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Jun 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 27 June 2026

Royal Decree Edition Top Story OpenAI has restricted ChatGPT 5.6 to a select list of customers, saying such regulations shouldn't be the norm. (Tech Crunch) After spending years pushing for regulat...

Jun 27, 2026 from Kev Quirk

3D Printers are actually very useful

I recently started getting into 3D printing, but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm real...

Jun 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

This Is Getting Bananas!

Read This Is Getting Bananas! I’m a supervisor at a grocery store. Back in the day, and I mean way back, our company had a policy where kids could get a free piece of fruit while parents shopped. H...

Jun 27, 2026 from Hackaday

Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008

How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they …read more

Jun 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese man’s gross conveyor belt sushi social media prank video gets him a 500,000-yen fine

Cost of sushi? 132 yen. Cost of being a moron? 500,000. In addition to being tasty, casual, and convenient, low prices are a big part of the appeal of Japan’s conveyor belt sushi restaurants. At th...

Jun 27, 2026 from Gonçalo Valério

Interesting and worrisome views of the European public digital infrastructure

Digital sovereignty is currently the order of the day. It seems European leaders suddenly opened their eyes and realized they were living in a fairy tale. Many practitioners and organizations have ...

Jun 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 67

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Of the 70 canons of the council proceedings, the final fo...

Jun 27, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: June 27, 2005

6/27/2005: McCreary County, Kentucky v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry are decided.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 27, 2005 appeared first on Reason.com.

Jun 27, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse

It's our language now!

A while back I related how I had been mocked by an English person for using the word “burglarize”. I ended by saying: Okay, whatever. Brits have been mocking the American language for centuries now...

Jun 27, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Arthur

Yesterday afternoon, I ended up picking up that cat, and it has been a nerve-wracking experience for him and me both. He's a six-year-old domestic shorthair named Arthur, and he is a nice little fe...

Jun 26, 2026 from Above the Law

S&C Takes The Salary Plunge — See Also

Sullivan & Crowell Raises Associate Salaries: Probably to the Milbank scale. Brendan Carr Wants To Crack Down On "The View": Wasn't a problem over the last 26 years. Is This Satire? If only: Ben Sa...

Jun 26, 2026 from Hackaday

Fixing an Elgato Cam Link’s USB Current Draw Issue

Recently [Bits und Bolts] found himself in a bit of a pickle, when on boot his PC would complain about a connected USB device drawing too much power, before shutting …read more

Jun 26, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The Ceiling Of Their Ability Is Low

Read The Ceiling Of Their Ability Is Low Client: "Now, onto the ceiling boards. We're using about thirteen ceiling boards per house. How many will I need for the full project?" Me: "That's 6,500 sh...

Jun 26, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

South Ossetia and Russia Make Further Steps Toward Annexation

Mamie Powers

Jun 26, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Cocaine & waffles, voter rolls, and deeding the farm.

Jun 26, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 26 June 2026

Fuligin Calling The Vanta Black Edition Top Story As we saw yesterday, Micron has locked in contracts delivering the company 90% margins. (The Register) For the next five years. Apple has raised pr...

Jun 26, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Starbucks Japan releases three new peach drinks, but the real star isn’t the Frappuccino

One drink will have us coming back for more this summer. Summer has arrived in Japan, and the season is looking particularly peachy at Starbucks, where you’ll find several new drinks filled with th...

Jun 26, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th...

Jun 26, 2026 from Peter's Path

For All Mankind

For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama on Apple TV. Ronald D. Moore created it with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. It imagines an alternate history where the Soviet Union reaches the Mo...

Jun 26, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

YouTube Shorts get clean mode, x2 playback speed, new heart icon & dislike button removal

Google has delivered a round of updates to YouTube Shorts, introducing a cleaner and more intuitive interface. The rollout’s most visible addition is a Clear Screen mode that temporarily hides all ...