Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
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Whitehouse propaganda minister Karoline Leavitt insisted,
“Everything I’m telling you is the truth backed by real, factual data,
and you just don’t want to report on it ’cause you want to push untrue narratives about the president.'”
The “real, factual data” that underpinned Leavitt’s statement was specious at best.
The actual inflation rate for September was 3%,
-- not the 2.5% figure cherry-picked from economic data.
The rise in real wages?
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Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-financial-planning-co-datarails…
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White tail deer. May 2018
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Australia’s Palantir deal and Chinese datacentres turning to liquid cooling.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/indi…
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Bdelloid rotifers are a microplankton that reproduce using parthenogenesis (female clones), but when environmental conditions become adverse (e.g. pond dries up), they can turn themselves into an extraordinaryly resistant inert "tun" through a process called cryptobiosis (like brine shrimp). Recently, Russian scientists thawed out
Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d
Sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer:
these are just a few of the medical issues that were under investigation in
at least 383 clinical trials that have had research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health since February.
That’s about 1 in 30 of all the clinical trials
—tests of medical interventions in human volunteers
—funded by the federal agency,
which has a
$48-billion research budget,
according to a JAMA Inte…