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After Piers Morgan threatened to sue, Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer apologizes for saying Morgan was behind the publication of intrusive Diana photos (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/s

Earl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan over ‘incorrect assumption’
Brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, says ‘accuracy is important’ as he responds to broadcaster’s threat to sue over claims made in memoir

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Prince and The Revolution:
🎵 Erotic City
#PrinceandTheRevolution
https://djredscrewedupdeejay.bandcamp.com/track/erotic-city-slowed-chopped-dj-red-prince-the-new-revolution
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OfWbtiZ3fHd64VmpCSj7g

Here Andy Burnham, a Labour policy for you.
Victorian Labor promises free dental care if re-elected in Australia-first move | Victorian politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/22/vict…

Victorian Labor promises free dental care if re-elected in Australia-first move
Premier Ben Carroll says $230m would be earmarked for 10 public dental clinics to operate on a walk-in basis

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will take down "pickup line" and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-meta-glasses-…

Instagram is cracking down on Meta glasses creeps
Content shot on Meta glasses from pickup artists and pranksters can now get you banned.

Von Elefantenhaut inspirierte Zementfliesen kühlen Gebäude passiv
Passive Kühlung eines Gebäudes bedeutet baulichen Aufwand. Prinzipiell reichen poröse Fliesen an Außenwänden, um Gebäude bis zu 10 °C kühler zu halten.

Von Elefantenhaut inspirierte Zementfliesen kühlen Gebäude passiv
Passive Kühlung eines Gebäudes bedeutet baulichen Aufwand. Prinzipiell reichen poröse Fliesen an Außenwänden, um Gebäude bis zu 10 °C kühler zu halten.

NYC coffee shop bans pro-Israel politician in nasty post despite promise to treat all customers with 'unconditional dignity' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/nyc-coffee-shop-bans-pro-israel-politician-in-nasty-post-despite-promise-to-treat-all-customers-with-unconditional-dignity/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p41#a260623p41

Thinking of hosting a 'permacomputing meetup'. What's a permacomputing meetup and what happens at them?

Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 "on most tasks" while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/claude-opus-5-

Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at lower cost and promises less "Claudish" writing
Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5. Anthropic's benchmarks also put it ahead of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on most tasks, despite being significantly cheaper. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are expected in the coming weeks.

A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)
https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.

Oracle wins a 10-year software contract with the Pentagon worth up to $7B; the contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/oracle-wins-10-year-pentagon-sof…

Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to $7 billion
Oracle will supply on-premises software to the U.S. Department of Defense.