse/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:53:22

• "Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic games." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/human-trust-of-ai-agents.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:53:38

• "any answer is higher scoring than zero in the probabilistic sense" ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/it-is-not-your-fault/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:53:57

• "I thought it might help to list by taxonomy a set of algorithmic ideas according to task, then relate those to negative effects by way of example. Here goes. We'll consider a small set of these broad ideas; [...]" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/ainow/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:54:13

• "the debate over “humans in the loop” is a comforting distraction." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:54:36

• "The report is down to three pages from the six they put out last year, and this time it’s mostly a Google Gemini fan post." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/another-ad-safety-report/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:55:11

• "But even with the potential for a two-year cushion – compliance for meeting new standards may be pushed from 2029 to 2031 – utilities are faltering, industry experts said." ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/04/drinking-water-systems-cite-struggles-with-costs-and-timelines-for-cleaning-up-pfas/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:56:00

• "About 3,000 water systems will receive direct outreach and support." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/16/epa-targets-forever-chemicals-water-workforce-gaps/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:56:14

• "The proposed USDA budget for fiscal 2027 would cut $4.9 billion, or nearly one-fifth of the department’s budget." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/04/16/repub/us-house-dems-at-ag-hearing-excoriate-trump-cuts-proposed-for-farm-and-food-aid/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:56:59

• "A new study out of Drexel University shows just how self-aware the kids have become." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:57:16

• "After two and a half years of steady growth, the smartphone market is heading sharply back into the red." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/ai-drags-down-smartphone-sales | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:57:57

• "I’ve slowed way down on acquisitions in my typewriter collection, but when I saw this magnificent exemplar with Art Nouveau decoration pop up at thrift" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/04/15/odell-no-4-index-typewriter-and-wooden-case/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:58:11

• "Jeremy Keith posted his salary history last week." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/04/15/my-salary-history/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 05:58:38

• "There’s a productive tension here, obviously. You can’t go fully one way or the other." ☛ https://werd.io/you-own-your-role-we-own-the-outcome/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:04:10

• "A new Perforce report finds PHP's developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/php-web-skills-hiring-age/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:04:31

• "It’s rare that you get to see work that directly helps those who most deserve it, but I want to tell you about the opportunity we so seldom get to actually contribute in a way that we know will have real impact." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/16/girls-club-gala/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:04:45

• "The programmer box is tight. It’s well-bounded and there are clear membership criterea. You write code, you’re good at it, and there are legible, well-defined steps to get better at it." ☛ https://anirudh.fi/founderbox | Source: Anirudh Oppiliappan    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:05:02

• "Common Denominator: People who get SUPER EXCITED about whatever it is they are DOING and NEED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT so you can be EXCITED TOO." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-16 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:05:18

• "we talk about why conflict transformation can be so difficult, what happens when efforts at repair break down, and why conflict resolution skills are survival skills in fascist times." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/rupture-and-repair-under-fascist-conditions-2/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:05:41

• "After a little bit of searching, I couldn’t find any answers. So I decided to use R to retrieve the necessary info from Uniprot and calculate it myself. I thought I’d post it here in case it’s useful for others." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/my-domain-proteome-wide-scanning-of-tmds/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:06:10

• "In February of 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika recorded a strange sight. He penned diary entries about red lights illuminating the night sky for three consecutive nights." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-writings-and-tree-rings-helped-researchers-track-a-solar-storm-from-800-years-ago-and-reconstruct-past-solar-cycles-180988546/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:06:25

• "Chaplin was known for shooting scenes dozens or even hundreds of times to get them exactly right." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/04/charles-chaplin-city-lights.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:06:51

• "Meanwhile, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code via a basic packaging mistake." ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-463/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:11:49

• "I was invited to an episode of Django Chat, to chat about Django Tasks, the Security Team and much more." ☛ https://theorangeone.net/talks/django-chat-200/ | Source: Jake Howard    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:12:01

• "Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/659 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:12:20

• "In this livestream, I showed Prot what I've been doing since our last conversation about Emacs configuration and livestreaming." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/ye16-sacha-and-prot-talk-emacs/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:12:39

• "Hi, Paul Krugman here. Today, I’m going to do a video rather than a proper post because I just have too much stuff going on." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-wants-regime-change-at-the | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:12:48

• "All further functionality is implemented in software, including any firewall, routing and DHCP features." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/trying-to-build-your-own-consumer-grade-router-in-2026/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:13:32

• "KDE has been around for 30 years! Many of KDE's projects are also mature and consolidated: Okular is 21 years old, KOrganiser is 23, and Kdenlive is 24" ☛ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/ | Source: KDE    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:20:14

• "Other projects are young and upcoming, like NeoChat, Merkuro and AudioTube, as our community is constantly churning out new ideas and turning them into products for you to enjoy."    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:20:37

• "Today, we bring you new versions of many of these apps, old and new. Read on and discover all the features and improvements that will soon land on your desktop."    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:20:46

• "Much of my work has not yet been committed upstream so installation currently requires a custom kernel and U-Boot images which are provided here." ☛ https://jcs.org/2026/04/09/openbsd-dm250#2026-04-15 | Source: JCS    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:21:21

• "I reached over to grab something on the other side of my desk and managed to knock an entire fucking cup of coffee all over my beloved laptop." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/i-may-have-killed-my-framework-13 | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:25:20

• "Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to show us how they’re made." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/fpga-powers-diy-usb-scope-and-signal-generator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:27:55

• "Optocam Zero uses an auto-focus camera module and features eight photo filters." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/optocam-zeros-pictures-look-one-hundred/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:28:09

• "Now, here's the kicker: the bigger the focusing lens is, the larger the cone of light rays is" ☛ https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-next-level-camera-and-i-love-it/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:28:46

• "Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Entertainment is concerned about the "alarming" growth of IPTV piracy in Chile." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-files-criminal-complaint-against-chilean-iptv-operator-over-alarming-piracy-growth/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:28:56

• "I had it up and running in minutes. I generated a link that was valid for the duration of the Book Fair and sent it to my wife." ☛ https://billglover.me/2026/04/16/file-transfer-made-easy/ | Source: Bill Glover    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:47:52

• "First, I used to assume that if the RSS feed is valid, the links are good." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/updating-assumptions-for-blogging-in-2026/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:49:35

• "You can add a good browser extension (uBlock Origin) if you want fine‑grained browser control." ☛ https://greycoder.com/ad-blocker-comparison-adguard-vs-adguard-dns-vs-nord-threat-protection-vs-proton-netshield/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:49:47

• "Modern work happens in the browser." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/secure-browsers-push-zero-trust-past-the-login-screen/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:49:57

• "The most common place you might want to swap two variables is right there in a function, with local variables. So let’s write three functions and see what the compiler makes of them." ☛ https://heather.cafe/posts/too_much_xor_swap_trick/ |    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:53:05

• "I used an intentionally naïve numerical solution to a gravitating many-body system as a benchmark, so I could easily compare Lisp & C versions." ☛ https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2026/04/16/structures-of-arrays/ | Source: Tim Bradshaw    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:53:30

• "Prior art from other ecosystems is noted where it exists." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/16/features-everyone-should-steal-from-npmx.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:53:49

• "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #369." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/tag-division.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:54:17

• "The task can be divided in three cases: [...]" ☛ https://raku-musings.com/bigger-big.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:54:37

• "Many time series models fail before they even begin. Not because the software crashes." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/why-most-time-series-models-fail-before-they-start/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:56:13

• "With Fira Code ligatures, %>=% renders as a single wide arrow visually similar to %>% with an underline added" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/logrittr-a-verbose-pipe-operator-for-logging-dplyr-pipelines/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 06:56:31

• "Build scripts are generally lots of linear steps, executed in sequence, which fail if any individual step fails." ☛ https://lesiw.dev/go/step/ |    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:05:22

• "Starting on Wednesday, NIST will only enrich CVEs that appear in a federal catalog of exploited vulnerabilities organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)." ☛ https://therecord.media/nist-to-limit-work-on-cve-entries-surge | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:06:33

• "NIST said it will only prioritize analysis for CVEs that appear in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s known exploited vulnerabilities catalog" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:07:51

• "In hindsight, the solution is obvious. Give the player a way to view want went wrong last time, when they try the level again." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/04/16/ridiculous-stats-battles/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:21:16

• "Each group shares a common theme: it might be CSS properties, layout techniques, browser quirks, or even naming patterns." ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68094/css-games-4connect | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:21:36

• "I wanted to explore a JSON dataset with the ZYDECODE command introduced in YottaDB r2.04." ☛ https://yottadb.com/koalas-json-r2-04-and-aim/ | Source: YottaDB    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:23:34

• "For your reference, here is a summary of the book contents: [...]" ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/sqlalchemy-2-in-practice---chapter-5---advanced-many-to-many-relationships | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:23:49

• "Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully" ☛ https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/5/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:24:29

• "In my short recap note about PressConf 2026, I listed three things that stood out for me from the presentations and conversations at PressConf." ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/its-time-to-level-up-in-wordpress/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:24:44

• "The DINUM's press release lists several commitments : [...]" ☛ https://www.april.org/en/free-software-will-dinum-trigger-meaningful-change-french-state | Source: April    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:25:53

• "Well, controversial decisions happen on an individual level as well so, whatever, I’ll just share some more of those." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/more-confessions-from-a-foss-enthusiast/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:26:08

• "However, China takes localisation to a whole different level entirely" ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/china-gaming | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:26:33

• IBM Red Hat pushing slop, as usual ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-optimization-7-powerful-techniques-you-can-use-today | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:27:56

• "Superheroes" for buying from us? ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/meet-latest-red-hat-openshift-superheroes-0 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:28:28

• Post by "principal product marketing manager".    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:29:47

• Red Hat is foolishly conflating "digital sovereignty" with mindless slop https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/digital-sovereignty It speak of "vendor flexibility needed to own your digital future and sovereign AI." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-april-17-2026-red-hat    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:32:10

• Red Hat has fast become a "meme company", selling the slop dream under the guise of "sovereignty" https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/red-hat-s-marco-bill-resource-control-is-key-for-ai-sovereignty    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:33:22

• US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/us-operating-system-age-verification-bill-parents-decide-act-gets-published/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:37:04

• SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sdl-simple-directmedia-layer-ban-ai-llm-code-contributions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sdl-simple-directmedia-layer-ban-ai-llm-code-contributions/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:37:39

• Immersive sim boomer shooter Fortune's Run back in development as the developer is out of jail | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/immersive-sim-boomer-shooter-fortunes-run-back-in-development-as-the-developer-is-out-of-jail/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:38:14

• Vehicle-building bullet heaven survivor-like TerraTech Legion launches April 30 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/vehicle-building-bullet-heaven-survivor-like-terratech-legion-launches-april-30/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:38:50

• Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/gaming-on-linux-with-an-older-gpu-levels-up-with-dxvk-sarek-v1-12-bringing-major-new-features/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:39:17

• Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mozilla-announced-thunderbolt-their-open-source-and-self-hostable-ai-client/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:40:36

• "Mozilla are leaning even more into AI, with the announcement today of Thunderbolt - their open-source and self-hostable AI client. The AI madness will continue until morale improves the world burns."    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:40:54

• Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-mint-confirm-longer-release-cycles-the-next-release-is-planned-for-christmas-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:41:43

• Get another 15 games for $15 in this new Humble Bundle for April | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/get-another-15-games-for-15-in-this-new-humble-bundle-for-april/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:42:11

• "The motivation for this article was the fact that Iran is levying tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, to be paid in yuan or cryptocurrency – not dollars." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-dollars-special-status-sources    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:55:24

• "Todd Blanche and Jeanine Pirro Clear Proud Boy and Oath Keeper Terrorists to Rearm" https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/15/todd-blanche-and-jeanine-pirro-clear-proud-boy-and-oath-keeper-terrorists-to-rearm/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:55:40

• Nope, slop is NOT "AI".... stop calling it that https://jimmitchell.org/2026/04/16/some-thoughts-on-ai/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:56:07

• IDG's pcworld advertises Microsoft bribes https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116507/microsoft-is-giving-away-1-million-and-a-benz-to-attract-users-to-edge.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:56:30

• "Gesichtsscan und Handy-Zwang: Von der Leyen erklärt Alterskontroll-App für „fertig“" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/gesichtsscan-und-handy-zwang-von-der-leyen-erklaert-alterskontroll-app-fuer-fertig/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:57:16

• "Trump Admin Cuts $11 Million in Grant Funds to Catholic Org Amid Feud With Pope | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-cuts-11-million-in-grant-funds-to-catholic-org-amid-feud-with-pope/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:57:33

• "Trump’s Iran negotiations didn’t have to go this way" https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/485875/iran-negotiations-mistakes    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:57:54

• "Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Unanimously Approves Early D.C. Arch Design - NOTUS — News of the United States" https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-commission-fine-arts-unanimously-approves-washington-dc-arch-design    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:58:11

• "From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus - Domino Theory" https://dominotheory.com/from-stuxnet-to-operation-epic-fury-the-china-iran-intelligence-nexus/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:58:30

• Digital sovereignty: the State is accelerating the reduction of its extra-European dependencies | " Souveraineté numérique : l'État accélère la réduction de ses dépendances extra-européennes " https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:59:36

• old: "Un rapport parlementaire sur la cybersécurité alerte sur « le piège Microsoft » | April" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://www.april.org/un-rapport-parlementaire-sur-la-cybersecurite-alerte-sur-le-piege-microsoft    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 07:59:53

• "Can Trump Actually Quit NATO? We May Soon Find Out | The Walrus" https://thewalrus.ca/can-trump-actually-quit-nato-we-may-soon-find-out/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:00:08

• "Finland’s international defence and security cooperation as a shelter-seeking strategy in the views of the Finnish MPs in the era of great power competition | Nordic Review of International Studies" https://nris.journal.fi/article/view/176323    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:00:26

• iophk: :( soon a 'smart' phone will be required to use the WWW https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/16/eu-lanserar-app-for-aldersverifikation/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:00:49

• "Catholic groups rebel against Trump over messianic imagery and attacks on the pope" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-16/catholic-groups-rebel-against-trump-over-messianic-imagery-and-attacks-on-the-pope.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:01:06

• "Common Denominator: People who get SUPER EXCITED about whatever it is they are DOING and NEED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT so you can be EXCITED TOO." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-16    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:01:55

• mannde ji mala gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/manndejimala    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:02:28

• "A couple of years ago I mastered a homebrew adventure as part of our campaign. At the time I was interested on House of Leaves and how the concept of space is managed into a session." gemini://kodaro.it/gemlog/darkness_in_roleplay.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:03:07

• "I'm using NixOS for a while now (I think a year... I'm not sure). I found my way with Nix in projects and into my main system. I am surviving with this system, but the amount of knowledge to get expert is huge and I don't want to dedicate that time right now. So here what I got." gemini://kodaro.it/gemlog/getting_competent_nixos.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:03:53

• the birds outside gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_birds_outside    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:04:42

• "There's a new article on Leasehold Knowledge Partnerhip's website, by Alexander Hamilton, a civil servant at the Foreign Office." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2026-04-16_that-flat-management-control-issue-in-england.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:05:18

• "To implement a static site that gets updated whenever the page files are updated, use a Makefile to produce a HTML file for every Markdown file and then use a directory watcher such as `entr` to run `make` whenever Markdown files change or get added." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-16-watch-static-site    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:06:23

• "We have heard a good questions, I don't know how to describe what is a `good question`, I only know that it is a good question when it been asked. Maybe good question is the question that asking for the answer that nobody ever think of, or for a answer that not easily be answered." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-04-16_good_answer.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:07:10

• "So, I'm thinking of quitting music." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2026-04-16-hobbies.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:11:20

• "Alhena 5.5.6 is available. The big feature is Gemlog and atom subscriptions. I also added Markdown support. Beyond that, a number of corner case bugs have been squashed. Well worth updating." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Alhena/41668    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:12:04

• There Is No Poetry in the Land of Sparta gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-17_no_poetry_in_sparta.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:15:41

• Extreme Liminal Spaces, Boynton Beach, Florida edition gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/04/16.1    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:17:20

• "Now that I have video game mania, books are piling up at an even faster rate than normal. Therefore it’s time for some “Compulsive Vowing”" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/book-vow    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 08:37:08

• iophk: I see you've already published the ActBlue article. FWIW ActBlue smells CIA    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:08:48

• Without naming RMS or even Software Freedom, Mike hits the nail on the head: https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/i-hate-the-internet    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:09:17

• Wednesday is Earth Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climate_March_0332_(34253906252).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EcologyTheta.svg    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:09:54

• Dihydroxyacetone Man to Nominate Dr. Erica Schwartz, a Vaccine Supporter, as CDC Director ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/health/erica-schwartz-cdc-director-trump.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:11:46

• Hong Kong’s largest hospital, Kai Tak Hospital, to open in October ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/16/hong-kongs-largest-hospital-kai-tak-hospital-to-open-in-october/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:12:15

• Mental health advocates ‘optimistic’ about reforms in Michigan ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/mental-health-advocates-optimistic-about-reforms-in-michigan/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:12:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man nominates Erica Schwartz, former deputy surgeon general, to serve as CDC director ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/health-news/2026/04/trump-nominates-erica-schwartz-former-deputy-surgeon-general-to-serve-as-cdc-director/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:13:22

• Medicine black market thrives online, also in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/16.04.2026-medicine-black-market-thrives-online-also-in-latvia.a643225/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:13:49

• India dispatch: death of first passive euthanasia patient closes landmark chapter, opens larger debate ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/india-dispatch-death-of-first-passive-euthanasia-patient-closes-a-landmark-chapter-opening-larger-debate/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:14:23

• Escaped wolf in South Korea recaptured, returned to zoo ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/runaway-wolf-in-south-korea-captured    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:15:05

• South Korea says not aware of US protest over minister’s remarks on North Korea nuclear site ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-not-aware-of-us-protest-over-ministers-remarks-on-north-korea-nuclear-site    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:15:29

• ‘AI shamans’ tell the fortunes of curious South Koreans ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-shamans-tell-the-fortunes-of-curious-south-koreans    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:21:51

• Why South Korea’s local governments are trying to sustain bathhouses ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-south-koreas-local-governments-are-trying-to-sustain-bathhouses    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:22:23

• Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms — fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/two-us-citizens-get-combined-18-years-in-prison-for-running-north-korean-laptop-farms-fake-remote-it-work-scheme-netted-dprk-usd5-million-in-around-three-years    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:22:57

• US nationals sentenced for aiding North Korea’s tech worker scheme ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/us-nationals-sentenced-facilitate-north-korea-tech-worker-scheme/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:23:22

• KDE Gear 26.04 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1067994/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:25:20

• I May Have Killed My Framework 13 ☞ https://kevquirk.com/i-may-have-killed-my-framework-13    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:32:31

• Free Software : Will the DINUM Trigger Meaningful Change in the French State ? ☞ https://www.april.org/en/free-software-will-dinum-trigger-meaningful-change-french-state    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:33:25

• Why Most Time Series Models Fail Before They Start ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/why-most-time-series-models-fail-before-they-start/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:34:08

• My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/my-domain-proteome-wide-scanning-of-tmds/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:34:53

• Teens Alarmed at What Hey Hi (AI) Is Doing to Their Minds ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:35:45

• Why having “humans in the loop” in an Hey Hi (AI) war is an illusion ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:36:25

• What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/failing-shoe-brand-pivot-to-ai    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:38:53

• YouTube Now Lets You Turn Off Shorts Completely ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:39:27

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:41:18

• Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for Hey Hi (AI) Doomers (16 Apr 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:42:55

• Red Hat build of Kueue 1.3: Enhanced batch workload management on Kubernetes ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/red-hat-build-kueue-1-3-batch-workload-kubernetes    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:51:13

• FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/funos-ubuntu-lts-with-jwm-and-no-snaps/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:51:49

• Microsoft surveillance and back doors sold as "confidential" by IBM Red Hat. Disgraceful decline. ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/confidential-containers-workshop-microsoft-azure-red-hat-openshift-learn-interactively    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:53:35

• Build deterministic OpenShift dataplane performance with TRex ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/build-deterministic-openshift-dataplane-performance-trex    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 13:55:08

• IBM advocating plagiarism chatbots ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/pip-install-vllm-single-command    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:01:08

• Protect identity infrastructure in cloud-native environments ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/protect-identity-infrastructure-cloud-native-environments    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:02:15

• Linux Matters: Pouring out the Sidra ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/79/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:02:59

• Only 23% of Hongkongers want children, survey shows https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/13/only-23-of-hongkongers-want-children-survey-shows/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:07:04

• Founder of China’s Evergrande pleads guilty to fraud, court says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/14/founder-of-chinas-evergrande-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-court-says/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:07:26

• Scribus 1.6.6 Released with Image Rotate Script Function ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/scribus-1-6-6-released-with-image-rotate-script-function/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:09:15

• Sniffnet Released 1.5.0 with Per App/Program Network Monitoring ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/sniffnet-released-1-5-0-with-per-app-program-network-monitoring/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:09:54

• Your old Kindle won’t stop working on 20 May – but it could… ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/older-kindles-amazon-support    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:10:23

• 9 Useful Free and Open Source S3 Terminal Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-s3-terminal-tools/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:11:34

• lazyenv – work with environment variable files across projects ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lazyenv-environment-variable-files-across-projects/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:11:58

• Telepipe – command-line shell for GNOME ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/telepipe-command-line-shell-for-gnome/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:12:20

• Cedilla – Markdown text editor for the COSMIC desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cedilla-markdown-text-editor/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:13:33

• Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Introduction ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-ms-r1-arm-workstation-running-linux-introduction/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:14:06

• Timetable – unofficial client for WebUntis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetable-unofficial-client-webuntis/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:14:27

• Symja – computer algebra system and symbolic mathematics library ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/symja-computer-algebra-system-symbolic-mathematics-library/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:15:33

• Shift OS – Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shift-os-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:16:01

• 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Computer Algebra Systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-computer-algebra-systems/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:16:24

• Zorin OS 18.1 is released – Makes you forget backdoored Windows quickly ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/zorin-os-18-1-is-released-makes-you-forget-windows-quickly/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:17:02

• Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and I.C.B.M. is Forcing Red Bait Staff to Use Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:17:24

• Microsoft Linus/Linux Torvalds https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:17:55

• Omarchy 3.5.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:18:43

• Vendefoul 20260415 released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:19:13

• KDE Mega Sprint 2026 ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/04/15/2026/_kde_mega_sprint    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:21:49

• UN experts warn French antisemitism bill threatens free speech ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/un-experts-warn-french-antisemitism-bill-threatens-free-speech/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:22:54

• Discussing RTO in my Genesi t-shirt... ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/genesi-rto/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:28:16

• The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1135179/anthropogenic-noise-hurting-animals/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:30:33

• Where Has All of New York City’s Outdoor Dining Gone? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/nyregion/nyc-outdoor-dining.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:31:00

• Conclusive Engineering KSTR-SAMA5D27 is an ultra-compact, low-power SBC based on Microchip SAMA5D57 SiP ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/16/conclusive-engineering-kstr-sama5d27-ultra-compact-sbc-microchip-sama5d57-sip/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:32:18

• In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:32:41

• Emergency services in Ukraine 'need armored vehicles' as Russia targets rescue workers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/emergency-services-in-ukraine-need-armored-vehicles-as-russia-targets-rescue-workers    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:33:46

• European airlines could run out of jet fuel 'in six weeks' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/european-airlines-could-run-out-of-jet-fuel-in-six-weeks    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:34:06

• Russia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260416-russia-escalates-internet-crackdown-says-curbs-are-temporary    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:34:28

• Russia threatens Ukrainian drone manufacturers in Europe, names firm in Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900131/russia-threatens-ukrainian-drone-manufacturers-in-europe-names-firm-in-vilnius    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:35:06

• Czechs Demand Explanation After Russia's Medvedev Threatens Europe's Drone Factories ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-drones-europe-czech-threat-medvedev/33733898.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:35:30

• Russia Pummels Ukraine With Hundreds Of Drones, Missiles; At Least 19 Killed, Dozens Wounded ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-attacks-drones-missiles-barrage/33733467.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:35:44

• Russian Strikes Kill at Least 15 in Ukraine in Biggest Attack in Months ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-missile-drone-attacks.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:36:32

• Got $100 Million? Ukraine Has Just the Fertilizer Plant for You. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/europe/ukraine-odesa-fertilizer-plant-privatization.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:36:45

• AOL: Microsoft Is Already Pulling Back On Its Windows Copilot AI Push    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:38:04

• Bubbles burst, eventually    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:38:19

• EXCLUSIVE SRA 'broke own guidance' banning solicitor for suicide attempts https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-sra-broke-own-guidance-banning-solicitor-suicide-attempts    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:43:04

• Rosļikovs banned from joining Rīga City Council meetings from Belarus ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/16.04.2026-roslikovs-banned-from-joining-riga-city-council-meetings-from-belarus.a643159/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:48:56

• UN experts alarmed at new Belarus law targeting LGBTQ+ and women rights ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/un-experts-alarmed-at-new-belarus-law-targeting-lgbtq-and-women-rights/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:49:24

• Lithuania condemns Belarus decision to label exiled university ‘extremist organisation’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900072/lithuania-condemns-belarus-decision-to-label-exiled-university-extremist-organisation    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:50:49

• AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:51:57

• CISA spikes CyberCorps internships amid shutdown ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/04/cisa-spikes-cybercorps-internships-amid-shutdown/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:52:40

• Space Force’s STARCOM to hire more than 400 civilians amid push to expand the force ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2026/04/space-forces-starcom-to-hire-more-than-400-civilians-amid-push-to-expand-the-force/   

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:54:05

• Latvia's emergency app security improved ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/15.04.2026-latvias-emergency-app-security-improved.a642971/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:54:29

• Introducing PDR Press Minis ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04/introducing-pdr-press-minis    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:55:17

• Organize your IoT fleet in Arduino® Cloud with Smart Folders ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/15/organize-your-iot-fleet-in-arduino-cloud-with-smart-folders/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:56:16

• Tails 7.6.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 14:57:08

• Video: LibreOffice at the Grazer Linuxtage 2026 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/16/video-libreoffice-at-the-grazer-linuxtage-2026/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:13:30

• Thunderbolt is an open-source ‘AI client’ from Mozilla’s for-profit arm ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/mozilla-thunderbolt-ai-client    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:14:14

• We Have the Full Text for the Federal OS Age Verification Bill ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/we-have-the-full-text-for-the-federal    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:15:20

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

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:16:57

• How To Install Rspamd on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rspamd-debian-13/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:17:21

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

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:19:35

• EasyClone support portable apps ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/easyclone-support-portable-apps.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:20:40

• Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Copilot Agents Vulnerable to Prompt Injection via Comments ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/claude-code-gemini-cli-github-copilot-agents-vulnerable-to-prompt-injection-via-comments/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:21:10

• Astronomo – modern terminal browser for the Gemini protocol ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronomo-modern-terminal-browser-gemini/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:21:52

• Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:22:42

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1067993/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:24:57

• Sahil Dhiman: What is Life (to you)? ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2026/04/what-is-life-to-you/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:26:22

• What’s new in R 4.6.0? ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/whats-new-in-r-4-6-0/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:26:59

• Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-sues-openai-chatgpt-stalker    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:28:48

• Getting USB4 hotplug to work ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/getting-usb4-hotplug-to-work.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:31:44

• Border line-characters in text-mode dialog utility ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/border-line-characters-in-text-mode-dialog-utility.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:32:26

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Gods of Sands and Idols of Ash - 2026-04-15 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-04-15-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:33:34

• Announcing “Embedded Linux Security”, Bootlin’s brand new training course ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/embedded-linux-security-training-course/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:33:58

• PostgreSQL Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/postgresql/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:35:14

• PostgreSQL User Management: Create Users and Grant Privileges ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/postgresql-user-management/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:35:39

• Rust is not magic for security ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/16/cosmic-greeter.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:36:37

• Rohingya Refugee Recounts Rescue From Capsizing Boat That Left Nearly 250 Others Missing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/asia/rohingya-bangladesh-migrants-boat-capsizing.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:46:59

• Cops in Malaysia seize fentanyl-laced vape cartridges in $10m drug bust ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cops-in-malaysia-seize-fentanyl-laced-vape-cartridges-in-10m-drug-bust    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:47:19

• Man in Malaysia arrested after video of puppy aggressively submerged in water tank goes viral ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-in-malaysia-arrested-after-video-submerging-puppy-in-water-tank-goes-viral spouse of Garrett said he broke their puppy's leg https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/12/When_Cruelty_is_the_Point_American_SLAPPs_in_London_the_United_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:48:48

• Chinese fabs import record volumes of US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia — homegrown tool makers booked record 2025 revenues as price competition squeezes margins ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-chip-tool-makers-booked-record-2025-revenues    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:49:26

• China embassy urges Tokyo to probe threats ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-embassy-urges-tokyo-to-probe-threats    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:50:37

• China issues US safety alert over citizens citing ‘malicious questioning’ by US border officers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-issues-us-safety-alert-for-citizens-citing-malicious-questioning-by-us-border-officers    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:50:53

• China’s economy beats forecasts to grow 5 per cent in first quarter of 2026 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-economy-beats-forecasts-to-grow-5-per-cent-in-1q-2026    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:51:33

• Rights group condemns Kazakhstan conviction of human rights protestors ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-condemns-kazakhstan-conviction-of-human-rights-protestors/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:52:21

• China authorities pressure ‘underground’ Catholic groups to join state-controlled church ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/china-authorities-pressure-underground-catholic-groups-to-join-state-controlled-church/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:52:49

• China’s economy beats forecasts, but war darkens outlook ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/16/chinas-economy-beats-forecasts-but-war-darkens-outlook/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:53:15

• What We Know About Clavicular’s Apparent Overdose and Hospitalization ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/style/clavicular-overdose-braden-peters.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:53:58

• Irish News wrong to allege ‘serious editorial misconduct’ on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/irish-news-wrong-to-allege-serious-editorial-misconduct-on-stephen-nolan-show-ipso/ "Title breached Editors' Code with investigation into BillBC show."    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:54:48

• Playgrounds for climbers: The state of America’s elite universities ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/16/playgrounds-for-climbers/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:55:15

• Reversible Male Contraceptive Halts Sperm Production in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/reversible-male-contraceptive-halts-sperm-production-in-mice    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:59:16

• Study Links 2 Simple Eating Habits to Lasting Lower Weight ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-2-simple-eating-habits-to-lasting-lower-weight    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 15:59:45

• Scientists Reveal 4 Stark Options For Saving Venice From Rising Seas ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-4-stark-options-for-saving-venice-from-rising-seas    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:00:05

• Dog Owners Often Miss The Subtle Signs Their Pet Is in Pain, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dog-owners-often-miss-the-subtle-signs-their-pet-is-in-pain-study-finds    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:01:20

• Scientists Reveal Why Bread Can Cause Weight Gain Without Overeating ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-why-bread-can-cause-weight-gain-without-overeating    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:02:03

• Much-Hyped Alzheimer's Drugs Show No Meaningful Benefit, Major Review Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/much-hyped-alzheimers-drugs-show-no-meaningful-benefit-major-review-finds    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:02:27

• Scientists Captured Light in a Trap 2,000 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-captured-light-in-a-trap-2000-times-thinner-than-a-human-hair    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:02:42

• Scientists Finally Measured The Mind-Blowing Power of a Black Hole's Jets ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-measured-the-mind-blowing-power-of-a-black-holes-jets    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:03:01

• Lithuania records one of highest inflation rates in EU in March ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900221/lithuania-records-one-of-highest-inflation-rates-in-eu-in-march    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:03:39

• Forgejo 15.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1068001/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:04:33

• Rust 1.95.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1068011/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:04:48

• Bahrain Charges Intelligence Officer in the Death of a Detainee ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/middleeast/bahrain-detainee-death-charges.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:20:28

• Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces Hey Hi (AI) [as Lousy Excuse] ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/snap-layoffs-snapchat.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:21:07

• 'Lebanon is being held hostage by Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/middle-east-matters/20260416-lebanon-is-being-held-hostage-to-hezbollah-acting-at-iran-s-behest    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:21:58

• NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious Hey Hi (AI) Data Center ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/naacp-sues-xai-elon-musk-jpg    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:22:42

• Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional Hey Hi (AI) Pivot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/allbirds-stock-now-crashing    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:23:07

• Can the US and Iran close off the Strait of Hormuz? What international law says. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/0416/iran-strait-of-hormuz-news-passage    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:43:07

• Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/os-level-age-verification-across-us/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:43:47

• Malaysia preparing to amend laws to curb waste dumping, report says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-plans-amending-laws-to-curb-waste-dumping-report-says    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:45:15

• US federal jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated illegal monopoly ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/us-federal-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-operated-illegal-monopoly/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:45:42

• NDS 2026 – Self-reliance will make Australia a better ally ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/nds-2026-self-reliance-will-make-australia-a-better-ally/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:46:50

• Xi Alludes to Convicted Felon’s Policies to Make a Case for Closer Ties to Vietnam ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/asia/xi-china-vietnam-security.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 16:47:04

• Mandelson, a Friend of Epstein’s, Became U.S. Ambassador Despite Failing Security Vetting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/world/europe/peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer-security.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:01:20

• Australian PM’s ‘diesel diplomacy’ tour of S-E Asia seen as welcome bid to calm fears at home ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-pms-diesel-diplomacy-tour-of-se-asia-seen-as-welcome-bid-to-spread-calm-at-home    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:01:58

• Dozens Detained During Easter Gatherings in Turkmenistan ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33733767.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:02:22

• Is there Plan B? Lithuanian officials clash over defence without US support ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900110/is-there-plan-b-lithuanian-officials-clash-over-defence-without-us-support    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:02:43

• France to reimburse young women for reusable menstrual products ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260416-france-to-reimburse-young-women-for-reusable-menstrual-products    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:03:09

• Ransomware Hits Automotive Data Expert Autovista ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-hits-automotive-data-expert-autovista/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:04:51

• Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Webex, ISE ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-webex-ise/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:05:09

• NIST Prioritizes NVD Enrichment for CVEs in CISA KEV, Critical Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nist-prioritizes-nvd-enrichment-for-cves-in-cisa-kev-critical-software/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:05:44

• Splunk Enterprise Update Patches Code Execution Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/splunk-enterprise-update-patches-code-execution-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:06:10

• Data Breach at Tennessee Hospital Affects 337,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-tennessee-hospital-affects-337000/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:06:42

• “A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:07:29

• Children of talent visa holders face reduced eligibility for local tuition at Hong Kong universities under new rules ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/16/children-of-top-talent-visa-holders-face-reduced-eligibility-for-local-tuition-at-hong-kong-universities-under-new-rules/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:08:14

• Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-delivery-drone-smash    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:09:33

• A proposed federal personnel shift could chill whistleblowers long before anyone gets fired ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/04/a-proposed-federal-personnel-shift-could-chill-whistleblowers-long-before-anyone-gets-fired/nbsp;  

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:10:00

• Carbon Removal Industry Reels as Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Retreats ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/microsoft-carbon-removal.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:10:39

• The Long-Term Plan to Scrub Carbon From the Sky ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/the-long-term-plan-to-scrub-carbon-from-the-sky.html "Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere"    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:11:05

• Is carbon removal in trouble? ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1135928/carbon-removal-microsoft/ "Last week, news outlets reported that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases."    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:11:30

• Starbucks’ Baffling Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/starbucks-chatgpt-coffee    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:12:01

• Christina Applegate hospitalized amid MS battle: report ☞ https://pagesix.com/2026/04/16/celebrity-news/christina-applegate-hospitalized-amid-ms-battle-report/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:12:39

• PGConf.BE : Preliminary schedule, registrations open and speakers online ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgconfbe-preliminary-schedule-registrations-open-and-speakers-online-3272/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:13:04

• ‘We're asking for our husbands' salaries’: The plight of soldiers' widows in eastern DR Congo ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20260416-husbands-salaries-plight-soldiers-widows-eastern-democratic-republic-congo    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:32:54

• Lumma Stealer infection with Sectop RAT (ArechClient2), (Fri, Apr 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32904    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:34:06

• Extra Credit Not Required: Teva v. Lilly and the Limits of Amgen’s Reach ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/extra-credit-not-required-teva-v-lilly-and-the-limits-of-amgens-reach.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:35:59

• Software Patents ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/start-up-toilet-function-chinese-automaker-patents-voice-activated-in-car-toilet    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:36:32

• Acacia entity, Atlas Global, Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/acacia-entity-atlas-global-wi-fi-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:36:58

• Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent monopoly found invalid ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/dominion-harbor-entity-arlington-technologies-wi-fi-patent-found-invalid https://techrights.org/wiki/Dominion_Harbor/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:37:33

• AutoConnect Holdings vehicle network patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/16/autoconnect-holdings-vehicle-network-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:38:02

• US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent monopoly infringement lawsuit against defective chip maker Intel — VLSI case from 2017 returns after court sets aside 2024 decision ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/us-appeals-court-restarts-usd3-billion-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-intel-vlsi-case-from-2017-returns-after-court-sets-aside-2024-decision    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:38:17

• Corning and Quinn Emanuel defend special glass production method against TCL ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/corning-quinn-defend-special-glass-production-method-against-tcl/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:38:39

• Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise Hey Hi (AI) Client ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Thunderbolt    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:40:55

• Thibault Martin: TIL that Pagefind does great client-side search ☞ https://ergaster.org/til/pagefind-static-search/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:43:22

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.95.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/Rust-1.95.0/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:43:54

• IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Surveillance Giant Google services, matching IPv4 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:44:44

• Proprietary, so problematic ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/tuta-drive-closed-beta/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:45:39

• Why I Use Fediverse As My Main Social Media Platform ☞ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/why-i-use-fediverse/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:46:15

• NDS 2026 – IIP prioritises uncrewed systems, strike and air-and-missile defence ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/nds-2026-iip-prioritises-uncrewed-systems-strike-and-air-and-missile-defence/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:46:51

• Samsung asks court to block illegal strike activities by unions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/samsung-asks-court-to-block-illegal-strike-activities-by-unions    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:47:10

• Israeli military admit to posting Hey Hi (AI) photo of Lebanese journalist it killed ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/israeli-military-admit-to-posting-ai-photo-of-killed-lebanese-journalist    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:47:36

• Reed Hastings Will Leave DRM spreader Netflix as Board Chairman ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/media/reed-hastings-netflix-chair.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:48:17

• Firefox Nightly: QR Codes, Speed Calculators, Better RAM Usage – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 199 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/04/15/qr-codes-speed-calculators-better-ram-usage-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-199/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:50:41

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): Localizer Spotlight: Baurzhan ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/04/15/localizer-spotlight-baurzhan/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:51:38

• Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Tuapse port kills two children, governor says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russias-tuapse-port-kills-two-children-governor-says    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:52:17

• More than a dozen killed in Russian attacks on Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260416-more-than-a-dozen-killed-in-russian-attacks-on-kyiv-other-ukrainian-cities    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:52:34

• Russian strikes kill three, including child, as drones and missiles hit Kyiv ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260416-russia-strikes-ukraine-kyiv-drones-missiles-kill-three-child    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:52:50

• How to Change Default Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-default-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-26-04-2    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:53:30

• Analysis of Alzheimer’s Drugs Stirs Debate About Their Effectiveness ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/health/alzheimers-drugs-benefit-anti-amyloid.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:54:26

• Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi in critical condition, supporters say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260415-jailed-iranian-nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadi-critical-condition-supporters-say    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:54:50

• Petter Reinholdtsen: Talking to the Computer, and Getting Some Nonsense Back... ☞ http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Talking_to_the_Computer__and_Getting_Some_Nonsense_Back___.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:56:08

• 192 MHz WCH CH32V205 RISC-V MCU offers a 480 Mbps USB 2.0 interface ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/14/192-mhz-wch-ch32v205-risc-v-mcu-offers-a-480-mbps-usb-2-0-interface/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:56:48

• Life advice from @ADHDeanASL ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/life-advice-from-adhdeanasl/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:59:09

• Backburning sun ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/backburning-sun/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 17:59:22

• Call for Proposals: Regional Events Celebrating CC’s 25th Anniversary ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/04/16/call-for-proposals-regional-events-celebrating-ccs-25th-anniversary/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:00:21

• FSF Events: LibreLocal meetup in Beijing, China ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/meetup-2026-05-01-beijing-pekin-china    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:00:45

• GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/gnome-50-1-released-with-numerous-fixes/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:01:12

• Zorin OS 18.1 Released with Lite Edition Features XFCE 4.20 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released-with-lite-edition-features-xfce-4-20/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:01:34

• Can You Identify The Fake GNU/Linux Distros From The Real Ones? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/quiz/guess-fake-distros/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:03:04

• FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France GNU/Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-16/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:03:27

• Ghostty finally lands in the Ubuntu repos ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ghostty-terminal-ubuntu-26-04-apt-install    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:03:54

• Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:04:25

• Linux Mint’s next release won’t be until Christmas 2026 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/linux-mint-next-release-christmas-2026    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:04:47

• Talos 1.13.0-rc0 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:05:43

• SmartOS 20260416 released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:05:55

• Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/beijing-codifies-repression-of-overseas-activists/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:06:29

• From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/from-stuxnet-to-operation-epic-fury-the-china-iran-intelligence-nexus/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:06:54

• Microsoft sponsored propaganda arm bases its "studies" on Microsoft data ☞ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/13/RedMonk_September_the_Month_of_the_Mouth_of_Redmond_Still.shtml    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:09:49

• Object Oriented Programming in Ada ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/object-oriented-programming-in-ada    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:10:20

• Zig 0.16.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1067634/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:10:49

• Emmanuel Kasper: Minix 3 on Beagle Board Black (ARM) ☞ https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/minix-3-on-beagle-board-black-arm/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:11:22

• As Bahrain Cracked Down Amid War, a Death in Custody Sparked Outrage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/world/middleeast/bahrain-mohammed-al-mousawi.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:11:50

• Exploring the blind spot of IXPs Route Servers ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/15/exploring-the-blind-spot-of-ixps-route-servers/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:12:10

• IBM Red Hat boosting slop, not Linux ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/deploying-agents-red-hat-ai-openclaw    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:13:30

• Spewing out slopaganda (slop propaganda) from Red Hat's official site ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/governance-lessons-red-hat-hybrid-cloud-console    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:14:33

• Adam Young: Fixing my virt Network ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2026/04/fixing-my-virt-network/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:16:14

• Google changes hit revenue at The Sun as losses grow to £53m ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/platform-algorithm-changes-hit-revenue-losses-at-the-sun/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:18:11

• ultra   

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:41:08

• You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld https://www.androidauthority.com/ayn-odin-3-linux-handheld-3658057/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:41:15

• "This release also updates the evdev-rs Rust wrapper around the C library libevdev with support for touch events, input event reporting, and other changes." https://9to5linux.com/canonical-releases-mir-2-26-with-initial-rust-implementation-of-wayland-frontend    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:41:36

• "Brings improvements to KDE Itinerary, Kate, NeoChat, Konsole, Okular, Alligator, KDE Connect, Kasts, Minuet, Konqueror, Elisa, and other KDE apps." https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-04-software-suite-is-out-with-many-improvements-for-kde-apps    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:41:58

• You can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect https://www.zdnet.com/article/try-new-linux-7-0-kernel-on-these-distributions/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:42:44

• Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone https://www.zdnet.com/article/zorin-os-18-1-release-is-best-linux-distro-for-anyone/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:44:01

• Zorin OS 18.1 Is Released https://blog.zorin.com/2026/04/15/zorin-os-18.1-is-released/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:44:15

• hardly unusual https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:45:38

• 5 Bash one-liners that keep me coming back to the Linux terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/bash-one-liners-that-keep-me-coming-back-to-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:46:05

• "This release improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Greeter, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Term, and other core components." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-0-10-desktop-environment-brings-small-tweaks-and-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:46:29

• "I bought a USB fingerprint reader for my Linux laptop from Temu because it was the only one I could find that I knew would work." https://tedium.co/2026/04/14/linux-external-fingerprint-reader-challenges/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:46:50

• Following the mindless hype and bubble https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/rocky-linux-expands-into-enterprise-ai-infrastructure-177705.html    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:47:33

• I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it https://www.makeuseof.com/i-was-avoiding-arch-linux-for-one-reason-and-this-tool-fixed-it/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:47:52

• "Quickemu is a command-line program that uses scripts to automate the process of downloading, setting up, and optimizing a virtual machine on your Linux or Mac device." https://www.howtogeek.com/get-windows-on-linux-in-minutes-with-these-two-commands/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:48:35

• Can this $70 Linux app make up for the lack of Photoshop? I tried it to find out https://www.zdnet.com/article/fogpanther-image-editor-linux-gimp-competitor/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:49:09

• Windows 11 vs CachyOS in gaming: Has Linux finally caught up to Windows? https://tech.sportskeeda.com/gaming-news/windows-11-vs-cachyos-gaming-has-linux-finally-caught-windows    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:50:08

• This Linux launcher replaced four habits I didn't question before https://www.makeuseof.com/i-replaced-my-linux-app-launcher-and-stopped-digging-through-menus/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:51:59

• How to make marketing share doubling seem like a loss https://games.gg/news/steam-survey-linux-windows-switch-data/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:56:07

• I installed Zorin OS on an old laptop, and now I get the hype https://www.makeuseof.com/i-installed-zorin-os-on-an-old-laptop-and-now-i-get-the-hype/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:56:28

• Fedora Linux 44 Update Gets Delayed to April 21 https://www.techpowerup.com/348220/fedora-linux-44-update-gets-delayed-to-april-21    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:57:09

• Slop OK, old code not? https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/new-linux-kernel-rules-put-the-onus-on-humans-for-ai-tool-usage/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:58:03

• Linux 7.0 lands with less drama than the number suggests https://fudzilla.com/linux-7-0-lands-with-less-drama-than-the-number-suggests/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:58:31

• "I've been obsessed with them for weeks and when i'm not listening myself, i'm looking up people's reactions on youtube. in fact, i enjoy them so much i've purposefully left some songs unheard and videos unseen for later." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/mugshot    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:16:53

• "Keeping track of tasks shouldn't require a complex system. Sometimes, a simple text file is all you need. That's where todo.txt and the todo CLI shine." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/staying-organized-with-todotxt-and-the-todo-cli/    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:17:39

• "I was meaning to use this place to post about non-gemini things, since all niche communities seem to have a tendency to only talk about themselves (see also: Esperantists incessantly bickering about Esperanto instead of discussing world affairs or their favourite coffee blends)." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-04-17.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:18:21

• "I'm at Target. It's the most packed Target I've ever seen, there are people everywhere and the line of registers seems to go on forever. There's also a large sprawling lawn outside, with people sitting and lounging, and even more lines and service counter carts outside." gemini://ieve.me/squall/18.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:20:14

• "No idea about the provenance of the PDF, so hopefully it doesn't have any security issues. Maybe there's a text only version somewhere?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/04/17/hind_swaraj.gmi    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:21:17

• "Yeah, I think some of the dislike of lawyers is because there are so many problems and inequities in the legal system. Lawyers are associated with maintaining that system which often produces unjust results that impact people in really personal, powerful ways." — legacy web search for "lawyers disliked"    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:21:43

• OpenAI Says Elon Musk is ‘Injecting Chaos’ With Recent Legal Maneuver - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/communityreviews/article.pl?sid=26/04/15/0214204#1440053 ䷉ Source: Soylent News | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//soylentnews.org/communityreviews/article.pl?sid=26/04/15/0214204#1440053    

posted Friday, April 17, 2026 at 19:23:01

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