2026-07-17 15:45:04
Colts assistant GM suggests Indy will keep QB Anthony Richardson for depth https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-assistant-gm-suggests-indy-will-keep-qb-anthony-richardson-for-depth
One Vital Raiders Assistant Coach With Most To Prove https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-vital-assistant-coach-most-prove
Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/metas-amusing-muse/
Former Dallas Cowboys QB, Potential Assistant Retires From NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/former-dallas-cowboys-qb-potential-assistant-coach-will-grier-retires-nfl
One Vital Raiders Assistant Coach With Most To Prove https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-vital-assistant-coach-most-prove
Tipp: Backup für Home Assistant einrichten
Das beliebte quelloffene Smart-Home-System Home Assistant bietet viele Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten. Wichtig ist dabei, stets ein Backup zu haben. So geht's.
https://www.
I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2x04 "Best Defense" #LawOrderCriminalIntent
Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an "anticipatory AI service" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996078/snap-specs-intelligence-ai-agent-ios-mac
Google announces that the product you paid for already is going to get worse, because they're actively removing features from it post-sale.
https://9to5google.com/2026/08/04/google-assistant-september-2026-shutdown/
In any sane economy this w…
heise | Home Assistant: Automationen für Einsteiger erklärt
Automationen machen ein Smart Home erst richtig intelligent. Wir zeigen, wie das in Home Assistant gelingt.
https://www.hei…
Argh. Der Router hat nach einem (ungeplanten) Stromausfall eine ganze Reihe neuer IP-Adressen via DHCP vergeben. Größtenteils kennt Home Assistant die jetzt auch ...
So now Home Assistant requires you to open its web UI via http in order to... change the web UI http settings. What the fuck could go wrong right? This has to be the dumbest change I've ever seen done in a software.
If the default settings don't work for you how are you supposed to do the first configuration of your instance?
#HomeAssistant #SelfHosting #Linux
Footballco says soccer website Goal had 77M web and app users during the 2026 World Cup, up 42% from 2022, boosted by the popularity of its AI assistant Goal-e (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/footballco-s…
Transnational and/or South Asian Feminisms
My department is hiring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! I'm the chair, so I can field questions.
Deadline: October 22, 2026
Please share!
Assistant: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mi…
Our research assistant Manuel Knepper is soon on his way to #CRBAM to present this Friday morning: #BikeNetKit : Developing an open-source bicycle network software suite for urban planners
My department is hiring!
We're looking for a quantitative sociologist specializing in any of:
- Political Sociology,
- Economic Sociology/Stratification,
- Medical Sociology, or
- Technology and Society.
Assistant professor level (tenure track); deadline Oct 9.
I can't say enough nice things about the Department of Sociology at McGill -- it's colleageal, supportive, scientifically curious, and it attracts great students.
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Ellen Patton, the museum’s program assistant, who developed the activities, is particularly proud of the studio art portion of the session, where campers can express their creativity and imagination through a mixed-media piece. “They spread out gemstones on a paper and trace around them to create land masses,” she explains.
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“Influencers and thought leaders stand to gain from this practice where a self-sustaining industry of humans and bots generates an illusion of engagement,”
https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-a
NFL to allow head coaches to designate assistant to throw challenge flag in games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-to-allow-head-coaches-to-designate-an-assistant-to-throw-challenge-flag
Tipp: Gelöschtes Home-Assistant-Dashboard retten
Das Smart-Home-System Home Assistant ist mächtig und verbindet viele Geräte, ist aber komplex. Was tun, wenn man sich das Haupt-Dashboard zerschossen hat?
https://www.…
Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report (Marco Margaritoff/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/assistant-treasury-secretary-kenneth-kies-pushed-out-clashes-with-trump-admin_n_6a5a334fe4b0f033db1b91f1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260718/p1#a260718p1
Home Assistant komplett von Philips Hue auf Zigbee migriert! 💪
Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant remains on connected cars (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/08/04/google-assistant-september-2026-shutdown/
Is AI superintelligence inevitable?
AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be.
Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable,
warns that “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation
and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity,
which he says is progressing at a rate much faster than current levels of human supervision can manage.
This is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock:
“New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-robotic-teaching-assistant-is-heading-to-a-new-york-state-school
…
Ich weiss ja auch nicht, aber wenn eines dieser Schließmuskelsymbole in der Liste der Contributer eines OSS Projektes für Home Automation auftaucht, dann werde ich nervös. Das ist z.B. das Repository der Firmware für Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition. Der Hardware Sprachassistent von Home Assistant als Alternative z.B. zu Google Home, dass ja bekanntlich einfach mal so die Funktion seiner Assistenten verändert. Weil du nur das Plastik kaufst, nicht die Funktion. Ist bei deinem Auto übrige…
An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus…
🚨Job Alert !‼️🚨
Museum Curator / tenure-track Assistant Professor in Vertebrate #Paleontology at Idaho State University ⚒️🧪
(h/t gondwannabe on bsky)
https://isu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite
AI assistant for the visually impaired and blind developed at MAI (Moscow Aviation Institute) https://www1.ru/en/news/2026/07/03/ii-pomoshhnika-dlia-slabovidiashhix-i-nezriacix-razrabotali-v-mai.html "it determines the bus n…
Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the Trump administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.
✅ Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report
https://www.
Might move Home Assistant to another device. It's getting memory hungry and has started to chew CPU a bit more with all my sensors. I have a Pi5 8GB with a Waveshare NVMe sidecar that's been sitting unused since I bought it in 2023, which seems like a fine target. Now is not the time to be investing in hardware!
I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2x04 "Best Defense" #LawOrderCriminalIntent
OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-openai-s-voice-assistant-got-mo…
The Footy Whiteboard
North Melbourne assistant coach, Zane Littlejohn joins Craig Moore to discuss the pressure of elite sport, the journey of coaches and on field matters...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-footy-whiteboar…
Gemini Assistant steckt nicht in Siri AI
Zwar bedient sich Apple Googles Frontier-Modellen der Gemini-Linie. Doch die seien mit eigenen Daten trainiert und geschützt, betont der Konzern.
https://www.h…
Ex-Dallas Cowboys TE Jason Witten to make college coaching debut as Oklahoma assistant https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/ncaa-football/news/ex-dallas-cowboys-te-jason-witten-make-college-coac…
One click sends a command
from the Home Assistant app
on my mobile phone
via WiFi
to the WiFi Router
to a Satellite
to a ground station in Germany
to my VPN endpoint in Iceland
to London
to Amsterdam
to Frankfurt
to Zurich
to Winterthur
to my router
to my reverse proxy
to my Home Assistant server
to my access point
to the WiFi
to the WiFi-Bridge
to the door lock
*click* *motor whirring* *door…
Donnerstag: Aus für Google Assistant, Snapchat-Verbot von KI-Videos
Gemini als neuer Google-Assistent Snapchat Spotlight gegen KI Podcast über Gesundheitsdaten Cloudflare mit Arbeitsumgebung für KI-Agenten #heiseshow
Fantasy Football Draft Assistant: Player rankings, recommendations and evaluations https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475749/2026/08/05/fantasy-football-draft-assistant-rankings-recommendations-evaluations/
I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2x03 "Anti-Thesis" #LawOrderCriminalIntent
Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle as the acting army secretary
after the departure of Daniel Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
Telle is currently the assistant secretary of the army for civil works.
Driscoll gave no explanation for his decision to quit this week as the army’s top civilian official.
His clashes with Hegseth have been widely reported,
and some of Driscoll’s allies in the army were ousted this…
@… Just saw this, and had no idea this exists: ESP32 Bit Pirate Inspired by the Bus Pirate of old, a modern version: https://l…
Fantasy Football Draft Assistant: Player rankings, recommendations and evaluations https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475749/2026/09/04/fantasy-football-draft-assistant-rankings-recommendations-evaluations/
heise | Home Assistant: Smart Home direkt vom Android-Homescreen steuern
Schalter, Kamerabilder und To-do-Listen direkt auf dem Smartphone-Screen sparen Zeit. Wir zeigen, wie Sie Android-Widgets für Home Assistant einstellen.
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Ooooh…
Open-UI: #1472 [focuslandmark] No declarative way to move keyboard focus between major page regions
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472
Focus Landmark: declarative landmark focus navigation for web apps (explainer):
Ooo, just managed to score a second hand Pioneer VSX-923 AV receiver/amp for a song... now to see if I can integrate it into my Home Assistant, and wire up some of the speaker cables we built into this house... 🤞🏻
The softness of that foul deserved getting a yellow card by proxy of an assistant coach. Very unbalanced in the decisions.
#LFC
Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from 36-40g of the AirGo A5, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961711/solos-airgo-a6-smart-glasses-…
Regretting not having bought the Home Assistant Green when it was $99 instead of $199
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
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC),
a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy,
has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
regarding monetary “gifts” from Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.
Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side;
Chamberlain Harris,
his deputy director of Oval Office operations;
and Margo Martin,
a Wh…
🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, specialization in solid Earth geosciences.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
#geology ⚒️🧪
https://apply.interfolio.com/192530
Assistant coaches who could break out in 2026 for all 32 NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7459464/2026/07/21/nfl-assistant-coaches-to-watch-2026-season/
Will Fernando Mendoza get more 1st-team reps with Raiders? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/will-fernando-mendoza-get-more-1st-team-reps-with-raiders-3864130/
Is 49ers assistant K.J. Wright the next DeMeco Rya... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49351716/san-francisco-49ers-coach-kj-wright-coordinator-demeco-ryans-houston-texans-seattle-seahawks
I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2x04 "Best Defense" #LawOrderCriminalIntent
Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant
Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions…
I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2x03 "Anti-Thesis" #LawOrderCriminalIntent
Fantasy Football Draft Assistant: Player rankings, recommendations and evaluations https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475749/2026/08/28/fantasy-football-draft-assistant-rankings-recommendations-evaluations/
Assistant coaches who could break out in 2026 for all 32 NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7459464/2026/07/21/nfl-assistant-coaches-to-watch-2026-season/
Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant
Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/amid-personal-assistant-investor
Former acting U.S. attorney found dead inside federal building in San Diego
Assistant U.S. Atty. Andrew Haden was found dead in an office inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in San Diego on Wednesday,
shortly after being reported missing.
There were no signs of foul play involved, authorities said.
Evidence at the scene suggests Haden died by hanging himself,
according to a source familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publi…
Assistant coaches who could break out in 2026 for all 32 NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7459464/2026/07/21/nfl-assistant-coaches-to-watch-2026-season/
AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-latest-viral-ai-assistant-rock…
Offensive Assistant Coaches Discuss Progress | Dallas Cowboys 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHpdl3hLzk
Chiefs assistant Eric Bieniemy’s son charged in shooting of his mother in Virginia, authorities say https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-assistant-eric-bieniemy-s-son-charged-in-shooting-of-his-mother-in-virginia-authorities-sa…
Defensive Assistant Coaches Break Down Training Camp So Far | Coaches Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV70ulwzYG8
Fantasy Football Draft Assistant: Player rankings, recommendations and evaluations https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475749/2026/08/21/fantasy-football-draft-assistant-rankings-recommendations-evaluations/
Cowboys Defense Has Been a Nightmare in Training Camp, But in a Good Way https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-defense-has-been-a-nightmare-in-training-camp-but-in-a-good-way
Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-
Raiders May Have a Rising Star Assistant Coach: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/luke-steckel-coach-break-out/
Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-na
Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/…
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop-town-fundraise-vc-reshuffle
Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' "field, machine, and operational data" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/98748…
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be "neutral"; Musk says he "couldn't care less" (Amir Efrati/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
Source: AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/personal-ai-app-insti…
Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-spea
A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/microsoft-c…