A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted was undrinkable.

tldr:


* I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all)
* I added some packages to make it work better for writing:
* network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away
* kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty
* tmux for a nice status

The semantics you didn’t know you needed.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched a prototype of its Starship rocket after scrubbing the planned May 21 launch due to technical difficulties.

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
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How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.

Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data?

I was rushing towards the turnstile when I noticed a bundle of clothes in a corner. I walked over, peeled back a dark sweatshirt, and saw him

On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.

A University of Toronto professor’s research on the physiology of sleep and breathing has paved the way for a new sleep apnea treatment that recently reported positive results in a phase 3 clinical trial.

Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.

Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reported on Friday. The cabinet has described the news as “extremely worrying”, given that the named officials could now face travel bans or even sanctions, Vrij Nederland said. “If you want to discuss policy, then you do it with us, not over the backs of civil servants,”...

Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.

In this post I discuss the support for union types released in .NET 11, how they

After a Spanish court ordered VPNs to block pirate football streams, NordVPN says the same court has refused to punish the provider for non-compliance.

What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks

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If your reply is a wall of unedited LLM junk, you are the problem.

Thousands have been evacuated as officials warn a tank containing about 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate could explode.

The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is motivated by the rise of AI-assisted code generation and arrives as a preview in .NET 11.