In the early 2000s, more than half of the passenger vehicles on American roads were traditional cars like sedans. Their hoods were low to the ground
Today, S.U.V.s and pickup trucks dominate the roads. Many are bigger than ever, And far deadlier, a New York Times investigation found.
They are killing thousands of pedestrians who otherwise might have survived.
Where’s the outrage when pedestrians are killed?
#walkto
Microsoft untersucht Spieleprobleme nach August-Patchday
Nach der Installation der Windows-Updates vom August-Patchday erhält Microsoft vermehrt Meldungen zu Problemen mit einigen Spielen.
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"Since 2009, there has been a documented shift in road safety for American pedestrians. After decades of declines, pedestrian fatalities have been steadily increasing since the Great Recession... it’s because the cars keep getting bigger. According to a new study by The NYT the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, thousands of deaths would have been prevented over the past 16 years if cars had not grown so significantly in both height weight."
petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.ImU9.sEzNuc34ik69&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p42#a260622p42
Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hack
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The Olympics made viral stars out of Paul and Gary O’Donovan in 2016, the rowing brothers from Ireland best known for their colourful post-race assessments,
and again in 2024 with Yusuf Dikec, the shooter from Turkey who pitched up in Paris for the Olympics with no equipment beyond his pistol.
That both of those stories ended with a silver medal, rather than gold, was lost in the fun.
Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…