May 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 May 2026 Omnispoo Edition Top Story Utah has decided to make it a crime to use VPNs to bypass age verification checks. (Tom's Hardware) Since anyone can set up a VPN of their own in minutes using open sourc...
May 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Sometimes Systems Go Down, Sometimes Sith Happens Read Sometimes Systems Go Down, Sometimes Sith Happens Me: "Ma'am! You still have to pay for the items!" Customer: "You won't ring me out, so I'm just leaving." Me: "Ma'am, I was trying to ring you...
May 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Researchers Discover How Oaks Trick Their Predators by Delaying the Start of Spring The analysis, carried out using Sentinel-1 radar satellites over 2,400 square kilometers of forest in Lower Franconia (Germany), reveals that this temporary and reversible strategy is more effectiv...
May 04, 2026 from Hackaday TDR For Auto Diagnostics Done On The Cheap A time domain reflectometer (TDR) is a useful tool to have for finding faults in a wiring harness. However, they don’t come cheap, putting them out of reach for many …read more
May 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.8 improves keyboard layout support, MSXML reimplementation, VBScript & Mono engine Wine 11.8 is now available, furthering its role as a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD. This latest release updates the built-in Mono engine to version 1...
May 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Beard Papa goes beyond just matcha with its new premium green tea cream puffs Grown-in-the-shade green tea gets its time to shine. As green tea and green tea sweets continue to grow in popularity around the world, so too do attempts to upsell it. Outside Japan, you may, for ...
May 03, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026 Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to …read more
May 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com How Do I (In)Put This Gently Read How Do I (In)Put This Gently One day, a lady called in and stated her new computer "wasn't doing anything." Me: "Is the unit powering up?" Caller: "Oh, it is, but it's not doing anything." Rea...
May 03, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #359 Today issue turned into a bit of a YouTube party as I'm traveling and I don't have as much time as I would like to do some proper research for the newsletter. Still, these are some solid engineerin...
May 03, 2026 from Above the Law Accidentally Filing A Draft Motion Might Be The Least Embarrassing DOJ Story Of The Week — See Generally Tell Me The DOJ Didn't Check The Filing Without Telling Me: Justice Department files motion complete with giant "DRAFT" watermark on every page. Cracker jack lawyering! Somehow This Wasn't The Most...
May 03, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Our Coblogger Stewart Baker Has Died It grieves me to report that our coblogger, and my friend, Stewart Baker died suddenly a few days ago at… The post Our Coblogger Stewart Baker Has Died appeared first on Reason.com.
May 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 May 2026 Sorry Not Sorry Edition Top Story The CPanel exploit is being exploited as a ransomware attack that encrypts your entire website. (Bleeping Computer) Well, I dodged that one, at least.Numerous sour...
May 03, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Samurai Coffee: Try Edo period coffee once enjoyed by Japanese warriors Cafe in Japan uses a recipe from an old document to recreate a historic brew. Japan might be commonly associated with tea, but coffee is also a big part of the culture, having first been introduced...
May 03, 2026 from The Linkfest Linkfest #44: Microchimerism, Sonic-Boom Duct Tape, and the Hidden Tetris Champion Hello there! It’s time again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest Linkfest, for which I have sifted through the entire dang Internet, top to bottom, looking for the finest items in scien...
May 03, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini app adds file generation for PDFs, Word, Excel, and Google Docs Google’s Gemini app now lets users create downloadable and shareable files directly from a chat prompt, reducing the need to copy, paste, or manually reformat content between apps. Text, drafts, su...
May 03, 2026 from Chuniversiteit Tackling gender biases in AI-driven systems This paper presents a handful of recommendations for designing effective guidelines to tackle gender biases in AI.
May 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Provisions Overturned The Provisions of Oxford, a result of the barons demanding reforms from King Henry III during the Mad Parliament in exchange for raising money for him, were overturned a few years later.Henry's nee...
May 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Copper Age Settlement in Portugal Imported Rock Blades for Its Tools from Granada, Over 500 Kilometers Away, Exactly the Same as the Local Ones Vila Nova de São Pedro, a fortified village located in the Azambuja region (Portugal), was during the Copper Age (between 2800 and 2100 BCE) a center of great significance. Thousands of stone tools...
May 03, 2026 from Roy Tang Weeknotes 2026-05-03 Hey, it's May! Time continues to pass by quickly. The World Iran crisis is still ongoing, no end in sight. I think gas prices over here are going up again tomorrow. My Week There was a Honkai Star ...
