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Processing error could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in Texas
A massive backlog of voter registration applications in Texas could affect the outcome of local and state elections,
including a contentious election involving a U.S. Senate seat.
Public officials in the Republican-controlled state have not yet acknowledged what the error actually is.
It’s also possible that the error could have affected elections from before the primary elections in March 202…

Processing error could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in Texas
The deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5.

I let my bike video backlog get a little large, just got around to uploading some nice ones from the previous winter.
vimeo.com/1221325337
vimeo.com/1221325448
I need to alt-something these, they are minutes long. One is riding on the protected bike lane between cut snow banks along Beacon Street in Cambridge (I think it is Cambridge, could be Somerville, geography is not my strength). Lots of snow, it is white.
The other is riding clock wise around Fresh Pond on th…

Reducing LLM hallucinations with atomic claim verification | Elastic Blog
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Reducing LLM hallucinations with atomic claim verification
Hallucinations kept an LLM out of our knowledge base cleanup for years. Splitting generation from atomic claim verification fixed it and cleared a four-year backlog of duplicate articles.

#Jira is a corporate social network, essentially.
You can post and reply, you can mention others, add media, and even link posts. The backlog is your timeline.

#today I have just caught up on the #NewScientist article backlog, I am fiddling around with some logging detail for my microinverter proof-of-concept, and will probably go round to a friend's for the afternoon...

National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.

CoreWeave reports Q2 revenue up 112% YoY to $2.58B, vs. $2.56B est., and a $104B revenue backlog, with 1.5 GW of contracted power; CRWV jumps 9% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/11/coreweave-crwv-q2-earnings-report-2026.html…

CoreWeave stock pops 10% as revenue doubles on accelerating AI infrastructure demand
CoreWeave's revenue is surging as the AI boom continues, but the company is also sitting on $35 billion in debt.

Can someone pay me to pull a David Blaine stunt where you lock me in a room and I can't leave until I finish all the amazing-looking games coming out in the fall?
Between Phantom Blade Ø, Onimusha, GTA 6, Wolverine, and others, I'm not sure I'll ever get through my backlog.

Talk about a delay.
Over 3 months for a 'Group' account to Boost a post from my own site/instance.
Perhaps lack of knowledge here, but do you normally get a Boost from a Group account for your own post? I assume you do.
I wonder if there is a backlog or something that I am not aware of. #noxp

#OpenSSL is working on its ticket backlog. With some funding from @…, the open issue count is now below 1000 for the first time in a long while!

Gonna be adding a thunderscope to the VM server soon but need to clear out some CI backlog first.
Not a big deal, have calibration runs to do on them first

📋 #Kanban board moves tasks through BACKLOG − INBOX − ACTIVE − DONE with real-time agent feedback, plus Routines for cron-style recurring tasks and persistent per-project Memory

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/spacex-earnings-elon-musk

SpaceX tops revenue expectations in first earnings report after IPO
Investors have been looking for Elon Musk to deliver AI advancements.

However, due to the changed geopolitical landscape, the joint venture with Rivian that was intended to help overcome the backlog is not yet delivering.

UK lawyers say the tide of AI-assisted employment claims is straining an already overloaded employment tribunal system, whose backlog has doubled in two years (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f2b02e7d-c3ca-42d0-a575-ea1f62550900

IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

In its latest move to restrict the legal immigration system,
the Trump administration announced a sweeping change Monday that could lead to the
deportations of thousands of asylum seekers.
The change from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
💥allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants
👉 and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.
🔥The agency estimates that up to a third, or 444,000 of…

New federal rule sends hundreds of thousands of asylum cases to immigration courts
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that up to 444,000 of the more than 1.4 million asylum cases in its backlog could be affected by the rule.

Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/workday-po…

While I was surprised and happy about the first two papers, I'm already somewhat tuned out towards the third.
I think we will see a wave of resolved old conjectures in the next months as the coding agents, in combination with long thinking models like gpt-5.5 pro and glm-5.2, churn through our backlog of conjectures. I think we will see more counterexamples than proofs, but who knows.
( On gpt-5.5 pro:
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/116607602700150401 )

Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $19.35B, vs. $19.14B est., cloud infrastructure revenue up 121% to $7.4B, vs. $7.09B est.; ORCL jumps 6% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/oracle-orcl-q1-earnings-report-2027.html
…

Oracle's stock jumps 7% on earnings beat as cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubles
Oracle's results for the quarter came in stronger than expected, as did its revenue backlog.