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RE: #AltText.

Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on "the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI" (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-connect-2026-date-announcement/

Meta Connect Event Set for September 23–24 Alongside New Glasses Tease
Meta’s annual Connect event is set to return on September 23–24. The company teased what appears to be a new pair of smart glasses, and said its event will focus on “the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI.” All eyes will be on the event this year as the XR industry watches to gauge …

EU airline industry warns of fuel shortages within 3 weeks if Strait of Hormuz stays closed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w37ggp011o

EU airline industry fears fuel shortages if Strait of Hormuz stays closed
The trade body for European airports said if the Strait of Hormuz did not open in the next three weeks, there could be shortages.

Google‘s #Youtube won‘t even show me their stupid product video unless I reveal my identity now, so they can then track me across the web. The #enshittification continues.

CS education folks!
I just read a very interesting paper:
Margaret-Anne Storey. 2026. From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.22106
It gives us a couple good ways to describe to studen…

From Technical Debt to Cognitive and Intent Debt: Rethinking Software Health in the Age of AI
Generative AI is accelerating software development, but may quietly shift where the most significant risks lie. As AI generates code faster than teams can understand it, two under appreciated forms of debt accumulate: cognitive debt, the erosion of shared understanding across a team, and intent debt, the absence of externalized rationale that developers and AI agents need to work safely with code. This article proposes a Triple Debt Model for reasoning about software health, built around three …

😋 Efficacy of front-of-package nutrient labels designed for mandatory implementation in the USA: an online randomised controlled trial
👍 a lovely lovely lovely paper in my mind because they try the things I would want to try as a designer of UIs to manage complex information
https://www.

Palantir loses its legal bid to force Swiss magazine Republik to publish Palantir's responses to coverage of Switzerland's rejection of the company's services (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979

Years ago I loved the game Trainyard -- it was a mobile game and was a lovely masterpiece geometric logic puzzle.
https://www.trainyard.ca/
(It's so good, folks went and proved theorems about it:

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