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"Indonesia is proposing a landmark copyright bill that could make the country the first in Southeast Asia to explicitly regulate AI in its copyright framework." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:29:30

  • "Sony has now made the more than 30,000 songs the subject of its new lawsuit, which the company says it could expand." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/968375/sony-udio-lawsuit-songs-ai-copyright | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:29:43

  • "Current laws (remember those?) prohibit any single local broadcast news company from serving more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/brendan-carr-is-illegally-dismantling-u-s-media-consolidation-law/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:30:19

  • "Who runs the hidden infrastructure behind secure Internet routing?" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/ties-dirksen/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:30:37

  • "Why should I come out? Why do I have to open the door? Can you please answer me before you use force?" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/20/police-called-to-assist-in-cologne-and-then-brutalized-psychiatric-patient-into-a-coma/ | Source: Site36    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:31:13

  • "Candidates came from four fictional ethnic groups: Tufa, Aima, Reku, and Weki." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140655/ai-biases-hiring-humans/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:31:31

  • "Here’s another case that’s hit a dead end because an ICE officer lied and an ICE supervisor decided to pass on these lies to a federal prosecutor. (h/t Aaron Reichlin-Melnick)" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/attempted-murder-charges-dropped-after-bystander-recordings-expose-ice-officers-lies/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:31:47

  • "without her work authorization, Alexa can’t find a better job or regain any stability." ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/07/minneapolis-single-mothers-lost-months-of-income-hiding-from-ice-and-now-cant-afford-to-renew-immigration-papers-daca/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:32:12

  • "Language Death" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-to-kill-a-language-sophia-smith-galer-book-review | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:32:42

  • "Today, the Kurdish language is experiencing one of the most fragile periods in its history in Northern Kurdistan." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/culture/kurdish-faces-risk-of-disappearing-in-north-kurdistan-86366 | Source: ANF News    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:32:59

  • "Which raises the more general question of what the hell Canadians are doing in Saudi Arabia generally, including their government." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/ive-spent-years-covering-wars-ive-learned-nobody-knows-anything/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:33:25

  • "The detention of a journalist under the Cyber Crimes Act for publishing material that appears to be of significant public interest is deeply troubling" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/07/zambian-journalist-detained-for-audio-leak-under-cyber-laws-weeks-before-elections/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:33:32

  • "As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:36:03

  • "Earlier this year, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/07/20/her-brother-was-convicted-of-terrorism-over-a-protest-he-didnt-even-attend/ | Source: Salon    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:36:14

  • "Another female singer in Iran has been sentenced to 74 lashes after sharing a music video of herself performing without a head covering." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/female-singer-iran-flogging/33807608.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:36:29

  • "In our recent study of 843 US residents, we found that people who picture scientific progress as the work of lone geniuses, and who learn about science mainly from podcasts and documentaries" ☛ https://theconversation.com/why-do-some-people-who-trust-in-science-also-believe-in-scientific-conspiracy-theories-287728 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:37:21

  • "she turns to TikTok and Instagram to keep up with events in Greece and the world. Social media is her primary source of information [sic], whether deciding where to go on a Saturday night, whom to vote for, or decoding events in a war zone." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0720/greece-social-media-tiktok-instagram-news-europe | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:37:32

  • "Journalists were also advised to report that “Ukraine will be left with no warehouses, no fuel, no trains, no substations”: [...]" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/07/20/moscow-s-leaked-media-playbook-spin-ukraine-s-refinery-hits-as-an-attack-on-car-owners | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:38:02

  • "Axel Springer is a Germany-based media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, as well as The Telegraph in the U.K." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/politico-owner-axel-springer-gives-prize-to-far-right-billionaire-peter-thiel/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:39:09

  • "What they don’t see are the years leading up to that moment. Increasingly, that’s where the real competition is taking place." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/next-battle-technology-ipos-begins-years-companies-go-public/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:39:21

  • "In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/public-transport-dont-make-me-think/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:40:12

  • "Enhanced Lattice Polarization and Directed Charge Transport Toward Pt Surface Sites Accelerate the Volmer Step in Piezocatalytic H2 Evolution on Co-Doped BiFeO3." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-vibrations-fuels-chemicals-piezosynthesis.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:40:27

  • "If that comes to pass, Lewis George won’t rule out eventually expanding “the universe of people receiving free transit” if and when revenue is available." ☛ https://www.notus.org/metro/dc-free-buses | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:40:40

  • "The authors stress that the link is only correlational; measurement methods varied from cycle to cycle" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/20/co2-in-human-blood.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:41:13

  • "He added that many of Finland's gravel roads and drainage systems are decades old and were built for different weather conditions." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20237209 | Source: Yle    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:41:28

  • "climate viability." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/new-research-estimates-most-emissions-came-from-fan-travel/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:41:42

  • "I’m still reading the document dump Trump released last Thursday." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/20/the-electoral-roll-tampering-trump-left-out-his-own/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:42:10

  • "The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:42:26

  • "When it comes to the Minab massacre, in which the U.S. killed over 150 people with a Tomahawk missile" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-slashed-civilian-harm-reduction-staff-and-is-instead-using-ai/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:42:42

  • "a window into dysfunction inside the UA’s College of Education in the months before the university’s financial crisis became public." ☛ https://azluminaria.org/2026/07/20/judge-to-decide-whether-ua-whistleblowers-case-goes-to-jury-trial/ | Source: Arizona Luminaria    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:43:12

  • "How long can the U.S. continue the war? America doesn’t have sufficient munitions to maintain the current bombing campaign indefinitely." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-will-trump-do-in | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:44:04

  • "As Russia's war against Ukraine reshapes Europe's security landscape, Estonia remains one of the countries most closely watching the Kremlin's next moves." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/estonia-russian-fighters-schengen-joosep-kaasik/33806356.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:44:13

  • "It is questionable whether a successor can match the standard set by Fedorov." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/07/20/russia-is-not-keeping-up/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:44:22

  • "And if we’re lucky, at least some of those interesting problems will matter to the security of a system someday." ☛ https://www.dlp.rip/everyday-cryptography/ | Source: Chris Fenner    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:44:51

  • "Meanwhile, the police are using (alternate source) the Flock camera network to track people in addition to cars: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:45:21

  • "Flock quietly revealed on July 10 that it has decided to “remove” the product, according to a company blog post." ☛ https://therecord.media/flock-safety-kills-audio-detection-system-human-distress | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:45:47

  • "The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access, exacerbating travel surveillance and putting our fundamental rights at risk." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:46:14

  • "The pre-allocation occurred before any data arrived, and an attacker could send an 11-byte payload to trigger an unvalidated buffer allocation of up to 131 KB." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-silently-fixes-hollowbyte-dos-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:46:34

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/fairlife-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:47:01

  • [Old] "Macmillan, founded in the United Kingdom, is one of the Big Five publishing houses, and it has a history of publishing lightning-rod books" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-facebook-employees-book-careless-people-buy-sarah-wynn-williams-rcna196312 | Source: NBC    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:47:43

  • "Wynn-Williams had become part of what reads like a diabolical cult run by emotionally stunted men babies, institutionally enabled sexual harassers and hypocritical virtue-signalling narcissists." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/careless-people-a-story-of-where-i-used-to-work-by-sarah-wynn-williams-review-a-former-disciple-unfriends-facebook | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:48:05

  • "Tennessee accuses the company of violating the state's ​consumer protection law by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compulsive use and misleading the public about its safety." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-faces-tennessee-trial-over-allegations-instagram-was-designed-to-be-addictive/articleshow/132518132.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:48:43

  • "Over the next several weeks and months, MR would learn not only that there had been reports of similar incidents at the same store in the same timeframe" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/20/dollar-tree-sexual-assault-gooner | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:49:12

  • Social Control Media ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jul/21/764-network-gamification-of-harm-the-com-cybercrime-ntwnfb | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:49:30

  • "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead." ☛ https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:56:44

  • "The lock screen is supposed to protect you against the specific threat model of someone taking your phone." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 05:56:52

  • "Harry Frankfurt wrote a wonderful essay called On Bullshit. His central move is a distinction most people miss: the difference between a liar and a bullshitter." ☛ https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07/20/llm-models-are-bullshit-engines/ | Source: Jeffrey Snover    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:02:29

  • "I am not going to reconstruct the entire disagreement that prompted this post." ☛ https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/07/20/open-source-collaboration-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:02:44

  • "Now in the age of artificial intelligence, Google appears to be shrinking back from the open web — and may be imperiling it." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:03:32

  • "The low-effort content you see where it’s mass-produced, it’s mass uploaded, it’s AI slop… we’ve removed over 75 million spammy tracks in the last year" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/spotify-ai-slop-lorde | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:03:49

  • "There’s a little bit of de-aging for some of the characters and machine learning is part of the process" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lord-of-the-rings-ai-de-age | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:04:02

  • "Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:04:11

  • "Unfortunately, implementing them on the server side can appear more complex than using password hashes." ☛ https://words.filippo.io/passkey-record/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:04:39

  • "The track world, I discovered, has coined a name for this much-discussed phenomenon of kids getting ultra-fast: trackflation." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/teenagers-running-trackflation/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:05:00

  • "In its fiscal 2025 workforce assessment, the VA Office of Inspector General found that all 139 VA medical centers reported at least one severe occupational staffing shortage." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/2026/07/20/our-veterans-deserve-better-inside-the-va-nursing-shortage/ | Source: USMC    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:05:11

  • "A Highland teenager is recovering well after undergoing brain tumour surgery at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, thanks to innovative 3D exoscope technology." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/boy-who-felt-pins-and-needles-in-leg-has-brain-tumour-removed-by-new-tech-8809732 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:05:20

  • "I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50 thought they were folders because of their heft." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/20/oxford-pedaflex-a-z-1-25-gray-pressboard-1-5-cut-tab-file-guides-letter-sized/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:05:38

  • "But what if you could go farther—shooting not millions, but billions of pixels in a single image? That’s precisely what [Yannick Richter] came to Hackaday Europe to talk about, covering his Project Gigapixel build." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/hackaday-europe-2026-project-gigapixel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:05:57

  • "Some PC upgrades deliver meaningful performance gains, while others are simply a waste of money. The key is to upgrade where bottlenecks exist rather than replacing components unnecessarily." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3189839/ram-ssd-or-a-new-cpu-which-upgrade-really-makes-a-difference.html | Source: PC World    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:06:08

  • "Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/nasa-climate-data-copied-to-swiss-supercomputer-for-ai-training-amid-us-funding-cuts/articleshow/132517258.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:07:48

  • "The increase in solar activity, which is expected to begin as early as the end of this week, while should last nearly until the end of the month" ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/the-arrl-solar-update-38 | Source: ARRL    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:08:30

  • "We had one of these for Sudo, but without the nose loop thing." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/lines-and-lines-and-lines | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:08:51

  • "Last week, someone paid me to review their form flow." ☛ https://adamsilver.io/blog/why-i-dont-use-interruption-pages/ | Source: Adam Silver    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:09:02

  • "Until a few years ago, I read books “the normal way,” which meant choosing a book, reading it to the end, and moving to the next. Occasionally I would abandon a book, but only after agonizing over it for several nights. Books for school or work didn’t count; I always had one — and only one — book that I was reading for myself." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20260720_books    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:10:57

  • The 2026 Old Computer Challenge Epilogue gemini://ddlyh.smol.pub/occ26-epilogue    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:12:14

  • "Great opening ~20 minutes but settled into watchable. I was hoping for some proper Calvin & Hobbes style ambiguity but we are offered the option of believing it was all a dream. If it was, that’s lazy." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/07/20/boss/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:12:52

  • "I found some trash in my guitar case. I first thought it was some random piece of wrapping, then I saw that it was the wrapping for some batteries. then, I remembered it all: the batteries were for my pedal, and the wrapping was because I couldn't find a place to put it during the concert." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2844    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:13:25

  • Rogue Eclipse is "Starfox x Armored Core" and arrives August 7 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/rogue-eclipse-is-starfox-x-armored-core-and-arrives-august-7/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:20:45

  • PUROMA is an incremental horror game about isolation and it looks great | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/puroma-is-an-incremental-horror-game-about-isolation-and-it-looks-great/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/puroma-is-an-incremental-horror-game-about-isolation-and-it-looks-great/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:21:46

  • Robot Rhapsody is a cyberpunk odyssey of techno-cults, rebels, - robotic bards | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/robot-rhapsody-is-a-cyberpunk-odyssey-of-techno-cults-rebels-robotic-bards/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:25:26

  • Get some quality games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-quality-games-in-the-2k-megahits-2026-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-quality-games-in-the-2k-megahits-2026-humble-bundle/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:25:48

  • Faugus Launcher 2.0 rolls out with a new UI and many other enhancements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/faugus-launcher-2-0-rolls-out-with-a-new-ui-and-many-other-enhancements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:29:17

  • Valve expect component prices to continue getting worse | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-expect-component-prices-to-continue-getting-worse/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-expect-component-prices-to-continue-getting-worse/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:29:48

  • Retro vehicle combat game FUMES adds co-op support for as many friends as you can handle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/retro-vehicle-combat-game-fumes-adds-co-op-support-for-as-many-friends-as-you-can-handle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/retro-vehicle-combat-game-fumes-adds-co-op-support-for-as-many-friends-as-you-can-handle/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:36:16

  • Retro vehicle combat game FUMES adds co-op support for as many friends as you can handle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/retro-vehicle-combat-game-fumes-adds-co-op-support-for-as-many-friends-as-you-can-handle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/retro-vehicle-combat-game-fumes-adds-co-op-support-for-as-many-friends-as-you-can-handle/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:36:27

  • Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered is now out in full and open source | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/arma-cold-war-assault-remastered-is-now-out-in-full-and-open-source/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/arma-cold-war-assault-remastered-is-now-out-in-full-and-open-source/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:36:58

  • "To bridge this gap, many payers are turning to automation, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, as a strategic layer across their enterprise." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/debunking-it-automation-myths-strategic-blueprint-healthcare-payers | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:46:02

  • IBM Red Hat selling slop ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-telco-ai-training-model-industry | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:46:26

  • "From day one, I closely observed patterns, personalities, customers, the stylists' precision and their individual work styles." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/value-unconventional-experience-sweeping-hair-shaping-careers | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:46:35

  • The collective oppression of the many small steps | "De många små stegens samlade förtryck" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/20/de-manga-sma-stegens-tyrrani/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:48:07

  • "Trump Attacks Socialism Because He Knows Americans Want It" https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-mamdani-trump-vance-rubio    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:48:16

  • "Shark vacuum allows anyone to view your live camera; they knew for months & did NOTHING to fix it" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/shark-vacuum-allows-anyone-to-view-your:c    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:48:28

  • "Britain's data centre invasion: Humming warehouses which dwarf the countryside use enough energy to power 10,000 homes and draw on water supplies...and one could be coming next door to you | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15981801/Britains-data-centre-hellscape-beckons-Humming-warehouses-dwarf-countryside-use-energy-power-10-000-homes-draw-water-supplies-one-coming-door-you.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:49:51

  • Ksh   

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:51:03

  • "CPAN Security Group (CPANSec) and The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) are happy to announce the April Task Force. This project is set up to strengthen the CPANSec CNA Function," ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/alpha-omega-donates-usd-250-000-for-perl-and-cpan-security/ | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:55:12

  • "I have a personal server where I am hosting my git repos. Setting up a new git repo is easy: I ssh into my server, cd to a new directory and run git init --bare. That's it." ☛ https://mccd.space/posts/26-06-29/simple-git-ci | Source: Marc Coquand    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:55:36

  • "Like many others recently I got fed up by what seems to be a steady and inexorable degradation of GitHub quality of service (more on that later) and decided to walk down the self host path for all my things Git, Docker, PRs and CI/CD." ☛ https://a.l3x.in/blog/welcome-to-my-forge/ |    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:55:47

  • "Even in open-source communities, nobody wants to replace shitty tools with better tools." ☛ https://erikmcclure.com/blog/software-is-shit-eating-contest/ | Source: Eric McClure    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:56:00

  • "Anonymous Functions are like normal functions except they don’t have an associated identifier, meaning they don’t have a name" ☛ https://lzon.ca/posts/algoma/anonymous-functions/ | Source: Lzon    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:56:16

  • "The Hashtbl module of the OCaml's Stdlib exposes a parametric type('a, 'b) t. As the documentation explains, they are used as mutable key-value stores in imperative code." ☛ https://tech.ahrefs.com/the-little-type-that-could-too-much-3f21c2e80430 |    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:56:25

  • Software Freedom ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-summer-fundraiser-ends-friday | Source: FSF    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:58:15

  • "The WP2Shell bugs were fixed, according to WordPress, on July 17, 2026, shipping versions 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 to close both holes." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/wp2shell-wordpress-exploited/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:58:38

  • "Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/wp2shell-millions-wordpress-sites-remote-takeover | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:58:49

  • "The vulnerabilities have been dubbed WP2Shell and they are officially tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/wp2shell-wordpress-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-the-wild/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:58:59

  • "“Stealth crawlers” are simply automated tools to access and collect public web data—without disclosing the user’s identity." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/stealth-crawlers-are-not-threat-open-web-bills-targeting-them-would-be | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 06:59:40

  • "When Emacs 29 made eglot the built-in, default Language Server Protocol (LSP) client, many of us rejoiced." ☛ https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-eglot-scala-kotlin/index.html | Source: Josep Bigorra    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:00:57

  • "Completion seems to be the topic of the day. Check out the new videos and resources people have shared on both completion in buffer and in the mini-buffer." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/07/2026-07-20-emacs-news/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:01:08

  • "A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/a-feature-rich-drum-machine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:03:56

  • "A shield placed behind the array cuts down on the sound of the propellers that would otherwise drown out the signal" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/echolocation-for-drones/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:04:03

  • "On Friday, I finished upgrading all my FreeBSD hosts from FreeBSD 15 to FreeBSD 15.1 (the first host I did is in this blog post)." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/updating-a-freebsd-15-0-jail-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:04:29

  • "Not long ago, I ran pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 jail – this time I’m going to do it slightly differently. I’m going to run the script on the host." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-host-to-convert-a-jail/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:04:38

  • "Jails in FreeBSD provide a simple yet flexible way to set up a proper server layout." ☛ https://www.davd.io/posts-freebsd-jails-with-a-single-public-ip-address/ | Source: David Stapp    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:04:53

  • "French football star, Kylian Mbappe has become the first player to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice after earning the award for top scorer at the 2026 tournament." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/kylian-mbappe-becomes-the-first-player-to-win-the-world-cup-golden-boot-twice/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:05:22

  • "In the Linux 7.2-rc4 release announcement mail, Linus Torvalds noted that he expected things to slow down during July." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc4-released/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:05:56

  • "But this morning, it became abundantly clear that I cannot afford to rely on them. When every one of my websites went down, I made an international phone call for support" ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/server-migration.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:06:42

  • "That work has a home. The openSUSE Project has spent years assembling a development structure that hardware vendors and enterprises now lean on: [...]" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/07/20/case-for-sponsoring-os/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:07:30

  • "The RK3576 integrates four Arm Cortex-A72 cores running at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/geniatech-xpi-3576-cm5-brings-6-tops-rk3576-performance-with-raspberry-pi-cm5-compatibility/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:07:40

  • Sex, Lies, and Tape Delay https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/slt/slt.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 07:58:49

  • Wikipedia Has Become Weapon of Gatekeeping https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/21/wikipedia-gatekeeping/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 08:22:19

  • Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 host to convert a jail ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-host-to-convert-a-jail/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 12:51:23

  • Updating a FreeBSD 15.0 jail to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/20/updating-a-freebsd-15-0-jail-to-freebsd-15-1-via-pkgbase/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 12:51:35

  • WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/wp2shell-wordpress-vulnerabilities-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 12:52:39

  • FSF Blogs: Help us reach our goal by Friday and get an anti-surveillance cover ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-summer-fundraiser-ends-friday    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 12:53:24

  • Alpha-Omega Donates USD 250,000 for Perl and CPAN Security ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/alpha-omega-donates-usd-250-000-for-perl-and-cpan-security/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 12:54:19

  • re gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/20/Daniel_Pocock_Combats_Codes_of_Conduct_Phenomena.gmi http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/20/Daniel_Pocock_Combats_Codes_of_Conduct_Phenomena.shtml "well put: "the data showed that fewer women were actually joining Debian after the Code of Conduct" CoC == Code of Censorship"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:01:40

  • s/whistleblowers and leakers, which helps Microsoft not at all/whistleblowers and leakers, which helps the world of ICT very much/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:01:49

  • How Google’s Hey Hi (AI) Search Is Imperiling the Open Web ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:02:21

  • OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/openssl-silently-fixes-hollowbyte-dos-vulnerability/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:04:14

  • The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:04:37

  • On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:04:58

  • Indonesia Proposes Strict Hey Hi (AI) Regulations to Compensate Human Authors and Ban Imitation of Author Styles ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/indonesia-ai-regulations-proposed/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:12:15

  • AntherOS – Pop!_OS-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/antheros-pop_os-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:15:59

  • Jonathan Dowland: Interzone digital ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/interzone/digital/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:27:34

  • UK Lord Speaker warns rushed upper house reform risks loss of constitutional safeguard ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/uk-lord-speaker-warns-rushed-upper-house-reform-risks-losing-constitutional-safeguard/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:28:20

  • Zack Polanski: We will judge Andy Burnham on whether he provides solutions to the affordability crisis, the inequality crisis and the climate crisis ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/07/20/greens-respond-to-first-andy-burnham-speech-as-pm/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:29:27

  • After getting a new PM, the UK waits for his government and first policies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/after-getting-a-new-pm-the-uk-waits-for-his-government-and-first-policies    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:29:51

  • Catanzaro: Some changes to GNOME security tracking ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083754/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:30:39

  • UPC is illegal, but JUVE profits from promoting this abomination ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-court-of-appeal-clarifies-rules-on-conditional-counterclaims-for-revocation/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:34:47

  • Muvox Drops Its BMG Song-Selection Complaint, Then Sues Amazon and Fashion Company Apple for Allegedly Infringing the Same Patent ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/muvox-patent-lawsuits/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:36:07

  • Bits from Debian: DebConf26 starts today in Santa Fe on Monday, July 20, 2026 ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/07/debconf26-starts-today.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:36:40

  • Prosecutors win subpoenas for Philippine vice president Duterte's financial records in impeachment case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/prosecutors-win-subpoenas-for-philippine-vice-president-dutertes-financial-records-in-impeachment    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:37:21

  • Hungary's OTP to buy Baltic bank Luminor ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/21.07.2026-hungarys-otp-to-buy-baltic-bank-luminor.a655717/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:37:50

  • Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 – A Raspberry Pi CM5-compatible Rockchip RK3576 Hey Hi (AI) Compute Module with WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/20/geniatech-xpi-3576-cm5-a-raspberry-pi-cm5-compatible-rockchip-rk3576-ai-compute-module-with-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-3/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:38:18

  • A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecoding.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:38:52

  • Russ Allbery: podlators v6.1.0 ☞ https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2026-07/002.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:39:29

  • South Korea’s pregnancy badges being resold online, raising concerns over misuse ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-pink-pregnancy-badges-being-resold-online-raising-concerns-over-misuse    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:40:32

  • The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/the-great-steam-deck-volume-crash/index.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:41:08

  • IoTextra modular automation boards with 4 inputs, 4 outputs work with Raspberry Pi and ESP32 MCU boards ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/20/iotextra-modular-automation-boards-with-4-inputs-4-outputs-work-with-raspberry-pi-and-esp32-mcu-boards/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:41:37

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Been Recreated on a Chip, And Scientists Could Finally Figure Out Its Cause ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-gut-on-a-chip-that-reveals-hidden-drivers-of-inflammatory-bowel-disease    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:43:08

  • WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33168    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:43:34

  • U. of Houston Is Planning Big Cuts to Its Core Curriculum. Faculty Aren't Happy. ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-houston-is-planning-big-cuts-to-its-core-curriculum-faculty-arent-happy    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:44:11

  • Mentally impaired waiter jailed for 2 years and 4 months for inciting subversion by promoting pro-Taiwan party ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/21/hong-kong-waiter-jailed-for-2-years-and-4-months-for-inciting-subversion-by-promoting-pro-taiwan-party/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:44:32

  • APNIC 62 workshops build practical skills for modern network operations ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/21/apnic-62-workshops-build-practical-skills-for-modern-network-operations/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:44:58

  • IPv6 address planning: From ‘bit conservation’ to ‘elegant alignment’ ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/20/ipv6-address-planning-from-bit-conservation-to-elegant-alignment/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:45:16

  • Google search traffic to leading UK publishers set to halve by Q3 2027 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/google-search-traffic-to-leading-uk-publishers-set-to-halve-by-q3-2027/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:45:52

  • Manchester’s Status in UK Politics is Improving ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/uk-politics-is-improving/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:49:49

  • Evil Won’t Exist Without Collaborators and Enablers ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/collaborators-and-enablers/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:49:54

  • Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-150-update-patches-severe-memory-safety-bugs/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:52:23

  • A Professor Argues His Tenure Was Denied Because the University Succumbed to Federal Pressure ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-argues-his-tenure-was-denied-because-the-university-succumbed-to-federal-pressure    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:53:00

  • Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open ☞ https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/07/qt-project-goals-call-for-submissions.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:54:20

  • Build a retro home arcade with an Arduino® UNO™ Q board! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/20/build-a-retro-home-arcade-with-an-arduino-uno-q-board/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:54:50

  • Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #537 - YOLO, OpenClaw, Star Trek, and Project Hail Mary ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/w1SQc69EvKxDdAz9fbkpQg    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:55:07

  • New Index Tracks Material Breaches — And Refuses to Add Up the Losses ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-index-tracks-material-breaches-and-refuses-to-add-up-the-losses/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:56:02

  • Ernst & Young Data Breach Affects Personal, Financial Information ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ernst-young-data-breach-affects-personal-financial-information/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:56:15

  • Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous Hey Hi (AI) Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hugging-face-hacked-in-autonomous-ai-attack/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:56:36

  • Setup non-flat btrfs architecture on Garuda GNU/Linux (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/07/setup-non-flat-btrfs-architecture-on.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 13:57:25

  • How to Comment Out Multiple Lines in Vim ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/vim-comment-multiple-lines/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:03:24

  • Linux Kernel 7.2 RC4 Released: Steady Progress in the “New Normal” ☞ https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc4-released/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:03:45

  • Andreas Schneider: Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) ☞ https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:04:13

  • Epidemics and Rage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/epidemics-rage-ebola-first-responders.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:05:30

  • Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Convicted Felon Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/taylor-farms-donation-trump-rules    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:05:59

  • Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/whole-foods-discount-taylor-farms-lettuce    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:06:17

  • Not updated for about 2 months already https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:07:13

  • Intel layoffs hit data centers, but company says it won’t affect production https://cybernews.com/tech/intel-layoffs-data-centers/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:08:14

  • Rohingya targeted by resurgence of ‘hateful’ disinformation in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rohingya-targeted-by-resurgence-of-hateful-disinfo-in-malaysia    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:09:37

  • Power, water needs test South Korea’s push to build Hey Hi (AI) chip hub beyond Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/power-water-needs-test-south-koreas-push-to-build-ai-chip-hub-beyond-seoul    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:13:07

  • Soaring Egg Prices Are Hitting China Hard ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/china-eggs-expensive.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:13:27

  • China’s home-grown passenger jet to make first international flight in August ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-home-grown-passenger-jet-to-make-first-commercial-international-flight-in-august    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:13:44

  • Top Chinese, Philippine envoys to meet for first time since 2024 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/top-china-philippines-envoys-to-meet-for-first-time-since-2024    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:14:02

  • Thailand raises alarm with China over tanks to Cambodia army ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-raises-alarm-with-china-over-tanks-to-cambodia-army    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:17:59

  • China, Philippines trade accusations over South China Sea encounter ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-coast-guard-struck-navy-sailor-in-south-china-sea-encounter-says-philippine-military    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:18:12

  • Philippine military says China injured sailor in sea clash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-military-says-china-injured-sailor-in-sea-clash    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:18:24

  • Musical diplomacy: Thai PM bursts into song on China visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/musical-diplomacy-thai-pm-bursts-into-song-on-china-visit    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:18:35

  • China suspends aviation firm linked to Beijing light aircraft crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-suspends-aviation-firm-linked-to-beijing-light-aircraft-crash    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:18:53

  • Rubio in Philippines as US condemns ‘dangerous’ China actions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rubio-in-philippines-as-us-condemns-dangerous-china-actions    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:19:20

  • Taiwan charges ex-TSMC employee over attempted tech leak to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-charges-ex-tsmc-employee-over-attempted-tech-leak-to-china    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:19:32

  • China summons Philippine ambassador over South China Sea encounter ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-summons-philippine-ambassador-over-south-china-sea-encounter    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:19:44

  • Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China — first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/taiwan-inducts-ex-tsmc-manager-for-allegedly-stealing-chip-secrets-for-china    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:19:56

  • Taiwan says ‘significant’ rise in China maritime activity near island ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/20/taiwan-says-significant-rise-in-china-maritime-activity-near-island/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:20:13

  • Rubio in Philippines as US condemns ‘dangerous’ China actions ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/21/rubio-in-philippines-as-us-condemns-dangerous-china-actions/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:20:30

  • Cultural resistance hampers use of Hey Hi (AI) in newsrooms, new global survey finds ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/cultural-resistance-hampers-use-of-ai-in-newsrooms-new-global-survey-finds/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:21:12

  • It's Not Just You: Scientists Say Modern Life Is Pushing The Human Mind Beyond Its Limits ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-life-may-be-pushing-human-minds-beyond-their-limits-reflecting-an-evolutionary-mismatch    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:22:06

  • American Heart Association Reveals The Optimal Daily Cups of Coffee For Your Health ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-review-from-american-heart-association-reveals-the-optimal-daily-cups-of-coffee-for-your-health    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:22:24

  • Wildfire Smoke Can Attack Almost Every Part of Your Body – Not Just Your Lungs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wildfire-smoke-can-attack-almost-every-part-of-your-body-not-just-your-lungs    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:22:42

  • Humans Landed on The Moon 57 Years Ago Today. It Revealed How Little We Know ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-landed-on-the-moon-57-years-ago-today-it-revealed-how-little-we-know    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:22:56

  • Monkeys Have Geometric Skills On Par With Human Preschoolers, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:23:06

  • Scientists Find a More Precise Way to Grow Artificial Blood Vessels, Using Magnets ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-more-precise-way-to-grow-artificial-blood-vessels-using-magnets    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:23:17

  • Federal Funding Should Support Communities, Not Political Agendas ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/federal-funding-should-support-communities-not-political-agendas    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:23:52

  • Taiwan to slow mobile internet in civil defence drills as China threat grows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-to-slow-mobile-internet-in-civil-defence-drills-as-china-threat-grows    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:24:15

  • There’s a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the Hey Hi (AI) Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/problem-ai-industry-collapse-efficiency    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:28:35

  • OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-china-models-profit-money    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:28:59

  • OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:29:17

  • AI may be getting the attention, but it’s only as reliable as the data behind it ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/ai-may-be-getting-the-attention-but-its-only-as-reliable-as-the-data-behind-it/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:29:26

  • Commission publishes guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain Hey Hi (AI) systems ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1653    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:29:49

  • Hong Kong High Court judge Wilson Chan caught plagiarising judgement for third time ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/21/hong-kong-high-court-judge-wilson-chan-caught-plagiarising-judgement-for-third-time/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:30:30

  • Judge Temporarily Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/paramount-warner-bros-deal.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:49:09

  • Judge Tosses Justice Department Challenge to Minnesota Immigration Laws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/minnesota-immigration-lawsuit.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:49:25

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Netanyahu Will Not Be Arrested in the U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/middleeast/israel-un-mamdani-netanyahu-arrest.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:49:40

  • Can Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism Save the U.K.’s Center Left? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/can-andy-burnhams-manchesterism-save-the-uks-center-left    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:50:03

  • Taiwan lawmakers remove legal hurdles for Starlink to operate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-lawmakers-remove-legal-hurdles-for-starlink-to-operate    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:50:17

  • Lebanese army deploys to three southern villages under US-backed security framework ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260720-lebanese-army-south-lebanon-pilot-zones-israel-withdrawal    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:50:37

  • To China, a beef tariff is for national security. Australia can learn from that ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-china-a-beef-tariff-is-for-national-security-australia-can-learn-from-that/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:51:01

  • UN report: Djibouti faces severe food insecurity ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/un-djibouti-faces-severe-food-insecurity/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:52:32

  • UN experts urge Venezuela to remove barriers to humanitarian aid ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/un-experts-urge-venezuela-to-remove-legal-barriers-to-humanitarian-aid/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:53:27

  • Two French diplomats subjected to ‘extremely serious act of intimidation’ in Iran, FM Barrot says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260720-two-french-diplomats-subjected-extremely-serious-intimidation-iran-fm-says    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:53:52

  • nRF54L Arduino Core project brings Arduino support to Nordic Semi nRF54L wireless SoCs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/21/nrf54l-arduino-core-project-brings-arduino-support-to-nordic-semi-nrf54l-wireless-socs/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:54:20

  • A new Commerce Dept policy pits privacy and transparency against access to information ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/07/a-new-commerce-dept-policy-pits-privacy-and-transparency-against-access-to-information/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:54:56

  • Third Circuit strikes down New Jersey bans on assault firearms and large capacity magazines ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/third-circuit-strikes-down-new-jersey-bans-on-assault-firearms-and-large-capacity-magazines/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:56:10

  • SonicWall Zero-Days Exploited to Deliver Custom Malware for Weeks Before Patch ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-zero-days-exploited-to-deliver-custom-malware-for-weeks-before-patch/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:56:47

  • GSoC Bluetooth Improvement Midterm Recap ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mohammedrattia/2026-07-18_gsoc_bluetooth_improvement_midterm_recap/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:57:34

  • GSoC Update 2: Visual Redesign and Responsive SVGs ☞ https://mmarhin.github.io/gsoc2026blog/gsoc/opensuse/svg/golang/2026/07/20/update-2-visual-redesign-responsive-svgs.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:58:06

  • Firefox 153.0 is Out with Native Containers & Hey Hi (AI) Assistant ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/firefox-153-0-native-containers-ai-assistant/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:59:03

  • GNUnet News: libgnunetchat 0.8.0 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2026-07-libgnunetchat-0.8.0.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 14:59:36

  • 7 Best Free and Open Source Nim Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-nim-static-site-generators/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:00:11

  • 10 Hot Free and Open Source Ruby Application Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ruby-application-servers/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:00:20

  • Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word) ☞ https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:01:15

  • Michael Catanzaro: Some Changes to GNOME Security Tracking ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:01:27

  • IPFire 2.29-core203 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ipfire    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:02:20

  • Live Raizo 17.26.07.19 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/liveraizo    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:02:27

  • openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Needs-More-Sponsors    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:02:56

  • Slop propaganda from IBM Red Hat, how to alienate their clientbase ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/computer-use-how-ai-agents-can-automate-almost-anything    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:03:54

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083708/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:04:25

  • Rogallo – terminal-based client for the Gemini Protocol ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rogallo-terminal-based-client-gemini-protocol/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:14:23

  • Krita Monthly Report - July 2026 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/monthly-report-2607/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:15:36

  • My First 12 Days with Mageia 10: How to enable repos with dnf5 ☞ http://mandrivachronicles.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-first-12-days-with-mageia-10-how-to.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:16:22

  • How to Install Amarok on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04, and 22.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-amarok-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:16:49

  • Gulagboy relishes in simulated murder of a living person ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/uk-tech-fest-burns-elon-musk-effigy    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:18:07

  • While asking the state to put in prison a woman - in a state a continent away from him https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:18:53

  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2026 ☞ https://outsideofinfinity.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/libre-graphics-meeting-2026/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:20:02

  • A Double Shot at Copyright: SCOTUS to Weigh Worldwide Termination Rights ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/one-dollar-one-copyright-worldwide-termination-in-bmg-rights-management-v-vetter.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 15:20:53

  • 3D printing enthusiast resurrects cancelled dbrand Steam Machine Companion Cube as DIY project — project shelved due to copyright monopoly can now be made and assembled at home ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/3d-printing-enthusiast-resurrects-cancelled-dbrand-steam-machine-companion-cube-as-diy-project-project-shelved-due-to-copyright-can-now-be-made-and-assembled-at-home    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:09:05

  • Gamma, French Montana, and Kanye West Face ‘Where They At’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Paparazzi Outburst Video ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/bauer-griffin-gamma-french-montana-kanye-west-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:10:02

  • Sony Music Fires Off Supersized Infringement Lawsuit Against Udio — Doubling Down on Its Fair Use Arguments, DMCA Claims, and More ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/sony-music-udio-infringement-lawsuit-second/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:10:35

  • Anthropic settles with authors and publishers for $1.5B in landmark copyright monopoly case ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/anthropic-settles-authors-publishers-1-5-billion-landmark-copyright-case/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:10:56

  • Japan protests Chinese live-fire drill in nearby waters ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-destroyer-held-live-fire-drill-in-japans-eez-japan-says    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:11:20

  • Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ exploits African shipping registries to skirt sanctions ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/russias-shadow-fleet-exploits-african-shipping-registries-to-skirt-sanctions/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:11:39

  • Ukraine War Momentum Helps Spur Interest in Postwar Investment ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/europe/ukraine-post-war-reconstruction.html    

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

  • Zelensky Faces Pressure to Remove Ukraine’s Top General ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-general-defense-minister.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:11:59

  • Why so many Ukrainians are up in arms over firing of defense minister ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0720/ukraine-drone-war-defense-minister-fedorov-general-syrskyi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:12:11

  • North Korea, Russia foreign ministers hold strategic talks in Moscow, KCNA says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-russia-foreign-ministers-hold-strategic-talks-in-moscow-kcna-says    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:12:29

  • Three Chinese injured in drone attack on Moscow ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/three-chinese-injured-in-drone-attack-on-moscow    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:13:09

  • Russian And Ukraine Exchange Overnight Strikes As Drone Attacks Target Moscow Region ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-and-missile-strikes/33807500.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:13:43

  • Lithuania holds funeral for volunteer killed fighting in Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2996062/lithuania-holds-funeral-for-volunteer-killed-fighting-in-ukraine    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:14:05

  • Lithuania's defence minister says Russia views Baltic states, Poland as next targets ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2996068/lithuania-s-defence-minister-says-russia-views-baltic-states-poland-as-next-targets    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:15:30

  • UN says Kyiv missile strike violated protections for civilians ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/un-says-kyiv-missile-strike-violated-protections-for-civilians/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:35:19

  • Ukraine fires 400 missiles at Moscow after deadly Russian attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-fires-400-missiles-on-moscow-after-deadly-russian-attacks    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:35:26

  • New builds in Latvia still come without bomb-shelter basements ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/20.07.2026-new-builds-in-latvia-still-come-without-bomb-shelter-basements.a655611/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 16:35:36

  • at Julie-Ann gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/julieAnn    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:12:54

  • the hotsprings gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/hotStorm    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:13:32

  • 3 days before the festival gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/marc    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:14:03

  • sex on the beach gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/roughKiss    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:14:56

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2072.jpg    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:15:26

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1715.jpg    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:15:31

  • Distilled H2O gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260720_h2o    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:16:01

  • "Whenever I'm on the "normie" internet, I'm reminded of AI. A big part of it is that so much is generated from it. Another is that the tech world, which I try to keep up with, is flooded with AI talk or slop. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I'm heavily against AI." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260720-lessons_from_terminator.txt    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:16:55

  • "This month marks a milestone moment in personal computing: the 50th anniversary of Zilog launching its venerable Z80, an eight-bit processor originally designed with embedded workloads in mind but which would sit at the very heart of the home computing revolution." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202607/20260720-zilog.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:17:58

  • "Like (nearly) every Sunday, I tried to do my backup/update duties for all my workstation/laptops and my whole homelab. Normally all goes smoothly without too much trouble." gopher://redterminal.org:70/1/phlog/2026-07-20-OPNSense_Upgrade_failure    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:18:30

  • "I find myself struggling to put even a sentence down as I overthink on what this space should be, should do for me, should expose to others. Stuck, digging into tooling, planning out scripts, automation, anything except actually using it. Paralyzed by the thought that I would put something out there which does not belong or did not need to be written." gemini://ambling.smol.pub/so-that-i-would-write    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:19:29

  • Russia's Putin meets North Korea's top diplomat in Kremlin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russias-putin-meets-north-koreas-top-diplomat-in-kremlin    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:23:00

  • Architect an open blueprint for cloud-native Hey Hi (AI) agents ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/architect-open-blueprint-cloud-native-ai-agents    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:23:43

  • Fork Around and Find Out | LINUX Unplugged 676 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/676/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:24:10

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 395 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-395/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:24:47

  • The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 276: Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard on Canada’s Access to Information Failures and Why Access Delayed is Access Denied ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-276-information-commissioner-caroline-maynard-on-canadas-access-to-information-failures-and-why-access-delayed-is-access-denied/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:25:19

  • Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/the-xz-backdoor-long-con-chronicled-in-half-a-second/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:25:47

  • Canonical Staff Acting Like They Aim to Receive Job Offers From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/20/Canonical_Staff_Acting_Like_They_Aim_to_Receive_Job_Offers_From.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:25:59

  • The Sewer Knows What You Ate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/science/sewer-diet-research.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:26:16

  • Lawsuit Alleges That Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lawsuit-chatgpt-encouraged-suicide-woman-traffic    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:29:12

  • TikTok Quietly Starts Testing Hey Hi (AI) Deepfake Detection Tech ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/tiktok-starts-testing-ai-deepfake-detection-tech/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:29:36

  • Anti-Linux SLOP https://xenospectrum.com/en/windows-linux-ai-build-gap/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:32:31

  • Actually, this has already introduced new holes https://www.martincid.com/technology-sv/ubuntu-2604-rust-sudo-default/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 17:34:07

  • "They should layoff all the xbox teams. There has been zero strategy for the console or games. Time to rebuild with a new team. Good riddance!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxkebsz6#replies    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:39:41

  • "For as long as IBM share price does not drop below $200, The current IBM management team might be able to live another day. It does not mean, IBM is out of trouble anytime soon. The $200 share price is psychological, many investors might view it as a clear to jump off the ship." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:41:31

  • "The company will break up under his and our leaderships watch. They will be the ones forever known as the leaders who ki-led a 115 year old Big Blue! Never let anyone forgot." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:44:02

  • "Bob says goodwill drop offs are out back by the dumpster." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:44:27

  • "Albany has been rigged for years to keep a small group afloat not to help the site thrive, just to protect the same people. With little meaningful oversight from the outside, it was allowed to operate unchecked, creating the culture and environment we see today. And what is there to show for it? Very little revenue, if any, despite enormous operating costs."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:45:22

  • "If IBM is ever broken up into separate businesses, Albany should be at the very top of the list for the chopping block or simply completely shuttered altogether." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:45:26

  • "Yes, I agree. If a manager tells you you're crucial, that's very special and you will not be RAed. It simply cannot be done." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:45:44

  • Fun fact: I too was told I was "safe", that I was crucial for the team and irreplaceable. Two weeks later I was swept up in the November 2025 RA along with many other "safe" and "crucial" people. Truly, there is nowhere to hide if your name appears on their spreadsheet.    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:45:49

  • "there are some people in Albany who seem to have job security . They can get away with doing far less than most ny state workers. And they are high pay bands (they’ve all been there at the site at least 20 years, usually with ibm a lot longer), the work they do isn’t even critical. It’s sometimes about having dirt on people that makes them afraid to touch you"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:46:18

  • "Don't believe everything you hear. When I was given 2 months notice along with my co-worker. All support for that account was sent to India. Reason I was told was I wasn't in IBM plans. But the account postpone a project for 3 weeks then I was in IBM plan cause I was needed for that project. Offered me 6 month notice from 2 and manager had to get project executive and delivery project executive involved to get the extension approved for RA."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:46:23

  • "Don't believe everything you hear. When I was given 2 months notice along with my co-worker. All support for that account was sent to India. Reason I was told was I wasn't in IBM plans. But the account postpone a project for 3 weeks then I was in IBM plan cause I was needed for that project."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:46:36

  • "Offered me 6 month notice from 2 and manager had to get project executive and delivery project executive involved to get the extension approved for RA."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:46:41

  • "Spot on . Very well said. This has been a smoke and mirrors show for some time now. It follows much what is going on in the world today. . Corruption is the new black. So very trendy. Duplicity abounds in IBM. With the right hand , Let’s pretend all is great" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxzjsn6a    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:47:26

  • "This has been one of the most well written posts I have seen in years. Thank you! You are spot on!"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:48:10

  • "Bob will break IBM up!"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:48:15

  • "We are doing the best we ever have. Our future is so bright. Sell the hype. While with on the left hand , leaders squeeze as much cash as they can in their pockets, not pay much attention to the pleebs below them…. and everyone is below them. When things go bad. Its the other guys fault. Our workers don’t execute to our plan. (What plan?)".    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:48:20

  • "This is a sinking ship. Not sinking quite as fast as the titanic did. But it is taking on water much faster than the pumps can keep up with."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:48:28

  • "The pre-announcement was staged to initiate a chain reaction. It was intentional. The goal, as I suspected, is to have the crowd accept a possible break up of IBM into smaller entities. Some will be acquired by others."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:51:06

  • "John Akers wanted to break up IBM. Lou Gerstner stopped it. He stopped it on the premise that IBM could monetize services and make big bucks with the synergy. For a time, they did just that."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:51:10

  • "But now services has been monetized. It has been used up. It has "matured", to use business analyst lingo. So now we go back to the future...current executives no longer see value in synergy, and the whole is now less than the sum of its parts."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:51:14

  • "I have been in R&D for quite some time. I have seen the slide down to mediocrity. When, technical leaders ("Architects") start talking about bringing innovation from the outside (buy small companies, Open source .....) instead of in house development. It became clear, IBM cannot recover." "Bob will rip ibm apart"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:51:32

  • "I knew it was over when all the talk became what did TSMC do? Or just copy what SEC did. Innovation died"    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 18:53:21

  • Nearly a quarter of surveyed British developers have lost their jobs in the past three years https://wnhub.io/news/other/item-51486    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 19:03:28

  • Yoko Taro Despairs Over the Future of Games as PlayStation Kills Discs https://games.gg/news/yoko-taro-saddened-playstation-killing-discs/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 19:04:20

  • Xbox players are using Microsoft's own Feedback Hub to protest layoffs https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/xbox-players-are-using-microsoft-s-own-feedback-hub-to-protest-layoffs/ar-AA27TqjE    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 19:06:06

  • "Simon Park still has a netbook bought back in 2009. The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE has an Intel Atom N280 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The Atom N series was Intel’s line of cheap, low-performance CPUs for netbooks." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/20/reviving-a-15-year-old-netbook-with-arch-linux/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:04:28

  • "Work progresses on a build system which will deliver a continuously-updated Arch Linux port for Valve's virtual reality headset." https://www.hackster.io/news/collabora-releases-first-64-bit-arm-arch-linux-packages-as-it-prepares-for-valve-s-steam-frame-vr-ae78c23fa883    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:04:52

  • 10ZiG & Cendio add ThinLinc for centralised Linux desktops https://securitybrief.asia/story/10zig-cendio-add-thinlinc-for-centralised-linux-desktops    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:05:24

  • Linux 7.2-rc4 finally fixes audio issues with the Asus ROG Ally X https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-72-4c4-finally-fixes-audio-issues-with-the-asus-rog-ally-x/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:05:48

  • Moonshine - Turn your headless Linux server into a game streaming host https://korben.info/en/moonshine-headless-linux-server-game-streaming.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:06:32

  • "Speaking of crazy ideas, content creator Uwoslab set out to power a desktop PC with 400 disposable AA batteries. Turns out the full array was not required, as the AMD Ryzen system successfully booted after 192 alkaline cells were connected." https://videocardz.com/newz/ryzen-pc-boots-with-192-aa-batteries-runs-hannah-montana-linux    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:07:34

  • Seek the Surface in Sci-Fi Thriller Visual Novel Advent: Dawn on PC, Mac, Linux Today https://www.gamespress.com/Seek-the-Surface-in-Sci-Fi-Thriller-Visual-Novel-Advent-Dawn-on-PC-Mac    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:08:21

  • SLOPFARM https://egamers.io/fork-it-or-leave-linus-torvalds-shuts-down-anti-ai-pushback-in-the-linux-kernel-2026/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:09:06

  • Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/streamer-builds-a-battery-powered-pc-with-over-100-aas-uses-hannah-montana-linux-to-benchmark-their-abomination/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:09:35

  • "Drops below 200 it’s over. Split the company up!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky2paa82#replies    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:53:07

  • To IBM, debt-loading seems to be a thing (or "Think"). http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Only_a_Matter_of_Time_Before_IBM_Drops_to_199_of_Lower.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:53:58

  • 'vibe-coded'? https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/07/20/amazon-mistakenly-hits-aws-users-with-billion-dollar-bills/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 20:58:21

  • UKIE: 22% of UK games industry workforce affected by job losses in last three years https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ukie-22-of-uk-games-industry-workforce-affected-by-job-losses-in-last-three-years    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:00:35

  • Lies https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/gtlb-stock-in-spotlight-after-hours-on-ai-focused-layoffs-earnings-beat/cZ00fsgReD1    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:01:52

  • "In a statement on his website, Pocock, who is a software engineer, is asking voters to read about his work on ethics in technology, safety of children online, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity." https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bin-two-foxes-mystic-candidates-041711975.html    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:41:26

  • GNU/Linux 10% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iceland/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:43:13

  • An Introduction to Shogi, a Japanese Chess variant gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/21/shogi/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:54:40

  • simple day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/highKid    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:56:35

  • Freedom of Information Act https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-restrict-its-freedom-of-information-act/a-77939695    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:58:14

  • social media restrictions for kids under 13 https://www.dw.com/en/eu-experts-urge-social-media-restrictions-for-kids-under-13/a-77931424    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:58:38

  • Iranian newspaper threatens Chancellor Merz with 'retaliation' https://www.dw.com/en/iranian-newspaper-threatens-chancellor-merz-with-retaliation/a-77958683    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 21:59:44

  • Iranian newspaper threatens Chancellor Merz with 'retaliation' https://www.dw.com/en/iranian-newspaper-threatens-chancellor-merz-with-retaliation/a-77958683    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:00:15

  • GNU/Linux 8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/dominica/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:07:44

  • 6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/saudi-arabia/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:09:18

  • 7.3% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/south-africa/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:10:00

  • EU and UK hit Russia with joint sanctions over cyberattacks https://www.bgnes.com/european-union/eu-and-uk-hit-russia-with-joint-sanctions-over-cyberattacks    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:17:01

  • Russia plans infrastructure attacks https://cphpost.dk/2026-07-15/news/round-up/baltic-presidents-russia-plans-infrastructure-attacks/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:18:20

  • Time Change https://xkcd.com/3272/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:19:56

  • The Princess and the Pea https://xkcd.com/3271/    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:20:08

  • Why Is EVERYONE Suddenly Obsessed With CachyOS? [#1 on Distrowatch] https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dAAwVAp0cHE    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:24:28

  • GNU/Linux 4% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/lebanon/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:33:31

  • Re: i was corrected on the internet about my inefficient use of awk today gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/re-i-was-corrected-on-the-internet-about-my-inefficient-use-of-awk-today.gmi "My departure from Windows happened way back when Win95 was released."    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:42:31

  • "Last night at a music festival, during the set for Matchbox 20 Rob Thomas made a comment about how he started the band not thinking that one day their music would become nostalgia for a generation." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/the-era-of-nostalgia.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:43:05

  • "Just testing out my new gemlog system. Hopefully this post works." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-from-my-phone.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:43:36

  • "Nothing much of interest as of yet. I am testing out a new CGI gemlog generator I'm working on. It uses SQLite for storage and a few shell scripts for creating posts. I hope that this will be easier to use and still be mobile friendly via termux." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/testing-out-a-new-gemlog-system.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:44:23

  • "There was a discussion over on BBS about what everyone uses for gemlogs. Not wanting to be the odd one out I decided to change from flat files over to a database solution." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/syncing_sucks_new_gemlog_system.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 22:45:04
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