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"The kernel is able to run a few types of executable files, including native binaries in the ELF format and interpreted programs that begin with the #! marker." https://lwn.net/Articles/1086947/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:52:05

  • A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087635/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1087635/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:52:35

  • "Virtualization places a guest system into a separate security domain, typically with fewer privileges than software running directly on the host. Increasingly, there is interest in creating multiple security domains within a single virtualized system as well." https://lwn.net/Articles/1087590/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:53:07

  • Even more formal verification for BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1087069/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:53:36

  • Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1086949/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1086949/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:54:22

  • "Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible." https://lwn.net/Articles/1086344/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:55:01

  • Anon: micropsoft is not spread by the powers that be /despite/ being a threat to national security but instead /because/ it is a threat to national security. really c.f. bill binney, ed snowden, et al https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/ms-security.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:55:53

  • "I think most people agree that monopolies are a bad thing, as a general statement, because they tend to be exploitative." gemini://ingrix.info/log/20260819-important-parts-of-society.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:01:15

  • "you said: being an adult means doing things that you don't want to" gemini://nullish.smol.pub/3-am    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:02:10

  • GeoCities sites that never updated again (scary!!!) gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/geocities_sites_that_never_updated_again.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:02:34

  • "I came across this video on yt and might use that as a base for today's humming and hawing: Before You Buy Another 2027 Planner, Ask These 5 Questions" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260817planners.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:04:07

  • "That's what happens when you change your antagonists five chapters in while still being set on the same outcome. The lore now needs to wiggle and bent to fit old and new. And I've reached the point where the new bits need to be introduced." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260817pantsing.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:04:40

  • books - updated august 12th gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/books    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:05:27

  • "I'm a Muse fan. So, of course, I've pre-ordered the new album, even if they don't do those pretty box sets anymore. I ordered the pretty "Store Exclusive Collectors' Edition" and added that pin, because one can never have enough pins either." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260807Muse.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:06:40

  • Looks like Windows fell to all-time low in China last night. GNU/Linux 11%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:26:23

  • Brunei about 5% GNU/Linux Looks like Windows fell to all-time low in China last night. GNU/Linux 11%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/GNU_Linux_Rising_to_6_in_Brunei.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:27:48

  • Brunei about 5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:28:05

  • Madagascar 5% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=MG&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:28:59

  • The Pavements and the Dust https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/the-pavements-and-the-dust/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 07:26:58

  • Social media giant lays off 75 Bellevue workers https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/tiktok-lays-off-75-bellevue-workers-mostly-in-e-commerce-division/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 07:28:55

  • Nearly End of "Meteorological Summer" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/nearly-end-of-meteorological-summer/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 08:19:32

  • Climate Change Not Just a "Theory" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/climate-change-not-just-a-theory/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 09:49:27

  • GNU/Linux According to Clownflare https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/gnulinux-according-to-clownflare/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:16:30

  • "Germany doesn't have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/a-german-court-drew-the-piracy-line-at-81-5-kinogo-was-blocked-with-at-least-82-4/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:25:30

  • "The band filed its lawsuit in the Central District of California under their company, Hyde Lane, against Netflix, Netflix Studios" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/netflix-trademark-lawsuit-demon-hunter/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:25:48

  • "The regulators criticised Apple's conditions, including a new Core Technology ​Fee" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-changes-fees-for-alternative-app-stores-in-eu/articleshow/133335542.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:27:41

  • "Announced on August 18, the changes introduce new business terms for applications distributed in the European Union." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/08/19/epic-games-dismisses-apples-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk/5289794 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:28:03

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posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:35:09

  • "Without it, or under a pared down version" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/libraries-beg-brendan-carr-to-back-off-plan-to-make-u-s-broadband-shittier-more-expensive/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:35:24

  • "Here, an analysis of MIT’s recent financial decisions and reports will be presented to explore the information behind these claims." ☛ https://thetech.com/2026/08/18/financials-letter-2026 | Source: MIT    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:36:44

  • "The project, which tribes say violates treaty rights, has been the subject of heated controversy and legal battles." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/us-army-corps-pushes-michigan-pipeline-project-ahead-over-indigenous-opposition/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:37:06

  • "New Mexico regulators say the lab has ignored February demands to halt the spreading chromium plume." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/19/chromium-plume-standoff-reaches-pueblo-land/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:37:34

  • "These investigations included an unprecedented early review of ABC's eight local broadcast licenses." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-u-s-press-starts-showing-the-hint-of-a-backbone/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:38:47

  • "U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper offered a more measured response in a post on CENTCOM’s X account after visiting the Abraham Lincoln." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pentagon-unleashes-fury-on-america-hating-media/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:39:24

  • "Carr used this to try and justify an unprecedented early review of ABC’s eight local affiliate broadcast licenses." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/18/abc-sues-the-fcc-for-massive-first-amendment-violations/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:40:07

  • "OK, so what do I do?" ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/19/survival-guide-for-a-censored-internet/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:40:23

  • "A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/ninth-circuit-ruling-will-force-online-platforms-host-user-speech-fight-lengthy | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:06

  • "Dissent in China is tightly controlled, however, especially around central government policy." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/china-goes-rural-with-data-centres-in-quest-to-power-ai/articleshow/133336641.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:27

  • "New Charges." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-teen-prisoner-protest-putin/33832932.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:42

  • "Here are the facts." ☛ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-would-money-out-of-politics-proposal-stifle-free-speech/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:43:30

  • "The election was marred by accusations of interference and by arrests of opposition figures." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/zambia-mundubile-seeks-to-overturn-election-result-in-court/a-78436788 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:44:41

  • "The US ​tech giant raised the amount by issuing ​3-, 5-, 10- and 20-year bonds, the term sheet showed." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/alphabet-raises-3-9-billion-in-inaugural-australian-dollar-bond/articleshow/133342858.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:44:59

  • "Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not agree." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/stripe-buys-ai-model-router-openrouter-in-reported-7-5b-deal/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:45:26

  • "The deal, announced on Wednesday, combines Stripe’s technology, which lets companies direct payments to other businesses" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/stripe-openrouter-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:47:27

  • "Fishback made the proposal personal for Rain by publicly calculating she could owe Florida $42 million under his plan." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sophie-rain-celebrates-florida-sin-tax-defeat-1815231 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:01

  • ""Loot" threatened to increase his demand by US $100,000 for every month his former employer refused to pay" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/prison-data-analyst-extort-employer | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:27

  • "Of course, similar to Anthropic’s Mythos misadventures before it, OpenAI may have other incentives for publicizing the slowdown." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-training-pause-cybersecurity/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:50

  • "Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them older than dinosaurs and even trees." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51611511/floridas-jellyfish-museum-is-dedicated-solely-to-the-mesmerizing-floating-predators | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:55:13

  • "We do have a damaged sky; we put billions of tons of greenhouse gases in it, thickening the planet's insulating layer and heating it all up." ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-right-word-is-wrongness/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:55:38

  • "This study utilizes large climate model ensembles to investigate how human activities influence Pacific decadal variability (PDV), focusing on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO)." ☛ https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/19/is-global-warming-changing-the-pacific-oceans-natural-cycles/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:57:24

  • "Aside from electricity use and consumption pushing prices for all consumers, the next big issue that many data centers face is the amount of water that they consume in their operations." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/jason-kelce-led-marketing-campaign-asks-beer-drinkers-to-send-their-pee-to-ai-data-centers-liquid-death-and-garage-beer-skit-claims-ai-data-centers-waste-millions-of-gallons-of-water | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:57:40

  • "Axios first reported on a leaked memo sent by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) on Tuesday." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/gop-begs-ai-firms-to-fix-data-centers-toxic-brand-to-help-midterm-chances/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:02:35

  • "While this summer's headlines have focused on record-low water levels on the Rhine, Danube and Vistula, Lithuania's own rivers have been in slow decline for three decades" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3024353/as-europe-s-rivers-hit-record-lows-what-does-the-future-hold-for-lithuania-s-waterways | Source: LRT    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:06:48

  • "It took a literal act of Congress to get the Epstein files released" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/18/foia-documents-show-epstein-files-had-flag-list-which-included-the-term-potus/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:07:16

  • "I’m a huge fan of the corporate death penalty, a legal process in which a corporation is forced to dissolve or stop existing" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/19/bring-back-the-corporate-death-penalty/ | Source: Salon    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:07:43

  • "Their return does not necessarily mean those voters were disenfranchised, as they could have voted in person instead." ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026/08/19/navajo-county-undelivered-mail-ballots-postal-service-records-data-analysis/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:01

  • [Old] "Big Tech companies fight regulation by claiming that they are a necessary force for American national security." ☛ https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/big-tech-monopolies-endanger-american-security/ | Source: AELP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:32

  • [Old] "And the biggest players, Russia and Iran, are working even harder at election inuence than they did in 2016 or 2020." ☛ https://cryptome.org/2024/10/US-Spies-Who-Sound-Alarm-About-Election-Interference.pdf |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:41

  • "Flock has finally recognized its most profitable market is littered with people who simply can’t be trusted with this access to billions of license plate records." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/flock-safety-decides-to-implement-a-few-changes-after-months-of-negative-press/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:09:19

  • "Bills currently before Parliament could also be part of a digital alignment package, though the U.S. has tended to focus on laws, not pending legislation." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/digital-trade-alignment-what-may-be-in-play-in-the-canada-u-s-trade-deal/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:09:51

  • "This is no longer a future challenge. For most sectors, the implications have been debated and analysed extensively." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/19/asia-pacific-privacy-laws-are-arriving/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:09

  • "Days after its CEO apologized for documented abuses of the company's system" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/19/flock-surveillance-backlash-mounts-as-fiendish-halloween-plans-circulate/5289701 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:22

  • "Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-health-data-africa-humanitarian-aid | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:45

  • "The op-ed Canyen Ashworth wrote last September may have been critical of the police where he lives in Lenexa, Kansas, but it could hardly be considered radical." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/what-deflock-week-of-action-confronts-the-ai-surveillance-state/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:03

  • "Everyone in the clip — the girl, the boy filming, and hallway passersby — is a teenage student." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:15

  • "Crucially, the camera-equipped AirPods aren’t designed to take photos or video, according to the reporting." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/apple-leaked-airpods-privacy | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:28

  • "LINK still will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to demonstrate key capabilities for the future of space exploration." ☛ https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-for-commercial-swift-boost-mission/ | Source: NASA    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:02

  • "On Wednesday, NASA announced that a rescue spacecraft that was meant to grab onto the space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and push it into a higher altitude will not proceed." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/science/nasa-swift-telescope-failed-rescue.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:17

  • "Intense solar activity caused the telescope to lose altitude faster than engineers had anticipated." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-abandons-swift-observatory-rescue-mission-1815230 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:29

  • [Old] "Software can easily rate among the most poorly constructed, unreliable and least maintainable technological artifacts ever invented by man -- with perhaps the exception of Icarus' wings." ☛ https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/bad-software.shtml | Source: Paul A Strassmann    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:21:30

  • [Old] "The purpose of this hearing is to examine the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board’s recent report concerning the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange on-line cyber incident." ☛ https://www.congress.gov/118/chrg/CHRG-118hhrg58996/CHRG-118hhrg58996.pdf | Source: US Congress    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:23:04

  • "The Cl0p ransomware group has named more than 40 organizations allegedly targeted in the recent campaign that exploited a vulnerability in PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms Windchill and FlexPLM." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cl0p-ransomware-group-names-over-40-victims-of-ptc-windchill-campaign/ | Source: Security Week    

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

  • "The vulnerability at the center of Clop’s latest campaign affects a pair of software products from PTC — Windchill and FlexPLM — which manufacturers and retailers" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/clop-zero-day-attacks-ptc-windchill-flexplm/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:23:32

  • "Replying to a customer on WhatsApp will start costing business users money from October. Meta won’t confirm how much." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/whatsapps-free-lunch-ends-on-1-october/285051/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:14

  • "Bejar is the first witness to take the stand and has argued that the company prioritized profits over safety by encouraging people to spend more and more time on Facebook and Instagram." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/some-of-metas-safety-tools-were-designed-to-fail-witness-1031846679 | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:24

  • "Bejar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, attracting wide attention for his work to combat cyberbullying." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/former-meta-engineer-says-instagram-took-a-dont-ask-dont-tell-approach-on-kids-under-13/articleshow/133362274.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:39

  • "All 29 states accused Meta of violating federal law by improperly collecting and using children's personal data." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-rejects-claims-it-sought-to-hook-children-to-facebook-instagram-as-landmark-trial-begins/articleshow/133340295.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:25:02

  • "reward mechanisms that were designed for adults and are inherently unsafe for teenagers" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/social-media-safety-tools-were-designed-to-fail-former-meta-engineer-testifies/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:25:20

  • "Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:28:26

  • "But how real is that 4,177 number? We all know that subscriber counts are a bit misleading." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/subscriber-rot/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:00

  • "Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap" ☛ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/ | Source: Mastodon    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:12

  • "And report after report after report shows this to be true." ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/new-people-on-x/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:26

  • "Brought by 29 US states, the lawsuit argues Facebook and Instagram knowingly contributed to negative health outcomes for minors." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/18/2026/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-opens | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:38

  • "The initial multidistrict litigation consolidated hundreds of personal injury lawsuits on behalf of children and adolescents by school districts, local governments and state attorneys general" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/hook-harvest-hide-states-slam-metas-secret-strategy-on-first-day-of-jury-trial/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:51

  • "You’re going to hear how Meta desperately tried to hold on to those kids, how it wanted them so badly, how it wanted them young" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-18/california-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-meta | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:06

  • "The case is the latest in a web of litigation that aims to hold social media companies accountable for alleged harms to the mental health of young people." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5935458 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:31

  • "The case could also force Meta to make major changes to how its platforms work." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/meta-child-safety-trial-india-instagram-facebook-changes-138761117.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:44

  • "The surrounding infrastructure tells us what the object is, how it relates to other research outputs, and whether its record is still current" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/19/guest-post-ai-can-find-the-article-can-it-tell-which-version-it-used/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:31:19

  • "Dismal Failure" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-teens-failure | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:31:31

  • "The new AI infrastructure will come by way of a multiple-award IDIQ contract with a collective ceiling of $88 million." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/fbi-artificial-intelligence-infrastructure-expansion/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:32:10

  • "Cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) such as museums, libraries, and archives, carry the important public-interest mission of providing access to the heritage in their collections." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/08/19/open-heritage-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:37:24

  • "The investigation started in July, when 404 asked a bookseller if the outlet could place an Apple AirTag in a book inside a 1,000-book shipment." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secret-tracking-device-placed-in-rare-book-ends-up-in-amazon-processing-facility-destroying-books-to-train-ai-models-is-all-the-vegas-warehouse-does | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:37:42

  • "Everyone here should already know my stance on these things" ☛ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/ | Source: James Brown    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:08

  • "but it works for me." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/18/hot-take-harness-loop-engineering-graph-engineering-are-bullshit/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:19

  • "This has been the summer of cyberattacks from out-of-control AI." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-survive-the-ai-cyberpocalypse | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:31

  • "AI companies did deals last year to buy almost all the memory in the world. Memory prices in the US are now 5 to 10 times what they were just a year ago." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:40:44

  • "We haven't reached Math AGI yet and we may never fully get there. We have entered the world of Centaur Math." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/08/centaur-math.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:41:00

  • "Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for words, and I think it’s a great way to put it" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/what-is-a-perversion-to-writing/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:41:32

  • "Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for words, and I think it’s a great way to put it" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/what-is-a-perversion-to-writing/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:32

  • "Instead of going off a gut feeling, I decided to actually run some checks. agentsview indexes all my conversations into a SQLite database, so this kind of question is just a query away. Here’s the chart: [...]" ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/code-comments-are-a-model-fingerprint/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:38

  • "One of the most influential 21st century pieces of writing for AI researchers is Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/help-peer/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:44

  • "there's a fly in the ointment" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/asymmetric-agents/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:43:30

  • [Old] "As the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) spreads, the Internet is experiencing its own form of tail-eating. But instead of renewal" ☛ https://therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-curse-of-the-ai-ouroboros/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:43:51

  • "To understand how these tools position themselves and how they might influence the Brazilian political debate" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-artificial-intelligence-ideological-chameleon-deepen.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:44:28

  • "Fred Lambert, the editor-in-chief of the electric vehicle blog Electrek, described this close call in a harrowing new piece." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/journalist-tesla-fsd-serve-highway | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:44:48

  • "I have read this over several times. It is the argument of the moment, in miniature." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/have-a-good-life | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:17

  • "For the Jewish students at the centre of the two incidents, the findings amount to vindication of the concerns that have been ignored" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/tmuantisemitism/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:33

  • "I say future policymakers because in the United States there is no point in offering sensible advice to current management" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-are-bond-markets-telling-us | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:57

  • "In a decision authored by Circuit Judge Garcia, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/19/dji-department-of-defense-lawsuit-appeal-ruling/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:48:19

  • "How do you feel about data centers?" ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/elections/2026/08/data-centers-where-projects-go-local-candidates-follow/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:48:34

  • "A triptych of screenshots showing the HYDR8 dashboard.This wearable is based on a XIAO ESP32-C3." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hydr8-will-lead-you-to-water-but-will-you-drink/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:49:00

  • "Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-worst-ive-ever-seen-cargo-thieves-are-turning-violent-in-pursuit-of-ai-hardware/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:49:26

  • [Old] "Dan’s famous for many things." ☛ https://wirespeed.co/posts/our-influences-dan-geer |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:53:44

  • "I don’t like it when something with promise turns rancid." ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/19/ch-ch-changes/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:53:56

  • "Look we make time for reading because it is our job and even then, we often fail at making enough time." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-do-our-patrons-make-time-for.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:26

  • "Writing, the piece notes, helps develop all sorts of cognitive faculties, including building our working memory, executive planning skills, and our metacognition, or the ability to be aware of your own thinking." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/students-lose-ability-think-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:41

  • "In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:58

  • "Discovering extraterrestrial civilizations would constitute a conceptual revolution, potentially more impactful than the mathematical reformulation of spacetime and gravity." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/how-to-rule-butterflies-42bc994eff3e | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:11

  • "The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet? is a great read. We have precisely zero evidence of advanced life in the universe beyond Earth." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/proof-of-life-out-there | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:28

  • "As the antenna for the ground-penetrating radar extends beyond the landing legs, it was crucial that said antenna was flexible enough to simply fold in on itself like fabric." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/nasa-tests-featherweight-radar-antenna-for-skyfall-mars-helicopters/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:39

  • "For more basic, low-frequency circuit and protocol debugging it would already be enough." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/simple-diy-stm32-oscilloscope-project/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:56:25

  • "The Trump administration is touting the opportunities as a means to further its federal research-and-development priorities." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/nsf-billion-foundational-research-funding-grants/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:56:37

  • "Goodman was hitchhiking in the days following the festival when a driver stopped to give him a ride" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jimi-hendrix-woodstock-performance-a-second-look-film-1235610617/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:16

  • "If you’ve ever fallen into a blogging slumber, what stirred you out of it?" ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/blogger-hardly-know-her/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:31

  • "At minimum, UIs need to detect them." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/19/what-is-reasoning/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:52

  • "I’ve most certainly written this sort of thing before as well." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/competitions-good | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:03:44

  • "Notifications are a core feature of needy programs. Every app wants to be the centre of attention." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/08/20/ruminations-on-notifications/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:01

  • "I posted what follows more than twenty-six years ago on Searls.com, which now brings up a danger warning because it’s still http and not https." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/18/on-what-still-hasnt-happened/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:30

  • "Well, that’s the conundrum, isn’t it. Once you start writing for an audience you stop writing for yourself. And that’s what I always did, and what I always loved: writing for myself." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/19/thinking-in-public/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:47

  • "I have cleaned up the layout I was using so it at least looks presentable. It seems I'm once again posting to baty.blog. For now. Don't forget, there's an RSS feed." ☛ https://baty.net/posts/2026/08/for-fun-i-thought-i-d-revisit-my-pure-blog-blog/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:05:25

  • "It is time once again for the mind-numbing process of feeding 45 disks through the readers to verify their checksums" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/08/2026-optical-media-durability-update.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:19:11

  • "Second Django ORM post of the week! First, an important distinction before we start" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/q-is-for-q-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:19:37

  • "This article is dedicated to the first one: the McNemar’s test." ☛ https://statsandr.com/blog/mcnemars-test-in-r/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:20:22

  • "For over a decade, I've been a proponent of writing detailed Git commit messages." ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:21:04

  • "The responsibility never left. It just changed costume." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1326 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:22:08

  • "I need a heap-allocated member with value semantics" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/19/cpp26-polymorphic | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:24:54

  • "Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hackaday-europe-2026-the-1-bit-cpu-that-ran-factories/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:25

  • "I haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago!" ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/inaugural-hwc-ap-recap/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:33

  • "For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London" ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/14/gophercon-uk-2026/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:48

  • Dan Geer publications ☛ http://geer.tinho.net/pubs | Source: Dan Geer    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:57

  • "There are two important updates and one not so important that I wish to share regarding my blog: [...]" ☛ https://merecivilian.com/merecivilian-website-update/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:27:36

  • "Where redirects can come in handy in this context is if there isn’t a suitable replacement link for a broken one." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/re-re-the-loss-of-links-continues/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:27:48

  • "It is intentionally small." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2026/2026-06-22_gixsql_cobol_freebsd/ | Source: Tara Stella    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:29:01

  • "I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that while SQL is a powerful language because of the ideas behind it, it’s often implemented in clumsy and archaic ways." ☛ https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/ | Source: The Sporks Space    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:29:20

  • "It is rock-solid and stable." ☛ https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:30:41

  • "Part of that is because I like thinking in Postgres." ☛ https://rednafi.com/system/pg-isolation-ref/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:30:59

  • "Starting in curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/19/a-filename-when-none-exists/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:31:38

  • "UNO is a residual rather than a browser-provided metric." ☛ https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/uno-is-underrated/ | Source: Harry Roberts    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:31:49

  • "As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/netscape-navigator-3-0-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:32:26

  • "Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced fresh Chrome and Firefox security updates that address multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-firefox-updates-patch-dozens-of-vulnerabilities/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:32:39

  • "Smartphones that you no longer wish to use for everyday browsing or whatnot can still be useful for several more years" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/smartphone-old-offline-2fa-token.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:34:24

  • "The build is based around a wired doorbell setup, in particular, a Vistadoor ADV-100." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/smarting-up-a-doorbell-with-zigbee/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:36:01

  • "From there, things switch over to the electronics." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/mini-blinking-barrels-keep-desktop-traffic-in-check/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:36:17

  • "EdgeVOLT is a rugged, modular battery system designed to provide portable power for communications equipment, sensors" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/3me-edgevolt-portable-battery-us-military-prism | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:37

  • "Making a single device is hard; you have to prepare your hardware, your software, your documentation" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-programming-jig/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:49

  • "Raspberry Pi has a solution for that, now. It's the CM5 Programming Jig (pictured above), one of which they sent for testing." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/cm5-programming-jig/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:59

  • "For an upcoming project I want to get three axis motion working with linear stages" ☛ https://nick.zoic.org/art/three-axis-motion-with-grbl/ | Source: Nick Moore    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:38:08
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