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A happy, explorative trip in the sun! 🌞 🌼
(Only interrupted every 40m by a high-risk, life-or-death situation, where anytime an #SUV could have exited and crushed her. 🤷 )
#urbanplanning #parenting

Anthropic acquires NYC-based Stainless, which generates SDKs from APIs, and plans to wind down its hosted products, after reportedly discussing a $300M deal (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/anth

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

Arrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!
#histodons

My colleague John "Spike" Hughes just retired. To celebrate, the visual computing group did a "reverse lecture": others each presented a favorite result of his, and he commented. Lots of fun, and a very accessible look at some great graphics/HCI results.
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Ariel Avanzi has joined NERDS
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/05/11/ariel-avanzi-has-joined-nerds/

Wut? A campaign aimed at UK Boots shoppers involved infrastructure in Romania with phishing content hosted on a compromised Bolivian gov't site, with emails sent using a legit bulk mailing app that attackers installed on a compromised UK business terminal server.

Got a Boots email offering 'free gift beauty sample pack'? Well, 8.8 million of us got the same thing from Romanian hackers looking to steal our credit cards (and more)
A fake Boots giveaway reached nearly 9 million inboxes as hackers turned compromised systems into phishing machines

New NERDS publication on right-wing votes and bike network delays
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/17/new-nerds-publication-on-right-wing-votes-and-bike-network-delays/

Last week, New Christendom Press hosted its annual conference in Ogden, Utah, called
"The War For Normal."
Featuring Christian nationalist speakers such as
Stephen Wolfe and Andrew Isker,
the conference generated controversy when it was reported that a vendor was being allowed to sell
Nazi and "pro-white" books at the event.
New Christendom Press founders Brian Sauvé and Eric Conn addressed the controversy on their "The King's …

Brian Sauvé Is Fine With Nazism, But Draws The Line At Paganism
Christian nationalist pastor Brian Sauvé had no problem with a vendor selling pro-Nazi and "pro-white" content at his recent conference, but he did have to draw the line at promoting paganism.

New NERDS publication on fairness of human-AI collaboration in candidate recommendation
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/06/29/new-nerds-publication-on-fairness-of-human-ai-collaboration-in-candidate-recommendation/