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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rustaceans/116663197340817484
Woop, gotta catch up on this!

Ranking the top 10 NFL players at every position, plus best training camp battles and red flags for contenders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-position-rankings-training-camp-batt…

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to "midtraining" to better compete with Anthropic, after key executive departures (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Revamps New AI Coding Strike Team Amid Struggle to Catch Up With Anthropic
Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to catch up with Anthropic in the most lucrative AI applications, according to people familiar with the changes. The goal is for the months-old strike team to change the approach to training Google’s AI ...

Raiders 2026 Training Camp Updates: Veterans report for camp https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-2026-training-camp-updates-nfl-preseason-transactions-news-highlights

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…

The 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella is trusting to fix Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant
Jacob Andreou has had a rapid ascent at the 51-year-old tech giant. He is leading the charge to retool its pivotal AI product.

U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-03/united-states-science-investment-china-india-iran Easy under the current Trump-led US administration.

Contributor: U.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up
As global competition intensifies, the United States risks driving away the world’s brightest minds rather than drawing them in.

'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag
Color blue (no sky)
Wow thanks to #immich search, I found a photo that I didn't know I took.. A lot of years ago.
#FlowersOfMastodon

NFC East Training Camp Preview: News, Roster Moves, and Storylines Across the Division https://www.si.com/nfl/commanders/onsi/nfc-east-news-training-camp-cowboys-giants-eagles-commanders

I hopped off the bus Friday morning to catch squirrels in front of the Andrew D. White house
#photo #photography #animals

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO,
Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950571/spa…

SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion
Fresh off its blockbuster IPO, Musk’s company wants to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

Time to catch up on some youtube video notifications.
#youtube

Great scoop, take a bow.
Again, why is *Susie Wiles* in charge of AI decisions? To avoid the chip shortage, Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, has authorized the NSA to continue to use an advanced model made by Anthropic, even though the Pentagon has designated the company a supply chain threat.

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
The C.I.A. and N.S.A. cannot fully deploy the latest models on their classified systems because of a shortage of cutting-edge chips.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/protesters-rally-against-proposed-trump-triumphal-arch/65-382b5046-6795-4fec-86ae-15d949857456

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Finished up with the build, turned out pretty well. I do wish I had some quieter fans, but considering the space constraints I'm happy that they work as well as they do. The 240mm AIO keeps CPU cool enough though I worry that the Radeon 7900XT is going to catch fire considering airflow, but it was well-behaved while testing it out.
#steamMachine

It's that time of the year
#BlackBooks #DavesSyndrome

'Six months to catch up': What the shutdown cost DHS (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/six-months-to-catch-up-what-the-shutdown-cost-dhs-00903118
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p53#a260502p53

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-…

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M | TechCrunch
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Can we just back up about a month so I can catch up?

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!”

Something I tell myself several times a day: stop trying to write replies to emails so quickly. It takes Outlook a few seconds to catch up, meaning that the "a" in "Dear" will only result in the email being archived.
Also, WTF MS? Can't you produce a less shitty web app?

Maintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116770225862369013
How about we strive for smarter, more efficient AI models instead of trying to "catch up" with the brute-force, massive energy guzzling approaches? Efficiency from cloud through …

[OT] Z.ai's GLM-5.2: A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/03/tech/china-ai-catch-up/ Paywalled at Reuters

A new, inexpensive Chinese AI model is catching up with Anthropic, OpenAI on their home turf
Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 model has been put at the heart of a growing debate about whether China is finally catching up to the U.S. in the artificial intelligence race.

I have done the insurance letter and supervision (and a bit of #NewScientist catch-up) and I am somehow exhausted...

>At work.
>unload trailer.
>go a bit too fast for the depot workers so accidentallly lock myself into trailer (cus carts were blocking it).
>depot workers finally catch up and I can exit trailer.
>Me: "Most normal people come out of the closet but apparently I come out of the trailer"

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
Venture capitalist Jenny Xiao noticed a change in her Bay Area social circles as the artificial intelligence boom swelled in recent years.

“When I met these people back five years ago, they lived in the shittiest apartments and they were cheap AI researchers,” she said.
“Now every other weekend someone’s in Hawaii [or] vacationing in Switzerland.”

Xiao is among those in tech preparing…

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
As SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI go public at historic valuations and new millionaires and billionaires are minted, other tech workers worry about their futures.

Who else does that thing to catch up on their timeline where they click 'load more' and then quickly pull the screen down slightly so it doesn't jet you to the top of the timeline and keeps you where you are, a bunch of times 😂

For those of you not attending Black Hat/DEF CON next week, I will be teaching a course for O'Reilly Media on August 5 and 6 based on my new book about the NIST 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework for O'Reilly Media.
Although O'Reilly typically makes its courses available only to large corporate clients, individual attendees are able to sign up for a free trial to catch the course if they sign up fewer than ten days in advance.
Check out the link for the course here and click on the button that says "Sign Up for a Free Trial."
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/cybersecurity-risk-management-with-the-nist-20-framework/0636920081497/

Inverse hybrid search has a balancing problem, and it's messier than it looks. Ravindra Harige is at #bbuzz26 to break down why, and what you can do about it.
Catch up on everything about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/the-three-body-problem-of-inverse-hybrid-search/

It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues) 14 July, 20:00 NZDT is our #libre / #FOSS Catch up. We'll be at https://meeting.iridescent.nz

The Rabbit Hole
Join Garry Lyon and Tim Watson as they catch up each week, head down the Rabbit Hole and explore their passions away from football and sport, with irreverent takes pop culture, current trends and hobbies...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rabbit

So I guess my daily routine now consists of waking up, banning a dozen of these, and then going on with my day :neofox_woozy:
Fedi admins and anyone who owns or moderates any forum or site with community features, have you seen stuff like this before?
I noticed them one day, and it got me so worried that I made an auto-report system to catch them when they make them, as the names and their bios are always very similar.
The links always go to Vietnamese gambling sites or clearl…

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-ra…

It's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Michael Jordan and Lionel Messi became both greats when they were young!
As they got older their ways of playing was out of reach for their bodies. They needed to find a new playing style so their excellence could catch up.
They got back in the game with *multiple* approaches over *different* eras.
It's not about records or trophies. *This singular relentless approach* is what makes them The Greatest Players of All Time in their sports!

RE: https://mas.to/@DailyStoic/116703639260994988
I agree... The moon is totally made of cheese. You folks just need to catch up.

Ukraine update from Dylan Combelick.
Astonishingly well-informed and experienced, exceedingly independent and uncompromised.
Support Ukraine and kick a billionaire in the balls when you share the "fiend" link to bypass the paywall: https://mediu…

Ukraine Update June 10
2026 — Playing Catch-up (Ketchup?)

BSDs still need a modern init system that is not a pile of shell scripts. 😬 Now would be a good time to catch up.
https://social.bsdlab.au/objects/29af8064-9c12-4687-87af-701ddde19acd

Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (@tubsta@bsdlab.au)
Sounds like we are going to have an influx of new #BSD users. Shame the DE makers pinned to #SystemD as it has made it hard to move things along to give these new users a comparable experience #sys...

Suspicious Betting in Washington Is on the Rise--and Authorities Are Playing Catch-Up (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/government-prediction-markets-betting-2126dcb3?st=Y6Pep4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p18#a260517p18

Morning Report: Meet the Rookies, Odighizuwa Eyes Cowboys Matchup 🗞️ https://www.49ers.com/news/morning-reports/morning-report-meet-the-rookies-odighizuwa-eyes-cowboys-matchup

"Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down
More and more countries are hitting new solar generation records, and those that are still relying on fossil fuels have good reason to catch up.

Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/poli

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
The C.I.A. and N.S.A. cannot fully deploy the latest models on their classified systems because of a shortage of cutting-edge chips.

> We automatically renewed registration for the ncoat.es domain. It will now expire on 2027-07-09
my `se@ncoat.es` joke email address lives another year
(drop me a line if we haven't talked in a while; would be fun to catch up)

Task avoidance level 3 engaged: sending "catch up" emails to friends I haven't talked to in over 6 months.

Good lord, keeping up on cybersecurity developments is like trying to catch a speeding bullet, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Section 702 Expires, but the US Isn't Going Dark,
--Feds seize major deepfake porn sites,
--Cyberattack disrupts services at four major Iranian banks,
--Trump orders cybersecurity overhaul for national security systems,
--Conti ransomware coder …

Section 702 Expires, but the US Isn't Going Dark
Feds seize major deepfake porn sites, Cyberattack disrupts services at four major Iranian banks, Trump orders cybersecurity overhaul for national security systems, Conti ransomware coder pleads guilty in US case, Chinese spies hid in critical infrastructure network for a decade, much more

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/…

Two observations:
- WiFi is notably slower over the German border
- Cloud storage and working in the cloud is a pain.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Playing Catch-Up | Mick Shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHIETtHSx8

Every offseason move made by the 2026 Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/every-offseason-move-made-by-the-2026-raiders-nfl-transactions-051226

Cowboys' George Pickens could be headed for a dramatically different role https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-george-pickens-new-offensive-role-minicamp/132e0b406cc22d03d47facbd

Meta launches new AI features, including an "AI Mode" for search that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts across the platform (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/metas-new-…

Meta's new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms | TechCrunch
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

Every offseason move made by the 2026 Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/every-offseason-move-made-by-the-2026-raiders-nfl-transactions-051226

CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58% of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/crowdstrike-warns-of-incr…

Beijing escalating AI espionage to catch up with the U.S. on tech, cybersecurity firm says
U.S. cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike said China-based entities made over half of state-sponsored cyberattacks on tech firms for artificial intelligence assets.

A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-future-of-meta-superintelligence…

The Future of Meta Superintelligence: A 1 Year Progress Update
A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind

Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-went-chasing-anthropic-powering…

How xAI Went From Chasing Anthropic to Powering It
SpaceX’s AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing in outside help in an effort to catch up to Anthropic in coding. What isn’t widely known, however, is that xAI has played a long-running cat-and-mouse game with Anthropic as it has sought to tap ...