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The [Brown Daily] Herald sent out 22 photographers for 24 hours to capture the first day of spring on College Hill, from noon on March 19 to noon on March 20 [2025]. A rather nicer way to imagine the Brown campus.
https://projects.browndailyherald.com/2025/03/21/today-at-brow…

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

Now my CV Editor plugin for #indiekit is able to handle both personal projects or work projects https://rmendes.net/cv/

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

when VC funded projects quiet-quit

Take the good news where you can find it: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/12/orsted-rhode-island-wind-project-trump

When you are a Swift godot user, every day is xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-emscripten-target-support-for-swift/85310

[Pitch] Emscripten Target Support for Swift
Swift already runs in the browser today. Using the WASI target with JavaScriptKit and browser-side WASI polyfills, the community has built projects ranging from ElementaryUI (a SwiftUI-inspired web framework) to real-time graphics with WebGPU. The WebAssembly vision document noted that "browser-specific use cases remain to be addressed in a separate document." This pitch proposes adding the Emscripten target (wasm32-unknown-emscripten) to the Swift toolchain, complementing the existing WASI ta…

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

As someone who’s been maintaining FOSS projects of various levels of popularity for more than a decade, I need y’all to understand one thing: LLMs didn’t change the median PR quality. (1/6)

The debate about AI in coding seems to be over. This applies everywhere, from community projects to large enterprises. Soon we'll be lucky if a human even reviews the code, rather than just one or more LLMs. I don't know any good programmers who still say AI isn't helpful to them. This all happened much faster than I expected.

About 6 in 10 think Trump has gone too far when it comes to deploying federal immigration agents in major U.S. cities. (AP-NORC)
https://apnorc.org/projects/about-6-in-10-think-trump-has-gone-too-far-when-it-comes-to-deploying-federal-immigration-agents-in-major-u-s-cities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p30#a260212p30

Check out MUSLIM FUTURES by Karim Ahmad on
@kickstarter.com
#MuslimFutures

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

@… FOSS projects could offset scraping by triggering a Google search for every incoming request

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/google-says-anthropic-remains-a…

Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
Cloud vendors are letting customers know that Anthropic's popular AI tools can still be accessed after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company.

While Trump’s attacks on offshore wind have been highly visible,
his administration has also been hobbling solar and wind energy projects on land
by halting or delaying federal approvals that were once routine.
More than 60 large wind and solar farms under development on federal lands, such as are being stymied.
But the administration is also holding up hundreds of wind and solar projects on private land that require federal consultations.
Many projects are f…

Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects
Federal agencies are delaying approvals for renewable energy projects on both federal land and private property at a time when electricity demand is going up.

Dan Parr 2026 NFL mock draft 1.0: Jets trade back into Round 1 for QB; Commanders go RB https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-parr-2026-nfl-mock-draft-1-0-jets-trade-back-into-round-1-for-qb-commanders-go-rb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/116204774021832197
When reading the newsletter, I remember why I wrote

https://github.com/Zayno/DoomScreenSaver/blob/main/README.md

Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.

«AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers»
– by console.log()
Good article about the use of AI in open source projects and the problems that arise from it, mainly for the maintainers of the projects.
🧑‍💻 https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2026/02/03/a…

AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code

Drei Offshore-#Windkraftentwickler verklagen die #Trump-Regierung, nachdem das Innenministerium am 22. Dezember 2025 den Bau von fünf Projekten mit einem Gesamtwert von 25 Milliarden US-Dollar gestoppt hat.
Die Anlagen sollten zusammen 6 Gigawatt Strom erzeugen. Betroffen sind unter …

Offshore wind developers sue Trump administration for halting $25B in projects | TechCrunch
The lawsuits seek to reverse the Department of the Interior's stop-work order, which affected five offshore wind projects off the Eastern Seaboard.

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"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
https://

Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

I should have bought that mini PC earlier last year. Unfortunately there were a number of must-do projects and should do projects that popped up that sucked up a huge amount out of our bank account.
Must do
- Furnace & AC - End of life. Went with a good heat pump with a furnace backup to handle those cold days.
- Hot water tank - end of life and Insurance wouldn't pay for repairs if it flooded the basement. The new tank is much more energy efficient.
- Ga…

from my link log —
Linux internals: how /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory.
https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/
saved 2026-03-09

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory - offlinemark
Introduction An obscure quirk of the /proc/*/mem pseudofile is its “punch through” semantics. Writes performed through this file will succeed even if the destination virtual memory is marked unwritable. In fact, this behavior is intentional and actively used by projects such as the Julia JIT compiler and rr debugger. This behavior raises some questions: Is […]

Who was Edmonia Lewis, a 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry who was acclaimed in her day, then overlooked? The exhibition "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone" opened last night at #PeabodyEssexMuseum and opens in August at the #GeorgiaMuseumOfArt. Read

US says 3 Ukraine investment projects achievable in 2026 under joint fund: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/us-says-ukraine-investment-projects.html

There's a survey about improving the 22 route on Fillmore, between Fillmore/Pine and Church/Duboce. Looks like mostly a good project but envisions moving bus stops farther apart, which Muni sometimes does excessively. No bus lanes or bus gates included.
https://www.sfmta.com/projec…

Fillmore Street Transit and Safety Project

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay
In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be learned from the experiences in Denmark?

RE: https://social.secret-wg.org/@lars/115865888017502265
If, in the context of people lashing out over having their projects described as slopware, you are wondering whether people on the fediverse can productively engage in criticism too: Yes, like thi…

The UltraScale IOSERDES cutting out all of the modes other than 4:1 and 8:1 is forcing me to do some truly cursed things in a project I can't yet share, but will soon.
Why do so many of my projects end up with weird gearboxes, crossings between related clocks that are not integer multiples of each other, etc?

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

There's one building in LA with 89 registered hospices: "Ground zero" for fraud? (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/hospice-fraud/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p148#a260310p148

I have a common problem with several work-related projects. After quite a bit of pondering, I believe I have found the solution in my archives - a bash script linking a few very cool utilities that I wrote 20 years ago in the heady days of Egressive. Probably took weeks to get it right (it automates a business-critical backup process). I'm very chuffed my archives are still with me. You can never tell when they might come in handy. This will likely save days of work.

Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muslimfutures/muslim-futures/description

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

Maybe we do something right in freeciv development, as reviews in sourceforge still show 5.0 stars out of 5 (38x5, 2x4, no lesser scores) https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeciv/reviews/

80% of hacked crypto projects never ‘fully recover,’ expert warns
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hacked-crypto-projects-never-fully-recover

80% of Hacked Crypto Projects Never Fully Recover, Expert Warns
Nearly four out of five crypto projects never fully recover after a major hack, as operational failures, delayed responses and lost trust prove more damaging than stolen funds, experts say.

@…
Baseline secure boot support for installer and releases · Laptop Project Board
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This Africanfuturistic Graphic Novel looks sick as fuck.

Alright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.

For several years now, public EV charging points in Amsterdam have also been used to provide temporary power supplies for construction projects and events, for example. The city is now actively promoting this as an alternative to diesel generators on construction sites.
https://www.amsterdam.nl/leefomgeving/o…

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
Apparently reputation farming and running a openclaw consultancy
https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-…

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot #Washington

Washington state overestimates climate law's emission reductions by a long shot
Projects funded by Washington's Climate Commitment Act have not been nearly as effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as previously thought, state officials acknowledged this week.

"Greece struggling to connect grid-scale battery storage projects"
#Greece #Batteries #Energy

Greece struggling to connect grid-scale battery storage projects
Greece has awarded permits for about 900 MW of standalone, front-of-the-meter battery storage through three auctions, but no projects have yet been connected to the grid.

Interessant om door de projecten heen te browsen die funding hebben ontvangen.
https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure

From @…: How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice…

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

Ukraine, US shortlist investment projects worth over $1.2 billion for groundbreaking reconstruction fund: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/ukraine-us-shortlist-investment-projects.html

Today marks 19 years since the very first _public_ commit of my old #Toxiclibs code library collection, which for many years were one of the largest and most important side-projects related to Java & Processing.org.
Altogether, toxiclibs consisted of ~360 different "building blocks for computational design" and was used as teaching tool in related fields in many universitie…

It still includes some road widening.
"Switzerland Unveils 2045 Transport Plan: Major Rail Upgrades and Over 30 Road Projects Scrapped" - SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/switzerland-to-…

Switzerland to expand rail network and drop more than 30 road projects
The Swiss government set out the main plans for expanding Switzerland’s transport network through to 2045, with a focus on boosting rail capacity.

this crt telecaster is wild https://eiwada.com/projects#/crtelecaster/
i love the way you can see the frequency of the note that the pickup is detecting

Tutti i motivi per abbandonare #GitHub e quali sono le possibili alternative. Il post di @…
Sappiamo che non è un compito facile; GitHub è onnipresente. Grazie al suo marketing efficace, GitHub ha convinto gli sviluppatori di software li…

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

Renewables on the march in coal country.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/records-tumble-as-nine-wind-and-solar-projects-1-gw-of-batteries-join-grid-in-just-three-months/

Records tumble as nine wind and solar projects, 1 GW of batteries join grid in just three months
If Angus Taylor thought there was "too much wind and solar" on Australia's grid back when he was federal energy minister in 2018, have we got news for him in 2026.

San Franciscans: please take the new SFMTA budget survey! it's quick!
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/sfmta-budget-planning-fy-2026-27-and-fy-2027-28

SFMTA Budget Planning - FY 2026-27 and FY 2027-28

I just wrote something over on LinkedIn pleading for folks to financially support FOSS projects that they depend upon. I don't know who that message was really meant for.

https://lemmy.world/post/43988094
There are going to be a lot of projects forked to remove or halt ai coming up.

New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI - Lemmy.World
According to the release: >Adds experimental PostgreSQL support >The code was written by Cursor and Claude >14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed >reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks This makes me a bit uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?

Das Crowdfunding für Ahu's First Patrol: A 5e solo adventure gamebook ist gestartet
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marteloschwarz/ahus-first-patrol-a-5e-solo-adventure-gamebook?ref=thanks-copy
Ahu…

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
https://www.itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

The Rhinoceros in the Room. Or: A Tale of Banality and Evil | itamar gov
Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play 'Rhinoceros' from 1959 depicts a sleepy French town whose inhabitants gradually metamorphose into rhinoceroses and come to peacefully accept the destruction and violence that this collective transformation entails. The piece was a response to the rise of authoritarian ideologies in the period leading up to WWII, and it explored broader themes of conformity, collective and individual responsibility, mass movements, mob mentality, and morality. The concept of �…

#Ukraine #russia #russoUkrainianWar
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Do Wikipedia or Open Source projects need an AGENTS.md file that explains to “agentic AI” how to donate money from all the bank accounts and wallet apps the agent was granted access to?

If you’re a open source person yelling at people to “do it yourself” when they have valid criticism of open source projects (yours or others) you 1) need to touch some grass (it can be free and open source grass) and 2) stop doing that

#LLM users should be obliged to buy *expensive* scraping offsets, and the money should go to #FreeSoftware projects that have to cope with their infrastructure being *killed* by crappy #AI scrapers.
Yes, #Gentoo is suffering from another wave. And yes, if you use their projects and therefore support their business model, please don't use Gentoo.

grumbling about "carrying the team" in any group project is a sign of some immature (and privileged) Main Character syndrome
being an adult is nothing *but* a series of overlapping "group projects".
the people you call "freeloaders" are probably carrying *your* ass in one of the areas you can't see.
this is not *not* a post about stack ranking

"Spain allocates funding for 9.4 GWh of large-scale storage projects"
#Spain #Energy #Batteries

Spain allocates funding for 9.4 GWh of large-scale storage projects
Spain has awarded more than €818 million ($956.3 million) in European Union funding to 126 energy storage projects totaling 2.2 GW of power and 9.4 GWh of capacity.

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva | Original editorial and merchandise design :: Behance
Follow Vasilena here: @…
https://www.behance.net/fonhea/

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva - Editorial, graphic design, illustration in Bulgaria
Book cover designer, graphic designer, illustrator. I have completed my design education in Alois Senefelder Munich and have a lot of expereince working in the creative field. See other illustration and design portfolio work on the link above.

@13a@mastodon.social
The problem I see is that if they are not asking the right questions about the risks, and simple consider the technical challenges, being careful with the demo projects now cannot and will not inform what happens at scale.
And the real problems will only appear at larger scale deployment.
Which is why I advocate for a NEPA-like process, where the design of the study is based on input from the variety of experts in the range of disciplines related to cl…

@13a@mastodon.social
The problem I see is that if they are not asking the right questions about the risks, and simple consider the technical challenges, being careful with the demo projects now cannot and will not inform what happens at scale.
And the real problems will only appear at larger scale deployment.
Which is why I advocate for a NEPA-like process, where the design of the study is based on input from the variety of experts in the range of disciplines related to cl…

Is anyone an iOS or Mac app developer? I could use a little help. Nothing big just small side projects

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
💻

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Thinking about #MuslimFutures and what we can build, rather than what was/is/will be taken from us. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muslimfutures/muslim-futures…

MUSLIM FUTURES
A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

from my link log —
Simple screw and nut dispensers.
https://mitxela.com/projects/screwcounter
saved 2026-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/7U00…

#StarTrek Comm Badge for #HomeAssistant Voice Control
https://community.hom…

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

NLNetLabs is sun setting their community mailing lists in favor of Discourse (which does support some email interaction).
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/introducing-the-nlnet-labs-community-forum/
One of the big netop adjacent orgs since EDUCAUSE I've se…

Introducing the NLnet Labs Community forum
By Alex Band We're happy to introduce community.nlnetlabs.nl, NLnet Labs' new platform for discussion on our various open source projects. Over the last years, the number of projects and collaboration platforms we maintain for our community has grown to the point where we wanted to consolidate them. After

it would be an understatement to say that tomorrow will be a very big day
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome

Updated my free-for-dev Contributing Guide, Code of Conduct, Readme, PR templates, Added AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md that tells bots not to contribute.
Still you get daily fuckers like this who just drive by dump their projects on 100s (or exactly 100 in this case) lists with no regard for list polilcies.
Now just closing without even any discussion anything that even looks like LLM generated.

Democrat Shawn Harris to face Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller in runoff to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, CNN projects (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-seat-clay-fuller-shawn-harris-runoff
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p141#a260310p141

Carnell Tate declares for NFL Draft: Ohio State WR projects as potential first-round pick

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/carnell-tate-dec…

HPE reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $9.3B, vs. $9.37B est., Cloud and AI revenue down 2.7% YoY to $6.3B but reports an AI server backlog of $5B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/hpe-project…

"India’s energy storage market set for breakout year in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables

India’s energy storage market set for breakout year in 2026
After a record year for energy storage tenders in 2025, projects awarded since mid-2023 are expected to begin commissioning in 2026, reflecting typical development timelines of 18 to 24 months.

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
@https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?id=JmnaAbNVz3nl

from my link log —
BLAKE2s hashing accelerator: a solo tapeout journey.
https://essenceia.github.io/projects/blake2s_hashing_accelerator_a_solo_tapeout_journey/
saved 2026-01-08

"The study Vibe Coding Kills Open Source, takes an economic view of the problem and asks the question: is vibe coding economically sustainable? Can OSS survive when so many of its users are takers and not givers? According to the study, no."
(Original title: Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue)

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

Suspicions in the crypto community point to AI-supported hackers carrying out a concentrated campaign to steal around $5 million in old and sometimes abandoned DeFi projects.
Is an AI hacker targeting old DeFi projects in $5M spree?
https://protos.com/is-an-ai-hacker-tar

Is an AI hacker targeting old DeFi projects in $5M spree?
Old Ribbon Finance, Yearn Finance and Rari Capital contracts were hacked. Are attackers using AI to scan for missed opportunities in DeFi?

DNS-OARC has officially moved from #GitHub to #Codeberg.
This seems mildly noteworthy to me. They have a number of widely used DNS-related utilities and projects that had been on GitHub for many years.

DNS-OARC
The DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Center. DNS-OARC has 38 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides #Git #hosting and other services for #free and #opensource …

US, Ukraine launch online portal for potential investment projects under minerals deal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/us-ukraine-launch-online-portal.html

from my link log —
How to pick a random number from 1-10 using only people.
https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng
saved 2019-07-01 https://

Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts
to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.
⚠️But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.
At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by
⚡️Cerberus Capital Management,
a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.

Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600 MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-unveils-sweeping-…

The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains. (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/projects/2026/epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p42#a260304p42

Awaiting a clearer picture to evaluate the long term financial viability of #Starlink:
"I doubt that investors are fully factoring in launch costs, satellite support and management into their bullishness. Most of them have no access to operating expenses. These include ground network costs, customer support, and satellite management."

The Starlink Financial Mystery: Caveats Concerning Its Profitability
subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,

"Poland allocates subsidies to 14.5 GWh of energy storage projects"
#Poland #Energy
https:/…

Poland allocates subsidies to 14.5 GWh of energy storage projects
Poland has awarded public support to 172 large-scale battery storage projects totaling 14.5 GWh, with construction required to be completed by the end of 2028.

X revises its developer API policies to "no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka "infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (André Beganski/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354736/elon-musks-x-bans-acc…

Elon Musk's X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash
X is making major changes to its API to prevent access by "InfoFi" crypto projects that seek to incentivize "reply spam," an exec said.

Microsoft plans to keep Anthropic's tools embedded in client products, after its lawyers determine the DOD's designation doesn't apply to non-defense projects (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-…

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist
Microsoft is the first major company to say it will keep using Anthropic models in its products.