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"Okay so I went on this rabbithole of anti-smartphone stuff online" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/mandatory-phone-addiction    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:09:11

  • "Researchers from Pusan National University, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Maryland have come up with a new way to 3D-print more flexible soft actuators" gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260811-smec.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:09:53

  • dream of radha gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/radha    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:11:06

  • "by the way, this is the first time I’m seeing this card to mean these people without any means are seeking sanctuary. Up ‘til this point I’ve always read it as the sanctuary having cast them out, the hypocrisy of the church, preaching love but practicing greed and self-preservation, the system and social safty nets failing those in need." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/ttt5p    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:12:34

  • ugly ones gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/ugly_ones    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:13:05

  • "In my experience, the hardest part about any activity is, by far, beginning it. The second most difficult part about anything, I'd say, is finishing a thing. Sure, if you abuse the nomenclature you might argue that whatever doesn't fit as "beginning" a thing, fits as "finishing" it, but you have done things before, you know what I mean." gemini://sdf.org/fabiozeh/2026-08-11.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:13:54

  • Microsoft layoffs https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1svah00ufl http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/11/Confirmed_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_August_2026_Entire_Operations_Sh.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:21:09

  • As Xbox head Asha Sharma reportedly visits Bethesda HQ, workers put up red flags representing laid off staff and a giant inflatable rat outside https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-xbox-head-asha-sharma-reportedly-visits-bethesda-hq-workers-put-up-red-flags-representing-laid-off-staff-and-a-giant-inflatable-rat-outside    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:21:24

  • The Elder Scrolls 6 demo had a surprise guest at Bethesda HQ: a giant inflatable rat set up by protesting employees to watch Xbox execs who oversaw "devastating layoffs" https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/the-elder-scrolls-6-demo-had-a-surprise-guest-at-bethesda-hq-a-giant-inflatable-rat-set-up-by-protesting-employees-to-watch-xbox-execs-who-oversaw-devastating-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:21:48

  • In Protest Of Mass Layoffs, Bethesda Devs Greet Xbox Leadership With A Giant Inflatable Rat https://kotaku.com/xbox-protests-zenimax-studios-maryland-scabby-cwa-2000723471    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:22:07

  • Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gushes About Elder Scrolls VI, Does Not Seem To Notice Giant Rat On Bethesda Office Lawn https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-elder-scrolls-vi-bethesda-giant-rat/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:22:28

  • LinkedIn Closes Israel Development Center https://www.jfeed.com/tech/linkedin-israel-development-center    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:24:00

  • "Did IBM stop sending automatic birthday emails to employees?" https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1vd4c9g/weekly_employment_discussion_for_august_02_2026/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:36:12

  • The Grass is Yellow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-grass-is-yellow/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 02:54:15

  • Seeking Clarity on Whether Tor is Blocked or Not https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/whether-tor-is-blocked/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 03:20:56

  • Putting the camel through a needle's eye: Billionaires go to a special heaven. "Billionaire Heaven" https://www.patreon.com/noneofthisisok/posts/billionaire-165838832 "Zuckerberg is next in the "Billionaire Heaven" series, but stay tuned for a poll soon for paid patrons where you get to vote on who's next."    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 03:24:29

  • Heavy Lifting, Heavy Work Around Manchester City (ManCity) Stadium https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/heavy-lifting-heavy-work-around-manchester-city-mancity-stadium/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 03:37:43

  • The SLAPP Industry Need Sunshine https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-slapp-industry-need-sunshine/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 03:43:45

  • They Used to Try to Nourish Us https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/they-used-to-try-to-nourish-us/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 04:33:49

  • Need Rain, Not Sun https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/need-rain-not-sun/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 04:51:51

  • "Oct 1st last day? Are these just more contractors? https://lnkd.in/p/g7NBV3pr " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 04:58:43

  • Tor Users Cannot Access This Site https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/tor-users-cannot-access-this-site/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 05:16:41

  • "Historical accounts confirm that Symbolics ended the agreement on March 16, 1982, Stallman's birthday, forcing him to work without access to their source code." True or mindless gossip? https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxTeck/comments/1vlhwj3/before_linux_one_hacker_decided_to_fight_for_free/ LinuxTeck is slopfarm    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 05:19:40

  • Blogging Never Went Away, It Also Deserves a Giant Comeback https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/blogging-never-went-away-it-also-deserves-a-giant-comeback/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 05:57:55

  • Make American Debt Again: US Debt Grew $3.6 Trillion in 13 Months https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/make-american-debt-again-us-debt-grew-3-6-trillion-in-13-months/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 06:49:45

  • LinkedIn to close Israel R&D center, lay off dozens four years after Oribi acquisition https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1svah00ufl    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 06:54:25

  • They cannot hide it https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Continue_This_August_Morale_Low.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 06:55:01

  • "There are 5115 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3507 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 06:58:38

  • Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51608219/tech-experts-warn-against-using-ai-clone-of-murdered-womans-voice-in-court | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:20:03

  • Software Patents ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/video-cameras/panasonic-scores-a-major-win-against-reds-controversial-compressed-raw-patent | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:20:18

  • "in the years since, I've grown increasingly convinced that Snowden and Piketty can only be properly understood as describing two aspects of the same phenomenon." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:20:53

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/11/sony-removing-purchased-content/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:21:19

  • "They were interrogated there for several weeks while being denied access to a lawyer and family visits, before being transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/two-kurdish-researchers-remain-detained-in-orumiyeh-prison-86694 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:42:10

  • "I have been an academic for nearly 30 years, working in an environment where inclusion and safe spaces for all students to be their best were unquestioned priorities." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/caseantisemitismsurvey/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:42:19

  • "While the list of waiver recipients includes fire departments and other first responders, the vast majority are law enforcement agencies, including police in cities large and small" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/first-came-the-flock-cameras-now-local-cops-want-autonomous-drones/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:42:39

  • "It’s hard not to see these startling statistics as part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to undermine women’s rights and autonomy." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214107/women-100-percent-jobs-lost-july-donald-trump | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:43:00

  • "their opposition to Chinese communist rule, greeted his passing with anguish — and respect" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/anguish-and-hope-why-tibetan-activist-lobga-rangzen-set-himself-on-fire-in-new-york/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:44:32

  • "The Taliban authorities justify the ban -- the only one of its kind in the world -- on their interpretation of Islamic law." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/torment-of-afghan-fathers-as-daughters-deprived-of-education-1940247971 | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:44:48

  • "Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141105/how-ideas-of-a-vast-censorship-network-moved-from-the-online-fringe-to-trump-policy/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:45:18

  • "Fort’s lawyers want more information about what prosecutors told the federal grand jury before it decided to indict the journalist" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214096/federal-law-enforcement-lied-journalist-arrested-anti-ice-protest | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 07:45:25

  • "Nepal’s government denied that it had ordered the change" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/tibet-conference-in-nepal-pushed-online/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:11:13

  • "Instead, the end of the Bronze Age was followed by a centuries-long Dark Age, with regression much more complete than after the fall of the Western Roman Empire." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/11/the-odyssey-and-the-bronze-age-collapse/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:13:21

  • "Moral character presents the same measurement problem, and the last decade of American politics accidentally ran the same solution at national scale." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-great-moral-sorting | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:13:31

  • "The move is a retrenchment from the social video company’s expansion into Nashville in 2024 and comes as many tech companies are reevaluating their workforce amid the growth of artificial intelligence." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-08-06/tiktok-to-close-nashville-office-lay-off-250-employees | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:13:41

  • "There was a study that popped up in the news recently that 90-something percent of posts on Instagram are ads." ☛ https://lawver.net/2026/08/stop-feeding-the-algorithm-stop-feeding-the-billio/ | Source: Kevin Lawver    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:13:56

  • "By the way, how is X doing from a financial perspective?" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/x-advertising-tanking/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:14:08

  • "I could hear this moth before I could see it; its wings are so loud! Then I looked up and thought it was some kind of massive wasp." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/hummingbird-hawk-moth | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:14:36

  • "U.S. Representative Hillary Scholten (D-MI) recently introduced two bills to bring more transparency and accountability to data centers’ water and energy use." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/house-bill-requires-data-center-water-power-tracking/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:15:01

  • "the DOE has also stalled projects for ​“a large number of awardees who have never appeared on any list,” the report found." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-is-blocking-billions-of-dollars-of-grants-to-fix-the-grid/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:15:16

  • "ERCOT is currently tracking more than 1,800 projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts of electricity" ☛ https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/ | Source: The Texas Tribune    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:15:31

  • Slippery Slope of ‘Modern’ Society https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/slippery-slop-of-modern-society/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:24:21

  • "The scale of the proposed data center buildout is staggering." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/texas-data-centers-reality-grid | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:24:32

  • "After popping open the pack and measuring the thermistors, the faulty one registered as infinite resistance thus confirming that it had failed" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/fixing-a-dead-makita-battery-with-a-20-cent-part/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:25:06

  • "As The Verge points out, astronomers won’t even be warned of when and where the mirror satellite will be in the night sky, which could result in them gazing at it inadvertently." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/scientists-warn-new-satellites-eye-damage | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:27:52

  • "The creation of these entirely new viruses was based on Evo 1 and Evo 2, foundational AI models developed for computational biology applications." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-used-ai-to-create-16-new-viruses/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:28:00

  • "A recent Gallup survey found the majority of Americans are now opposed to datacenters being built in their area, many so strongly opposed that they would sooner see a nuclear power plant built nearby." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/08/10/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them/5285449 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:28:19

  • "Storing water underground during wet years can soften the blow of drought, but it cannot promise a full supply when a dry spell drags on. That is the central finding of a studyOpens in a new tab." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/11/banking-water-underground-for-the-next-drought/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:28:33

  • "And as more data centers crop up throughout the US, that problem — of rising emissions linked to the accelerating demand for any kind of electricity — is only going to get worse." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:28:58

  • "The stench of rotten eggs and burning debris fills the air in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/memphis-ai-data-center-fuels-pollution-fight-in-black-neighborhood/articleshow/133140455.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:29:17

  • "Public Certificate Logs" ☛ https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-07-finding-hidden-internal-apps-through-public-certificate-logs/ | Source: Naveen Srinivasan    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:29:37

  • "Doesn’t Want You To See" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/the-code-the-british-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see-any-more/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:29:49

  • "Asking the federal government for public records didn’t always feel like a shell game. But bounced emails and broken portals seem like the new normal." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:30:04

  • "Well, I find it deeply troubling that faux centrist groups are declaring war on progressives in the pages of The New York Times, without the Times revealing who they really are." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-moronic-bullshit-of-the-third | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:30:17

  • "The research is published in the journal npj Clean Water." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quality-scarcity-future-competition-limited.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:30:38

  • "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/global-warming-accelerating-paper | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:31:07

  • "forced residents in several regions to record video apologies afterward" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/10/russians-are-being-arrested-for-photographing-soldiers-graves-some-face-treason-charges | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:31:23

  • "Wealth inequality is already at record levels, and wealth at the top is quickly morphing into political power." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/stop-ai | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:33:20

  • "First you find a couple 1000-digit primes." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/11/manually-unbreakable-cryptography/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:34:40

  • "That would be like writing a biology paper contradicting Trofim Lysenko back when he was a big shot." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/substitution-effects/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:45:21

  • "As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber and Lyft drivers’ cars to scan the license plates of every vehicle that drove past them" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-rideshare-surveillance-plan | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:47:09

  • "While [Reed] championed this partnership as a way to drive revenue, we believe it threatens to undermine trust in our news outlets and raises serious questions about the data security of our readers" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/usa-today-journalists-horrified-partnership-palantir | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:47:27

  • "While [Reed] championed this partnership as a way to drive revenue, we believe it threatens to undermine trust in our news outlets and raises serious questions about the data security of our readers" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/usa-today-journalists-horrified-partnership-palantir | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:47:43

  • "StartMail describes its storage as “zero access” — meaning they cannot read your decrypted mail content once stored." ☛ https://greycoder.com/startmail-review-2026-the-privacy-email-for-people-who-email-clients/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:47:52

  • "While certain differences will kill the bill if left unresolved, experts and advocates are still cheering the compromises they have won from lawmakers who have flipped positions and agreed to tougher standards on some issues." ☛ https://therecord.media/kids-online-safety-act-congress | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:48:11

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/ransomware-group-hijacks-hospital-facebook-amid-cyberattack-response | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:48:31

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/ransomware-attacks-spike-as-world-distracted-by-ai/5284934 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:48:39

  • "Last night, after a few months on and off of problems with EchoFeed from my side and general feed problems I made the decision to shut it down." ☛ https://rknight.me/blog/shutting-down-echofeed/ | Source: Rob Knight    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:49:01

  • "The word “human” certainly does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/reddit-mods-worse-replace-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:49:09

  • "Big Tech’s overbroad arguments that their addictive social media features are protected speech were dealt a major blow in an order issued Thursday in the combined TikTok, Meta, and Google v. Bonta cases." ☛ https://epic.org/judges-sides-with-epic-and-ag-telling-google-tiktok-and-meta-their-addictive-social-media-features-are-not-1a-speech/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:49:25

  • "EPIC’s brief also explained why the Court should view NetChoice’s claim that the law regulates expression with skepticism." ☛ https://epic.org/documents/tiktok-google-meta-v-bonta/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:50:26

  • "With 10 trillion parameters, the model would be more than three times the size of Chinese start-up Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/bytedance-goes-big-very-big-on-ai/284623/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:50:41

  • "I miss when I used Twitter and people had the “#rstats” hashtag that lead to a nice community." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/r-community-a-moderated-google-group-to-share-r-knowledge/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:50:59

  • "I can’t expect or demand anyone else be a weirdo like me and become an offline pariah. That’s not what this is about." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/mandatory-phone-addiction | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:51:09

  • "The prevailing narrative in AI-driven security claims that discovering novel vulnerabilities is a ‘frontier’ feature reserved for restricted models like Anthropic’s recently announced Mythos Preview." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/11/finding-zero-days-with-any-model/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:51:57

  • "pretending there’s a boom, when really we normal folks are feeling the recession squeeze" ☛ https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here | Source: Sean Coates    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:52:11

  • "AI for Military Support" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-for-military-support.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:52:21

  • "The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-genie-in-the-wild.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:52:33

  • "In any rational jurisdiction, six times worse than the competition even with a safety driver would get the regulators to force Tesla back to the drawing board." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/08/more-on-robotaxis.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:52:48

  • "His 8-year-old daughter, he wrote, can already code her ideas and quickly produce videos." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260811-zuckerberg-envisions-superintelligence-for-everyone-in-ai-manifesto | Source: France24    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:53:02

  • "One point was a general sense that a lot of teachers are not really in the mood anymore to talk about GenAI." ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2026/08/07/teachers-talking-about-genai-in-schools-more-trouble-than-it-is-worth/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:53:20

  • "Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and determined that at least 13 of those programs have ended" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:53:37

  • "How is Knightscope dealing with its expensive robots not working?" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/10/robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:53:50

  • "Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerbergs-manifesto-contradicted-cto | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:54:19

  • "A passwordless system is exactly as strong as the flow that re-establishes it" ☛ https://jwgoerlich.com/synced-passkey-security-issues-could-allow-account-takeover/ | Source: J Wolfgang Goerlich    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:54:41

  • "It is hard to reckon with the notion that Google was only incidentally a utility." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/end-of-google-search/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:54:50

  • "But the thread as a whole left me with the idea that there's still a lot of people out there that barely understand email and aren't even sure what their own email even is. Sad." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/11.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:55:00

  • "Anyone on a call that involved screen sharing, whether participants or the host, would have been vulnerable to a silent attack that could be carried out with no indication and no interaction from the victim." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-let-anyone-take-over-other-devices-on-a-call/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:55:14

  • "Well, if that is the criterion then much of U.S. healthcare is already socialist." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-healthcare-system-is-already | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:55:31

  • "Papa’s got a brand new in-box. Picked up at thrift for $3.30." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/11/wooden-letter-tray-stock-no-721/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:55:47

  • "We've recently wound up with some unusually big (x86) servers, from a vendor we don't normally get servers from." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SlowFirmwareBootPainful | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:55:56

  • "Since January, when the first Panther Lake laptops hit store shelves, reviews keep repeating a sentence that would have sounded absurd five years ago: an Intel x86 chip going toe to toe with the Apple M5." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/11/intels-comeback-arm64-vs-x86-64-is-not-what-you-think/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:56:10

  • "Besides taking up more room, thermal expansion also means that it’s difficult to apply a consistent preload force between two ball bearings." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/splitting-a-ball-bearing-to-cut-out-backlash/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:56:22

  • "We have recently secured a confirmed good stockpile of Rafael R828S chips via our contract manufacturer" ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v4l-lite-now-available-for-purchase/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 08:56:34

  • "One Source of Paxton’s Wealth: A Cell Tower at a Hospital He Knew Well - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/paxton-cell-tower-company-texas-senate.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:13:30

  • "A previously unpublished translation by J. R. R. Tolkien is offering new insights into his decades of work as a scholar of medieval English."    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:13:53

  • "Entitled Soul’s Ward, the ten-page typescript translates an early thirteenth-century religious work that Tolkien studied, edited and taught during his academic career." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/unpublished-tolkien-translation-of-a-medieval-text-brought-to-light/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:14:10

  • "Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:14:32

  • "The de-Christianisation of the nation | The Spectator Australia" https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/the-de-christianisation-of-the-nation/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:14:44

  • "Oliver Larkin Wants to End the "Reflexive Moderation" of Florida Democrats" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/oliver-larkin-wants-to-end-the-reflexive    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:14:55

  • "Resisting Total Electoral Absorption" https://organizingmythoughts.org/resisting-total-electoral-absorption/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:15:07

  • "The Rebels Already Won - Ken Klippenstein" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-rebels-have-already-won    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:15:19

  • "Warming the Word - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck" https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/warming-the-word    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:15:30

  • "I have been dreading this moment all summer." ☛ https://jeffbridgforth.com/this-goodbye-is-different/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:16:01

  • "Until, I don’t know, five years ago or so, every building was wide open as long as students were on campus." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/08/11/summer-scenes-from-my-alma-mater-on-the-nikon-df/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:16:14

  • "The ransomware decryption didn’t work, so there was no way to decrypt files once encrypted (it was effectively a wiper)." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/hacker-conversations-marcus-hutchins/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:16:33

  • "Papyrus conservation is an exceptionally specialized area, and hands-on training opportunities are rare" ☛ https://news.umich.edu/preserving-the-worlds-oldest-paper-trail/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:16:46

  • "My 5 years of high school were spent at an art school, studying traditional goldsmithing, as well as art in general." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-content-writing-and-art | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:17:02

  • "Instead, she explained that it's all about time. She puts a lot of time into the work she does, and she's been doing that kind of work for a long time." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/building-trust/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:17:12

  • "I have never done any time–frequency transformations. I understand the general idea, but I have never worked with the details." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/fft | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:17:50

  • "I use the Shunting Yard algorithm to handle precedence when parsing expressions in my assembler." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/06.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:17:59

  • "My mum was born in the British Isles in the 1950s. Sure, she didn't have the internet, but it's not like she was born into a 17th-century Amish community!" ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/old-people-arent-tech-savvy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:24:15

  • "Why do we reply to a “thank you” with a “thank you”, and why did it make sense to me? I’m going to try and answer that with real-life examples that I’ve experienced myself." ☛ https://abhi.now/blog/thank-you-thank-you/ | Source: Abhigyan Tripathi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:24:31

  • "I’m not sure how one measures the passage of time for a blog. Posterities? RSS-uscitations? Whatever the unit, today marks my blog’s twenty-fifth birthday." ☛ https://davepeck.org/2026/08/11/twenty-five-in-blog-years/ | Source: Dave Peck    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:26:02

  • "She Remains Undefeated" ☛ https://louplummer.lol/wonder-woman-undefeated/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:26:28

  • "I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks." ☛ https://chuck.is/opus/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:28:04

  • "Suppose that you have a URL in the form of a UTF-8 or Unicode text string and you want to show it to people in a web context" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/URLsAreNotStringsMyCase | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:28:12

  • "In this post, I'll share the challenge I've come across with a naive approach to parsing large game files, and share a more efficient approach I've been curious to explore." ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/parsing-large-ish-data-files/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:28:51

  • "One tool to validate input data is Pydantic. This is a quick tutorial to show how it works." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/j-is-for-json-validation-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:29:01

  • "Someone comes hype the idea of functional programming that you’ve never heard of." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/i-is-for-immutable-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:29:18

  • "I therefore started looking for a reasonable solution and eventually found my way. I would like to share it in this post." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/dual-scaled-y-axis-with-ggplot/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:31:30

  • "It’s time to compare those two languages." ☛ https://chshersh.com/blog/2023-12-16-8-months-of-ocaml-after-8-years-of-haskell.html | Source: Dmitrii Kovanikov    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:33:21

  • "Here’s a seemingly simple question: given a chunk of multi-line text, how do you split it and return an array whose members are the constituent lines of the text?" ☛ https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/aug/10/newlines/ | Source: James Bennett    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:33:43

  • "I’ve spent the majority of my professional career working on software libraries, chunks of reusable code that other people stack together to make their code." ☛ https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2026/open-source-libraries-are-evolving-into-reference-implementations/ | Source: Jacob Tomlinson    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:34:07

  • "Three things I want to make clear: [...]" ☛ https://rapha.land/closing-canario-terminal-source-code/ | Source: Raphael Amorim    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:34:22

  • "This post is a tour of yy through a small visualization, with a close look at one boundary case." ☛ https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/ | Source: Victor Zverovich    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:36:03

  • "I was tired of bolting solutions onto my SSGs, so I built my own." ☛ https://cleberg.net/blog/orgo.html | Source: Christian Cleberg    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:36:27

  • "Mozilla has added a new kill switch for AI features to its Firefox browser." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3210537/disable-all-ai-features-in-firefox-with-just-one-click.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:36:57

  • "We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a different researcher." ☛ https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 | Source: OpenSSH    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:37:26

  • "The organisations set up to address open source sustainability have the same funding problem as the maintainers they are trying to help" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/07/the-software-stewardship-lab.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:37:40

  • "Although the difference isn’t night and day, the tuned profile was faster due to less conservative settings and had better accuracy on the final print due to taking the target FDM printer’s performance into account." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/is-manual-filament-tuning-still-worth-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:38:28

  • "Of those, the biggest were a clock speed of 62 MHz – instead of the typical 194 MHz – as well as a lack of sound." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/running-doom-on-a-cheap-104-in-one-handheld/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:38:34

  • "For the last few years I’ve been trying to source an IIɢꜱ, Apple’s last major hurrah for the Apple II platform, and the only 16-bit model in the lineup." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/i-have-an-apple-iigs/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:39:04

  • "The “keyboard” starts off in a browser running on a standard smartphone." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/a-keyboard-with-no-keys/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:39:09

  • "Thank you to Esteban Benito (EA8DGL) for writing in and sharing news of a bare-metal open source firmware for the GD32F450-based DeepSDR 101." ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/open-source-firmware-for-the-deepsdr-101/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:39:29

  • "BMW, showing that it was about as in-touch as its drivers are familiar with turn signals, teased the promotion as a “special surprise.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/bmw-suddenly-blasts-cars-advertisements | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:39:40

  • "Before we begin, let me thank all our donors and sponsors. Many thanks to all of you for the help you’re providing us!" ☛ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5050 | Source: Linux Mint    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:47:45

  • "Before we take a look at the chart, the usual disclaimer that you love: [...]" ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-king-now-and-the-distro-world-settles/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:48:29

  • "Now, onto the interesting parts." ☛ https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html | Source: Brian Callahan    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:48:55

  • "os8088 is a single-floppy OS that provides preemptive multitasking and fully loadable software alongside that GUI" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/the-pc-os-that-would-have-blown-your-mind-back-in-1984/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:52:24

  • "Writing up the package manager CWEs list and then the --end-of-options survey, both of which come down to the same bug being fixed independently in tool after tool" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/11/package-manager-library-reuse.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:52:32

  • Price of Storage https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/price-of-storage/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:54:05

  • "Armada has many deep and tactically interesting features" ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/11/keep-your-community-afloat-with-the-right-defense-tokens/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:54:31

  • "This post is the story of that bug, why my fix was wrong, why theirs was better, how bad this thing actually is" ☛ https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-found-a-kvm-guest-to-host-heap-corruption-bug-and-someone-else-got-there-first/ | Source: Himanshu Anand    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:54:50

  • "In Episode 14, I chat with Robb, the author of rknight.me about, among other things, metaphors for websites" ☛ https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/14 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:59:23

  • "A full transcript is available on the website." ☛ https://rknight.me/blog/i-was-a-guest-on-web-weaving/ | Source: Rob Knight    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:59:30

  • "But I’m spending less time in the terminal and IDE these days." ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/monospace | Source: Ben Tsai    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 14:59:45

  • "Independent candidate Daniel Pocock is concerned about media issues." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/when-is-clacton-byelection-nigel-farage-count-binface-laurence-fox-b3031696.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:00:28

  • Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/11/421-bugs-in-microsofts-patch-tuesday-release-and-the-norks-have-already-attacked-one/5286483    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:04:01

  • Extending immutability: deletion without losing data ☞ https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/soft-delete-deep-dive/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:20:31

  • August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/august-2026-patch-tuesday-microsoft-fixes-421-cves-one-exploited-zero-day/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:21:16

  • Bernard: GNOME Shell design dreams ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1088238/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:45:38

  • GNOME Shell and Mutter Development: GNOME Shell Design Dreams ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:46:00

  • Daniel Pocock’s Final Statement https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/daniel-pococks-final-statement/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 15:52:41

  • You Know They Lost When… https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/you-know-they-lost-when/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:03:34

  • Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/11/keep-your-community-afloat-with-the-right-defense-tokens/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:10:09

  • CachyOS is King Now, and the Distro World Settles ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-king-now-and-the-distro-world-settles/index.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:10:31

  • I finally have an Fashion Company Apple IIɢꜱ! Kinda ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/i-have-an-apple-iigs/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:11:10

  • "To bridge this gap, enterprises use Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) as an extension of their teams" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/4-ways-red-hat-tam-maximizes-it-investments-according-forrester-tei-study | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:21:54

  • "To bridge this gap, enterprises use Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) as an extension of their teams" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/4-ways-red-hat-tam-maximizes-it-investments-according-forrester-tei-study | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:22:01

  • "an informatics nerd " ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-fhir-why-informatics-nerd-joined-red-ha | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:22:23

  • "The work itself is familiar: generate the replacement certificate, apply it to the server, confirm the service is healthy, and update the support ticket." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-preventable-outages-intelligent-windows-certificate-rotation-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:22:40

  • A promotion of Windows, sort of    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:23:06

  • Slop promotion. "NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters, designed for high-throughput agentic workloads." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:26:35

  • "Shuttle’s XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/1-35-liter-mini-pc-runs-core-ultra-200-with-triple-displays-and-24-7-operation/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:26:58

  • Be more prepared for the Steam Frame with Digiphile's new VR Games Showcase Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/be-more-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-with-digiphiles-new-vr-games-showcase-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:27:47

  • The chilled co-op off-roading game 'over the hill' arrives October 14 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-chilled-co-op-off-roading-game-over-the-hill-arrives-october-14/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 16:28:57

  • It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/official-hottest-america-ever-been    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:41:56

  • Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:42:32

  • Gamble your way out of a contract in the occult roulette roguelite deckbuilder 'Teufelskreis' | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gamble-your-way-out-of-a-contract-in-the-occult-roulette-roguelite-deckbuilder-teufelskreis/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:42:36

  • University of Michigan Will Ease Up on Grades for Student Mental Health ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/university-michigan-grades-freshmen-pass-fail.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:42:54

  • At least 2,000 die in DR Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-thousands-die-as-dr-congo-faces-fastest-growing-ebola-outbreak-on-record    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:43:06

  • South Korea police raid transport ministry, Korea Airports Corp again over Jeju Air crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-raid-transport-ministry-korea-airports-corp-again-over-jeju-air-crash    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:43:44

  • North Korea fired a ballistic missile, South Korean military says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-fired-a-ballistic-missile-south-korean-military-says    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:43:58

  • Vietnam starts building largest domestic-made anti-submarine warship ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-starts-building-largest-homemade-anti-submarine-warship    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:47:28

  • Australia, Vietnam boost ties in hedge against China in a world ‘becoming more uncertain’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-vietnam-boost-ties-to-hedge-against-china-in-a-world-becoming-more-uncertain    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:47:54

  • S’pore firms ink new deals in Liaoning as China’s rust belt seeks economic turnaround ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/spore-firms-ink-new-deals-in-liaoning-as-chinas-rust-belt-seeks-economic-turnaround    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:48:08

  • FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key Hey Hi (AI) interconnects as China holds 56% global market share ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/fcc-proposes-import-ban-on-chinese-optical-transceivers-blockade-targets-key-ai-interconnects-as-china-holds-56-percent-global-market-share    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:48:25

  • SK hynix to expand production capacity in China as it mulls Solidigm IPO, report claims — second phase of fab could boost local production by 50% ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/sk-hynix-to-expand-production-capacity-in-china-as-it-mulls-solidigm-ipo-report-claims-second-phase-of-fab-could-boost-local-production-by-50-percent    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:48:38

  • China rocket launch fails after ‘flight anomaly’, reports of explosion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/11/china-rocket-launch-fails-after-flight-anomaly-reports-of-explosion/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:49:02

  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Restart, Chattanooga Times Free Press and Buzzfeed ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 17:49:34

  • Test Yourself: This Week's Microscope Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/happy-monday-heres-your-weekly-microscope-mystery    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:14:45

  • FDA Finds Bacteria in a Third of 'Sterile' Tattoo Inks, And That's a Problem ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tattoo-ink-isnt-as-sterile-as-we-thought-and-thats-a-problem    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:14:54

  • A Week-Long Meditation Retreat Produced Psychedelic-Like Brain Changes, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-7-days-of-meditation-can-rewire-your-brain-study-suggests    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:15:03

  • No Palaces, No Pyramids: How This Ancient City Got Rich Without Inequality ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/lesson-for-modern-societies-this-4000-year-old-city-defied-the-rules-of-history    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:15:20

  • KEcoLab Sprint 26 ☞ https://chucklesdroid.xyz/posts/kecolabsprint26/kecolabsprint26/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:15:42

  • The Fruits of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/fruit-of-ai/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:17:17

  • ExTiX 260811 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/extix    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:17:56

  • DietPi 10.6 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:18:04

  • Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Even_ZDNet_Accepts_That_Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_May_Have_Doub.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:18:29

  • The AirDrop Alternative LocalSend 1.18.0 Released with CLI Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/the-airdrop-alternative-localsend-1-18-0-released-with-cli-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:19:01

  • Linux Mint 22.3 Updated with 7.0 Kernel & New Kernel Management UI ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/linux-mint-22-3-with-7-0-kernel/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:19:18

  • ZimaOS 1.7.1-beta1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:19:31

  • Vincent 1.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vincent    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:19:41

  • Colin Watson: Free software activity in July 2026 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-07.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:20:44

  • Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/initial-seeder-on-popular-anime-torrenting-site-nyaa-arrested-by-japanese-authorities-anti-piracy-group-claims-it-identified-user-without-torrent-swarm-monitoring    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:21:23

  • This Deadly Brain Cancer Hijacks Brain Activity to Fuel Its Growth, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:21:47

  • Weird 'Loophole' Could Finally Let Energy Move Faster Than The Speed of Light ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-way-that-energy-could-outpace-the-speed-of-light    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:21:56

  • Never-Before-Seen Type of Amyloid May Explain a Devastating Form of Alzheimer's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/never-before-seen-type-of-amyloid-may-explain-a-devastating-form-of-alzheimers    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:22:05

  • Internet slowdown and drones in the Strait: Taiwan preps for potential China conflict ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0811/taiwan-internet-blackout-military-exercises    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:22:39

  • Brad Lightcap, a Top Proprietary Chaffbot Company Executive, Steps Down ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/technology/brad-lightcap-openai.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/09/2026_The_Year_Slop_Companies_Made_an_Exit_Threw_in_the_Towel_Ov.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:23:08

  • Spotify Will Label Hey Hi (AI) Artists and Avoid Promoting Them ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/arts/music/spotify-artificial-intelligence-music.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:23:27

  • AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-investors-suddenly-quaking-boots    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:25:23

  • Nvidia: HELP!!!! THE BUBBLE IS IMPLODING!!! LEND US TRILLIONS!! https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-teams-up-with-financial-giants-to-create-usd500-billion-ai-infrastructure-funds-six-investment-firms-to-enable-access-to-long-term-funding-at-attractive-rates    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:26:01

  • Protesters Arrested After Storming Proprietary Chaffbot Company Lobbying Office ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protesters-arrested-protest-openai-washington-dc    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:26:39

  • Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-covers-car-special-wrap-flock-cameras    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:26:49

  • Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/doctors-med-students-brains-ai    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:27:03

  • ArtificiaI Intelligence event 'AI Connect' to take place in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/11.08.2026-artificiai-intelligence-event-ai-connect-to-take-place-in-riga.a658294/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:27:19

  • David Ellison Floats Hollywood Exit as States Threaten His Warner Bros. Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/business/media/david-ellison-hollywood-paramount-warner-bros.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:27:45

  • Beyoncé Hit with Lawsuit Over Allegedly Unauthorized Sample ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/beyonce-hit-with-lawsuit-over-allegedly-unauthorized-sample/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:28:07

  • States are Punishing Women Who Survive Violence with Incarceration. They Deserve Clemency. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/states-are-punishing-women-who-survive-violence-with-incarceration-they-deserve-clemency    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:28:28

  • Lawsuit over Army’s use of Hey Hi (AI) in contract award could increase transparency around proposal evaluations ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/08/lawsuit-over-armys-use-of-ai-in-contract-award-could-increase-transparency-around-proposal-evaluations/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:28:46

  • CRA Readiness: A Practitioner’s Guide to Compliance ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/11/cra-readiness-a-practitioners-guide-to-compliance/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:29:31

  • Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-join-the-defence-bank-that-named-it-as-a-priority-partner/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:29:55

  • Iran's New Security Chief Demands US End War To Reopen Hormuz Strait ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:30:13

  • Libyan military intelligence chief assassinated in car bombing ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-libyan-military-intelligence-chief-assassinated-in-car-bombing    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:30:33

  • NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the Hey Hi (AI) age ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/nist-national-vulnerability-database-ai-overhaul/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:31:09

  • US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-water-systems-get-cyber-boost-from-new-senate-bill-and-water-watch-center/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:31:52

  • SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-code-injection-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:32:04

  • Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/zoom-patches-zero-click-code-execution-vulnerability/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:32:55

  • Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-urges-immediate-patching-of-critical-coldfusion-campaign-classic-flaws/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:33:12

  • Flatpak 1.19 Released    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:33:34

  • Run Hermes on Raspberry Pi, Control It from Your Laptop ☞ https://itsfoss.com/hermes-desktop-remote-gateway/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:35:31

  • Amazon’s New Hey Hi (AI) Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:36:07

  • French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's Hey Hi (AI) summaries ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260811-french-newspapers-target-google-over-ai-summaries    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:36:25

  • Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/homeschool-parents-chatpgt-ai-chatbots-lesson-plans-education    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:37:15

  • France: Drought's impact on the cheese industry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france-drought-s-impact-on-the-cheese-industry    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:37:39

  • Training the Birds https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/training-the-birds/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:44:05

  • backdoored Windows 11 pre-loaded... nope! ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/12/minisforum-elite-mini-m2-air-304-barebone-wildcat-lake-mini-pc/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:45:41

  • NXP FRDM-IMX95-PRO i.MX 95 board features 10GbE, faster 6400 MT/s LPDDR5 memory, dual M.2 expansion ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/11/nxp-frdm-imx95-pro-i-mx-95-board-features-10gbe-faster-6400-mt-s-lpddr5-memory-dual-m-2-expansion/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:46:18

  • Miscarriages triple, healthcare access worsens… the nightmare for pregnant women in Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260811-miscarriages-healthcare-pregnant-women-gaza    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:47:30

  • Allowing Tor Users ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/11/allowing-tor-users/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:47:43

  • Hong Kong police arrest 10 for dangerous driving in first drone-assisted traffic crackdown ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/11/hong-kong-police-arrest-10-for-dangerous-driving-in-first-drone-assisted-traffic-crackdown/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:48:19

  • Parisians get ready for the eclipse ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/parisians-get-ready-for-the-eclipse    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:48:37

  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33236    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:48:59

  • Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia over atrocities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia-over-atrocities    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:49:15

  • Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/08/10/venue-update-opensuse-asia-summit-2026/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:51:07

  • New visa rules limit foreign journalists to 240-day stays in the US ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/new-visa-rules-limit-foreign-journalists-to-240-day-stays-in-the-us/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:51:30

  • OptiScaler Client 1.0.6 adds Heroic Games Launcher support, experimental gamepad support, FSR 4.1.1 for older GPUs | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/optiscaler-client-1-0-6-adds-heroic-games-launcher-support-experimental-gamepad-support-fsr-4-1-1-for-older-gpus/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:52:36

  • SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steamvr-beta-2-17-7-brings-improvements-to-wired-headset-support-on-linux-steamos ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:54:50

  • XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/xbox-pc-and-game-pass-coming-to-linux-with-the-xodus-project/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/xbox-pc-and-game-pass-coming-to-linux-with-the-xodus-project/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:55:04

  • "GE-Proton 11-5 was released after as a hotfix for Easy Anti-Cheat." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ge-proton-11-4-brings-lots-of-controller-improvements/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:55:25

  • The Trail Guide Problem: Judge, Jury, and Design Patent Claim Construction ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/the-trail-guide-problem-judge-jury-and-design-patent-claim-construction.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:56:04

  • Munich Regional Court grants fresh PIs to WobbleWorks in 3D pen dispute ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/munich-regional-court-grants-fresh-pis-to-wobbleworks-in-3d-pen-dispute/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:56:28

  • Ponzi, asking for people to gamble on a scam https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/10/intel-launch-15b-stock-sale-amid-ai-boom-advanced-packaging-demand/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:57:17

  • FuguIta 7.9-20260811 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fuguita    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:58:18

  • 2026-08-11: Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag ☞ https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:58:35

  • Skrooge 26.8.0 released ☞ https://skrooge.org/news/2026-08-10-skrooge_26.8.0_released/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:58:58

  • Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmar-military-intensified-air-attacks-and-abuses-during-election-un-investigators-say    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:59:14

  • Damascus court sentences Assad to death for the crackdown that started a civil war ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/damascus-court-sentences-assad-to-death-for-the-crackdown-that-started-a-civil-war/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:59:38

  • Adding voice chat for Mankala ☞ https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/adding-voice-chat-for-mankala/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 18:59:59

  • Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-update-home-page-ai    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:01:13

  • Extension Banned for Stealing Hey Hi (AI) Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/extension-banned-for-stealing-ai-chats-returns-to-chrome-store-resumes-malicious-activities/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:01:25

  • ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-agents-to-wear-body-cameras-but-the-fix-is-in    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:01:48

  • Lack of transparency and national guidelines mark the expansion of facial recognition in brazilian education ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/key-resources/5851/lack-transparency-and-national-guidelines-mark-expansion-facial-recognition    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:02:01

  • Deported From the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000011032450/deported-from-the-us-trapped-in-a-prison-in-africa.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:02:55

  • Four Killed in Houthi Strike on Red Sea Ship, Yemeni Government Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/deadly-houthi-strike-red-sea.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:03:09

  • How Iran Adapted Its Attacks as U.S. War Munitions Dwindled ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/politics/iran-military-base-attacks-us-munitions.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:03:18

  • #KeepItOn @10: celebrating a decade of fighting internet shutdowns ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-10-years-fighting-internet-shutdowns/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:03:49

  • Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/kimwolf-botnet-palo-alto-unit-42-android-tv-boxes/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:04:49

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Wallpaper Competition is Open! Submit / Vote Your Favorite ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/ubuntu-26-10-wallpaper-competition/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:05:28

  • GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-51-search-redesign    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:05:56

  • Arduino UNO Q: A Debian GNU/Linux Board for Headless Projects ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-uno-q-a-debian-linux-board-for-headless-projects.66951/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:06:32

  • Get Agama dressed for success ☞ https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2026/08/11/dressed-for-success    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:07:29

  • Linux Kernel 7.2 RC7 Released: Stable Version Scheduled for Next Weekend ☞ https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc7-released/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:07:51

  • Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:09:21

  • These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/xodus-xbox-gamepass-linux/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:09:46

  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1088226/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:10:03

  • How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-signal-chats/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:11:10

  • How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/11/how-to-pretty-print-kubernetes-yaml-as-kyaml/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:11:21

  • How to Tail and Filter Logs in Real Time on GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-tail-and-filter-logs-in-real-time/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:12:01

  • How to Drain Convicted Felon’s Corruption Pool ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/11/how-to-drain-trumps-corruption-pool/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:12:52

  • Lithuania selects How to Divorce During the War as its Oscar contender ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018204/lithuania-selects-how-to-divorce-during-the-war-as-its-oscar-contender    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:13:10

  • How To Install Telegram on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-telegram-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:15:10

  • How To Install LocalSend on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-localsend-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:15:49

  • How To Install Plex Media Server on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-plex-media-server-fedora-44/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:16:13

  • "Microsoft is doing something similar." PIPs and worse. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:18:08

  • Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/microsoft-plugs-nearly-400-security-holes/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:25:02

  • Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/alyaksandr-milinkevich-belarus-opposition-leader-dies-79-/33826702.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:26:27

  • First illegal border tunnel found at Silene, Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/11.08.2026-first-illegal-border-tunnel-found-at-silene-latvia.a658310/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:26:38

  • Syria Sentences Former President al-Assad to Death for Crimes Against Humanity ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-sentence.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:26:54

  • Ex-Marine Robert Gilman Is Freed by Russia After 4 Years in Prison ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:27:11

  • How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/11/1141635/how-the-censorship-industrial-complex-is-changing-the-internet-and-us-policy/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:27:34

  • Former US Marine, Jailed In Russia And Hospitalized In Serious Condition, Is Freed ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-former-marine-robert-gilman-freed-medical-/33826753.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:03

  • Minister criticises Vilnius policy to end written Russian-language requests ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018078/minister-criticises-vilnius-policy-to-end-written-russian-language-requests    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:12

  • Russia frees ailing ex-US marine after four years in prison on disputed charges ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260811-russia-frees-ex-us-marine-after-four-years-imprisonment-on-disputed-charges    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:24

  • Russian Civilian Deaths Are Growing Rapidly as Ukraine Expands Its Air War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-ukraine-civilian-casualties.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:36

  • In Ukraine, a city waits to rebuild a symbol of resistance ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0811/Irpin-Ukraine-State-Tax-University-Build-Forward-Ukraine    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:48

  • Ukraine Says Russia Fired North Korean Missiles In Deadly Strike ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-north-korean-missile-attack/33827030.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:28:57

  • Civilian casualties climb as Russia and Ukraine exchange fresh strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-civilian-casualties-climb-as-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-fresh-strikes    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:29:07

  • Ukraine says Russia fired North Korean missiles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-says-russia-fired-north-korean-missiles    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:29:21

  • Fast and fearless: Baltic defence startups innovate to counter Russian threat ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260811-fast-and-fearless-baltic-defence-startups-innovate-to-counter-russian-threat    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:29:31

  • 31,000 Ukrainians currently have refuge in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/11.08.2026-31000-ukrainians-currently-have-refuge-in-latvia.a658368/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:29:41

  • DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong — 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/case-mods/diy-modder-creates-heat-engine-computing-device-powered-by-a-stirling-engine-80-mhz-esp32-can-run-tetris-snake-and-pong-on-just-150-milliwatts-of-power    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:30:05

  • Infamous 17th-Century Shipwreck Reveals Trade Route Secrets of The Dutch East India Company ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/infamous-17th-century-shipwreck-reveals-trade-route-secrets-of-the-dutch-east-india-company    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:30:33

  • Total moron, zero tact, incel culture ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-pm-under-fire-for-melons-gag-about-japanese-leader    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:32:51

  • What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #68 – S3E20 CRA Readiness: Practical Strategies for Open Source Communities with Megan Knight ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/08/11/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-68-s3e20-cra-readiness-practical-strategies-for-open-source-communities-with-megan-knight/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:33:03

  • U-M affirms Ypsilanti $1.2B computing center site; township officials vow fight ☞ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/u-m-affirms-ypsilanti-1-2b-computing-center-site-township-officials-vow-fight/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:33:33

  • Word Collections, Songwriters Guild of America, and Several Others Formally Object to the ‘Demonstrably Unreasonable’ Phonorecords V Settlement Proposal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/phonorecords-v-objections/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:35:31

  • "Today, the Linux Mint project released a new set of ISO images for the latest Linux Mint 22.3 release to offer users the latest Linux 7.0 HWE (Hardware Enablement) kernel from the upstream Ubuntu repositories." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-hwe-isos-now-available-for-download-with-linux-kernel-7-0    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:38:24

  • Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch: Is It Feasible? 2026 Guide https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/10565/fairphone-ubuntu-touch-feasible-guide    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:39:15

  • 6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/the-bsds-worth-trying-instead-of-linux/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:40:44

  • These 3 Linux distros make leaving Windows feel natural https://www.howtogeek.com/these-3-linux-distros-make-leaving-windows-feel-natural/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:41:03

  • Latest Proton GE update improves controller support and more for Linux gamers and Steam Deck owners https://www.pcguide.com/news/latest-proton-ge-update-improves-controller-support-and-more-for-linux-gamers-and-steam-deck-owners/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:41:38

  • Modders are bringing Xbox and PC Game Pass to Linux and Mac https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113074/modders-are-bringing-xbox-and-pc-game-pass-to-linux-and-mac/index.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:42:12

  • "if you have a gaming handheld, it's a different story. I installed Bazzite on mine, and suddenly the idea of an immutable distro made a lot more sense." https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-traditional-linux-immutable-distro-only-gaming-handheld/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:42:56

  • This open-source VPN manager is secretly owned by an attacker, researchers warn https://cybernews.com/security/firewallfalcon-manager-free-vpn-tool-backdoor/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:43:23

  • "Ever since my first experience with Arch Linux last year, my preference when it comes to Linux desktops has been KDE. It has enough familiarity with Windows, but a ton of useful features built on top it that make it all the more useful." https://www.xda-developers.com/finally-switched-linux-desktops-cosmic-the-one-to-blame/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:43:44

  • Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/mozilla-revokes-firefox-and-thunderbird.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:44:05

  • The best Linux distribution doesn't exist - Here's yours https://korben.info/en/best-linux-distribution-doesnt-exist-heres-yours.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:45:48

  • "Flatpak 1.18.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update in the stable Flatpak 1.18 series of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, with various bug and security fixes." https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-18-1-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-brings-bug-and-security-fixes    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:49:56

  • "The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week." https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:50:12

  • Six Agencies Warn Gunra Ransomware Hacked MFA at Server Level; Linux Victims May Recover Files Free https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323932/20260811/six-agencies-warn-gunra-ransomware-hacked-mfa-server-level-linux-victims-may-recover-files-free.htm    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:51:11

  • Gunra Ransomware Hit Hospitals and Governments; Linux Victims Should Not Pay Ransom https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323965/20260811/gunra-ransomware-hit-hospitals-governments-linux-victims-should-not-pay-ransom.htm    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:51:32

  • DualSense Haptics Land on Linux After Six Years: GE-Proton 11-4 Ships Today https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323961/20260811/dualsense-haptics-la    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:52:12

  • "Asobi: Remote Play is already available on mobile, and they have a Steam Playtest ongoing for Linux (Windows is to come later)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:52:56

  • Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux https://www.techspot.com/news/113428-modders-trying-bring-game-pass-xbox-games-mac.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:53:19

  • Xodus Cracks Xbox Authentication and Game Package Decryption to Bring PC Game Pass to Linux https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323943/20260811/xodus-cracks-xbox-authentication-game-package-decryption-bring-pc-game-pass-linux.htm    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:53:48

  • Xbox PC Game Pass titles could soon be playable on Steam Deck, thanks to this Linux project https://www.club386.com/xbox-game-pass-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:54:45

  • STM32CubeProgrammer 2.23: From Linux CLI to new security features, it’s about doing more while eliminating friction https://www.electronicsmedia.info/2026/08/11/stm32cubeprogrammer-2-23/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:59:06

  • Xodus: Project to Run Xbox PC Games on Linux and Mac Hits Important Milestone https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/08/xodus-project-to-run-xbox-pc-games-on-linux-and-mac-hits-important-milestone    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 19:59:42

  • Linux May Soon Get PC Game Pass via Open-Source Project https://www.techpowerup.com/351493/linux-may-soon-get-pc-game-pass-via-open-source-project    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:00:36

  • Xbox Game Pass and Xbox PC Games May Soon Be Playable On Steam Deck https://steamdeckhq.com/news/xodus-xbox-game-pass-on-steam-deck/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:00:59

  • Linus Torvalds calls AI code review the new normal as Linux 7.2 nears release https://betanews.com/article/linux-7-2-rc7-ai-review-new-normal/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:01:49

  • "The SparkyLinux team announced the release and general availability of SparkyLinux 8.4 as the latest stable update in the SparkyLinux 8 “Seven Sisters” series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution." https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-8-4-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-7-1-debian-13-6-base    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:03:04

  • Linux 7.2 - AI reviews kernel code and Torvalds finds the bill steep https://korben.info/en/linux-7-2-ai-kernel-code-review-torvalds.html    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:03:23

  • Linux Mint's new kernel cleanup feature makes it even more appealing for people escaping Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mints-new-kernel-cleanup-feature-makes-it-even-more-appealing-for-people-escaping-windows/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:04:16

  • "Transforming an old Fire Tablet into a Linux Terminal is a fun weekend project for modding and home lab enthusiasts. These are Android devices, after all, and once you remove some of the Amazon bloatware with a tool, you can unlock their potential." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-turned-my-old-fire-tablet-into-a-portable-linux-terminal/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:04:40

  • 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one https://www.howtogeek.com/the-apps-new-linux-users-should-install-on-day-one/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:05:15

  • This blazing-fast, super-private browser delivers a brand new beta - try it for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/orion-browser-linux-beta/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:05:33

  • "For most of my computing life, Debian and Ubuntu have been my go-to Linux distros. That will likely stay the same, even as Fedora gains traction, likely because I'm not ready to uproot my life into a new distro." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-i-were-starting-over-with-linux-heres-why-id-choose-fedora/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:07:18

  • "Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre has published a new monthly newsletter today, where he talks about how Linux kernels will be managed inside future releases of Linux Mint and LMDE." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-change-the-way-linux-kernels-are-tracked    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:07:33

  • "If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number of solutions for this, ranging from opening ports on your router along with dynamic DNS." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 20:07:50

  • A dam fine colony gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/morningCeremony    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:00:31

  • "Just found this talk from a guy at google. He talks about many of the problems that software engineers are encountering and will be encountering over the next few years." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2026-08-12    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:01:08

  • "I left my job a few months ago, but when/if I go back into software engineering after my current hiatus, I will most likely be dealing with LLMs again and the problems he is addressing would become applicable to me too."    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:01:21

  • Die Ablenkungsmanöver in der Ethik gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-12-ablenkungsmanoever    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:01:39

  • "Instead, I want to talk free software and large language models. I have rejected a contribution from a large language model to one of my projects." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-12-community-building    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:02:15

  • "Researchers from China's Harbin Institute of Technology have developed a multifunctional light detection and ranging (lidar) system that, they say, is able to both provide high-precision ranging information alongside multi-parameter sensing — from ambient temperatures to liquid densities and gas concentrations." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260812-lidar.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:02:53

  • "I was reading the Lobsters thread [1] about the article “A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets [2]” when I left a comment [3] about my own struggles with receiving emails for other Sean Conners [4]." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/11.1    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:03:39

  • "I thrive in small groups and can be extremely chatty and even somewhat gossipy under the right conditions. In groups larger than 6-8 people, I generally recede into the background and become one of the quiet ones that listens but doesn't contribute much to the conversation." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/ten-random-facts-about-me    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:04:25

  • "I understand why they say you need to take time for yourself to decompress and process things. I never feel like I can take that time unless its past midnight and the rest of the family is asleep. And at that point the benefits have diminishing returns over sleep." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/cant-sleep-make-stuff.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:05:04

  • "I'm not eating that under-cooked steak -- getting dysentery isn't on my bucket list." gemini://larsthebear.me/bucket_list.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:05:42

  • "There's this annoying duality in my metabolism that makes me love coffee and, at the same time, be very sensitive to caffeine. And its effect on me is not what I'd expect. I can, actually, sleep. It's just that I never try." gemini://sdf.org/fabiozeh/2026-08-05.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:07:27

  • "A few months ago my daughter passed away. Since then, I have been evaluating what is really important me. I decided that getting my MA in Ancient and Classical History was something I wanted to do." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/my-music-lifes-new-direction.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:08:07

  • "So, if I am being frank, I am the last person you would expect to tout "diversity." That is a WHOLE other post, but in a nutshell, I think the current worldview of diversity is fucked up and is highly, I mean HIGHLY, hypocritical." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/the-openweb-needs-diversity-not-monoculture.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:10:29

  • Gerónimo Rulli in the Stadium Store https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-stadium-store/    

posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 21:22:06
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