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Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Moving as metaphor
A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York. It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant. Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project managemen…

The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data (Jacob Parry/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-changes-gear…

Brussels changes gear on Big Tech enforcement
As the EU’s focus shifts from big-ticket fines to compliance, concerns are growing that the market power of dominant tech platforms could become more entrenched. 

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/deep-sea-mining-identified-as-biggest-threat-to-known-and-unknown-deep-sea-crea…

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures
The IUCN warns deep-sea mining is the greatest threat to hydrothermal vent species, more than 60% of known vent mollusks are now at risk of extinction.

Natalie Harp, a former One America News Network show host, has emerged as a key gatekeeper to the president.
Her presence with Trump when the president left Air Force One as a decoy while sneaking on to another plane in a service cart
– even as senior officials remained behind
– drew attention.
Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator from Georgia,
amplified that attention with comments at a rally Sunday in Atlanta.
Speaking of Trump, Ossoff said:
“He golf…

White House faces scrutiny over top Trump aide Natalie Harp – live
Harp, a former One America News Network show host, has emerged as a key gatekeeper to the president

https://www.tumblr.com/theonion/828130830874476544/cackling-as-the-steps-of-the-dastardly-plan?source=share

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💬 4  🔁 518  ❤️ 1432 · Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo ye…

"Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’"
#Birds #SocialMedia #Animals #Nature

Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’
Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world

The Atlantic launches Rabbithole, a daily trivia game created by senior editor and former Jeopardy! champion Drew Goins, rather than using AI (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/as-ai-automates-everything-the-atlantic-is-building-ga…

As AI automates everything, The Atlantic is building games by hand
The Atlantic is bucking the AI automation trend with a new trivia game handcrafted by “Jeopardy!” champion and senior editor Drew Goins.

Bettors confident Trevor Lawrence and Jaguars will repeat as AFC South champions on NFL futures odds

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/bet

The doumentary and related outreach is new, and very important. But the collective "we" have ignored this information for too long - the info is not new.
Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis
Local housing and homelessness orgs hosted screening.

The doumentary and related outreach is new, and very important. But the collective "we" have ignored this information for too long - the info is not new.
Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

Homelessness doc supports housing as solution to crisis
Local housing and homelessness orgs hosted screening.

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

You know, something tells me “They’re not as bloodthirsty as us… they haven’t nuked civilians” isn’t the great defense of Israel this guy thinks it is.
Also, my dude, your damn nation was founded on genocide. @… https://

Happy 50th #anniversary to you, #Z80! 🥳
https://www.to…

Zilog Z80 turns 50 as an open-source replacement heads to drop-in DIP40 silicon — iconic 8-bit CPU launched in July 1976 and was discontinued in 2024
The Z80 powered many retro favorites like the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX, Game Boy, Master System, Pac-Man arcade cabinet, and many more

Fernando Mendoza embracing mistakes as Raiders play the Texans https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-embracing-mistakes-as-raiders-play-the-texans-3866292/

The fate of Earth during the Sun's giant phases - new constraints from ab initio tidal modelling and AGB mass loss: #Sun may spare Earth and Mars, as study reverses course on death of our planet: https://www.wionews.com/trending/sun-may-spare-earth-and-mars-as-study-reverses-course-on-death-of-our-planet-1781952003897

É impressão minha ou o Porro abriu uma bandeira da Palestina durante as comemorações?!
EDITADO: Alarme falso, galera, acho que era bandeira de Extremadura, nome de uma Comunidade Autônoma da Espanha. Mas é mesmo muito parecida.

Already overburdened by growing alert volumes and expanding attack surfaces, SOC workers now have to deal with more AI-generated information that must itself be evaluated.
Check out my latest CSO on the human challenges that AI brings to SOCs.
Thanks to Fernando Montenegro of the Futurum Group, SOC expert Chris Crowley, SANS expert John Hubbard, and Jose-Marie Griffiths, president emerita and former CIO of Dakota State University, for their insights.

SOCs face a human challenge as AI speeds alerts and threats
The future of the security operations center may depend less on technology than on how well security leaders manage human attention, expertise, and resilience.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Claude/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Claude plus Linux.

And as far as I know, nobody has ever photographed a bat catching a mosquito in the wild.

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

I can’t tell if this is a joke… wait, this is real!?
“The bike, for kids who can’t balance good but wanna learn to do other stuff good too, is listed for $225 USD on Tesla.com.”
https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-gear/tesla-balance-bike-for-kids/

Tesla’s New “Balance Bike for Kids” Is a Futuristic Balance Bike for Kids
Presumably inspired by Elon Musk’s extensive history as a father, the bike introduces a smart seat design for scaling sizing appropriately as kids grow.

A tale as old as time

David Brown leaving #AWS after 19 years. I worked with him as a customer in the Netflix days and while I was also a VP at AWS and he was the best manager they ever had. Many of the broken teams/services at AWS in the early days were fixed by him. Super nice guy in person as well. Hasn’t said where he’s going next…

AWS EC2 leadership change: Dave Treadwell replaces Brown
AWS named Dave Treadwell to lead EC2 after 19-year veteran Dave Brown departed, signaling a major leadership change for Amazon Web Services compute.

So I bought these Boulder Creek potato chips cooked in Beef Tallow.
Beef Tallow has been making a comeback as a cooking oil thanks to crackpots in the US government. I was also under the impression that it might taste good so when I saw this at Costco, I figured “why the hell not.”
🤢🤮🥴
It was NASTY. Whatever I remember of stuff cooked in beef tallow, they had beef tallow in it as opposed to being cooked in it. Stuff cooked only in beef tallow tastes like rancid beef fat.…

ngscopeclient v0.2.2 is released with a few small bug fixes
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/releases/tag/v0.2.2

Release v0.2.2 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps
ngscopeclient v0.2.2 release notes This is a hotfix release for v0.2.1 that fixes a MacOS specific packaging issue as well as a FFT windowing bug. New features since v0.2 None Breaking changes si...

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

from my link log —
cson: CoffeeScript object notation.
https://github.com/bevry/cson
saved 2020-10-23 https://dotat.at/:/BLNG7.html

GitHub - bevry/cson: CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.
CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects. - bevry/cson

Yes!!!
Ryanair profits drop as Iran war puts off passengers and lifts fuel costs - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8nldwj12jo

Ryanair profits drop as Iran war puts off passengers and lifts fuel costs
The Irish airline said oil prices had increased costs meanwhile Brent crude surpassed $90.

As the question arose as to which ferries are allowed:
#tcrno12

Michael (@schmic@hessen.social)
Attached: 1 image @Bossi@mastodon.social They did, there wording is: "Riders can choose to use any public ferry in the Baltic sea, therefore the ferry must sail below the line of 56.301688, 12.448676 in Sweden and 56.337980, 10.907090 in Denmark." #tcrno12

#TIL "rejection cake" 'a cake that someone decorates and shares on social media after their application to a university has been rejected, usually as a light-hearted way of showing their disappointment'🤨
https://

@… they have paid plans too ("Plutonium"), but they are only for cosmetics and personal options, like what Discord has with "Nitro". There are no restrictions an community size as far as I know

Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/nvidia-nordic-ai-data-centers.html

Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region
Nvidia is trying to connect GPU customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power and available land fuel the region’s AI infrastructure boom.

Salem Media goes private after completing its sale to WaterStone, the operating name of The Christian Community Foundation, which held a 49.5% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/08/20/salem-media-goes-private-as-w…

Salem Media Goes Private as WaterStone Completes Acquisition - Radio Ink
Salem Media has completed its sale to Christian nonprofit WaterStone, taking the broadcaster private after more than five decades.

Watched the new season of Ted Lasso. As brilliant as ever. They really have a hand for such stuff at AppleTV

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/how-much-control-do-tiktok-users-really-have-over-fyps/

TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs...

> Russia seizes control of Nestlé and Auchan subsidiaries.
Oh this is what Germans means by schadenfreude.
Unilever, P&G, Mondelez ... hope their CEOs are panicking now. Putin will seize those soon as his end game is to steal as much money as possile.
#Ukraine #SlavaUkraini

So mastodon.social was down for a while? Surely the fediverse as a whole went also down, right?
No? What do you mean no? It just churned away as usual?
What wizardry is this?

Spooky, we just started on the final leg of actual Outlander last night. Looking forward to seeing if our progeny is an extra in this series of BOMB as she was in the last one.
@… https://

Bandero Premium Tequila joins Raider Nation as the Official Tequila Partner of the Las Vegas Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/bandero-premium-tequila-joins-raider-nation-as-the-official-tequila-partner-of-the-las…

"Europe's e‑waste is a valuable resource—let's not throw it away"
#Europe #EWaste #Technology

Europe's e‑waste is a valuable resource—let's not throw it away
Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices such as phones, screens and washing machines, only a few are recycled. That includes precious metals such as gold and silver and other metals such as aluminum and copper. The rest are effectively single-use metals, used once and then lost during collection or through incineration.

Sources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai…

The European Parliament’s answer to its AI worries: More AI
The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers’ growing use of the technology under control.

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

Ja’Marr Chase sparks Bengals as winless Texans look for answers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7613375/2026/09/20/bengals-texans-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/

Between the Oxford United 1893 American-style sports jerseys and the Converse Chuck 70 X ad campaign photo, I see an argument for more humanities in higher ed.
We can call these genuine mistakes, but as long as both corps maintain a presence on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating hate platform I can’t give them the benefit of the doubt.

ICYMI: "The thirteenth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 23. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. CT." So says https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13

Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/extreme-heat-warnings-us
Heat wave smashes records across central US

Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/an…

RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/117106473949752281
It's fucking mental, innit? Like, c'mon, Apple, this computer still whizzes along as long as it has a sympathetic OS on board. YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE.
I feel that these L…

Le Monde is considering ways to grant access to AI agents of paying readers while maintaining its block on crawler bots and other unlicensed non-human traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blo

Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it’s working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents
Le Monde is "figuring out" how to maintain its subscription partnership with readers who use AI agents rather than its homepage or app.

After apologizing for the
‘worst ad known to man,’
Good Good Golf exits as PGA Tour event sponsor
The controversial ad for the
"Good Good Callaway Quantum Driver" depicted a man, played by Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark,
shoving a woman to the ground as she reaches for one of his golf clubs.
“Do not touch my new driver,” he says menacingly as he stands over her.
Good Good said it would step back to focus on its culture,
dropping …

Golf ad showing violence against woman haunts Good Good Golf
Good Good Golf said it will step back to focus on its culture amid the fallout over its ad that has been criticized for portraying violence against women. Callaway also cut ties with the brand.

OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/openai-previews-zer…

OpenAI previews zero-retention safety system as Anthropic requires data logs
It's testing a different approach while Anthropic is holding on to data for 30 days for those using its most advanced models.

Is Tom Brady eyeing a WWE future as he continues his public spat with Logan Paul? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7458839/2026/07/20/tom-brady-logan-paul-slap-wwe/

"Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane"
#Methane #Volcano
https://www.scienced…

Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane
The Hunga Tonga eruption may have triggered a surprising chemical reaction that destroyed some of the methane released into the atmosphere. Scientists say the discovery could reshape estimates of methane pollution and inspire new methods for slowing near-term global warming.

Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments
to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US,
using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy,
Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigratio…

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/indonesias-wildfire-season-surges-as-haze-spreads-into-malaysia/

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia
JAKARTA — Haze from fires in Indonesian Borneo has drifted across the border into the Malaysian portion of the island, pushing air pollution there to “very unhealthy levels” and causing school closures. On Aug. 12, Sarawak’s Tebedu district, near the Indonesia-Malaysia border, recorded an air pollution index (API) exceeding 200, considered “very unhealthy,” prompting the […]

“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,”
Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers. 
Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up.
The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth program that does violence prevention work with local high schools.
As area business leaders, city officials, judges, and police officers watched and too…

Teens in This Small Indiana City Want to Talk About Shootings. Adults Are Listening.
“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,” Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers.  Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up. The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth […]

Holly Willoughby, until recently the host of ITV's daytime show This Morning, plans a lifestyle series on YouTube, as the platform dominates viewing figures (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/holly-willoughby-youtube-together-s…

Holly Willoughby Heads to YouTube for New Lifestyle Series 'Together'
Holly Willoughby, best known until recently as the host of ITV’s daytime show 'This Morning,' is set to make a comeback with new YouTube show 'Together.

Rashan Gary hopes to emerge as 'dominant factor' for Cowboys: 'I'm trying to be great' https://www.nfl.com/news/rashan-gary-hopes-to-emerge-as-dominant-factor-for-cowboys-i-m-trying-to-be-great

"Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation"
#Rainforest #Nature #Environment

Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/small-scale-farming-logging-eclipse-megaprojects-as-top-threats-to-tapanuli-orangutan-ha…

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat
JAKARTA — Large infrastructure projects have long dominated debate over the future of Indonesia’s Batang Toru ecosystem, the main stronghold of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. But a new study suggests that while those projects have accelerated forest loss, the greatest direct threat to the ape’s habitat now comes from a much less visible source: […]

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…

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a "back-to-basics" approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston,
we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green,
who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District.
He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop
“an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration.
Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday
to gather testimony from…

Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings
As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District. He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop “an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday to gather testimony from community members about Salgado …

Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/13/england-rewilding-plan-restore-nature-2030-criticised

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-seeks-…

Moonshot AI Seeks Investor Approval to Begin IPO Process
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently distributed a shareholder resolution regarding its IPO plan, according to the people. The timing of its

Republicans are all abuzz about socialism because the party’s political prospects look dire this fall.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are in the thirties,
Americans are experiencing surging energy prices,
and Trump and other Republicans are engaged in open corruption while cutting vital government programs.
They need something, and in a pinch, socialism has always been the go-to emergency button for the right to push.

Why the GOP loves to use ‘communism’ as an attack
Explaining the Right this week explores why Republicans keep trying to scare people into thinking Democrats want communism.

ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (Anup Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

More than 2,700 died as result of heat waves in England, researchers say #England

Over 2,700 may have died due to England heat waves, researchers say
At least 2,700 people could have died in England and Wales as a result of heat waves that struck in May and June, according to a study released Monday.

‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The biggest threat is the president’: election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November, despite truce in bitter power struggle

AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html

AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer
AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

Virginia's Loudoun County hosts more than 250 data centers generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

How One County Profited From Data Centers Amid a Growing National Backlash
Loudoun County, Va., has gotten rich hosting more than 250 data centers, allowing it to cut property taxes. Other locales are taking note, even as a nationwide backlash over data centers grows.

Donald Trump is resisting new restrictions on AI
at a moment when his family and some of his closest allies have accumulated financial interests in the infrastructure and defense-technology ecosystem expanding alongside the AI boom,
an overlap that has now drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, government ethics watchdogs
and, by some accounts, his own senior aides.

As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts

Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Goodbye, Montecito.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly moving to U.K.
Harry and Markle will maintain their Montecito chateau as well as their Portugal getaway pad
but will reside at a private, non-royal home in the U.K.
The couple wed in 2018 and stepped away from their senior-royal duties in 2020 to head west in an unprecedented move.
Although many were clutching their pearls over what the U.K. tabloids dubbed Megxit

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving SoCal to go back to the U.K.
Six years after leaving the U.K. amid a family feud, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly relocating back to Britain ahead of the school year.

Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/exc…

Exclusive: China slows exports of key optical, aerospace metals to Taiwan
Germanium- and quartz-based materials as well as some magnets affected, sources say

American soil, has traditionally been regarded as something of a safe place for those speaking out against the Kremlin,
whether it has been under the red flag of the Soviet Union or the tricolour of Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
It might be possible for Kremlin agents to get away with deploying poison-tipped umbrellas on people crossing London’s Waterloo Bridge,
as was the fate of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978,
but risking such colourful assass…

‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory

Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100 staff after buying Fractional (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-enterp…

Anthropic’s Enterprise AI Venture Buys Consultancy
A joint venture established by Anthropic and Wall Street firms such as Blackstone has made its first acquisition since its July launch as it looks to boost the growth of Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot, among businesses. Anthropic’s venture, Ode, plans to announce Thursday that it is buying an AI ...

Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit
The prime minister now accepts that his time has run out as majority of Labour MPs back Andy Burnham
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/starmer-expected-to…

Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit
The prime minister now accepts that his time has run out as majority of Labour MPs now back Andy Burnham

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.

One of Donald Trump’s most grandiose vanity projects,
-- a multimillion-dollar makeover of Florida’s Palm Beach international airport
into a self-aggrandizing, gold-plated transportation hub,
-- is running into turbulence, barely a week after the first plane’s wheels touched the runway.
At first glance, the rebranding of the airport less than 5 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago resort appears to be complete.
Its website bears the name and oversized logo of the …

Trump’s rebranding of Palm Beach airport hasn’t taken off as he planned
Changes inside the Florida international airport are hardly evident as state and county hold back funds for full remodel

Donald Trump said he will soon appoint an artificial intelligence czar
amid heightened scrutiny of whether the technology is progressing at a dangerous pace, he announced Saturday on Truth Social.
In a long post defending the industry, Trump said he would create an
“AI Force” without specifying its exact functions.
He added that in his capacity as president, he would “not stand by” and allow its “decimation, or destruction.”
Lawmakers and tech leaders have soun…

Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology
The president did not detail what the office’s responsibilities would look like or who he could appoint to the role.

Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

“The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.”
“China Is AI-Maxxing.”
“China Just Erased America’s AI Lead.”
Those assessments of the artificial intelligence rivalry appeared in U.S. publications recently,
and Xi Jinping will be pleased to have them in the air as he arrives in Washington this week for a state visit.
Under Mr. Xi’s leadership, China has made huge strides in developing the most consequential technology of our times.
What will be less discu…

In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind
As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will be in the air. Less discussed: China’s economy in its worst shape in decades.

The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new route Thursday for tokenized stock trading,
just two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and stalled Congress’s sweeping effort to rewrite federal rules for cryptocurrency markets.
The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption” allows qualifying platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized versions of publicly traded stocks without registering as national securities exchanges.
Certain liquidity providers can also rec…

Senate Blocks CLARITY Act as SEC Moves Ahead With Tokenized Stock Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new route Thursday for tokenized stock trading, just two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and stalled Congress’s sweeping effort to rewrite federal rules for cryptocurrency markets.The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption” allows qualifying platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized versions of...

Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nex-playgrou

Nex Playground announces $150m in new funding as hardware sales pass one million
Subscriber base grows sevenfold in 18 months to nearly one million; former Niantic CFO Jeff Shouger and veteran gaming and technology executive Bing Gordon join

The reported success of an experimental drug that uses messenger RNA to deliver personalized skin cancer vaccines could herald a wave of new treatments that harness the potent technology for a range of cancers, researchers say.

Drugmakers Moderna and Merck this summer announced that a cancer vaccine,
intismeran autogene,
had succeeded in a Phase 3 clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma,
a result experts celebrated as a breakthrough for mRNA-based canc…

A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?
Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.

Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technol

Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The company is expected to generate $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models.

This week China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework
– a document that functions as a “mapping of the AI risk landscape and roughly what one should do about it”,
said Gabriel Wagner, a researcher at Concordia, a Beijing-based AI safety consultancy.
Included in the updates are the risks posed by agents,
the cybersecurity threats from frontier models
and the issue of recursive self-improvement
– an as-yet hypothetical scenario w…

Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace

David Lammy has announced he is also leaving government, having been the deputy prime minister for the past two years.
He too posted details of his departure on social media.
Writing on X, Lammy said:
It has been the greatest privilege of my life, coming from humble beginnings in Tottenham, to serve in government as @Keir_Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Britain’s first Black Deputy Prime Minister.
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition …

Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live
Earlier the new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’

In its first year under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
the Pentagon dramatically slashed its teams responsible for taking efforts to reduce civilian harm in military conflicts, new reporting finds
— an undertaking that continued until as little as months before the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Minab, Iran, in one of the worst single incidents of a civilian massacre committed by the US

Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI
CENTCOM, which oversees the war in Iran, has had its civilian harm reduction team slashed from 10 to just one.

The US Department of Justice has defended its prosecution of former FBI director James Comey, claiming in new court documents there is “no serious dispute” that his social media post last year featuring a photo of seashells arranged to read “8647” could be interpreted as a threat against Donald Trump.
“There is no serious dispute that an objective viewer of Comey’s post could read it to mean ‘Kill President Trump’,” prosecutors wrote in a document filed on Tuesday in response to efforts…

US justice department defends prosecution of James Comey over ‘8647’ seashell post
Justice department claims there’s ‘no dispute’ over whether ex-FBI head’s post could be read as a threat against Trump

“The U.S. is planning for a wider war,”
one U.S. official familiar with the matter told The Washington Post Monday.
The official warned that U.S. military operations would be kneecapped by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions,
as well as widespread damage to U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
“We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official added.
A report from th…

Trump Is Ready for All-Out War in Iran. There’s Just One Catch.
Someone’s weapons are depleted, but it’s not Iran.

U.S. Ambassador to France,
Charles Kushner,
whose son Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka,
clashed with his French hosts weeks after arriving last July
when he accused them of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
Nearly a year later, he contends the problem has gotten worse
— so much so that he has suggested the Trump administration grant refugee status to French Jews, even as it otherwise scales back asylum provision.
“It would be an obje…

Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France, Riles Paris With Trump Diplomacy
The U.S. envoy to Paris has emerged as the embodiment of combative diplomacy in the age of President Trump, riling the French establishment notably with his accusations of antisemitism.

A federal judge has given Attorney General Todd Blanche until Sept. 24
to comply with orders over Jeffrey Epstein records,
warning that he could face civil contempt if the Justice Department fails to meet the court’s demands.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the warning Wednesday
as he ordered Blanche to support disputed victim redactions,
submit handwritten FBI interview notes for private court review
and begin reviewing foreign-language Epstein …

Judge Warns Todd Blanche He Could Face Civil Contempt Over Epstein Files
A federal judge has given Attorney General Todd Blanche until Sept. 24 to comply with orders over Jeffrey Epstein records, warning that he could face civil contempt if the Justice Department fails to meet the court’s demands.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the warning Wednesday as he ordered Blanche to...

With SpaceX planning to retire its Crew Dragon spacecraft in just a few years,
NASA urgently needs to secure another vehicle for crewed missions to and from low Earth orbit.
Apparently, the agency is dedicated to making sure Boeing’s Starliner
—the infamous spacecraft that left two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station for months
—will be ready to fill the gap.
As early as next week, NASA will announce plans to order two more crewed Starliner mission…

SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing's Troubled Starliner
What could possibly go wrong?

For more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…

No End in Sight for U.S. Military Mission Along Border With Mexico
The patrols have helped push cartels and smugglers into more remote areas. But analysts have voiced concerns that the border missions will distract from training, drain resources and undermine readiness.