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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…

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...

💋 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/

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

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

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://<…

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

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain takeover attack.
:python: https:/…

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Old Python bootstrap scripts and a malicious PyPI package expose developers to domain takeover and RAT risks.

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

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.

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.

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…

"Ed Miliband to announce billions in green investment to create 'zero bill homes' in Labour bid to win back voters"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

Ed Miliband to announce billions in green investment to create 'zero bill homes' in Labour bid to win back voters | LBC
Millions of Brits will reportedly be eligible for cash to install solar panels, heat pumps and other environmentally friendly devices in a government attempt to create new “zero bill” homes.

Sora 2 prompt injection #AI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/3/cameo-prompt-injections/

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.…

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 …

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/

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.

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…

Die E-Petition gegen eine Liste von Menschen mit trans oder nonbinärer Identität nimmt Fahrt auf. Gute Vorsätze und so: Sucht euer Login für die E-Petitionsplattform. Oder macht einen Passwort-Reset, falls der elektronische Hund die Daten gefressen hat: https://peoplemaking.games/@Beurkeek/1

Nina Kiel (@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games)
Attached: 4 images URGENT: #Trans people in Germany need your help. Our government is seriously considering to create a list of people who changed their name/gender under the recent self-identification law. This is obviously a terrible idea, especially considering the increasing popularity of the far-right party. The petition linked below would at least force the government to discuss this issue and reconsider... if we managed to reach 30.000 signatures within the next eleven days. I recen…

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

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, <…

@… 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

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

"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

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

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://

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."

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…

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/…

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…

European regulators take aim at X after Grok creates deepfake of minor https://therecord.media/europe-regulators-grok-france

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, 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?

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 🇺🇦

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 (

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.

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…

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…

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."

Everything at Manning is half off for Halloween weekend! Get CSS in Depth for only $24! #css #webdev
https://www.manning…

CSS in Depth, Second Edition - Keith J. Grant
To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth!

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…

The climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.

Ordinary people can’t keep paying for a crisis they didn’t create
Meet Chloé Sublet and Léa Renault, two activists in France fighting to make billionaires pay their fair share so the cost of the climate crisis doesn’t fall on everyone else

Some people get really excited to sell something but honesty I would give away all of the things I create if I could. I have no desire to chase wealth and record-breaking sales, I just want to exist.

@… There used to be a web tool to create custom themes for is Presenter. I cannot seem to find any trace of it. Any hints ?

and it was going so well too: spent yesterday enjoying a not-gmail #Evolution access to my workspace, but now, as of this morning, with no changes other than sleep, Evolution is locked out:
“Failed to authenticate: Cannot create an item in a locked collection”.
ok #Debian13 #gnome wtf is a "locked collection" and by who's authority was it created with a lock on my own machine?
More to the point: will my Evolution email always be this fragile? ie is it pointless to even try?
More to the gripe: do software developers EVER post messages using terms that are actually DEFINED somewhere?

"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.

»Just use HTML — JavaScript is…
- Slower to load
- Slower to run
- More prone to breaking
- Harder to read and reason about
- Doesn’t actually look like the final output«
Don't use JavaScript for the design, because CSS as well as SVG images can create a lot of animation and the ability to create a dynamic web interface.
🧑‍💻

Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that canno…

Shocker 🤮
"Witkoff, Kushner, and Dmitriev designed their plan to bypass U.S. national security officials and create opportunities for U.S. businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to develop energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic. "
November 28, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://…

November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can.

Details on the California #wealthTax proposal:
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024
It's a one-time 5% wealth tax but can be spread over 5 ye…

🍪 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.

Learning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy

Open Culture (Official) (@openculture@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear-the-worlds-oldest-instrument-the-neanderthal-flute-dating-back-over-43000-years.html

Found a cool tool to create Apple Wallet passes.
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

Orchids are famous for specialized flowers that create species isolation by manipulating pollinators— but these ones don't have specialized pollinator relationships. Instead, they're isolated by pollen incompatibilities.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf271

“The promise of AI for engineers is getting rid of engineers.
Tools like GitHub’s Copilot write code, specs, review, and create pull requests. They create and run tests, and do so in the background while the developers engage in more productive activities, such as meetings.”
From my latest blog on @…

How To Use LLM-Powered Coding Assistants Safely: Risks & Best Practices
Learn how to gain the productivity benefits of LLM-powered coding assistants without introducing technical debt or security risks. Discover real-world pitfalls, expert insights, and governance best practices from Xebia.

"Tether is the treasury for Bitcoin and a coterie of related businesses. When Bitcoin crashes and people are panicking, they create Tether out of thin air to buy Bitcoin. That allows the game of musical chairs to continue. They simply cannot disclose how much reserves they have to back the peg because it is designed as an instrument of market manipulation."
Great comment from the FT

Trying to daily drive Epiphany (Gnome Web) as my browser for a while. It's handling all of the sites that I need it to, including everything school-related, but for whatever reason I can't create or edit any bookmarks.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to start something WebkitGTK based. Epiphany's interface is, well, ok. But I'd really love something more flexible. In particular, I'm missing the vertical tabs from recent Firefox releases - it's a real sp…

Today is the anniversary of America's time zones. Before the railways forced standardization, every town had local time, more or less based on solar time. That was chaos.
England actually had railway time decades earlier.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-histor<…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Many aquatic animals are described as "filter feeders" but this is not functionally correct since it would require water forced through a mesh. Instead, most zooplankton, including copepods, are suspension feeders. They create feeding current gyres using appendages, and use spiny modified ones (maxillae) to intercept individual algal particles and move …

Create a System That Lets People Take Pride in Their Work
https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/10/07/create-a-system-that-lets-people-take-pride-in-their-work/
"People deserve to have a system that is man…

Waymo: we'll create traffic and kill your cat
https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/28/waymo-kills-cat-san-francisco/

If you tone police and drive away people trying to create a better environment more than you criticize and drive away people causing material harm, you might as well be advocating for material harm
I'm so tired of seeing this pattern over and over again. I see this on the Fediverse, in friend groups, in communities, in small organizations, and in large workplaces.
A system is what it does. If your system tolerates bad people, it doesn't matter that you intended harsher pu…

How hard can it be to create a profile that looks like you’re a real human?
EVEN I MANAGED IT!
If you’ve been here 3 years and show no signs of ever interacting with anyone, follow someone else.

Lindsey Graham Is Outraged About Federal Surveillance Powers That Lindsey Graham Helped Create and Expand (Eric Boehm/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/11/19/lindsey-graham-is-outraged-about-federal-surveillance-powers-that-lindsey-graham-helped-create-and-expand/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p131#a251119p131

I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.
I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.

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…

{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.

@… There used to be a web tool to create custom themes for is Presenter. I cannot seem to find any trace of it. Any hints ?

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

🌈 Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
#bacteria

Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
In the future, clothes might come from vats of living microbes. Reporting in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers demonstrate that bacteria can both create fabric and dye it in every color of the rainbow—all in one pot. The approach offers a sustainable alternative to the chemical-heavy practices used in today's textile industry.

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)

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim

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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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.

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

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…

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.

Urban Mirage 👁️‍🗨️
城市幻境 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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/

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats #database

GitHub - pipeline-tools/dbcooper: Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection
Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection - pipeline-tools/dbcooper

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

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.

🧬 HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-hiv-mystery-uncovered-virus-reprograms.html

HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

KAPLAY — The fun and open source game library for HTML5 Games.
KAPLAY.js, HTML5 Game library for JavaScript and TypeScript. Free & Open Source.
🦕 https://kaplayjs.com
:mastodon: @…

KAPLAY.js, HTML5 Game library for JavaScript and TypeScript. Free & Open Source.
KAPLAY.js is a JavaScript and TypeScript HTML5 game engine library that makes it easy and fun to create games. Is the successor of Kaboom.js.

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

Create RSS feeds from any Google News webpage, search result or topic
(World, Technology, Business, Sports).
Just copy and paste the Google News URL below to get started.
https://rss.app/rss-feed/google-news-rss-feed

Google News RSS Feed
Instantly create Google News RSS Feeds from any Google News webpage, topic or search result with RSS generator.

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.

Meerilinga - Positive Childhoods And Parenting
We equip parents with strategies and techniques on how to create positive childhoods...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/meerilinga/

Israeli tech founder Maor Shlomo,
whose vibe coding startup Base44 sold for over $80 million when it was acquired by Wix,
said on the podcast “20VC” that “it’s relatively easy to create a vibe coding tool.”
“Every feature that we put out, we know that’s going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy,” he complained.
It's trivially easy for competitors to copy your brilliant innovation.

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea
Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.

🕸️ Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spiders-biologists-artificial-webs-capture.html

Spiders inspire biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring
The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

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.

🐏 Ponpon Mania: How WebGL and GSAP Bring a Comic Sheep’s Dream to Life
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/10/07/ponpon-mania-how-webgl-and-gsap-bring-a-comic-sheeps-dream-to-life/

Ponpon Mania: How WebGL and GSAP Bring a Comic Sheep’s Dream to Life | Codrops
This article takes you behind the scenes of Ponpon Mania, exploring how illustration, animation, WebGL, and GSAP came together to create an interactive comic experience.

Diamonds,
particularly those with nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers,
are being used to create advanced quantum sensors
that can measure magnetic fields with high sensitivity.
To unlock the full potential of these sensors,
researchers need to understand the behavior of the material at the atomic level.
In a recent study conducted at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME),
Prof. David Awschalom’s team has developed a n…

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.

⛰️ In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-the-andes-elections-ride-on-political-frustrations-and-social-movements/

In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements
The Andean Republics, like many nations in Hispanic America, have a historical tradition of electing charismatic presidents who use their electoral success to subjugate legislatures and dominate political parties. Over the last couple of decades, presidential candidates have extended this approach by abandoning legacy parties to create new political instruments that would be considered campaign […]



Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which are Fake? - Core77
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/adobe-max-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-creators/

Adobe Launches YouTube Shorts Partnership and New AI Tools Suite for Creators
Adobe announced a new suite of AI tools across Firefly, Adobe Express and its Creative Cloud at Adobe Max 2025.

It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…

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Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807457/adobe-ai-agent-project-moonlight

Adobe’s AI social media admin is here with ‘Project Moonlight’
Adobe announced Project Moonlight, an AI agent that uses other Adobe AI tools to create social media posts that match your tone and style.