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Daily News Stuff 20 July 2026

Tally Deck Views Edition Top Story OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld) Like accidentally deleting all your...

Do Not Password, Do Not Pass Go, Part 7

Read Do Not Password, Do Not Pass Go, Part 7 Me: "You can change your own password on your laptop." Caller: "No. I don't know how." Me: "I can show you if I can just connect to your device." Caller...

Starbucks Japan unveils new peach milk pudding drink that’s like a decadent dessert

Limited-edition chilled cup combines summer fruit with creamy pudding pieces in new “Delight Me” release. Starbucks has welcomed the early throes of summer this year with a bevvy of peachy releases...

AALL 2026: An Aloha Keynote For Lasting Impact, Not Glitz

Law librarians are 'uniquely positioned to wield influence' because their job is to help others, not to win. The post AALL 2026: An Aloha Keynote For Lasting Impact, Not Glitz appeared first on Abo...

Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel

There was once a race to put out cameras with ever higher numbers of megapixels to snare customers eager to take the highest quality digital photos. These days, we know …read more

Taiwan Intensifies Resistance to PRC Political Warfare

Matthew Fulco

Double Commander 1.2 brings support for high-DPI, cloud providers, JPEG XL, GTK 3 and more

Double Commander 1.2 has been released as the latest version of this open source file manager with two panels side by side, inspired by Total Commander. This release advances cross-platform usabili...

The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in its Recent Tylenol Decision

Last week, in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., the Second Circuit revived failure-to-warn claims under state law relating to maternal use… The post The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in it...

When Inspiration Outruns the Results - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #145

Over the past few months, I've been refining my own AI-assisted workflow. Real progress has been made, but for long-running tasks, I've consistently lacked any quantifiable benchmark data.

Roman camp from the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Marcomannic Wars with strange legionary burials found in Slovakia

The extensive archaeological project linked to the future industrial park of Šurany, in southwestern Slovakia, has provided one of the most relevant discoveries in recent years for understanding th...

Urinalysis, Part 1

Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance in that flask, and it wasn't blood; it was urine. Blood's c...

Visions of Vibrancy: Pittsburgh

The Jaxson Magazine takes a visual walk through the urban core of a city that has transformed itself from its steelmaking past: Pittsburgh -

2026W28

@clickhouse/rowbinary: when your library is also a parser compiler — The framing that stuck with me is that the compiler here is the LLM itself. Instead of shipping a codegen tool, they ship tested...

📝 2026-07-20 08:10: Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems

Slide to Unlock by Solstad This year we’ve seen cracks in Windows 11 BitLocker, VeraCrypt developers losing their ability to distribute their software on Windows, and Apple removing encryption supp...

Arthurian Connector

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After yesterday's difficult confession, I feel somewhat spiritually hungover, weirdly enough. One thing I have trouble coming to grips with is the fact that this website, while I enjoy cataloging m...

Bad News Out Of Biglaw — See Generally

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff -- accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm. U.S. A...

My Head Megahertz, Part 5

Read My Head Megahertz, Part 5 Me: "I meant how big the memory needed to be. Did your grandson mention anything like megabytes or gigabytes?" Customer: "Jiggle beets." Read My Head Megahertz, Part 5

Hackaday Links: July 19, 2026

We’ll start this week off by giving our congratulations to Skyroot Aerospace of India for successfully launching the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket yesterday. The company’s Vikr...