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Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kid…

LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
Los Angeles Unified is the first district of its size to face an organized campaign by parents demanding that schools pull back on mandatory screen time.

"Watched 10 minutes. I found myself with tears streaming down my face.
Watching Trump take the oath to defend the Constitution, as he tears it down. The dissonance of Melania saying her husband would be a 'unifier,' and all the pomp and circumstance for someone so venal. So beneath the great office - and wishing we could turn the clock back.
Journalist gives brutal review of Melania movie: 'Not a single person in the theater' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/melania-2675108961/

Meta and Garmin show an early demo of using Meta's wrist-based neural band inside of a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/wearables/metas-emg-w…

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses
At CES 2026, Meta is offering its first look at how its neural band could be used to control devices outside of its smart glasses lineup.

@… Die #Physik hat versagt. #Biologie ist das, was die Physik wäre, wenn wir die Grand Unified Theory hätten:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wilco:
🎵 I’m the Man Who Loves You
#Wilco
https://wilcohq.bandcamp.com/track/i-m-the-man-who-loves-you-the-unified-theory-of-everything-version-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/70gsdxSzE5lCKCCYj2F1Yr

What a great idea, dictators getting rid of other dictators for a better, brighter path under one unified dictatorship.

​🚨 A massive cyberattack has crippled #Mikord, the key developer behind Russia’s Unified Military Registry, wiping out over 40TB of infrastructure, including source code and backups.
https://substack.com/@jaanika/note/c-1

Thinking about a potential performance improvement for overlapping compute and transfer operations in ngscopeclient.
Right now, if you use a ThunderScope (ignoring unified memory platforms where the issue is moot) when a new waveform shows up we write it into CPU side pinned memory.
Then we vkCopyBuffer it into local memory, barrier on that transfer, and run the ConvertNBitSamples shader to convert the raw adc codes to float32.
The problem is, this burns scratch buffer spac…

IoT security device maker Verkada hit a $5.8B valuation after new funding, source says totaling $100M, led by CapitalG; it passed $1B in annualized bookings (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/verkada-capitalg-valuation-security.html

Security startup Verkada hits $5.8 billion valuation in latest funding round led by CapitalG
In September, Verkada rolled out over 60 new AI features and platform updates, including tools like "AI-Powered Unified Timeline."

Does anyone know how (I assume this requires a greasemonkey script or similar since I haven't seen a config options for it) to make the Ubiquiti UniFi admin console show proper PHY standard names like "802.11ac" instead of "wi-fi 5" or whatever?