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Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A mound on a small Norwegian island contains a pre-Viking-era ship burial that matches the Sutton Hoo graves in England in age

Beneath a huge mound of earth measuring 62 meters in diameter and more than 12 meters in its original height, on the small island of Leka, off the Norwegian coast, a team of archaeologists discover...

Apr 08, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekend drive to Camden

We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also perfect fir for the ...

Apr 08, 2026 from It's FOSS

PyTorch Foundation Expands Its Open Source AI Portfolio With Helion and Safetensors

Meta's Helion and Hugging Face's Safetensors are now hosted projects under the PyTorch umbrella.

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

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Read My buddies and I are LARPING, which is ‘live action roleplaying’, in a state park. We find a strange box in the woods, and thinking it’s part of the game, we open it up. It’s full of bags that...

Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

PeaZip 11.0 boosts archive browsing, upgrades drag and drop & enhances fractional scaling

PeaZip 11.0 brings several user-focused improvements for those using this open-source file manager and archiver. The latest update accelerates archive browsing for faster file operations and introd...

Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday

Espressif’s New ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V with WiFi 6 and GBit Ethernet

In a move that’s no doubt going to upset and confuse many, Espressif has released its newest microcontroller — the ESP32-S31. The confusing part here is that the ESP32-S series …read more

Apr 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

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Apr 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Man bites woman at cherry blossom park in Japan, dies shortly after

Senior citizen passes away shortly after being arrested and taken to hospital by police. With cherry blossom season winding down, last Sunday many people were out at Suimeidai Edohigan no Mori, a p...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer

Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both posts are interesting and include valuable tips for protecting digital photo col...

Apr 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search

Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.

Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes

When to split one idea into two posts

Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.

Apr 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

Over on X, @Optimist_Gaza challenged readers to list five examples of supposed international law Israel's critics invented to apply to… The post Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel appeared first...

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

Giving Them Something To Chew On

Read Giving Them Something To Chew On I used to be a kitchen manager at a restaurant. A server came up to the kitchen to tell us that a customer had an allergy to onions to justify a drastic and un...

Apr 07, 2026 from Hackaday

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not!

When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of …read more

Apr 07, 2026 from Above the Law

Yale Law Has Fallen — See Also

Not Very Far, But It Still Counts!: Read the newest law school rankings here. How Much Do Rankings Actually Matter Though?: Legal academia shares their thoughts. Losing And Winning Go Hand In Hand:...

Apr 07, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Orbán’s Rule Could End Despite Russian Interference

Péter Fazekas

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

April’s Pink Moon

The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...

Apr 07, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Obfuscating My Contact Email

I stumbled across this great post by Spencer Mortensen yesterday, which tested different email obfuscation techniques against real spambots to see which ones actually work. It's a fascinating read,...

Apr 07, 2026 from Previous Magazine

What Makes a Slot Game Easy to Understand From the First Spin

When you open a slot game, you want one thing—to understand it immediately. You do not want to read the rules or guess the meaning of the symbols, just to spin the reels and enjoy the game. There a...

Apr 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Spotify now lets users create podcast playlists and get recommendations using AI

Spotify is expanding its AI powered Prompted Playlist feature beyond music to include podcasts, while also making it available in more countries. The feature first launched for music earlier last y...