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Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh

Microsoft shuts the door on The Garage, the central program behind its hackathon and maker spaces
Microsoft is winding down The Garage, the 17-year-old program behind its Global Hackathon and employee maker spaces, according to an internal FAQ. Some Garage spaces could be restricted to employees as early as Friday, and Microsoft says the hackathon team is reimagining the event.

Memo: the BBC plans to merge TV and audio commissioning teams across comedy and other genres amid plans to close around 100 roles in BBC's content unit (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-merge-tv-audio-teams-cut-100-content-rol…

BBC Merges TV & Audio Commissioning Teams Amid Plan To Cut 100 Content Roles
The BBC is planning to cut around 100 roles in its content commissioning team over the next five months as the UK broadcaster seeks to save £500M.

Security personnel around the world are on high alert following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet.
As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major apps and programming languages had blocked all eight of the intermediate certificates.
There are no reports of certificate transparency logs, which track the issuance of all browser-trusted certifi…

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

My choice of 4 would be:
https://tvark.org/channel-four-original-ident-2
which is the original UK Channel 4 animated logo.

Global unrest is spreading. Time for a macro thread... .
On Sept 25 in TT#16, I noted some echoes of the Arab Spring in the unrest developing all over the world around the high cost of living and the poor state of public services.
https://www.transitiontimes.net/tt-16-iran

TT#16 – Iran-ic Energy Dominance
Just as soaring food prices resulted in the Arab Spring, soaring fuel prices today could spell doom for petrostate leaders. In its pursuit of 'energy dominance' through oil and gas production, the Trump administration is giving the world ample reason to transition away from fossil fuels.

At 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech

Everyone on TV wears a poppy, starting around this time of year.
It is supposed to commemorate how stupid it was to force millions of people to die in pointless power-struggle racism-fueled wars. The red for all the blood spilled.
I don't generally bother. It seemed to become more a symbol of heroism than a lament at the horror and pointlessness. To encourage soldiers rather than discourage them from agreeing to this insanity.
I put one in my profile name for a bit this year though.
It ain't red.
The pointless utter horror of it all, never ended it seems. I mean come on.
And apparently a poppy these colours has been working as an excellent troll on the insane gammon press.
[I think you can copy emoji from this server if you ask your admin. I only control mine.]
#freePalestine

Well, stdbit was easier than I expected -- both gcc and clang have sufficient builtins that I didn't bother writing anything other than trivial implementations, which are mirrored in the test cases.
With that, I *think* picolibc is a fully armed and operational C23 C library.
https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc/…

I'm not anti-scooter I'm just anti-asshole. I like micromobility solutions but wish people would not leave these scooter blocking the sidewalk. I'm not sure how wheelchair users would get around these, but luckily there is a bike lane, and I would welcome any wheelchair user to utilize it.

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion