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With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…

Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact
More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults.

from my link log —
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
https://railsatscale.com/2024-04-16-prism-in-2024/
saved 2024-04-19 https…

Prism in 2024
In Ruby 3.3.0, a new standard library was added to CRuby called Prism. Prism is a parser for the Ruby language, exposed as both a C library (optionally usable by CRuby) and a Ruby library (usable as a Ruby gem). The Prism project represents many person-years worth of effort, and is the result of a collaboration between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, other Ruby implementation authors, and Ruby tooling developers.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116852007606471639
They’re clearly learning from the Israelis.
‘By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel…

POL-GÖ: (129/2026) Ermittlungen nach Überfall auf Schnellrestaurant in Göttingen-Grone im September 2024 gehen weiter - Polizei geht inzwischen von örtlichen Tätern aus Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Stadtteil Grone, Siekweg Donnerstag, 12. September 2024, gegen 02.35 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Die Tat liegt schon länger zurück, die Ermittlungen zur Aufklärung aber gehen ohne Unterlass weiter. Im September 2024 ...

The 2TB PS5 SSD expansion I got for £150 in December 2024, is now £350.

"Records from July 17, 2024 FBI electronic communication indicate Butler Sheriff's Office exchanged 2 emails with Crooks prior to July 13 Trump assassination attempt."
Damning new details emerge about would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-world-2677008020/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

No idea if this looks reasonable, but it's a start. objdump from Synopsys' open source toolchains looks similar.
Ref:
https://foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors.github.io/documentation/2024.06/toolchain/
Addendum: also r…

from my link log —
Strings in Julia vs Rust: you probably don't need to validate UTF-8.
https://viralinstruction.com/posts/utf8/
saved 2024-05-16 https:/…

After reading about today's #Github #security incident, exposing thousands of internal repositories, I'd like to remind you of:
Read That Before You Trust Anything by #Microsoft Once Again

#Steady #Klimacrew
Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
Schon relativ früh habe ich eines der Copilot-Derivate ausprobiert. Das war 2024 – glaube ich – und noch lange vor der Copilot-Inflation. Was ich aber nie wusste ist, dass es sich um

Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
KI-Tools für Profis – oder doch nur Spaß? Ein Blick in den Copilot-Disclaimer von Microsoft verleitet zum Schmunzeln.

from my link log —
Scanners work fine over iSCSI.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
saved 2024-05-09 https://dotat.a…

Just a bunch of scanners (JBOS?)
Can you run scanners over iSCSI?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Lucid Girl (6 Music Session, 17 Sep 2024)
#TheeSacredSouls
https://supapatselectah.bandcamp.com/track/thee-sacred-souls-lucid-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TdnxXaZIqJjASZaJQrW2e

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: