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

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

Anthropic has suspended access to its latest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, for all users after the US government demanded that non-US citizens, both in the US and abroad, should not be able to use the LLMs, citing national security concerns.

US shutdown of Anthropic models sparks fresh concerns over AI sovereignty
Anthropic has suspended access to its latest models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, for all users after the US government demanded that non-US citizens, both ...

So, I can't eat any fresh greens when I #travel home to #America next week?
This is the type of advice I used to get when traveling to places like #India or

Everyone of the hand-picked board members has Trump brand kneepads...
Fresh off stripping Trump from its building, Kennedy Center creates new endowment bearing the president’s name | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kennedy-center-endowment-fund-b2996057.html

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new user in the YouTube Shorts feed (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/tiktok

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube.

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Over Accused Mobster (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-and-jared-ensnared-in-fresh-scandal-over-luxury-project/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p43#a260613p43

So I searched on "Penobscot farmers markets", and duckduckgo returned this as the first item.
Did you know "As one of Maine's largest cities, Penobscot County is home to a thriving farmers market scene. " ? (and no list of markets, just generic drivel).
I am so tired of this #AI BS
Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop

Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop
Find the best farmers markets in Penobscot County, Maine. Browse weekly schedules, seasonal produce, and local vendors near you. Your guide to fresh, local food at Penobscot County farmers markets.

So I searched on "Penobscot farmers markets", and duckduckgo returned this as the first item.
Did you know "As one of Maine's largest cities, Penobscot County is home to a thriving farmers market scene. " ? (and no list of markets, just generic drivel).
I am so tired of this #AI BS
Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop

Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop
Find the best farmers markets in Penobscot County, Maine. Browse weekly schedules, seasonal produce, and local vendors near you. Your guide to fresh, local food at Penobscot County farmers markets.

A.J. Brown's fresh start, Tua Tagovailoa vs. Michael Penix lead NFL minicamp storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7351587/2026/06/15/nfl-minicamp-storylines-aj-brown-tua-tagovailoa-michael-penix/

📦 upsert() keeps a single instance alive for singleton UI like toasts, loading overlays or progress bars — instead of stacking a new one, it updates the active instance with fresh data, no duplicates
⚙️ Mutation Flow: useMutationFlow from react-call/mutation-flow wires a callable straight to async backend actions, managing pending state and keeping the dialog open with a spinner until the promise resolves — so users can retry without losing their place, with end-to-end typed payloads…

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

While testing around with SteamOS off the Live Installer (on a decade old standard size SD card and similarly "ancient" USB adapter) was fun and all, and quite snappy despite the media used.. You can definitely tell it's not ready for Prime Time in the "Gaming PC" space, yet. Very much built for bespoke devices like handhelds and the new Machine/micro PCs like that.
Hence, I fresh installed a clean image of Garuda, my OS of choice the last 3 years. (I also run M…

Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our retrofit Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -

Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review
Learn how our retrofit Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon

Cowboys to Open Preseason in Seattle With Fresh Energy https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-to-open-preseason-in-seattle-with-fresh-energy

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends

Draft snub fresh on Jermod McCoy’s mind ahead of Raiders debut https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/draft-snub-fresh-on-jermod-mccoys-mind-ahead-of-raiders-debut-3861994/

I voted for him.
These quick vote AGM options, by which Boards encourage members to not read the materials and follow their lead, they should be banned.
"About 95% of votes were cast in support of Nationwide’s pay report, which was recommended by the board, after the building society nearly doubled the pay of Debbie Crosbie, the chief executive, to £4.7m."
A mutual??????
Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board | Nationwide | Th…

Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board
James Sherwin-Smith says he will launch fresh campaign for change at the building society after losing vote at AGM

Italy's Far-Right Group Becomes Party in Fresh Threat to Meloni (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-14/italy-s-far-right-group-futuro-nazionale-becomes-party-in-fresh-threat-to-meloni
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p23#a260614p23

"Robinson: I will hold officers accountable for unjustified uses of force, reviewing every outstanding case of substantial public interest and bringing charges where the evidence warrants."
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06/14/sim-gill-shawn-robinson-face-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
EELS:
🎵 Fresh Blood
#EELS
https://thebellegards.bandcamp.com/track/fresh-blood-eels-cover-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q3ZzcBqQuS8s522kWyCcU

The luxury resort planned by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner faces a new challenge from villagers who say their land was wrongfully sold by an accused gangster.
The president’s daughter and her husband plan to develop a $1.4 billion resort on the uninhabited island of Sazan in Albania, as well as a wider hotel development along the Zvërnec coastline worth around $4.7 billion.
Weeks of protests have raised concerns that the wildlife-rich area, with its flamingos and sea turtles, co…

Ivanka and Jared Project Ensnared by Fresh Scandal Involving Accused Mobster
A dozen villagers say their land was wrongfully sold for the development by a Miami man with alleged mobster ties.

Fresh lemon juice, dried dill, honey, salt, and garlic. Mix it up, toss with sliced cucumber, refrigerate, and enjoy. I could very nearly just drink that marinade straight.

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

🔍 plump show laravel/framework prints a package's scores plus its latest scan result directly in the terminal.
🔄 plump scan laravel/framework queues an asynchronous scan (202) or returns the already-fresh cached result (200).

American robin, Turdus migratorius, in nice fresh plumage at Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #bird #wildlife

"Solar-thermal interfacial desalination is a sustainable solution to meet the ever-increasing global freshwater demand. [...] pull a thin water film uphill across its surface, absorb nearly all solar radiation, and most importantly, automatically move the crystalized salts from the active regions to the passive regions for self-cleaning and salt collection. [...] simultaneously produces fresh water and harnesses nearly all salts directly from ocean water."

Additive-free and brine-discharge-free solar-thermal desalination with simultaneous complete mineral mining from ocean water - Light: Science & Applications
Solar-thermal interfacial desalination is a sustainable solution to meet the ever-increasing global freshwater demand. However, when treating actual ocean water, salt accumulation on the evaporator surfaces and brine discharge are major issues limiting the performance and posing environmental concerns. By utilizing a femtosecond laser surface processing technique, we create a multi-functional superwicking black metal (SWBM) panel that can pull a thin water film uphill across its surface, absorb…

Goodies come early today. Whilst some of you are stil TGIF'in, the sundries have arrived on our Saturday morning.
This week brings 6 updates for our Slackware boxes: bottom, brave-origin, fresh-editor, librewolf, proton-pass and vivaldi-stable.
EDIT: And we have one new entry this week, the musicplayer Harmonoid.
You can find them all here:

NFL teams, players who will redefine the narrative in 2026: Giants, Joe Burrow to flip script https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-teams-players-who-will-redefine-the-narrative-in-2026-giants-joe-burrow-to-flip-script

Fasten your seat belts because the cyber developments are off the charts this week. Stay ahead of the curve and check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic releases Mythos-derived model with cyber guardrails,
--Admin halts AI safety reports amid fight over oversight,
--Microsoft patches record 200 flaws as AI fuels bug discovery,
--Nightmare Eclipse drops fresh Windows zero-day,
--China's hackers target tech firms…

Anthropic releases Mythos-derived model with cyber guardrails
Admin halts AI safety reports amid fight over oversight, Microsoft patches record 200 flaws as AI fuels bug discovery, Nightmare Eclipse drops fresh Windows zero-day, China's hackers target tech firms as AI race intensifies, Social media overtakes email as top attack channel, much more

First attempt at making tortillas yesterday. I then used some for dinner (quesadillas) and they were a bit thicker than store-bought but still okay.
#food

@… is one of the most thoughtful, understanding, and pleasant designers I've ever had the privilege of working with.
(In fact, I hope I get to work with him again on something.)
If you're looking for detail-oriented, smart design—that only a real human can bring—I fully recommend reaching out to him at Obvious Things.

I've painted the utility room! And myself a bit. Gone is sickly peach and in is a startlingly bright and fresh green. It wasn't my first choice but it's turned out to be exactly right. It feels like it brings the outdoors green inside, which is exactly what I'd hoped to achieve. Tails is exhausted from making so much fecking fuss at being kept out of the way. Sparks had the right idea and slept through it all under our bed. Pics show the lobby between the kitchen and the util…

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

✅ Weekly errands done (our trailer was quite packed this time)
✅ Physical exercise after an office day
✅ Avoided afterwork traffic jams
✅ Fresh air
✅ Saved fuel / car cost
✅ Got some Interested looks from ppl around 😀
If you wonder if buying such a trailer pays off. I would say: absolutely!
Especially the exercise is priceless!
#cycling

Titans to curtail Jeffery Simmons' snaps to keep star DT fresh for key moments https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-to-curtail-jeffery-simmons-snaps-to-keep-star-dt-fresh-for-key-moments

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 126 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

FreeBSD manual pages online: I figured out what's wrong with two of the examples in the first of these three screenshots.
The wrongness is easier to see when the text from the page is copied to nano (shot 2) and Fresh (shot 3). What appears to be an ordinary space is in fact:
― non-printable U 0009 (CHARACTER TABULATION) (horizontal tabulation (HT))
A tab.
So, examples are broken when copying from official documentation.
This might be <

Docs: an ITN journalist got a "significant" settlement after facing disability discrimination from an HR consultant engaged to improve workplace conditions (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/itn-journalist-payoff-mental-h…

ITN Journalist Exited With “Significant” Payoff After Review Found He Suffered Mental Health Discrimination
ITN faces fresh questions about its workplace culture after an external review concluded that a journalist suffered disability discrimination.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s controversial luxury resort project in Albania
has hit a new setback after prosecutors alleged that land tied to the development may have been acquired through forged ownership documents.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Miami-based businessman Artur Shehu,
who sold a stretch of coastline slated for Kushner’s planned multi-billion-dollar resort earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates launde…

Ivanka and Jared’s Luxury Resort Hit by Fresh Scandal
The Miami-based businessman who sold some of the land for the project is suspected of forging property records.

Lenovo #UEFI #firmware bricked itself, messing up the NVRAM during suspend. Black screen only.
We took a fresh image from the website, and the system booted again.
But it showed INVALID for the product name and Linux wouldn't boot. I assume this ended up in DMI.
So we patched bac…

6 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes To Kick Off Spring #plantbased

6 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes To Kick Off Spring
Six homemade salad dressing recipes to kickstart your spring with fresh, simple ingredients that taste so much better than store-bought.

Yep. Slackware is outdated. Or is it?
Hyprland 0.56.2, Ghostty, Fresh editor, DankMaterialShell and Zen browser. Enuff said.
#slackware #hyprland

#LARES-2 satellite measures #FrameDragging effect around the Earth: #GeneralRelativity result ever taken *that* long?)

New Trade Proposal Has Raiders Give up on Jackson Powers-Johnson https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jackson-powers-johnson-trade-seahawks/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Gretchan Parlato
Tonight Soweto shares more of the best new releases and jazz classics, and welcomes back his Flowers guest this week, China Moses.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yn6t

Sonnet 003 - III
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lov…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Young Fresh Fellows:
🎵 Teenage Dogs in Trouble
#TheYoungFreshFellows
https://open.spotify.com/track/3OM2nc8sw8Lt4qwmNCxb7v

Fresh from #OR2026
We have liftoff!
Launching DSpace 10.0, the first stage in the merger with DSpace-CRIS
https://docs.google.com/presen…

Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…

Oil prices jump over 5% after Trump suggests ceasefire with Iran has ended following fresh US strikes – as it happened
Brent crude spikes to a daily high of $79.26, gas prices rise, stock markets slide and government bond yields surge on inflation and rate hike fears

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deichkind:
🎵 Fresh ist vorne
#NowPlaying #Deichkind

Oh the fresh hell of emoji reactions to messages posted on the listserv. I really don't need to get a heart from dozens of others for the minutes of the last meeting... Even if I had written and posted them.

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

Jerry Jones' interest in ex-Big 12 QB offers fresh insight into Dak Prescott's future https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-brendan-sorsby-draft-interest/2770273e5a2333763dc49ad1

Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/q

QuantHealth raises $45M series B to accelerate AI-driven clinical trial simulations
QuantHealth, which uses artificial intelligence to develop clinical trial designs, secured $45 million in series B funding to accelerate adoption of its simulation-first clinical trial development | The company plans to use the fresh capital to advance its R&D, grow its team and expand its product portfolio, CEO and co-founder Orr Inbar told Fierce Healthcare.

The cat litter experiment was successful. I covered the shoes in it for the night*, took them out the next day and the stench was gone. I wasn't able to get it out by washing and scrubbing multiple times.
* For the record, I've used a fresh bag of cat litter.
Cat litter has a few advantages over, say, baking soda: it's easily available in large quantities, it's easy to pour out afterwards, and you can put it in the litter box afterwards.
#LifeHack

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega was fired while working on a feature on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/211692/cbs-ousted-60…

CBS Hit With Fresh Scandal Over Ousted 60 Minutes Correspondent
Here’s what Ceceila Vega was working on when she was fired.

It's that day again, Saturday....
Updates for Brave, Fresh and Vivaldi available!
#slackware
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

US military launches fresh round of Iran strikes (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5919086-us-military-launches-strikes-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p102#a260610p102

Jensen Huang says Microsoft and Nvidia will "reinvent the PC", starting with 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming in the fall from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/nvidias-new-chi…

Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a long-awaited Arm-based PC chip, breaking into PCs for the first time on new laptops by Dell, Microsoft, HP, ASUS and others.

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson says offseason changes, new coaching staff like 'a breath of fresh air' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-offseason-changes-breath-of-fresh-air

But if it's a jobs shortage, how will cutting benefits help?
It won't of course
Labour poised for fresh welfare changes after scale of youth jobs crisis revealed | UK unemployment and employment statistics | The Guardian
https://www.

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…

Stay ahead of the curve and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Frontier AI beat: NSA locked out, Meta pressured, lawsuits begin,
--Dialog's "hack" looks more like a misconfiguration,
--Klue breach spills more LastPass customer data,
--Iranian banking services hit by fresh cyber disruption,
--India's Bajaj Auto hit by ransomware attack,
--KDDI warns 14m accounts may be ex…

Frontier AI beat: NSA locked out, Meta pressured, lawsuits begin
Dialog's "hack" looks more like a misconfiguration, Klue breach spills more LastPass customer data, Iranian banking services hit by fresh cyber disruption, India's Bajaj Auto hit by ransomware attack, KDDI warns 14m accounts may be exposed, much more

France and Spain brace for fresh heatwave as warnings issued over risk of new wildfires – Europe live https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/29/france-spain-wildfires-heatwave-extreme-heat-europe-latest-news-update…

Did our errands again with our SUV.
I had concerns that we'd never use it. I was wrong.
No gas needed, had physical exercise, fresh air...

With 4 updates (bottom, fresh-editor, librewolf and vivaldi) it's impossible to keep on reclusing 🤣 See y'all next month!
#slackware
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slack…

Elaine Chao’s China Trip Just Days After McConnell’s Health Emergency Sparks New Questions
As Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized following a serious medical emergency,
a separate development involving his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao,
has ignited fresh questions in Washington.
Just three days after McConnell was rushed from his Washington, D.C., home to the hospital,
Chao appeared in Beijing for a meeting with Chinese Vice President H…

Elaine Chao’s China Trip Just Days After McConnell’s Health Emergency Sparks New Questions
As Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized following a serious medical emergency, a separate development involving his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, has ignited fresh questio…

Brock Purdy thrilled by fresh 'receiving corps as a whole': 'Everyone’s healthy and good' https://www.nfl.com/news/brock-purdy-thrilled-by-fresh-receiving-corps-as-a-whole-everyone-s-healthy-and-good

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-sending-fresh-aircraft-carrier-to-middle-east-amid-iran-war-strain-d0d6e98d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p58#a260813p58

Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital, at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 raise (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/heli

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

Greg Olsen Sends Clear Message to Raiders on QB Situation Heading Into Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/greg-olsen-qb-situation-fernando-mendoza-kirk-cousins/

Cryptic Dak Prescott post from Von Miller puts Jerry Jones’ Cowboys back in the conversation https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/von-miller-cowboys-speculation-dak-photo/68199f722505712aedf6e019

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
OutKast:
🎵 So Fresh, So Clean
#OutKast
https://alteredtapes.bandcamp.com/track/outkast-so-fresh-so-clean-altered-tapes-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6glsMWIMIxQ4BedzLqGVi4

No photo cos it's all gone. Home made pumpkin ravioli with a sauteed and steamed mix of aubergine, basil tofu, crunchy kale*, tomato, leek* and walnuts, flavoured with garlic, lemon zest, dill seed, and fresh mint*, lemon balm*, marjoram* and parsley*. And it was rather good, though I say so myself!
*from the garden

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 98 nodes and 629 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

World's oceans break June heat record: EU monitor #ocean

World's oceans break June heat record: EU monitor
The world's oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher, scientists said Wednesday.

I don't know why coffee juice is not available in the United States.
Fresh coffee beans are absolutely delicious.
(Very much ripe grape-ish character... EXTREMELY SWEET).
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/11707173…

🔄 Two core commands: 'replicate' runs continuously to back up your DB, and 'restore' pulls the latest state back down to a fresh file for recovery.
📖 Read replicas via a VFS extension let you serve a lightweight read-only copy without restoring to disk.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

The U.S. Department of Agriculture dramatically lowered its reported beef export sales for late June,
sparking fresh concerns about the quality of the agency's data
after staffing losses as ‌part of the Trump administration's reshaping of the federal government.
USDA said exporters in late June sold a net 12,064 metric tons of U.S. beef to foreign buyers,
90% lower than the volume it originally reported a week ago.
Traders had largely dismissed USDA'…

Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150% since its January Hong Kong IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

China’s Biren seeks US$900m to fund GPU push and challenge Nvidia
The company says 60 per cent of the fresh capital will be for commercialisation and mass production of next generation general-purpose GPUs.

Herby Vegan Quiche #plantbased #food

Herby Vegan Quiche
This herby vegan quiche is made with tofu, mushrooms, spinach, and fresh herbs, and makes a good lunch or light dinner during picnic season

That time of the week again!
Four updates this week (the browsers and fresh-editor) and one announcement:
Per the 1st of September I'll stop making the Vivaldi package. There's an excellent SlackBuild for that available, made by Ruarí Ødegaard, one of the actual maintainers of Vivaldi.
No better than that, and I prefer laziness over double efforts 😆
While it's still available as a slackosundry get it over here:

The US military said it is carrying out another round of strikes on Wednesday after Iran attacked ships in Strait of Hormuz a day earlier.

Iran’s Mehr agency said explosions were heard near Konarak and Chabahr.
Iranian reports also said air defenses were engaging “hostile targets” near Bandar Abbas.
Iranian state TV reported further explosions are heard in Abu Musa Island, one of three small islands that are claimed by the United Arab Emirates and provide the backb…

US military launches fresh strikes on Iran – Middle East crisis live
Iranian state media report explosions in several locations hours after Donald Trump threatened further military action at Nato summit

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 391 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-r…

Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.

U.S. launches fresh wave of strikes on Iran, as analysts warn conflict risks becoming 'forever war' (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/trump-iran-hormuz-strikes-power-plants-targeted.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p14#a260715p14

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 97 nodes and 538 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 69 nodes and 187 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Trump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
Donald ⁠Trump is poised to unleash fresh ⁠tariffs on ⁠dozens of countries
as soon as ⁠this week, the Financial Times reported on ⁠Tuesday,
with his temporary 10% global ‌tariff ‌scheduled to expire on ‌Friday.
The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a ‌par with the 10% tariffs currently in place,
but the administration was also working on other ⁠investigations that could gran…

Trump announces new tariffs on generic drugs to take effect in 2028 – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 391 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

When Donald Trump once again backed down from a threatened military escalation against Tehran,
he offered fresh fodder to the narrative Iranian officials are eager to promote:
They are not the ones who fear war
— Mr. Trump is.
Iran’s leadership believes it has found the world’s Achilles’ heel.
With the help of regional militia allies, Tehran spent the past week underscoring
its ability to threaten several of the world’s most critical energy facilities and …

For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand
By expanding the arena of fighting in the region, experts say, Tehran sent a warning about the dangers of a widening war.

‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The biggest threat is the president’: election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November, despite truce in bitter power struggle

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 113 nodes and 832 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata