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Seahawks working out timing of Terrion Arnold signing amid CB's legal situation https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-working-out-timing-of-terrion-arnold-signing-amid-cb-s-legal-situation

Seahawks and 2-time Pro Bowl cornerback Trevon Diggs are working on a deal, AP source says https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/seahawks-and-2time-pro-bowl-cornerback-trevon-diggs-are-working-on-a-deal-ap-source-says…

The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-…

OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety
OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat.

Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar (solar is 664GW). china solar factories at 1/2 capacity! (US installing, but slowly, but you know that and why). big batteries working and improving
a nuclear power plant is 1GW -- why still talk nuclear?
so 1GW datacenters is one of siting correctly with local solar batteries. could be not a big deal
The water use is not consequential if sited with thought
rare good news

from my link log —
An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS.
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
saved 2021-01-24 https://dotat.at/:/…

Ashton Jeanty Working on Major Offense Upgrade at Raiders Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-raiders-training-camp-passing-game/

Old good time? 🤔
«Finger Protocol Malware — Python RAT via a 1970s:
The finger protocol is older than the web, disabled on every server that matters, and still a working malware delivery channel on a default Windows install. Here it planted a Python RAT that was alerting the whole time. One genuine compromise, drowned in thousands of benign look-alikes, invisible until something cut through the noise»
📧

A Protocol From 1977 Is Still Delivering Malware in 2026
Attackers revived the 1977 finger protocol to drop a Python RAT on a default Windows install. The full attack chain, and how Artemis caught it live.

🌍 🛰️ Are you working on Earth Observation research? We want to hear from you.
Building on the Helsinki Declaration, GÉANT and partner networks are running a short survey to understand the researchers' needs in the context of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and other research initiatives on EO around the globe.
🔗 Complete the survey by mid-October 2026:

Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents

A Wikimedia exec says human traffic on Wikipedia is down 8% YoY, which translates to fewer editors, and the org is working on a real-time API for LLM companies (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/wikipedia-survive-answer-engine-apocalypse/

Inside Wikipedia’s Plan to Survive the Answer Engine Apocalypse
At Brandweek, the nonprofit’s director of brand explained why ubiquity without attribution is an existential threat, and how a new campaign aims to fix it.

Finally. #Signal ohne Mobilgerät. Jetzt noch das Limit der Geräte weg und es wird tatsächlich sinnvoll benutzbar, aber mit (offiziellem) primary PC client kann man zumindest mit remote-zugriff was basteln…
https://mamot.fr/…

Working an unusual pattern of days this week and I can't decide if I like it. On the one hand I'm not knackered but on the other I don't get my usual block of four days off when I put my non-archaeology head on. I'm switching between states more which isn't always easy. Anyway, it means more chores get done during the week as I have the beans. Sparky is very confused but that's not unusual, love him. Tails takes it all in her stride as usual.

I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125

Got My Mojo Working
#MuddyWaters

Von Miller's signing with Cowboys has been in the works for "weeks" https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/18/dallas-cowboys-have-been-working-for-we…

Heads up folks, if you’re having iCloud issues, you’re not the only one: https://downdetector.com/status/icloud/
It looks like it’s sporadic, I have a client who has two machines that can’t get on, but I’m able to sign into iCloud just fine

iCloud live status and problems | Downdetector US
Real-time status and problems for iCloud. E-mail, address book, calendar, backup or other iCloud services not working? Here you see what is going on.

At today's #IETF #hackathon I had the opportunity to talk about recent work done jointly with @… and @…

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/117294922462732334
Switched for Fedora 45 about a week ago, everything is working fine, there is just one minor thing with gnome-text-editor that I find kinda annoying:
Pressing Ctrl F while search is open does not foc…

RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117114841334406385
I bet the minions are working hard right now.

#windowFriday with bonus #clock, tho we 3 minutes into saturday here.

"Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wildfires

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

Morning all! Spending this morning working on a couple of courses for my clients (goal-setting, clarifying and using values) plus a ton of admin that I've let pile up this week.

🚀 Chronivaro 0.6.0 has been released!
Chronivaro is an open-source working time, absence tracking, and monthly period closing system.
📦 Release notes & downloads:
https://github.com/eitch/Chronivaro/releases/tag/v0.6.0

Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/nvidia-nordic-ai-data-centers.html

Nvidia plays matchmaker in Nordics, sources tell CNBC, as AI data center deals boom in region
Nvidia is trying to connect GPU customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power and available land fuel the region’s AI infrastructure boom.

Kernel 7.2.0 seems to break my ALC5682 sound card. It's just...gone. The module is loading, but ENODEV under 7.2. Was doing this since the -rc. Same .config builds a working 7.1.x.

Its amazing to me how much different journal access is from college to college. I've been working on homework for a program at one University but often can't get journal articles, so I ask my wife who works at an Ivy. She gets them in seconds.

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117285970784191758
An idea to kick things off:
Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C.
Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and…

github working really hard on getting rid of all the pesky nines

Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…

Trump Gutted Civil Rights Agency, Stifling U.S. Scrutiny of Workplace Bias
A little-known federal office spent decades investigating potential discrimination by government contractors — until it was stopped by the Trump administration.

@… https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/ancient-romes-google-maps-working-071330841.html

"Conflating the loss of manufacturing jobs with the needs of the working class today is a distraction."
"There’s benefit to our communities and our economy to make things here, but it’s less and less likely jobs will be among those benefits."
"We shouldn’t be talking about manufacturing, we should be talking about unionization."
"Unionization is good for the economy, it tilts it away from inequality."

Who is America's Working Class
And what economic policy do they need

Admiring an old slide deck from Ben O'Steen @… when he was Tech Lead at BL Labs. From typical research quests to patterns in working with open data: explore first, then transition into investigation and completion mode

I think the demo board firmware is getting close to... I won't say done, there is always more things I can pack in there, but "good enough to show off at an event".
I've got:
* NRZ PRBS7/31
* 2D-PAM3 PRBS-31
* 1000baseX (no packet generation yet that's my last big TODO)
* QSGMII (also no packet generation yet)
* 100baseTX (working packet generation)
* Various clock/pulse outputs
* UART
* SPI / SPI flash
* Serial RGB LED…

OSX27 is better then 26 so far though you know all those warnings about universal apps not working in future versions of OSX - thats now.
Had to reinstall Git, Divvy isn't working and I really like the keyboard shortcuts in Divvy - better then the OSX green button window management.
The AI tools in Photos are something else and I expect will be talked about a lot.
Have used the slider to make liquid glass opaque.
Not looked at Siri yet but might start using it f…

HOLY FRIJOLES. Remasters, multiple Fallout releases, completely new games & even new TV shows...
I'll bet $1000 Asha pointed a gun at anyone at Xbox not working on CoD, WoW or Candy Crush.
▶️ Bethesda's MASSIVE Fallout Announcements...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1DS_we0lo2

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs an EO ordering a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/newsom-pit…

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-b…

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working
Employees at MOM’s Organic Market locations across the state are demanding answers after the Rockville-based grocery chain instituted a policy prohibiting them from wearing medical face masks on the job.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
MGMT:
🎵 It's Working
#MGMT
https://mgmtcoveralbum.bandcamp.com/track/its-working
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sCaihW0VlDKecbUgMSzRY

Apple has reportedly spent years working on camera-equipped AirPods under the code name "B798," as part of a broader AI wearables push that also encompasses smart glasses and a wearable AI pendant. That model had been on track for a 2026 release before slipping to 2027.
In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that a separate camera AirPods project, code named "B790," has been progressing alongside B798.
He noted this isn't unusual for App…

AirPods With Cameras Could Arrive Sooner Than Expected
Apple's first camera-equipped AirPods could launch as soon as next month, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple has reportedly spent...

#GiftLink
In a Faltering Chinese Economy, Working-Class Stories Strike a Chord - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/asia/china-working-class-writers-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.6WW1.fThhM_5_ZxQl&smid=url-share

Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…

The #git history command deserves more attention
https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/

Project I've been dreading for the past couple of weeks… One of the ⅛" jacks was damaged, so I emailed Morningstar, after trying to solder it back on, just in case they had any suggestions. Well, they very helpfully offered to just send me the main logic board since it "took no skill to replace" 😅
After remembering to make a backup of everything, I launched into it, and I'm very happy to say that a couple of hours later everything is working as intended!

Boarding a plane in Montreal for a direct flight to Vienna to participate in #IETF126 for the next week! Starting with the Hackathon this weekend where I will be working with the Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) - https://ofds.info/

Home — Open Fibre Data Standard

Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 31% after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant manner (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/…

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Working within a text-only operating system can help you focus on what's important and give a strong sense of achievement to boot.
https://theprivacydad.com/the-joy-of-working-with-text-interfaces/

{duckplyr} is a drop-in replacement for dplyr powered by DuckDB. Keep the familiar dplyr syntax while speeding up work with large datasets: #rstats

A DuckDB-Backed Version of dplyr
A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for performance. Offers convenient utilities for working with in-memory and larger-than-memory data while retaining full dplyr compatibility.

Just got a NewlinkX usb-to-rj45 ether cable - so the usb-ether is in the USBC plug; it seems to be an RTL8153 - it seems to be working fine - but that USB-C plug is *HOT* 🔥 - it's running at 54c (ambient is 28c) - and I'm not even shovelling much data.

I wrote this function to do some math, and I got it working, tested it, but now I have to explain it to someone and...
Well, that's the difficult part!
I knew the input and desired output and built up how to get what I needed but making it explainable is a bit of a challenge...
Which is good though, as it's forcing me to double-check my work.
(And I am *not* good at math!)
#teaching

@… Hey! I finally started working through your Knative book. Perhaps there's somewhere more structured to leave the feedback, but wanted to let you know:
1. The latest version of mui/material (major 9) is incompatible with the code example, downgrading to 5 which is the version you used per the GitHub code, made it work.
2. The Knative logo is not availa…

The thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
…

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/orchestration…

With me, finally, working out window rules in the new hyprland.lua config and replacing dank with noctalia, hyprland is growing on me again. Next up will be testing the overview and scrolling layout. And a config push to the Bergies 🤓
Find them here:https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slack…

Raiders QB Fernando Mendoza got 1st team reps in joint practices with Texans https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/18/raiders-qb-fernando-mendoza-1st-team-reps-joint-pract…

A US Court of Appeals rules that the DOD's policy requiring government escorts for journalists working at the Pentagon could stand, a blow for the NYT's case (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Appeals court keeps Pentagon’s escort policy for journalists in place
A trio of judges sided with the government over the New York Times in a major press freedom case.

Experimenting with skip-lists for malloc today. With a first-fit allocator, free() wants to merge adjacent blocks, so it needs to search for them. A single-linked list makes that O(N). A skip-list seems like an interesting option—non-recursive, low memory use and simple implementation. It's "working", but it's not pretty yet. Anyone else ever played with these?

stdlib: Rough version of skip-list based malloc · picolibc/picolibc@029cc74
Replace the single linked list of free malloc blocks with a skip-list. This converts free from O(N) to O(log(N)) and might serve as an alternative to the bucket-based allocation scheme currently bo...

What's ur favorite creepypasta that doesn't quite have the sauce

I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?

“Let’s be very clear about what OpenAI is saying: A group of AI models colluded for months, [working as a swarm,] undetected by their maker, and hacked another company. To this day, OpenAI says it is not entirely sure what went wrong or how to remediate it.”
https://www.…

How we defeat Ken Paxton:
JAMES TALARICO
James is an eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian.
As a state representative, he’s led the fight against the billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians who have taken over Texas.
Now, he’s running for U.S. Senate to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116927739358578223
Ah, finally, they’re saying the quiet parts out loud:
“Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side ben…

Working with an #acting #coaching client we found a turning point near the end of the scene, and when we built that out, this wave of authenticity came through their performance. So good to feel it landing like that.

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-at…

Kubiak says Bowers 'working tail off' to rejoin Raiders after knee procedure https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49943075/brock-bowers-working-tail-rejoin-raiders-coach-says

Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb Expressed His Blunt 4-Word Feelings Before Commanders Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ceedee-lamb-4-word-feelings-commanders/

So I have apps working fine on my IPhone, which is a great phone. I can make and receive calls and text. Hunky dory. BUT weekly I am asked to update an app. I down load the update and it informs me I have an supported iOS and I am left without the older working app!! WYF!!! Leave us older folks alone. Stop with bricking perfectly working apps!!
#asshats

Happy Friday!
In the office today, working on podcast edits, next month's newsletter, copy for my new website and a whole bunch of admin. Started nice and early so I can wrap up early afternoon and start enjoying my weekend.

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Lance Schroyer,
a former Oklahoma state trooper,
to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
less than three months after announcing his role.
Critics had initially criticized administration officials for nominating Schroyer,
who has no formal experience working in ICE,
to lead Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.
Schroyer previously worked as a member of homeland security secretar…

White House withdraws nomination of ex-state trooper Lance Schroyer to head ICE
Critics had criticized administration for nominating Schroyer, who has no formal experience working in ICE

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Working with a new #acting #coaching client, had them do 2 takes with the same goal, but a different attitude/assumption about the other character. Discovered the primary tension totally shifted. We get to build and place that discovered tension as we want now.

Giants' Malik Nabers says his soul has 'come back to life' after return to team drills

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-malik-nabers-return-to-team-drills/

{lubridate} makes working with dates in R just that little bit easier: #rstats #dates

Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier
Functions to work with date-times and time-spans: fast and user friendly parsing of date-time data, extraction and updating of components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), algebraic manipulation on date-time and time-span objects. The lubridate package has a consistent and memorable syntax that makes working with dates easy and fun.

MLT3 / PAM3 signal generator on the demo board is working great now, I forgot to reset the OSERDESE2 during startup which was screwing up my emphasis.
The top blue waveform is straight off the board and is unrealistically sharp and has just a tiny bit of overshoot on the transition from the -1 to 0 state. The red waveform is after a 180 MHz FIR LPF roughly simulating channel loss and magnetics response. I'll add a discrete SMA LPF to the system for the real demo and it should be go…

The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/un-turns-to-google-t…

UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents | TechCrunch
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.

Mike Sullivan is helping build Raiders' next franchise QB — just like 12 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7517826/2026/08/17/las-vegas-raiders-fernando-mendoza-mike-sullivan-qbs-coach/

Former Department of Government Efficiency, (or DOGE), employees are working on an artificial intelligence takeover of federal government services for the Trump administration. 
The Washington Sun reports that the staffers are setting up an AI-driven website,
America.gov,
to help Americans with everything from obtaining and renewing passports to potentially preparing and filing taxes for free.
(The latter is still under discussion and would be a reversal from the Whit…

DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services
The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.”

A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7...

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

During an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being "editorially controlled", saying its refusal to do "random things" makes no sense (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/microsoft-

Microsoft's Nadella rips Anthropic's Fable restrictions in staff meeting: 'Doesn't make sense'
Microsoft enjoys close ties to Anthropic, but it's also working to help companies refine models that keep their data private.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a marathon hearing on Wednesday
to consider Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general.
In March 2025, Republican senators confirmed Blanche as deputy attorney general,
and Blanche has served as the acting attorney general since Trump fired Pam Bondi in April 2026.
For Blanche, working in Justice Department leadership isn’t so different from his previous gig:
working as Trump’s personal attorney…

Todd Blanche: The January 6 Slush Fund I Approved Is Not My Fault
Todd Blanche, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has backed off his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.” Kind of. Mostly.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s political action committee dropped a massive
$53.9 million investment into the Texas Senate race, according to a Federal Election Commission filingsubmitted Monday.
The investment from Texas PAC, a committee associated with Thune’s Senate Leadership Fund, divided the media spending push:
Nearly $27 million will be used to support Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general,
while $27 million is set to oppose Democratic …

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/meta

Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot | TechCrunch
The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

A 12-year-old in California built a working printer for blind readers
out of a Lego robot kit for his school science fair,
-- After finding that the machines sold for the job cost about $2,000;
The parts in his version came to roughly $350 in shops

A 12-year-old in California built a working printer for blind readers out of a Lego robot kit for his school science fair, after finding that the machines sold for the job cost about $2,000; the parts in his version came to roughly $350 in shops
A twelve-year-old just proved that assistive technology doesn't need to cost thousands when ingenuity and a Lego kit can do the job for under four hundred dollars.

After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637

Tibo (@thsottiaux) on X
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: - Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being

In his new book,
"The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy",
journalist Gil Duršn warns that Silicon Valley’s richest and most powerful technologists are working to replace American democracy with a corporate-run authoritarian order.
Marisa Lagos speaks with Duršn about Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, the rise of “tech fascism,” and how we can fight back.

Political Breakdown | Do Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to End Democracy?
Gil Durán warns that Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to overthrow American democracy.

We have been trained and trained ourselves to lose touch with the magical, life-giving force of stories.
And our life-sustaining love for stories has been beaten out of us by AI slop, by a shitty, commercialized culture industry, by living under capitalism and end-times fascism, etc.
I get why we feel that way, and I feel it, too. But there’s something really, really wrong there.
Like our air and water and soil and atmosphere, I think we have been trained and trained oursel…

Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”

OpenAI says it is working with Samsung on its next-gen chips, and Samsung is one of the "largest-scale deployments of ChatGPT globally" (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Congress isn’t working. Literally.

There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated.
And your legislators are doing little to address that
— including working in Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Analysis | Congress isn’t working. Literally.
There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated. And your legislators are doing little to address that — including working in Washington.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers falsely told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday.
DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says
Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusiv…

Exclusive: China’s MiniMax Plans to Launch 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently on the market, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. The new model could be released as early as the third quarter, according to the people. The model is known as M3 Pro among MiniMax employees involved in its development, but it is

OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans "are losing the ability to evaluate them" while humans rely more on AI to lead research (Daniel Kokotajlo/@dkokotajlo)
https://x.com/dkokotajlo/status/2099600298855829616

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Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over …

The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed,
in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit.
The US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, said Washington had active “on-orbit” weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were circling the globe.
It has been an open secret that the US, Russia and China are working on space weapons,
which could include signa…

US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln’s supply problems began soon after the first day of the war, as Iranian missiles and attack dronesfell on a Navy base in Bahrain.
The Iranian attack, retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli assault on Tehran, destroyed much of the base.
And as it went up in smoke, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades.
The Navy needed a Plan B to continue feeding the sailors working around the clock to keep warplanes flying…

Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

It’s just not something you expect when you’re working on a regular Tuesday morning,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/belgian-student-strikes-gold-worth-9m-while-digging-sewers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging a new sewer
Kobe, 18, who made discovery on site of former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, at first thought trove was €1 coins