Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
Anyone I know using acme.sh in a large cert server? (I've got 52 websites on this thing) Certbot worked great but now the default version with Alma is not the same as from pip install, but pip install certbot-apache is failing because reasons and Im just so tired of tracking down build issues. git clone acme.sh is so much easier
It’s a pleasure to be right, but there are advantages being wrong as well. It can be easier to let go of your own ideas, for one. A kind of freshness of curiosity and surprise for another.
I like the way Shunryu Suzuki paraphrased Dogen in describing Zen as a practice of wrong following on wrong — a lifetime of “one continuous mistake.”
In a post on X on May 18,
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon,
announced that the United States would pause its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD)
to “reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
The under secretary pointed to Canada failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments as well as to Canadian rhetoric,
a jab at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davo…
Q&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026…
Any idea about why, sometimes, DNS over UDP might fail with a specific ISP?
So, I have been having random problems with the network at home and, you won't believe that, after hours researching it, turns out it was DNS. Surprise. The problem is that, apparently, my ISP, or my ISP's router, is dropping UDP packets, or failing.
PS: I have already tried checking in my router's configuration if there is anything like "UDP flood prevention". I cannot find anything…
Microsoft has released emergency software updates to fix issues that disrupted some Windows Server systems following its latest monthly security patches.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2…
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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…