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Giants QB Jaxson Dart (knee) questionable to return to Monday's game vs. Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-suffers-apparent-knee-injury-on-first-drive-vs-rams

Damn; I went to debug why Model B wouldn't write to floppies and...it worked. Yesterday when I got a scope on the write-data line on the drive end it didn't budge at all. By the time I'd got the beeb open today, moved the keyboard and stuffed a scope probe on the gate between the 8271 and the drive it all got nice friendly data there. Hmm.
Took the IC80 out, gave the legs a rub and a bit of contact cleaner, and hmm ok.

China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

China clears Geely for landmark satellite test to spur commercial space drive
Geespace secures a two-year satellite IoT trial from MIIT, the first approval for a private Chinese firm.

Someone living just a short drive from our new home is selling a trebuchet with a 5 m throwing arm. For just about 600 Euro...
I think I have to talk to my wife about things this house still lacks. Like a moat. And this.
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1309843354

Filings: Disney's UK subsidiary reports revenue up 11.1% YoY to £4.4B for the FY ending September 27, 2025, with post-tax profits up 37.7% to £811M (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/global/disney-uk-revenue-2025-box-office-str…

Box Office, Disney+ Drive Disney U.K. Revenue to $5.8 Billion
The Walt Disney Company in the U.K. has posted a year-on-year revenue increase of 11.1% for 2025 thanks to box office and Disney+.

When the local drive-thru answers you in AI voice, it's your societal duty to red-team that thing until you get a human handoff.
“Oh, could I add an order of triple salted uncooked fries, extra small, and a diet water with no ice, but make the ice extra cold? Plus a sundae with double pickles and make sure I don't get the same toy as with the fries. What's your favourite flavour of ketchup?”

"Amazon soy pact collapse could add 1.4 million hectares of deforestation by 2036"
#AmazonRainforest #Deforestation #Environment

Amazon soy pact collapse could add 1.4 million hectares of deforestation by 2036
The collapse of a landmark Amazon soy pact will drive at least 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of extra deforestation in Brazil over the next decade, releasing carbon emissions equal to Canada's annual output, according to an analysis published Thursday.

<jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named
stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-)
<stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386
with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman.
<stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor
* Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing
<stu> and..
<stu> double-height hard driv…

Richard Müller hat ein paar Tipps zusammengestellt, wie man am besten ins Self-Hosting einsteigt.
#DigitaleSouveränität
https://www.dig…

My friend now we are in business...
This IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 has been giving me fits. Specifically, the floppy drive.
* I broke the head off the original trying to clean it
* The replacement is for a different PS/2 model.
* The floppy adapter to allow "normal" PC drives didn't work
* I swapped the non-standard floppy cable
* It would read only 720K disks
* Found someone online with exactly the same issue. These machines need specific mod…

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

KU ruster sig til de gennemgribende forandringer, kunstig intelligens forventes at medfŸre for forskning, uddannelse og administration. #KU #AI #DKUddannelse

Ny viceprorektor skal drive gennemgribende AI-satsning
Fra 1. september tiltræder professor Morten Axel Pedersen som viceprorektor for AI. Han skal lede en satsning, der skal ruste KU til de gennemgribende forandringer, kunstig intelligens forventes at medføre for forskning, uddannelse og administration.

I might be an asshole but this really makes me want to just drive through an ultra dense parking lot disabling cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3CuJxbk4

Fascists drive car into woman at Delaney Hall concentration camp as families demand ‘Free the dads’ on Father’s Day (Newark, NJ • 06/21/26)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uc2ph9
Article:

Lamb does his part in Dak’s big day https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/lamb-does-his-part-in-dak-s-big-day

Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500,000 units (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-2…

Fernando Mendoza opens Raiders vs Texans with pick six https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/20/raiders-qb-fernando-mendoza-vs-texans-pick-six-wade-wooaz/91396229007/

The nurse asked us "are you driving home?" and I was honestly confused by the question. We're in Manhattan, of course I didn't drive, I took the subway like a normal person.

One thing I still seem people who have gas cars get wrong about charging is they think about it like "filling up".
But you don't fill up an EV. if you have 50 more miles to drive on a trip you charge to 70 miles not to the full 80% or 100% charge.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/ES5MR2XFYW?fbclid=IwY2xjawUXp-JwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMTI5…

American culture is based on the automobile, and any young man of promise
is going to own one and want to travel great distances in it. Consequently,
any young woman of aspiration should expect to spend most of her vacations
in a car, probing into unfamiliar corners. She is not required to know how
to drive but she will certainly be expected to read the road map while her
husband drives, and if she can't, or if she's abnormally slow in giving him
help,…

Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments
to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US,
using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy,
Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigratio…

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

Ooh, I see #Proton has released an official Proton Drive CLI client for Linux. Given that rclone has always been slightly shonky with its Proton support, this should be very useful indeed.
https://proton.me/support/drive-cli

We HAVE to get a TD this drive.
#SoonersInTheNFL #NFL #Bucs

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Diary:
🎵 Drive It
#Diary
https://novideogames.bandcamp.com/track/i-used-to-think-that-it-was-illegal-to-drive-without-shoes

Baker Mayfield booed, Deshaun Watson wins: How did Browns-Bucs get turned on its head? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7614435/2026/09/20/browns-buccaneers-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/

CW: regenerative farming / FYI animals die so you can have meat, do with that what you wish
----
I now have to drive a total of 1340km INSIDE OF IRELAND to have organic, pasture-raised chickens legally slaughtered and packed, so you can add that to the price of your chicken in answer to the question "why do you ask €25 for a 2.5kg bird?"
Why? Because the local authorities decided they'd demand rates exceeding €1000/mo from my more-local slaughterhouse that ope…

Lamb does his part in Dak’s big day https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/lamb-does-his-part-in-dak-s-big-day

Pinned, Curb-Crushed, and Brutalized During Fathers Day Vigil at Delaney Hall Concentration Camp After Fascists Drive Over a Protestor (Newark, NJ • 06/21/26)
Video source:
#ice

A lot of people are writing lots of things about A.I here already, all of which are more important than my complaint...but man, trying to buy a new NVMe drive at this juncture is utter insanity.
Really wish I'd gone for a bit more RAM and especially storage back when you could actually afford them.
Time to delete some of my praying mantis video collection to make space for less essential things, like work files.

The Next Inflation Shock: $1 Million-a-Day Oil Tankers (Javier Blas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-09-21/oil-market-the-1-million-a-day-oil-tanker-will-drive-inflation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260921/p114#a260921p114

Wrong priorities, reckless waste of resources
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4532454/generation-opportunity-uk-nuclear-manufacturing-set-benefit-100bn-investment-drive

'Once in a generation opportunity': UK nuclear manufacturing set to benefit from £100bn investment drive
High Value Manufacturing Catapult says manufacturers face ‘narrowing window’ to meet growing demand for nuclear technologies

Raiders Praise Fernando Mendoza’s ‘Response’ Despite Viral Preseason Lowlight https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-fernando-mendoza-preseason-pick-six/

I still enjoy computers, but hardware truly is the worst.
I have a (relatively new) usb-to-sata drive dock that mysteriously has super slow speeds with just a single drive that I own, and is fine w/ the rest.
Last night I discovered the reason when I switched another drive from 512 to 4k logical sector size - read speeds suddenly went from around 250MB/s to around 50MB/s. Turns out the dock is buggy with 4k logical sector sizes, and that other drive is the only one that I have w/…

If I could load all this AI nonsense in a spacecraft and drive it myself into the sun, I would it. That's the only neat thing to do.

I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959)
SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vrlJOfXNxxE3Ik_a3SZfj2rEb9hV9qru/view?usp=sharing

Why are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen

House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
More than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind

Why are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen

House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
More than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind

Classic Ford pickup drive drives in for Dio Day
#photo #photography #cars #ford

August joint-hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93vde0n2l4o?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
August joint hottest month on record globally

August joint hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat
Climate change and the rising influence of El Niño saw August reach the record for warmest month.

"While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles."
I hope this will put to rest the canard that if you don't drive/are anti-car, you shouldn't be worried about Flock.

#today is a grand library tour with the new Repair Café at Tudor Drive in the morning, returning some stuff to the main library, and now on my way to chair KEF at Tolworth library, and meet the people who run the library services as it happens!

lately been playing "liked music" on shuffle and thinking, yeah I've heard that enough, time to remove it. just dropped a string of 90s hits
of course I need to add new liked music to keep the warp drive from imploding, so I alternate with yt music's "discover mix", which ~20% of the time finds a cowpath that works for me, and ~40% of the time makes me go, ugh this sucks, back to shuffling likes.
sometimes I try a mix from a liked song, but that doesn&…

Ukrainian hackers claim to have breached the Russian Glaz/Groza combat control system, gaining access to data and internal materials linked to the platform.
They posted the files at https://drive.proton.me/urls/RQPY6YNC50#hIDatVjesTH9

Proton Drive
Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

Heerlijk @… verhaal dit, stokoude USB-drive die sneller is dan de specs weergeven en ook niet duurder is geworden.
https://tweakers.net/productreview/370

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Stan Ridgway:
🎵 Drive, She Said
#StanRidgway
https://stanridgway1.bandcamp.com/track/drive-she-said-7
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IGMQMNdzr6NVyxPWf919i

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Cars:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TheCars
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wfujdbamR3Z46F4xav7LM

Just read someone’s opinion that the Steam Machine is bad because it doesn’t “have a disc drive for movies and music”, and I’m wondering if they just woke up from a decade-long coma or something

#ListeningClub After moving my digital music library to a larger hard drive, I’ve had nothing but trouble with Apple Music. Time to look for macOS alternatives. So far contenders are Swinsian and Doppler. Suggestions? On the other hand, I’ve been listening to vinyl more lately because it JUST WORKS.

Growing human tissue will cut back on use of animals
Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells
in a UK drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development.
Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients,
helping identify which treatments are best.
The move marks a shift away from the use of animals as models for human disease
towards what r…

#RandomThought
It’s really remarkable how artfully Apple has managed their many major system changes. 68k->PPC,
OS9->OSX, x86->ARM.
I mean, consider the Finder. It was a critical piece of OS9 and prior systems. It was intrinsic to the OS. It is now pretty much just another app, albeit one with a lot of features that really drive other software.

Google Maps, thank you for suggesting me to walk to a gas station.

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 postdoc: amino acid geochronology at Northern Arizona University #geology #geochemistry

Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities for remote work are rare. This position is subject to the availability of funding.  Driving a vehicle on behalf of the university is anticipated to be a regular part of this position. Arizona Administrative Code Fleet Safety Policy requires all employees who drive on university business become au…

I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?

that last lsu drive was BRUTAL #lsu #olemiss #collegefootball

The Public AI Summit starting Wednesday has something for every educator, from scaffolding AI-aware assignments to learning about agents without accidentally deleting your hard drive. Thursday at 1 EDT I’ll share updated tools to discover your AI environmental footprint.
https://publicaisummit.…

🎧 I enjoyed this episode of 'Instant Genius' about #laziness, how we ascribe it as a quality and the harm that can do. Also, what is laziness in the context of an unrelenting social drive to be 'productive'?
Worth a listen!
https://

In the year 2026, it would be nice to be able to buy an off-the shelf drive with a hardware write-disable switch.
I once used SD memory cards for this, I but found out shortly after the switch is typically enforced only by the operating system (most readers and most chips do not enforce the switch setting).
#WriteDisabledDrive

@… pros use these:
https://www.hsm-shredder.com/products/hsm-hds-230-1-hard-drive-multimedia-shredder

The Positive Experience Principle: Forecasting Conscious Choices with AI Embeddings
Zheng Su, Mingyan Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16659 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16659 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16659
arXiv:2607.16659v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A fundamental challenge in the science of consciousness is the lack of a universal, predictive framework for motivated behavior. While existing theories excel at describing specific mechanisms, from neural pathways to computational models, they do not provide a foundational principle that explains the consistent direction of conscious systems toward certain states and away from others. To address this gap, we propose the Positive Experience Principle (PEP), a unifying principle stating that conscious systems have an inherent tendency to move toward states of higher positive subjective experience. This tendency is quantified by a Positive Experience Value (PEV), a scalar metric derived from the physical configurations defined by our earlier Universal Consciousness Code (UCC) theory. The PEP bridges physics, neuroscience, and psychology by positing that diverse behaviors are manifestations of a single, fundamental drive to optimize PEV. The PEP generates testable predictions for the dynamics of conscious systems, offering a path toward a unified science of behavior.
toXiv_bot_toot

Storytowns
A geo-located podcast app for the self-drive tourism market...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Let's play a game:
Post the oldest image of your "battle station" / computer setup that you have.
Ideally, post some specs of the system if you can remember.
I'll start:
- photo from 2003
- Pentium II, 350MHz
- 3DFX Voodoo Banshee
- 1024x768 17" Eizo CRT
- Iomega Zip drive, 100MB via Parallel port (*click!*)
- SCSI Scanner hidden away in the background
I think the Mac was a Power Macintosh 6300, but I'm not 100…

I had a 14tb (enterprise) sata hard drive failing a few weeks ago. I bought it refurbished (it had already been used for about 6 years at that point), but with a 5 year warranty.
I thought for sure that when I RMA'd the drive, GoHardDrive would just refund my $140 and tell me to go buy another one at current market prices (hah). Because, y'know, the business model is likely built on drive prices getting cheaper over time.
I was pleasantly surprised that they sent me anoth…

Crooked Media's nonprofit Crooked Ideas launches an initiative to support progressive video creators, with digital strategist Kyle Tharp as executive director (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2026/crooked-me…

Exclusive: Crooked Media’s nonprofit launches new political creator drive
The nonprofit arm of Pod Save America’s audio empire is hoping to lure younger voters back to the Democratic Party.

I'm watching Accused: Guilty or Innocent? 8x04 "Road Rage Murder or Self-Defense Shooting?" https://trakt.tv/shows/accused-guilty-or-innocent/seasons/8/episodes/4

Road Rage Murder or Self-Defense Shooting?
On a regular Saturday morning drive, a father of two becomes involved in an altercation at an intersection; believing his life is threatened, he shoots…

'Drive Them Into Hell': Trump Makes Wild Threats in Chaotic UN Speech (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threatens-iran-low-energy-united-nations-speech-1235629811/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260922/p88#a260922p88

Cowboys must reconcile drive-focused offense with big play potential https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/08/dallas-cowboys-offense-reconcile-drive-focused-…

I've been having some problems with the disk storage for my Plex server (Mac Mini M2). I was using 4 external drives (no space for internal) and running MacOS RAID 1 in two arrays. The RAID rebuild trigger and rebuild time was becoming problematic. If one drive connected after another, it triggered a rebuild.
I'll solve this!
Bought a USB-C enclosure that has hardware RAID. No more issues with RAID rebuilds for no reason!
But...
MacOS apparently no longer …

Kirk Cousins connects with Michael Mayer for 13-yard TD on Raiders' opening drive https://www.raiders.com/video/kirk-cousins-michael-mayer-touchdown-nfl-preseason-week-1-arizona-cardinals

OTD 1995: Legato Systems goes public.
Founded by brother Bob and other folks from Sun.
Red Herring: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWCzF5phK5vi6gUSKJ83eFyy25ofqS_j/view?usp=sharing

Hmmm it doesn't seem to have any built-in sync or comparison functionality. Given that I imagine most people's primary requirement will be to keep on-device files in sync with in-cloud files, that seems a major omission.
Yes of course you could script around the CLI to implement that functionality (and I probably will until a full-featured Proton Drive Linux client comes out) but it's such an obvious feature to add in.
#ProtonDrive #Proton

Analysis: SpaceX is on track to build ~10 GW of compute capacity by 2027's end, with 6 GW-8 GW in 2027 alone, which could drive $300B in annual revenue run-rate (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/spacex-10gw-in-2027-why-its-real

SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It’s Real, Will Drive $500B ARR for SpaceX, and Why Microsoft Will Be the Largest Offtaker
Inference at 100B/GW/year, SpaceX's stellar pace, Microsoft's 10GW 2026 Awakening, Azure Can Grow Tiple-Digits

“Congratulations, you’ve been chosen for secondary screening,” he told her, according to the couple’s recollection.
The man was a federal agent, and after questioning Ms. Bobreneva for about 15 minutes, he led her away in handcuffs to an unmarked vehicle.
https://www.nyti…

Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

Cowboys Star Hit With Significant NFL Punishment for What He Did vs the Giants https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-nfl-fine-giants/

Officials from the US met Houthi leaders over the weekend at the country’s embassy in Muscat, Oman, it has been confirmed,
leading to the US decision
⚠️ not to intervene to help Saudi Arabia drive back a Houthi advance inside Yemen.
The Iran-backed militant group reassured the US that the ceasefire agreement between the two sides struck in 2025 still held
⚠️and the movement had no intention of attacking US shipping in the Red Sea.
Only Saudi-linked shipping was…

US opts not to back Saudi Arabia in Yemen after meeting Houthi leaders
Iran-backed militants have offered Trump administration assurances over safety of Red Sea shipping

Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…

Exclusive: Spectro Cloud hits $1B valuation amid rising AI model switching
Companies that aim to drive down AI costs have attracted investors in 2026.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Growing Pains:
🎵 Drive
#GrowingPains
https://lucasbritton.bandcamp.com/track/growing-pains
https://open.spotify.com/track/73gsQxt8P7MNkaEB9QUvYT

Cowboys' recipe for success in Week 2? Start fast and make a splash to help struggling defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-offense-looks-to-start-fast-wee…

Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/stephen-miller-said-to-drive-doj-memo-eroding-disability-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p122#a260623p122

Zach Wilson leads winning drive for Saints, who are unsettled at backup QB along with Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/zach-wilson-leads-winning-drive-for-saints-who-are-unsettled-at-backup-qb-along-w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Model 500:
🎵 Night Drive (Time, Space, Transmat)
#Model500
https://model500.bandcamp.com/track/night-drive-thru-babylon

Matt Gay caps off Raiders' opening drive with 37-yard field goal https://www.raiders.com/video/matt-gay-raiders-opening-drive-field-goal-nfl-preseason-49ers

Sam Darnold injures hip on first drive of opener vs. Patriots, questionable to return https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7580276/2026/09/09/sam-darnold-injury-seahawks-patriots/

Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to ~$78.4B, with cloud and networking products contributing 50% for the first time, and net profit up 35% to ~$1.86B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/foxconns-ai-hardw

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Drive-By Truckers:
🎵 Gravity's Gone
#DriveByTruckers
https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/track/gravitys-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/09n5OiITfOYyL5s4zTn9PE

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/ai-boom-set-…

Seahawks QB Sam Darnold questionable to return vs. Patriots with hip injury; Drew Lock enters in relief https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-questionable-to-return-vs-patriots-with-hip-injury-drew-lock-enter…

Netflix is being sued for $105m over the theft of a hard drive including an unreleased Nicolas Cage war movie.
The streamer’s Los Angeles office was the target of a theft involving a number of hard drives,
one of which contained a copy of second world war spy thriller Fortitude.
The makers of the $45m-budgeted film are now suing Netflix over the loss

Netflix sued for $105m over stolen Nicolas Cage war thriller
Makers of unreleased $45m film Fortitude sue after hard drive stolen from streamer’s Los Angeles office

Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-trying-develop-wo…

Why Nvidia Is Trying To Develop The World’s Best Open-Source AI Models
Nvidia is doubling down on its open-source efforts, pouring investment into an ambitious new in-house AI model that it hopes will drive demand for its hardware—but that could also compete with customers and partners. Nvidia is aiming for the new model, the biggest of a family that it is calling ...

Seahawks QB Darnold set for MRI but 'great news' so far on hip injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49886582/seahawks-qb-darnold-injures-hip-opening-drive-vs-patriots

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard lived a remarkable life despite her challenges. She attended school using a phone system and even drove for a time. The internet helped her stay informed and meet her husband, whom she married in February. Lillard was artistic, writing poems and songs. She was also an animal rescue volunteer. McVey say…

eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026

Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)
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Source: Kalshi's annualized revenue topped $4B in July, up from $2B two months earlier, and its operating expenses totaled $300M in June (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
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Kalshi Tops $4 Billion In Annualized Revenue as it Seeks $40 Billion Valuation
World Cup wagers helped double Kalshi’s revenue to a more than $4 billion annualized rate in July, from a pace of over $2 billion two months earlier, a person familiar with the matter said. That growth is set to drive another jump in the prediction market’s valuation. Kalshi is in advanced talks ...

Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)