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Jun 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 8 June 2026

Apocryphal Anomalies Edition Top Story The Sound Blaster Katana V2X is a walking disaster. (Ars Technica) It's a USB speaker. How bad can it be? Well, it is a USB speaker, yes. It also supports Blu...

Jun 08, 2026 from Above the Law

John Oliver Turned Todd Blanche’s Groveling Into A Dr. Seuss Book

'Brown Nose Goes H.A.M.' is not a real book, but it really should be. The post John Oliver Turned Todd Blanche’s Groveling Into A Dr. Seuss Book appeared first on Above the Law.

Jun 08, 2026 from Hackaday

Spy Tech: The GPS Numbers Station

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine purposes. But, of course, the mere fact that they are unusual makes them ...

Jun 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

What’s Stupid Is Letting This Go On For As Long As It Did

Read What’s Stupid Is Letting This Go On For As Long As It Did Me: "Uh huh. Let me tell you about the specials. The starter is olive bread with a whipped feta dip—" Woman: "—Feta? That's just stupi...

Jun 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Ardour 9.7 streamlines control surfaces, enhances MIDI editing and adds vertical scrollbar

Ardour 9.7 introduces major updates to digital audio workstation workflows by restructuring the Control Surfaces preferences. Supported hardware controllers are now grouped by vendor, simplifying s...

Jun 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dozens of Headless Skeletons Found in Slovakia Point to Neolithic Funerary Rituals, Not a Massacre

Researchers from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (CAU) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra have published the first conclusions about the exceptional archaeological site of Vrábl...

Jun 08, 2026 from It's FOSS

AliasVault Is The BitWarden Alternative You Didn't Know You Needed

It is open source, self-hostable, and free. What more do you want?

Jun 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Fukushima City on edge as resourceful and violent bear still not found

Cunning bear managed to escape stand-off with police and hunters. As we’ve been seeing in recent years in Japan, not only has the number of bear encounters and attacks been steadily rising, but it ...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Government May Not "Demand Divorce as a Precondition for Maintaining Parental Rights"

From Texas Supreme Court Justice Evan Young's majority opinion Friday in In the Interest of H.S.: Few principles in our… The post Government May Not "Demand Divorce as a Precondition for Maintainin...

Jun 08, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-06-08 14:22

So I've been listening to #Spotify most of the day while working. Instead of playing my liked songs, I've just let it play whatever. This is the way! It's been banger after banger, and lots of grea...

Jun 08, 2026 from Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc...

Jun 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Alexander III's Reign

In 1179, Pope Alexander III, now able to function as the recognized pope after his imperial-supported rival popes were suppressed, was in a position to summon clergy from all over to address some r...

Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Personal Search Engines

I read a blog post titled Personal Search Engines with interest (HT Steve Makofsky). The author, Jason J. Gullickson, describes building a prototype federated personal search engine seeded with dom...

Jun 08, 2026 from Roy Tang

On Generative AI and LLMs

I wanted to have a post that I could point to when people ask why I don't use or like GenAI/LLMs. I had to restart this one a few times because it kept growing too long and full of links and I don'...

Jun 07, 2026 from Above the Law

RAISES!!! — See Generally

Milbank Shocks The Market: Everyone had settled into the old associate pay scale, when Milbank decided to yet again respond to the rise in the cost of living. Scoreboard: Follow all the matching sa...

Jun 07, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Links: June 7, 2026

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t hitting theaters for another month or so, but if you’re already planning your trip to the cineplex, you may want to check out this page …read more

Jun 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Pair Pressure

Read Pair Pressure Mom is buying some Spiderman shoes for her son, and since he is wearing them and they are sold outside of a box, she takes the shoe with the UPC barcode off and puts it on my bel...

Jun 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

The Criminal Charges Against Judge Ryan Nelson: How Should the Judiciary Respond?

A guest post from Professor Arthur Hellman.

Jun 07, 2026 from Kev Quirk

📝 2026-06-07 22:11

Why does everyone in #F1 love #Monaco? It's by far the most BORING race on the calendar. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or...

Jun 07, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Hungry Vamps, Daddy!

If I had a vial of blood for every 1980s vampire movie that prominently includes a musical artist who established themselves as an artistically significant performer in the 1970s but hit their peak...