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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

The Justice Department’s most significant case stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol
— the seditious conspiracy convictions of high-ranking members of the far right Proud Boys
— has officially been erased.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly,
who presided over the six-month trial that led to the jury convictions,
reluctantly granted a Justice Department motion to drop the case on Friday,
concluding that he had no power to second-guess prosecu…

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Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
saved 2021-11-18

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.

Interview mit Sigrid Schulze aus dem #mittemuseum in #Berlin #Gesundbrunnen:

"Eine wichtige Rolle dabei spielt die Initiative 706. Sie geht auf ein Jugendzentrum im Pekinger Universitätsviertel zurück und hat mittlerweile einige Ableger in Europa. Xiyu ist seit elf Jahren in Deutschland und hat die Gruppe in Berlin 2021 mitgegründet. Der Name leitet sich von der Hausnummer des Zentrums in Peking ab. Das 2012 gegründete Hostel dort entwickelte sich über die Jahre zum Ort des Austauschs für Studierende und Denker, um gesellschaftliche Themen zu diskutieren."

from my link log —
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/
saved 2021-03-19 https:/…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889
This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups…

The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.

Based on my endeavours yesterday I think I'll set up shop (for free) as a beta iso tester.
None of the iso's installed without a hitch y'day (if at all), on a Thinkpad X13 1st gen, with a Ryzen 4650U and 8Gb. I believe this is a 2021 model or so and we ain't talking rocketscience. Sorry, but Linux has come this far that i've immediately parked them. Let's see if I get back to them. i doubt it.

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A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

After Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, the NFL draft's QB board could go quiet fast https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/after-fernando-mendoza-at-no-1-the-nfl-drafts-qb-board-could-go-quiet-fast

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Foreign Data Wrappers for migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
https://www.migops.com/blog/2021/02/15/role-of-foreign-data-wrappers-in-migrations-to-postgresql/
saved 2021-04-06

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The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://

The longest train journey in the EU
Anyone who has been following my work for a while knows I have long had a rather abstract discussion about the definition of the World's Longest Train Journey. I started calculating this back in 2021, after an incorrect map on Reddit went viral, and have updated my thoughts about it

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Little Simz:
🎵 Woman (6 Music Session, 14 Jun 2021)
#LittleSimz
https://turna1.bandcamp.com/track/little-simz-woman-turna-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/60GM1mA58L7SYD1bLQXBho

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

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Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07

Chromium’s Reduction of Root DNS Traffic - Verisign Blog
As we begin a new year, it is important to look back and reflect on our accomplishments and how we can continue to improve. A significant positive the DNS

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Fontemon: the world’s first video game in a font!
https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
saved 2021-03-19 https://dotat.at/:/E…