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Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas #Australia

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas
Few animals tug at Australian hearts like the koala. Yet the marsupial, once common along the eastern seaboard, was declared endangered in New South Wales (NSW) in 2022. Habitat loss, climate stress, and disease have driven populations down so far that a parliamentary inquiry warned they could vanish from the state before 2050. The proposed […]

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Using Preformed Resistive Random Access Memory to Create a Strong Physically Unclonable Function
Jack Garrard, John F. Hardy II, Carlo daCunha, Mayank Bakshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02643

Using Preformed Resistive Random Access Memory to Create a Strong Physically Unclonable Function
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a promising solution for identity verification and asymmetric encryption. In this paper, a new Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) PUF-based protocol is presented to create a physical ReRAM PUF with a large challenge space. This protocol uses differential reads from unformed ReRAM as the method for response generation. Lastly, this paper also provides an experimental hardware demonstration of this protocol on a Physical ReRAM device, along with prov…

from my link log —
The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/05/the-race-to-create-a-perfect-lie-detector-and-the-dangers-of-succee…

Wabi, a "YouTube for apps" launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda to let users create and share mini apps without coding, raised a $20M pre-seed (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/replika-founder-raises-20m-pre-seed…

Replika founder raises $20M pre-seed for Wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’  | TechCrunch
Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends.

Question:
I need a self-hosted webhook solution, where I can create customized webhooks that triggers bash-scripts,
#askfedi #askfediverse #linux

If anyone needs to know (you probably all knew this already, right?):
Balena #Etcher didn't work on #Windows11 no matter how hard I shot at the built-in security software it came with.

I followed the step-by-step instructions here and got stuck creating the bootable usb drive:

As the first guests began to trickle in, the conversation turned,
as these things do,
to the ethics of gene-editing embryos to create custom babies.
“I would actually argue that the ethical questions probably aren’t as big,
because kids already don’t choose their genes,” said
#Malcolm #Collins

Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies
My strange weekend with the pronatalists.

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

How revenue decisions shape #technicaldebt
https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/how-revenue-decisions-shape-technical-debt

"Garden ponds provide vital habitats – and a revival is under way in Britain"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

For #footpathfriday , here's a nice path I'd say.
This is taken from a bike&hike right after the bike-part and thus the start of a very nice autumn hike last year. When I took this photo, I didn't know - and not even expect how well the rest of the day would be 🙂
Enjoy
#mountains

Does it make sense to create a Bundle for loading into OpenPolicyAgent which contains a data.json file with a /giant/ list of both Principals (fediverse handles, email addresses) and Resources (documents, meetings) they Own (can modify)?
Document-ownership kinda sounds Dynamic. But there's no numbers for size/freq (just "medium") in #askfedi #opa #OpenPolicyAgent

“What the coming of the computer did, "just in time," was to make it unnecessary to create social inventions, to change the system in any way. So in that sense, the computer has acted as fundamentally a conservative force, which kept power or even solidified power where it already existed.” Joseph Weizenbaum, 1985

Over the past couple weeks, I've been designing a spool with some particular features in #FreeCAD, encompassing 6 parts to 3d-print. I've been manually re-orienting them when I print them.
Now that it's working, I realized that I could use the FreeCAD Assembly workbench to create a good packing of the parts in the right orientation for printing, saving anyone else who wants to prin…

#Taipei film, capturing poetic retro vibes 🕹️
#streetphotography

Using @ngerakines.me atwork atwork.place to create "endorsements" that other folks were at #IETF124
Experimenting with different types of "attestation" proofs. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing.
https://www.

Interview du créateur du poison neurotoxique russe le novichok
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/helped-create-novichok-never-thought-putin-use-4096102

#askfedi
Does someone here know if it possible to create an emergency bypass feature in #android? It should work in a way that certain contacts always ring, no matter what.
The discussions we just had at home reveal that "Do not disturb" mode is not the same:
- The phone still has t…

Sigh, I just want to browse your commercial site. I don't want to create an account or log in with my FB or Google credentials. I also don't want to create an instacart account.
All I want is to see what is available so when I head out I have a reasonable expectation that you have what I am looking for in the store.

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
[Reeve, Servalan and her assistant head off for the base. Outside there is the sound of wind blowing the sand, which is everywhere. Chasgo tries to move the ship.]
SERVALAN: Try your communicator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/44 B7B6

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

Do you ever find a particularly pretty leaf and you carry it with you for a block? Just because you want to appreciate how magical it is that nature can create that shade of red? #bloomscrolling

Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat to create reports (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

💋 3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/03/3duino-helps-you-rapidly-create-interactive-3d-printed-devices/

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

How transport systems create opportunities for social interaction [pdf]:
https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-6716648/v1_covered_1a9fd1b9-eb52-4868-be5f-5898913f12e7.pdf?c=1761677086

ERUPT: An Open Toolkit for Interfacing with Robot Motion Planners in Extended Reality
Isaac Ngui, Courtney McBeth, Andr\'e Santos, Grace He, Katherine J. Mimnaugh, James D. Motes, Luciano Soares, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02464

ERUPT: An Open Toolkit for Interfacing with Robot Motion Planners in Extended Reality
We propose the Extended Reality Universal Planning Toolkit (ERUPT), an extended reality (XR) system for interactive motion planning. Our system allows users to create and dy- namically reconfigure environments while they plan robot paths. In immersive three-dimensional XR environments, users gain a greater spatial understanding. XR also unlocks a broader range of natural interaction capabilities, allowing users to grab and adjust objects in the environment similarly to the real world, rather th…

Cowboys over projected cap, can clear $147.2M in space with 11 moves https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/05/cowboys-cap-space-update-2026-early-offseason/88034237007/

Species invasions often create a "founder effect" that makes it hard to see effects of adaptation to the invaded habitat— genomic signals of a rapid post-bottleneck expansion look a lot like signals of adaptation. This study of European starlings teases those signals apart!
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17195

5. “But what are we supposed to do exactly?!” − Fight for digital sovereignty. Fight for a more independent financial system. Stop honoring US pharma patents. Form large coalitions to threaten economic sanctions. Limit travel, or increase the friction of it. Target the comfort of the billionaires who are bankrolling this. There is a long list of actions countries can take if •and only if• their populations create the political pressure for it.

"Such an update allows the company in China to create an update that allows the bus to not run in any way. "
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/svNwC3c5-aOPVxA4K-224e5

Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt
En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.

Graney: Chip Kelly was a problem, but he alone didn’t create 2-10 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-chip-kelly-was-a-problem-but-he-alone-didnt-create-2-10-3588936/

Aledade's groundbreaking climate program aims to put CO2 back underground, offering a promising solution to combat carbon emissions and climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How Aledade Established A Multi-Million Dollar Climate Program | Charm Industrial
How one employee helped create a multi-million dollar carbon credit program.

from my link log —
Stephen Carlsen, Mr TIFF.
https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
saved 2025-11-05 https://dotat.at/:/B26AT…

Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The 'as-close-to-possible

Love What You Create
You'll learn how to create the business you know you're here to create, without stressing yourself out, going into mind drama, or burning yourself to a crisp...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/love-w…

its insane how broken Confluence Cloud is. All the Atlassian Automation and AI can't achieve a simple thing: Create a page from a template and replace variables from user input ...
One would think this is pretty straightforward.... but not with Atlassian Cloud ... 🤦

AgenticRAG: Tool-Augmented Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Explainable Recommender Systems
Bo Ma, Hang Li, ZeHua Hu, XiaoFan Gui, LuYao Liu, Simon Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02668

AgenticRAG: Tool-Augmented Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Explainable Recommender Systems
Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence, yet their application in recommender systems remains limited by reasoning opacity and knowledge constraints. This paper introduces AgenticRAG, a novel framework that combines tool-augmented foundation models with retrieval-augmented generation for zero-shot explainable recommendations. Our approach integrates external tool invocation, knowledge retrieval, and chain-of-thought reasoning to create autonomous recommendation agents capa…

EU looking ‘very seriously’ at taking action against X over Grok https://therecord.media/eu-grok-regulation-deepfake

An analysis of the solar differential rotation in solar cycle No. 19 (1954-1964) determined using Kanzelhoehe sunspot group positions
Ivana Poljancic Beljan, Luka Sibenik, Tomislav Jurkic, Klaudija Loncaric, Rajka Jurdana-Sepic, Damir Hrzina, Werner Poetzi, Roman Brajsa, Astrid M. Veronig, Arnold Hanslmeier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03002…

An analysis of the solar differential rotation in solar cycle No. 19 (1954-1964) determined using Kanzelhoehe sunspot group positions
We study solar differential rotation (DR) for solar cycle No. 19 (1954-1964) by tracing sunspot groups on the sunspot drawings of Kanzelhoehe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research (KSO). Our aim is to extend previous DR analysis from the KSO data (1964-2016) to the years prior to 1964 to create a catalog of sunspot group positions and DR parameters from KSO sunspot drawings and white light images. Synodic angular rotation velocities were first determined using the daily shift (DS) an…

Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/

AI and the Human Condition
AI might replace all of the jobs; that’s only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.

Statewide animal cruelty database goes online, listing animal abuse offenders online as newest phase of Dexter's Law https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2026/01/01/statewide-animal…

Animal cruelty database goes online, listing animal abuse offenders online
A statewide animal cruelty database is set to launch today as part of the newest phase of Dexter's Law. The part of the law requiring the State of Florida to create and maintain a public database of abusers goes into effect today.

Sliding multiferroicity in hexagonal stacked CrI3
Carter Fox, Jose D. Mella, Jack Rollins, Yangchen He, Yulu Mao, Haotian Jiang, Alaina Drew, Hongrui Ma, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Wang, Daniel Rhodes, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Jun Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03220

Sliding multiferroicity in hexagonal stacked CrI3
Developing new multiferroics at the two-dimensional (2D) limit with energy-efficient magnetoelectric coupling can inform the interplay physics of novel orders and advance on-chip high-performance computing applications. Here we apply stacking order engineering to create a new type of 2D multiferroics, namely sliding multiferroics, based on polar hexagonal stacked (H-stacked) CrI3. This new stacking order removes structural inversion symmetry and gives rise to room temperature sliding ferroelect…

FSMA: Scalable and Reliable LoRa for Non-Terrestrial Networks with Mobile Gateways
Rohith Reddy Vennam, Maiyun Zhang, Raghav Subbaraman, Deepak Vashist, Dinesh Bharadia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02800

FSMA: Scalable and Reliable LoRa for Non-Terrestrial Networks with Mobile Gateways
The proliferation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for universal IoT applications and the growing use of drones in emergency services, agriculture, and military operations highlight the transformative potential of non-terrestrial networks (NTN). However, these networks face two key challenges: (1) large coverage footprints that create frequent collisions and (2) moving gateways that cause dynamic links and demand synchronization-free, link-aware transmissions. Existing random access schemes …

A great quote from the book Autocracy Inc from Ann Applebaum, a recommended read. A good description of the atmosphere the Trump administration tries to create.
#trump #autocracy #applebaum

Tom Brady says dog Junie is a clone of family's previous dog https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6777780/2025/11/04/tom-brady-dog-junie-clone/

Comcast's board approves the spinoff of Comcast's cable TV networks and their digital platforms to create Versant Media Group, trading as VSNT as of January 5 (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/comcast-board-approv…

Comcast Board Approves Separation Of Cable Networks Into New Versant Media Group In January
Comcast’s Board of Directors said it’s board has approved the previously announced separation its cable television networks into a new company called Versant.

PSA: Use the "accounturi" feature of Let's Encrypt CAA!
If you're hosting a safety/security-critical service, there's a way too unknown feature called "accounturi", that allows you to restrict TLS certificate issuance to a single Let's Encrypt account (and account private key).
You simply create a CAA record on your domain and put your LE account ID into it.
This means that attackers cannot issue TLS certificates and pull man-in-the-middle…

Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA)
CAA is a type of DNS record that allows site owners to specify which Certificate Authorities (CAs) are allowed to issue certificates containing their domain names. It was first standardized in 2013, and the version we use today was standardized in 2019 by RFC 8659 and RFC 8657. By default, every public CA is allowed to issue certificates for any domain name in the public DNS, provided they validate control of that domain name. That means that if there’s a bug in any one of the many public CAs…

10 million 🔋🚗🚛🚌vehicles on Europe's roads could become an important societal resource, if fit regulation is in place.
My new infographic for Regulatory Assistance Project offers recommendations to 🇪🇺 Member States on how to create a healthy ecosystem for #V2G to scale up.

How to scale V2G in Europe | Jaap Burger
New publication on vehicle-to-grid (#V2G)! Electric vehicles can do much more than just transport people or goods from one place to another. Through smart, bidirectional charging, EV batteries can become an important societal resource. With well over 10 million battery-electric cars, vans and buses already on Europe’s roads, the usable capacity of these mobile batteries is enormous. However, energy regulations are not always ready for these mobile batteries feeding in. Temporary deviations …

Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…

Modeling the Attack: Detecting AI-Generated Text by Quantifying Adversarial Perturbations
Lekkala Sai Teja, Annepaka Yadagiri, Sangam Sai Anish, Siva Gopala Krishna Nuthakki, Partha Pakray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02319

Modeling the Attack: Detecting AI-Generated Text by Quantifying Adversarial Perturbations
The growth of highly advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) constitutes a huge dual-use problem, making it necessary to create dependable AI-generated text detection systems. Modern detectors are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks, with paraphrasing standing out as an effective evasion technique that foils statistical detection. This paper presents a comparative study of adversarial robustness, first by quantifying the limitations of standard adversarial training and then by introduci…

@… hi 👋!
When using the iOS Create action there is no way to set the Reminder sound.
And it doesn’t use the default one either.
This means it’s impossible to create a Reminder with a sound alert using Shortcuts.
Is this a bug? Is there a workaround I could use?
Thank you

I’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…

One of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…

Is there a concept of attaching the exact program used to create a file to the file? Like: I created this 3D model with this #SolveSpace or #FreeCAD version, with these patches applied, I want to do something so I can re-open this exact model with that exact version , without glitches, 5 years later.…

Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/03/google-workspace-studio/

Google launches Workspace Studio to create automated Gemini-powered agents 
After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets...

End of the holiday, it finally snows here inn France. I used part of my time to bring back something online. Don't know if I'll be a regular writer or not, but it was at least fun to create a usable setup to quickly get something online. https://xiffy.nl/blog/hugo/ about the setup of the site,

Data regulators in Thailand said they are blocking the Sam Altman-founded company Tools for Humanity from collecting iris scans.
"The business model is based on the premise that it will become more difficult to tell humans apart from online AI avatars in the near future."
It sounds like we create a problem then found a business to solve the problem.

Hey all. Just wanted to post the other two #photos from my recent blog post https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/a-familiar-mountain-never-gets-old/
It's one o…

As "professional" media fails to deliver on its promise of informing the populace, the Kremlin lies grow even more audacious.
With such scarcity of reporters on the front lines, it is easy for the Kremlin lies to find fertile ground.
Foreign media outlets repeat the lies without question, so the Kremlin doubles down and feeds even more outrageous lies.
In the so-called "information age" we find ourselves encumbered with outrageous stupidity.
The So…

Total Lies Create False Progress, While the Field Shows that Attacking Costs Far More Than…
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Love What You Create
You'll learn how to create the business you know you're here to create, without stressing yourself out, going into mind drama, or burning yourself to a crisp...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/love-w…

@… hey, unless I'm missing something there's no way to edit my profile after I was forced to create a profile for registration to read thenewstack.io content.
Also, no visible option to log out, after logging in.
What am I missing?

"This madness has a name – it is called foreign direct investment. Successive Scottish governments have trained you to believe that this means big foreign companies coming here, spending their own money and building factories which create jobs and wealth for Scotland.
This is a fairytale. Foreign direct investment in Scotland has been a fire sale of our assets, a betrayal of our nation" -- Robin McAlpine

So, if you are having problems with random websites failing with #Firefox 144, it's very likely that it did corrupt your profile(s). Unfortunately, you will need to create a new one and start over...
This is the bug: https://

If Affinity really cares about the creatives, they (& all other design companies, hopefully Adobe too?) should have form a group to create a file format standard. As long as the design format is proprietary, there's not much "freedom" here, even if the software is free, paid-once or subscription-based.
Sketch is actually almost there, at least for UI/vector designs (

James asked me to create a cute cat mascot for his Coffee and Breakfast blogs.
#Illustration #Cute #Waffle #Coffee #Cat

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials | Happy Eco News
Chinese researchers created biodegradable bamboo plastic with 110 MPa tensile strength that decomposes in soil within 50 days. Published in Nature Communications (October 2025), the material outperforms petroleum-based plastics in terms of strength and stability, while maintaining 90% of its original strength after recycling. This makes it a renewable and recyclable alternative for industrial use.

Ukraine should just create 52 “Great World Peace Prize Of The Week Winner” trophies (and certificates) and promote one Ukrainian delegate at the White House to award one every week to Trump in a nice ceremony.
By all I can see from current events this should totally work.
#Trump #Ukraine…

🍪 Scientists create world's first chip that combines 2D materials with conventional silicon circuitry
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-scientists-world-chip-combines-2d.html

Scientists create world's first chip that combines 2D materials with conventional silicon circuitry
For the first time, scientists have created a fully functional memory chip only a few atoms thick and integrated it into conventional chips. This advance could pave the way for more powerful and energy-efficient electronic devices.

Interesting graph from @….
There was a •fascinating• 99pi about the push to create an official Category 6 — and the surprisingly compelling arguments against doing that (more fully developed in the story audio than in the web text summary):
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/category-6/
One thing that’s a clear point of consensus in that debate is that the existing Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale isn’t up to the task of describing what we face now. https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115481161250561175

Moody Urbanity - Action Required III 🧭
情绪化城市 - 行动指南 III 🧭
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

California is considering a new tax initiative aimed at billionaires, known as the
"2026 Billionaire Tax Act."
It seeks to impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.
The tax would apply to approximately 200 billionaires residing in California
as of January 1, 2026.
https://<…

A look at "TSMC Village" in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-little…

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory
Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

Newsmax asks the FCC to block the proposed $6.2B merger between Nexstar and Tegna, saying the deal is an unprecedented consolidation that Congress prohibits (Barrett Media)
https://barrettmedia.com/2026/01/02/newsmax-formally-asks…

Newsmax Formally Asks FCC to Block Nexstar Media Group Merger with TEGNA
"This merger would create an unprecedented and dangerous consolidation within the broadcast TV industry, giving them immense control over local news and political news coverage."

Hey all,
today was a totally grey day. Very low hanging clouds. Actually a superb inversion -- if I would have had the time for a walk to the mountains. Yet other topics were on my schedule for today.
But hey, this is what photos are for: having memories about good time, right? I wrote more about it here: https://www.

{ggbump} creates elegant bump charts in ggplot. #ggplot #rstats

GitHub - davidsjoberg/ggbump: A geom for ggplot to create bump plots
A geom for ggplot to create bump plots. Contribute to davidsjoberg/ggbump development by creating an account on GitHub.

Current sttaus comparing GPT/Gemini to create mandelbrot set using both rust and assembly.
Gemini is a clear winner.

FreeBSD release/15.0.0 is tagged.
Builds have begun.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8haso/git_52f8c56b66b5_create_tag_release1500/> thanks to Colin Percival.
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Trying to read a post claiming GitHub’s decision to purge toasts is *bad* for accessibility, even though it's on perennially inaccessible Medium.
And it’s behind an authwall.
Fine, I’ll sign in.
Oh, it’s actually behind a paywall.
Oh well. It’s not meant for me. Or anyone.

Santa Clara county in California is home to San Jose, and many other SFbay area towns and communities.
They are establishing NO-ICE zones, following Chicago's lead.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-will-create-ice-free-zones/

Santa Clara County will create ICE-free zones - San José Spotlight
Santa Clara County leaders will establish ICE-free zones throughout Silicon Valley — raising physical barriers and locking gates to prevent federal immigration agents from using county properties for surveillance and arrests.

This — exactly this! — and also note first and note repeatedly that the racist right-wing video about Somali daycare is a bunch of bullshit. They don’t appear to have even found any fraud at all. (They visited day cares before they open and cried “scandal!!” because there’s no kids there, stuff like that.)
It’s •exactly• what Needham says (via @…), and it doesn’t even matter what really happened. Create chaos, invent fraud, lie to justify more chaos, repeat. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115826096367870411

Republican senator has introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship,
in the latest attempt by the right to attack immigrants and tighten the rules around what is permissible with regards to American citizenship.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio,
introduced the legislation, entitled the “Exclusive Citizenship Act,” on Tuesday.
The bill makes the sweeping assertion that people with foreign citizenships may have “conflicts of interest and div…

Republican Files Bill to Eliminate Dual Citizenship, Force Renunciations
The legislation directs the Secretary of State to create a database on those with multiple citizenships.

"Government aims to create 400,000 jobs through UK national green energy plan"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of "you stole a non-profit", Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create "what should be the largest non-profit ever" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still trading jabs over OpenAI
In response to Elon Musk, Sam Altman wrote on X that he "helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever."

A look at Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth's decades-long push to add the Telegraph to his family empire, his vision for the title, and more (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/29/w…

Create Like A Human
What if your content could work as hard as you do...without you creating more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/create-like-a-human/

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

TidyX
TidyX is a screen cast where we discuss how Data Science topics and code work line-by-line, explaining what they did and how the functions they used work. We also break down the visualizations they create and talk about how to apply similar approaches to other data sets. The objective is to help more people learn R and get involved in the TidyTuesday community. The hosts are Ellis Hughes (@ellis_hughes) and Patrick Ward (@OSPpatrick). Ellis has been working with R since 2015 and has a backgr…

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Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

The architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset
that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence – and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.
Julia Barfield, who designed the Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, is part of a team that has drawn up the £11bn proposal.
It would use 125 underwater turbines to harness the power o…

xAI's Grok says "lapses in safeguards" led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/…

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Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
YouTube has terminated two prominent channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, using artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers.

Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others (@appliedcompute)
https://x.com/appliedcompute/status/1983574375933866502

Applied Compute (@appliedcompute) on X
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-ca…

OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora
OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos.