2026-08-21 02:25:44
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-s…
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-s…
The White House launches Trump TV, a 24/7 YouTube livestream of the administration's "top past moments", after press pool ban; critics call it "state-run media" (Casey Loving/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/po
The Seahawks' run game is already thriving (and it's not up to full speed yet) https://www.nfl.com/news/the-seahawks-run-game-is-already-thriving-and-it-s-not-up-to-full-speed-yet
With alt. Also top of page 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.601006/gov.uscourts.njd.601006.12.0.pdf
What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private …
🥳 Introducing Test Monkey
In my seemingly endless journey of yak shaving, I decided to port Tap Monkey¹ to node:test and make it into a test reporter.
https://codeberg.org/small-web/test-monkey#readme
> Displays test runner status using a static single-line spinne…
Cowboys run defense still needs answers after win over Commanders https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/22/schottenheimer-says-cowboys-run-defense-must-improve/91880918007/…
Dylan Laube gets to the end zone on 4-yard TD run https://www.raiders.com/video/dylan-laube-touchdown-run-nfl-preseason-texans-2026
"...severe injury collisions in the first half of 2026 had increased by around 8 percent compared to the same period last year. "
Seems to me that the words about #VIsionZero and #SafeStreets from #MayorLurie
"...severe injury collisions in the first half of 2026 had increased by around 8 percent compared to the same period last year. "
Seems to me that the words about #VIsionZero and #SafeStreets from #MayorLurie
Ich muss mich entschuldigen. Für etwa zehn Jahre habe ich immer wieder erzählt, dass ich im wahrscheinlich kleinsten Ort mit ICE-Bahnhof wohne. Gestern war ich bei @… (aktiver unter https://www.instagram.com/martincreat…
Nuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.
The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the construction of the data center
and voiced their opposition to the computer warehouse during a public board meeting on June 16.
In a show of support that’s often rare from local lead…
Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA, XC7A15T.
The die is covered in yellow polyimide film (basically kapton) which is a soft plastic that scratches super easily and has some marks despite my best attempts to keep it pristine with careful handling.
I'll try removing it with sulfuric acid later on and see how it goes. Or maybe take it into work and run it on the RIE with oxygen plasma.
There's not a whole lot to see other than the GTP quad in the southwest corner. I'll delayer at…
The Giants' major questions run deeper than injuries after blowout loss to Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/the-giants-major-questions-run-deeper-than-injuries-after-blowout-loss-to-rams
Keir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckger03mrl0t
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p4#a260622p4
Kiddo improved its Jump & Run game with hints & more music (all self-composed). Check it out on Scratch #Game
Underrated Cowboys Signing Could Be Secret Weapon to Improve Dallas' Run Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/underrated-dallas-cowboys-signing-secret-weapon-improve-run-defense
having just helped rescue the neighbour's dog, who was running up the dual carriageway, and then kept them in our garden while trying to contact the owners: please cut the balls off your dogs.
B is a lovely big friendly dog who listens to me, but they instantly started peeing all over our garden and harrassing our dogs. i can only guess at why they decided to run off.
There is zero reason, aside from displaced gender anxiety, to not neuter your dog. i have no sympathy for yo…
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-
Orientation Reading by Production Vision-Language Models on Optotype Charts: A Controlled Multi-Model Evaluation Across Reasoning Modes, Prompts, and Access Modalities
Shahryar Wasif, Avneek Sandhu, Bin Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16595 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16595
arXiv:2607.16595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Vision-language models are increasingly used to interpret medical and everyday images through consumer chat interfaces, yet their ability to read orientation - the single perceptual operation tested by the tumbling-E acuity optotype - is poorly characterized on the surfaces through which they are actually used. METHODS: We evaluated four production vision-language models (referred to as Claude, GPT, GROK, and Gemini) through their consumer chat interfaces on a locked set of seven optotype charts: four uniform tumbling-E charts (one per cardinal orientation), two mixed-orientation tumbling-E charts, and one Snellen letter chart as a specificity control. Each model was run in two reasoning modes (Fast and Thinking) under two prompt variants (with and without an explicit orientation-decoding rule) by up to three operators. The corpus comprised 920 scoreable trials and 50,420 glyph judgements. The primary outcome was glyph-level accuracy against the chart's designed orientation, summarized with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Accuracy ranged from 43.0% to 97.0% across models on identical charts, and the strongest model depended on reasoning mode (GPT 97.0% in Fast mode; GROK 96.6% in Thinking mode). Errors were not random but collapsed onto a model-specific attractor direction. Models were 96-100% internally self-consistent yet ranged widely in accuracy, dissociating reliability from validity. An answer-key-free ensemble-consensus estimate tracked accuracy closely (r = 0.998). For one model, consumer-interface accuracy fell 25-27 points below programmatic access, almost entirely on a single orientation. CONCLUSIONS: A single accuracy figure conceals clinically relevant, orientation-specific failure modes; vision-language models should be evaluated along multiple axes and on the deployment surface before image-interpretation outputs are trusted.
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68gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
"Tech fascism is the product of a venture capital system that has run out of unicorns and must now hunt Antichrists to meet its unquenchable thirst for acceleration...
The quickest way to scale a multibilion-dolar bonanza is to collapse existing systems...
The ending of worlds has become the business model...
Pitch decks turn existential threats... into thrilling financial opportunities."
Oh well... almost all seats to the 70mm Odyssey IMAX near me sold til the end of it's run.
Guess I'll watch it on my phone when it comes to streaming 🤣
Every once in a while, we get a glimpse of a different timeline in #StarTrek. And one such instance is the focus of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then …
🎨 Run controls: mode=tokensaver caps active subagents at six, mode=wide opens every ready lane, mode=custom max_subs=N sets your own ceiling, agents= routes models where the host supports it
🚀 Supported hosts: #ClaudeCode, #Codex, OpenCode, Kilo Code,
Still running, on an elliptical 😊 It’s been an adventure adapting to new disabilities. Still registered for the half marathon but I don’t think I’ll be able to run it without walking or a wheelchair this fall.
One thing I’ve enjoyed lately is working with an Italian fella and his QZ Fitness app. I made an #esp32 bluetooth bridge to get better data points, and help get some PRs for impro…
Mike Washington Jr. shows patience and burst on 33-yard run https://www.raiders.com/video/mike-washington-jr-33-yard-run-nfl-preseason-texans-2026
Another X230 win: removable battery. It'll happily run on the power brick alone! I can't believe we let them steal all this convenience and upgradability from us.
Gearing up for the next biome push in #Valheim! ⚔️ Stocking up on mead, upgrading weapons, and doing everything possible to avoid a long tombstone run today.
Live now on Twitch—come hang out!
🌲 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
@… @… Degas: “So that’s the telephone? They ring, and you run?”
Underrated Cowboys Signing Could Be Secret Weapon to Improve Dallas' Run Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/underrated-dallas-cowboys-signing-secret-weapon-improve-run-defense
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…
Ilja Dragunov is leaving #WWE
Man, what could have been. It feels that he never got a proper run when he was called up, and the injury really hurt him.
He'll probably go to #AEW shortly and run amok.
#prowrestling
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December,
with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
The continuing resolution authorizing government spending until 4 December passed by a vote of 220-205,
roughly along party lines.
It next heads to the Senate, where it will need to win bipartisan support to clear the chamber.
T…
I have been running CachyOS for some months on the living room computer. Starting steam after booting makes it easy to operate it only with controllers. But sometimes I want to use it for other things than gaming and install updates and stuff.
I don't like using a mouse on the couch and prefer not to buy a new keyboard with an integrated touchpad. Once again, I am trying to only use the keyboard.
The vimium addon for Firefox makes browsing a lot faster than tabbing to the ele…
Случайно наткнулась на эту «пасхалку», когда попала на страницу 404. В этой игре вам нужно управлять мокрицей: собирать росу и листья, прятаться под досками от солнца и на доске — от многоножки.
https://oniscidbase.com/woodlouse-game.php
FACT FOCUS: Netanyahu's claims about Iran's nuclear program run counter to public evidence (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-program-israel-fact-focus-ad9678f602ffcfcdd174cf3d8d653ca5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p65#a260622p65
Googlebook OS hands-on: core services like Gmail run as Trusted Web Activities via the Play Store, on-device AI via Gemini Nano, and Pixel-aligned UX elements (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/09/21/googlebook-os-hands-on/
70gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Broncos' run game in question with injured Dobbins, Harvey https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49999460/jk-dobbins-rj-harvey-injured-broncos-run-game-question
The rule of law is very important in some #StarTrek cultures. So let’s look at one of these for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the co…
The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota,
citing “suspected fraud and noncompliance”
– withholding of funding that follows a $243m pause in Medicaid payments to Minnesota earlier this year.
“If those states want that money, they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate,”
said Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), at a press conference on Tue…
Nvidia unveils Halos, a new safety-focused OS derived from autonomous vehicle tech, designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22…
125gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Weil es mich gerade so irritiert: Gilt die Unschuldsvermutung trotz Selbstanzeige?
Edit: Mir geht es nicht um den strafrechtlichen Aspekt, sondern Presserecht. Also wenn sich eine Person selbst angezeigt hat, darf dann trotzdem nicht gesagt werden, dass die Person gemacht hat, was sie behauptet gemacht zu haben?
Sie darf nicht als verurteilt bezeichnet werden, weil sie das nicht wurde. Das ist klar.
Bringing up the final batch of two scope / probe demo boards.
On s/n 002, all of the power rails come up and are within range, and the supervisor flashed fine, but the FPGA doesn't show up on JTAG.
Gonna run another reflow cycle and hope that fixes it. No visually evident defects, chip isn't getting hot, and JTAG pins all have plausible resistances to ground.
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/21/gemini-3-6-flash-launch/
218gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Die letzten beiden Tage war ich vor Ort, um eine Kundenveranstaltung zu unterstützen; Zum Ausgleich habe ich heute frei.
Ich möchte einen esp32 mit evcc verbinden, damit darüber in Zukunft die Leistungsreduktion durch den Netzbetreiber erfolgen kann.
Das Angebot für die Wärmepumpe kann endlich unterschrieben werden.
Vielleicht komme ich dazu einen Arzttermin und eine Anfrage mit der Steuerberatung vorzubereiten.
Dazwischen einen Plan machen und ein paar Bücher lesen.
Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2", that integrates Gemini AI model blueprints in the silicon, set for 2028 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-plans-new-…
What happened to Colston Loveland? Why Bears tight end has one catch entering Week 3
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-te-colston-loveland-what-happened-2026/
213gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Gaps where Cowboys run defense actually works, doesn't, is surprising https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/19/cowboys-weakest-gaps-run-defense-may-surprise-2026/91818605007/…
168gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels injured in Week 2: What's the outlook for Bears, Commanders signal callers?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-i…
Donald Trump is resisting new restrictions on AI
at a moment when his family and some of his closest allies have accumulated financial interests in the infrastructure and defense-technology ecosystem expanding alongside the AI boom,
an overlap that has now drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, government ethics watchdogs
and, by some accounts, his own senior aides.
🎶 „Es geht um linke Straßenpolitik und nicht um Fame
Ihr braucht Regeln für die Kommunikation
Nicht nur Nazis und Konsorten, die in eurer Gegend woh'n
Auch die Sicherheitsbehörden werden sich schnell interessier'n“
— Keine Angst von Danger Dan
https://youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64
194gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Cowboys Shut Down Star’s New Injury Concern With 4 Words https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/shut-down-quinnen-williams-injury-concern-with-4-words/
Disaster strikes Bears, but Caleb Williams' injury could be better than expected https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7615304/2026/09/20/caleb-williams-bears-injury-vikings/
204gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Wicked Cushions or Soulwit? Regular or gel? #headphones
NFL preseason Week 2 winners and losers: Bo Nix shines in Broncos return, Fernando Mendoza struggles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-preseason-week-2-winners-and-losers/
129gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Brian Schottenheimer Ends Oxnard Training Camp Side-by-Side With Players In Final Drill https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/brian-schottenheimer-ends-oxnard-training-camp-side-by-side-players-final-drill
133gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/googles-new-cc-…
Detainees describe abuse, dire conditions at Arizona detention center https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/07/17/detainees-allege-human-rights-abuses-at-eloy-dete…
96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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215gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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170gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
139gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
135gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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