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Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major update since November 2021, with a new look and deeper AI integration (Tim Anderson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/visual_studio_2026_previewed_deeper/

Microsoft's first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh
: New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework

Reduced to the Max: Pebble-Ring für Sprachnotizen hat nur einen Knopf
Ein Mikrofon am Zeigefinger springt nur an, wenn der Daumen den Knopf drückt. Der Pebble Index 01 dient zunächst für Sprachnotizen und Musiksteuerung.

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-09-11-cover-letter.html
first-class merges and cover letters
how might git and/or jj improve the way feature branches are reviewed / reworked / merged?

Russian strikes kill 5, injure 19, hit port and energy infrastructure in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/russian-strikes-kill-injure-hit.html

I wonder how many air traffic controllers will come back to work once they get paid again and how many people want to become air traffic controllers now that the government has shown utter disdain for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/flight-cancellations-government-shutdown

This was a nice surprise!

Many legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…

Venezuelan Boat Suspected of Drug Smuggling Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Strike
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

Premier League football club Brighton & Hove Albion bans Guardian reporters from its stadium after the Guardian reported on allegations against the club's owner (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/…

oh, i should buy some perfluorocarbons that i need for vapor phase soldering before some asshole bans them

Reale Schlagzeile 2025: Norwegen macht sich Sorgen, welche Racheaktionen es erwarten muss, falls Trump morgen keinen Nobelpreis bekommt. Sagt eigentlich alles über unsere Gegenwart aus.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

ALMA Reveals an Eccentricity Gradient in the #Fomalhaut Debris Disk: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfadc -> A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk? https://aasnova.org/2025/12/09/michelangelo-in-space-a-planet-carving-the-fomalhaut-debris-disk/

I really want to be optimistic but it’s soooo hard to believe that the ultra-racist wing of Bibi's govt will allow the assault on Gaza to stop or an actually meaningful withdrawal. And they have the whip hand; if they walk, Bibi falls and maybe goes to jail. Hoping I’m wrong and the firing really ceases.
https://www.…

ad210 Airliche Meinung zum Applegottesdienst (mit Ali Hackalife)
https://audiodump.de/2025/09/11/ad210-airliche-meinung-zum-applegottesdienst-mit-ali-hackalife/
Wird hier noch gedoxxt oder schon geswatted? Die

RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/115684176756652638
Ein Klick und ein E-Mail-Bestätigung

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal/

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors (Nick Turse/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u-s-attacked-boat-near-venezuela-multiple-times-to-kill-survivors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p154#a250910p154

‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 84 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29916 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

It's a pretty big day in cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical developments you should know, including
--Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues,
--Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions,
--FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder,
--Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules,
--FBI warns of fake proof of life photos,
--Oz…

Korean cops raid Coupang HQ looking for security lapses, breach perpetrator clues
Compromise NDAA bill is chock full of cyber provisions, FTC rejects petition from spyware company founder, Commonwealth Bank of Australia fined A$702k for breaching data rules, FBI warns of fake proof of life photos, Oz teen social media limits go live tomorrow, much more

Pre-ordered APP3.

»Passwortmanager — Test offenbart Sicherheitslücken bei Nutzerdaten:
Passwortmanager im Test - Nur drei von zehn Produkten verschlüsseln alle Daten komplett. Bei einigen können Hersteller auf Passwörter zugreifen«
Ein Argument mehr um dem Open-Source Passwort-Manager @… & Co zu vertrauen. Immer noch wird dis verhältnismässig von wenigen priv. &am…

Sicherheitslücken bei Passwortmanagern: Viele Anbieter verschlüsseln Daten unvollständig
Passwortmanager im Test: Nur drei von zehn Produkten verschlüsseln alle Daten komplett. Bei einigen können Hersteller auf Passwörter zugreifen.

Stochern im Nebel...
#ciddle 2025-11-09 (64)
1. ❌ ↖️ 52km
2. ❌ ➡️ 83km
3. ❌ ⬇️ 28km
4. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net

Ciddle - A Daily City Riddle

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

MIE: Neuer Speicherschutz nur in iPhone 17 & Co.
A19 und A19 Pro sind nicht nur flotter, sondern verfügen auch über Hardware-basierte Schutzmaßnahmen gegen Speicherangriffe. Ein Backporting ist nicht möglich.
https://www.

Alone into the rocks: Tunnel walk and traces of glacial plucking at 2200m
(And yes, the colors really were that stunning...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Graham Norton Security for Linux only, just 24.99£ per year

Logitech tells users that it will end support for its Pop smart home switches, launched in August 2016, on October 15, as it moves on from its smart home plans (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/log…

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15
Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

there's rumors that Apple wants to add touch screens to laptops
has everyone memory-holed the TouchBar?

Der Steam Store wird breiter
Valve hat erkannt, dass die wenigsten Nutzer noch auf Röhrenbildschirmen im 4:3-Format unterwegs sind – und passt den Steam Store auf breitere Monitore an.
https://www.heise.de/news/D…

Ukraine is looking to order 27 Patriot air defense systems, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/ukraine-is-looking-to-order.html

Marine Museum interior
#Photography #NovaScotia

Massie's Epstein discharge petition inches closer to 218 signatures (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/10/congress/walkinshaw-signs-jeffrey-epstein-discharge-petition-massie-khanna-00556162
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p155#a250910p155

Duolingo launches a five-episode anime series in collaboration with Titmouse, premiering October 13 on YouTube, as a marketing campaign (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/duolingo-anime-series-final-test-…

Why Duolingo Is Launching Its Own Anime Series 'The Final Test'
Duolingo has cast Duo, its lovable and plucky owl mascot, as the star of the company's first-ever anime series, '最後の決戦 (The Final Test).

‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 48 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29952 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM - birth of an ultrafast outflow during a soft flare: #BlackHole outburst observed similar to outbursts on the Sun / Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds: https://www.sron.nl/en/actueel/eruptie-zwart-gat-waargenomen-vergelijkbaar-met-zonne-uitbarstingen/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/Flaring_black_hole_whips_up_ultra-fast_winds

I've noticed a few people I know now work in AI even though they seem like the sort of people who are generally against AI bullshit, so this is for them... and anyone else!
If your job involves AI-related stuff do you:

…und nun zu den Mastodon *hüstel* Fediverse News und falls dies ihnen nichts sagt, haben wir einen Eklat für sie.
/ironie (ich kann nicht mehr anders)
»Von Eklat überschattet — Grimme Online Award für Mastodon und das Fediverse:
Der Kurznachrichtendienst Mastodon aus Deutschland hat stellvertretend für das Fediverse einen Grimme Online Award bekommen. Ein Eklat beschäftigte die Gala.«
:mastodon:

Von Eklat überschattet: Grimme Online Award für Mastodon und das Fediverse
Der Kurznachrichtendienst Mastodon aus Deutschland hat stellvertretend für das Fediverse einen Grimme Online Award bekommen. Ein Eklat beschäftigte die Gala.

Source: Trump allowed Nvidia to sell H200s to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk as Huawei offers systems with comparable performance (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/t…

Mmmmmh capacitor plague era. Anyone need a project P4 motherboard? Has AGP slot, onboard network and sound. Yours for price of shipping in US. DM me.
#retrocomputing

Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…

Definitely not the future.
https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/115341019007992956

Republicans Block Schumer's Effort to Force Vote on Epstein Files (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/chuck-schumer-effort-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.8cJh.48I82ZtvKe5I&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p158#a250910p158

Once again I will say, Fuck AI!
"Driven by explosive AI demand, memory prices are climbing at a pace the industry hasn’t seen in years. Compared with earlier this year, price increases now range from 120% to 200%."
#noAI

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,267 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.16 %

JioHotstar plans to invest $444M over five years to acquire and produce content from South India, as it plans to more than double its 200M subscriber base (Praveen Paramasivam/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Logging on

Studie: Auch Menschen können über Fernberührungsfähigkeiten verfügen
Können Menschen Objekte taktil erspüren, ohne sie physisch zu berühren? Zumindest im Sand soll das funktionieren, sagen Wissenschaftler.

When You Try to Kill the Negotiators, Negotiations End (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/israels-qatar-strike-hamas-negotiations/684171/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p160#a250910p160

South Korean media: police raided Coupang's HQ, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised 30M people's personal information (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Is there a term for that thing when you ask someone to send you something because you need a piece of text and then they send you a screen shot and you have to retype the text from the image?
There should be a word or phrase for that.

It’s installers all the way down

OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/openai-gpt-5-least-biased-model

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its least biased model yet
New findings from OpenAI researchers found that "charged" prompts produced the most biased results.

Microsoft BlockType™

Senate won't touch filibuster to end shutdown, Thune says (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/09/congress/shutdown-filibuster-nuclear-option-00599767
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p68#a251009p68

I never posted another "garage door fix" post after this one because we ended up getting a new garage door opener when the old one started failing even more and was beyond repair and also my partner was fed up with my hacks.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2021/02/15/garag…

Garage Fix (Again 2!)
Fix it again, there...

The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

“You can now do (if you purchase extra software) what every Mac can do out of the box!”
what

Remember "43 People"? It was a spin-off of 43 Things from Robot Co-op and it was pretty cool for web nerds of the 2000s.

An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/e

🤥

I will be getting three more 4TB drives to add to my TrueNAS install. I have three 4TB drives now so I should go from 7TB total to 16TB total.
Which is good, because I'm over 80% capacity right now. I could probably clear some things off, but also more disk space isn't a bad thing.
#NAS #TrueNAS

🤔

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

Liquid Glass looks dumb.

Finally XP setup has progressed to the graphical portion. PCs are so janky.

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/tala-health-raises-100-million-se…

Tala Health raises $100 million seed round, as Ritankar Das seeks to build a holding company for the AI era
Titan Holdings has launched a new operating company, Tala Health, Fortune has exclusively learned.

I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580

Intel unveils Panther Lake, or Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the first chip built on its 18A process, coming to laptops and handhelds in late 2025 and early 2026 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/797146/intel-…

Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics
Intel’s Panther Lake, built on its 18A process, is the foundation of its next Intel Core Ultra Series 3 laptop chips. Here’s what we know.

I wonder if Apple shoehorning Liquid Glass in macOS didn't remember the last time a major computer OS tried to copy features from their mobile OS at any cost: Windows 8.

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakin

Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

Adam Mosseri says Instagram is exploring building a TV app as part of a deeper push into video but isn't interested in licensing live sports or other content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/instagra…

Hard mode

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

And yes, part of the setup is text mode based

Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…

Hosed my Windows XP laptop, and discovered the recovery partition is gone; luckily I have the recovery DVDs. 🤞

Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise clients (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…

Man, this inflation

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-on-ecd

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy
What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

I remember like 10 years ago when fascism and racism were seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”

Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge, steps down to launch Overtone, an "AI-driven" dating service backed by Match; Hinge promotes CMO Jackie Jantos to CEO (Yasmin Gagne/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91456495/hinge-c…

Exclusive: Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down
McLeod grew his app into a standout for the dating industry and Match Group. Jackie Jantos—Hinge president and CMO—now succeeds him as CEO.

CyberCat 2025

During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ce22e78c-4a0c-49ca-a658-f2167df7f31d

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/c…

Chinese chipmaker Hygon calls off merger with top shareholder
Shares fall as companies blame 'market environment' for change of plan

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115521925373470883
Like calling them right now would be good, because there's reports that the might cave today—if they do the ACA subsidies will never come back.

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.

Bitte was für eine Röhre

Filing: corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan plans to raise up to $960M in a US IPO and is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45B (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/travel-tech-firm-navan-a…

Find someone who looks at you like Republicans look at ways to torture children
https://apnews.com/article/snap-benefits-trump-administration-demands-undo-states-d433f20df4d461db506e0d327a58d3c1

my vote is clear

Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjjv3pp1bg

Chip giant NXP leads $17.5M Series A for Israeli startup tackling AI’s memory bottleneck
RAAAM Memory Technologies’ “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors. 

good morning

Always funny when I watch a 1970s movie and instead of a happy ending it gets darker and darker a then the movie is over with no resolution.
They should do this more these days.

Or another feature: you could hook e.g. your record player into it and stream it to your whole house

Fwiw the SoundTouch stuff is so much nicer than the shit they have now. You could even get devices which played physical media, gasp.

Just what today needed

Software is political.
Hardware is political.
These things do not exist outside society and are, whether on purpose or not, influencing society.
Get over it.