2. Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality (reclaimthenet.org)
A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted was undrinkable.
3. It's time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)
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
* 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
5. SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket (www.nbcnews.com)
Elon Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched a prototype of its Starship rocket after scrubbing the planned May 21 launch due to technical difficulties.
6. BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (xcancel.com)
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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7. The Art of Money Getting (kk.org)
8. My two-part desk setup (arslan.io)
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.
9. Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? (this.weekinsecurity.com)
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?
10. Italy Cancels Boeing Pegasus Order, Shifting to Airbus A330 MRTT (www.euronews.com)
11. 80386 Microcode Disassembled (www.reenigne.org)
12. Is AI Profitable Yet? (isaiprofitable.com)
13. Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son (www.theguardian.com)
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
14. I Miss Terry Pratchett (www.mahl.me)
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.
15. Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug (temertymedicine.utoronto.ca)
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.
16. Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees (fortune.com)
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.
17. US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate (www.dutchnews.nl)
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,”...
18. The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers (www.wired.com)
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.
19. Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers (www.reuters.com)
20. dotNET (OK, C#) gets union types (andrewlock.net)
In this post I discuss the support for union types released in .NET 11, how they
21. Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves (spader.zone)
22. Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
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.
24. - -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev (olano.dev)
What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks
25. Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (horace.io)
26. Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby (github.com)
Contribute to amatsuda/rubish development by creating an account on GitHub.
27. Don't just paste the AI at me (dontquotetheai.com)
If your reply is a wall of unedited LLM junk, you are the problem.
28. CA declares state of emergency as fire crews race to contain toxic chemical leak (www.bbc.com)
Thousands have been evacuated as officials warn a tank containing about 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate could explode.
29. Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street (victoriaritvo.com)
30. Improving C# Memory Safety (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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.