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Stabilizing Rust's never type https://lwn.net/Articles/1091015/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 05:57:41

  • CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian https://lwn.net/Articles/1092512/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 05:59:32

  • Recent work in memory tiering https://lwn.net/Articles/1092001/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:01:50

  • Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python https://lwn.net/Articles/1090579/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:02:26

  • Fixing the TCMalloc regression with RSEQ operations https://lwn.net/Articles/1092555/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:03:11

  • Rust warning https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:03:45

  • Trying to replace LaTeX with something Microsoft more closely controls (Rust)    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:04:25

  • "Well it's a bit weird, my "appeal" has become a "report", which makes it sound like I'd reported myself for a voilation in the first place. But I'm getting used to really weird uses of English these days so the final statement "These listings have not been removed" sounded good enough." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-09-17eBaffled.txt    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:09:32

  • EBay Infuriates and Insults Users Using Its Broken Bots https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/ebay-infuriates-and-insults-users-using-its-broken-bots/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:14:00

  • "I recently installed Qutebrowser on my work PC. It works like a champ. I had tried it several years ago and got rid of it. I may have even made a glog post about it, but I'm not bothering to look for it." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260916-qutebrowser.txt    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:15:33

  • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Griffith_Park gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260916_rphlch_gp    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:16:11

  • "Super original sentiment, I know. But at least one of my hobbies seems to want to demand an outsize amount of time to be any good at it, which I don't want to devote to it. But being it's competitive, not dedicating extra time leads to being left behind." gemini://tilde.club/~moendopi/gemlog/not-enough-time.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:16:53

  • "Last year, Google announced that they will restrict sideloading unsigned apps on Google Play-certified Android devices." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202609/20260916-google-signals-the-end.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:18:04

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1741.jpg    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:19:13

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2098.jpg    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:19:19

  • "My days feel like an endless grind. I grind at my demanding job, come home and do the toddler grind." gemini://addressunknown.org/gemlog/2026-09-17-im-so-tired.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:20:22

  • What a day it's been gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-09-16-what-a-day    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:20:52

  • Roophloch 2026 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/revrichard/phlog/2026-09-16-roophloch.txt    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:21:56

  • [Old] "peaceful co-existence with Windows" ☛ https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/ | Source: Birdhouse Arts Collective    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:33:29

  • "only Coca-Cola products across campus" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/umich-offering-only-coca-cola-products-at-athletic-events-in-vending-machines-and-dining-halls/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:33:41

  • The university of Coca Cola probably has partnership with plagiarism companies too, to tell students to commit plagiarism and call it "AI"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:34:58

  • "ultimately relocating more than 200 people from Afghanistan to the US" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/09/15/2026/a-gripping-account-of-four-womens-escape-from-the-taliban | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:35:14

  • "Though computer science grads are bearing the brunt of the mayhem, tech jobs may just be the first domino to fall." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-eviscerating-entry-level-jobs-data-labor-nyc | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:35:29

  • "The killing of Jina Mahsa Amini in Tehran on 16 September 2022 sparked an uprising in Iran under the slogan Jin, Jiyan, Azadî, which within a short time became the voice of women’s resistance across the world." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/women/jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-continues-kurdish-women-s-struggle-87258 | Source: ANF News    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:35:47

  • HearsayBoy is starting to sound like he's finishing all the whiskey or has had a stroke or something...    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:44:30

  • "Slavery is such an intrinsic part of Islam that the treatment, utility, and social status of slaves is expressly discussed in multiple verses of the Koran." ☛ https://spectator.com/article/why-do-we-never-talk-about-islamic-slavery/ | Source: The Spectator Ltd    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:45:08

  • "The Arab Muslim slave trade, also known as the Trans-Saharan or Eastern slave trade, is recognised as the longest in history, spanning over 1,300 years." ☛ https://www.fairplanet.org/dossier/beyond-slavery/forgotten-slavery-the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-sex-trafficking/ | Source: FairPlanet gGmbH    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:45:20

  • "Former director of the BelaPAN independent news agency Navazhylau and former BelaPAN deputy director Aliaksandrau, who was also founder and chief editor of the news website Belaruski Zhurnal, had been jailed since 2021." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-welcomes-release-of-three-journalists-in-belarus/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:45:58

  • "Former director of the BelaPAN independent news agency Navazhylau and former BelaPAN deputy director Aliaksandrau, who was also founder and chief editor of the news website Belaruski Zhurnal, had been jailed since 2021." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-welcomes-release-of-three-journalists-in-belarus/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:46:09

  • "Signed by Judge Rudolph Contreras on 09/15/2026. (lcrc3) (Entered: 09/15/2026)" ☛ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73575925/24/streever-v-mullin/ | Source: Court Listener    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:46:53

  • "He wrote that because it was likely the federal government had already infringed on Streever's First Amendment rights, he was issuing a preliminary injunction while the case continued so that Streever could continue to speak freely." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5970459 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:47:03

  • "It’s a common suspicion that unseen or unseemly technological forces are shaping our society." ☛ https://siliconprairies.substack.com/p/who-governs-the-information-state | Source: Jacob Bruggeman    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:47:19

  • Misinformation: "A 2025 study found that 70 percent of adolescents sought reproductive health information through social media platforms." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/texas-sex-ed-tik-tok-reels-youtube-shorts-gen-z/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:47:43

  • Indoor Days https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/indoor-days/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:54:03

  • "Automattic has not publicly explained what changed between the initial decision and Mullenweg’s return — and it has also declined to explain the circumstances behind the leave and return." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/automattic-mullenweg-boardroom-reversal/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:57:18

  • "But what if your evening philosophizing leads you to disagreement with the party?" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/my-grandfather-helped-start-dsa-its | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:58:52

  • "Sartre wrote the diagnosis in 1944, watching it work on his own countrymen: never believe they are unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/how-to-argue-with-reactionaries | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:59:09

  • "Tech’s pandemic-era hiring boom was underwritten by an extraordinary financial backdrop shaped by over a decade of loose monetary policy." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/against-tech-oligarchy-book-excerpt-trump-billionaries/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 06:59:21

  • "The Bill exempts from regulation under the Online Safety Act certain small, low risk user-to-user services. In order to be exempt a service would have to (a) not be conducted for profit" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/online-safety-amendment-bill/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:01:31

  • "Oracle Begins New Layoffs After Cutting 21,000 Jobs"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:04:26

  • IBM and Microsoft also have TENS OF THOUSANDS of layoffs. Unlike Oracle, they hide these.    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:04:58

  • "In the media and at public events, he’s backed Trump’s push to take over Greenland." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-dans-arctic-research-commission-trump-russia-propaganda | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:05:03

  • "If the results are confirmed, it would usher in a change in government from the right-wing bloc led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/swedens-center-left-bloc-set-to-win-election-stv-reports/a-79299076 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:05:15

  • Disney Is Buying Back $8 Billion in Stock as Employees Face Layoffs and Stricter Office Rules https://www.inc.com/chloe-rosenberg/disney-is-buying-back-8-billion-in-stock-as-employees-face-layoffs-and-stricter-office-rules/91405866    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:05:50

  • Techrights Site Turning 20, But Not the Techrights Community https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/techrights-site-turning-20-but-not-the-techrights-community/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:13:36

  • "Lake sturgeon may be among the longest-living vertebrates, second only to Greenland sharks, according to recent research." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/some-fish-in-the-great-lakes-might-be-more-than-400-years-old-a-study-suggests-outliving-around-15-generations-of-humans-180989500/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:14:52

  • There are LOTS of Microsoft layoffs right now. Media does not report these. It'll say, no warn notices. But Microsoft bypasses the law. It says, "we'll fire you unless you agree to this 'voluntary exit' agreement, then sign an NDA to keep quiet and outwardly happy about it."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:16:35

  • https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/microsoft-layoffs-in-september-and-october-2026/   

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:26:13

  • whiskyboy acting like an unemployed man on the bottle    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:27:06

  • "Here are 5 key things to know about the Clarity Act — and why opponents are fighting hard to prevent it from ever being passed." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5968711 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:28:08

  • "The US has tons of abandoned rail, especially in urban environments, so it seems a shame to let it go to waste." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/ride-the-rails-on-a-onewheel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:28:13

  • "Founded in 1974, SEIA is the largest national trade association for the solar and storage industry and has helped drive growth in utility-scale, commercial, and residential segments." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/us-solar-advocacy-closes-ranks-seia-and-ccsa-to-consolidate/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:32:07

  • "Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this large while real prices fell" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/us-canada-electricity-costs-generation-deregulation | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:32:18

  • "Right now, your brain is recognising the shapes of these letters, analysing their meaning, and holding a stream of thought together – all on about 20 watts of power." ☛ https://theconversation.com/your-brain-runs-on-20-watts-could-brain-inspired-computing-do-the-same-292048 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:32:28

  • "A heat dome is, for instance, not just a heatwave." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/heat-domes-meet-the-quiet-and-oppressive-take-on-the-thunderdome/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:33:07

  • "E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/996470/ai-data-center-e-waste-ban | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:33:24

  • "The A.I. boom is also slowing the phaseout of coal." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-epa-repeals-limits-on-power-plants-carbon-emissions/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:33:49

  • "Data centers don’t just undergird the avalanche of AI slop polluting our social media feeds — they’re spewing an awful lot of physical slop as well." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-surge-toxic-chemical-spill-pollution-pfas | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:34:02

  • "The farmers have every reason to fear the new lithium mining project: Similar mining ventures elsewhere in the country have displaced communities from their lands, polluted water and air, and disrupted livelihoods." ☛ https://therevelator.org/zimbabwe-regime-lithium-boom/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:34:20

  • "The order stems from a lawsuit by Katie Phang, a lawyer and political commentator seeking to force the Justice Department to turn over more Epstein documents." ☛ https://www.washingtonsun.com/courts/judge-warns-todd-blanche-over-epstein-documents | Source: NOTUS Media LLC    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:35:43

  • "In key races from Arizona to North Carolina, Democrats are hammering Republicans for their votes on the Epstein files" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-epstein-reckoning-hits-the-campaign-trail/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:36:18

  • "No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_26_1868 | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:37:40

  • "The 27-country bloc would take a "gradual" approach, von der Leyen confirmed during her annual keynote address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg" ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20260916/europe-has-power-to-act-eu-to-ban-social-media-for-under-13s | Source: The Local SE    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:38:56

  • "How to wrest everyone’s future out of the hands of rogue billionaires" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/ai-is-apparently-going-to-destroy-us-all-is-anyone-trying-to-stop-it/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:39:09

  • "Schiess stopped short of providing any details about the weapons, instead sharing a war story of one Space Force operator named “Specialist Gray.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/space-force-chief-pentagon-orbital-weapons-budget | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:39:24

  • "Schiess didn’t specify what kind of weapons the U.S. operates in orbit, how many there are, or what exactly they do." ☛ https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/us-space-force-says-it-operates-weapons-in-orbit-our-aim-is-deterrence | Source: Space    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:39:41

  • "The Air Force has spent the last year building up a new system to defend bases from drones and missiles" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-counter-drone-warfare/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:39:57

  • "Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bund-socialism-zionism-holocaust-wwii | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:40:19

  • "Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/16/the-real-ai-threats-automated-hacking-and-surveillance-conventional-weapons-development-biological-misuse/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:40:36

  • "It is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how do we allow social media to access minors" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/european-union-social-media-ban.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:40:52

  • "On August 21, a highly specialized team — comprised of USCG Law Enforcement personnel, USCG Cyber Protection Team members, a vessel inspector, and FBI" ☛ https://therecord.media/oil-tanker-cyberattack-coast-guard-fbi | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:41:18

  • "She stressed that controlling the risk is not the same as inhibiting the potential" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/eu-chief-warns-of-ai-powered-hacking-moves-to-rein-in-social-media/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:41:42

  • "The proposal for a total ban on social media for children under 13 was announced in Wednesday’s State of the Union speech" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-bans-social-media-for-under-13s/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:41:52

  • "Whichever term you prefer, it’s undeniable that this category of person is no longer a societal fringe" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/republicans-nazi-problem-husted-oberacker-collins | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:42:10

  • [Old] "former political prisoners of the concentration camps and prisons of fascist" ☛ https://www.fir.at/en/a-brief-history-of-the-international-federation-of-resistance-fighters-fir-association-of-anti-fascists/ | Source: The International Federation of the Resistance Fighters    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:42:31

  • [Old] "I got a new smart TV this week. A Bravia 8 II. So far it's amazing. It blows my old circa 2015 Sony Smart TV away. But this isn't a review." ☛ https://blog.altos.au/post/desnitching-the-tv/ | Source: Jon    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:46:45

  • "Of course, we have an easy (even fun!) solution to these concerns: just build your own smart doorbell, and have complete control" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/16/build-your-own-smart-doorbell-and-protect-your-privacy-in-one-hour-with-massimo-banzi/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:46:58

  • "On Sept. 12, the multi-hyphenate artist and engineer Cara Esten Hurtle shared her latest photography project to much digital fanfare." ☛ https://www.coyotemedia.org/records-of-enemy-surveillance-cara-esten-hurtle/ | Source: COYOTE Media Collective    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:47:10

  • "Records of Enemy Surveillance" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/records-of-enemy-surveillance/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:47:37

  • "food safety risk platform" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/chipotle-is-working-with-palantir-on-food-safety/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:47:46

  • "While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of [crackers] went a step further: extracting the camera's software too." ☛ https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:48:07

  • "The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/data-broker-radaris-loses-domains-in-privacy-fight/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:48:24

  • "The news comes just days after a mother in Utah accused Meta of using its AI to scour Instagram and Facebook posts to reveal invasive information about her young daughters." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-instagram-users-photos-facial-recognition-lawsuit | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:48:42

  • Windows TCO: "What makes the campaign notable is not its technical sophistication." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/inside-irans-chosen-brick-malware-campaign/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:49:30

  • Windows TCO: "full control over the device" ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/16/iran-using-spyware-gather-information-dissidents-living-west-aivd | Source: NL Times    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:49:37

  • "My service hasn't seen that much use, but it did get its own version of "FSF-dotting", when the 30th anniversary of the GNU project announcement was celebrated, and many sites linked to the original article on article.olduse.net." https://olduse.net/#around links to RMS announcement about GNU    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:50:09

  • "Accounts posting AI-generated content about Finland may be motivated by the chance to make money through Meta's Content Monetization programme." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20246414 | Source: Yle    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:51:18

  • "A few weeks ago, I made this site publish to ActivityPub (really mostly thinking about Mastodon, although as an open standard other software can consume it)." ☛ https://wrla.ch/log/2026/09/a-couple-quick-notes-on-activitypub/ | Source: Wrlach    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 07:51:28

  • "This is not a promise of 100 times returns on Nvidia stock. Not a Ponzi!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/15/jensen-claims-100x-returns-on-nvidias-circular-financing/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:02:55

  • "Too Used to Prompt" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1174/too-used-to-prompt | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:03:05

  • "I also believe this continues to be part of a regulatory capture operation that OpenAI and Anthropic are both pursuing." ☛ https://doug.pub/2026/09/15/hearing-the-news-of-the.html | Source: Doug Jones    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:10:26

  • "Earlier this year I worked on a couple of AI-generated TLA+ specifications, and one thing I've noticed was that they all used the word "spine" somewhere." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-llms-yearn-for-the-spines/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:11:01

  • "Spending upwards of 75% of my time directly or indirectly dealing with AI every day has absolutely robbed me of most of my enjoyment of my work." ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html | Source: Jan Schaumann    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:11:27

  • "This does not mean that there is as clear of a business case in favour of AI." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/politics/2026-09-16-ai-financial-bubbles-career-orientation/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:11:51

  • "This makes them extremely flexible, since they can do literally anything a computer can do." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/jev-means-structured-output-is-interesting-again/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:12:07

  • "He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/i-trained-a-fly-on-wired-story-ideas/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:12:25

  • "Through early 2026, several large companies blew past their annual AI budgets in a matter of months." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/16/the-case-for-open-weight-models-and-why-we-cant-trust-frontier-labs/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:12:40

  • "Through early 2026, several large companies blew past their annual AI budgets in a matter of months." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/16/the-case-for-open-weight-models-and-why-we-cant-trust-frontier-labs/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:12:57

  • "AI is testing humanity’s ability to establish guardrails even as tech advances." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0916/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-risk-safety | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:13:15

  • "Don’t wait for a mass-extinction event before holding AI developers accountable." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/ai-risk-criminal-law/688615/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:17:46

  • "Breaking down all that marketspeak is beside the point." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-late-stage-ai-bubble-federal-reserve-inflation | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:17:54

  • "That process mostly seems to be repurposing articles from legitimate news sources, rewording them and then publishing the edited version with AI-generated images." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/artificial-intelligence-indigenous-journalists-9.7345554 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:18:06

  • "One Cybercab passenger in Austin complained that what should’ve been a ten minute trip devolved into a 70-minute long nightmare as the steering-wheel-free robotaxi spiraled its way down the most circuitous route possible." ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/cybercabs-circuitous-routes | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:18:17

  • "Godfather of AI" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/artificial-intelligence-humanity-extinction-openai-anthropic-big-tech/a-79263146 | Source: Deutsche Welle http://techrights.org/n/2024/02/02/The_Great_LLM_Delusion_Part_VI_Hype_Agent_Geoff_Hinton_Would_Ne.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:19:12

  • Slop hype roped in Nobel http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Nobel_Exploited_Posthumously_for_AI_Hype_Now_They_Do_the_Same_W.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:19:56

  • "The company confirmed the defect was exploited before it was disclosed and patched" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-secure-email-gateway-zero-day-exploited/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:20:42

  • "I think we should expect this risk to increase as patch volumes continue to grow" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-emergency-fixes-patch-tuesday | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:20:55

  • Man City vs Norwich https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/man-city-vs-norwich/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:26:28

  • "My climbing was and is mostly motivated by reasons extrinsic to the actual climbing." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/16/the-one-where-i-figure-out-in-real-time-whether-i-enjoy-climbing/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:26:49

  • "I’m not trying to rain on Apple’s (or other wearable makers’) parade." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/column/995939/optimizer-health-age-wearables-longevity | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:27:02

  • "Research on short-form videos and cognition is difficult to conduct." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/09/short-form-video-tiktok-brain-neuroscience/688632/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:27:30

  • "I often see typewriter enthusiasts “debating” over which is the prettiest or best typeface" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/16/what-is-the-prettiest-typewriter-typeface/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:29:04

  • "A lot of managers want to be liked by the people who report to them, and some go a step further and want to be their friends." ☛ https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/hierarchy_exists.html | Source: Kore Nordmann    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:29:29

  • "It’s time for my annual blog post on Raspberry Pi dot com, which can only mean one thing — we have a brand-new book out today, now appropriately titled the Raspberry Pi Official Annual 2027" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/get-the-new-raspberry-pi-official-annual-2027-today/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:29:48

  • "You can watch all the talks on peer tube, check the dedicated OpenBSD playlist, or pick your favorite talk from the list: [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260916093106 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:29:59

  • "The lack of research justifying this costly panoply of measures turns tragedy to farce." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/militarization-schools-surveillance-police/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:30:14

  • "That, it seems, is Trump’s legacy, a version of American history where his own ego and grievances matter more than the scholarship or art of any of his constituents." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-signs-smithsonian-political-bias-1235627897/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:30:28

  • "I’ve written three posts on cosine similarity lately. The first looked at interpreting cosine similarity. The second looked at an approximation related to the first." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/16/concentration-ratio/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:31:01

  • "Greg will walk through all of the history of this amazing antenna that was invented in 1926." ☛ https://www.contestuniversity.com/ | Source: Contest University    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:31:22

  • "The Yagi-Uda beam antenna was invented 100 years ago, in 1926, [...]" ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/contest-university-celebrates-100-years-of-yagis | Source: ARRL    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:31:36

  • "One of the most prominent theories about the origins of human language is that our ancestors started to communicate using gestural language." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-firelight-may-have-shaped-the-origins-of-spoken-language-291907 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:31:51

  • "The €350 million ($403.5 million) mission is planned to last three years." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/europe-launches-two-climate-observation-satellites/a-79268705 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:32:11

  • "And we come to why I titled this The Rude Trifecta. These mocha-ordering fellow humans must fall into one of these categories: [...]" ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/16/which-rude-is-it/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:32:29

  • "Ever have to write something for the company blog? It’s like blogging, but Corporate Communications goes over it and makes everything milder." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/corporate-crimeblogging-in-the-training-set/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:32:40

  • "In this blog post, I will be mostly focusing on notes about knowledge and understanding." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/why-do-we-take-notes/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:33:32

  • "In the past couple of days alone, I’ve discovered — or rediscovered in some cases — a few of these that I thought would be worth your time." ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/09/16/love-for-tiny-utility-programs/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:33:45

  • "Password managers that use this URL include Apple’s iCloud Keychain (in Safari since 2019), Google Password Manager (since Chrome 86, 2020)" ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/16/django-change-password-url/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:34:14

  • "We have just released Dancer2 2.2.0." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2026/09/dancer2-220-released-security-updates-please-read.html | Source: Perl    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:34:35

  • "most programming languages in common use today are influenced by C in one way or the other." ☛ https://citrons.xyz/journal/2026-09-09 | Source: Raven    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:35:09

  • "Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists" ☛ https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/ | Source: Will Keleher    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:35:18

  • "Erlang/OTP 29.1 is the firest maintenance patch package for OTP 29, with mostly bug fixes as well as a few improvements." ☛ https://www.erlang.org/news/191 | Source: Erlang    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:35:30

  • "C++23 added a new type to the standard library: std::flat_map. There is also a std::flat_set and other variants, but let me focus on std::flat_map." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/16/how-fast-is-c23s-stdflat_map/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:35:43

  • "Something has changed since then, and git worktrees are no longer a niche tool, but they still come with some gotchas." ☛ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/16/git-worktree-gotchas/ | Source: Olaf Alders    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:36:06

  • Man City vs Norwich https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/man-city-vs-norwich/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:36:31

  • "Recently, I wrote about how C++26 reduces undefined behaviour, covering changes like erroneous behaviour for uninitialized reads and making incomplete-type deletes ill-formed." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 08:36:40

  • 3am in CA and whiskyboy (of restricted boot infamy) is still trying to fix his broken laptop. 2 days almost...    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:02:00

  • After you say you'd punch people and it's not scaring them (enough) https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/16/uk-solicitors-warned-not-to-act-as-hired-guns-to-silence-critics-of-super-rich    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:03:25

  • "It’s a shell company with the sole purpose of getting $1b from the US GOVERNMENT." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies regarding http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/16/IBM_s_Anderon_Another_Opportunity_for_Debt_Loading_Publicity_St.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:15:59

  • "IBM Albany is using this in lieu of a layoff. They’re essentially just throwing undesirable trash out of IBM into Anderon." "Do anderon people lose their ibm RSUs? Asking for a friend."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:16:22

  • Red Hat moving to India is NOT about national security but about COST REDUCTION. India's national leader is friends with Putin AND Pooh-tin https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/10/red-hat-rhelocates-its-chinese-engineering-team-to-india/5222097    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:51:42

  • Vista 11 pegged at measly 15.6% https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:01:31

  • GNU/Linux at 10% in North America https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/gnulinux-at-10-in-north-america/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:05:24

  • It Feels Like the End of the World Wide Web is Already "in Progress" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/it-feels-like-the-end-of-the-world-wide-web-is-already-in-progress/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:34:45

  • Seems like BaggyEyes could not fix a simple laptop (with many spares on sale) in 2 days. Such 'expert'...    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:48:15

  • Build A Rocket Boy (MindsEye) faces more layoffs and may close its doors https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/articles/21947-build-a-rocket-boy-mindseye-faces-more-layoffs-and-may-close-its-doors    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:49:32

  • It seems that Build a Rocket Boy is preparing to shut down, as there have been new layoffs at the studio https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-52097    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:49:50

  • Xbox DOA https://www.ign.com/videos/microsoft-rumored-to-be-killing-day-one-games-on-xbox-game-pass-ign-daily-fix    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:50:43

  • Beginning of the end https://www.cbr.com/xbox-new-official-statement-game-pass-day-one-releases/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:51:53

  • DO NOT WORRY. Hey hi will save XBox! https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:52:39

  • "The Supreme Court clarified on Wednesday (September 16, 2026) that while unauthorised distribution of live-streamed proceedings constitutes contempt" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-says-falsely-quoting-judges-in-barred-online-court-clips-crosses-over-from-contempt-to-crime/article71471708.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:54:15

  • "I was really pleased to be able to extend the time-tested and well-known Pac-Man Rule from space to time." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202609/silence_is_golden_lightning_talk | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:54:44

  • "Ten years after its founding, Nextcloud is shipping a summer release shaped as much by its users as by the company itself." ☛ https://marius.blog/nextcloud-hub-26-summer/ | Source: Marius Quabeck    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:55:07

  • "I have an enduring peculiar interest in new editors, or at least the nifty sounding ones (cf)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/EditorsAreACommitment | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:58:15

  • "A separate Rust server, which can sit on the same PC or a remote computer (like a Raspberry Pi), handles the DSP." ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/sdr-a-software-defined-radio-application-with-visual-signal-path/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:58:27

  • "Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.4 and 6.0.4, containing many bugfixes and improvements across the board." ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.4-released/ | Source: Krita    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:58:47

  • "It also finally brings video exports to Android, which means you can now render animations and timelapses from the recorder. Apart from that, Arkady Flury has been improving Krita's icons at a steady rate"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:59:05

  • "Thanks! Also of note: the GIMP XCF file import plugin has been removed. The plugin relied on a third party library that is no longer maintained and had many security issues."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:59:17

  • "At heart, it’s a Home Assistant control screen that you can lay out yourself. It’s intended to run on ESP32 hardware." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/a-cheap-and-easy-control-screen-for-home-assistant/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 11:59:55

  • "As a point of reference, on a ESP32-S3 Jet can render around 650 on-screen triangles (post-culling) at 60 frames per second on a 480×320 display, or 1300 triangles at 30 FPS." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/a-3d-rasterizer-for-embedded-devices/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:00:23

  • "In this system, the researchers used a Raspberry Pi with a LiDAR sensor and Google Cartographer SLAM running on a connected PC to automatically locate and map out the indoor space." ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/automating-indoor-rf-heatmapping-with-a-plutosdr-raspberry-pi-5-and-lidar-slam/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:00:52

  • "Since Tails 7.10, you had to confirm shutting down in a Power Off dialog." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_13/ | Source: Tor    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:03:38

  • "Simon Long has announced the release of a new feature update of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for the Raspberry Pi range of single-board computers." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12954 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:03:48

  • "Fedora Operations Architect Aoife Moloney announced the official release of the Fedora Linux 45 Beta on 15 September 2026." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/fedora-45-beta-released/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:05:22

  • Civilians bear the brunt, with deadly US strikes in Iran and thousands displaced in Yemen | UN News ⚓ https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168328 ䷉ https://apnews.com/article/un-human-rights-us-iran-99e690efd1e818e835d4f5a00e0d261b    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:05:57

  • Ammo low, morale low, approval rates for Cheeto low. Gas price sky-high.    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:06:49

  • "not just low ammo but wasted ammo and other munitions shooting down $5000 drones with $500k missiles"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:07:30

  • old https://www.politico.eu/article/un-chief-guterres-reasonable-grounds-believe-war-crimes-happening-iran-war/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:08:11

  • Or shooting down $50 tents in Yemen with $75k javeline missiles in Yemen    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:10:31

  • "Before anyone asks: I am _*not*_ proposing to put this in tree for a while yet." ☛ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:12:16

  • "In an annoucement that vastly understates the usefulness of their code, the OpenSMTPD project have announced their new OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 release." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260916093956 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:12:45

  • "FreeBSD is free to license, but production upgrades carry operational costs." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-the-hidden-cost-of-upgrading-in-production/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:13:02

  • [Old] "This is an updated version of a page that I originally posted on my home page at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary" ☛ https://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/ | Source: George Coulouris    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:13:50

  • "...yep -- all without a strategy or goals so there is absolutely no way to 'win' that one because the bumbling, obstreperous manchildren pushing the buttons lack both"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:14:47

  • [Old] "This page shows how to install an Xfce desktop and lighter applications on a Thinkpad T60 core duo BIOS laptop with 3Gb RAM" ☛ https://www.k58.uk/openbsd.html | Source: Keith Burnett    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:15:24

  • "This week Jonathan chats with Jan Altenberg of the Open Source Automation Development Lab" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/16/floss-weekly-episode-882-with-osadl-better-together/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:15:46

  • Valve now say your data is safe from the CEVA Logistics cyberattack | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/valve-now-say-your-data-is-safe-from-the-ceva-logistics-cyberattack/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/valve-now-say-your-data-is-safe-from-the-ceva-logistics-cyberattack/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:17:51

  • s-box from Facepunch gets a price cut and more improvements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/s-box-from-facepunch-gets-a-price-cut-and-more-improvements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/s-box-from-facepunch-gets-a-price-cut-and-more-improvements/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:19:06

  • DXVK 3.1.1 brings fixes for Adobe software, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, Skyrim SE | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/dxvk-3-1-1-brings-fixes-for-adobe-software-call-of-duty-ghosts-rayman-3-skyrim-se/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:19:28

  • OptiScaler Client 1.0.7 brings major improvements for FSR 4 and improved recommended game configs | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/optiscaler-client-1-0-7-brings-major-improvements-for-fsr-4-and-improved-recommended-game-configs/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:21:27

  • GE-Proton 11-7 brings more Wine Wayland upgrades, launcher fixes, game fixes and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ge-proton-11-7-brings-more-wine-wayland-upgrades-launcher-fixes-game-fixes-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:23:00

  • Get plenty of action in the Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/get-plenty-of-action-in-the-sniper-elite-classics-collection-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/get-plenty-of-action-in-the-sniper-elite-classics-collection-humble-bundle/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:38:47

  • Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition announced to release in October | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/total-war-shogun-2-complete-edition-announced-to-release-in-october/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/total-war-shogun-2-complete-edition-announced-to-release-in-october/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:43:28

  • SUPERHOT VR gets various upgrades ready for the Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/superhot-vr-gets-various-upgrades-ready-for-the-steam-frame/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:44:44

  • Big Break Showcase from Coffee Stain Publishing highlights more games on September 29 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/big-break-showcase-from-coffee-stain-publishing-highlights-more-games-on-september-29/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:45:42

  • Mozilla promoting LLM slop plagiarism instead of helping users of Firefox avoid/cull it ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mozilla-mistral-partnership/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:46:59

  • Slop, corrupt Gartner (bribes for "recommendations"), and mindless spam from redhat.com ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/industry-turning-point-red-hat-named-leader-gartner-magic-quadrant-server-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official https://techrights.org/wiki/Gartner_Group/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:48:37

  • "modernization" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-aci-deliver-innovation-payments-modernization-flexibility-and-efficiency | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:49:05

  • Fake ladders, paid-for placement, glorified marketing/lobbying ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-named-leader-2026-gartnerr-magic-quadranttm-server-virtualization-platforms | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:49:53

  • "open hybrid cloud" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-where-strategic-vision-meets-enterprise-execution | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:50:28

  • Slop nonsense again, conjoined with misleading buzzwords like "Sovereign" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/sovereign-ai-and-data-services-with-duality-and-red-hat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:51:13

  • "high-severity Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) recently surfaced in an open source library buried deep within your core customer-facing application." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-rewriting-stable-code-how-lightwell-protects-your-bottom-line-and-developer-velocity | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:51:41

  • "September’s snapshots of the ARM port carried the Linux kernel to a security-heavy 7.2.5." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/16/tw-arm-update/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:53:21

  • Kubernetes v1.37: Hardening Container Storage with Bind Mount Options and EmptyDir Permissions | Kubernetes ⚓ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/16/kubernetes-v1-37-hardening-container-storage/ ䷉ Source: Kubernetes Blog | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/16/kubernetes-v1-37-hardening-container-storage/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:54:46

  • "Young mother reveals terrifying questions AI asked about kids... then chatbot sent her a chilling photo | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16132917/meta-ai-utah-mother-children-privacy.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:55:27

  • Strange claims about Finland are spreading on Facebook | "Somessa leviää hellyyttäviä Suomi-postauksia, joissa kaikki ei ole kohdallaan: Yle selvitti, mistä on kyse | Uutiset | Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/74-20197424 Sompi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:56:01

  • "A Quiet Ukrainian Counteroffensive, A 'Rout' For Russian Forces" https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-lyman/33856852.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:56:26

  • "every family has his own problems | Nicola' Scribbles" https://scribbles.page/nicola/posts/every-family-has-his-own-problems    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:56:41

  • "Trump’s Stock Trading is Endangering Us All" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-stock-trading-is-endangering    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:56:52

  • EU Commission wants to blanket the internet with age verification systems. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/eu-kids-act-eu-kommission-will-netz-mit-alterskontrollen-zupflastern/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:57:15

  • "Trump Has Lost Interest in the Iran War, but It’s Still Quite Interested in Him | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-iran-war-middle-east/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:57:31

  • "House delays Hegseth impeachment vote until November | Stars and Stripes" https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-09-16/house-hegseth-impeachment-22873869.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:57:48

  • "What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/09/what-trumps-bizarre-posts-are-teaching-us-about-ai/688617/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:58:01

  • "Fencing goes up around Kennedy Center as activists worry it will be demolished | CBC News" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kennedy-center-fencing-repairs-9.7346705    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:58:26

  • SVT's forecast: Hope is out for the Tidö parties | "SVT:s prognos: Hoppet ute för Tidöpartierna | SVT Nyheter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/svts-prognos-hoppet-ute-for-tidopartierna    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:58:58

  • "According to the agencies, Windows devices are particularly vulnerable and are the primary targets." https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/16/iran-using-spyware-gather-information-dissidents-living-west-aivd the article wrongly makes it look like non-Windows systems are affected, that is not even remotely true    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:59:42

  • From Slop to age limits – von der Leyen's plan for the EU https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/09/16/fran-ai-till-aldersgranser-von-der-leyens-plan-for-eu/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:00:36

  • Selling slop, not Linux ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/16/constraining-ai-agents-with-red-hat-ai-containment-identity-and-governance    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:09:38

  • Why your Kafka topic ignores retention.ms (and how to fix it) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/16/why-your-kafka-topic-ignores-retentionms-and-how-fix-it    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:10:02

  • Fedora 45 beta drags the GNU/Linux console into the 21st century (Register) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1094762/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:12:19

  • FreeBSD: The Hidden Cost of Upgrading in Production ☞ https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-the-hidden-cost-of-upgrading-in-production/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:15:55

  • Krita 5.3.4 Released! ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.4-released/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:16:51

  • How fast is C++23’s std::flat_map? ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/16/how-fast-is-c23s-stdflat_map/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:18:36

  • Economists Concerned the Hey Hi (AI) Bubble Is About to Blow ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economists-late-stage-ai-bubble-federal-reserve-inflation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:20:02

  • From Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon, diverse AI-safety advocates grow louder ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0916/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-risk-safety    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:21:00

  • The case for open-weight models and why we can’t trust frontier labs ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/16/the-case-for-open-weight-models-and-why-we-cant-trust-frontier-labs/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:21:16

  • The LLMs yearn for the spines ☞ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-llms-yearn-for-the-spines/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:21:55

  • Too Used to Prompt ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1174/too-used-to-prompt    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:22:11

  • Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/data-broker-radaris-loses-domains-in-privacy-fight/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:24:04

  • Build your own smart doorbell and protect your privacy – in one hour, with Massimo Banzi ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/16/build-your-own-smart-doorbell-and-protect-your-privacy-in-one-hour-with-massimo-banzi/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:24:48

  • Space Force Chief Admits the US Is Actively Utilizing Orbital Weapons ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/space-force-chief-pentagon-orbital-weapons-budget    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:26:04

  • EU Chief Warns of AI-Powered Hacking, Moves to Rein In Social Media ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/eu-chief-warns-of-ai-powered-hacking-moves-to-rein-in-social-media/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:26:32

  • Data Centers Are Causing a Huge Surge in Incredibly Toxic Chemicals Polluting the World ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-surge-toxic-chemical-spill-pollution-pfas    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:26:54

  • Online Safety (Amendment) Bill ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/online-safety-amendment-bill/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:27:42

  • Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes ‘active engaged time’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-to-cut-editorial-team-by-further-160-jobs-as-key-metric-becomes-active-engaged-time/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:29:40

  • AI Really Is Eviscerating Entry-Level Jobs, New Data Shows ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-eviscerating-entry-level-jobs-data-labor-nyc    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:30:14

  • iophk: omits naming the elephant in the room : islam - https://yle.fi/a/74-20246817 "... accounting for some four-fifths of the increase."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:33:59

  • Fear of Hey Hi (AI) Destroying Humanity Cause Certain Stocks to Skyrocket ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fear-of-ai-destroying-humanity-cause-certain-stocks-to-skyrocket    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:41:30

  • "How much did we pay for this? IBM named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Decision Intelligence Platforms" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2q6wb36    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:46:03

  • "There is no "we" at IBM. There is the the upper class of executives doing their best to steal and plunder, and there is the "naive id--ts" who believe and repeat the stupidity with the "we"."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:46:31

  • "We definitely paid IDC for this"    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:46:36

  • "The only thing IBM is a leader in is failure - failure to retain happy customers and failure to respect the employees that ensure the C-Suite get their multimillion dollar bonuses while we get no raises. Our entire C-Suite and their underlings are all selfish, lying, hypocritical, pathetic pieces of sht. All of them."    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:47:08

  • It's a marketing company https://techrights.org/wiki/IDC/ https://techrights.org/wiki/IDG/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:47:41

  • IBM pursing free, unpaid labour again? ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/09/fedora-coreos-45s-test-week-starts-monday/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:51:13

  • [Podcast] ‘Just say no’ isn’t as simple as you think ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/17/podcast-just-say-no-isnt-as-simple-as-you-think/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:51:36

  • Disctopia Granted Patent to Tie Creator Payouts to Verified Listening ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/15/disctopia-verified-listening-creator-payout-patent/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:51:55

  • You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles ☞ https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:53:55

  • Lithuanian MEP: Europe must stop being afraid to respond – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054119/lithuanian-mep-europe-must-stop-being-afraid-to-respond-opinion    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:54:26

  • Putin urges Russians to vote in parliamentary election as show of support for Ukraine war ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260916-putin-urges-russians-to-vote-in-parliamentary-election-as-show-of-support-for-ukraine-war    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:54:50

  • Live: Explosions shake Kyiv as US Congress advances new sanctions on Moscow ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260917-live-explosions-kyiv-us-congress-sanctions-moscow    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:55:01

  • Former Philippines leader Duterte appears before ICC judges for first time in 18 months ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/former-philippines-leader-duterte-appears-in-icc-courtroom    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:58:16

  • Increasing Russian Strikes on Medical Supply Warehouses Put Millions of Ukrainians at Risk: PHR ☞ https://phr.org/news/increasing-russian-strikes-on-medical-supply-warehouses-put-millions-of-ukrainians-at-risk-phr/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:59:32

  • Russian drone strike on a passenger bus in Ukraine kills 5 people and wounds at least 7 others ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/video/20260916-russian-drone-strike-on-a-passenger-bus-in-ukraine-kills-5-people-and-wounds-at-least-7-others    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 13:59:42

  • Russia-Africa ties: Moscow's growing influence in Africa ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/video/20260916-russia-africa-ties-moscow-s-growing-influence-in-africa    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:01:27

  • US charges 5 over alleged Kremlin-directed global network targeting Ukraine supporters ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054265/us-charges-5-over-alleged-kremlin-directed-global-network-targeting-ukraine-supporters    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:02:08

  • Nausėda: drone shot down over Lithuania was Russian Gerbera headed for Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054232/nauseda-drone-shot-down-over-lithuania-was-russian-gerbera-headed-for-ukraine    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:02:53

  • US Congress Passes Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill, Sends It To Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-congress-sweeping-russia-iran-sanctions-bill/33857946.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:03:24

  • Russia Sanctions Bill Clears Another Hurdle, Heads Toward Final Vote In US Congress ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-bill-us-house-trump-ukraine/33857261.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:03:54

  • A Colorful Undercover Recording Spurs Fresh Outrage Over Graft in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/ukraine-corruption.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:04:22

  • German FM says NATO will not be intimidated by Russia after drone downing in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054066/german-fm-says-nato-will-not-be-intimidated-by-russia-after-drone-downing-in-lithuania    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:04:43

  • US Charges 5 In Russian Intelligence Sabotage And Assassination Plot ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-charges-five-russian-intelligence-sabotage-assassination-plot/33857324.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:04:58

  • Belarus Frees 25 Political Prisoners in Exchange for U.S. Sanctions Relief ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/belarus-political-prisoner-release-us-sanctions.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:05:15

  • Russia’s Election Result Won’t Be a Shock. What Comes Next Could Be. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/russia-duma-election.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:05:47

  • Russia taps North Korean workers to make drones under fake visas ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/russia-taps-north-korean-workers-to-make-drones-under-fake-visas    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:06:05

  • 25 Belarusian political prisoners arrive in Lithuania after US-brokered release ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054323/25-belarusian-political-prisoners-arrive-in-lithuania-after-us-brokered-release    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:06:40

  • US to lift sanctions on 2 Belarusian companies, Minsk to release 25 political prisoners ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054253/us-to-lift-sanctions-on-2-belarusian-companies-minsk-to-release-25-political-prisoners    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:06:58

  • Lithuanian defence minister says determining drone origin will take time ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3054100/lithuanian-defence-minister-says-determining-drone-origin-will-take-time    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:07:17

  • Belarus Releases 25 Prisoners After Lukashenko's Latest Talks With US Envoy Coale ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-us-prisoners-release-sanctions/33857455.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:07:28

  • Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/denuvo-sues-anonymous-game-cracker-voices38-over-alleged-drm-circumvention-seeks-damages-after-anti-tamper-protections-bypassed-in-26-games    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:11:00

  • Cyril Vetter Formally Opposes the Major Labels’ ‘Off Base’ Supreme Court Appeal Amid High-Stakes Copyright Recapture Showdown ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/16/bmg-v-vetter-opposition/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:11:23

  • New “LibreOffice Expert 2026/2027” magazines available for schools and local communities ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/16/new-libreoffice-expert-2026-2027-magazines-available-for-schools-and-local-communities/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:12:05

  • GNOME's Fundraising Pitch: "Stick it to Fashtech" (They Mean Omarchy) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnomes-fundraising-pitch-stick-it    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:12:21

  • "When I was a child we didn't have central heating until I was about 10, just a fireplace in the living room, burning coal. All the other rooms, including the bedrooms and the bathrooms were unheated." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/warm_spaces    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:22:36

  • Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1094720/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:26:05

  • GNU/Linux is 43. OSI is a Microsoft front. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/linuxs-35th-anniversary-and-the-open-frontier    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:26:45

  • OSI got paid by Microsoft to use openwashing for promotion of plagiarism engines and this isn't stopping ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/open-weights-are-good-open-source-is-better    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:27:25

  • Pluralistic: How an Hey Hi (AI) moratorium can save Hey Hi (AI) bosses (16 Sep 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/beggar-thy-neighbor/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 14:27:59

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Voter Demands President Leave Office 'Right Now' After Hey Hi (AI) Posts and Says He Thinks His Supporters Are 'Stupid' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-supporter-backlash-ai-truth-social-posts-1820229    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:46:22

  • OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' Hey Hi (AI) Behavior ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model-safety-guardrails.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:46:40

  • U.S. Intelligence Warns of China Theft Over Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudis ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/politics/us-intelligence-china-f35-jets-saudis.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:47:06

  • Texas Abortion Ban Blamed in Pregnant Woman’s Death in Lawsuit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/family-of-woman-who-died-while-pregnant-sues-texas-over-abortion-ban.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:47:25

  • Steven Tyler Sexual Assault Lawsuit Rocked by Second Judge Exit Less Than Two Weeks Before Trial ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steven-tyler-sexual-assault-lawsuit-rocked-second-judge-exit-less-two-weeks-before-trial-1820267    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:47:56

  • deepfake laws – leader John Lee ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/16/policy-address-2026-hong-kong-to-appoint-ai-commissioner-and-consider-deepfake-laws-leader-john-lee/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:48:20

  • Federal Judge Forces StubHub Ticket Broker Class Action Lawsuit Into Arbitration ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/16/stubhub-class-action-lawsuit-arbitration/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:48:40

  • Cat Frazier, Whose Retro GIFs Celebrated a Weirder Internet, Dies at 35 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/arts/catherine-frazier-dead.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:49:34

  • We’re In: Enterprise Commitment to Sustainable Package Registries ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/09/16/were-in-enterprise-commitment-to-sustainable-package-registries/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:50:03

  • Japan PM reshuffles Cabinet, keeps key ministers, coalition ally gets post ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-reshuffles-cabinet-keeps-key-ministers-coalition-ally-gets-post    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:54:48

  • Great powers should shoulder higher expectations from smaller countries: Chan Chun Sing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/great-powers-should-shoulder-higher-expectations-from-smaller-countries-chan-chun-sing    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:55:37

  • Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years — chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering unlocks MechaCon secrets ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wide-open-after-four-years-of-effort-reverse-engineering-enthusiast-successfully-unlocks-cxp102064-mechacon-chip    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:55:59

  • Security advisory: CVE-2026-76151 out-of-bounds read (buffer over-read) vulnerability in HTTP Cache-Control response header parsing impacts Qt Framework (QtNetwork module) ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2026-76151    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:56:49

  • Macau begins first closed-door national security trial for former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/16/macau-begins-first-closed-door-national-security-trial-for-former-pro-democracy-lawmaker-au-kam-san/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:57:12

  • Coast Guard, FBI board US-bound foreign ships in order to probe for cyberattacks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/coast-guard-fbi-investigate-tanker-cyberattacks/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:57:44

  • CISA promotes a fresh way to deter cyberattackers: Lie to them ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-guidance-cyber-decoys-critical-infrastructure/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:58:36

  • Binary digits Matrix effect ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/44450/binary-digits-matrix-effect    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:59:11

  • Commercial LTS Qt 6.8.9 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-6.8.9-released    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:59:29

  • US Federal Reserve defies Convicted Felon with interest rate hike ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/us-federal-reserve-defies-trump-with-interest-rate-hike    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 15:59:57

  • In an effort to tamp down inflation, the Fed raises interest rates ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0916/fed-rates-warsh-inflation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:00:11

  • Fed Raises Rates in First Major Step by Warsh to Contain Inflation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rates-warsh.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:00:22

  • ACLU Back-To-School Bookshelf 2026: Artists, Authors, and Creators Share Their Favorite Reads About Civil Liberties ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/aclu-back-to-school-bookshelf-2026-our-reading-list-to-build-a-more-perfect-union    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:00:40

  • Two Body Measurements Linked to Nearly Double The Risk of Death – Neither One Is BMI ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-body-measurements-linked-to-nearly-double-the-risk-of-death-neither-one-is-bmi    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:00:59

  • Common Gum Problem Is Linked to a 61% Higher Alzheimer's Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bleeding-gums-linked-to-61-higher-alzheimers-risk-in-10-year-study    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:01:24

  • Ed Sheeran's tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/ed-sheeran-s-tour-in-trouble-after-opening-acts-drop-out-in-solidarity-with-rapper-macklemore    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:05:31

  • Encouraging signs in DR Congo Ebola fight ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/encouraging-signs-in-dr-congo-ebola-fight    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:06:27

  • BMI Addresses the Serious Healthcare Challenges Faced by Songwriters and Composers ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/16/bmi-health-care-challenges-songwriters-composers/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:06:57

  • One Year of “America First Global Health”: Evidence Shows Convicted Felon Administration Policy Has Undermined Global Health ☞ https://phr.org/news/one-year-of-america-first-global-health-evidence-shows-trump-administration-policy-has-undermined-global-health/    

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

  • State Audit: Children's healthcare only a formal priority in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/16.09.2026-state-audit-childrens-healthcare-only-a-formal-priority-in-latvia.a663380/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:07:40

  • Union calls for Latvian Health Minister to quit ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/16.09.2026-union-calls-for-latvian-health-minister-to-quit.a663460/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:08:06

  • GNU/Linux Turns 43 Very Soon https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/17/gnulinux-turns-43-very-soon/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:16:13

  • The Hidden Human Cost of Kim Jong-un’s New Power ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/asia/the-hidden-human-cost-of-kim-jong-uns-newfound-power.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:17:57

  • South Korean drug lord tried to flee from Philippine prison using heavy-duty drone: Reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-drug-lord-tried-to-flee-from-philippine-prison-using-heavy-duty-drone-reports    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:18:04

  • South Korea’s top diplomat to meet Rubio amid US investment, Hormuz discussions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-top-diplomat-to-meet-rubio-amid-us-investment-hormuz-discussions    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:21:16

  • South Korea to allow abortion pills for pregnancies of up to nine weeks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-allow-abortion-pills-for-pregnancies-of-up-to-nine-weeks    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:21:39

  • South Korean retail investors lost $318 million from scams during stock swing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-retail-investors-lost-318-million-from-scams-during-stock-swing    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:22:03

  • Kim Jong Un’s sister says only ‘idiots’ believe North Korea will give up nukes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/kim-jong-uns-sister-says-only-idiots-believe-north-korea-will-give-up-nukes    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:22:20

  • North Korea says US-led arms build-up justifies expanding nuclear force ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-us-led-arms-buildup-justifies-expanding-nuclear-force    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:22:30

  • Malaysia to study relief measures after haze, weather push households above power subsidy threshold ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-study-relief-measures-after-haze-weather-push-households-above-power-subsidy-threshold    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:23:36

  • Malaysia to invite Myanmar leader for official visit to spur Rohingya repatriation push ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-invite-myanmar-leader-for-official-visit-to-spur-rohingya-repatriation-push    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:23:58

  • In a Signal to Convicted Felon, Beijing Hosts Iranian Diplomat Ahead of U.S.-China Summit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/asia/iran-war-china-trump-summit.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:26:07

  • Iran war is draining US military resources from Pacific and Asia ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0916/military-ships-asia-iran-war-korea    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:26:26

  • China opens major canal linking landlocked regions to sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-opens-major-canal-linking-landlocked-regions-to-sea    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:26:48

  • Viral moment for Manila showcases South China Sea dispute, but status quo remains ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/09/17/philippines-china-teodoro-note-rebuke/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:27:31

  • Policy Address 2026: Greenpeace criticises lack of wetland protection in Northern Metropolis development plan ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/17/policy-address-2026-greenpeace-criticises-lack-of-wetland-protection-in-northern-metropolis-development-plan/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:28:13

  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Reach, McClatchy, Channel 4 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:30:24

  • Cuba 5.3% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CU&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:33:12

  • Belgium 7% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=14d&loc=BE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:34:24

  • Heart Machine has laid off nearly all its employees, and its future is in question https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-52098    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:35:17

  • The Atlantic Just Broke a 60-Year Record ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/eerily-quiet-hurricane-activity-in-the-atlantic-ocean-has-just-passed-an-ominous-milestone    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:36:34

  • Scientists Gave People BPA For 5 Days. Their Insulin Sensitivity Changed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-evidence-in-humans-that-bpa-can-alter-insulin-sensitivity    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:37:21

  • Scientists Grew Human Brain Cells Inside Mice – And They Wired Into The Mouse Nervous System ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-grew-human-brain-tissue-inside-mice-heres-what-happened    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:37:40

  • Earth's Shape Is Changing – Becoming Rounder And Less Round at The Same Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-shape-is-changing-becoming-rounder-and-less-round-at-the-same-time    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:37:56

  • Scientists Explore an 'Untouched' Deep-Sea Canyon… And Find Human Trash Beat Us Down There ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mi-goreng-noodle-packet-found-nearly-2-kilometers-beneath-the-sea    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:38:04

  • Scientists Just Found 84 Mysterious, Extremely Bright Objects Hiding in Nearby Galaxies ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-detect-84-mysterious-objects-in-nearby-galaxies-unlike-anything-theyve-seen-before    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:38:14

  • Dinosaurs May Have Engineered Their Own Egg Incubators to Survive Cold Regions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dinosaurs-may-have-engineered-their-own-egg-incubators-to-survive-cold-regions    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:38:28

  • Strange Creatures Seen Riding Giant Sea Spiders in The Midnight Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-creatures-seen-riding-giant-sea-spiders-in-the-midnight-ocean    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:38:38

  • 280,000 Impacted by Premier Medical Group Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/280000-impacted-by-premier-medical-group-data-breach/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:38:58

  • Unauthenticated RCE Flaws Could Expose 200,000+ WordPress Sites to Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unauthenticated-rce-flaws-could-expose-200000-wordpress-sites-to-takeover/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:39:11

  • President pardons inventor who warned CSDD about IT vulnerability ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/16.09.2026-president-pardons-inventor-who-warned-csdd-about-it-vulnerability.a663452/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:41:48

  • Veronese's Dogs ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/veroneses-dogs    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:42:07

  • Garda whistleblowers come forward to RTÉ Investigates from inside the Garda Protect Disclosures Office ☞ https://about.rte.ie/2026/09/16/garda-whistleblowers-come-forward-to-rte-investigates-from-inside-the-garda-protect-disclosures-office/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:43:08

  • Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:43:28

  • Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/pixel-modem-zero-day-exploited-in-targeted-attacks/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:43:45

  • AAEON MIX-PTLWV1 Panther Lake industrial mini-ITX motherboard offers quad DisplayPort, dual 10GbE, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/16/aaeon-mix-ptlwv1-panther-lake-industrial-mini-itx-motherboard-offers-quad-displayport-dual-10gbe/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:44:42

  • KDED refactoring Progress Update! ☞ https://tushar2005.bearblog.dev/kded-refactoring-progress-update/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:45:17

  • Indonesia cash-for-photos scheme turns animal hunters into protectors ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-cash-for-photos-scheme-turns-animal-hunters-into-protectors    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:47:08

  • China's 'Monster of Malan' Drone Could Be Bigger Than a B-2 as New Images Raise Stealth Questions ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-monster-malan-drone-new-images-1820236    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:47:35

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.19.1 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-19-1-released/149464    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:49:09

  • China's open-weight Hey Hi (AI) models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings, Mozilla report claims ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinas-open-weight-ai-models-are-now-just-4-months-behind-frontier-us-offerings-mozilla-report-claims-models-still-lag-in-some-benchmarks-but-are-drastically-cheaper-to-use    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:49:26

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260916.1) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/happy-bmo-push-day-20260916-1/149466    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:49:50

  • Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 115 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-firefox-updates-patch-115-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:50:15

  • Turkish intelligence targets software firm over alleged misuse of public employees’ data ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkish-intelligence-targets-software-firm-over-alleged-misuse-of-public-employees-data-323520    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:50:40

  • How Ed Sheeran’s Tour Turned Into a Clash Over Palestinians and Antisemitism ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/arts/music/ed-sheeran-tour-macklemore-palestine-gaza-finneas.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:51:05

  • Australia to bar foreign students from bringing partners, children while they study ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australia-to-bar-foreign-students-from-bringing-partners-children-while-they-study    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:51:35

  • The 28th state? Carney's Canada draws closer to European Union ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260916-the-28th-state-carney-s-canada-draws-closer-to-european-union    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:52:25

  • Scalpers Selling Ed Sheeran Loop Tour Tickets at a Loss Amid Macklemore Fallout ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/16/ed-sheeran-loop-tickets-speculators/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:52:56

  • Ignacy Kuchciński: Flatpak STF: Terminal Intent ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2026/09/16/flatpak-stf-terminal-intent/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:53:37

  • Jakub Steiner: GNOME 51 Wallpapers ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/gnome51-wallpapers/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:53:59

  • On Time! GNOME 51 Arrives With a Set of Improvements You Shouldn't Miss ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-51-features/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:54:19

  • The Federal Circuit Extends Sanho to the Section 102(b)(1)(B) Grace Period ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/the-federal-circuit-extends-sanho-to-the-section-102b1b-grace-period.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:58:36

  • AI-induced memory shortage is changing how devices are built, Fairphone says memory now 60% of materials cost ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ai-induced-memory-shortage-is-changing-how-devices-are-built-fairphone-says-memory-now-60-percent-of-materials-cost-smaller-laptop-and-phone-makers-are-redesigning-products-and-have-to-test-for-fake-chips    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:59:04

  • Shouting at Me Doesn’t Mean I’m Wrong ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/16/shouting-at-me-doesnt-mean-im-wrong/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 16:59:46

  • Families desperate for news as 129 still missing four days after capsize of ship in Indonesia’s Java Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/families-desperate-for-news-as-129-still-missing-four-days-after-capsize-of-ship-in-indonesias-java    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:00:21

  • NetBSD 10.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/netbsd    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:04:12

  • Kosovo’s Former Leader Is Sentenced to 25 Years in War Crimes Case ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/kosovo-thaci-war-crimes-hague-serbia.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:05:06

  • Anti-LGBTI+ crackdown: Detention extended for 109 protesters amid ill-treatment allegations ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/anti-lgbti-crackdown-detention-extended-for-109-protesters-amid-ill-treatment-allegations-323522    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:05:14

  • At Least 21 Dead in Gaza After Building Collapse, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/middleeast/gaza-building-collapse.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:06:28

  • AWS tells clients to quit Middle East data centers six months after Iranian drone strikes ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-reportedly-tells-customers-in-abu-dhabi-and-bahrain-to-find-safer-harbors-for-their-data-aws-has-no-timeline-for-resuming-operations-six-months-after-drone-strikes-damaged-data-centers-in-the-region    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:06:53

  • Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of targeting Mecca, calls it a 'red line' ☞ http://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260916-saudi-arabia-accuses-houthis-of-targeting-mecca-calling-it-a-red-line    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:07:14

  • Fake CAPTCHA Scams ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/fake-captcha-scams.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:07:38

  • US, UK, Dutch Agencies Expose Iranian ‘Chosen Brick’ Surveillance Malware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-uk-dutch-agencies-expose-iranian-chosen-brick-surveillance-malware/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:08:07

  • OpenMANET – A higher-bandwidth Meshtastic alternative leveraging 802.11ah WiFi HaLow ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/16/openmanet-a-higher-bandwidth-meshtastic-alternative-leveraging-802-11ah-wifi-halow/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:08:29

  • When we didn’t know everyone’s politics ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/when-we-didnt-know-everyones-politics/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:08:59

  • Network disaggregation in telecommunication transport networks ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/network-disaggregation    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:10:01

  • Ubuntu pulls 24.04.5 downloads due to installer bug [update: back] ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-pulls-24-04-5-download sabotage by WhiskyBoy https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/12/Canonical_Has_Withdrawn_Ubuntu_24_04_5_Installer_Due_to_a_Criti.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:10:44

  • How to Upgrade FunOS 24.04 to FunOS 26.04 LTS ☞ https://funos.org/upgrade-funos-24-04-to-funos-26-04/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:11:26

  • unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 18.0.01 Released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10933    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:11:59

  • FSF Blogs: Join us, we're hiring! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-were-hiring-for-two-positions    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:12:26

  • www @ Savannah: What's Wrong with Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ? ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10934    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:13:05

  • HPLIP 3.26.6 Released with New Printers Support, But Not Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/hplip-3-26-6-released-with-new-printers-support-but-not-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:29:25

  • I Spent Time With GeForce NOW to See If It's Gameable on GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/geforce-now-linux-review/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:30:23

  • Synex 26.09.16 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:31:02

  • Omarchy 4.0.4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:31:15

  • GNOME 51 released with passkey login and smoother UX ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/gnome-51-released    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:31:58

  • Q4OS 6.9 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q4os    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:32:15

  • HAOS 18.3-rc2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/haos    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:32:26

  • TUXEDO 20260916 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tuxedo    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:32:41

  • RakuOS 2026.09.17 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/rakuos    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:32:50

  • Nothing was wrong with the originals. Except they were NOT controlled by Microsoft. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Completes-Rust-Coreutils Ubuntu is compromised http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:33:38

  • Ubuntu Stonking Stingray Gets Even Rustier ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-Stonking-Stingray-Gets-Even-Rustier    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:34:40

  • slang – SystemVerilog compiler and language services ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/slang-systemverilog-compiler-language-services/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:35:58

  • Seems like MOAR LLM slop ☞ https://linuxstans.com/best-arm-linux-distros/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/09/linuxstans_com_Died_Then_Came_Back_as_Slop_LLM_Junk.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:36:31

  • Nginx Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/nginx/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:37:58

  • Russell Coker: Nheko DBUS ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/09/17/nheko-dbus/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:38:46

  • EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.9 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202609/easyos-excalibur-series-version-749-released.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:39:09

  • coinclp: the COIN-OR Clp linear programming solver is back on CRAN ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/09/coinclp-the-coin-or-clp-linear-programming-solver-is-back-on-cran/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:40:03

  • Indonesian govt prepares fines in digital child safety rules ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-govt-prepares-fines-in-digital-child-safety-rules    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:40:28

  • My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opinion/dumbphone-smartphone-friendship.html    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:41:41

  • ENILINX TICKEY – An ESP32-S3-based color e-Paper badge with open firmware (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/17/enilinx-tickey-esp32-s3-color-e-paper-badge-with-open-firmware/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:42:33

  • Misleading headline because it's still not working as it should. It's sabotage. https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-rustification-coreutils-migration/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:46:16

  • Don’t install Linux until you’ve read How-To Geek’s distro cheat sheet https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-geeks-linux-distro-cheat-sheet/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:46:36

  • My tablet runs a full Linux distro, and it's the best testing ground I've found for new operating systems https://www.howtogeek.com/android-and-tablet-ready-linux-distros/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:47:19

  • "I’ve been gaming on Windows for as long as I can remember, with Windows XP being the first proper OS I got to try out. It’s only (relatively) recently that I made the switch to Linux, and even choosing to give up dual-booting along the way." https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-finally-lost-its-last-excuse-to-stay-on-my-gaming-pc/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:47:41

  • "Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.18 today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of their open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows." https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-2-18-released-with-linux-7-3-fixes-support-for-rhel-10-3-kernel    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:48:00

  • "When it comes to retro video game decompilation ports, we've definitely been eating very well lately." https://www.xda-developers.com/super-smash-bros-melee-breaks-free-from-gamecube-new-pc-android-linux-port/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:48:19

  • SUSE brings Real-Time Enterprise Linux to LF Energy SEAPATH to advance irvtualized digital substations https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/suse-brings-real-time-enterprise-linux-to-lf-energy-seapath-to-advance-irvtualized-digital-substations-741552    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:50:00

  • PS5 Linux developer quits https://videocardz.com/newz/ps5-linux-developer-drops-project-after-last-hypervisor-bug-is-reported-to-sony    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:50:51

  • Linux built-in tools are so powerful, you can build a database with them. Here's how https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-built-in-tools-are-so-powerful-you-can-build-a-database-with-them-heres-how/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:51:50

  • PS5 Linux lead quits as open-source projects have become “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t even understand” https://frvr.com/blog/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits-as-open-source-projects-have-become-a-bunch-of-noobs-using-llms-that-they-dont-even-understand/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:52:14

  • Slop drowns out real reports and discourages human involvement though https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-development-is-really-benefiting-from-ai-but-not-from-its-coding/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:53:18

  • Cisco zero-day goes straight to root, BambooToken branches into Linux, CenterPoint breach claim hits 7M+ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisco-zero-day-goes-straight-root-bambootoken-branches-linux-ddudc/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:53:47

  • Stop avoiding the Linux terminal—here's how to actually get comfortable with it https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-avoiding-linux-terminal-how-to-actually-get-comfortable-with-it/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:54:10

  • Linux 6.11 on an ESP32-S3 Microcontroller https://www.hackster.io/news/linux-6-11-on-an-esp32-s3-microcontroller-bdbb519203eb    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:55:18

  • "Linux gamers are used to being treated as second-class citizens, and Ubisoft recently gave everyone a fresh reminder when they pulled Linux and Steam Deck support from For Honor." https://itsfoss.com/geforce-now-linux-review/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:55:43

  • "When I switched to Linux at the end of 2025, I knew that it wouldn’t be all sunshine and roses. I knew that there would be roadblocks and things to figure out." https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/linux-can-be-incredibly-frustrating-33b29a0606f4    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:56:09

  • PS5 Linux Dev Drops Project After "Slop Kiddies" Cash in on Crucial Exploit https://www.techpowerup.com/352739/ps5-linux-dev-drops-project-after-slop-kiddies-cash-in-on-crucial-exploit    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:56:39

  • Yardi Acquires Sidero Labs To Expand Secure Kubernetes And Virtualization Infrastructure https://pulse2.com/yardi-acquires-sidero-labs-to-expand-secure-kubernetes-and-virtualization-infrastructure/    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 17:57:47

  • "IDC should be ashamed and held accountable too. This is terrible and they just ki-led all their credibility" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2q6wb36    

posted Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 18:37:33
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