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"Brave had last ‌year preemptively sued ⁠the ⁠media giant, seeking a court declaration that its practices were legal." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/news-corp-countersues-brave-for-allegedly-scraping-articles-for-ai/articleshow/132549428.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:50:39

  • "Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone's personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court has ruled." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dns-bypass-tweets-keep-uptobox-employees-e197k-frozen-in-disney-piracy-case/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:50:49

  • "But Q says Bad Attitude’s Q mark with a cat face is “confusingly similar” to its mark, and the gun shop put its manufacturing details on the underside of the receiver and inside the trigger guard" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/firearms-manufacturer-shoots-back-over-ar-15-parody-products/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:51:28

  • "Both decisions are interesting. With search, Google is required to share with competitors — search engines and AI chatbots alike" ☛ https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/ec_google_guidance_android_ai_and_search_sharing | Source: John Gruber    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:52:55

  • "What particularly alarmed the committee was not just the scale of Live Nation’s market position across promotion, venues, and ticketing, but the climate of fear we encountered during this inquiry" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/20/live-nation-british-investigation-possible/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:53:01

  • "Ranked by registry creation date. Two caveats that matter: when a domain expires and is re-registered" ☛ https://dns.pizza/age |    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:54:05

  • "Between those two pioneers, a cluster of Swedish universities registered on January 17, 1985, all beating the first .com to the punch." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/21/oldest-domains-on-the-internet.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:54:21

  • "U.S. Senators John Thune (R-SD), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Deb Fischer (R-NE) have introduced the Broadband Mapping Accurate Providers (MAP) Act of 2026" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bi-partisan-senators-introduce-bill-to-improve-fccs-broadband-maps/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:54:31

  • "But while nearly all of the 300-odd former Navy buildings in Adak are empty and many are collapsing, the U.S. government pays an Anchorage firm $340,000 per year to maintain [Internet] access to them." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/abandoned-navy-base-internet-service/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:54:44

  • "More than 50 people have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office, according to Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights. Others have died during ICE enforcement operations." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/20/tom-bag-o-cash-homan-says-people-killed-by-ice-should-have-complied.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:55:27

  • "Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/21/tom-homan-again-promises-that-ice-will-keep-murdering-people-until-democrats-stop-calling-them-murderers/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:55:38

  • "We told how Rowling also urged other organisations who were included in the list – which she deemed a “blacklist” – to apply to the JK Rowling Women’s Fund to help with legal costs" ☛ https://www.thenational.scot/news/26288614.amnesty-refers-watchdog-branding-jk-rowling-charity-anti-rights/ | Source: The National UK    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:55:58

  • "We are assessing the matters raised to determine what, if any, role there might be for us as charity law regulator" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/concerns-after-amnesty-labels-j-k-rowling-womens-centre-anti-rights-1855478919 | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:56:21

  • "Beira's Place chief executive Lesley Johnston said it was "inexplicable" that it had been included on the list." ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/07/17/concerns-after-amnesty-labels-j-k-rowling-women-s-center-anti-rights_6755574_4.html?srsltid=AfmBOori8sHfKIPS1STqJEL6kfzqO_-CeAfk5MRmeSyr9DCDvDLDSgrn | Source: Le Monde    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:56:50

  • "Set up by Rowling in 2022, Beira’s Place provides sexual violence support for women across Edinburgh and the Lothians “in a safe, women-only space”." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/16/amnesty-uk-self-reports-to-watchdog-calling-women-centre-anti-rights | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:57:15

  • "Amnesty was picking a fight with Beira’s Place, a centre set up by author JK Rowling with some of the wealth she earned from her Harry Potter books." ☛ https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/amnesty-picked-a-fight-with-jk-rowling-over-trans-rights-it-backfired-20260715-p60foj.html | Source: Sydney Morning Herald    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:57:54

  • "Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society" ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/listening-to-cassandra-misogyny-classical-and-modern/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:58:07

  • "There's just one problem, according to ICESpy’s creator, artist Kyle McDonald: the art project's face-recognition software cannot recognize most, if any, ICE agents currently in the field." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:58:18

  • "A wage hike is desperately needed for the American working class, but higher wages can’t pay the bills if you want full-time hours and can’t get them. Legislation mandating a right to full-time work could fix this." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/07/legislation-full-time-work-rights | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 06:58:28

  • "While the comparison between voter ID laws and the pasta pass is an easy analogy for Republicans to make, the argument does have holes." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-push-voter-id-by-comparing-it-to-olive-gardens-pasta-pass/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:00:36

  • "Good news. The second richest man in America might be prevented from taking over CNN. That's the good news." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-and-the-media | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:00:56

  • "Matar's electronics included information on the fatwa, or Islamic religious ruling, that sought Rushdie's death," ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/salman-rushdie-booker-prize-buffalo-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-britain-b3019202.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:05:02

  • "Soydaş’s lawyers released a written statement in response to her detention, claiming that Soydaş she had been subjected to a coordinated campaign involving images and videos altered with artificial intelligence." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/social-media-personality-fatma-soydas-detained-for-insulting-religion-321740 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:07:51

  • "Female genital mutilation is a severe form of violence that violates the bodily integrity, health and fundamental human rights of women and girls." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/doctor-advertising-female-circumcision-faces-investigation-321739 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:09:48

  • "Literature, in the Prairieland case, was turned into a vector of criminalization." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/213253/brother-sentenced-30-years-moving-box-zines-prairieland | Source: New Republic    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:11:24

  • "Iran executed a man it accused of carrying out "operational actions" during nationwide protests at the start of the year as the country's leadership ratchets up its crackdown on dissent, sparking a hunger strike among hundreds of death row inmates." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-executions-protest-death-row-inmates/33810002.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:11:34

  • Pocock-on-Sea: Daniel Pocock’s Attempt to Become British Politician https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/23/pocock-on-sea/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:17:56

  • "Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news." ☛ https://karlbode.com/local-u-s-tv-news-will-soon-be-entirely-right-wing-propaganda/ | Source: Karl Bode    

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

  • "As AI reduces the cost of producing convincing disinformation while simultaneously expanding its reach" ☛ https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/information-warfare-in-the-age-of-ai-why-india-needs-strategic-ai-partnerships | Source: Observer Research Foundation    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:23:25

  • "Zhongji InnoLight is the world's largest maker of optical transceivers, according to its listing document." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/data-centre-component-maker-zhongji-innolight-seeks-7-billion-in-hong-kong-listing/articleshow/132550240.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:27:04

  • "Construction of a €2.6m high-tech facility for the Defence Forces cyber defence command has started — with an expected completion date of March 2027." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41883577.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:27:17

  • "Those who did experiment ran into the technology's early limitations -- six-fingered hands, mouths that didn't move right." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/a-once-wary-hollywood-slowly-warms-to-ai/articleshow/132550634.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:27:27

  • "According to Wired, workers at OpenAI are now beefing with the AI lab’s co-founder and current president, Greg Brockman" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-ceos-workers-tech-revolt-employees-openai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:27:58

  • So now the slop pushers are literally bribing politicians in the same way they bribe the press to play a long and help "pump" the pyramid scheme    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:28:41

  • "During a lengthy technical workshop last week at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-wants-to-own-every-chip-inside-an-ai-data-center/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:28:53

  • "You see young people seeking well-paid jobs, going through the motions with often little genuine interest in, say, curing cancer." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/22/from-institutions-to-individuals-the-white-house-report-on-revitalizing-u-s-scientific-leadership/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:29:07

  • "But Burnham has slightly reshuffled AI Britain. The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology is being chopped up for parts: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/21/new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-ai-britain-into-the-cabinet/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:29:17

  • "After that speech, I wrote a book (The Post-American Internet) that Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in August 2027." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/table-flipper/#graveyard-of-indispensable-nations | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:29:41

  • "Critically, residents can not rely on social control media to organize a tactical vote or a strategic vote against the incumbent candidate." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/can-daniel-pocock-win-clacton-on-sea/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:30:09

  • "The nomination process closed at 16:00 on Friday." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/australian-challenge-to-nigel-farage-precipitated-record-uk-by-election-candidates/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:31:20

  • "Andreessen Horowitz and ​Sequoia Capital led the round, with both firms taking board seats, two of the sources said." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/doge-alumni-launch-military-cyber-startup-with-1-4-billion-valuation/articleshow/132565563.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:34:14

  • "The elephants were last spotted moving from the Nallodu Cheruvu area in Badangi mandal towards Pinapenki village." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/andhra-pradesh/wild-elephant-herd-enters-vizianagaram-from-manyam-1972914 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:34:52

  • [Old] "This risk of being hit by a car, which the authors of the paper call “mobility risk,” is elevated for people living in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods both when they’re close to home and in other parts of Boston." ☛ https://thetech.com/2026/05/28/mobility-risk | Source: MIT    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:35:35

  • "White reports this would increase the electricity costs to a typical household by “hundreds of dollars more per year”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/alberta-electricity-data-centres/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:36:38

  • "Siad, 69, was discovered dead at his house in Colombes on Monday, three months after French prosecutors opened a criminal investigation that had yet to charge him." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/epstein-associate-daniel-siad-found-dead-paris-investigation-1810142 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:37:05

  • "An estimated 284 second-class passengers were aboard the Titanic when it sank, 166 of whom died, according to research project Encyclopedia Titanica." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-letter-penned-on-the-titanic-days-before-it-sank-shares-the-perspective-of-the-ships-second-class-passengers-180989174/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:37:48

  • "if left unaddressed, would starve energy-hungry data centers of the electricity needed to digitize economies." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/22/2026/africas-data-center-growth-rests-on-power-sector-overhaul | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:38:21

  • "The tougher regulations come in response to a series of traffic accidents involving young riders." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1310272/stricter-rules-for-electric-scooters/ | Source: Greece    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:38:43

  • "Chill Out" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1160/chill-out | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:39:41

  • "The fire erupted Tuesday in the Var region and spread at an unexpectedly fast pace, forcing some 400 people to evacuate and devouring 2,550 hectares (6,300 acres)" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260722-fast-moving-wildfire-forces-hundreds-of-evacuations-in-southern-france | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:40:10

  • "There is, in consequence, a growing disconnect between national industrial policy and local planning law." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/readers-letters-piecemeal-planning-is-not-good-enough-for-giant-data-centres-8814429 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:40:32

  • "Careful What You Sue For" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/22/careful-what-you-sue-for-trumps-bbc-case-just-forced-his-financial-records-into-discovery/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:41:41

  • "Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Cribb says the technology already exists" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/big-tech-could-stop-the-spread-of-child-abuse-images-why-doesnt-it/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:42:09

  • "Under investigation in France, Daniel Siad, 69, was one of several French men accused of aiding Epstein to traffic and abuse women. " ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260722-french-modelling-scout-linked-to-us-sex-offender-epstein-found-dead-outside-paris | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:42:21

  • "Stevens and the AIPAC-backed United Democracy Project (UDP) find themselves in an expensive battle against the Democratic Party’s own voters" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/aipac-backed-pac-pours-millions-into-beating-abdul-el-sayed-in-michigan/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:45:50

  • "Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-stanford-students-booing-sundar-pichai/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:46:13

  • "Handsy Hegseth now has his hand in America’s pocket, trying to fish our wallet out. And by all appearances Congress, with its power of the purse, is going along." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-greatest-threat-to-america | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:46:23

  • "Experts confirmed that Scurr had uncovered a rare copy of the Declaration that was printed in Exeter, New Hampshire, in July 1776." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-volunteer-stumbled-upon-a-strange-document-in-the-uk-national-archives-it-turned-out-to-be-a-rare-copy-of-the-declaration-of-independence-printed-in-july-1776-180989169/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:46:45

  • "Both chambers of France's Parliament passed the law, which also bars phone use in high schools and aims to take effect by September." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/social-media-ban-for-children-france-becomes-first-eu-nation-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-15-11803975#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:47:01

  • "Experts said that once the new bridge connecting Dandong in China with Sinuiju in North Korea is complete, trade volume will more than double" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2026/07/21/north-korea-china-new-yalu-bridge/ | Source: RFA    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:47:27

  • "stripped of their nationality" ☛ https://www.laprensani.com/2026/07/21/english/3743375-daniel-ortega-declares-nicaragua-will-never-hold-elections-again | Source: La Prensa    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:48:17

  • "Nicaragua was supposed to return to the polls in November 2027 after a constitutional reform extended the presidential term." ☛ https://www.elconstitucional.es/en/international/daniel-ortega-buries-the-ballot-boxes-in-nicaragua-and-prepares-to-perpetuate-his-family-in-power-there-will-be-no-more-elections-here_6446_102.html | Source: El Constitucional    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:49:21

  • "An appeals court in California upheld the trial court’s finding that a driver lacked standing under the Automated License Plate Recognition statute to sue for the collection and storage of his data." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/license-plate-data-lawsuit-fails-in-california/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:49:44

  • "Unfortunately, no. The big companies in the middle are just taking such a big bite that it’s unacceptable to both ends." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/are-ya-winning-son/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:51:56

  • "Jones’ statements started with a reader prompt." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3196115/excel-and-ai-are-becoming-one-heres-what-that-means.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:53:55

  • "After a brief question and answer period with the police chief, the mayor spoke." ☛ https://www.404media.co/what-happened-when-flock-came-to-my-town/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:54:36

  • "The technology has gained attention after The Times of India (TOI) reported that Delhi Police is investigating whether protesters from the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) used such apps during demonstrations in central Delhi" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/bluetooth-mesh-messaging-apps-delhi-protests-cjp-investigation-138510242.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:56:54

  • "Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/first-person-identity-theft-story.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:58:27

  • "Abbott maintained in its statement that it did not expect any material impact on the business or financials from the attack" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/patients-sue-diagnostics-company-over-data-breach/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:58:55

  • "For enterprises, the surge means not only more attacks but also a larger and constantly changing pool of adversaries to track and defend against." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransomware-is-accelerating-not-ai | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 07:59:05

  • "In this video you will learn how lessons from the Code Red worm 25 years ago can help today's security leaders think about AI security, shadow AI, attack surface management" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/25-years-after-code-red-what-the-worm-era-can-teach-us-about-ai-security-2 | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:01:45

  • "A cyberattack on a food and logistics firm disrupts the supply of frozen food to thousands of clients, including major franchises like Kentucky Fried Chicken." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransomware-attack-japanese-frozen-food-chain | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:01:55

  • "Keep Reddit safe from whom exactly? Me? My desire for knowledge??" ☛ https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/ |    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:03:07

  • "AI regulation for minors" ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-forums-social-media-ai-minors/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:04:08

  • "The complaint specifically targets features including autoplay, Instagram Reels, push notifications, and designs that cause content to disappear after a limited period." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/tennessee-takes-meta-to-trial-over-instagram-addiction-allegations/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:07:01

  • "It’s a lot more fun, and a lot less arduous, to try to beat social media at its own game instead, and harness your curiosity." ☛ https://www.vox.com/life/496175/get-off-social-media-phone-curiosity-creativity | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:07:23

  • "Enron’s crime was hiding them" ☛ https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai | Source: The Next Web    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:07:43

  • "AI is only as reliable as the data it learns from. If that data is manipulated, biased or corrupted, the model can produce inaccurate, unsafe, or misleading results." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/data-poisoning-in-ai-models-what-businesses-need-to-know/283953/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:08:05

  • "AI is only as reliable as the data it learns from. If that data is manipulated, biased or corrupted, the model can produce inaccurate, unsafe, or misleading results." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/data-poisoning-in-ai-models-what-businesses-need-to-know/283953/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

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

  • "Across San Francisco Bay Area campuses and offices" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-22/they-built-ai-now-silicon-valley-workers-protest-its-threat-to-jobs-humanity | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:08:33

  • "I’ve been building systems, teaching system design, and writing papers about novel designs for a couple of decades now." ☛ https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2026/07/22/agentdesign.html | Source: Mahesh Balakrishnan    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:08:42

  • "This is OpenAI admitting what would normally constitute a crime. And putting a marketing spin on the crime." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/22/openai-hacks-huggingface-with-an-ai-allegedly/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:08:52

  • "I feel like at the moment if I'm lucky, 50% of my days at work are tolerable. I don't like that." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/fumes | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:09:01

  • "Here’s the thing: websites were never built just for humans." ☛ https://joost.blog/future-of-the-website/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:09:11

  • "But perhaps the frontier labs really have their backs against the wall with the upcoming release of Kimi K3 et al." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/huggingface-openai-exploit/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:10:00

  • "So there we have it: The large language models can only ingest what is placed within reach, and they work in parallel to generate material based on what their inner" ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-artificial-intelligence-is-slowly.html | Source: BSDly    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:10:37

  • "The episode, which occurred during benchmark testing of the models, underscores a growing reality" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/openai-models-autonomously-hack-hugging-face | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:13:13

  • "The decline in referral traffic to UK publishers is no surprise when we look at the rise of ‘stop here’ behaviours caused by AI." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/unreliable-ai-answers-are-good-enough-for-most-users-of-platforms/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:13:33

  • "That's the disturbing discovery of a team of security researchers at UC San Diego" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-device-hidden-in-cars-across-the-us-leaves-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-and-paralysis-patch-it-now/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:14:25

  • "Threat intelligence firm Defused appears to be the first to have observed exploitation of CVE-2026-50522." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/fourth-sharepoint-vulnerability-exploited-in-past-months-wave-of-attacks/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:16:01

  • "Vilifying the Sacklers felt like justice because it gave the crisis a face and an ending. It was never going to be the fix, because the fix was never about removing specific people." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/the-opioid-crisis-was-never-about-the-sacklers/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:16:22

  • "Recently I started noticing that my mental health has been getting better ever since I started listening to jazz." ☛ https://winnielim.org/journal/jazz-and-my-mental-health/ | Source: Winnie Lim    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:16:32

  • "Distrust a name that's on everything. When the same brand appears on your pan, your knives, your toaster, and a box fan, nobody who owns it makes anything." ☛ https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose |    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:16:54

  • "I love Rory Stewart’s memoir about being a politician; its one of the best books I’ve read about British politics." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/22/advice-for-englands-latest-secretary-of-state-for-education/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:17:14

  • "Cuts to U.S. foreign aid and research funding have left tens of millions of dollars in gaps in the fight against spreading Ebola and mpox outbreaks, scientists told KFF Health News." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-prosecutes-us-scientists-amid-severe-ebola-epidemic/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:17:49

  • "But sometimes it doesn’t matter. A trivial example is when x = 0. A more interesting example is [...]" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/22/degrees-radians/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:18:01

  • "Every Linux User Must Care About The MPEG 4 Patents" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/every-linux-user-must-care-about-the:e    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:18:41

  • "Within seconds, the Montana ranch kid emptied his pockets, splashed across a side channel and waded chest-deep into the river. " ☛ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/21/14-year-old-ranch-kid-ropes-drowning-man-on-yellowstone-river-saves-life/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:18:54

  • "This page details what kind of paper things I use to organize my (woefully disorganized) life. And all the useful resources I found along the way." ☛ https://aartaka.me/uses-paper.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:19:04

  • "In Sönke Ahrens’ description of the Zettelkasten workflow, permanent atomic notes are the output of a pipeline, not the only format allowed to exist. The original system never demanded that." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/notes-that-can-never-be-atomic/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:19:16

  • "In case you are wondering, for the duration of this challenge run I wrote: [...]" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/500-days-to-offload/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:19:27

  • "Why do we blog? There are a ton of reasons and everyone who blogs have their own motivations and reasons. You could ask every blogger you follow and probably get as many answers as you ask people." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/on-blogging-blaugust-and-challenging-yourself/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:19:57

  • "Reports coming in of the death of John C. Dvorak, apparently passed away on Monday (July 20th) from complications of heart bypass surgery." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/07/john-c-dvorak-has-died.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:20:07

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1717.jpg    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:26:03

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2074.jpg    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:26:07

  • partial disinfo: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:28:14

  • "SharePoint, on the other hand, was a nightmare to use." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260722-switching-to-sharepoint.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:28:19

  • "This is an empathy exercise, but don’t worry: you’re gonna get to hate someone along the way if you want to. Or if you love them, that's okay too. The exercise doesn't hinge on your hatred of them." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/empathy-exercise    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:28:53

  • "Anyone who has worked with an old codebase knows what it looks like.There are functions nobody remembers writing. Sections have been disabled rather than deleted. Old compatibility fixes remain because removing them might break something unexpected. A module marked “deprecated” still handles one obscure process on alternate Tuesdays." gemini://soulthreader.njb1966.com/articles/2026-07-22-blog.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:30:39

  • hold it together gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/hold_it_together    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:31:17

  • "Weather lately has been a little sketchy, with many rainy or overcast days. But I've still made it out to the Tanana trails for lunch breaks here and there. As we get far into the summer now, I have been transitioning my focus from flowers, back to trees." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260722-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 08:31:48

  • Red Hat IT is being moved to IBM effective Oct 1 https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kx924zkx    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:09:10

  • "On Saturday, August 8th, 2026, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML." ☛ https://2026.html.energy/ |    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:09:31

  • "Users should not yet rely on this behavior as there are no defined semantics for "releases no longer accepting new files" or APIs available to confirm the state of the release." ☛ https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/ | Source: Python Package Index    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:09:52

  • "I recently migrated one of my client projects from the legacy django-csp package to Django 6.0’s built-in Content Security Policy (CSP) support (release note)." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/07/22/introducing-django-crawl/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:10:04

  • "While I was in Kraków, Poland during EuroPython 2026 I was able to sneak away from sprints and buy a few PAL region GameCube games for my collection." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/pal-gamecube-haul-from-krakow-poland | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:10:14

  • "Some observations about the «similar words map», used to translate the words in list1 to list2. (And yes, I have chosen to call list3 a «translation list»): [...]" ☛ https://raku-musings.com/similar-rgb-list.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:11:05

  • "Something that I think is often overlooked by many software developers is the value of domain knowledge, i.e. understanding the industry you’re in and the mindset of the end-users of your software." ☛ https://www.gustavwengel.dk/value-of-domain-knowledge |    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:11:55

  • "Yet if you ask PHP what it thinks, it will tell you you’re wrong in a couple rare cases: [...]" ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/log-is-non-monotonic-in-php-and-lua/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:12:06

  • "The prospect of autonomous exploitation predates current language models." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/security-at-machine-speed-is-the-wrong-race/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:12:16

  • "Fair question. You call std::filesystem::last_write_time(), you get back a time point, and you want the calendar components. How hard can it be?" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/07/22/extracting-datetime-from-mtime | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:18:44

  • "Preprints started in the non-profit space and, as Coates notes, some of the most well-known preprint servers are non-profit (Figure 1)." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/22/guest-post-what-does-commercial-adoption-mean-for-the-preprint-movement/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:19:10

  • "At useR! 2026 in Warsaw" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/a-world-still-to-be-mapped-reflections-on-geocomputation-in-r-takeaways-from-the-talk-and-workshop-at-user-2026/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:24:12

  • "Coolest Projects UK returned to Bradford in May, with more than 200 young people showcasing digital projects they had designed and built themselves." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/robots-games-ai-and-more-at-coolest-projects-uk-2026/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:24:32

  • "This year’s DevSummit felt a little different from previous years." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-trip-report-shengyi-hung/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:24:47

  • "The June 2026 FreeBSD DevSummit & BSDCan was again successfully recorded and streamed through longtime streaming sponsor ScaleEngine." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-travel-report-patrick-mcevoy/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:24:56

  • "This year, I had the great privilege of receiving the FreeBSD Foundation travel grant to attend BSDCan." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-travel-report-novkovic/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:26:53

  • "Finally, I have embarked on the Augean task of dealing with my bookmarks and tags, a reminder that link rot is all pervasive and also that rot is evitable if you make the effort." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/dont-make-me-fix-your-broken-links | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:27:12

  • "As we head into the summer months, a new Extended Support Release (ESR) is in full bloom. Thunderbird 153 “Meadow” is out now, and from all of us at MZLA" ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/thunderbird-153-meadow-is-out-now/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:27:40

  • "Nokia Corporation Report for Q2 and Half Year 2026" https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nokia-corporation-report-for-q2-and-half-year-2026/ slopmeisters    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:27:57

  • s/Weaponised Against J.K. Rowling/Weaponised Against Women/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/23/BLinks_23_07_2026_RIP_John_C_Dvorak_Organisation_Weaponised_Aga.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:28:17

  • Anon: Nokia held illegal/invalid sw patents on H.264 if I understand correctly that explained their aversion to Ogg Theora    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:28:49

  • ... sunk cost fallacy, loved by PHBs, shoehorns Microsoft SharePoint into yet another work flow where it is especially ill fitting and inappropriate. gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260722-switching-to-sharepoint.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:29:14

  • does loli guy understand how swpats work? https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/every-linux-user-must-care-about-the:e Anon: I presume that loliboi does not properly understand patents; I missed the last 25% of that video though    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:31:14

  • "In a recent security assessment, we were unable to intercept the traffic originating from a WebView from an Android application." ☛ https://blog.nviso.eu/2026/07/22/intercepting-android-webview-traffic-under-new-certificate-validity-requirement-by-chromium/ | Source: NVISO Labs    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:31:31

  • "The Parquet community has recognized this problem and is actively working on addressing it. Several options for adding fixed-length list support are currently under discussion" ☛ https://www.morling.dev/blog/fast-path-for-fixed-length-lists-in-parquet/ | Source: Gunnar Morling    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:32:07

  • [Old] "To perhaps state the obvious, I’ve found that monitoring the status of all the systems and services we depend on brings reassurance and faster resolutions." ☛ https://tech.chrishardie.com/2026/nagios-small-business-infrastructure-monitoring/ | Source: Chris Hardie    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:32:23

  • "My recent endeavors on the Fairphone + Android and the Pixel added to my general distrust and aversion toward the smartphone stuff." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-4-review.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:33:39

  • "The project began in 2016, when Takoma Park asked residents for ideas on what to do with a payphone that technology had made obsolete." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/22/birdcalls-how-an-old-payphone-became-a-decade-long-lesson-in-what-technology-is-for/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:33:54

  • "But if you do happen to own a YubiKey and either a laser engraver capable of marking it or a fancy UV printer, [madeinoz67] has put together an awesome tool for adding some visual flair to your two-factor authentication device." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/dress-up-your-yubikey-with-this-web-based-tool/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:34:04

  • "Physical size is not the only upgrade." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-10-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-available-now-at-80/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:34:15

  • "The emulator is called Anemoia-ESP32, and as its name suggests is a re-write of the Anemoia emulator specifically built for the ESP32." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/60-fps-nes-emulator-on-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:35:23

  • [Old] "As with home computers utilised for “server stuff”, I have a history when it comes to networking which goes a little bit further than that of the average Internet user." ☛ https://thorsell.io/2026/01/08/state-of-the-home-lab-network.html | Source: Erik Thorsell    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:42:34

  • "This week Jonathan chats with Michael Meeks about Collabora! What’s the origin story in this consulting company" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/floss-weekly-episode-876-there-is-no-money-fairy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:44:33

  • "trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-477/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:44:43

  • [Old] "The fall of 2014 I built my first real server. The purpose was to supersede the Synology NAS and build something reasonably “production grade”. (Albeit, as a second year university student," ☛ https://thorsell.io/2026/01/06/state-of-the-home-lab.html | Source: Erik Thorsell    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:45:24

  • Keep an eye on IVOR if you love retro-FPS action with a Norse-inspired world | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/keep-an-eye-on-ivor-if-you-love-retro-fps-action-with-a-norse-inspired-world/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:47:36

  • Proton-CachyOS adds support for vkd3d-low-latency, upgrades d7vk and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-cachyos-adds-support-for-vkd3d-low-latency-upgrades-d7vk-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-cachyos-adds-support-for-vkd3d-low-latency-upgrades-d7vk-and-more/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:47:56

  • Sanctuary: Shattered Sun could be an interesting Supreme Commander spiritual successor | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/sanctuary-shattered-sun-could-be-an-interesting-supreme-commander-spiritual-successor/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:48:23

  • "If you look at the 5 year chart there's essentially no support below $200 until you get into the 160s. Look out below." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hzf7a    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:49:18

  • "AK didn't convince anyone, he's using old worn out Ginni excuses - This is right out of Ginni's tired playbook " One quarter does not define a company. Progress is never perfect or linear. But the future is ours to win"" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hw592    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:50:01

  • "Ginni taught him well how to destroy a company" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hw592    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:50:17

  • IBM's CEO Sends a Warning as Its Shares Take Their Worst Hit in Decades https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7dx10q Canonical link to OP's article -- https://blusherme.com/uncategorized/ibms-ceo-sends-a-warning-as-its-shares-take-their-worst-hit-in-decades/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:52:02

  • "It’s been lipstick on pig for a long long time" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky798x0y    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:53:00

  • "What kind of reorganization is IBM planning?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky754x85    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:53:47

  • "The Pre-Market open is at $200 for IBM share. Let the slide begin .. HEA YA ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky754x85 "Lipstick On A Pig ! LOL"    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:54:09

  • "Completely agree. To add, for inorganic growth, IBM is borrowing heavily to purchase a new SW company. Sudden decrease in revenue (and profit) means IBM's already heavily leveraged balance sheet will constraint IBM's ability to acquire yet another company to buy its way to revenue growth."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:54:28

  • "SW growth was already slowing before MF revenue disaster hit. That's two strikes now. Next potential problem is watsonx products. There are chatters and mixed views about its competitiveness. I suspect IBM share price will stagnate for a while."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:54:35

  • apropos our article / questions yesterday: https://boingboing.net/2026/07/22/products-are-getting-worse-on-purpose.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/22/Things_We_Could_Do_More_Than_Half_a_Century_Ago_But_Can_No_Long.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:59:14

  • "Why the UK wants to BAN VPNs" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/why-the-uk-wants-to-ban-vpns:e    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:59:29

  • "WeRecoverData Investigated By Former Federal Fraud Investigator @fakereviewwatch" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/werecoverdata-investigated-by-former:5    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 14:59:40

  • "ROBERT BATES: I've used every method available to get Labour to reveal the real number of serious crimes committed by migrants in Britain. Now, they're taking legal action to block me... it's a complete cover-up | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15994295/Labour-reveal-number-crimes-migrants-Britain-cover-ROBERT-BATES.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:00:11

  • "Poll reveals top words Americans use to describe Trump | The Independent" https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-dangerous-poll-approval-rating-b3019132.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:00:24

  • Monitoring control mechanisms must be reviewed | "Övervakningens kontrollmekanismer måste granskas" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/21/overvakningens-kontrollmekanismer-maste-granskas/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:01:21

  • "The deal is expected to last 30 years and is also expected to involve U.S. firms in developing the program. The deal could allow for the building of a uranium enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia following a joint U.S.-Saudi study." https://www.ksl.com/article/51600551/trump-approves-nuclear-agreement-that-may-allow-saudi-arabia-to-enrich-uranium-two-ap-sources-say    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:01:54

  • "Trophies for Trump are part of new protest art on the National Mall - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2026-07-17/essential-arts-secret-handshake-participation-trophy-trump-july-17    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:02:15

  • "Why Monday's livestream never happened & the lesson to learn from it" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-monday's-livestream-never-happened:3    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:02:29

  • "Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/21/some-mullvad-vpn-customers-tunnel-for-exit-after-co-founder-donates-millions-to-populist-party/5275012    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:02:40

  • "Trump's Biggest Self-Dealing Scheme Yet - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-biggest-self-dealing-scheme    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:02:51

  • "Trump Admin’s War on ICC Isn’t About US Sovereignty — It’s About Impunity | Truthout" https://truthout.org/video/trump-admins-war-on-icc-isnt-about-us-sovereignty-its-about-impunity/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:03:03

  • "Trump's Saudi Nuclear Pact Opens Door To Uranium Enrichment. What's At Stake" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trumps-saudi-nuclear-pact-opens-door-to-uranium-enrichment-whats-at-stake-11808282#publisher=newsstand    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:03:14

  • Silent dissatisfaction exacerbates polarization | "Att tysta missnöje förvärrar polariseringen" https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/22/att-tysta-missnoje-forvarrar-polariseringen/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:04:11

  • The original Darkest Dungeon is set for a new DLC over 10 years after release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/the-original-darkest-dungeon-is-set-for-a-new-dlc-over-10-years-after-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:04:54

  • dbrand reveal their Steam Machine skins including a few Valve inspired looks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/dbrand-reveal-their-steam-machine-skins-including-a-few-valve-inspired-looks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:05:13

  • Fresh stable Steam update out with updates for Steam Machine, Steam Controller, Remote Play and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/fresh-stable-steam-update-out-with-updates-for-steam-machine-steam-controller-remote-play-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:05:31

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 661 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/07/22/this-week-in-rust-661/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:11:03

  • [Podcast] DNS query duplication ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/23/podcast-dns-query-duplication/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:11:25

  • Thunderbird Blog: Thunderbird 153 “Meadow” is out now! ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/thunderbird-153-meadow-is-out-now/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:11:56

  • "Where are all the LinkedIn posts gloating about the stock prices now? There were so many of them a few weeks ago. "So proud to work for this company" followed by an image of the stock at $320. Not just execs either (probably the same people that comment on W3 blogs). Radio silent now." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky655fsk    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:22:44

  • "LinkedIn is a steaming pile of s-h-i-t. It's a useless site filled with delusional egomaniacs and narcissists constantly patting themselves on the back because they need validation. The most nauseating thing about LinkedIn is the virtue-signaling and constant self promotion by these delusional people for literally menial accomplishments. Then they start with the "This journey to this has taught me resilience, patience, blah, blah, blah…” BS . Absolutely pathetic and nauseating."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:23:09

  • "Then they start with the "This journey to this has taught me resilience, patience, blah, blah, blah…” BS . Absolutely pathetic and nauseating."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:23:20

  • "LinkedIn is a steaming pile of s-h-i-t. It's a useless site filled with delusional egomaniacs and narcissists constantly patting themselves on the back because they need validation. The most nauseating thing about LinkedIn is the virtue-signaling and constant self promotion by these delusional people for literally menial accomplishments."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:23:24

  • "They're all busy trying to clean the sh-t out of their mouths. Bob shorted and made bank." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky655fsk    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:23:28

  • "Lol, parasites" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxhftgn9    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:26:27

  • "My manager always lied on me..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxhhhsj    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:26:44

  • "bullsh-t... you say that coz you're on the payroll... or worst... a bootlicker" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxkhewfh    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:27:04

  • "AK the clown never mentioned the $70B in market value that he destroyed" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky54w55b    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:32:00

  • "He is much worse than Ginni in terms of tearing down the company and destroying morale. She was no great shakes , but he ripped it down. So many incompetent leaders under him. Could care 2 cents about employees, product quality or customers . . I was there for all of her , and 4 years of him." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky54w55b    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:32:04

  • "I know y'all hated Ginni but her support for Design launched my career into something worth fighting for. Those 7 years of my 30 years at IBM were very good. But Arvind has been a disease since Day 1. He steals, he destroys. He does not build - except in India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hw592    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:34:31

  • "That left Tesla with negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion, down 848 percent year-on-year. It expects spending to keep rising and exceed $25 billion for the year." https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/23/tesla-burns-through-a-billion-as-musk-bets-the-farm-on-chips-and-bots/5276944    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:35:45

  • An update on the scraper situation https://lwn.net/Articles/1080822/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:43:47

  • Lockless MPSC FIFO queues for io_uring https://lwn.net/Articles/1081871/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:44:14

  • Kitty chases the mouse https://lwn.net/Articles/1080821/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:46:17

  • QBE 1.3: metaprogramming, performance, and cross-platform support https://lwn.net/Articles/1080519/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:47:02

  • Topics in filesystem testing https://lwn.net/Articles/1082342/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:47:46

  • Shielding running kernels against exploits with BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1081546/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:48:36

  • Sending packets directly from BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1081696/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:49:09

  • Bubble popping https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/amazon-layoffs-hit-employees-in-the-group-focusing-on-artificial-general-intelligence-that-everyone-including-google-microsoft-and-openai-say-is-one-of-their-biggest-goals/articleshow/132576257.cms https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 15:55:44

  • BirdCalls: how an old payphone became a decade-long lesson in what technology is for ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/22/birdcalls-how-an-old-payphone-became-a-decade-long-lesson-in-what-technology-is-for/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:01:37

  • Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 - Results, results, results ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-4-review.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:02:15

  • Intercepting Android WebView traffic under new certificate validity requirement by Chromium ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2026/07/22/intercepting-android-webview-traffic-under-new-certificate-validity-requirement-by-chromium/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:02:52

  • BSDCan 2026 Travel Report – Novković ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2026-travel-report-novkovic/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:03:23

  • Fourth SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited in Past Month’s Wave of Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fourth-sharepoint-vulnerability-exploited-in-past-months-wave-of-attacks/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:06:33

  • Unreliable Hey Hi (AI) answers are ‘good enough’ for most users of platforms ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/unreliable-ai-answers-are-good-enough-for-most-users-of-platforms/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:06:51

  • First-Person Identity Theft Story ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/first-person-identity-theft-story.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:07:36

  • Chill Out ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1160/chill-out    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:08:15

  • From Institutions to Individuals: the White House Report on Revitalizing U.S. Scientific Leadership ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/22/from-institutions-to-individuals-the-white-house-report-on-revitalizing-u-s-scientific-leadership/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:09:08

  • Iran Continues Executions Amid Protest By Death Row Inmates ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-executions-protest-death-row-inmates/33810002.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:09:41

  • "The first summit is scheduled to take place on Feb. 18, 2027, in Barcelona, Spain, held alongside SUSECON. The second is scheduled to take place on April 14, 2027, in Dallas, Texas." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/07/22/open-dev-summits/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:10:52

  • "Sfera Labs has begun shipping the Strato Pi Plus, a DIN-rail industrial edge server based on the Raspberry Pi 4B or Raspberry Pi 5." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/sfera-labs-ships-strato-pi-plus-with-quad-rs-485-and-can-fd/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:11:04

  • "Raspberry Pi has introduced a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2, expanding the display family beyond the existing 5-inch and 7-inch models." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-launches-10-inch-touch-display-2-with-1200-x-1920-resolution/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:11:10

  • Opt Green Has Ended. Long Live Opt Green! ☞ https://eco.kde.org/blog/2026-07-22-opt-green-end-part-i-repair-cafes/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:11:58

  • "Managing disparate software repositories manually or trying to lock package versions across older, fragmented systems is highly time-consuming and introduces a severe risk of operational drift." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/avoid-operational-drift-red-hat-lightspeed-content-templates-rhel-extended-environments | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:12:28

  • "That’s where IP Address Management (IPAM) comes in. IPAM is the process of tracking, organizing, and managing all the IP addresses in your network." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ip-address-management-tools-for-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:12:53

  • Stop chunking tables: How we built an agentic GraphRAG for financial disclosures with Docling ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/22/how-we-built-agentic-graphrag-financial-disclosures    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:13:46

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: July 22nd Deploy ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/july-22nd-deploy/149012    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:21:10

  • Documentary on film censorship in Ireland coming to RTÉ ☞ https://about.rte.ie/2026/07/22/documentary-on-film-censorship-in-ireland-coming-to-rte/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:21:58

  • XBox is dead. Not it's just some "Windows mod". ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/microsoft-announces-xbox-backward-compatibility-for-pc-will-let-gamers-play-classic-console-games-on-pcs-and-handhelds    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:32:42

  • WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-1-beta-3/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:33:46

  • PyPI now rejects new files after 14 days ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1084218/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:34:09

  • Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer Hey Hi (AI) Antiseptics ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/open-sauce-gps-time-badge/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:35:01

  • Rondo Meets Geoserver, (Wed, Jul 22nd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33176    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:35:42

  • PlayStation 3 emulator adds support for ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/playstation-3-emulator-adds-support-for-ati-radeon-hd-2000-3000-and-4000-series-graphics-cards-on-linux-20-year-old-hd-2600-crumbles-can-only-run-portal-at-13-fps-in-273p    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:36:56

  • Arduino UNO Q Arcade bundle lets you build a custom retro gaming console for about $90 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/22/arduino-uno-q-arcade-bundle-lets-you-build-a-custom-retro-gaming-console/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:37:43

  • "I remember Ginni made the statement " Stock price doesn't matter" when she was trying to explain away another one of her failed quarters." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hw592    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:45:14

  • "And Arvind is "only the stock price matters". He has burnt the company down to collect the insurance money. There are probably more abandoned IBM sites now than there are ones with employees."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:45:50

  • "No one is arguing that Ginni was not incompetent. But she was right that you need to spend money to make money - it must be invested. And products must be compelling if you want someone to buy them; they will not sell themselves."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:45:54

  • "Arvind thinks cost cutting is sustainable as opposed to being a short-term fix. He has already folded on AI; Quantum cannot carry the whole company unless you think 200 employees is the carrying capacity of the company."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:45:59

  • "He has invested in nothing else. He is a parasite who steals and gives nothing in return but vapor and lies."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:46:05

  • "Ginni s u c k e d - but Arvind s u c k s like a blackhole that destroys everything around it."    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:46:10

  • AnuBitux 3.5.6 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/anubitux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:48:23

  • Shadowfetch 1.2.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shadowfetch    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:48:30

  • ObsidianOS 2026.07.21 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obsidianos    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:48:38

  • Manjaro 26.1.0-rc2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:48:48

  • Ubuntu 26.10 adds Ubuntu Certified check to Settings ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2610-certified-hardware-check    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:49:06

  • This theme makes Discord look native on GNOME ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/discord-gnome-theme-adwaita-vesktop    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:50:00

  • GNU/Linux File Manager ☞ https://itsfoss.com/nautilus-my-computer/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:51:15

  • "If IBM is the leader in Quantum then why are they doing acquisitions? Also, it seems like HRL Labs had a pretty significant layoff a few months ago." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7qwfsz    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:52:04

  • 10 Best Free and Open Source Java Object-Relational Mapping Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-object-relational-mapping-software-java/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:52:40

  • Keyward – terminal user interface for managing SSH keys and configuration ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/keyward-terminal-user-interface-for-managing-ssh-keys-and-configuration/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:52:47

  • OBS Studio 32.2.0 Released with SDR to HDR Composer & Ubuntu 26.04 DEB ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/obs-studio-32-2-0-released-with-sdr-to-hdr-composer-ubuntu-26-04-deb/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:54:09

  • COSMIC Desktop 1.4.0 Released with Enhanced System Monitor ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/cosmic-desktop-1-4-0-enhanced-system-monitor/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:54:38

  • VirtualBox 7.2.14 Released with Initial GNU/Linux 7.2 Kernel Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/virtualbox-7-2-14-released-with-initial-linux-7-2-kernel-support/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:54:43

  • osip @ Savannah: osip2 [5.3.2] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10916    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:55:29

  • "Why? If our Quantum is good? This really is confusing acquisition. I am not so sure this is a good thing" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7qwfsz    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:56:34

  • Raspberry Pi launch 10-inch Touch Display 2 for $80 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/raspberry-pi-10-inch-touch-display    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:57:56

  • Here’s why Ubuntu 26.04 stopped nagging you about updates ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-update-notifications-disabled    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:58:13

  • Sniffnet 1.5.1 added Latency Check & CIDR Ranges in IP blacklists ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/sniffnet-1-5-1-latency-check-cidr-ip-blacklists/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 16:59:04

  • Microsoft Launches Test for Ad-Supported Xbox Game Streaming, Promises the Ads Will Not 'Interrupt the Flow of Gameplay' https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-launches-test-for-ad-supported-xbox-game-streaming-promises-the-ads-will-not-interrupt-the-flow-of-gameplay    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 17:36:27

  • Riley Moore demands removal of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/07/22/riley-moore-demands-removal-of-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-485094/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 17:37:11

  • Layoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In Doubt https://aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-accessibility/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 17:38:09

  • Digital Independence https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/sv/initiativ/1669 https://digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi/en/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:08:50

  • Middle East live: Houthi rebels claim attacks on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260723-middle-east-live-houthi-rebels-claim-attacks-on-saudi-tankers-in-the-red-sea    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:24:10

  • Amnesty International calls for investigation into Pakistani strikes in Kabul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/amnesty-international-calls-for-investigation-into-pakistani-strikes-in-kabul    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:24:36

  • Houthis Claim Strikes on 2 Saudi Oil Tankers in Red Sea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/middleeast/houthis-saudi-oil-tankers-red-sea.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:24:57

  • State Chief Privacy Officers Can Have Real Power ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/state-chief-privacy-officers    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:27:37

  • Flock Is in Serious Trouble After Massive Backlash ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-axon-alpr-surveillance-privacy    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:27:54

  • Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Strikes In Red Sea As War Widens Amid 12th Night Of US Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:28:09

  • Kaidan 0.16.0: Media Viewer and Convenient Voice Messages ☞ https://kaidan.im/2026/07/21/kaidan-0.16.0/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:30:01

  • Ninja Tune’s Fcukers Top AIM’s Independent Music Awards, with Spotify, Meta, and Amazon Music Handing Big Assists ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/21/ninja-tune-fcukers-independent-music-awards/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:31:59

  • Cal State Settled Gender-Discrimination Claims Against a Departing President. Now It's Given Him a New Job. ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/cal-state-settled-gender-discrimination-claims-against-a-departing-president-now-its-given-him-a-new-job    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:32:38

  • The Long Shadow of Columbia's Deal With Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-long-shadow-of-columbias-deal-with-trump    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:33:21

  • Peter Hutterer: libei integrations in the XDG RemoteDesktop and InputCapture portals ☞ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2026/07/libei-integrations-in-xdg-remotedesktop.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:34:14

  • Peter Hutterer: libei and gesture events ☞ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2026/07/libei-and-gesture-events.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:39:57

  • How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/science/orcas-sunfish-ramming.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:42:33

  • Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/science/contagious-cancer-catfish.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:42:42

  • Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 16.2 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/07/23/kiwi-tcms-162/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:43:07

  • HRW exposes torture, drone attacks and missing crew in US-Ecuador joint operations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/hrw-report-exposes-torture-drone-attacks-and-missing-crew-in-us-ecuador-joint-operations/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:45:55

  • NetBSD 11.0-RC7 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/netbsd    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:46:44

  • NetBSD 11.0 RC7 available! ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc7_available    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 18:47:12

  • $99 Xteink X4 Pro 4.3-inch touchscreen eReader to support CrossPoint Reader open-source firmware ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/23/99-xteink-x4-pro-4-3-inch-touchscreen-ereader-to-support-crosspoint-reader-open-source-firmware/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:17:08

  • Israeli Banks Threaten to Cut Off Palestinian Economy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/middleeast/israeli-banks-palestinian-economy.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:17:57

  • LLM Slop Makes You Look Bad ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/22/llm-slop/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:25:53

  • SLAPPs Did Not Work ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/22/slapp-did-not-work/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:25:58

  • US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-siemens-schneider-and-rockwell-ics-devices/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:26:24

  • The Hague dismisses Halozyme’s PI bid against MSD over Keytruda ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/the-hague-dismisses-halozymes-pi-bid-against-msd-over-keytruda/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:26:36

  • PortProtonQt: Custom Polkit Rule Allows Escalation of NetworkManager and UDisks2 Privileges (CVE-2026-59678) ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/07/22/port-proton-qt-polkit-rules.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:27:50

  • Dockerfile COPY vs ADD: Which to Use ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/dockerfile-copy-vs-add/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:28:22

  • State of the Invidious Project ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/22/State_of_the_Invidious_Project.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:28:33

  • Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/technology/meta-social-media-lawsuit.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:28:49

  • ACEMAGICIAN Kron K1 mini PC gets low-cost variant with AMD Ryzen R2544 CPU, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/22/acemagician-kron-k1-mini-pc-gets-low-cost-variant-with-amd-ryzen-r2544-cpu-8gb-ddr4-256gb-ssd/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:30:03

  • Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 10″ Portrait review, 3D printed VESA mount ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/22/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-10%e2%80%b3-portrait-review-3d-printed-vesa-mount/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:30:17

  • NYPD hate crimes unit investigating separate antisemitic and anti-Muslim attacks across NYC ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/07/23/us-news/nypd-hate-crimes-unit-investigating-separate-antisemitic-and-anti-muslim-attacks-across-nyc/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:30:42

  • Ransomware Group Threatening to Leak Data Stolen From Coca-Cola’s Fairlife ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-group-threatening-to-leak-data-stolen-from-coca-colas-fairlife/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:31:15

  • Man Sues OpenAI, Saying Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Almost Killed Him With Horrendously Dangerous Medical Advice ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-lawsuit-chatgpt-dangerous-medical-advice    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:31:39

  • Microsoft ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-companies-have-hidden-debt-worth-around-usd1-65-trillion-report-claims-amount-is-122-percent-of-debt-reflected-on-the-balance-sheets-of-alphabet-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-oracle    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:32:48

  • Sam Thursfield: 22nd July 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/22nd-july-2026/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:33:25

  • Alphabet’s stock sinks after it bumps up Hey Hi (AI) infrastructure spending yet again ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/alphabets-stock-sinks-bumps-ai-infrastructure-spending-yet/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:33:53

  • Easy Installer first test ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/easy-installer-first-test.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:34:28

  • Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1084210/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:35:29

  • Syslog-ng journald source: how to avoid log bombs on errors? ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-journald-source-how-to-avoid-log-bombs-on-error/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:36:11

  • How To Install Amarok Music Player on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-amarok-music-player-fedora-44/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:39:06

  • How To Install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-obs-studio-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:39:22

  • How To Install Tor Browser on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-tor-browser-fedora-44/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:39:31

  • Welcome to our new TDF members! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/22/welcome-to-our-new-tdf-members/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:40:08

  • Join the LibreOffice team as a Marketing and Communication Professional (full-time, remote, m/f/d) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/23/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-marketing-and-communication-professional-full-time-remote-m-f-d/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:40:22

  • "Linux is NOT a Social Warrior Project," Torvalds Says Incorrectly ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-is-not-a-social-warrior-project    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:40:31

  • USITC Litigation Funding Disclosure Comments Reveal Overwhelming Public Support ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/22/usitc-litigation-funding-disclosure-comments-reveal-overwhelming-public-support    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:41:23

  • Judge approves record $1.5 billion Hey Hi (AI) copyright monopoly settlement involving Anthropic ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/judge-approves-record-1-5-billion-settlement-involving-anthropic/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:41:44

  • High-Stakes Direct Infringement Claims Take Center Stage in Dialed-Back Concord v. Anthropic Copyright Cases ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/22/concord-v-anthropic-direct-infringement/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:42:31

  • After Decades of Caution, Germany Is Shaking Up How It Makes Weapons ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/europe/germany-rearmament-innovation-reinvention-arms.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:43:35

  • Bank of Lithuania says OTP’s Russia business will face scrutiny in Luminor takeover review ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2998092/bank-of-lithuania-says-otp-s-russia-business-will-face-scrutiny-in-luminor-takeover-review    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:44:00

  • RED OS 8-20260716.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/redos    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:44:18

  • Firing of Ukraine’s Top General Signals the End of an Era ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/europe/ukraine-syrskyi-general-russia-war.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:44:52

  • Ukraine’s New Military Chief Faces a Monumental Test ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/world/europe/ukraine-military-chief-drapatyi.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:45:09

  • Ukraine Hits Russian Retailer Wildberries' Warehouses Again Amid Accusations It Supplies Military Goods ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-wildberries-war-strikes-zelenskyy/33809727.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:45:22

  • Exclusive: US, Ukraine Reach Breakthrough Agreement On Drone Cooperation ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ukraine-drone-cooperation-agreement/33809808.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:45:32

  • Zelenskyy Appoints New Chief Of General Staff, Latest Shakeup Of Ukraine's Military Leadership ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-military-personnel-shuffle-general-war-russia-zelenskyy/33809831.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:45:41

  • Who is Mikhailo Drapaty, Ukraine's new commander-in-chief? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/who-is-mikhailo-drapaty-ukraine-s-new-commander-in-chief    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:46:01

  • 'Mykhailo Fedorov was fired for his successes in fighting corruption in the defense sector' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260722-mykhailo-fedorov-was-fired-for-his-successes-in-fighting-corruption-in-the-defense-sector-1    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:46:16

  • Ukrainians welcome new army chief but seek return of fired defence minister ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260722-ukrainians-welcome-new-army-chief-but-seek-return-of-fired-defence-minister    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:46:27

  • 'Entrepreneurs for Peace' opens new base in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/22.07.2026-entrepreneurs-for-peace-opens-new-base-in-riga.a655885/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:46:35

  • Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Millions of Accounts ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/suno-paidwork-data-breaches-affect-tens-of-millions-of-accounts/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:47:19

  • Flaw in Adobe Extension With 300M Installs Enabled WhatsApp Data Theft ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/flaw-in-adobe-extension-with-300m-installs-enabled-whatsapp-data-theft/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:47:34

  • Vibe-Coded Apps Riddled With Exploitable Security Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vibe-coded-apps-riddled-with-exploitable-security-flaws/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:48:03

  • Oracle Patches Over 1,400 Vulnerabilities With Quarterly Security Updates ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-patches-over-1400-vulnerabilities-with-quarterly-security-updates/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:48:32

  • Most federal cybersecurity reporting rules are duplicative, study finds ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/gao-report-duplicate-cybersecurity-regulations-harmonization/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:49:12

  • Suno Hack May Have Exposed 55 Million Personal Account Details ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/22/suno-hack-exposed-personal-info/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:49:38

  • Drug gang threats force French police to put southern mayor under protection ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260722-drug-gang-threats-french-mayor-police-whisked-from-his-home-at-night-dz-mafia-ales    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:50:06

  • Local logistics firm’s Taiwan branch says it will not ship ‘prohibited books’ to Hong Kong – report ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/23/local-logistics-firms-taiwan-branch-says-it-will-not-ship-prohibited-books-to-hong-kong-report/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:50:36

  • 18-year-old convicted of sedition over ‘seditious words’ after nat. sec police stage toilet stakeout ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/22/18-year-old-convicted-of-sedition-over-seditious-words-after-nat-sec-police-stage-toilet-stakeout/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:50:57

  • New Zealand and PNG sign defence cooperation agreement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-zealand-and-png-sign-defence-cooperation-agreement    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:51:28

  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chicken-back-on-the-menu-at-kfc-japan-as-cyber-hit-food-producer-nichirei-restores-operations https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Nichirei_and_Asahi_Beer_Need_to_Take_Cyberattacks_as_Hint_of_Op.shtml    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:51:53

  • IBM YTD Return is negative 30% while the SP500 is positive 8%, 1 Year Return is negative 26% vs positive 16% for the SP500 #JOKE https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky82fn4y    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:55:34

  • "oh god why didn't i sell when it was 300?!! i kept thinking no hurry, i have time. now i feel like a lazy a--hole. but at least i don't work at this shithole anymore. always look on the bright side..." "Embarrassing"    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:55:53

  • "Just look at the average annual revenue growth rate of every other big tech company for the last few years. Most are well into the double digits. Meanwhile, IBM struggles to even grow at the rate of inflation which is really no growth at all." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky80b5ra    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:57:20

  • "Yea this time it really does feel like the end" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky6zvm6j    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:57:54

  • 'Unprecedented': France records 5,764 excess deaths during June-July heatwave period ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260722-unprecedented-france-records-5764-excess-deaths-during-june-july-heatwave-period    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:59:06

  • If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken ☞ https://klarasystems.com/articles/if-scrubs-hurt-your-zfs-design-is-broken/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 19:59:43

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Explosive Diarrhea Scandal Is Getting Worse and Worse ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-explosive-diarrhea-scandal-worse    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:00:06

  • South Korea Michelin starred restaurant owner faces jail for ant sorbet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-restaurant-owner-faces-jail-for-ant-sorbet    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:00:56

  • Australia stands behind Philippines amid China’s aggression ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-stands-behind-philippines-amid-chinas-aggression/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:01:23

  • Australia protests against China’s ‘destabilising’ missile test ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-protests-chinas-destabilising-missile-test    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:01:34

  • Australia’s Penny Wong says region faces choice about its response to South China Sea ‘aggression’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/australias-wong-says-region-faces-choice-about-its-response-to-south-china-sea-aggression    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:01:45

  • Canada FM urges Middle East de-escalation, calls South China Sea confrontation ‘troubling’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/canada-fm-urges-middle-east-de-escalation-calls-south-china-sea-confrontation-troubling    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:01:58

  • Philippine, Chinese foreign ministers trade protests over South China Sea encounter ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-chinese-foreign-ministers-trade-protests-over-south-china-sea-encounter    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:02:27

  • China begins two days of live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-begins-two-days-of-live-fire-drills-in-taiwan-strait    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:03:02

  • China says it drove away Philippine vessels in fresh South China Sea incident ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-it-drove-away-philippine-vessels-in-fresh-south-china-sea-incident    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:03:17

  • ‘Quantum entanglement’: Love song asserts China’s South China Sea claims ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/07/22/south-china-sea-music-video-song/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:03:31

  • DOJ probes Harvard financial aid programs over alleged discrimination ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/doj-probes-harvard-financial-aid-programs-over-alleged-discrimination/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:04:00

  • Australia protests China’s ‘destabilising’ missile test ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/22/australia-protests-chinas-destabilising-missile-test/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:04:19

  • Slop fanaticism ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/autonomous-intern-2/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:05:14

  • There is no "ERA OF HEY HI", there is an era of corporate issues and "DEEP DEBT DRESSED UP AS INVESTMENT IN HEY HI"    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:06:04

  • Because even Enron would not fall over without lying to buy more time https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-shareholder-investigation-suewallst-notifies-investors-of-potential-securities-claims-involving-international-business-machines-302826688.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:06:45

  • Reach moves away from ‘volume’ as traffic, revenue and share price plunge ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-moves-away-from-volume-as-traffic-revenue-and-share-price-plunge/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:07:26

  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from National Geographic, ESPN and Sherwood News ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:07:40

  • El Jalapeño: Hummingbirds lead a very ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle, says Mexico’s Health Ministry ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/el-jalapeno/el-jalapeno-hummingbirds-lead-a-very-unhealthy-lifestyle-says-mexicos-health-ministry/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:08:40

  • BREAKING: US Measles Cases Just Hit a 'Grim Milestone'. Here's What You Need to Know. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/us-measles-cases-just-hit-a-grim-milestone-they-are-now-the-highest-theyve-been-in-35-years    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:09:08

  • The Rock That Killed The Dinosaurs Was One of The Rarest Types in The Solar System – Which Made It Even Deadlier ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-rare-distant-space-rock-killed-the-dinosaurs-and-it-reveals-just-how-unlucky-they-were    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:09:25

  • Ultimate Limit of The Human Lifespan May Be Identified, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ultimate-limit-of-the-human-lifespan-may-be-identified-study-suggests    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:09:55

  • 42 Studies Confirm: Air Pollution Is Linked to Higher Parkinson's Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-significant-public-health-issue-air-pollution-linked-to-higher-parkinsons-risk-in-major-review    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:10:33

  • We May Finally Have a Vaccine Against The Plague, With Two New Vaccines Showing 100% Effectiveness in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plague-vaccines-100-effective-against-the-deadly-disease-in-mice    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:10:48

  • Study Finds a Worrying New Side Effect of GLP-1 Drugs That No One's Talking About ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-weight-loss-drugs-have-been-linked-to-a-higher-risk-of-hair-loss    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:11:11

  • Orcas Keep Punching Giant Sunfish to Smithereens, And Scientists Are Mesmerized ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/orcas-keep-punching-giant-sunfish-to-smithereens-and-scientists-are-mesmerized    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:11:27

  • Access to Abortion Saved the Life of One Virginia Mother. Now She’s Fighting to Expand Reproductive Freedom ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/access-to-abortion-saved-the-life-of-one-virginia-mother-now-shes-fighting-to-expand-reproductive-freedom    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:11:47

  • Ponzi scheme (!!!) at education's expense because he was BRIBED by the scammers https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/trump-research-funding-artificial-intelligence.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:12:52

  • Tech Bros Acquiring Entire Company So They Can Appoint an Hey Hi (AI) as Its CEO ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-bros-acquiring-entire-company-ai-ceo    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:13:43

  • OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked Another Hey Hi (AI) Company ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-broke-out-containment-hacked-hugging-face    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:13:58

  • AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:14:13

  • A beekeeper muses on the delights of stewarding a hive ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/Books/2026/0722/dead-bees-still-sting-susan-cormier-beekeeping    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:14:33

  • "No, the problem is that YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HEY HI!!" "No, the problem is that I DO understand the BS, hence the scammers are worried"...    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:16:37

  • OpenSSF Community Day North America (NA) First-time Experience ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/07/22/openssf-community-day-north-america-na-first-time-experience/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:16:47

  • Migration toolkit for applications 8.2: Modernize your applications and clusters ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/22/migration-toolkit-applications-8-2-modernize-your-applications    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:17:13

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Hey Hi (AI) Team Lead ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/nextcloud-names-christian-fu-muller-as-ai-team-lead/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:18:03

  • Sony Revives Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles as Box Office Sales Rebound ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/business/media/cinerama-dome-sony-pictures-hollywood.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:18:53

  • IBM sponsored site ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/ibm-cuts-outlook-software-mainframe-weakness-weighs-results/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:19:59

  • digital identity and age-verification ??? ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1658    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:20:22

  • "operational simplicity"? https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/lightbits-labs-expands-enterprise-linux-130000148.html    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:26:43

  • Ubuntu Snap-Confine Flaw Could Grant Unprivileged Users Full Root Access https://smbtech.au/news/ubuntu-snap-confine-flaw-could-grant-unprivileged-users-full-root-access/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:27:01

  • "Qualys has disclosed a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu's snap-confine component, tracked as CVE-2026-8933." https://securitybrief.com.au/story/ubuntu-snap-confine-flaw-can-give-attackers-root-access    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:27:22

  • Upselling Debian https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321248/20260722/canonical-launches-enterprise-store-air-gap-snap-proxy-included-ubuntu-pro.htm    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:27:46

  • Linux project KNOD moves network processing directly onto AMD GPUs: ROCm is not required https://www.igorslab.de/en/linux-project-knod-network-processing-amd-gpus-rocm-not-required/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:29:38

  • "Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today with more improvements for Linux, Steam Input, Remote Play, Steam Controller firmware, SteamVR, In-Game Overlay, and Steam Workshop." https://9to5linux.com/new-steam-client-update-improves-nvidia-gpu-hardware-acceleration-on-linux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:30:00

  • I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back https://www.howtogeek.com/i-replaced-my-default-linux-terminal-with-this-cross-platform-one/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:30:29

  • What made me finally switch to Vivaldi as my default Linux web browser https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/what-made-me-finally-switch-to-vivaldi-as-my-default-linux-web-browser/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:30:54

  • "Linux watchers at nixCraft pointed out the volume on Monday morning, and it didn’t take long for seasoned sysadmins to start expressing concerns." https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:31:46

  • Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng https://hackaday.com/2026/07/22/compile-here-run-everywhere-crosstool-ng/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:33:56

  • Proton VPN's anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on Linux https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-vpns-anti-censorship-stealth-protocol-finally-lands-on-linux    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:34:20

  • "Unfortunately, there's likely bad news if you're in the US." https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-flip-8-linux-terminal-support-3688560/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:34:57

  • AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine. https://gamedev.net/news/3104-amd-is-adding-hdmi-21-support-for-linux-thats-good-news-for-the-steam-machine/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:35:37

  • "This release also improves COSMIC Settings, COSMIC Panel, COSMIC Monitor, COSMIC Launcher, COSMIC Files, and COSMIC Applets." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-4-desktop-environment-introduces-new-default-sound-theme    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:36:39

  • Torvalds is giving Steve Ballmer a hardon https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/22/linus-torvalds-just-joined-microsofts-ai-code-club-defending-its-use-in-the-linux-kernel/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:37:39

  • "The upcoming release promises to extend Firefox’s Local Network Access protections to WebSocket connections." https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-154-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:38:04

  • "MangoWM is worth trying if you want more layout flexibility than a single-model compositor gives you." https://itsfoss.com/mangowm-explore/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:38:24

  • "It’s only compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO boards." https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-launches-10-inch-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-at-80    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:38:43

  • I finally tried an Atomic Linux desktop—and I'm no longer afraid to break my system https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-tried-an-atomic-linux-desktop-it-changed-how-i-break-things/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:38:59

  • I tested the System76 Thelio Mira: it's the custom Linux desktop of my dreams https://www.zdnet.com/article/system76-thelio-mira-custom-linux-desktop-review/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:39:22

  • 4 Application Control Updates That Help Teams Move Faster https://www.security.com/blog-post/4-application-control-updates-help-teams-move-faster    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:39:56

  • "The Linux kernel project has disclosed 442 vulnerabilities over the past three days, in a massive dump of CVEs on its security mailing list." https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-linux-kernel-discloses-442-cves-as-ai-bugpocalypse-settles-in/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 20:40:31

  • "feeling positive towards both of these, although i didn't do all that much reading this month.    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:13:51

  • "feeling positive towards both of these, although i didn't do all that much reading this month. the drowning world has always felt a bit like scrying into a pool. it's a deck that insists on ancestral contact, something i don't usually tend to do." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/julydecks    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:14:01

  • Prophecy Self-Fulfilled gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/23/00/prophecy-self-fulfilled/    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:14:34

  • "It seems I've missed some new drama. I generally agree with what Nigel from lowkey.party is saying. Although when I began my gemini journey, I also lacked some more formatting options, I don't think that's longer a thing." gemini://gim.org.pl/gemlog/2026-07-23-re-gemini-plus.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:15:10

  • "I was doing some infra maintaince work today and turned on debug mode too look into why some of my own searches are timing out." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/07-23-do-not-abuse-my-search-engine.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:15:46

  • just finished my Gopher Hole gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2845    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:16:12

  • "Database merges usually need to be done at the database not filesystem level. A relatively easy way to do this and assuming only a pair of systems is to have one system use only even ID numbers, and the other system only odd numbers." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/07/23/database-merge.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:16:56

  • "As a result the RSS-feeds that I follow are also more and more from the smol net." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/enjoying-rss-feeds.txt    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:17:39

  • "Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial automation specialist Sfera Labs has announced a new Raspberry Pi 4- or 5-powered edge server system, designed for DIN-rail mounting and packing a Raspberry Pi RP2354 as a real-time coprocessor: the Strato Pi Plus." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202607/20260723-strato.gmi    

posted Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 21:18:12
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