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posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:27:02

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posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:27:07

  • "I take back my previous statement, _*today*_ I have truly become a linux user." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-07-16-awk-2.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:28:04

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posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:28:40

  • Goose gemini://jeffrey.cam/photos/goose/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:29:17

  • "Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the [Internet]" ☛ https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:31:42

  • "state-of-the-art geo-blocking" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/eus-top-court-geo-blocking-protects-publishers-in-copyright-disputes-vpns-not-liable/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:31:54

  • [Old] "Exceptions include ‘Mac’, ‘TV’, ‘Vision’" ☛ https://kafsemo.org/2025/09/08_trade-markov-chain.html |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:33:14

  • "This case has the potential to upend software distribution on Android, and it’s all because of V-Bucks." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/third-party-app-stores-coming-to-google-play-next-week-as-epic-settlement-withdrawn/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:33:44

  • "The AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta, filed the complaint in the Northern District of California." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/12-states-sue-to-block-paramount-warner-bros-merger-under-antitrust-claims/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:34:22

  • "Microsoft still does not allow users to download, set as the default, or keep using alternative browsers without harmful interference." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/dark-patterns-in-windows-are-steering-users-to-edge-mozilla-commissioned-report/5271792 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:40:51

  • "But there’s still a way to stop this. California Attorney General Rob Bonta yesterday led a coalition of 12 state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit challenging the giant merger." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/hope-for-stopping-the-biggest-pro | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:41:04

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://kedara.eu/oldest-thing-you-own/ | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:41:41

  • "What’s going on, Internet? Olly wants a physical-digital music experience: browse the racks at your local record store" ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/re-we-need-a-physical-digital-music-experience/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:42:07

  • "Information about Guerrero’s killing is still sparse. He was first identified in a statement by Maine Senator Angus King, but has not been identified by ICE." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-killings-maine-houston-minor-policy-change-1235593459/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:42:47

  • "The best time for tech workers to unionize was 20 years ago, when they had plenty of leverage. The second-best time is now, when they don’t." ☛ https://www.computerworld.com/article/4192438/how-to-unionize-your-tech-workplace.html | Source: Computer World    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:42:59

  • "A lawyer's letter on behalf of the women-only support centre demanded the report was permanently withdrawn." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9l9dg5k8ko | Source: BBC    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:51:31

  • "That's 78 percent of the maximum unemployment benefit." ☛ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/071426_homeless_to_do_op/what-do-if-youre-homeless-make-right-calls-show-persistence/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:51:48

  • "It has now demanded a public letter of apology, to be posted to the front page of the Amnesty website, as well as an undertaking that the allegations will not be repeated." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/jk-rowlings-rape-support-centre-threatens-court-action-against-amnesty-8800618 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:52:01

  • "In fact, Salgado Araujo had stopped the van before the officers fired their weapons into it." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-keeps-killing-immigrants-in-cars-it-claims-were-weaponized-against-agents/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:52:14

  • "As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-2020-election-georgia-fulton-artificial-intelligence-fbi | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:52:38

  • "It’s a distressing situation. It’s also not exceptional." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/07/unemployment-mental-health-blame-safety-net | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:53:12

  • "We may never know exactly what happened to Guerrero or Araujo because, as with Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, ICE’s accounts of both killings have been contradicted by eyewitnesses." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-people-vs-trumps-police-state | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:53:44

  • "seizure of my devices was a clear act of intimidation" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/journalist-recounts-how-border-agents-targeted-him-over-coverage-of-ayatollahs-funeral/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:54:23

  • "Nigerian authorities have already subjected Stanley Ugagbe to secret detention." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/07/nigeria-jails-journalist-for-2-months-pending-trial-over-corruption-reporting/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:54:42

  • Limiting negative dentries [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1079407/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1079407/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 06:58:51

  • Two LLM-assisted memory-management patch sets https://lwn.net/Articles/1080162/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:01:45

  • "Gleb Viktorov, the frontman of the rock band Tri Dnya Dozhdya (“Three Days of Rain”)" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/14/a-russian-band-s-frontman-denounced-the-war-in-ukraine-onstage-in-yekaterinburg-his-management-says-the-speech-was-the-raving-of-a-drugged-man-and-that-he-s-now-hospitalized | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:02:25

  • "A chilling encounter like this might dissuade even the most dogged critic from speaking their mind." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/america-is-failing-its-own-free-speech | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:02:36

  • "Tomorrow, Marco Rubio will open a summit unveiling a new designation branding his political opponents as terrorists, documents leaked to me reveal." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-rubios-wmd-scandal-is-far-left | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:03:33

  • "To be clear, Trump is not fighting leaks so much as trying to criminalize causing embarrassment." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/07/15/trump-cant-stop-white-house-leaks-so-hes-coming-for-journalists/ | Source: Salon    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:04:10

  • "But the premiere never happened." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/495507/modi-india-censorship-cinema-satluj-hollywood | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:04:22

  • "This needs to be repeated, because it’s almost impossible to comprehend the sheer audacity of the corruption." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/14/federal-judge-nukes-trumps-self-dealt-irs-settlement-sends-lawyers-to-the-bar/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:10:07

  • "Having watched the video myself, it's clear that the animal approaches the group" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/these-wildlife-photographers-broke-the-rules-and-letting-them-off-sets-a-dangerous-precedent-for-animal-welfare-but-do-you-agree | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:11:45

  • "Birding has historically been the domain of the AARP crowd, but in the World Series, young people have an edge." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/07/birding-millennials-genz/687910/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:11:57

  • "Lorris Chevalier explores the practical techniques that helped mariners navigate the waters of northern Europe during the Middle Ages." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/07/how-medieval-sailors-measured-time-and-distance-at-sea/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:13:48

  • "First, a few given facts: [...]" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/07/is-it-worth-it-to-buy-a-plugin-home-battery/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:13:57

  • "Google is building an AI data center in West Memphis, Arkansas, across the Mississippi River from Memphis." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/07/google-solar-arkansas/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:14:07

  • 2026 FIFA World Cup: France, Not Spain https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/16/france-not-spain/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:20:57

  • "What makes the situation very worrying is that it is occurring despite spring rainfall having been broadly within the normal range" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260715-france-in-very-worrying-"I’m getting rid of my bare metal rental in favor of a vps and wireguard. My mail server is likely broken right now, but xmpp and gemini should be okay. The public git repos should also still be hosted via https." gemini://thatit.be/2026-07-15-23-04-33.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 18:27:45

  • "Recently, I discovered a list of open source software tainted by LLM/AI use. It lists those that allow the use of AI-assisted development and suggests alternatives to them." gemini://nader.pm/ai-assisted-development-vs-feature-bloat/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 18:28:23

  • "I just released my first git tag release v0.1.0-ALPHA on Codeberg.org, but I already had to make some bugfixes so the recent version is v0.1.4-dev and you should use the most recent git commit." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-07-16-esp32-gemserv_Update_-_A_first_tag_release_and_already_some_bugfixes.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 18:29:11

  • "AI already accounts for between 15 and 20 percent of electricity consumption at data centers, and this share could climb to 40 percent by 2030, the report said." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260714-ny-pauses-new-large-data-center-projects-for-one-year | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:22:26

  • "After weeks of residents appearing before the Jackson City Council to voice concerns and warnings about the effects of data center construction" ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/nobody-wants-this-jackson-pumps-the-brakes-on-data-centers-for-6-months-amid-local-opposition/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:22:40

  • "Saline Township had been bound by a court order to approve a 12-year, 50% tax break for “The Barn,” a 250-acre project developed by The Related Cos. for Oracle and its customer, OpenAI." ☛ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/massive-data-center-wins-local-tax-break-but-9-times-smaller-than-requested/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:22:54

  • "Hamilton won't be imposing a temporary ban on the development of data centres, council has decided." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/data-centre-ban-voted-down-9.7271641 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:23:17

  • "The Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer USS Sampson was at the Vigor Shipyard on Harbor Island in Seattle, Washington" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/07/15/uss-sampson-spills-roughly-2000-gallons-of-diesel-fuel-into-seattle-harbor/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:23:37

  • "As acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces lawmakers this week, survivors of Epstein's abuse are among those pushing to stop his confirmation, and Bensky is scheduled to be a witness for the Democrats." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5850397 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:27:59

  • "The nonprofit watchdog Sludge connected that group to Jefferies Murray, a corporate lobbyist whose firm represents Facebook parent company Meta and other high-profile clients" ☛ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-where-does-barack-obama-stand-on-michigans-senate-race/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:28:08

  • "Millions of people will take to the roads this holiday season" ☛ https://theconversation.com/dont-change-lanes-the-maths-of-holiday-traffic-jams-287389 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:36:02

  • "It is very clear that we need age-appropriate restrictions to platforms" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/eu-commission-announces-age-based-restrictions-for-minors-across-social-media-platforms/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:38:18

  • "Children's wellbeing – on and offline – is a cause close to the President's heart." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_26_1630 | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:38:35

  • "new measures on Child Safety Online" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/child-safety-online-eu-weighs-social-media-age/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:39:18

  • "Under the plan, aimed at reducing online harms, certain apps would be blocked by default from midnight to 6am." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2026/jul/15/social-media-curfew-for-teens-is-it-pointless-the-latest | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:39:31

  • "This is false." ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/were-we-lied-to-about-skilled-migration/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:41:12

  • "replacing the kinds of human interactions" ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-133066 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:41:19

  • Cyberattack ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/russia-cyberattack-linked-to-fsb/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:41:37

  • "Trump regime is becoming a shareholder or profit-sharer " ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-state-socialism | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 07:41:44

  • Confidentiality ☛ https://www.tomica.net/blog/2026/07/tls-certificate-validation-on-linux/ | Source: Ivan Tomica    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:13:46

  • "To verify their gender when booking through Bolt's app, passengers must submit a selfie along with a photo of their passport or identity document" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20236445 | Source: Yle    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:14:06

  • "The ID is generated when Windows is set up with a Microsoft Account, persists through Windows updates, and cannot be disabled without affecting Windows activation and Microsoft Store apps." ☛ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-gdid-device-identifier-that-cannot-be-disabled-documented-in-fbi-case-filing/ | Source: Ghacks    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:14:17

  • "The bill passed the House, 267-117. It now heads to the Senate, where its fate remains uncertain. But this fight is not over." ☛ https://www.eff.org/effector/38/13 | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:14:28

  • "The transformation element and the poster design appear to reference the politically charged sci-fi film They Live (1988)" ☛ https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/ | Source: HyperAllergic    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:14:43

  • "Billionaires could fund cures for cancer -- so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/today-in-hoffman-lenses-5/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:19:59

  • "Modern smartphones are harder to compromise than ever." ☛ https://www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyberstalkers-exploiting-chrome-sync-to-spy/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:20:10

  • "Cyberstalkers are increasingly exploiting a feature in Google Chrome meant for mobile phone user convenience, but can give intruders broad access to a device owner’s private information, according to researchers." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/google-chrome-sync-cyberstalking-exploit/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:20:18

  • "According to WIRED’s analysis of the Meta AI app, code for NameTag appeared in the app as early as January." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:20:29

  • "WhatsApp safety splits into three layers: The message content, the metadata around it, and your account and device" ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/is-whatsapp-safe/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:21:03

  • "My story is about the Swiss governmental login system AGOV." ☛ https://gendignoux.com/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:21:33

  • "A ransomware group has published thousands of files allegedly linked to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/national/news/kudankulam-nuclear-plant-data-breach-leaked-files-leak-investigation-138449309.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:22:00

  • "The designations hit 1VPNS, its alleged Ukrainian administrator and a Belarusian who allegedly sold “cryptors” to disguise ransomware and other malware." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/us-sanctions-first-vpn-ransomware/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:22:12

  • "The action, coordinated with the United Kingdom, is part of broader efforts to disrupt the cybercrime ecosystem supporting ransomware operations." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-sanctions-target-vpn/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:22:25

  • "Your “Bluesky account” is not just a Bluesky account: it is an account that can be used with a variety of other applications." ☛ https://steveklabnik.com/writing/too-many-words-about-dids/ | Source: Steve Klabnik    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:23:29

  • "The government is also reviewing responses from WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal regarding their username features, which have raised concerns about online fraud and impersonation." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/india-government-reviews-meta-instagram-csam-ads-response-138439546.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:23:37

  • "As I prepare to tie up the loose ends and call my side of the work “feature complete” and consider tagging a major version 1.0.0 for the specification and reference implementations" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/07/15/the-long-tail-of-work-left-until-activitypub-has-e2ee/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:23:50

  • "And yet, this is extremely scary. The reason to be afraid is not that I think the war is going to come to America." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-forever-war-gets-scary | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:32:57

  • [Old] "Here's an attempt to answer questions I get about why I don't use AI, and any more I could think of that may also arise." ☛ https://dead.garden/blog/why-i-dont-use-ai.html | Source: Johanna-Mathilda Langenhan    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:33:13

  • "This is not flow. This is the opposite of flow. Let me walk through why." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/07/15/how-ai-kills-flow | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:33:27

  • "After 15 minutes of confusion, it turned out Cloudflare had put a crazy robots.txt on my site without my consent (Cloudflare, love you guys, but this needs to stop)." ☛ https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:33:52

  • "I’m increasingly tempted to become obnoxiously strident about the ubiquitous use of “tool” to describe contemporary technologies" ☛ https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/your-ai-is-not-a-tool |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:34:11

  • "The National Police Chiefs’ Council says: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/14/uk-police-will-run-evidence-through-the-ai-its-quicker/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:34:28

  • "On top of that, our students (who have been paying higher and higher tuition fees) have had to do the same." ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/07/humiliationx15/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:34:49

  • "We should therefore delegate to AI agents tasks that are bounded, observable, reversible, and supported by objective checks." ☛ https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20260715/ | Source: Diomidis Spinellis    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:34:59

  • "Everyday creativity is aggressively regressing to a mean. What is driving us towards these tools? is it fear of making something bad?" ☛ https://hugodaniel.com/posts/the-end-of-creativity/ | Source: Hugo Daniel    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:35:13

  • "On lore.kernel.org, the archive for Linux kernel mailing lists, reformed potty mouth Linus was responding to a discussion about some negative sentiments toward AI" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:35:23

  • "It’s fine that people talk to chatbots, but they should not expect me to listen to theirs. When I want to talk to a chatbot, I have plenty of my own." ☛ https://raymyers.org/post/dont-make-me-talk-to-your-chatbot/ | Source: Ray Myers    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:35:33

  • "The app will charge fees: a message of up to 200 characters costs just over three rubles; a letter of up to 2,500 characters costs 35 rubles." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/15/want-to-message-someone-in-a-russian-prison-there-s-now-an-app-for-that-it-costs-about-three-rubles-per-text-once-the-censor-signs-off | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:36:06

  • "These days, a lot of things want you to have a (user) D-Bus session bus (to go with the system-wide one), which will listen for connections on some socket (the bus address)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdAndUserDBusSessionBus | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:36:26

  • "When we first started hearing leaks of a new MacBook Pro design coming in 2026, it felt early. The 2021 design was still three years fresh." ☛ https://www.dgriffinjones.com/extraordinary/what-if-were-wrong-about-the-macbook-ultra.html | Source: D Griffin Jones    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:36:44

  • "While icons on iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) have always been rounded squares" ☛ https://parakeet.co/blog/the-shape-of-apps/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:37:02

  • "The monthly exponential rise in Microsoft vulnerabilities already puts the vendor on pace to break a full-year record" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-july-2026/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:37:15

  • "In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 7, which gave the Legislature the authority to impose year-round daylight saving time — but only if the federal government allowed states to do so." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-14/permanent-daylight-saving-time-is-on-table-would-california-scrap | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:37:38

  • "As someone who values autonomy, freedom and self determination for all people as innate human rights" ☛ https://louplummer.lol/one-third-of-our-lives/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:37:48

  • "we had passed something like that once before. Then the House hit the snooze alarm on it, [so] we’ll see what happens when it gets here." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/15/2026/daylight-saving-bill-hits-wall-in-senate | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:37:57

  • "A few weeks ago I decided to be bold and put out there that I had itches I wanted to scratch." ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/codebar-podcast/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:38:45

  • "Matt asked me a question recently about the end of my People and Blogs run." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-planting-seeds | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:39:06

  • "Let me talk about his most famous work, the Chernoff Bounds themselves." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/herman-chernoff-1923-2026.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:39:44

  • "The Fourier series is a great tool for analyzing periodic functions. But what about functions that don’t repeat?" ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/notes-on-the-fourier-transform/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:39:55

  • "Here is our conversation, edited for clarity, brevity, and simplicity’s sake." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:42:20

  • "I only wish I hadn't waited so long. The hardest part wasn't technical, it was tedious. And I can't shake the feeling that the tedium was totally by design." ☛ https://tarakiyee.com/an-afternoon-of-tedium-as-an-exit-tax/ | Source: Tara Tarakiyee    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:42:29

  • "You can copy the code in seconds, the rest you would need to rebuild from scratch in most cases. The people invoking the right to fork already know this." ☛ https://tarakiyee.com/fork-it-or-walk-away/ | Source: Tara Tarakiyee    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:42:38

  • "Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy and love, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness." ☛ https://www.ssp.sh/blog/on-creation/ | Source: Simon Späti    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:42:49

  • "Keep on blogging, even if it sometimes ends up blank." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/blank-blogging-counts/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:43:18

  • "I started this “blog-series” to force myself to write more about my set up, and my continuous iterations. But it didn’t happen… until today! This post has been a long time coming, and I have kept the ideas in my head and notes." ☛ https://timharek.no/blog/kaizen-4/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:44:15

  • "Most people now run a small personal technology environment without calling it that. Passwords, backups, devices, domains, cloud storage, and recovery plans all need some basic ownership before something breaks." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/your-personal-tech-stack-needs-an-admin-even-if-that-admin-is-you/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:44:25

  • "The standard OpenVINO deployment practices still apply. Convert the model when load latency matters, compile for the target device, cache compiled artefacts, and package the runtime explicitly." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/run-ultralytics-yolo-on-raspberry-pi-with-openvino/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:44:34

  • "In many cases, only the graphical interface has failed." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/linux-desktop-startup-recovery-guide/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 08:44:49

  • "I play competitive FPS games, so low latency, consistent frame times and high FPS matter to me." ☛ https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:18:00

  • [Old] "I first heard about Plan 9 on sdf.org, the Public Access UNIX system I've been a basic member of for a few years" ☛ https://dead.garden/blog/one-week-of-using-plan-9.html | Source: Johanna-Mathilda Langenhan    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:18:21

  • "Teaching others about FreeBSD and helping it grow doesn’t require a developer background" ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/represent-freebsd-in-your-community/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:18:40

  • "But then, Kubuntu 26.04 got released. I actually liked it quite some." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-24-04-nice.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:19:14

  • "It'll make life so much better" ☛ https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-512/ | Source: Troy Hunt    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:19:34

  • "In January 2026, Pebble Round 2 was announced." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/cancelled-my-pebble-round-2-pre-order/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:20:02

  • "He provides a cutout diagram for pieces that" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/cut-and-fold-your-3d-printers-next-cover/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:20:08

  • "While looking around for a "Safe-Toy" alternative, we found a number of projects attempting to bring comparable ease of use to a GRUB multi-boot system on a similar removable drive." ☛ https://codeberg.org/aol/trusty-boot-key | Source: Codeberg    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:23:44

  • "Two weeks ago I wrote that CIDER 2.0 was brewing. Today the brew is ready - CIDER 2.0 (“Terceira”) is officially out!" ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/15/cider-2-0.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:23:55

  • "Draw-what now?" ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/14/lowering-the-drawbridge.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:24:04

  • "Let me take you on a journey through the different kinds of analytics tools I’ve used: [...]" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/07/15/no-stats/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:24:27

  • "The new report, Over The Edge 2.0: Do Microsoft’s Design Tactics Still Compromise Free Browser Choice?" ☛ https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/over-the-edge-2/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:24:41

  • "How does the database decide on the order, when it is not specified? Does it matter and when?" ☛ https://binaryigor.com/the-order-of-data.html | Source: Igor Roztropiński    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:24:58

  • "put AI everywhere to the point..." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/giving-up-on-an-audience | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:25:33

  • "This year, LRC is looking at the past as an inspiration for the future." ☛ https://lrc.cs.dartmouth.edu/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:26:07

  • "What matters is the kind of sovereignty being pursued" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/hisham_ibrahim/many-sovereignties-one-internet/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:26:25

  • "The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system." ☛ https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free | Source: Phoronix    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:26:41

  • "Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them." ☛ https://blog.omgmog.net/post/most-popular-numbers-in-hn-post-titles/ | Source: Max Glenister    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:26:59

  • "Insta is extracted from Herb’s test suite" ☛ https://marcoroth.dev/posts/introducing-insta-snapshot-testing-for-ruby | Source: Marco Roth    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:27:16

  • "If you ever get your project to build, you may someday want others to see it." ☛ https://raymyers.org/post/cpp-worse-every-year/ | Source: Ray Myers    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:27:45

  • "CSS is not a very good programming language." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/doom-runs-slowly-in-a-ibm-pc-compatible-css-sheet/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:27:57

  • "A working secrets-management baseline for side projects: keep credentials out of Git, scope production access, scan before pushing, and respond correctly when a key leaks." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-power-user-and-small-team-part-3-secrets-management-101-for-side-projects/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:28:06

  • "which leads to the other weird thing about null. the idea of pointer types in most languages is that a pointer could have any value, except for one, that being the null pointer." ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20260715-null.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:28:17

  • [Old] "In this post, you’ll learn how to build a lightweight Hindley–Milner type checker in Haskell. No advanced theory is required." ☛ https://www.andrevdm.com/posts/2025-05-29-simple-hm-in-practice.html |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:28:28

  • [Old] "Loop analysis is a key component of static analysis tools. Unfortunately, there are several rare edge cases. As a tool moves from academic prototype to production-ready, obscure cases can and do occur." ☛ https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/33426/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:28:42

  • "Here’s a small piece of syntactic sugar from C++20." ☛ https://lzon.ca/posts/tips/cpp-for-range-init/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:28:52

  • "One of the fun things about being a programmer is that as I look more into systems that I didn’t know much about, what superficially appears to be a simple system actually reveals interesting facets of underlying complexity." ☛ https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html | Source: Varun Gandhi    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:29:04

  • "One design choice in C that now feels outdated—and arguably one of its biggest mistakes—is the use of null-terminated strings. " ☛ https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:29:16

  • "In my previous article I introduced Podlite as a block-based markup language." ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/three-ways-to-write-a-table-in-podlite/ | Source: Perl    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:29:31

  • "Using proteomics, we often want to compare two experimental groups." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/eruption-announcing-new-r-package-volcanoplotr/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:29:50

  • "Goodness that’s a lot of stuff!" ☛ https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/a-modern-http-request/ |    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 09:30:06

  • "Medieval tournaments may have looked like chaotic contests, but by the fifteenth century they were governed by increasingly detailed rules." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/07/the-rules-medieval-tournament/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:52:31

  • "I read Joel's post today about how he keeps track of his gaming." ☛ https://www.jamesleighton.com/gaming-diary/ | Source: James Leighton    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:52:44

  • "Decided to share the different ways I use to track my playtime on different platforms, including a surprise, an awesome tracker for the PSP!" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-i-keep-track-of-my-gaming/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:53:00

  • "The RP2354B combines dual 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores with dual Hazard3 RISC-V cores." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/clintech-pico-board-exposes-all-48-rp2354b-gpios-in-pico-compatible-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:53:36

  • Thief: Gold enters the GOG Preservation Program after the first community vote | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/thief-gold-enters-the-gog-preservation-program-after-the-first-community-vote/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:54:27

  • Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:54:44

  • GOG throws shade at Sony with "download it and save it forever" message | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-throws-shade-at-sony-with-download-it-and-save-it-forever-message/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-throws-shade-at-sony-with-download-it-and-save-it-forever-message/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:55:42

  • How to Install ReactJS on Ubuntu 26.04 | LinuxCloudVPS Blog ⚓ https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-reactjs-on-ubuntu-26-04/ ䷉ Source: Linux Cloud VPS | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-reactjs-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:56:27

  • IBM Red Hat is promoting slop, a pyramid scheme: "Smallest, fastest, limited reasoning" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/demystifying-agentic-ai-how-build-production-ready-aiops-open-source-models | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:57:08

  • Slop all day long from IBM Red Hat, a foundering company ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/physical-ai-physical-operations-are-broken-new-kind-intelligence-needed | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:57:33

  • "edge" buzzword ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/two-node-openshift-fencing-improves-reliability-edge | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:57:44

  • Red Hat infatuated with slop because IBM is desperate to fake novelty ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/moving-poc-production-delivering-real-business-value-red-hat-ai-34 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:58:18

  • You're the crew of the world's worst airline in Dear Passengers and it looks hilarious | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/youre-the-crew-of-the-worlds-worst-airline-in-dear-passengers-and-it-looks-hilarious/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:58:55

  • Get some fun co-op games with the Squad Goals Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-fun-co-op-games-with-the-squad-goals-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 14:59:24

  • It looks like iFixit won't be getting any more Steam Deck LCD spare parts | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/it-looks-like-ifixit-wont-be-getting-any-more-steam-deck-lcd-spare-parts/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:02:02

  • Valve adds a "Great on Machine" section to the Steam Machine library | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-adds-a-great-on-machine-section-to-the-steam-machine-library/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:02:08

  • "Rödflaggning – ett straff utan rättslig prövning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/15/rodflaggning-ett-straff-utan-rattslig-provning/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:02:26

  • "The unfireable mayor behind Texas' WORST data center" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/the-unfireable-mayor-behind-texas'-worst:6b    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:02:44

  • "The unfireable mayor behind Texas' WORST data center" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/the-unfireable-mayor-behind-texas'-worst:6    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:02:57

  • "WeRecoverData wiped from archive.org after threatening me with litigation: SHOULD I COUNTERSUE???" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/werecoverdata-wiped-from-archive.org:5    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:07:52

  • "Trump relished in being compared to dictators like Hitler and Stalin, journalist says" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5893633    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:08:08

  • "Chat Control wins in Europe: you don't hate your government enough" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/chat-control-wins-in-europe-you-don't:9    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:08:19

  • [paywall] "The Government Tried to Cancel Colleges’ Grants. Now It’s Rewriting the Rules for Awarding Them." https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-government-tried-to-cancel-colleges-grants-now-its-rewriting-the-rules-for-awarding-them    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:08:42

  • BS about slop https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-aoc-ai-regulation/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:08:57

  • iophk: I guess Linus remains broken, after what was done to him years ago https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:09:10

  • Torvalds: slop is 90% hype. Slop companies: let's bribe Torvalds' employers. Money changes hands. Torvalds: no more criticism of slop is allowed. Same with the media. Follow the money. The pyramid scheme is compromising critics.    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:11:50

  • Oracle 10.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/oracle    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:14:37

  • Hack|Track 2026.1-rc22 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/hacktrack    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:14:48

  • OSINT VM 2026.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/osintvm    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:14:56

  • How to Configure Networking with Netplan on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-configure-networking-with-netplan-on-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:21:40

  • How to Install Mattermost on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-mattermost-on-almalinux-10/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:21:58

  • Radka Janek: My handheld gaming experience in 2026 (Fedora GNU/Linux + Niri) ☞ https://rhea.dev/articles/2026-07/fedora-handheld-gaming    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:25:06

  • Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083044/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:26:02

  • Eruption: announcing new R package VolcanoPlotR ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/eruption-announcing-new-r-package-volcanoplotr/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:28:35

  • Russell Coker: libproc-processtable-perl in Debian ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/15/processtable-perl-debian/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 15:28:52

  • iophk on Torvalds: he is very well aware of what he can and cannot say; too bad his employer is against Linux specifically in general against FOSS and they burn their money on anything and everything _*except*_ Linux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:21:46

  • Shoebox Garrett speaking of "trans-reactionary" blahblah is just a distraction from how he is treating his trans spouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary_feminism he would be wiser to just keep silent about such topics http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:28:42

  • Parasites Are Surging in The US. Here's Exactly How to Wash Your Produce ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/parasites-are-causing-explosive-diarrhea-to-surge-heres-how-to-avoid-the-worst-ones    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:29:38

  • Docker Compose Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/docker-compose/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:30:10

  • Represent FreeBSD in Your Community ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/represent-freebsd-in-your-community/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:30:47

  • Daily Mail and Metro to pay ‘substantial’ libel damages to Loose Women panellist and husband ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/daily-mail-and-metro-to-pay-substantial-libel-damages-nadia-sawalha-mark-adderley/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:32:20

  • Inflation fell in June as Iran war receded. Now, it might roar back. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0715/inflation-iran-war-oil-hormuz    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:32:38

  • "The Xbox Bloodbath Is Actually Way Bigger Than It Seems" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6BT00QDFQ    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 16:37:46

  • GNU/Linux has gone up some more today https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 17:04:00

  • Aruba: GNU/Linux @ 7% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/aruba/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 17:10:12

  • Bangladesh also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 17:11:33

  • GNU/Linux at 6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/papua-new-guinea/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 17:51:41

  • Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey. (And Check Out Its Orange Lips.) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/science/meet-earths-newest-monkey-and-check-out-its-orange-lips.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:35:59

  • Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/science/archaeology-homer-odyssey-ithaca.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:36:10

  • Terrifying Video Shows Locomotive Engulfed in Wildfire Flames ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/terrifying-video-locomotive-wildfire-flames    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:36:33

  • CDC nominee says she won’t betray science — while declining to challenge Kennedy’s actions ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2026/07/senate-committee-reviews-erica-schwartzs-nomination-to-take-over-beleaguered-cdc/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:36:50

  • Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/evidence-grows-taco-bell-explosive-diarrhea    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:37:00

  • Military to screen older troops for low testosterone ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/07/military-to-screen-older-troops-for-low-testosterone/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:37:11

  • S.Korean scientist behind global stem cell scandal stripped of top honour after 22 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-scientist-behind-global-stem-cell-scandal-stripped-of-top-honour-after-22-years    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:37:22

  • Malaysia to deport any Israeli involved in tech commune in Forest City as probe continues: Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-deport-any-israeli-involved-in-tech-commune-in-forest-city-as-probe-continues-anwar    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:37:57

  • Techno-utopia or foreign enclave? Claims of Israeli citizens at Network School rock Johor’s Forest City ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/techno-utopia-or-foreign-enclave-israeli-citizen-claims-rock-network-school-in-johors-forest-city    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:38:18

  • U.S. Presses China to Free American Seismologist Accused of Spying ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/asia/china-seismologist-north-korea-nuclear.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:38:38

  • China turns to electric taxis to soften Hormuz oil shock ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-turns-to-electric-taxis-to-soften-hormuz-oil-shock    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:38:58

  • China’s economy slows, exposing widening divide between exports and domestic demand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-economy-slows-exposing-widening-divide-between-exports-and-domestic-demand    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:39:13

  • Too many durians, not enough buyers: Malaysia eyes new China land route to clear record supply glut ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-eyes-china-land-route-for-durians-as-supply-glut-deepens    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:39:33

  • China’s sanctions on Philippine defense chief put Japan ties in spotlight ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/07/14/philippines-teodoro-china-sanctions-japan/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:40:25

  • China’s economic growth hits slowest pace in more than three years ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/chinas-economic-growth-hits-slowest-pace-in-more-than-three-years/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:40:44

  • People globally view China's Pooh-tin more favourably than The Insurrectionist, Pew poll finds ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260715-people-globally-view-china-s-xi-more-favourably-than-donald-trump-pew-poll-finds    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:41:37

  • Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cursor-ignores-critical-flaw/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:42:00

  • Keeping cool at work, Tokyo style: Shorts, sneakers and no ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/keeping-cool-tokyo-style-shorts-sneakers-and-no-ties    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:42:50

  • First-party data mastery: Tips for publishers from Norway’s Schibsted Media ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/first-party-data-tips-for-publishers/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:43:30

  • Cutting Edge Group Acquires Music Rights and Royalties of ‘Fast and Furious’ and ‘Yellowstone’ Composer Brian Tyler ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/15/cutting-edge-group-music-rights-brian-tyler/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:44:03

  • SELinux Userspace Utilities: Local Denial-of-Service Attack Vectors in seunshare in release 3.10 ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/07/15/selinux-seunshare.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:45:57

  • Can California Actually Make Billionaires Pay? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/can-california-actually-make-billionaires-pay    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:46:49

  • Local DoS attack vectors in seunshare 3.10 (SUSE Security Team Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083076/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:47:11

  • Gathering all my thoughts about “AI” ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/gathering-all-my-thoughts-about-ai/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:47:57

  • FreeBSD 16 Cleans House: No GPL Left in the Base System ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/freebsd-16-cleans-house-no-gpl-left-in-the-base-system/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:48:56

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 660 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/07/15/this-week-in-rust-660/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:49:27

  • Bigme Hibreak Dual 2 – An Android 16 smartphone with 6.13-inch 80fps E-Ink and 5-inch LCD display (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/15/bigme-hibreak-dual-2-an-android-16-smartphone-with-6-13-inch-80fps-e-ink-and-5-inch-lcd-display/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:50:09

  • Run Claude Code locally with vLLM and OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/15/run-claude-code-locally-vllm-and-openshift-ai    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:51:09

  • Suno Is Now Serving Up TikTok-Trendy Text-to-Song On iMessage — But Is Fashion Company Apple Making a Serious Mistake Here? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/15/suno-text-to-song-imessage/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 19:51:57

  • Gum Disease Improved With Just 6 Weeks of Taking Bacteria-Loaded Gummies ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gummies-packed-with-beneficial-bacteria-can-reduce-gum-bleeding-in-just-6-weeks-trial-finds    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:09:03

  • Rare Autopsy Finds Alzheimer's Drugs Only Work in Some Parts of The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-brain-autopsy-hints-at-why-alzheimers-drugs-are-failing    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:09:11

  • Could The Keto Diet Be Fueling Cancer? New Study Challenges Popular Theory ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/could-the-keto-diet-be-fueling-cancer-new-study-challenges-popular-theory    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:09:20

  • World's Oldest Amber Comes From a World 150 Million Years Before Dinosaurs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest-amber-comes-from-a-world-150-million-years-before-dinosaurs    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:10:05

  • An Entirely New Monkey Species Has Been Hiding in The Congo Rainforest ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-entirely-new-species-of-monkey-has-been-living-in-the-congo-rainforest-this-whole-time    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:10:16

  • Sugar-Coated Nanoparticles Shrink Deadly Brain Tumors in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-shrink-deadly-brain-tumors-in-mice    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:10:27

  • Backlash after Hong Kong police tells SPCA it will seek removal of Guangdong dog abuse videos from internet ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/16/backlash-after-hong-kong-police-tells-spca-it-will-seek-removal-of-guangdong-dog-abuse-videos-from-internet/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:14:39

  • Australia to Impose Energy and Water Guardrails on Data Centers Amid Hey Hi (AI) Boom ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:14:57

  • Europe Wants to Break Free From American and Chinese Technology. But How? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:15:22

  • We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely Hey Hi (AI) Version of “The Odyssey” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/odyssey-film-ai-slop    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:17:50

  • Robotics, not slop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nyc-replaces-nurses-with-ai    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:18:11

  • Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major Hey Hi (AI) Job Losses Are Coming ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-warning-ai-job-losses    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:18:25

  • Malaysia says residents at tech commune in Forest City have valid travel documents ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-says-residents-at-tech-commune-run-by-ex-coinbase-exec-have-valid-travel-documents    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:18:51

  • Mahmoud Khalil sues Convicted Felon officials and private groups over alleged deportation conspiracy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/mahmoud-khalil-sues-trump-officials-and-private-groups-over-alleged-deportation-conspiracy/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:19:10

  • Anthropic Goes ‘Mano-a-Mano’ Against Music Industry Power Attorney Donald Passman ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-pisses-off-music-industry-attorney-donald-passman/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:19:37

  • Federal Court Enters $3.2 Million Default Judgment Against Triller in Merlin Missing-Payments Suit — With Nearly $700,000 In Accumulated Interest ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/15/merlin-triller-lawsuit-default-judgment/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:20:13

  • Hong Kong Police Raid Independent Bookstores and Arrest 5 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstore-arrest-china.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:20:36

  • Our Top Editor on Subpoenas of Times Journalists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/insider/100000011030047/our-top-editor-on-subpoenas-of-times-journalists.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:20:56

  • New Zealand detects first H5N1 bird flu case, starts vaccination of endangered species ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-zealand-detects-first-h5n1-bird-flu-case-starts-vaccination-of-endangered-species    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:21:20

  • Hong Kong national security laws need constant improvement to close loopholes, ex-Beijing official says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/hong-kong-national-security-laws-need-constant-improvement-to-close-loopholes-ex-beijing-official-says/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:22:19

  • Hong Kong national security police raid 2 independent bookstores, arrest 5 for alleged sedition ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/breaking-hong-kong-police-raid-2-independent-bookstores-arrest-5-for-alleged-sedition-local-media-reports/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:22:39

  • Progress Confirms Zero-Day Vulnerability Behind ShareFile Disruption ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/progress-confirms-zero-day-vulnerability-behind-sharefile-disruption/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:28:50

  • Vulnerabilities Patched by Fortinet, Ivanti, ServiceNow ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-patched-by-fortinet-ivanti-servicenow/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:29:10

  • CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-urges-immediate-patching-of-exploited-sharepoint-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:30:32

  • Unpatched Cursor Vulnerability Exposes Users to Code Execution ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-cursor-vulnerability-exposes-users-to-code-execution/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:30:52

  • EU and India strengthen strategic partnership with third Trade and Technology Council ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1627    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:31:42

  • Many old shim versions are still accepted by secure boot ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1082940/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:32:48

  • Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Python 3.14 as default transition, DebConf 26 preparations, debvm, pconr and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-06-2026/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:33:18

  • OpnForm – no-code form builder ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/opnform-no-code-form-builder/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:38:56

  • Xbox laid off hundreds of people in a call that lasted only 60 seconds https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/16/xbox-laid-off-hundreds-people-a-call-lasted-60-seconds-29151357/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:43:00

  • DOOM Creator Criticizes Microsoft https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/07/16/423818-sozdatel-doom-raskritikoval-microsoft.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:43:37

  • "Microsoft laid off 136 out of 185 id Software employees, and an anonymous developer from the studio accused the company of destroying value built over years."    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:43:55

  • The future of the Elder Scrolls Online looks rocky after culling of leadership team https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-future-of-the-elder-scrolls-online-looks-rocky-after-culling-of-leadership-team/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 20:44:35

  • Charter Communications to lay off more than 100 employees in Austin https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2026/07/15/charter-communications-layoffs.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:20:53

  • How To Install Firefox on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-firefox-fedora-44/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:22:05

  • "Fork it or leave": Linus Torvalds riles up Linux's Hey Hi (AI) luddites ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/fork-it-or-leave-linus-torvalds-riles-up-linuxs-ai-luddites/?utm_source=rss    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:22:26

  • Developer successfully ports GNU/Linux to 1994 Sega 32X — Genesis and MegaDrive expansion runs open-source OS on paltry 23MHz processors and 256KB of RAM ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-successfully-ports-linux-to-1994-sega-32x-genesis-and-megadrive-expansion-runs-open-source-os-on-paltry-23mhz-processors-and-256kb-of-ram    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:22:38

  • GNU/Linux Estimated at 8% "Market Share" Today (in statCounter) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/GNU_Linux_Estimated_at_8_Market_Share_Today_in_statCounter.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:22:48

  • How Long Before GNU/Linux is Measured at 20% in Chad? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/How_Long_Before_GNU_Linux_is_Measured_at_20_in_Chad.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:22:56

  • GNOME Celebrates Non-Binary People's Day ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-celebrates-non-binary-peoples    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:23:17

  • Six German antifascists deny intent to kill Nazis in Budapest and speak out in court – with strong political statements ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/six-german-antifascists-deny-intent-to-kill-in-budapest-and-speak-out-in-court-also-politically/ MinceR    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:23:45

  • New laws for German spies: Governments wants more powers for its secret services, bringing them closer to the police ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/new-laws-for-german-spies-governments-wants-more-powers-for-its-secret-services-bringing-them-closer-to-the-police/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:24:03

  • Huge Smoking Gun Surfaces In Hacked Suno Source Code; Company Quickly Goes Into Damage Control as Potentially Serious Infringement Emerges ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/15/smoking-gun-suno-hacked-source-code/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:24:37

  • LRT: Lithuania considering reintroducing checks on Latvian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/15.07.2026-lrt-lithuania-considering-reintroducing-checks-on-latvian-border.a655168/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:24:51

  • Press statement by President von der Leyen in Kyiv ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_1631    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:25:10

  • Speech at the presentation of the Order of Europe by President Zelenskyy to President von der Leyen ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1623    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:25:19

  • US Senate Unveils Revised Russia Sanctions Bill As Lawmakers Push To Cement Graham's Legacy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-senate-russia-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham/33804044.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:25:32

  • Intelligence indicates Russia may be planning provocations – Lithuanian president ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2991046/intelligence-indicates-russia-may-be-planning-provocations-lithuanian-president    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:25:38

  • Moscow rejects Lithuanian claims of possible Russian attacks on Baltic infrastructure ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2991333/moscow-rejects-lithuanian-claims-of-possible-russian-attacks-on-baltic-infrastructure    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:25:44

  • 🇦🇲🇷🇺Armenia - Russia: Armenian apricots caught in a geopolitical battle ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260715-%F0%9F%87%A6%F0%9F%87%B2%F0%9F%87%B7%F0%9F%87%BAarmenia-russia-armenian-apricots-caught-in-a-geopolitical-battle    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:02

  • US Charges Russian Individuals and Firms for Running Cybercrime Services ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-charges-russian-individuals-and-firms-for-running-cybercrime-services/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:15

  • Baltics and Poland warn again about potential Russian provocations ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/15.07.2026-baltics-and-poland-warn-again-about-potential-russian-provocations.a655213/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:21

  • Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Steps Down ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:29

  • Ukraine Pounds Russian Ships in Its Campaign to Cut Off Crimea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-crimea-azov-sea.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:37

  • How Ukraine Brought the War to Russia ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-ukraine-brought-the-war-to-russia    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:48

  • Ukraine conducts record drone strike of 2,500km after 12-hour flight — $55,000 unit made of plywood halts operations at Russia's largest gasoline producer ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/ukraines-55000-plywood-drone-flew-2500-km-and-shut-down-russias-largest-oil-refinery    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:26:58

  • Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov Sacked As Zelenskyy Continues Cabinet Shuffle ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fedorov-sacked-zelenskyy-cabinet-shuffle/33804467.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:05

  • Latvian president warns Russia could step up provocations against Baltic region ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2991281/latvian-president-warns-russia-could-step-up-provocations-against-baltic-region    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:14

  • China says opposes US sanctions bill targeting Russia energy buyers ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/china-says-opposes-us-sanctions-bill-targeting-russia-energy-buyers/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:23

  • EU, Ukraine seal 'drone deal' to boost production, establish joint ventures ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/eu-ukraine-seal-drone-deal-to-boost-production-establish-joint-ventures    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:29

  • Ukraine defence minister resigns as part of Zelensky's cabinet reshuffle ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260715-ukraine-defence-minister-resigns-zelensky-cabinet-reshuffle    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:36

  • EU launches Ukraine defence industrial partnership, Drone Deal and disburses €1 billion for drones ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1624    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:27:50

  • Wagner's disinformation network across Africa: France denies asylum to insider turned whistleblower ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260715-wagner-s-disinformation-network-across-africa-france-denies-asylum-to-insider-turned-whistleblower    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:28:17

  • AppManager makes AppImages easier to install and use on Ubuntu ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/appmanager-appimage-installer-linux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:30:22

  • The Akademy 2026 Program is now live! ☞ https://akademy.kde.org/news/2026-07_akademy-2026-program-now-live/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:30:48

  • The Model Was Never the Hard Part: Integrating Qwen2.5 into digiKam for Natural Language Search ☞ http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/07/14/gsoc2.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:31:53

  • FSF Blogs: Fundraiser extended. Help us reach our goal and get an anti-surveillance cover ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-fundraiser-extended-help-us-reach-our-goal    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:32:37

  • Gunnar Wolf: Got your keys ready for DebConf26? ☞ https://gwolf.org/2026/07/got-your-keys-ready-for-debconf26.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:33:53

  • [GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Mid-Term Progress Report ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/vighnesh-sawant/2026-07-15_gsoc_2026_mid_term_progress_report/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:34:27

  • Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.18: Style and Substance ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2026/07/15/crosswords-0-3-18-style-and-substance/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:34:53

  • Windows Bind Link Attacks Can Hide Malware From EDR Tools ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/windows-bind-link-attacks-can-hide-malware-from-edr-tools/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:35:18

  • OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: Hey Hi (AI) and Prediction Markets ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-deal-kalshi-prediction-markets    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:35:42

  • Government Security Agencies Want to Steal Your Drone ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/government-drone-seizures    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:36:59

  • Digital Coercion: How Inaccessible Design Strips Financial Privacy ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/07/digital-coercion-how-inaccessible-design-strips-financial-privacy/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:37:19

  • Judge Dismisses Suit Accusing Fashion Company Apple of Failing to Limit Child Sex Abuse Material ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/technology/apple-lawsuit-child-sexual-abuse-dismissed.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:37:36

  • Firefox will update twice as often from September ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-two-week-release-cycle    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:38:49

  • COSMIC Desktop 1.3.0 Released with Frosted Glass UI Design ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/cosmic-desktop-1-3-0-released-with-frosted-glass-ui-design/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:39:08

  • Blender 5.2 Released as New LTS with 2 Years of Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/blender-5-2-released-with-new-lts-with-2-years-of-support/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:39:14

  • Red Hat build of Agent Sandbox: Isolated workload management with Kubernetes ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/15/red-hat-build-agent-sandbox-isolated-workload-management-kubernetes    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:39:31

  • APNIC Foundation’s BCAP project wins 2026 WSIS Prize for Capacity Building ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/16/apnic-foundations-bcap-project-wins-2026-wsis-prize-for-capacity-building/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:40:00

  • Workshop Basel day two ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/15/workshop-basel-day-two/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:40:09

  • Ruby 3.3.12 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/07/16/ruby-3-3-12-released/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:40:29

  • Weston 16.0 Released: Key New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/weston-16/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:41:24

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Looking at dpkg startup time ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-07-15-08-45_looking_at_dpkg_startup_time.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:41:54

  • A Bombshell Lawsuit Points to an ‘Extraordinary System of Censorship’ at Texas Tech ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-texas-tech-a-bombshell-lawsuit-points-to-an-extraordinary-system-of-censorship    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:42:28

  • China investigates retired top media censor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-investigates-retired-top-media-censor    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:42:38

  • Rock singer running charity detained over alleged misuse of earthquake donations ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/rock-singer-running-charity-detained-over-alleged-misuse-of-earthquake-donations-321442    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:42:54

  • Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh Chrome 150, Firefox 152 Updates ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-patched-with-fresh-chrome-150-firefox-152-updates/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:43:17

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s plan for federal worker NDAs puts spotlight on speech, transparency ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0715/trump-nda-federal-workers    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:44:02

  • UPC is illegal and unconstitutional, but JUVE perpetuates this idea that EPO corruption spilling onto courts is uncontroversial ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-administrative-committee-decides-against-proactive-distribution-of-cases/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:45:23

  • How to Properly Measure the Performance of a Patent Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/How_to_Properly_Measure_the_Performance_of_a_Patent_Office.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:45:30

  • Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and more ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/sound-cards/legendary-gravis-ultrasound-sound-card-gets-new-open-source-clone-beavis-ultrasound-remake-includes-complete-kicad-schematics-pcb-layout-sample-rom-and-more    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:46:20

  • A University Rule Punished Students for a Silent Protest. Was That Legal? ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-university-rule-punished-students-for-a-silent-protest-was-that-legal    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:47:04

  • U. of California Will Reassess Testing Policy Over Next Year ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-california-will-reassess-testing-policy-over-next-year    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:47:27

  • Twitter Turns 20: Two Decades of Memes, Movements and Hot Takes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/technology/twitter-x-20-years.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:47:44

  • A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/a-video-screen-that-is-also-a-camera.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:48:41

  • ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Schneider, Rockwell ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-fixed-by-siemens-schneider-rockwell/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:48:55

  • Magic Portal ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1159/magic-portal    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:49:06

  • ‘Like my lover’: Chinese users bid farewell to Hey Hi (AI) companions as new regulations kick in ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/16/like-my-lover-chinese-users-bid-farewell-to-ai-companions-as-new-regulations-kick-in/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:49:35

  • Astronomers Accidentally Photographed The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged From Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-accidentally-discovered-the-faintest-planet-ever-imaged-from-earth    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:49:54

  • WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-1-beta-1/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:50:11

  • Maximiliano Sandoval: SSH into GNOME OS running in a sandboxed Boxes VM ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/msandova/2026/07/15/ssh-into-gnome-os-running-in-a-sandboxed-boxes-vm/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:52:08

  • XSAs released on 2026-07-14 ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/14/xsas-released-on-2026-07-14/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:52:35

  • The Survivors: IPR Petition Filings Stay Low and Highly Targeted in 2026 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/the-survivors-ipr-petition-filings-stay-low-and-highly-targeted-in-2026.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:52:56

  • From Genes to Machines: PERA’s First Full-Committee Hearing ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/from-genes-to-machines-peras-first-full-committee-hearing.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:53:02

  • Torvalds jumps shark https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:56:58

  • Putting Some Zig In A Linux-Based 3D Printer https://hackaday.com/2026/07/15/putting-some-zig-in-a-linux-based-3d-printer/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:57:26

  • "In today’s employment market, the dev reckons this port and their earlier Linux for Atari Jaguar effort will help improve their job hunting prospects." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-successfully-ports-linux-to-1994-sega-32x-genesis-and-megadrive-expansion-runs-open-source-os-on-paltry-23mhz-processors-and-256kb-of-ram    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:58:06

  • Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS https://www.techpowerup.com/350791/windows-11-vs-linux-gaming-test-reveals-theres-more-to-it-than-fps    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:58:29

  • Finally, proof that there's life for Live after Apple and Microsoft. It's unofficial and totally unsupported, but a set of patches for the free Wine compatibility environment lets you run Ableton Live 12, Max for Live, and Push 2 and Push 3 on Linux. And the result is just about indistinguishable from native support.   

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:59:02

  • 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 21:59:29

  • "There’s a common misconception that battery life on Linux is far superior to that of Windows, which is plain untrue. The truth is, Linux installs can often get just as bloated over time, and this drastically affects battery life, just as it would on Windows." https://www.makeuseof.com/removed-gnome-laptop-battery-lasted-40-minutes-longer-what-replaced-with/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:02:09

  • Windows vs. Linux gaming: Test reveals clear winner, but community disagrees https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-vs-Linux-gaming-Test-reveals-clear-winner-but-community-disagrees.1343363.0.html    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:03:27

  • "I downloaded COSMIC, booted it up, and immediately discovered that the desktop environment handles multiple monitors far better than any I've tried yet. So, here's why COSMIC is handling my dual monitors the way I actually need it to" https://www.xda-developers.com/cosmic-dual-monitor-kde/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:04:18

  • Reverse-engineering brings RK3576 NPU support to open-source Rocket driver for mainline Linux https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/15/reverse-engineering-brings-rk3576-npu-support-to-open-source-rocket-driver-for-mainline-linux/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:04:35

  • В Cyberpunk 2077 Improved frame generation across two graphics cards in Linux https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/v-cyberpunk-2077-uluchshili-generatsiyu-kadrov-cherez-dve-videokarty-v-linux    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:05:04

  • A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32/5271198    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:09:45

  • "You can now use the Frosted Glass effect on any GNU/Linux distribution that ships the COSMIC desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-3-desktop-environment-released-with-frosted-glass-effect    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:10:12

  • Every major Linux distro wants COSMIC, and it hasn't even finished its first year https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-cosmic/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:10:28

  • From Linux to NuttX on the Adafruit Fruit Jam https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/14/from-linux-to-nuttx-on-the-adafruit-fruit-jam/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:11:19

  • "The laptop features an Intel Core Ultra 7 356H CPU, NVIDIA RTX 50 Series graphics, up to 96GB DDR5 RAM, and up to 4TB M.2 SSD storage." https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-next-gen-adder-pro-linux-laptop-with-2k-oled-display    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:11:38

  • "If you're a Linux fan wanting a fully supported brand new laptop, the new System76 Adder Pro has been revealed today." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/system76-reveal-the-adder-pro-laptop-thats-a-gamers-dream-linux-machine/    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:11:56

  • "The QS93 is based on the NXP i.MX 9352 processor, which includes two Arm Cortex-A55 application cores running at up to 1.7GHz and a 250MHz Cortex-M33 core for real-time processing. The processor also integrates an Arm Ethos-U65 microNPU and NXP’s EdgeLock secure enclave." https://linuxgizmos.com/ka-ro-qs93-    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:12:15

  • Quote of the day by Linux creator Linus Torvalds: 'Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with' — airing frustrations at walled gardens https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-linux-creator-linus-torvalds-nvidia-has-been-the-single-worst-company-weve-ever-dealt-with-airing-frustrations-at-walled-gardens    

posted Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 22:12:43
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