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Lions-Falcons preseason game suspended following injury to Detroit safety Morice Norris https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-falcons-preseason-game-suspended-following-injury-to-detroit-safety-morice-norris

Anyone here that cares about all of the following or knows someone who does:
* #s390
* #Fedora
* #LinuxKernel
I'm wondering if its worth enabling s390 for some or all …

Story links:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/in-court-filing-google-concedes-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline/

Knowledge Collapse in LLMs: When Fluency Survives but Facts Fail under Recursive Synthetic Training
Figarri Keisha, Zekun Wu, Ze Wang, Adriano Koshiyama, Philip Treleaven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04796

Knowledge Collapse in LLMs: When Fluency Survives but Facts Fail under Recursive Synthetic Training
Large language models increasingly rely on synthetic data due to human-written content scarcity, yet recursive training on model-generated outputs leads to model collapse, a degenerative process threatening factual reliability. We define knowledge collapse as a distinct three-stage phenomenon where factual accuracy deteriorates while surface fluency persists, creating "confidently wrong" outputs that pose critical risks in accuracy-dependent domains. Through controlled experiments with recursiv…

Squirrels at War: Hopeless Situation
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I sent the followi…

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

Anyway, I was looking really fresh and feeling calm, just flowing with good energy earlier today.
#Nature #Relaxing #Zen

I am feeling oddly competitive now that my twelve year old has caught up with my progress in Silksong.
#Silksong

Filing: Nasdaq asks the US SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, potentially rolling out the first token-settled trades in Q3 2026 (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/nasdaq-makes…