Tootfinder

Bo Nix feeling great, won't let ankle limit mobility: 'I'm going to be as athletic as I can be' https://www.nfl.com/news/bo-nix-feeling-great-won-t-let-ankle-limit-mobility-i-m-going-to-be-as-athletic-as-i-can-be

EVEN AS WE SPEAK IS AN ON-GOING PROJECT
REFLECTING UPON THE EPIDEMIC OF GUN-VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES TODAY.
COMBINING IMAGES AND TEXTS FROM GRAVESTONE RUBBINGS MADE IN COMMUNITIES PARTICULARLY AFFECTED BY GUN-VIOLENCE,
BAYKAL-ROLLINS CREATES MULTIMEDIA PAINTINGS INTERWEAVING A DENSELY-LAYERED VISUAL LANGUAGE OF LOSS.
ht…

Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer Nagarro for $1.45B; Indian IT companies are ramping up M&A as AI reshapes growth (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolog…

Indian IT firms ramp up acquisitions as AI reshapes growth
Smaller firms in particular target large contracts as clients consolidate vendors

The Wound as Diploma
A transcript arrived this week: five signs of "traumatic intelligence," clipped from a video and passed along as science....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/02/the-wound-as-diploma/

The Wound as Diploma | David Boles, Blogs
A transcript arrived this week: five signs of “traumatic intelligence,” clipped from a video and passed along as science. The research record tells a different story, and the difference…

Interesting look at state of the art performance wireless.
But goddamn—$2500USD for the body pack only!

“The technology always needed to catch up in a sonic sense. The opinion was always that it never sounded as good as a cable and would not be adopted”: How Radiohead were finally convinced to embrace wireless guitar and mic tech for their most recent shows
“We brought it into Jonny Greenwood’s studio and did some blind tests. We all listened and even the most cynical guitar techs were impressed!”

Worrying…
https://www.politico.eu/article/zelenskyy-cuts-irish-visit-short-as-intelligence-warns-russian-massive-attack/

Zelenskyy cuts Irish visit short as intelligence warns of Russian massive attack
The warning came during a press conference with his Irish counterpart on the first day of Ireland’s European Council Presidency.

Feels illegal to say "Tale as old as time" without following it with "Song as old as rhyme"
straight to jail.

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

"Your 'recycled polyester' leggings are not as sustainable as you think"
#Clothes #Fashion #Textiles

Your 'recycled polyester' leggings are not as sustainable as you think
Recycled polyester activewear and swimwear are now everywhere. Major global brands sell leggings, swimsuits and puffer jackets with labels that claim they're "made from recycled plastic bottles." Millions of people buy these products believing they're making a more sustainable choice.

No.19) Who will emerge as Running Back 2? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-19-who-will-emerge-as-running-back-2

Earth as a potential source of life for Europa’s subsurface ocean: #Europa Are Earthlings’ Descendants, Study Says: https://www.404media.co/highly-plausible-aliens-on-europa-are-earthlings-descendants-study-says/

Cascade PBS launches Local Public as a standalone public benefit subsidiary to offer streaming app tech to PBS stations across TVs, mobile devices, and web (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/07/local-public-launches-pbs-member-stations-apps/

Cascade PBS launches Local Public as standalone streaming tech company
Executives say the platform is designed to help local stations maintain their role as community-focused public media providers in the streaming era.

Got everything migrated off the old switches except for trunks to the core.
All of the 100G ports on the new switch are occupied although only 4 of the 8 are actually operating at 100G. VM server and storage cluster nodes are stuck at 40 until I get more 100G optics.
Two of the 16 40G interfaces are operating as 40G trunks to the smol switches, four as 4x 10G breakouts, and two as 4x 1G breakouts. Eight are unallocated and available for future needs; I'll be lighting up some …

Poland's prime minister condemns NATO 'disintegration' as Trump says US will further reduce troop presence in Europe
https://kyivindependent.com/polands-prime-minister-condemns-nato-disintegration-as-trump-says-us-will-further-reduce-troop-presence-in-europe/

Why the President Tapped 'Little Trump' as His Intelligence Chief (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/why-the-president-tapped-little-trump-as-his-intelligence-chief-133bc996?st=oUycHs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p46#a260603p46

Myles Garrett follows Micah Parsons' path as the latest star player traded in his prime https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/myles-garrett-follows-micah-parsons-path-as-the-latest-star-player-traded-in-his-prime

If it's important to help the guilty, isn't it just as important to help the innocent? https://wp.me/p8efU1-Xt

Wrongfully Convicted: What Happens After Freedom? – Bob Mueller
What do we as a society owe to wrongfully convicted people after they're exonerated? Shouldn't they get as much as the guilty people we set free?

"You have to ask us permission to use an app" is a fucking wild selling point.
The only way I'd consider buying one of these "Commodore" phones is if there's a nanny unlock available. It's my fucking phone. The last person I'm gonna ask for permission is some random Internet jackass.

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/horizon3-hits…

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting.

The nasty little thing with climate change is that the situation progressively gets worse as long as we emit greenhouse gases, and that is irreversible.
So there's no happy message "Let's bring emissions to zero and then everything will be alright"
Nope, everything will be worse than it is now.
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As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/as-amazon-oil-drilling-begins-scientists-warn-of-risks-to-a-little-known-reef/

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef
The Amazon region always invites superlatives: the world’s largest tropical forest, the planet’s largest continuous mangrove belt, the river with the largest water volume and length on Earth. That makes any kind of exploratory activity in the region — and its potential impacts on this unique ecosystem — cause for great concern. That’s the case […]

@… nice, thank you!
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/8974034/hawkeye-vol-1-my-life-as-a-weapon-tp

MINI MOVIE REVIEW
"Remarkably Bright Creatures"
This movie was like if a Hallmark or Lifetime movie became watchable and had a budget.
It's simple and fun, and Sally Field still has it.
My wife, as usual, told me I should read the book because it's much better.
#Movies #Netflix

You know you’re getting older when your vanity #grocery store purchases shift from “damn that cake looks good as hell, I’mma get that” to “damn that dust #mop is only $10 and it’s twice as big as the #Swiffer, this …

Spiel "Bad News"
https://www.getbadnews.com/
"Bei Bad News verbreitest du Fake News, was das Zeug hält. Verabschiede dich von all deinen ethischen Vorstellungen und wähle einen Weg, der dich zu einem/einer skrupellosen Medienmagnaten/-magnatin macht. Behalte nur deine „Follower*innen“- und…

"As it stands, there are 52 Flock cameras in Berkeley alone. San Francisco and Oakland boast a staggering 2,173 cameras. This is how mass surveillance happens. It is not as though you wake up one day with your phone tapped and the Thought Police at every corner. Rather, surveillance creeps up slowly; the more we get used to it, the worse it will become."

Flock surveillance cameras threaten local democracies
So while I encourage readers to be cautious and to know where cameras are, it is also important not to become dogs that refuse to cross the perimeter of the

the anti-dancing #nyc cabaret law might be finally dead? https://evgrieve.com/2026/05/as-2026-nears-halfway-point-new-york.html

As 2026 nears the halfway point, New York State eliminates restrictions on dancing in bars
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

House Republican Troy Nehls
Brags About Eating Lobster Tail on July 4th
and Tells Struggling Americans That
‘Maybe’ They ‘Don’t Work as Hard’ as Him
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news…

House Republican Brags About Eating Lobster Tail on July 4th and Tells Struggling Americans That ‘Ma ...
Troy Nehls bragged about the July 4 feast awaiting him and suggested Americans who can't afford such perks might just not be working as hard as him.

from my link log —
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C and Rust.
https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/
saved 2023-01-06

Is coding in Rust as bad as in C++?
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.

I hadn't really on my radar that @… changed its root/intermediate structure and is now issuing from roots that need a two-intermediate chain. That seems quite a bit of overhead, but, if I'm not missing something, as long as the new "YR"/"YE" roots aren't widely in cert stores, this is unavoidable, right? (may however incre…

This is a pretty good summary of how I think about static types myself.
"Types allow moving obligations around." is also a great practical distillation.
Reminds me of epiphanies around error handling and transaction management. Asking yourself "whose obligation is it to ensure this set of data is valid" translates to a lot fewer `| None` type hints. And inversely, a lot of `| None` are a strong smell of missing clarity.
From the Parse, Don't Validate…

Trenchant analysis and awesome/enviable D&D campaign-level world building
> the corporation is a class of human-hostile immortal/undead (but thankfully not quite unkillable) entity which literally wants to turn the world into paperclips
https://kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/11

Do you hate roller coasters?
Not as much as these dudes!
#humor #rollercoasters

"Prague zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice cubes as European summer heatwave hits"
#Europe #Zoo #Animals

Prague zoo keeps polar bears cool with ice cubes as European summer heatwave hits
PRAGUE (AP) — Keepers at Prague Zoo used tons of ice on Thursday to give its animals some much-needed relief as yet another heat wave hit Europe. Polar bears Aleut and Gregor wasted no time and were rolling in the beds of ice cubes after entering their outside enclosure. The twins looked to have fun with the […]

It's a shame that 'AI' adoption is what led to them to look at this more, but yeah. Cloud reliability is bullshit https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366646705/Troubleshooting-cloud-connectivity-emerges-as-main-bar…

“… smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable […], raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks.”
Maybe I missed it, but so far I haven’t seen much discussion of the risks posed by #smartglasses in academic settings in particular, for both students and instructors.

AI glasses are aiding cheating in exams. Test-obsessed Asia is ground zero
For as long as there have been tests in schools, students have found ways to cheat, whether its peeking over a classmate’s shoulder or scribbling notes on a palm or crib sheet.

Lube, she likes to say, is as essential to one’s routine as sunscreen.

Obviously as a professional he knows what he’s talking about
From a purely statistical standpoint, you have better odds of your kid taking theater classes & ending up a movie star, if only because you can keep working at an acting career until, well basically until you die.
https://b…

Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social)
As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

does anyone know a good app for personal todo list apps on desktop? web apps are acceptable as long as they only store data locally.
it doesn't have to be very fancy, and it should have a low barrier to entry. if it's a desktop app it should have a flatpak available. preferably no gnome-y ui, and obviously nothing proprietary.

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Chargers QB Justin Herbert tweaking mechanics as he adjusts to Mike McDaniel's quick-game scheme https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-qb-justin-herbert-tweaking-mechanics-as-he-adjusts-to-mike-mcdaniel-s-quick-game-scheme…

Remembering woke George W. Bush

No.19) Who will emerge as Running Back 2? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-19-who-will-emerge-as-running-back-2

Time magazine has quickly grown video views on YouTube and LinkedIn in 2026, collaborating with big creators as well as featuring traditional text journalists (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/how-time-is-embr…

Creator-style content helps Time deliver seven-fold increase in Youtube views
The 103-year-old news magazine Time is collaborating with creators "as if they were columnists" to boost trust and engagement.

Donald Trump has tapped David Venturella,
-- a former ICE official and executive at the private prison company GEO Group, which operates the notorious Delaney Hall facility in Newark New Jersey
-- to replace Todd Lyons as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
GEO Group saw its profits jump from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025
as the Trump administration expanded government contracts with ICE jails nationwide.
Setareh Ghandehari, advo…

“Revolving Door”: Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief
President Donald Trump has tapped David Venturella, a former ICE official and executive at the private prison company GEO Group, to replace Todd Lyons as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GEO Group saw its profits jump from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025 as the Trump administration expanded government contracts with ICE jails nationwide. Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, says private prison companies have an “intricate” relat…

Trump doesn't rule out tapping DeSantis as his attorney general: 'Ron's very good' (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/us-news/trump-doesnt-rule-out-tapping-desantis-as-his-attorney-general/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p23#a260603p23

At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as "clean" as it could have been (Katie Paul/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerber

The "Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s scientific enterprise": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej3572 - "After the scientific community persuaded Congress to restore most of the president’s draconian cuts to research funding last year, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), under Russell Vought, has found new ways to circumvent the will of Congress and starve American science."

Mission accomplished! Still a bunch of rough edges to work out, and I need to build equivalent blocks for other line codings as well as a "generic" ILA that just records waveforms.
But here's a simultaneous cross-trigger of the SERDES ILA and an analog waveform capture of the signal going into the SFP, (manually) deskewed and aligned.
Now imagine extending this to additional debug blocks within the FPGA.

"Owls Found Thriving in Abandoned Coal Mine as Wildlife Reclaims Industrial Heritage Site"
#Owls #Animals #Wildlife

Owls Found Thriving in Abandoned Coal Mine as Wildlife Reclaims Heritage Site
New photos show owls and wildlife reclaiming an abandoned coal mine 50 years after it closed—a living example of nature’s rewilding.

Dak Prescott will only go as far as his left tackle situation allows https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-training-camp/21ee840cbbae83574ef5…

A beautiful 1hr & 15min retrospective/documentary of "The West Wing": An examination of the actors & characters as well as key episodes & story arcs.
▶️ The West Wing - We're Meant to Keep Doing Better - Film Flux
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5XYHhwQnh

from my link log —
The financialization of the American elite.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/
saved 2019-08-21

The Financialization of the American Elite - American Affairs Journal
On October 1, 2018, the newly christened Klarman Hall opened to much acclaim on the campus of Harvard Business School. The stunning $120 million building houses a conference center as well as a gleaming auditorium built around a 32-million-pixel, 1,250-square-foot video wall and a state-of-the-art, modular design that seats up to a thousand attendees. To mark the opening, the school held a daylong series of speeches and lectures, headlined by the building’s namesake and one of the school’s …

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control.
Detailed satellite pictures with before/after slider. Even cemeteries were completely destroyed.
https://aje.news/0aqrsj

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control
Satellite images show transformation as Netanyahu orders military to occupy 70 percent of Gaza.

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Warsh Names Two Conservative Policy Veterans as Interim Fed Advisers (Nick Timiraos/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/warsh-names-two-conservative-policy-veterans-as-interim-fed-advisers-b734311a?st=fbJDZU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p129#a260602p129

As parts of Europe continue to experience an unprecedented heat wave,
French health officials said Sunday there had been around 1,000 more deaths in the country than expected.
"Since June 24, approximately 1,000 additional deaths (unconsolidated figures) have been observed
compared to the deaths recorded in previous months,"
Public Health France said in a statement

Heat wave: France sees over 1,000 ‘excess deaths’ as Europe swelters under record temperatures
France has reported approximately 1,000 excess deaths since June 24 due to a historic heat wave. The heat impacted hospitals severely, particularly in Paris. Record-high temperatures were noted across several European countries, raising concerns about climate change's role in extreme weather.

Myles Garrett follows Micah Parsons' path as the latest star player traded in his prime https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/myles-garrett-follows-micah-parsons-path-as-the-latest-star-player-traded-in-his-prime

"World Cup matches played in potentially dangerous heat as players’ union makes climate warning"
#Football #Sports #Climate

World Cup matches played in potentially dangerous heat as players’ union makes climate warning
Nine of the group stage games played in severe heat, analysis finds, as union points to lessons for the whole sport

DeAndre Hopkins joins Georgia Tech staff as assistant WR coach https://www.nfl.com/news/deandre-hopkins-joins-georgia-tech-staff-as-assistant-wr-coach

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/bitco…

Constantly coming across interesting things while making demo setups for showing off ngscopeclient filters.
Here, I'm looking at the fall time of a 10 MHz reference clock coming off my Leo Bodnar GPS NTP server. This isn't quite as clean as the 10 MHz off the SRS FS752 GPSDO on the other side of the lab, but the NTP server lives on the main IT rack next to the scope in the VM server that I'm using for this test, so it was a convenient test signal source.
I expected it…

Memo: the AP is offshoring some visual production jobs as it builds a centralized hub in India; sources: up to 30 jobs could be affected (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/2072421734666428895

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
News — the AP is offshoring some visual production jobs as it develops a production hub in India. I’m told up to 30 jobs could potentially be affected. This follows similar moves from other wire services. Note from AP Executive Editor Julie Pace:

#Carbonatites from Ol Doinyo Lengai, #Tanzania — An unusual rock as analog for #Mercury as potential species for hollow formation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103526001399 -> A Unique African Volcano Could Solve a Mystery on Mercury: https://eos.org/articles/a-unique-african-volcano-could-solve-a-mystery-on-mercury - new data from Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania suggest that carbon-rich volcanic activity could be responsible for the mysterious “hollows” observed on the surface of Mercury.

A.J. Brown traded to the Patriots: Eagles receive 2028 first-round pick as offseason saga ends

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/a-j-brown-traded-to-patriots-eagle…

Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-…

European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech.

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable as unions reject the corporation's proposal of a 1% or £500 pay increase, whichever is higher (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/bbc-staff-fear-strike-action-p…

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable after 1% pay rise offer prompts anger
Unions reject proposed below-inflation increase which comes as corporation prepares to cut thousands of jobs

At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco
in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”.
The huge influx,
which took place over the course of just 24 hours,
overwhelmed the city of 85,000 people,
triggered a political crisis for Madrid
and led to a mixed reaction from other EU countries,

At least 57 people die as tens of thousands cross to Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident

Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe

Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion
Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents. 

"‘Coming home’: kiwi enter parliament for first time as New Zealand marks conservation win"
#NewZealand #Conservation #Animals

6 Dallas Cowboys Players Under Most Pressure As OTAs Begin https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/6-dallas-cowboys-players-under-most-pressure-as-otas-begin

BBC News staff are told they face 15% cost cuts, steeper than the 10% shared previously for the corporation as a whole, in the biggest downsizing in 15 years (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/02/bbc-…

Congress control may hinge on California
California’s decision to redraw its congressional map to flip as many as five House seats to Democrats in November is poised to play a big and potentially decisive role in the nation’s broader, bare-knuckle fight for control of Congress.
Tuesday’s primary races — where the top two candidates will advance to November runoffs — won’t determine which Republicans are ousted in most cases, but they will provide an important first look at voter…

UnearthInsight: Indian IT companies have spent $7.1B on acquisitions since the start of 2025 to gain clients, as AI-led pricing pressure weakens organic growth (Shristi Achar/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t…

IT firms spend big on acquisitions as AI hits growth
Indian IT companies are buying smaller companies to boost growth. Acquisitions are happening due to AI's impact on pricing and organic growth. Companies are spending billions to gain clients and market share. These deals help IT providers enter new markets and offer expanded services. This strategy aims to counter revenue pressures and vendor consolidation.

"As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef"
#Amazon #FossilFuels #Environment

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef
The Amazon region always invites superlatives: the world’s largest tropical forest, the planet’s largest continuous mangrove belt, the river with the largest water volume and length on Earth. That makes any kind of exploratory activity in the region — and its potential impacts on this unique ecosystem — cause for great concern. That’s the case […]

How journalists in Sudan are turning to encrypted networks, satellite imagery, and citizen reporting to document the war, as militias restrict media operations (Adam Makary/Wired Middle East)
https://www.wired.me/story/sudans-journalists-are-reporting-a-war…

Sudan's Journalists Are Reporting a War They Can't Access
As access collapses, journalists turn to encrypted networks, satellite imagery and citizen reporting to document the war.

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/china…

Authorities warned people to “immediately” stop all outdoor activities in affected areas as
South Korea has registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago
The south-eastern city of Yangsan saw the temperature reach 42.5C on Sunday afternoon, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said

‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day

Cowboys 1st Round Pick Expected to Make Pro Bowl as Rookie https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/safety-caleb-downs-pro-bowl-rookie/

GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnin…

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/china…

Christmas came early for the global far right,
as images showed tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco breaching the borders of the Spanish enclave Ceuta.
From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, the far right reacted exactly how you would think
– by stirring up fear about a fake “invasion” and weaponizing the so-called crisis to rally their bases.
Trump said the surge should be used as a “talking point” in the midterm election,
while Farage used it to promote h…

The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know
9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.

"Thinking about selling clothes on Vinted? The steps you can take to make this a greener option"
#Clothes #Textiles #Vinted

Thinking about selling clothes on Vinted? The steps you can take to make this a greener option
Reselling clothes might seem like a green option, but it is not as simple as it sounds.

Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the "next trillion-dollar company" at Computex (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/jensen-huang-nvidia-marvell-technology-trillion…

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says Marvell could be the next trillion-dollar company; stock jumps 25%
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, hailed this chip designer as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up sharply in early market trading.

Walls of flames destroyed dozens of homes and other structures in the Indian Trail neighborhood and more areas of Spokane on Saturday amid one of the worst natural disasters in the city’s history.
Home after home caught fire and exploded into flames along with trees.
Loud explosions could be heard through the smoke as the wildfire that started earlier in the afternoon on the West Plains continued to destroy much of what was in its path.
Winds gusting 35 to 45 mph drove the …

'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.

Survey: 57% of US teens and adults, and 81% of teens aged 13 to 17, say they get at least some news and information from influencers or independent creators (American Press Institute)
https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust…

The evolving news landscape: Comparing media habits and trust between teens and adults
A new in-depth study by the Media Insight Project surveyed both American adults and teens as young as 13 on their media habits.

Sources: the White House is in advanced talks with AI companies on voluntary standards and release timelines for new models to be announced as soon as next week (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0bb7e2f9-007b-4577-9c4a-858948ee969a

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from
request-based billing to a
usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service.
As that new pricing model goes into effect today,
many GitHub Copilot users are reporting some extreme sticker shock
as they realize just how quickly their previous “normal” usage is burning through their newly limited monthly allotment of AI credits.
Across social media and forums,
many Copilot users are sha…

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.

Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic

AI's talent wars have a loyalty problem
Even billion-dollar startups and industry leaders are struggling to hold onto elite researchers as competition for talent intensifies.

Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/pol…

Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big
President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.

Journalists may no longer enter the Pentagon’s press office,
which has been designated as a classified space amid growing moves to restrict press access to the defense department.
“This is the most transparent war department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change that,” 😂Jose Valdez, the acting defense department press secretary, said in a social media post.
“The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information…

A group of 16 mathematicians publishes the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to address threats to the field, citing accuracy and reliability concerns (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/0…

As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.

Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections.
In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted,
as long as they were postmarked by then.
Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud
— a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for
— is “very disturbing…

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari…

Launching Saturday, Aug. 1,
which would have been Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's 84th birthday,
"Dead After Death" will delve into the Dead's music and the culture built around it
through mediums such as podcasts, photography and digital articles.
The series will be hosted by NPR journalists Felix Contreras and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento.
The two longtime Deadheads plan to feature interviews with high-profile Deadheads such as Bravo TV hos…

Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine a beam of light roughly five kilometres wide back down to Earth,
the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light.
The company building the space mirror, Reflect Orbital, is touting its proposal as "sunlight on demand,"
which could be used for any number of reasons, it says, such as agriculture, solar farms or for search and rescue. 
Astronomers a…

ANALYSIS | U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications? | CBC News
Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean for Canadians?

Venice AI, which offers access to 200 AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice…

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off | TechCrunch
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Grab says it commits to "Taiwan's data security and public trust", after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (Kentaro Takeda/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Grab seeks to ease data security concerns as it pushes into Taiwan
Foodpanda acquisition faces scrutiny over Huawei-linked mapping system

Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-product…

Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade
Microsoft's annual report shows the company employed 223,000 people as of June 30, down 5,000 from a year earlier and its first annual decline since 2016. Product R&D roles accounted for most of the drop.