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Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09/28/microsoft-tells-nonprofits-their-deleted-m365-data-isnt-coming-back/5299433    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:02:51

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2110.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:05:45

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1753.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:05:51

  • Darn Tough gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/09/28/darn/ "I've got a pair of Darn Tough Vermont socks that are about 7 years old and they finally have holes in the bottom."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:06:33

  • "The rest of the time I have a range of tools to support my intention, including Minimalist Phone launcher, application scheduling, turning off notifications, all the things the self-help books would tell you to do. Of course I'm not on social media, unless Geminispace is that." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/sunday_wireless    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:07:26

  • "During lunch, I had half a dozen students here in the library, trying to solve a mystery. One of them had received some post in his locker this morning: an image of him, drawn to look like a femboy." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-09-28    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:08:35

  • "The oil lacquered one had dried up well and thus it was time to re-hydrate and rinse and then re-oil in a mixture on slightly less disgusting as the first. (I did not touch it this time, gloves straight away.)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260928fish.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:09:46

  • tiny lines gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/tiny_lines    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:10:51

  • Sterrenkijker releases — 1.1.0 gemini://lisanne.gay/projects/sterrenkijker/releases/1.1.0/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:11:39

  • "Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm’s trilogy, The Myth of Disenchantment (2017), Metamodernism (2021), and The Genealogy of Genealogy (2026), can be read as standalone theoretical interventions or as parts of a singular project." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/theorizing-the-human-sciences-in-the-age-of-absolute-disruption    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:12:25

  • A Good Idea Gathering Dust: From Named Gap to Workable Innovation gemini://adjb.smol.pub/from-gap-to-innovation    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:13:19

  • "Honestly, I don't know. I haven't settled on a topic. I'm a non-technical person in a strict sense. I'm interested in tech, but I don't have a career in tech. But the values touted by the Gemini protocol gave me a strong urge to start publishing online again." gemini://timeinbetween.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-09-29-started-a-gemcapsule.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:13:55

  • "A modern account is one where "too clever" scientists are silenced. They have their research grants are dropped, journals defunded, tenures revoked, or in more dramatic fantasy they mysteriously disappear off to "The Village" (Portmeirion) to be chased by weather balloons, or perhaps fall victim to some "bizarre gardening accident" or sudden suicide urge like Dr. David Kelly." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/cassandra/cassandra.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:36:17

  • "A modern account is one where "too clever" scientists are silenced. They have their research grants are dropped, journals defunded, tenures revoked, or in more dramatic fantasy they mysteriously disappear off to "The Village" (Portmeirion) to be chased by weather balloons, or perhaps fall victim to some "bizarre gardening accident" or sudden suicide urge like Dr. David Kelly."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:36:24

  • "There are of course dozens of thematic variations for the violent reaction of a group/government unable to gracefully incorporate a new truth. The methods by which "inconvenient truths" are opposed is the bedrock of state craft, and there is a real, ancient and well thumbed playbook for discrediting and burying works." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/cassandra/cassandra.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:36:48

  • "So one cannot treat Science as a rarefied philosophy or ideology without regard to its institutions and context, it's relation to technology, industry, money and power. The naive scientist or engineer who devotes herself wholly to the truth often falls foul of this. The "career scientist" - with PhD and research office by their mid-twenties - follows well oiled tracks and institutional signposts, steering away from controversial or "difficult" subjects."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:37:15

  • "So one cannot treat Science as a rarefied philosophy or ideology without regard to its institutions and context, it's relation to technology, industry, money and power. The naive scientist or engineer who devotes herself wholly to the truth often falls foul of this."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:37:25

  • "The "career scientist" - with PhD and research office by their mid-twenties - follows well oiled tracks and institutional signposts, steering away from controversial or "difficult" subjects."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:37:30

  • "People use Big tech products instead of verifiable FOSS software. They are afraid to take command of their own devices. They switch on every "AI" and location tracking feature, scan every random QR code they see, download an app just to park their car, and then complain that their data is leaked all over the web and their bank account is empty"    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:37:56

  • "Is it a form of short-sightedness? Egotism? Fear? The need to keep up appearances in order to hold power? Whatever! Here I'm not interested in the failings of leaders to lead, so much as the struggle of the misled, those cursed with unspeakable truths, to influence or if necessary urgently over-throw them."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:38:23

  • "Although an obvious ad-hominen bias, because we are psychologically wired to dismiss claims of "told you so", Cassandra is never allowed to reference the occasions on which she was correct. No matter how often one is right this is impermissible evidence because it is taken as a manifestation of personal unmet needs for validation." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/cassandra/cassandra.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:39:27

  • "The force maintaining truth telling in military, law enforcement and academia was always "honour" and a belief in shared values. We entered an era that systematically devalues honour and rewards cheating, so we get more systems/orgs that are inconsistent within themselves, chaotically organised and ultimately systems/orgs that are self-defeating and self-disassembling."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:40:11

  • "The Cassandra/Fool is the artist or intellectual who inhabits the space between speaking truth and surviving corrupt systems of power. She is self-sacrificing, horrified, compassionate and egoless, but because she is forever ridiculed and deemed a self-centred shriek by the doomed masses around her who she can never save, she must not take herself too seriously."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:44:11

  • "Cassandra's game is one of sustained love, hope and patience. She has a loophole. Nobody can hear what she says. But by acting, by patiently leading by example, she shows what she knows the future will bring. It is for others to take note and do any speaking."    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 06:44:17

  • Germany 8% GNU/Linux radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=DE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 07:03:22

  • 20 or 21 Degrees at Night (Almost October) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/20-or-21-degrees-at-night-almost-october/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 07:19:27

  • Like UKIP and “Brexit Party” Reform UK May Cease to Exist Soon https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/like-ukip-and-brexit-party-reform-uk-may-cease-to-exist-soon/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 07:19:51

  • Working on part 39 regarding EPO corruption, which is connected to international corruption by Portugal and EU    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 07:57:52

  • "Digital rights activists have long railed at the use of the term "IP," criticizing it for being deceptively imprecise and also rhetorically dishonest." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/cost-of-everything/#value-of-nothing | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:50:18

  • "It’s easy to see this merger fight as a catastrophic loss, which it is." ☛ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-with-paramount | Source: Matt Stoller    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:50:26

  • "The business model is also bananas to me. Apparently, Meta will eventually charge a commission for transactions conducted through Muse." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-muse/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:50:51

  • "A cornerstone of the settlement is the requirement that the new, bigger Paramount produce 30 traditional big films a year." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/free-speech-consumer-groups-make-last-ditch-effort-to-block-paramount-merger/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:51:03

  • "There is a curious tendency among successful technologies to disappear. Not physically, of course, but cognitively." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-when-the-maps-became-the-territory/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:51:30

  • "A security conference website should be the authoritative source of truth for anyone looking to attend." ☛ https://grahamhelton.com/blog/security-conference-websites-are-bad | Source: Graham Helton    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:51:53

  • "Purchasing power is still falling for the bottom tenth on the income scale this year, while it is rising for the top decile." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20248601 | Source: Yle    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:52:02

  • "the principles of a free market economy" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-and-unfree-press | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:55:58

  • "The ban followed the now familiar path of Trump’s potentially illegal or unconstitutional acts" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/05/the-president-vs-the-press | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:56:09

  • "The news organization was replaced by Real America’s Voice, a conservative network, for the president’s trip to Knoxville, Tenn., according to White House guidance." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/cnn-left-off-air-force-one-for-trumps-trip-white-house-signals-in-new-media-restriction/# |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:56:30

  • "journalists like Majid Saeedi remain detained without any information about their fate" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/iran-sentences-two-journalists-as-media-crackdown-widens/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:56:58

  • "Unfortunately, this lesson has been learned kind of late, after a whole lot of elite capitulation has already happened." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/215900/transcript-trump-rage-failing-press-ban-erupts-epic-self-own | Source: New Republic    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:57:09

  • "police your speech." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/trump-orders-the-fcc-to-punish-a-reporter-where-did-all-the-ministry-of-truth-screamers-go/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:57:31

  • "September 28 was dubbed “World News Day” by a global network of journalists and editors nearly a decade ago to highlight the role that reporters play in keeping citizens informed and strengthening democracy." ☛ https://wpln.org/post/preschoolers-at-the-goddard-school-of-gallatin-act-as-kid-journalists-for-world-news-day/ | Source: Nashville Public Radio    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:57:44

  • "The stonewalling has reportedly taken distributor Bleecker Street by surprise, with the company scrambling to figure out why its ads have been so widely rejected." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/social-media-refusing-musk-documentary | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:58:46

  • "Recently, we were advised to increase our security." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/some-disturbing-news-df7 | Source: The Next Move    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:58:58

  • "The state capital had previously banned the event throughout the city." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/09/28/german-police-break-up-kurdish-commemoration-in-hannover-during-ongoing-peace-process/ | Source: Site36    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:59:15

  • "Library and free speech advocates reject the removal" ☛ https://thecurrentga.org/2026/09/19/georgia-school-system-abruptly-bans-toni-morrisons-the-bluest-eye/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:59:31

  • "As of Sept. 18, 37 titles have been banned from public school shelves in Utah because three or more school districts voted to remove them." ☛ https://www.kpcw.org/summit-county/2026-09-18/summit-county-library-declines-to-remove-book-after-parent-complaint |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:59:40

  • "Officials have taken a governmentwide approach to scrutinizing citizens and organizations opposed to Trump policies. Tax agents have examined nonprofit groups." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/charlie-kirk-trump-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-android-share | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 08:59:54

  • "Aca­dem­ic free­dom has been stead­ily declin­ing world­wide for the past 15 years, accord­ing to the Aca­dem­ic Free­dom Index (AFI)." ☛ https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/society/academic-freedom-in-decline-in-europe-and-around-the-world/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 09:00:19

  • "The real question is how much of this is just crappy systems and how much is billionaire oligarchs having each others’ backs." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/youtube-and-meta-reverse-course-on-musk-documentary-ads-x-unsurprisingly-does-not/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 09:00:51

  • "Research has long shown that people systematically overestimate how widely others share their beliefs, a cognitive bias known as the false-consensus effect." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:34:03

  • "While battling the government to acquire Activision Blizzard, Microsoft stated to the FTC and to the courts that this acquisition would result in more consumer options and would not result in consolidation-based layoffs." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/more-xbox-layoffs-they-promised-wouldnt-happen-after-acquisition-blitz/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:34:49

  • "Senator Thom Tillis and Rep. Zoe Lofgren have introduced their joint site blocking bill, the DEFEND IP Act." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/unified-u-s-site-blocking-bill-targets-isps-and-dns-resolvers-but-spares-vpns/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:40:22

  • "NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/data-center-developer-offers-usd10-000-checks-to-4-500-households-if-the-1-300-acre-facility-is-approved-locals-push-back-over-noise-and-bribe-concerns | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:43:57

  • "From the far side of a victory, we can mistake the people who achieved it for people who knew they would win." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/it-is-always-darkest-before-the-dawn | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:44:15

  • "In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus tells his listeners to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/neither-side-of-the-stage | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:44:26

  • "It makes perfect sense for the general public to start fearing AI" ☛ https://greenpants.net/blog/ai-accountability/ | Source: Herman Groenbroek    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:44:54

  • "Backlash to the data center bonanza has become an electoral fissure in the run up to November’s midterm elections." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/sid-miller-texas-republican-sounds-alarm-data-centers-1235631921/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:45:06

  • "This was originally posted on X and blew up." ☛ https://thorstenball.com/blog/2026/09/19/what-i-believe-about-the-future-of-software-development/ | Source: Thorsten Ball    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:45:19

  • "The treatment I received was extremely unpleasant, as if I were committing some kind of offence or trying to take advantage of the system." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41916262.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:50:23

  • "Mukesh Ambani has enthusiastically praised BJP policies, and firms linked to his Reliance conglomerate have recently made significant donations to the party." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/24/indian-oil-gas-heir-professor-sustainability-newcastle-university-anant-ambani | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:51:03

  • "But even after a data center goes online, the battle is far from over." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-operator-microsoft-new-jersey-generators-exhaust | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:51:24

  • "Earlier this year I was developing some guidelines for more environmentally-friendly use of generative AI for the Norwegian certification foundation Eco-Lighthouse." ☛ https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260928-wasted-large-language-models/index.html | Source: Erik Johannes Husom    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:51:43

  • "We suggest that one possible way forward is to use life cycle thinking, and view LLMs as products that can become waste." ☛ https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17055 | Source: arXiv    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:51:57

  • "The government is also keen to make sure that its employees don't rely on AI, reminding everyone that they are responsible for any content or decisions that are made using the input of AI." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/uk-government-tells-staff-to-stop-thanking-ai-chatbots-draft-guidance-pushes-lightweight-models-and-shorter-prompts-to-cut-environmental-impact | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:52:36

  • "Since the 1970s, more than 12 trillion U.S. tons of ice have disappeared from the two landmasses." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-images-reveal-greenland-and-antarctica-have-lost-more-than-12-trillion-tons-of-ice-over-the-past-50-years-180989567/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:57:37

  • "Nine months after Australia's social media minimum age took effect, WhitelistVideo, the YouTube parental control made by StayBoba" ☛ https://www.reformer.com/online_features/press_releases/youtube-banned-for-under-16s-in-australia-whitelistvideo-briefing-for-parents/article_128bc0e1-a35a-5bb8-b866-5887a6e8831e.html | Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:58:48

  • "the research shows that newly proposed mosques are 16% to 18% more likely to face opposition" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-09-policy-masks-anti-muslim-discrimination.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:58:57

  • "Trump’s continuous lies trump certain people’s lived experiences — people who have surrendered to him their critical judgment." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/maga-republican-voters-vs-non-maga | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:59:11

  • "Before I explain why that’s (very) wrong, here’s how the military came to that view. As drones shrink in size and AI promises to make them autonomous" ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-pentagons-million-drone-march | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:59:19

  • "This government, the Chinese government, is a mortal enemy of the United States and all free countries" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trump-and-xi-have-a-laugh | Source: The Next Move    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 12:59:26

  • "Thanks to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's brilliant new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, I now have an answer." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5968447 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:05:06

  • "Russia's Defense Ministry also said on Sunday it hit a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country's second-largest cell network provider." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/27/russia-hits-ukraines-largest-mobile-provider-strikes-data-centers-a93800 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:28:28

  • "Opponents of the billionaire tax on the November ballot have vastly outraised the proposal’s supporters" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-28/200-million-plus-raised-billionaire-tax-measure-november-ballot | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:29:09

  • "China recently got its hands on some fighter jet parts that were inadvertantly sent to Hong Kong" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/09/28/trump-offered-to-sell-arms-to-china-during-xi-summit.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:29:42

  • "Second, it is a forgery attack. It allows an attacker to forge digital signatures. It does not recover the private key from the public key." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/new-attack-against-rsa.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:30:37

  • "GCHQ say they don’t mind me telling people about this because they don’t have the capacity to create it so would love for someone to create an open source version" ☛ https://iain.rocks/blog/introducing-the-triple-cipher-encryption-concept | Source: Iain Cambridge    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:33:27

  • "Of course, I don't think I fooled anyone with this post." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/my-phone-is-clearly-listening-to-me/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:34:06

  • "Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-privacy-is-here-with-kashmir-hill/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:35:04

  • "These schools, in addition to Western Illinois University and the University of Illinois Springfield, have spent more than $450,000 on Flock’s services since 2021, records show." ☛ https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/09/17/five-public-universities-in-illinois-use-controversial-flock-cameras-to-surveil-campus | Source: Chicago Sun Times    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:42:02

  • "Residents can register an address or plug their cameras into the Real Time Crime Center." ☛ https://weartv.com/news/local/with-flock-cameras-removed-law-enforcement-lean-on-voluntary-home-surveillance-registries |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:42:12

  • "The department has a new proposed policy, which continues to be grossly inadequate in protecting privacy and civil liberties" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eff-san-francisco-police-drones-are-powerful-surveillance-tools-require-robust | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:42:29

  • "In one case, Jonathan Schultz, an 18-year veteran of IMPD, allegedly utilized the agency's 300 Flock cameras to track down multiple women" ☛ https://abcnews.com/US/5-indianapolis-police-officers-charged-misusing-license-plate/story?id=136696856 | Source: ABC    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:42:46

  • "Those are just the latest incidents involving police abuse of ALPRs, and are almost certain to be superseded by new scandals in the coming days and weeks" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/cops-charged-flock-alpr-surveillance-abuse-misconduct | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:42:57

  • "an attacker exploited an SQL injection vulnerability " ☛ https://therecord.media/poland-cyberattack-medical-medyc | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:53:32

  • "Isokangas does not, however, believe Russia wants to challenge Nato through military action." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20248687 | Source: Yle    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:53:45

  • "The “parasocial” illusion that’s created by social media platforms helps deceive and misguide you, the audience" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/04-parasocial-relationships/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:54:14

  • "One criticism of Bluesky has historically been that it’s not been fully decentralized." ☛ https://werd.io/the-public-ledger-of-credentials-directory-is-taking-flight/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:54:26

  • "I’ve waited long enough! I’ve entertained one “wait six months” too many!" ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:56:21

  • "Google, a search engine which does not have human emotions, assumed that I had been spurned by a man in my life named Dario and decided what I wanted was an empathetic digital friend." ☛ https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:56:36

  • "Aaron obliterated that comparison in two sentences: [...]" ☛ https://www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/28/aaron-pattersons-closing-keynote-and-antidote-to-the-dhh-funeral-at-rails-world-2026-get-in-loser-were-going-programming/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:56:53

  • "There's also no consensus around how schools and educators should be measuring what works and what doesn't." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5759718 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:57:09

  • "Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner." ☛ https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:57:33

  • "That example may sound relatively simple, but OpenAI adds that it discovered other, more complex prompt injections, too. For instance, it found that some prompt injections can use the filesystem to replicate themselves or commit themselves through code comments." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-self-replicating-injections/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:57:45

  • "So I started the Humancrafted forum" ☛ https://brettcodes.com/join-the-humancrafted-community/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:58:12

  • "We seem to be all worried about how many em dashes are in our text. Goodhart’s law teaches us that at that point, that is no longer a good measure of AI slop." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/28/hiding-my-ai-slop-from-my-nix-friends | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:58:26

  • "These contractors are not being hired to flag or vet offensive or inappropriate content. They are being paid to review the quality of Copilot's output, including in these cases of sexual imagery." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/ai-once-again-revealed-to-be-three-perverts-in-a-trenchcoat/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:58:48

  • "I wanted to catch up a little (after all you have to know what you’re talking about), and the last couple weeks provided a perfect opportunity." ☛ https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/09/28/engineering-system-one.html | Source: Marc Brooker    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:59:07

  • "A system pursuing a goal might therefore resist shutdown because shutdown prevents the goal from being achieved" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-gorilla-is-not-an-argument | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:59:20

  • "A third suit, filed September 8, alleges the 5x and 20x figures only apply to the five-hour session window, not the weekly limit subscribers actually run into." ☛ https://nooneshappy.com/article/anthropics-claude-max-plans-are-misleading-at-best/ | Source: No One's Happy    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 13:59:48

  • "Scam Altman Is Driving Drunk." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sam-altman-is-driving-drunk-let-him-face-the-consequences/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:00:13

  • "Oppenheimer also lobbied for international control of these weapons. The Acheson-Lilienthal Report, published in March 1946, aimed to prevent a destructive arms race between the US and Soviet Union." ☛ https://theconversation.com/ai-companies-could-learn-safety-lessons-from-the-history-of-nuclear-weapons-292623 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:00:30

  • "Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bros-meltdown-feelings | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:00:59

  • "For its part, Anthropic has said it was not reviewing for such misbehaviors until OpenAI started doing so." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/ai-hacks-infestation/688806/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:01:11

  • "When enabled, it restricts a number of activities and requires Touch ID or Face ID for many authentication steps—passwords can’t be used instead." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/stolen-device-protection-passwords-glenn/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:01:41

  • "If you're a Pixel phone user, you'll know that the experience is pretty good, but it's never perfect." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-phones-struggle-with-nfc-tap-to-pay/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:01:52

  • "The problem arose after the subscriptions were deactivated." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09/28/microsoft-tells-nonprofits-their-deleted-m365-data-isnt-coming-back/5299433 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:02:05

  • "The announcement of Google's new Googlebook laptops raised questions: what happens to the Chromebooks that many, especially students, know well?" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/google-confirms-chromeos-phase-out-in-2034-10-year-support-lifetime-cut-short-for-some-devices-company-says-it-will-support-transition-to-googlebook-os | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:02:25

  • "The program proved so successful that in 2024 the Army announced it planned to eventually roll H2F out to all soldiers." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/09/28/army-leaders-wary-of-data-fatigue-as-fitness-management-system-rolls-out/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:02:39

  • "In 2019 I wrote a post with seven reasons policy professionals should learn to code. Now that AI can write reasonable code, I’ve had a number of people ask me if it’s still worth learning to program." ☛ https://www.gilesd-j.com/2026/09/28/x-reasons-for-policy-professionals-to-get-into-programming-in-202x/ | Source: Giles Dickenson-Jones    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:03:04

  • "For whatever reason, I have a tendency to keep my processing internal" ☛ https://devondundee.com/blog/internal-processing | Source: Devon Dundee    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:03:16

  • "Partnering with my peers and the leaders above me, I think we can make a substantial difference here." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/09/28/first-day/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:07:47

  • "Although I’m looking up more words than ever, I don’t find myself adopting many of those new words for my own use." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/27/adopting-new-words/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:08:04

  • "AI is generally a problem for education, especially in the early stages of learning a subject" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/umich-is-embracing-ai-not-everyone-is-convinced/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:08:37

  • "A very simple way to present the progress of a parallel operation is to print one '.' for every operation started and then backspace and erase these as each operation finishes." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TerminalsLineBackspaceDifferences | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:09:08

  • "But that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth doing!" ☛ https://schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/mindfulness/something-from-nothing/ | Source: Robert Lützner    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:09:18

  • "When 20th Century Fox greenlit the film adaptation, executive producer Lou Adler insisted on bringing Meat Loaf to the UK shoot alongside Tim Curry (Frank-N-Furter)." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/09/meat-loaf-the-rocky-horror-picture-show.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:09:32

  • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Rose Bowl gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260925_rose_blow    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:22:44

  • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Sunland Park gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260928_rphlch_sp    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:23:07

  • "In 2015 a manifesto appeared under the name Laboria Cuboniks, who is nobody. The name anagrams Nicolas Bourbaki, a fake mathematician invented by French academics in the 1930s so a group could publish as one mind." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/xenofeminism-and-the-margins    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:25:31

  • "Most advice about doctoral writing addresses the writer alone at a desk, which is precisely the condition that produces unfinished dissertations." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/writing-support-resources    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:26:09

  • "Let us be honest with one another. Doctoral writing is hard to sustain alone, and it is exhausting in a way that no one warns you about because everyone assumes you already know. I will argue that writing groups belong to method rather than to morale." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/writing-groups-and-the-grafton-line    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:27:06

  • "The Act implements the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records, adopted in 2017 to bring international trade into the digital era" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/buried-in-bill-c-39-the-enabling-digital-trade-act-brings-canada-its-first-federal-electronic-trade-documents-law/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:49:17

  • "Martin Wimpress needed a sound engineer for his podcast and did not have one." ☛ https://marius.blog/jive-vocals/ | Source: Marius Quabeck    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:49:35

  • "I previously announced my Python optimization workshop in Lisbon, on 10th October (which still has a few places)." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/28/python-mini-meetup-lisbon/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:50:08

  • "After a longer-than-anticipated delay, the macOS installer for JAGS 5.0.0 is now available via SourceForge." ☛ https://martynplummer.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/jags-5-0-0-is-now-available-for-macos/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:50:34

  • "There are no security fixes, enhancements, or deprecations in this release." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2026/09/dancer2-222-released.html | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:51:17

  • "The basic purpose of these is to deal with the upgrade of TiddlyWiki from V 4 to V5." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/09/announce-perlwiki-v-154-mojowiki-v-126.html | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:51:25

  • "We just shrug and conclude: stupid thing sucks." ☛ https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:51:47

  • "Hope I am not the only one who gets to benefit from my troubleshooting session! It’s always a nice feeling to get something to work." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0928-2340/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:51:56

  • In Sirius, there was one guy doing threesomes in a three-way relationship. We understand Gravley also tries orgies and the spouse of Garrett makes it sound like he's romantically connected to a couple https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/29/Brigading_Against_Women_Part_IX_What_Are_You_a_Racist.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:56:21

  • (This is considered 'normal' in San Francisco)    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:57:09

  • "When the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:57:59

  • "Since the end of the Perl Toolchain Summit in Vienna, at the end of April, the organizers have been busy wrapping up 2026, and preparing for 2027" ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2027/ | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:58:29

  • "This time Akademy was in Graz, Austria. I had never been in Austria before. This time I also had to travel alone due to my wife being busy with studying." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/posts/2029-09-2026-akademy-2026/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:58:39

  • "We were at the HOPE 2026 Conference in New York recently, and want to take a moment to thank all the free software supporters who attended our talks and workshops, our meetup, or stopped by our table." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-hope-adventures | Source: FSF    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:58:50

  • "I kept Vivaldi on my machine as a backup, and over the last 6 months or so" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/i-switched-to-brave-browser | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:59:16

  • "Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature: [...]" ☛ https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ | Source: Marcin Wichary    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 14:59:35

  • "As October draws close, the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead grows thin, allowing spirits to cross." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/animate-a-halloween-skeleton-raspberry-pi-book-of-making-2027/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:00:10

  • "If you have ever visited France, you might have seen one of these green crosses, bolted onto the building, with bright flashing colors." ☛ https://hugoarnal.com/blog/rickroll-pharmacy-cross/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:00:18

  • "The Emmabuntüs project has published a new update with a focus on improving accessibility options and features. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12964 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:01:23

  • "The openSUSE project has published a new release candidate for the upcoming Leap 16.1 release. Among the various changes is a new immutable mode for Leap: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12963 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:03:31

  • "There are quite a few gems out there when it comes to classic shooters, and R-Type series is extremely popular if you had the chance to live in the 80s" ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/r-type-dimensions-iii-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:03:55

  • "In practice, TLS’s security guarantees are frequently compromised by outdated versions and misconfigurations." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/29/thou-shall-not-pass-gatekeeping-outbound-tls-connections/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:04:13

  • "Under a sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation, I’ve been working on FreeBSD userspace/kernel debugging since February 2026" ☛ https://minsoo.io/p/freebsd-kernel-frame-unwinding-with | Source: Minsoo Choo    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:04:34

  • "Fredrik talks to Koushik Dasika about working with Elixir." ☛ https://kodsnack.se/international/722/ | Source: Kodsnack    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:04:55

  • Based on what his spouse says, Garrett is literally in bed with GAFAM    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:05:52

  • Based on what his spouse says, Garrett is literally in bed with GAFAM    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:06:28

  • Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight is full of chaotic battles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/space-bullet-heaven-roguelike-sublight-is-full-of-chaotic-battles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:07:35

  • Legacy Code is a bizarre looking mechanical creature action-physics sim | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/legacy-code-is-a-bizarre-looking-mechanical-creature-action-physics-sim/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:07:53

  • Steam Beta fixes non-Steam games to failing to launch | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-beta-fixes-non-steam-games-to-failing-to-launch/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-beta-fixes-non-steam-games-to-failing-to-launch/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:09:20

  • FEX code cache enabled for Proton Experimental (ARM) to improve frame timings | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/fex-code-cache-enabled-for-proton-experimental-arm-to-improve-frame-timings/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:10:37

  • BBC Layoffs: 110 Compulsory Job Cuts Announced in Media Tech Division    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:11:28

  • Hytale Chapter 1 arrives October 12 with lots of new content | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/hytale-chapter-1-arrives-october-12-with-lots-of-new-content/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/hytale-chapter-1-arrives-october-12-with-lots-of-new-content/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:11:36

  • "Chat Control: Nya förhandlingar på tisdag" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/09/27/chat-control-nya-forhandlingar-pa-tisdag/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:12:19

  • "Privacy Group Slams EU for Changing the Data Rules to Cater to AI - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/28/0133248    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:12:30

  • "I Approve of Trump’s Ad - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i-approve-of-trumps-ad    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:12:44

  • "Further | Here We Remain: A World That Abides Slaughter | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/here-we-remain-a-world-that-abides-slaughter    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:13:37

  • "Trump’s Dismantling of Student Loan Aid Is Crashing Down on Debtors This Week | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-dismantling-of-student-loan-aid-is-crashing-down-on-debtors-this-week/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:13:51

  • Sponsored by...............? "JURIST to host webinar exploring rights in Islamic philosophical thought - JURIST - News" https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/jurist-to-host-webinar-exploring-rights-in-islamic-philosophical-thought/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:14:18

  • "They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/09/problem-with-trumps-taxpayer-funded-ads/688817/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:14:35

  • PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets a new showcase of big improvements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-a-new-showcase-of-big-improvements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:15:23

  • King in the Mountain is like if Dwarf Fortress was a mini casual incremental | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/king-in-the-mountain-is-like-if-dwarf-fortress-was-a-mini-casual-incremental/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:15:55

  • This Is Not a Feature Vector: Zentian v. Fashion Company Apple ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/this-is-not-a-feature-vector-zentian-v-apple.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:25:48

  • "The extension comes in response to requests from local communities seeking more time to prepare their proposals. This is a great opportunity to showcase your region and bring the openSUSE community together in your city." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/28/osas-cfh-extended/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:26:07

  • "We know that people really start testing a new release with the RC, so this is the right time to grab an image and give it a try." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/28/leap-161-rc/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:26:22

  • Speeding up tests - no fear, no cargo cult ☞ https://bzoltan1.github.io/speeding-up-tests-no-fear-no-cargo-cult/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:28:28

  • Hans de Goede: Snapdragon X1 laptop kernel COPR for Fedora 45 ☞ https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/31552.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:29:35

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097191/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:30:01

  • gThumb 4.0 Released with GTK4 Port! PPA Updated for Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/gthumb-4-0-released-with-gtk4-port-ppa-updated-for-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:31:17

  • gThumb 4.0 has been released, and it looks like a brand new app ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/gthumb-4-0-improved-ui    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:31:42

  • Potions in Mageia. 05 – How Mageia ranks amongst the best ‘user-friendly’ distros, even though many people aren’t aware of it https://blog.mageia.org/en/2026/09/28/potions-in-mageia-05-how-mageia-ranks-amongst-the-best-user-friendly-distros-even-though-many-people-arent-aware-of-it/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:32:25

  • Forlinx 20-TOPS M.2 Hey Hi (AI) accelerator supports PCIe cascading for local LLM inference ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/forlinx-20-tops-m-2-ai-accelerator-supports-pcie-cascading-for-local-llm-inference/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:32:50

  • GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ghostbsd-new-desktop/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:33:19

  • Lunar GNU/Linux – source-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lunar-linux-source-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:33:40

  • Source Mage – source-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/source-mage-source-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:34:11

  • "A customer building a FedRAMP-compliant deployment found that Ubuntu Pro 22.04 FIPS container images were silently failing on standard" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/fixing-fips-kernel-flag | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:35:05

  • "Private 5G has evolved from an experimental concept into critical industrial infrastructure." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/creating-a-private-5g-network | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:35:13

  • Red Hat selling only slop that day: "Model safeguards remain important, but they cannot carry the entire security burden" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/securing-ai-agents-requires-securing-systems-around-them | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:36:43

  • "Buzzwords" for bots that IBM calls "agents"; pure nonsense ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-red-hat-is-building-secure-agent-onboarding | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:37:07

  • How to rank fraud detection models using custom cost metrics ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/28/how-rank-fraud-detection-models-using-custom-cost-metrics    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:37:43

  • Slop frenzy entertained non-stop at IBM's Red Hat ahead of the layoffs ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/28/run-decision-model-vllm-and-red-hat-ai    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 15:38:18

  • Git v2.56.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097213/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:12:19

  • US deportations are triggering a 'cascade' of rights abuses, UN experts warn ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260928-us-trump-deportations-triggering-cascade-of-rights-abuses-un-experts-warn-forbidden-stories    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:13:49

  • Apply now for an APRICOT 2027 Fellowship ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/28/apply-now-for-an-apricot-2027-fellowship/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:14:07

  • Thou shall not pass: Gatekeeping outbound TLS connections ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/29/thou-shall-not-pass-gatekeeping-outbound-tls-connections/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:14:14

  • R-Type Dimensions III - Review on GNU/Linux and the Steam Deck ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/r-type-dimensions-iii-review/index.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:15:44

  • I Switched to Brave Browser ☞ https://kevquirk.com/i-switched-to-brave-browser    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:16:21

  • FSF Blogs: Our adventures at HOPE 2026 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-hope-adventures    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:16:38

  • Akademy 2026 photos and things ☞ https://akselmo.dev/posts/2029-09-2026-akademy-2026/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:17:07

  • Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2027 ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2027/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:17:34

  • The Netherlands is rolling its own software and services after U.S. sanctions took Abusive Monopolist Microsoft off the table ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:18:24

  • Google confirms ChromeOS phase out in 2034 — 10-year support lifetime cut short for some devices, company says it will support transition to Googlebook OS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/google-confirms-chromeos-phase-out-in-2034-10-year-support-lifetime-cut-short-for-some-devices-company-says-it-will-support-transition-to-googlebook-os    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:19:41

  • New Attack Against RSA ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/new-attack-against-rsa.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:21:00

  • UK government tells staff to stop thanking Hey Hi (AI) chatbots ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/uk-government-tells-staff-to-stop-thanking-ai-chatbots-draft-guidance-pushes-lightweight-models-and-shorter-prompts-to-cut-environmental-impact    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:35:17

  • Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/cost-of-everything/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:37:23

  • OpenShot 4.0.1: Improved Razor Tool, Faster Editing, and GNU/Linux Snap Support ☞ https://www.openshot.org/ar/blog/2026/09/27/openshot-401-improved-razor-faster-editing-linux-snap/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:40:07

  • Firefox Nightly: Shoutout to More Layouts – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 210 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/28/shoutout-to-more-layouts-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-210/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:41:53

  • Linus Torvalds ships Linux 7.3-rc5 ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-ships-linux-73-rc5/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:44:54

  • openSUSE 16.1-rc ☞ https://distrowatch.com/opensuse    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:45:48

  • Emmabuntüs DE6-1.03 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/emmabuntus    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:45:55

  • antiX 26.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/antix    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:46:05

  • Firefox 157 released with ‘biggest visual refresh in years’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-157-released-nova-theme    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:46:38

  • Give GNU/Linux Mint a dramatic makeover with this theme pack ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/linux-mint-silent-horizon-design    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:47:03

  • Dual 2.5GbE and DDR5-6400 across four Wildcat Lake NUC platforms ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/dual-2-5gbe-and-ddr5-6400-across-four-wildcat-lake-nuc-platforms/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:47:38

  • Arun Raghavan: On LLMs and free software ☞ https://arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-llms-and-free-software/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:48:22

  • Otto Kekäläinen: Using multiple git remotes for true distributed version control ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/multiple-git-remotes/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:50:04

  • Jermaine Dupri, Jacquees, and Mass Appeal Face ‘Pick It Up’ Infringement Suit from 90s Duo Home Team ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/28/jermaine-dupri-pick-it-up-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:50:52

  • pgEdge Announces pgEdge Starfleet, a New Postgres Cloud Platform to Bridge the Hey Hi (AI) Prototype to Production Chasm ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgedge-announces-pgedge-starfleet-a-new-postgres-cloud-platform-to-bridge-the-ai-prototype-to-production-chasm-3389/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:51:13

  • The Baby Birds https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/the-baby-birds/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 16:55:22

  • Reform UK Asks Aston Bond for Help (to Avoid Being Canceled) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/reform-uk-asks-aston-bond-for-help-to-avoid-being-canceled/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:00:31

  • Commission launches EU Screening Week with new recommendations on cardiovascular health checks ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1859    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:03:35

  • Anthropic, Proprietary Chaffbot Company will not attend Australian senate Hey Hi (AI) hearing on October 1 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/anthropic-openai-will-not-attend-australian-senate-ai-hearing-on-october-1    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:03:55

  • Over 800 Killed in Renewed Houthi-Saudi War in Yemen, W.H.O. Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/world/middleeast/yemen-war-800-dead.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:04:17

  • My Second Akademy ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/28/my-second-akademy/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:05:27

  • Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-5-infections-responsible-for-more-than-2-million-new-cancer-cases-annually    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:06:17

  • Apple Emergency Patch for iOS 26, macOS26, macOS15 (CVE-2026-86950), (Mon, Sep 28th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33376    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:06:48

  • Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/kiteworks-urges-server-shutdown-finds-advanced-forms-vulnerability/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:07:12

  • Permission to Not Post About That Vacation - Why You Never Have to Post About It ☞ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/not-posting-about-vacation/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:08:09

  • America's Oldest Person Just Turned 116 – Here's What Science Says About How to Live That Long ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-oldest-person-just-turned-116-heres-what-science-says-about-how-to-live-that-long    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:08:50

  • Linux User Space: Vibe Coder in the Loop (Season 7 Episode 1) ☞ https://www.linuxuserspace.show/701    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:09:38

  • Going Strong https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/going-strong/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:30:02

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 405 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-405/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:35:23

  • MND Local Guadalajara: Cirque du Soleil, Day of the Dead festivities and Ukrainian ballet coming to town, but mind the sinkholes ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mnd-local-guadalajara-cirque-du-soleil-day-dead-festivities-ukrainian-ballet-coming-town/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:36:02

  • Ukrainian arms producers warn competitive edge eroding due to stringent export licence rules ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukrainian-arms-producers-warn-competitive-edge-eroding-due-to-stringent-export-licence-rules    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:36:14

  • Russian language study falls, German rises in Lithuanian schools ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3066119/russian-language-study-falls-german-rises-in-lithuanian-schools    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:36:29

  • Canadian, Norwegian, Ukrainian ambassadors in Lithuania sign plea to bring back detainees ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3066069/canadian-norwegian-ukrainian-ambassadors-in-lithuania-sign-plea-to-bring-back-detainees    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:36:39

  • Amid warnings over possible attack, Europe mulls contingency plans ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3063137/amid-warnings-over-possible-attack-europe-mulls-contingency-plans    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:44:20

  • Zelenskyy Warns of New Russian Mobilization and 10,000 North Korean Troop Deployment ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-ukraine-drone-russian-mobilization-north-korea/33865993.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:44:39

  • Kallas Says Russia's Mockery Of UN Meeting Shows It's Not Interested In Ending Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33865764.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:44:48

  • Ukraine Reports Deadly Russian Air Strikes On Kyiv, Kharkiv, And Dnipro ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-deadly-attack-azerbaijani-citizen/33865614.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:44:58

  • South Korea summons Ukraine envoy in protest over North Korean POW transfer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-summons-ukraine-envoy-in-protest-over-north-korean-pow-transfer    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:45:19

  • Explainer: What comes next for North Korea soldiers transferred from Ukraine to South Korea? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/explainer-what-comes-next-for-north-korea-soldiers-transferred-from-ukraine-to-south-korea    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:45:33

  • Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/world/europe/urkaine-drone-attack-kyiv-academy-sciences.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:45:51

  • Their Sons Are Dying on Battlefields in Ukraine. They Still Back Russia’s War. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-soldiers-deaths-north-ossetia.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 17:46:00

  • Zelenskyy Warns Of New Russian Mobilization, 10,000 North Korean Troop Deployment ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-ukraine-drone-russian-mobilization-north-korea/33865993.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:03:28

  • Destruction on a budget ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/destruction-on-a-budget/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:03:47

  • Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/dutch-police-arrest-reformed-hacker-in-shiny-hunters-investigation/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:04:01

  • I worry about Russian miscalculation in Baltics – interview with Britain’s top general ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3066114/i-worry-about-russian-miscalculation-in-baltics-interview-with-britain-s-top-general    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:04:14

  • Lithuania imposes national sanctions on Russian billionaires Usmanov, Fridman ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3066235/lithuania-imposes-national-sanctions-on-russian-billionaires-usmanov-fridman    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:04:25

  • The Cellmate Who Taught Me the Codes of Russian Prison ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-cellmate-who-taught-me-the-codes-of-russian-prison    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:04:36

  • The Russian Prison That Evan Gershkovich Carried Home ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/politics/evan-gershkovich-interview.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:04:44

  • Being used by ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-toddlers-in-south-korea-start-using-smartphones-before-turning-2-report    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:05:51

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

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:06:18

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 332 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-332-released/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:07:23

  • No typhoon hit South Korea this summer, but experts says it’s not all good news ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/no-typhoon-hit-south-korea-this-summer-but-experts-says-its-not-all-good-news    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:11:03

  • North Korea says US approval for South Korea’s nuclear submarine increases regional instability ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-us-approval-for-south-koreas-nuclear-submarine-increases-regional-instability    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:11:25

  • North Korea’s mines likely behind DMZ explosions, says Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-says-north-koreas-mines-likely-behind-dmz-explosions    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:11:34

  • North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/north-korea-named-as-primary-suspect-in-usd387-million-bitget-crypto-hack-investigators-identify-ip-addresses-tied-to-vpn-infrastructure-previously-used-by-north-korean-hacker-groups-thieves-swapped-stablecoins-for-eth-in-minutes-to-dodge-freezes    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:11:47

  • Malaysia begins deportations, but hostility towards Rohingya refugees not stopping any time soon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-begins-deportations-but-hostility-towards-rohingya-refugees-not-stopping-anytime-soon    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:12:28

  • The Voices Behind ‘Made in China’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/world/china-workers-poetry-pope-leo.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:13:17

  • China’s Wang tells ex-Japan minister bilateral ties need to be normalised ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-wang-tells-ex-japan-minister-bilateral-ties-need-to-be-normalised    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:13:33

  • With national holidays approaching, workers in China demand a proper break ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/with-national-holidays-approaching-workers-in-china-demand-a-proper-break    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:13:51

  • North Korea issue dwarfed by more pressing concerns during Convicted Felon-Xi summit ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2026/09/28/xi-trump-summit-north-korea-china/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:20:59

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man offered to sell arms to Xi: US ambassador to Fox News ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/28/trump-offered-to-sell-arms-to-xi-us-ambassador-to-fox-news/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:21:10

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man denies offering to sell arms to China’s Xi, but says ‘maybe it’s a good idea’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/29/trump-denies-offering-to-sell-arms-to-chinas-xi-but-says-maybe-its-a-good-idea/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:21:33

  • postmarketOS is No More, At Least Under That Name ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/postmarketos-nura-rebranding/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:21:51

  • BBC to cut local radio and regional TV news with 90 jobs at risk ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-to-cut-local-radio-and-regional-tv-news-with-90-jobs-at-risk/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:26:59

  • Ultrasound Reveals a Deadly Cancer Building Its Own 'Nest' Inside The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-watched-a-deadly-cancer-physically-reshape-the-brain-as-it-grew    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:28:00

  • The Sun And Moon Can Trigger Earthquakes, And Scientists May Finally Know How ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sun-and-moon-can-trigger-earthquakes-and-scientists-may-finally-know-how    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:28:10

  • Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds May Have Begun With an Ancient Cosmic Impact ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-mysterious-black-diamonds-may-have-begun-with-an-ancient-cosmic-impact    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:28:25

  • The Age You Reach Menopause May Be Linked to Your Future Brain Health, 18-Year Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-age-you-reach-menopause-may-be-linked-to-your-future-brain-health-18-year-study-finds    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:29:14

  • The Pacific Ocean Is Doing Something Weird as It Warms: Young Water Gets Older, And Old Water Gets Younger ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-pacific-ocean-is-doing-something-weird-as-it-warms-young-water-gets-older-and-old-water-gets-younger    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:29:24

  • Rapid-Fire Site Blocking? Federal Lawmakers Target Foreign Piracy Platforms With the Bipartisan ‘Defend IP Act’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/28/defend-ip-act-introduced/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:30:33

  • USA has fast become the North Korea of North America    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:31:02

  • You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ghislaine-maxwell    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:32:46

  • OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-halts-frontier-model-training-crisis    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:33:05

  • Man Says Meta’s Muse Hey Hi (AI) Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/metas-muse-ai-giving-users-home-addresses    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:33:21

  • It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier Hey Hi (AI) Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/frontier-ai-labs-taken-down-storm-liability-suits-hacking    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:33:48

  • Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — Hey Hi (AI) Prompts ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/human-contractors-seeing-creepy-prompts    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:34:06

  • A dead doctor, jailed spies and a TV series: The reopened Kozinoğlu case raises more questions than answers ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/a-dead-doctor-jailed-spies-and-a-tv-series-the-reopened-kozinoglu-case-raises-more-questions-than-answers-323839    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:37:06

  • Yes, the BOTS Act Can Apply to Ticketmaster and Major Ticketing Platforms, Federal Judge Rules ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/28/bots-act-ticketmaster-ticketing-platforms/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:37:50

  • US prosecutors reopen Cornell university gang rape investigation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260929-us-prosecutors-cornell-university-gang-rape-investigation    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:38:14

  • Haiti gang retaliation leaves at least 11 dead after security operation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/haiti-gang-retaliation-leaves-at-least-11-dead-after-security-operation    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:40:07

  • Expert says UK airbase plot 'fits into a very intense pattern we've been seeing in past two months' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/expert-says-uk-airbase-plot-fits-into-a-very-intense-pattern-we-ve-been-seeing-in-past-two-months    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:40:55

  • Citrix Confirms 2 NetScaler Zero-Days After Admins Pulled the Plug ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/citrix-confirms-2-netscaler-zero-days-after-admins-pulled-the-plug/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:42:16

  • DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dc-health-agency-exposes-400000-beneficiary-records/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:43:30

  • Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/prison-sentence-for-former-us-soldier-who-hacked-att-and-verizon/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:43:50

  • A growing coalition wants Congress to think about wildfires as a national security challenge ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/09/a-growing-coalition-wants-congress-to-think-about-wildfires-as-a-national-security-challenge/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:49:52

  • More than 3 million people affected by military data breach ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/09/more-than-3-million-people-affected-by-military-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:50:09

  • Cassandra's Game ☞ https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/cassandra/cassandra.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:50:19

  • Flatpak 1.18.4 Released    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:50:33

  • "In Albany people have become down right cavalier speaking loudly and openly about wanting to leave or that they interviews lined up. I have seen say such things in front of a “big” folks very bravely and not giving a f anymore. I agree with @b1+1m3j5bpp4. People see what’s really going on and finally had enough of the office politics" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3j5bpp4    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:52:16

  • "Indians took over. They do this to every single company they gain influence over." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3j5bpp4    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:52:30

  • Mass Layoffs at Microsoft https://nonprofitquarterly.org/amid-mass-layoffs-at-xbox-the-fight-for-equity-in-the-video-game-industry-continues/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:53:46

  • Kennedy Center put off planned repairs despite known structural issues, former employees allege ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/facilities-construction/2026/09/kennedy-center-put-off-planned-repairs-despite-known-structural-issues-former-employees-allege/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:54:48

  • Teenager hacks open Abusive Monopolist Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/teenager-hacks-open-microsoft-database-with-17-trillion-total-rows-and-25-000-user-accounts-custom-ai-bot-and-lack-of-jwt-token-validation-yields-a-fruitful-trove-earns-usd5-000-bug-bounty    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:55:02

  • Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-shrivels-good-neighbor-community-first-ai-data-center    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 18:55:32

  • It's quite revealing that Puppy Breaker is a fantasist who lacks a real social life and envies those who have it. His barrister moaned about other people having parties and told a judge that Garrett wanted to be compensated for the 'trauma' of being cross-examined.    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:27:23

  • Fossy 2026 ☞ https://www.yortnoswad.org/blogs/posts/fossy-2026/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:32:07

  • Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/proposed-pennsylvania-law-targets-publishers-that-kill-digital-games-publishers-must-provide-offline-mode-an-independent-server-patch-or-a-25-percent-minimum-refund    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:32:25

  • SteamOS 3.8.28 is a Big Update for the Steam Deck and Steam Machine ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/steam-os-3-8-28-is-a-big-update/index.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:32:40

  • Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Research Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/venting-doesnt-reduce-anger-but-something-else-does-research-finds    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:50:22

  • Walnut Pi CM2 – A cheaper Raspberry Pi CM5 alternative based on Allwinner T527 octa-core SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/29/walnut-pi-cm2-a-cheaper-raspberry-pi-cm5-alternative-based-on-allwinner-t527-octa-core-soc/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:50:41

  • Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-cracking-group-denuvowo-reportedly-disbands-lawsuit-from-irdeto-has-a-chilling-effect-but-cracking-continues-as-piracy-hub-purges-links    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:51:07

  • Demon's Souls reaches 40-50 FPS on private PS5 emulator with accurate graphics ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/demons-souls-reaches-40-50-fps-on-private-ps5-emulator-with-accurate-graphics-kytyps5-surges-from-unplayable-1-2-fps-in-just-three-weeks-new-milestone-comes-only-three-weeks-after-the-game-barely-booted    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:51:32

  • UK Games Expo bans games and art made mostly using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/uk-games-expo-bans-games-and-art-made-mostly-using-ai-ukge-enforces-booth-shutdowns-and-bans-after-deleted-comment-debacle-says-that-the-central-creative-process-must-be-conducted-by-humans    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:51:46

  • You can now play Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/you-can-now-play-nintendo-switch-games-on-a-jailbroken-ps5-early-alpha-hits-40-fps-in-lighter-titles-but-chokes-on-zelda    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:52:07

  • Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Will Aim to Reset UK Mood ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/world/europe/andy-burnham-labour-conference-uk.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:52:36

  • Greens turn tables on Labour, asking where they stand on climate action ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/28/greens-turn-tables-on-labour-asking-where-they-stand-on-climate-action/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:52:55

  • NIH Censors Crucial Research in Alzheimer's, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/nih-censors-crucial-research-in-alzheimers-kidney-disease-and-more-researchers-share    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:53:10

  • Dogs Share a Speech Trick Once Thought Uniquely Human ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-can-pick-out-word-patterns-in-speech-a-trick-once-thought-uniquely-human    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:53:29

  • High IQ Networks networking patents being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/9/28/high-iq-networks-networking-patents-being-investigated    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:55:36

  • UPC is completely illegal and this should be the main issue in people's minds, not these minor details ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/divisional-game-under-scrutiny-as-upc-proceedings-over-semaglutide-kick-off-in-milan/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:56:27

  • Latvian central bank will discuss 'new geopolitical reality' in November ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/28.09.2026-latvian-central-bank-will-discuss-new-geopolitical-reality-in-november.a665051/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:56:48

  • PL/Haskell v6.0 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/plhaskell-v60-released-3388/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:57:31

  • Donating to open source ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/open-source-donation    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:58:31

  • Gulag Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-warns-of-shinyhunters-fresh-oracle-peoplesoft-campaign/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:59:13

  • Md-toc updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Md-toc    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 19:59:30

  • New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook (Farcebook) Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-mexico-jury-finds-facebook-liable-for-deceiving-users-about-privacy-protections/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:03:22

  • At least 33 people killed in western Myanmar air strike, say rebel group and aid worker ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/at-least-33-people-killed-in-western-myanmar-airstrike-rebel-group-and-aid-worker-say    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:03:41

  • France braces for a day of strikes and protests over civil servants' pay ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260928-france-braces-for-a-day-of-strikes-and-protests-over-civil-servants-pay    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:03:56

  • Upgrading to Red Bait JBoss Web Server 7: Key changes & impacts ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/28/upgrading-red-hat-jboss-web-server-7-key-changes-impacts    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:04:32

  • Less than 2 days from now IBM gives a knockout punch to Red Hat https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1uqubjb/red_hat_it_is_being_moved_to_ibm_effective_oct_1/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/28/Chaos_Imminent_at_Red_Hat_This_Week.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:05:45

  • Akademy 2026 - My Experience ☞ https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/akademy-2026-my-experience    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:06:14

  • Bots and slop, dangerous mix cooked up by Microsoft Canonical ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/charmed-openshell-alpha-release    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:07:46

  • What’s your Ubuntu 27.04 codename prediction? ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2704-codename-prediction    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:08:08

  • parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20260922 ('Parton') released [stable] ☞ savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10941    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:09:07

  • available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:09:17

  • Another malicious slopfarm makes fake article about alleged bugs in "Ubuntu" https://shattered.io/cve-2026-80521-ubuntu-kernel-container-escape-2026/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:11:36

  • This seems to be LLM slop attributed to a real person https://betanews.com/article/canonical-is-releasing-ubuntu-kernel-updates-faster-to-counter-ai-bug-hunting/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:12:21

  • 5 essential Linux terminal upgrades that make command-line work actually enjoyable https://www.howtogeek.com/essential-linux-terminal-upgrades-command-line-work-actually-enjoyable/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:12:50

  • "If, for some reason, you need to use Android apps on Linux (in the case of certain Android-exclusive apps or games), you’ll quickly find out that it's not an easy process." https://www.makeuseof.com/android-apps-finally-feel-native-on-linux-and-i-didnt-need-an-emulator/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:13:09

  • "The new release candidate features an unusual diffstat dominated by selftests and architecture fixes rather than traditional hardware drivers." https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-ships-linux-73-rc5/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:13:52

  • "Shotcut 26.9 is out today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt and using the MLT multimedia authoring framework." https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-26-9-video-editor-improves-the-va-api-hevc-hardware-encoder-on-linux    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:14:27

  • "Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update in the stable Flatpak 1.18 series of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, addressing various security fixes." https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-18-4-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-fixes-security-issues    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:14:42

  • "OpenShot 4.0.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the latest OpenShot 4.0 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt." https://9to5linux.com/openshot-4-0-1-video-editor-released-with-timeline-and-zoom-improvements    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:15:17

  • "Right now there's plenty you can do in Hytale but it's very much a sandbox open world, Chapter 1 will be the start of the developers building out the main adventure experience." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/hytale-chapter-1-arrives-october-12-with-lots-of-new-content/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:15:36

  • "postmarketOS is rebranding to Nura after nearly a decade, citing its long, confusing name and expanding beyond its original post-market purpose." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-project-gets-a-new-name-because-not-many-people-knew-about-it/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:15:55

  • "I want to thank everyone who sent us donations; your generosity is greatly appreciated." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-27th-2026    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:16:15

  • The series about swatting against Techrights will be well cultivated and ready once the one about misogyny is done    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:17:12

  • And some explosive stories about the EPO are queued up for next month    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:17:33

  • Meanwhile a pathetic Puppy Breaker is pretending to be a millionaire. Reality check: he is in debt.    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:18:14

  • "postmarketOS, the Linux-based operating system that many of you turn to for reviving your old smartphones, has undergone a name change, and it is now called "Nura."" https://itsfoss.com/news/postmarketos-nura-rebranding/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:19:18

  • Slop about India and "Linux" www.opensourceforu.com/2026/09/linux-foundation-launches-lf-india/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:19:44

  • And this LLM slop was also made in India    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:19:57

  • eBPF makes verifying software builds much faster https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/144609/ebpf-makes-verifying-software-builds-much-faster/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:20:15

  • IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/civil-infrastructure-platform-achieves-significant-cybersecurity-milestone-with-iec-62443-compliance-302890773.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:20:52

  • Linux swap files just saved my low-RAM PC from obsolescence https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-swap-files-just-saved-my-low-ram-pc-from-obsolescence/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:21:16

  • Microsoft says this is intentional and by design https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/28/cve-2025-68788-file-notification-attacks/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:22:01

  • I spent a year on Linux Mint, but I'll never use it again for these reasons https://www.howtogeek.com/i-spent-a-year-on-linux-mint-but-ill-never-use-it-again-for-these-reasons/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:22:36

  • "If you care about security and want to hide sensitive data from prying eyes, you should be using a keyring on Linux." https://www.zdnet.com/tech/what-are-linux-keyrings-and-why-should-you-be-using-them/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:22:51

  • The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it’s getting uncomfortably close to a Raspberry Pi https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/28/the-newest-esp32-can-actually-run-linux-and-its-getting-uncomfortably-close-to-a-raspberry-pi/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:23:11

  • Nintendo Switch emulation comes to PlayStation 5, runs natively, no Linux required https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113782/nintendo-switch-emulation-comes-to-playstation-5-runs-natively-no-linux-required/index.html    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 20:24:19

  • Climate Change and Slop (or People Who Actively Finish Off the Planet) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/climate-change-and-slop-or-people-who-actively-finish-off-the-planet/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 21:30:20

  • older: EPO Meeting Ran Out of Time to Discuss the Scabs ('Young Professionals') https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/25/EPO_Meeting_Ran_Out_of_Time_to_Discuss_the_Scabs_Young_Professi.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 22:27:26

  • "To cheat, trick, deceive, delude with false pretences; to impose upon, take in, hoax." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c65y51l3gzq4o    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 22:31:04

  • How Manchester City (ManCity) Cheated, It’s a Lot Like the Slop Companies Trillions of Dollars in Secret Debt https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/29/how-manchester-city-mancity-cheated-its-a-lot-like-the-slop-companies-trillions-of-dollars-in-secret-debt/    

posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 22:38:04
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