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Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/light-pollution-could-worsen-allergy-seasons-new-study-suggests/

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests
Light pollution may do more than disrupt wildlife: new research finds it can extend pollen seasons, increasing allergy risks and public health costs.

«Schneller, tödlicher — Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die "Kill Chain" im Krieg verkürzt:
Bei den Waffensystemen selbst ist der Hype größer als die tatsächliche Wirkung. Im Hintergrund erweist sich die Technologie aber als erschreckend wirkungsvoll»
Das zeitlich aktuelle Technik im Krieg eingesetzt wird, ist seit jeher so. Nun zeigt dies uns auch bei KI & Co. und dies nicht erst seit heute (schon ca. 5 Jahre).
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Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die "Kill Chain" im Krieg verkürzt
Bei den Waffensystemen selbst ist der Hype größer als die tatsächliche Wirkung. Im Hintergrund erweist sich die Technologie aber als erschreckend wirkungsvoll

USA Today's US digital-only paid subscriptions in Q4 fell 30% YoY but digital revenue in 2025 was flat at $1.1B; CEO Mike Reed expects more AI deals in 2026 (Bron Maher/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/usa-to

USA Today CEO Says Higher Pricing Strategy Working, Micropayments Showing ‘Interesting’ Results
USA Today Co.’s push to get readers paying higher prices for journalism is working and despite a nearly one-third drop in its…

NCSC roept organisaties op zich te melden bij gebruik van Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.
https://www.ncsc.nl/waarschuwing/ncsc-roept-organisaties-op-zich-te-melden-bij-gebruik-van-ivanti-endpoint-manager

A Wargame Shows Just How Vulnerable Europe Is to a Russian Attack (Yaroslav Trofimov/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/a-wargame-shows-just-how-vulnerable-europe-is-to-a-russian-attack-12dfdbfa?st=4w4cy6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p32#a260205p32

„Katastrophe“ für Russland: SpaceX deaktiviert unautorisierte Starlink-Antennen
Nur knapp eine Woche nachdem die Ukraine gewarnt hat, dass Russland Starlink für Drohnenangriffe benutzt, zeigen die Gegenmaßnahmen Wirkung. Und was für eine.

TIL that in :nixos: #nix, "${./mydir}" will survive a garbage collection, but a plain ./mydir will not!
Took me way too long to figure this out. Didn't help that `just` gives a stupid error message about a missing shell when it can't change into its -d working directory. 🤦

Just reports incorrectly if the specified working directory can't be found · Issue #2705 · casey/just
Say we have this justfile: [working-directory: "this-directory-does-not-exist"] pwd: pwd just pwd prints pwd error: Recipe `pwd` could not be run because just could not find the shell: No such file...

GitHub improved how its Terraform provider handles secrets. So now I shouldn't have recreations all the time. But I do have to update all of them; it only took 45 minutes to change all 500 of them:
#GitHub #Terraform

Why cold, darkness worsen PTSD among ex-POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/why-cold-darkness-worsen-ptsd.html

H'mmm... I have been working patiently and carefully on bugs in my memory allocation system all day,
At 22:57, I had a build which was substantially better, but not perfect. I kept on working patiently, and now, at 00:37, I have a build which is totally broken.
Fortunately, I did make a tactical commit to git while things were better.
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering