Tootfinder

I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things
https://www.pcgamer.com/softwar…

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

I feel like NASA's "we're going to the Moon to stay" is "stay" like in "AI is going to stay"

New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

The context is probably important too, and a bit more nuanced. The general actually wasn't playing as Iran but as a rebel faction that arose due to instability. You know, like how the US got ISIS after toppling Saddam? So like... not necessarily the Iranian regime but something much more challenging that comes after a major earthquake or, like... I don't know... the US kills the supreme leader and Iranian proxies create a decentralized network that threatens international trade.
Definitely unimaginable. Everything is definitely going to go well and exactly as simulated, definitely leading to a Blue force victory.
Yeah, I'm gonna get back to writing fiction and doing art, and ignoring this mess for the moment.

Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media-stop-acting-like-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p83#a260203p83

This is my peet. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Google adds a feature to let users with a Pixel 8 and newer connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a "desktop-like multi-window experience" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888370/google-pixel-tablet-android-deskto…

Google brings Android’s desktop mode to Pixel devices
The Pixel 8 and up will display a desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor.

I'm going to try the following experiment. I'm clearing ~half a day every week to plug a gap in my knowledge. To learn something I've been meaning to learn about for ages. Could be in my field (like energy based models) could be outside (like electronics).
I'll keep a running todo list of things to learn, and just pick one on the day that I feel like reading up on.

‘Russia is acting like a mafia’: Zelensky urges Europe to seize tankers from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/01/russia-is-acting-like-a.html

It all doesn't look like a full invasion of Venezuela, more like targeted strikes and assaults to remove the current regime. Trump will probably think all will be business as usual when that is done....
#venezuela #usa

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: Where is Vila?
BAYBAN: Who?
AVON: How would you like me to let some fresh air into that rancid little brain of yours?
BAYBAN: Go ahead. You'd be famous. The man who killed Bayban.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/500

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dinosaur Jr.:
🎵 Just Like Heaven
#DinosaurJr
https://dinosaurjr.bandcamp.com/track/just-like-heaven-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/69u4YVuqKoVp3nZmpyxC8I

I love gardening with specifically native plants because it's like restoring a damaged tapestry of life. An exotic from a climatically similar place to coastal California, like the Mediterranean or South Africa, might look pretty and grow well here, but contributes nothing greater than itself. Natives support particular webs of life that depend on them.

How journalists are reporting from Iran without internet, like using smuggled Starlink terminals, encrypted apps like Signal, and commercial satellite imagery (Mahmoud Aslan/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-journalists-are-reporting-from-iran-with-…

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet
After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country.

The perfect friend sees the best in you -- sees it constantly -- not just
when you occasionally are that way, but also when you waver, when you
forget yourself, act like less than you are. In time, you become more
like his vision of you -- which is the person you have always wanted to be.
-- Nancy Friday

This shows how Abbott feels about the 1st Amendment.
Gov. Abbott responds to student walkouts in Texas: ‘About time students like this were arrested’ https://ground.news/article/gov-abbott-responds-to-student-walkouts-in-texas-about-time-students-like-this-were-arrested_f0042d

A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
#exoplanets

A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
The transit method is currently one of our best means for the detection of potentially habitable "Earth-like" exoplanets. In principle, given sufficiently high photometric precision, cool Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars could be discovered via single transit detections; however, this has not previously been achieved. In this work, we report a 10-hour long single transit event which occurred on the $V=10.1$ K-dwarf HD 137010 during K2 Campaign 15 in 2017. The transit is comparativ…

Projector is in place. Not as dumb as I usually like. Has an android OS and a Netflix app and things instead of just a HDMI input. But it has HDMI input too.
Screen is 1.9m wide by .92 high which is a 2.15m screen measured across the diagonal like they usually do.
Projection is keyed quite drastically with the right hand side being shrunk down vertically to square the image, which I suspect means pretty radically reduced resolution on the right hand side of the screen.
Maybe I could attach it to the bottom of the overhead cupboards more squarely onto the wall than the shelf is? Worth a though.
But working well. Will be even better when the main bedroom media PC arrives.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Odd Beholder:
🎵 Like A Chore
#NowPlaying #OddBeholder
https://oddbeholder.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-chore
https://open.spotify.com/track/08Nq4zZ5Gt8vtYeUYtwDzo

Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…

I might want to look at this later… 👀
❤️ https://github.com/voicetreelab/voicetree

GitHub - voicetreelab/voicetree: The spatial IDE for recursive multi-agent orchestration. It's like an Obsidian graph-view that you work directly inside of.
The spatial IDE for recursive multi-agent orchestration. It's like an Obsidian graph-view that you work directly inside of. - GitHub - voicetreelab/voicetree: The spatial IDE for recursive mul...

»Say what you like about the tenets of populism, it certainly seems to be, well, popular. But what are the tenets of populism? It’s easy enough to say what a centre-left party is likely to stand for, or a libertarian. But a populist? Maybe it is a mistake to describe populism as an ideology at all.«
Why populism became popular | Tim Harford

The Planet Crafter is currently on sale on #Steam for about $12 and I've already put 13 hours into it and it's a *fantastic* survival crafter where you terraform an entire planet from Mars-like conditions all the way to Earth-like
I'm probably 10%? of the way into the content so far and it's still super engaging. Watching the atmosphere change color, clouds and rainfall appear, seeing life start to spread - it's so so rewarding
Plays well on CrossOver on macOS, *but* whatever they did for mouse logic on the game makes it fail to register clicks in CrossOver. Fortunately gaming controller support is present and excellent, so I've been using that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284190/The_Planet_Crafter/

While I am struggling to find any detailed media reports about the current situation in #Venezuela, the Fediverse is already certain that the U.S. has invaded the country “just like russia” did with Ukraine. Would we not have seen an invasion force being built up (like the russian one before 24 February 2022)? 🤔

"We used to teach kids how to think like a computer. These days, however, we are more interested in teaching computers how to think like kids, and we are doing a terrible job in both cases."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/programming-the-liberal-arts/

Programming The Liberal Arts
In 1863, it was discovered on the walls of the Villa Lemmi, near Florence, a previously unknown fresco by Sandro Botticelli covered in whitewash, called "Giovane introdotto tra le Arti Liberali" ("A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts.") This work of art was then removed and sold to the Louvre, where it has been exposed since 1882. In it, the young Lorenzo Tornabuoni, son of the head of the Roman branch of the Medici bank during the Quattrocento, is depicted holding the hand of…

𓁿 𓉩 𓊲 𓀬 𓇽 𓅽 𓎩 𓇇
when i was 12 i fantasized abt making a roguelike using hieroglyph unicode instead of ascii, thinking itd lean into some sorta farming lifesim thing, or go all in on depicting a journey thru death as close to the mythology as wasnt boring, or put the two together for a transition after u die. i havent been super tapped into the roguelike scene like i used to be, does anything remotely like this exist?
𓈋𓈋𓈋𓈏𓈋𓈋
𓈖𓈄𓈏𓇾𓉐𓈋
𓈖𓊛𓀛𓇿𓇿𓇿
𓈖𓈘𓈘𓈘𓈘𓈘
𓈄𓇇𓇿𓈋𓈋𓈏

With a long running series like #StarTrek, the list of names inevitably grows larger over time. Which is kind of fortunate for running something like #TrekTriviaTuesday.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run f…

I think of loosestrife being a little more strident than this but I think this is still some kind of 𝐿𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑢𝑚 in the upper waters of Fall Creek
#photo #photography #flowers

What was Mike Vrabel like in high school? A legendary competitor and 'genuine as hell' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7018391/2026/02/04/mike-vrabel-patriots-high-school-super-bowl-60/

@… Looks like the URL is repeated every time you edit a post when quote posting.

Nice bit of music history here
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/i-turned-…

“I turned to him and said, ‘Where did you come up with that amazing bass line?’ He turned to me and said, ‘Oh, you like that?’ Like he didn't know”: The influential Chic classic that spawned one of the most recognisable bass lines of all time.
We pull apart this legendary funk classic and highlight the ingredients that would leave a stamp on the future of music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Tyler Strickland & Tyler Strickland:
🎵 John Candy - I like Me " A Gift to the World"
#TylerStrickland
https://open.spotify.com/track/01PzIwRcc4LWHIbgN2p9r0
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This is what democracy looks like -- There is an uncountable number of repositories of power all across the United States. (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p145#a260203p145

I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml

Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.

Just read an article by @… and stumbles across this question:
> "...if Clawdbot can create a virtual remote for my LG television (something I did) or give me a personalized report with voice every morning (another cron job I set up) that work exactly the way I want, why should I even bother going to the App Store to look for pre-built solut…

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like
For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sonos speaker, my Philips Hue lights, as well as my Gmail. It runs on...

There's a Mail piece with a headline that seems like people are angry at the development work on Jony Ive's home, as though he's about to drop a giant translucent Bondi Blue structure in the neighbourhood.
But the quotes are like:
> 'Initially people were worried because it is a big project and they thought it was bound to disrupt the community but they have been perfect.'

The house iPhone built: Apple icon Sir Jony Ive under fire for turning his £17million listed Cotswolds mansion into a 'James Bond lair'
When it comes to Grand Designs, Sir Jony Ive's transformation of his Cotswolds mansion is possibly the grandest of them all with work due to take three years.

“What did I discover? Not just a digital echo chamber of paleo-fantasies and bio-essentialism, but also:
…
A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia”
From: okstupid.lol

Cowboys Looking Like Winners Amid Breece Hall News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-breece-hall-ny-jets/

Small steps, I think this specific script is for a different camera model.
Some models in the Kodak DC series use the Digita operating system which allows scripts and full-on apps (yes, someone ported DOOM).
They’re kind of like smartphones but smart-cameras and like almost a decade earlier.

I'll be honest, sometimes I like the #AltText more than the picture. Like, it'll be some picture of the woods or something, and I'm like "okay woods.." and then I read the alt text and it describes lots of amazing details that I didn't even notice and I'm like, "wow this picture is great!"
But really it's the alt text that's great. It…

@… seems like people can understand 1K -> 1M better than 1M -> 1B

I like this idea and will probably implement some of them...
"Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website."
#web

slash pages
A guide to common pages you can add to your website

Some people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/well/me

People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots
Despite privacy risks and inaccuracy concerns, people are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports into ChatGPT and the like.

I'm not too much of a Podcast person. But I do listen to 1 or 2 from time to time. But if you like content related to science and curiosity you have to listen (or watch on YouTube) to The Rest Is Science podcast with Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce).
If you don't know who #Vsauce is, you're missing a lot. He's like the Best Friend you neve…

Listen, I love security like the next guy, but can we please stop forcing MFA using just my email? Can you ask me if I want to use email, text, or an app?
I'm so tired of logging into something arbitrary, like a gaming site, and getting hit with "PLEASE PUT IN THIS 6 DIGIT CODE" or worse, it keeps me signed in but makes me put in the code any time I click on something, multiple times. Zero trust is crazy.

Looks like I'm gonna be going to HARRIS at MPI-SP in Bochum again this year (March 23-25)
Anybody going, or in the greater Bochum/Dusseldorf/Cologne area, and interested in a meetup around that time?

Chevy Chase... the famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
✅ He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That - WSJ (gift)
ht…

He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That
The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.

there's something very amusing to me in how the `go` keyword is among the least essential parts of the Go language
it could've been a part of the standard library, like every other language does it, and absolutely nothing of value would be lost
(`select` is a different and much more complicated story)

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Wolf Like Me
#TVontheRadio
https://tvontheradio.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-like-me-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zgd7SomLTZkL1WPh4CUnV

"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

This 'utter failure' from Trump could 'stun the world' in 2026: researcher
President Donald Trump has bet big on an agenda to expand artificial intelligence investment in the United States — but this year, some analysts think it could come back to haunt him, as a long-suspected AI investment bubble bursts and the public turns against the technology for its increasingly app...

The hard turn of the liberal established media (NYT, Guardian) against trans existence is puzzling.
The whole anti-trans obsession that has bubbled up in recent years is weird. It almost feels like a concerted project but it’s too big, right?
I mean, there just aren’t that many trans people to be upset about. It’s easy to go for years without knowing that you’ve interacted with a trans person, mostly because it’s a non-issue for most folks. @…

Lazypost, is there a good tool to fix (as much as possible) somewhat broken audio from a CD that has some read errors (I've fixed surface of CD and read with EAC to extract as much info as possible, you can hear everything but it sounds a bit like a crackling record).
I am not looking for CD reading software (EAC already spent 70 hours on extracting the one track I'm interested in).
I am looking for fixing errors in a ripped lossless audio track, for example through interpolation and/or specifically tuned ML algorithms.
If helpful, I have access to Logic Pro and to Adobe tools.
(Please only recommend software you personally have used and that you like, thank you.)

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
SOOLIN: Just like that.
AVON: More or less. He is strongly identified with rebels, you see, and very popular with rabbles. They will follow him, and he will fight to the last drop of their blood. [smiles] Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use.

Dear rest of the world,
We will fuck you up whenever and however we like to enrich ourselves and there’s nothing you can do about it. Can you smell the freedom yet, losers?
With love,
The United States of America
“The strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” – Kamala Harris
“Together over the next few years, we’re going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before.” – Donald Trump
This me…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Indigo De Souza:
🎵 Be Like the Water
#IndigoDeSouza
https://indigodesouza.bandcamp.com/track/be-like-the-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/0pAFmSSx6GO5FzMWAzSYfV

Cats do not like third party cookies

I don't even like this package because it's named "Cop".
#acab

we need a way to asynchronously load markdown into another markdown file, for the agents
maybe something like MARKDOWNHttpRequest (MHR)
(gotta keep the capitalization pattern the same)

Things are a lot quieter on the streets here, no doubt, but I know of few / no families who’ve been in hiding from ICE who feel like it’s safe to come out now — and I agree with them. A lot of folks are still basically in hiding, not going to work, not getting groceries, etc.
Minneapolis may be out of international news now, but our need is ongoing.
2/

Mike Kafka 1-on-1: 'That’s what it should look like' https://www.giants.com/news/mike-kafka-interview-interim-head-coach-nfl-week-18-cowboys-raiders-jaxson-dart

Hillary Clinton's team demanded 'beauty lighting' and custom background for Epstein deposition: source (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/us-news/hillary-clintons-team-demanded-beauty-lighting-for-oversight-deposition-was-wary-of-looking-like-a-hostage-source/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p127#a260303p127

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

Citizen Scientist Spots Earth-like Planet: Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Nine Inch Nails:
🎵 Head Like a Hole
#NineInchNails
https://gost1980s.bandcamp.com/track/nine-inch-nails-head-like-a-hole-gost-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ckd4YA4LcD3j50rfIVwUe

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Azez (@…)
• Saly🍉✌️ (@…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Sam Altman says "the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI" and no private company should decide the fate of the world (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first "real deal" decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lack of Afro:
🎵 Idolising People Like Madlib
#LackofAfro
https://lackofafro.bandcamp.com/track/idolising-people-like-madlib
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MyeMuyUfeLWvq18oRcBqn

Scientists don't want you to know this, but orange cats are slowly replacing humans!

I love it when the snow in our yard melts like this…

Updatin' like it's 2005

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like -- Trump can't tame the monster he made. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-isnt-what-de-escalation-looks-like-trump-ice-border-patrol-minneapolis-election-texas-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p35#a260202p35

Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund at a $1.75B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/dealboo…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116007329908906132
You probably shouldn't click suspicious links like that. It might be s– wait, why are there more finger emojis on the bottom? :thonking:

seriously, if you are like this go gargle some Lego bricks

Comparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-apple-a

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116166911163910829
11 years ago I wrote “Democracy or corporatocracy… pick one.”
It’s increasingly looking like we’ve picked the latter.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Anjimile:
🎵 Like You Really Mean It
#Anjimile
https://anjimile.bandcamp.com/track/like-you-really-mean-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/0U4tYhjC0SEe4HUETW8s4Y

The Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)

Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Just added a “Sign in with Mastodon” example to Kitten’s¹ examples:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/sign-in-with-mastodon
If I have time at some point, I might make it into a tutorial.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕

If only there was a way to deal with people breaking international laws and charters with some sort of fair trial, like maybe we could call it International Court of Justice idk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Waitresses:
🎵 I Know What Boys Like
#TheWaitresses
https://lechatetlafille.bandcamp.com/track/the-waitresses-i-know-what-boys-like-le-chat-et-la-fille-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6x367ass0NQZOc8j0z0eot
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentag…

OpenAI's Altman admits defense deal 'looked opportunistic and sloppy' amid backlash
Sam Altman says that OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its deal with the Defense Department and was making "some additions."

If you're not a programmer—"lines of code written" is a completely absurd metric to measure productivity for software development.
It's like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.

Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred (SvD)
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-priva…

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

Is there a slow software movement?
as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia

Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888364/yahoo-engadget-sale-static-media

Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media
In recent years, publications like Gizmodo, Kotaku, Polygon, and TechCrunch have been acquired by large media brands. Now Static Media is buying Engadget.

Lazypost, is there a nice supplier of customizable Lightning, micro-USB and USB-C (charging) cables?
Looking for a nice selection of colors and chooseable lengths. This is both for accessibility reasons and to match decor.
(Please only recommend companies or brands you personally have bought from and like.)

A look at "TSMC Village" in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-little…

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory
Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/0<…

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.

An interview with Epic Games Store VP Steven Allison, who says "we have a lot of things" to fix and "the launcher sucks", on 2026 updates like social features (Chris Tapsell/Eurogamer.net)
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"The launcher sucks, let's call it what it is," Epic Game Store boss says, promising a year of big improvements to speed, new "forum-type" social features, more
Steven Allison acknowledges some people will always say "F— Epic", as Epic Games Store's focus finally shifts to player experience.

Kraken says its banking unit won "master account" access to the US Fed's core payment systems, the first crypto company to be able to move money like banks (Wall Street Journal)
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Ziff Davis agrees to sell its Connectivity division, including Ookla and Downdetector, to Accenture for $1.2B in cash, to focus on enthusiast websites like IGN (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ziff-davis-sell-con…

Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

TRM Labs, which helps law enforcement and companies track crypto and blockchains, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capital at a $1B valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/trm-labs-blockchain-analytics-fundi…

Crypto crime-fighting startup TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round
With its blockchain analytics tools, TRM Labs helps private companies and agencies like the FBI track illicit finance.

Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…