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The Economic #Benefit of #Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/expl

"‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science
Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissions

Why is .config/ in git repositories not a thing? As an XDG_CONFIG equivalent to move .vscode, .zed, .forgejo away from the repository root, that would be pretty nice.
#git #forgejo #gitea

The FreeBSD base install doc at the blog (https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/freebsd-base-install-revisited/) and the Codeberg page (

Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capa…

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.

Elon Musk has reposted versions of the far-right slogan
"first the traitors, then the invaders,"
which anti-immigrant extremists use to argue that people who support immigration should be targeted before immigrants themselves
https://www.

There is no Cloud, just other people's AI training repository.

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion

Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The move will put Nvidia in charge of a strategic asset in the race among open-source model developers to ...

With Google’s expanded AI capabilities, people can upload images to Google Lens, and use live audio and video recordings to ask the search engine questions.
And now, Google said it plans to save the images, files, audio and video you upload under its new “Search Services History” setting.
The email to users reads in part,
“Google will now save your media to your Search Services History,
applying robust privacy and security protections.
Like your Search Service…

OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-gives-codex-r…

OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices | TechCrunch
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.