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Colts QB Daniel Jones 'feeling good' coming off Achilles tear, full-go for training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-daniel-jones-feeling-good-coming-off-achilles-tear-full-go-for-training-camp

Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections,
seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as
“godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.

Trump attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message
President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’

Email: Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external, and legal affairs org led by Brad Smith (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/internal-mem

Internal memos: Microsoft shakes up communications as Nadella makes a push to build in public
Microsoft is moving communications out of its marketing group and under Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, as CEO Satya Nadella calls for a fundamentally new approach that makes employees a bigger part of how the company tells its story.

And actually we gave up a LOT of the things that work to manage a commons — preventing extraction, particularly — by yielding to such distant structures. Good management requires a lot more immediate engagement.
But also what a commons _is_ is a bit weird with information.

"The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela was evacuated on July 24 due to the wildfires. All personnel are safe following the passage of the fire through the area. [...] Mission operations have been transferred seamlessly to the Goldstone Complex (California). This ensures service continuity and uninterrupted support for spacecraft communications." From the thread #DeepSpaceNetwork

Triff mich an der Ladesäule, wie ich mich per SSH in den Charger einlogge. 🥳
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The Hidden CCS2 Attack Surface on EV Chargers
https://www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargers

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

A recent office of legal counsel memo on executive privilege maintains that
private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by asserting the president’s executive privilege.
The ability of presidents to shield communications from public view through claims of executive privilege,
whether their own or those of a senior adviser,
was already a powerful tool for presidents to avoid accountability.
But if courts accept the OLC’s new interpretatio…

Trump’s justice department has found a new way for presidents to avoid accountability
A recent memo claiming executive privilege over communications with private advisers invites corruption

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-launch-hatch-a…

Meta Plans to Launch ‘Hatch’ AI Agent Platform in Coming Weeks
Meta Platforms plans to launch its consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent, dubbed Hatch internally, as soon as the next several weeks and is targeting October for its latest AI model, called Watermelon, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. Hatch is part of Meta Chief ...

I grew up under communism, and actually, I didn’t miss anything. I feel I had a very beautiful childhood, and my parents provided a beautiful life for my family. But yes, there are certain things you need to be aware of, and you watch over what you do
-- Melania Trump

Melania Trump on Fox News Recalls ‘Very Beautiful Childhood’ Under Communism
“I grew up under communism, and actually, I didn't miss anything. I feel I had a very beautiful childhood, and my parents provided a beautiful life for my family"