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Jul 25, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 25 July 2026

Chimken II Electric Boogaloo Edition Top Story Anthropic's Opus 5 model is here - nearly as smart as Fable for half the price, and less annoying. (Engadget) It has been trained similarly but with m...

Jul 25, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Industry Misleading

Read Industry Misleading Manager: "And we've got some great perks. For instance, you can get an industry-leading mortgage through [New Bank]!" Another Colleague: "What's the discount to the public ...

Jul 25, 2026 from Hackaday

3D On The Playdate Handheld

The Playdate is a small handheld console with a dedicated fanbase. Among them is [Cristina Ramos], who recently decided to try and push the limits of the hardware by implementing …read more

Jul 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 3

When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London and the Aldermen were to meet at the Church of St. Peter in C...

Jul 25, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Universal Studios Japan requiring consent form for adults-only horror attraction

USJ goes R-18 for the first time. When theme parks in Japan have Halloween events, oftentimes they’re drawing inspiration from the lighthearted aspects of the season, such as playing dress-up and e...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais

An argument in support of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act jurisprudence one is unlikely to hear in academia.

Jul 25, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died

This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across South Africa, to something completely different after load shedding went away. T...

Jul 25, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Ride to Gandikota

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest to my list. Gandikota has been on that list for a while. I wanted to do it post...

Jul 25, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net

It is the game, stupid!

Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get to see the successes –or games that I finish–, but they don’t see all the projec...

Jul 25, 2026 from It's FOSS

Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far

As usual, Canonical is using an interim release to test features headed for the next LTS. Her, we keep a track of the features as they are added.

Jul 25, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Microsoft Entra ID to default to passkeys, phasing out SMS and voice codes by 2027

Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication method for Microsoft Entra ID starting September 1, 2026. The change primarily affects businesses and organizations that use Entra ID to mana...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...

Jul 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Amplifier

This post is a submission to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, and the theme is "An album that got you through a hard time." I don't use the Bear platform, but you can't get me to not write about so...

Jul 24, 2026 from Above the Law

Partner And Associate, Sittin’ In A Tree — See Also

Always Be Billing: A Biglaw partner and associate got caught making out by an obnoxious social media video. I Consider Experience Experience: Guy posts his performance reviews from WilmerHale 15 ye...

Jul 24, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Keeping Them In Mint Condition

Read Keeping Them In Mint Condition Customer: "I just quit smoking, so I need some of them nicotine patch things."  I get them from the locked glass case behind the counter. Customer: *Yelling.* "M...

Jul 24, 2026 from Hackaday

Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead

The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun …re...

Jul 24, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion

This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last we...

Jul 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15

I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...

Jul 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Geekbench 7 launches with new workloads to measure the performance of your CPUs and GPUs

Geekbench 7 has been released as the latest version of the cross-platform system benchmark, introducing a range of new and updated workloads aimed at measuring real-world device performance. The ne...

Jul 24, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Conservative Commentator Robby Starbuck's Lawsuit Alleging Google AI Had Defamed Him Can Go Forward

A Delaware trial court has denied Google's motion to dismiss, and concluded that, if the facts as alleged by Starbuck were true, he would have a legal basis for recovery.