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Last day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking

Suno adds music rights company BMG as its latest licensing partner as it prepares new models powered by licensed work, following a similar deal with WMG (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-ai-licensing-deal-bmg-1236832703/

Suno Strikes AI Licensing Deal With BMG as It Preps Label-Backed Models
The deal will see Suno pay for BMG's repertoire of recordings by its artists and cover the use of any BMG songs to train Suno's past models.

"""
[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

Before you leave for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for a rundown of the varied reactions to Trump's private cyber offensive memo, along with the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
-- AI agents go to war with each other,
-- Apple warns users of mercenary spyware attacks,
-- Litigant hides AI prompt injection in court filing,
-- UK transplant patients’ data sent over unencrypted pagers,
-- Trezor breach exposes nearly 14,000 customers,
-- Cl0p claims data theft from nearly 50 companies,
-- Flock’s privacy reforms fail to quiet critics,
-- Insider gets two years for $2.5 million extortion plot,
-- Akira ransomware attack sabotages itself,
-- Chinese espionage hackers moonlight in crypto fraud,
-- RingCentral breach exposes 1.6 million people,
-- Ukraine shuts down 94 scam call centers,
-- Attackers pounce on GeoServer zero-day,
-- TuLotero hack exposes IDs and selfies of 100,000 users,
-- South Korean lawmaker pushes back on Coupang criticism,
-- OpenAI reckons with security culture after Hugging Face hack,
-- Columbus restores crime map two years after cyberattack,
-- Pope Leo talks AI with US lawmakers,
-- Chinese competition drives down US AI prices,
-- OpenAI wants to remember everything you do
https://www.metacurity.com/trumps-private-cyber-offensive-wins-support-and-plenty-of-alarm/

Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963465/xreal-a01-plus-xbx-ar-glasses-hands-on…

Xreal’s new AR glasses are way cheaper and almost just right
The A01 Plus are flimsier and have fewer features than the 1S, but they might deliver exactly what you’re looking for.

"Heatwaves are exposing Britain’s urban cooling gap"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave #Climate

Heatwaves are exposing Britain’s urban cooling gap
With over 15 million UK adults left unwell by the surging temperatures, analysis shows that the UK is falling behind the rest of Europe in terms of urban tree cover – a critical factor in how hot towns and cities get.

Maybe it’s suitable, but yesterday we came back from my dad’s funeral and this last week I did an episode of our @… radio show full of nautical songs in his memory
Told a few stories, you can listen to if you feel the urge to travel out to sea that way
🫡 🪗 
Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-27: Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently pa…

The Dutch police are presenting the electric patrol cars which, following the completion of the trial period, are now set to be rolled out on a larger scale. It’s interesting to note what they mention in the video:
- the global fuel supply is volatile, as has recently been demonstrated once again; these EVs mean they can remain operational even in such situations
- climate change affects police work: floods, fires (and climate protests)

'Stealth mode' en laadpalen: elektrische Skoda en Cupra voor de politie
Dit zijn de nieuwe, volledig elektrische voertuigen van de politie.

Per @…'s suggestion—following on from @…’s theme last week, and much more in keeping with my own wintry location—today’s #ThursdayFiveList

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#UltimateCalm
- Erland Cooper: Series 5
Look inward with Erland Cooper and musical selections that conjure up the feeling of home. Plus a soothing safe haven courtesy of musician Keaton Henson.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lm6w