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Developers are turning to a large range of materials to store renewable electricity when it is available and use it to power everything from wearable technology to heating networks, factories and missiles.
Here are some of the energy storage innovations raising eyebrows.
🔸Liquid air
Late last year, on the site of a former coal plant in Trafford, the former mayor of Greater Manchester marked the start of construction on a long-awaited energy storage project that could usher …

Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge

The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/n…

Tesla peilt in Deutschland Expansion an
Die Nachfrage nach Elektroautos zieht wieder an. Das gibt dem Autobauer Tesla Rückenwind für seine Produktionspläne.
https://www.heise.de/news/Tesla-peilt-in-D…

Tesla peilt in Deutschland Expansion an
Die Nachfrage nach Elektroautos zieht wieder an. Das gibt dem Autobauer Tesla Rückenwind für seine Produktionspläne.

Eindrücke vom #Porsche Supercup.

Argentina uncovers suspected Russian spy ring behind disinformation campaigns: https://benborges.xyz/2026/06/19/argentina-uncovers-suspected-russian-spy.html

Family

So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

If you're watching oil prices with trepidation as the Iran war heats up again and wondering what you can do to protect yourself from rising fuel prices and supply chain disruptions, I gotcha covered! https://www.transitiontimes.net/nn-1-protecting-yourse…

NN #1: Protecting yourself from the Global Energy Crisis
What can you do to protect yourself from the global energy crisis?

Bipartisan Bill Would Impose New Annual Fee on Electric Vehicles - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/energy-environment/electrc-vehicles-annual-fee-congress.html

Nice AI overview.
#AI

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …

“Have you asked Claude?” — finally, a more vapid thing to say than “I asked Claude”

Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar (solar is 664GW). china solar factories at 1/2 capacity! (US installing, but slowly, but you know that and why). big batteries working and improving
a nuclear power plant is 1GW -- why still talk nuclear?
so 1GW datacenters is one of siting correctly with local solar batteries. could be not a big deal
The water use is not consequential if sited with thought
rare good news

Does anyone have any decent EDR running on an Apple Neo? Logging? I have a small nonprofit org that wants to roll out a fresh fleet of 15 Neos and the arm64 chip in the Neo isn't the same series as the M. I'm looking for actual A18 Pro / MacBook Neo validation, not "it should work" because I've already got Claude telling me "it shoudl work fine" and that reality is not manifesting for an MSP I know working with this issue.

Inside Trump's Stock Trading Surge (Ben Protess/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/inside-trumps-stock-trading-surge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p58#a260619p58

Bemerkenswert, wie auch die Journalisten der #RheinischenPost umfallen: Nach der desaströsen Niederlage gegen Augsburg Polanski und vielen anderen Katastrophenspielen quasi verabschiedet. Nun nach einem Sieg ist er plötzlich wieder im Spiel und Hoffnungsträger. Da fallen Leute sehr versöhnlich und leicht um. Ja, es muss erst einmal ein anderer Trainer gefunden werden. Trotzdem.

1. Trump sues his own subordinates (the IRS) with a pile of completely dogshit nonsense claims.
2. The IRS’s own lawyers advise the IRS to move to dismiss the suit.
3. Trump’s subordinates completely ignore that advice, and instead
4. declare that they want to just hand their boss $1.8 billion he can use freely to buy favors from people.
And to think that Watergate was a scandal. @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mm7thxoe4c2g

The man we know as Joey Ramone was born Jeffrey Ross Hyman on this day (May 19) in 1951.

It's not often you can describe a scientific article as an absolute banger, but I'm revisiting again the paper on ESM-snowMIP by Menard et al 2021 and it really is an absolute banger. Completely genius paper. I remain also amazed that such a candid article got through review..
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/1/BAMS-D-19-0329.1.xml

IAEA comments on Iran's recent attack on UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant:
“A hit that disabled the lines supplying electrical power to the plant could increase the likelihood of its reactors’ cores melting, which could result in a high release of radioactivity."
https://aje.news/pymo91?update=4586947

Iran war live: Attack on Iran in ‘two or three days’ if no deal, says Trump
Iranian official says “threat of massive assault at any moment” will be repelled resolutely as US warnings continue.

[BLOG] BitBastelei #702 – Unfug mit alter Dell-Hardware https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2026/07/19/bitbastelei-702-unfug-mit-alter-dell-hardware/

Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/19/plex-increasing-lifetime-plex-pass-cost-to-whopping-750/

Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac
Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan. Starting in July, Plex...

planting a network cable and it grows fruit call that a twisted pear

Tš bem, a mulher matou a enteada. Merece a pena mšxima, ficar a apodrecer na cadeia durante décadas. De acordo.
Mas aquela gente que vai para junto do tribunal e fica horas Š espera para berrar insultos durante uns segundos não tem nada para fazer? Não têm vidas? São assim tão inúteis?

Due to popular demand, our article about European social media alternatives is now also available in english. #dnip
(Translation supported by artificial friends, corrections welcome)
https://dnip.ch/2026/06/19/social…

«Älteste Besetzung der Schweiz - Eigentümerin hat genug: "Gisi' in Winterthur droht Räumung:
Nach fast 30 Jahren könnte eines der bekanntesten besetzten Häuser der Schweiz vor dem Ende stehen. Die "Gisi" in Winterthur muss bis Ende Juli geräumt werden. Sonst drohen Anzeigen und Polizeieinsatz»
Weil es ihr um die Kapitalgier geht anstatt jegliches soziales Wohnen. Besetzt im eigentliche Sinne ist es schon lange nicht.
🏠

Räumung der Gisi in Winterthur: Ultimatum bis 31. Juli
Nach fast 30 Jahren könnte eines der bekanntesten besetzten Häuser der Schweiz vor dem Ende stehen.

L’humanité grandit, les Indiens rapetissent
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/05/19/l-humanite-grandit-les-indiens-rapetissent_6691251_3210.html

L’humanité grandit, les Indiens rapetissent
A rebours de la dynamique mondiale, la taille moyenne des hommes comme des femmes diminue dans le sous-continent. Les raisons sont multiples.

Finally, the Philippines’ Department of Transportation has published railway standards for line colors, station names, station codes, and announcements. 🚈
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

File:Department of Transportation (Philippines) Railway Network Legibility Standards (RNLS) - D.O.-2026-014 - 19 June 2026.pdf - Wikimedia Commons

The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals
Reposted from Northwest Bylines Mark H Burton With transport through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill, we get a picture of how oil and petrochemicals are part of our life The supply chain problems arising from the unprovoked USA/Israeli attack on Iran are becoming clear. They are multiple, affecting not just oil and natural gas, 20% of which passes through Hormuz, but also the many things dependent…

The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals
Reposted from Northwest Bylines Mark H Burton With transport through the Strait of Hormuz at a virtual standstill, we get a picture of how oil and petrochemicals are part of our life The supply cha…

Figure Eights
The internet has decided that modern humans are developing zoochosis, the madness of caged animals. The claim is older than TikTok, and the truth underneath it is more uncomfortable than either the believers or the scoffers want it to be. ...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/19/figu

#esp trying to turn it up and score goal so that they can then shut down the game
#worldcup

At least seven people have been shot dead in federal immigration operations since January 2025
Homan said ICE will require officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body cam
-- Too late for the seven victims
https://www.reuters.com/wo…

Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/19/nothing-cmf-phone-ram-costs/

Nothing CMF Phone is a RAMageddon casualty, memory now the most expensive component
Nothing’s CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won’t be getting a third,...

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper + Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen + KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank + Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos + Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

"The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans."
E.P.A. Clears a Weedkiller, Saying It Won’t Push Species to Extinction - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/climate/epa-atrazine-endangered-species-maha.html

Katy Tur Seems Deeply Confused (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/19/katy-tur-seems-deeply-confused-n3815083
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p77#a260519p77

Note that I say “chose to use,” not just “built.” I don’t mean to slough off responsibility as a person who does build computer systems, but “ it’s our vendor’s fault” or “ the tech intern did it” are also common ways of evading responsibility.
You chose to use it? You chose to trust the builder? You need to take responsibility for that. If the vendor / engineers / implementors deceived you, you need to show that you were actively deceived — and aren’t just trying evade responsibility for your own decisions when you’re supposed to be the decision-maker.

happy #Juneteenth! kick some racists in the groin today. highest score wins

[BLOG] Ab heute: Widerrufsbutton – Verbraucherschutz mit massiver Lücke https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2026/06/19/ab-heute-widerrufsbutton-verbraucherschutz-mit-massiver-luecke/

Having an insane and narcissistic president is hurting all US foreign relations and affairs.
#Trump #Meloni

I never beg, nor does Italy, Meloni says responding to Trump - Politics - Ansa.it
Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday said US President Donald Trump's assertion that she begged him to have a photo with her during this week's G7 summit is false. "Donald Trump's declarations are completely fabricated," Meloni said in an Instagram post. (ANSA)

Wo bin ich? 😉

Just a pleasure watching these two great teams play a wonderful #futbol match!
#worldcup

Filing: Jio Platforms, India's largest wireless operator with 526M subscribers, files for an IPO; the deal is expected to be one of India's biggest IPOs ever (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/19/india-jio-platforms-ipo-mukesh-ambani.html…

India's largest telecom and digital service Jio Platforms files for IPO
India's largest wireless operator and digital service provider, Jio Platforms files for IPO

NASA-Weltraumteleskop Swift: Beispiellose Rettung durch Robotermission steht an
Das Weltraumteleskop Swift soll von einem robotischen Raumschiff zurück in einen hohen Orbit geschoben werden. Der wurde in Rekordzeit fertig und ist bereit.

NASA-Weltraumteleskop Swift: Beispiellose Rettung durch Robotermission steht an
Das Weltraumteleskop Swift soll von einem robotischen Raumschiff zurück in einen hohen Orbit geschoben werden. Der wurde in Rekordzeit fertig und ist bereit.

Right-wing activist Gary Bauer
opened his daily email newsletter Tuesday afternoon with the headline,
“Democrats Hate Police.”
That inflammatory framing was followed by a lot of false information about the killing of a 26-year-old father by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday:
"Yesterday morning, federal immigration police attempted to enforce an existing deportation order for 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, an illegal alien in Biddeford, Maine. The Co…

Gary Bauer Pushes False Narrative re ICE Killing, Claims ‘Democrats Hate Police’
Gary Bauer is promoting pro-ICE propaganda that even ICE isn't backing up.

Trump's Special Envoy to Greenland Receives a Cold Welcome From Locals (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/world/europe/us-envoy-greenland-visit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p73#a260519p73

In the coming years, I expect to hear a whole lot of “Don’t blame me!! Gen AI did it! The AI dog ate my homework!!”
One of my biggest wishes right now is that we get crystal clarity, both legally and culturally, that if a computer system screws up (AI or otherwise) then that’s the responsibility of the people who •chose to use• the system.

Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was "nice" and "smart" at G7 (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/trump-anthropic-national-…

Exclusive: Trump tells "The Axios Show" that Anthropic was a national security threat
National security concerns and personality clashes landed Anthropic in the middle of a government crackdown.

Bericht: Nvidias Super-Serie der RTX 5000 angeblich fertig
Bei den Kartenherstellern sollen erste seriennahe Versionen von RTX 5080 Super und kleineren Versionen vorliegen. Nur die Speicherkrise bremst den Marktstart.

Bericht: Nvidias Super-Serie der RTX 5000 angeblich fertig
Bei den Kartenherstellern sollen erste seriennahe Versionen von RTX 5080 Super und kleineren Versionen vorliegen. Nur die Speicherkrise bremst den Marktstart.

In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.” 
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…

The Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to a Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.

I.R.S. Prohibited From Pursuing Audits of Trump and His Family (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/trump-irs-doj-lawsuit-audit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.OtS3.BNNcbvrjbIVg&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p78#a260519p78

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116602163994915587
It sounds from the very small amount of information in the article like the problem was that the system was reading the names in the wrong order. That’s most likely a human organization / data wrangling error, not gen AI slop.
If so — big if! speculating!! — this is a textbook example of someone instinctively using AI as an accountability sink. 🧵

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Abstimmungspanne im Bundestag bei Polizeigesetz
https://www.

Abstimmungspanne im Bundestag bei Polizeigesetz
Kurz vor der Sommerpause des Bundestages unterlief den Parlamentariern bei der Verabschiedung des Bundespolizeigesetzes ein entscheidender Fehler.

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones, as Trump claims?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/17/cuba-iran-drones-trump-venezuela-us-military/

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island.

Judge Clears DOJ to Hand Biden Recordings to Conservative Group (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/judge-clears-doj-to-hand-biden-recordings-to-conservative-group
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p61#a260619p61

Billionenbeträge berechnet: Abrechnungsfehler bei Amazon Web Services
Kunden wurden plötzlich astronomische Kosten für Amazon Web Services angezeigt. Dahinter steckt ein technischer Fehler.
https://www…

Billionenbeträge berechnet: Abrechnungsfehler bei Amazon Web Services
Kunden wurden plötzlich astronomische Kosten für Amazon Web Services angezeigt. Dahinter steckt ein technischer Fehler.

With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry.
Americans are paying the price
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: #cryptocurrency.
We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.”
The industry’s lobbyists depend on that;
they win when the public …

Congress Must Stop Enabling Trump’s Crypto Corruption
With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry. Americans will pay the price.

Monzo reports FY 2026 revenue up 39% YoY to £1.7B, pre-tax profit up 44% to £87.3M, users up 3M to 15M , and deposits up 55% to £25.7B, as it expands lending (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

UK Fintech Monzo Reports 44% Jump in Profit on Interest Income
Monzo Bank Ltd. reported a 44% jump in profit in the year through March, as growth in lending lifted interest income.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

Trump is certainly among the most corrupt chief executives the United States has ever had.
The Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf calls it Trump’s golden age of corruption.
And at this point it seems like there is little stopping him from continuing.

Rothkopf writes:
Day in and day out, he has been robbing our country blind,
in plain sight, and in ways no one else would dare to attempt.
Indeed, it is fair to suggest that if you took every other corrupt f…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Deal on Compensation Fund Blocks I.R.S. Claims Against President and His Family (Associated Press)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p74#a260519p74

Alibaba launches preview of 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max, says it's comparable to frontier AI models and second only to Fable 5, will make it "open-weight soon" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/a…

Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt fighting, officials say, as US-Iran talks hang in the balance (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-lebanon-oil-june-19-2026-635ad6f41610df8355d24cc301a75fc4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p60#a260619p60

Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents
— cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision.
If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents,
as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism o…

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/us-tells-asm…

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…

AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony
An AI system malfunctioned during Glendale Community College's commencement, misreading graduate names and pausing the ceremony multiple times.

Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/early-u…

30-year US Treasury yield hits highest level in 19 years (John Towfighi/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/business/30-year-treasury-yield-bond-record
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p40#a260519p40

Sources: Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, is in talks to buy Empower, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/analog-devic…

Early this month, a single pen stroke effectively ended representative
Steve Cohen’s career in Congress.
The man who has represented Memphis for 19 years will turn 77 later this month,
but he wasn’t planning on retiring.
He hadn’t lost any primary.
The reason was that his district had been erased around him.
A new electoral map, passed by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Bill Lee, the governor,
divides the ninth district three wa…

Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/ch…

Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat
and unseat Susan Collins once and for all.
He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash,
a lifelong labor champion,
and former Maine Senate President,
who's proven he can win
— by 20 points
— in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.
https://w…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

A progressive 5th generation logger from the far-northern corner of Allagash, Maine,
Troy Jackson has had a long career in organizing progressive activists
and ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who had endorsed him in his gubernatorial race earlier this year.
The candidate will have less than four months to spin up a major battleground Senate campaign against GOP Sen. Susan Collins,
the only Senate Republican running for reelection in a state carried by former Vic…

Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19…

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies,
as OMB director Russ Vought says.
Why? Because it is DEI.
Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans
due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.
https:…

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist (@princess-vimentin.bsky.social)
This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies, as OMB director Russ Vought says. Why? Because it is DEI. Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.

Thoughts on why Jony Ive, a close friend of Laurene Powell Jobs, isn't named in Apple's OpenAI suit; sources: Apple tests AI to record Genius Bar customer chats (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci
Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major

Ele Willoughby (@minouette.bsky.social)
Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major &

Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai…

"The current fascist administration thinks hyper-aggressive masculinity is the only thing needed for a successful military"
-- @…
#Hegseth #testosterone

Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

Every zipper is manufactured to a specification that balances precision against cost.
A zipper with teeth machined to tolerances of plus or minus 0.02 millimetres will last thousands of cycles without splitting.
A zipper with tolerances of plus or minus 0.08 millimetres will function adequately for hundreds of cycles before wear accumulates to the failure threshold.
The first costs more to produce.
The second costs more to replace.
The decision between them …

The Precise Mechanics Behind Why Zippers Fail and What That Reveals About Everyday Product Engineering
Most zipper failures are a worn slider — a £1 part. You throw away the jacket because nobody told you. The tolerance decision was made in a spreadsheet.

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus,
an ephemeral immune organ,
in the hope that it will slow ageing.
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his physician’s office and talked his way into a month’s supply of growth hormone.
His hope,
bolstered by a single study in rats,
was that the injections would help him to regrow his thymus
— a peculiar immune organ that …

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus, an ephemeral immune organ, in the hope that it will slow ageing.

Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/android-17s-…

Android 17’s ‘Continue On’ will let you move tasks between devices, like Apple’s Handoff
Google is setting the stage for Android’s version of Apple Handoff, with the new “Continue On” feature in Android 17...

Maine Secretary of State
Shenna Bellows announces her withdrawal from U.S. Senate race
Bellows stated that due to
"Donald Trump's attacks on our democracy" accelerating,
she felt the best way she could serve the country was to focus on her current role
#maine #democratic

A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all | TechCrunch
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

Anticipation has built for the start of observations at the
"Vera C. Rubin Observatory"
in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the "Dark Matter Telescope",
Rubin is designed to study our constantly moving and changing universe in greater detail than ever before.
Once every few days for a decade, Rubin will take images of the entire night sky over the Southern Hemisphere,
creating the w…

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive.

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form,
for some unknown amount of time,
according to a report from Krebs on Security.
The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says.
The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.”
The contents included passwords, keys, and tokens
—and the passwords were plain …

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.

Lack of transparency on who manages Trump’s investments adds to questions about possible conflicts of interests that have followed Trump throughout his time in the Oval Office.
"The confusion from the White House as to who manages the president's stock portfolios is deeply troubling,”
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, acting vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, told NOTUS in a statement.
“It would raise serious ethical quest…

What Donald Trump Knows About His Stock Investments
The president is playing the market again as Congress weighs banning elected officials from trading stocks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday
proposed dropping limits for four cancer-linked “forever chemicals”
in drinking water
established during the Biden administration,
saying the changes were rushed and not in compliance with federal law.
At the same time, the EPA said it is earmarking nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities to tackle per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other drinking water contaminants that plague water s…

EPA walks back PFAS drinking water protections
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday proposed dropping limits for four cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in drinking water established during the Biden administration, saying the changes were rushed and not in compliance with federal law.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine
and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory,
or Ukraine would take action itself.

'A week will be enough' — Zelensky issues ultimatum to Lukashenko over drone-guidance equipment
President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory, or Ukraine would take action itself.

“We are a nation of laws.
You can't just make up things whole piece,”
said Senator Bill Cassidy,
following his primary loss.
“People are concerned about making ends meet, not about putting a slush fund together without a legal precedent.”
It’s not clear yet what approach Cassidy will take in his final months in office,
but he’s got plenty of opportunities to make his voice heard,
including on the effort to limit U.S. hostilities against Iran wi…

Bill Cassidy Is Done Holding Back What He Thinks
The Louisiana Republican is already speaking out against the president's “weaponization” fund and money for a White House ballroom.

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions.

The Justice Department on Tuesday issued an expanded settlement agreement with Donald Trump that includes broad language stating that
the Internal Revenue Service is
“forever barred” from
“examinations” of Trump, his family members and businesses.
The one-page addendum, which appeared on the DOJ website Tuesday, was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
It adds to the 9-page document issued Monday, which concluded his lawsuit over the leaking of his t…

IRS ‘Forever Barred’ From Investigating Trump After DOJ Expands Settlement
The one-page document, which appeared on the DOJ website Tuesday, was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.