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Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-
Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and more, told its newspapers to run a three-story package on new chairman David Hoffmann on front pages (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/rep…
'Everybody is profiting':
Trump dismisses questions about more than $1 billion in crypto earnings
While fielding questions from reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota today,
Donald Trump rejected questions about the
$1.2 billion he earned from crypto businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
“We have funds that run my money well. I’ve made a lot of money before I became president,” Trump said.
“They’re big institutions…
Caleb Downs' Projected 2026 Stats Set Table For Defensive Rookie of the Year Run https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-projected-2026-stat-line-nfl-defensive-rookie-of-year-run
Just doubled performance of the ngscopeclient CDR PLL on some workloads by fixing a bug causing it to run twice.
The PLL starts out with a small output buffer (since it doesn't know how much it's oversampling the input) then if it needs to generate more clock edges than the buffer can hold will expand the buffer and re-run. The size of the previous output is saved so next time it can make a better estimate of how much to allocate.
This adaptive sizing step is supposed to …
Myles Garrett traded from Browns to Rams as Los Angeles goes all in for Super Bowl run
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/myles-garrett-traded-from-browns-to-rams/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116675298963020955
I’m not sure if they will be able to make this work, for two reasons:
1. “AI” craze inflating prices will lead to low demand
2. While Windows runs natively, practically no apps do and many will never get ported because it’s a tiny market.
This will lead to most consumers and businesses to choose a x86-64 computer so apps and games run smoothly.
The crux why Apple could pull this off is tight integration of hardware and software, an extremely good transparent emulation layer for older software, control over the development tools that most apps are made with, and most importantly discontinuation of their Intel-based machines.
Additionally, they’ve had the same underlying OS and apps that share code running for over a decade on that architecture already on their mobile platforms, and they had the experience from another architecture migration in the mid 2000s.
One thing this amazing piece points out is that a slew of White House websites run by this DOGE-originated company called National Design Studio sends every bit of user data to an analytics company called PostHog, which, although not mentioned in the piece, got, um, hacked late last week.
https://…
“Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment problems in the short run. What is rarely noted is that the short run can be a lifetime.”
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
I still don't know how I'll use it, but I'm now on W.
#socialmedia
Now it’s supposed to run normally again. We’ll see what the situation looks like when I arrive in Basel…
#dhbenelux2026
Now it’s supposed to run normally again. We’ll see what the situation looks like when I arrive in Basel…
#dhbenelux2026
"Rare British Plant Makes Extraordinary Comeback from Brink of Extinction"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plants
"our ai breached containment" wonderful. can you have it run off into a cave never to be seen again next
Thousands in Peru protest Fujimori presidential run | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/31/aje-onl-nf_clip-thousands-in-peru-protest-fujimori-run-300526?traffic_source=rss
It's always important to have a consistent #security policy.
For example, a policy of "If somebody filed a CVE, it's an important security issue, and we will fix it as such, no matter how meaningless the fix is. If nobody did, it's just a glorified bug fix, no matter how serious the bug was."
So we've just seen a #pip security release over "installing random packages can overwrite pip's files and pip can lazy-import some of them immediately afterwards", with a fix of "pip will no longer load them until you run it again" (leaving the underlying security issue of "any #Python package can override files installed by any other Python package" as intended behavior). As Eli Schwartz beautifully put it, you are not expected to be using the virtual environment; you should create it, install packages into it (at most once!), and then frame it and put it on the wall to admire.
Now we're seeing a "bug fix" for "malicious entry point names can write outside of virtual environment". If nobody filed a CVE, it's obviously not a security issue at all. At least upstream graced us with fixing it without correcting the spec to forbid that first.
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/14000
i am not enjoying the book i’m reading and am picking fights with the author
whoever read this book before me had similar outbursts 😂 gonna run out of margin!
I am finally running some Mastodon admin / mainteanence commands that I have not run *ever* since starting the server in 2022.
Perhaps we can bring that storage bill down a little, a single user instance probably shouldn't need 20 GB for DB and ~700 GB for attachments xD
89gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
(YouTube) Science Corporation is moving in the direction of smartglasses. Perhaps a next version can run The vOICe for Android? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYYaZjOfE4 Project Next-gen Glasses; "PRIMA glasses — smaller, lighter, and designed to be worn all day";
The house I live in is old and moisture has been a constant problem in the basement. At the same time, a dehumidifier has been too expensive to run all the time. I finally have the setup I was hoping for: My raspberry pi gets the electricity prices for the day, and if the price is below a certain point, the dehumidifier turns on thanks to a Shelly S plug controlled by the pi. If it isn’t too moist, the dehumidifier stops by itself. Once the price increases too much, the Shelly-plug is turned…
Speaking of starships: sometimes they needed to help each other out in #StarTrek. And a rather prominent case is the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run fo…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Brandi Carlile:
🎵 Life on the Run
#BrandiCarlile
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hQCfLsKgUJbupwRcXKpKI
A really weird side-effect of working on what is, effectively, an optimization engine, is that so, so many algorithmic/analytic/PLT things become .... easy? (or gradual?)
I get to ... say. no.
No matter what, I basically always have the option of *failing*: the engine can always fall back to "drive-to-⊤, decline-to-make-a-firm-statement - this falls towards Run."
No matter how much buried complexity, the tool, at its core, only has one actual job: decide whether t…
I initially bought the thermal camera to identify insulation issues during winter, now I'm hunting for heat bridges and appliances that produce too much warmth.
Fridge heats up the whole wall, AC sucks in air through the extractor hood exhaust, the dishwasher distributes heat evenly and the surround receiver is 40°C hot while in standby.
Dream scenario. Whilst everyone is gloating over the new Nvidia RTX laptop, everyone also forgets the previous flop of the Arm powered laptops was not on the hardware, but bcs of the lack of decent software to run on it.
It's close to 2028 now and I pick one up for around 500 bucks.
And put Slackware ARM on it 😝
#slackware
The Surface Laptop Ultra looks pretty awesome. Pity it'll probably never run Linux during its useful service life.
And another open FPGA debug IP joins my rapidly growing suite.
These are all portable systemverilog and will run on anything, but the immediate motivation is making up for Efinix's rather lackluster debug tools.
The general concept is basically "CoreSight / ADIv5 for FPGAs". You have a generic transport (so far only UART is implemented) that provides read/write access to an internal APB bus with debug IPs hanging off it.
The debug bridge points to a ROM table …
Hey folks, can you help me out with a little something: trying to come up with a good number of files limit for a file scan (for Kitten so you don’t hit heap memory limits if you run it from the wrong directory by mistake) and I’d love some statistics from real JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js projects of the number of files in them (excluding .git and node_modules).
Would you be kind enough to run the following command in Terminal in your largest projects and let me know what number your…
Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/new-microsoft-tool-lets-de…
Rob Sand, the best-known Democrat in Iowa,
appears on podcasts to discuss his love of hunting, begins rallies by having the audience sing America the Beautiful and has a tendency to criticize the country’s two-party political system.
Now, Sand is running to lead a state that Republicans have come to dominate under Donald Trump,
and Democrats believe his candidacy for governor could be the breakthrough needed to win key Iowa offices in the November midterm elections.
W…
"The internet; what can I say? It's the driving force behind nearly the whole world today - economies, countries, communities, and more run solely on the internet these days.
However, it wasn't always this way.
Once upon a time, the #internet didn't even exist. When it did, the internet was a place. It was a place you went. You selectively chose to visit the internet,…
Based on the linked research by Charlie Marsh, here's setup-cached-uv 2.6.0 that doesn't run `uv cache prune --ci` by default anymore: https://github.com/hynek/setup-cached-uv/releases/tag/v2.6.0
Nix won't be shy to scramble after ankle surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49507138/broncos-qb-bo-nix-afraid-run-repaired-ankle
"Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions and pollution"
#Bangladesh #EV #ElectricVehicles
128gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
This blockbuster trade might have just opened the door for the Cowboys’ playoff run https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/nfl-deal-could-change-cowboys-fortunes-2026/9e004176decde3c5ec5ec535…
Venice AI, which offers access to 200 AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice…
"J.P. Morgan, modeling what the buildout would need to earn to clear a ten percent return on current capital expenditure, arrived at roughly six hundred fifty billion dollars per year in AI-sector revenue — the equivalent of thirty-five dollars per month, in perpetuity, from every iPhone user on earth. The current run-rate is about twenty-five billion. The gap is twenty-six-fold. "
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Tech billionaires have shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of the 2 June primary election in California,
in an unrivaled attempt to influence who gets to run the state that Silicon Valley calls home.
The industry has used a cover-all-bases approach,
funding candidates and ballot measures big and small,
contributing to what looks to be the most expensive primary season in California history.
The goal, experts say, is to gain both political and regu…
„Wir fordern deshalb: Sexuelle Identität als Diskriminierungsmerkmal im Grundgesetz Artikel 3 aufnehmen!“ https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schutz-queerer-menschen-ins-grundgesetz
Starting to bring up the PicOS switch.
Interesting findings so far... changing port breakout mode requires a reboot (not uncommon, so do most of my other switches).
More annoying is that breakout ports all have to run at the same speed, you can't mix 1G and 10G subinterfaces on a QSFP breakout, or 10G and 25G on a QSFP28.
Not a HUGE deal, I can just pick one quad to break out in 1G mode for those ports, but it does mean for a lab environment switching speeds back and fo…
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/inside-micro
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
I know you’re getting a lot of text messages, and if you can read one more, I want to tell you why.
The latest polling shows me basically tied with Susan Collins.
-- But I’ve got to run this race like the odds are 99 to 1.
Because Susan Collins has been building a warchest for 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴.
She has billionaires, corporate PACs, and the entire national GOP willing to spend anything to keep her in office.
We’re starting this race from way behind and with just 93 days …
Industry sources estimate Supergirl could lose $100M to $120M during its theatrical run after a $37.1M domestic and $62.6M worldwide opening weekend (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/supergirl-box-office-bomb-dc-studios…
Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-anno…
89gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Now, inevitably, half of my Bluesky timeline is like:
oh, we need a service that’s resistant to this sort of shit,
something that’s not beholden to capitalist pressure,
something that’s queer-friendly and furry-friendly
-- quickly followed by "but don’t say Mastodon!"
Sorry, I’m saying it.
Mastodon. We want fucking Mastodon.
It’s run by an actual non-profit foundation,
none of this “public benefit corporation” bullshit.
It’s not s…
If you have a @… account that is connected to a payment service (CC, PayPal, bank transfer), you can contact support to cancel and request a refund. #VPN #dontSupportAFascist
For generations, Saudi Arabia exported oil.
Now it wants to export one of the digital era’s most coveted resources:
computing power.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth into tech influence.
Few nations can match the kingdom’s cheap energy, deep pockets and open land
— the ingredients that tech firms need to operate the vast, power-hungry data centers that run modern A.I.
Already, Saudi Arabia has been neg…
199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Excess mortality. This time because of the heat wave.
254gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Is anybody using, or considering using, ngscopeclient on an ARM64 platform?
Would Debian aarch64 be a platform worth adding to CI and officially supporting? I think I can probably run it as a VM on the mac mini.
But I'm not sure what's out there that actually has the GPU horsepower to perform well. Like, I think somebody tried to build it on a raspberry pi and it *worked* but I'm not sure how useful it would be on something so limited.
256gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
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Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29…
116gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discovers-new-way-cut-inference-…
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
It's been too long since I took on a new identity.
This post, which is not in any way paywalled or gated (as per normal) also contains an offer
- Mathew Cortland is a healthcare lawyer who's run these sorts of commenting campaigns
and his inbox is open to help scientists write comments or strategize about how to lobby orgs to get in the fucking fight.
-- @mathewcort.land
199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
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Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-byte…
The Trump regime is trying to usher in a “Golden Age in Science”
where scientific research is run like a Trump family business,
artificial intelligence is all that matters,
profit is everything,
and expertise is for chumps.
Or at least that’s the vision emerging from a new 123-page “Report to the President” from Michael Kratsios,
the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In a normal administration, you could probably sk…
214gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Meine Gedanken sind bei den Angehörigen und allen queeren Menschen.
Ein Fahrzeug wurde gestern in den CSD Berlin gelenkt. Eine Person wurde getötet, drei schweben in Lebensgefahr, dreizehn weitere wurden verletzt.
188gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
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257gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
257gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2