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"This ghost octopus is facing a new threat"
#Octopus #Animals
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This ghost octopus is facing a new threat
China is one of the biggest players in the race to mine the deep sea — and a joint Mongabay-CNN investigation shows that over the past five years, eight Chinese research vessels have been busy exploring for minerals in zones designated to Chinese companies. These eight ships spent more than 800 days inside these deep-sea […]

Judge declares mistrial in Prairieland ICE shooting trial over lawyer's 'politically charged' shirt (Toluwani Osibamowo/KERA News)
https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2026-02-17/judge-declares-mistrial-in-prairieland-ice-shooting-trial-over-lawyers-politically-charged-shirt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p57#a260218p57

Graney: Fernando Mendoza is sort of winner Las Vegas Raiders need https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-fernando-mendoza-is-sort-of-winner-las-vegas-raiders-need-3609570/

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/its-not-just-you-bluesky-is-sorta-down/
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Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages | TechCrunch
Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.

The scariest thing for me about “AI” is how scared Geoffrey Hinton is. I do not believe that he’s a fool or a charlatan, unlike so many other “experts.” I think he’s wrong, but that’s an absolutely uninformed opinion. His is a very informed opinion.
Then I remember how whacky Linus Pauling got.
But still, it is intermittently unsettling.

This is a good short-form video series about how LLMs technically work, I think a good thing to watch whatever your stance on them is or isn't
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPA3GFqdHv_rzpz99mtKO6MRe6BYyEiPH

So yesterday I learned that #ping != ping.
https://github.com/u-root/u-root/issues/3361
Apparently, even just looking at the -w/-W option, which is different between

Ophef en waarschijnlijk clickbait...
Letterlijk laatste zin:
'Cosijnse: "Doorgaans trekt de netbeheerder in dit soort zaken aan het langste eind." '
Wat er door overmacht niet is, kan niet geleverd worden. Met een toenemend aantal rechtszaken hier over die kennelijk door de netbeheerder gewonnen worden, is de kans in een zoveelste geval klein dat t anders loopt. (Hoewel elke zaak uiteraard uniek is)
Datacenter stapt naar rechter om stroom: aansluiting of dwangsom
https://nos.nl/artikel/2610933-datacenter-stapt-naar-rechter-om-stroom-aansluiting-of-dwangsom

Gotta cry fast

So we have mini Aussie shepherd service dog (for gluten detection!) and that breed has a lot of funny quirks like when he acts submissive he is doing this “grin” which is sort of hilarious and scary at the same time