May 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 8 May 2026 Friday On My Mind Edition Top Story There's a local privilege escalation bug that affects all recent versions of Linux. (Tom's Hardware) No, not that one, another one. It abuses bugs in three optio...
May 08, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Untitled Read Back in the late ’90s and early oughts I worked at Renaissance Festival selling pewter. We had glasses, goblets, figurines and letter openers; one letter opener in particular had a wavy pewter...
May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition An Archaeological Study Changes the View on the Etruscan City of Veii: It Was Not a Failure in Roman Times, but an Example of Community Resilience When archaeologists talk about the ancient city of Veii, about 17 kilometers north of Rome, they usually divide its history into two very different acts. The first, glorious: between the 6th and 4t...
May 08, 2026 from Hackaday An Improved Robot Dog for Senior Design [Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more
May 08, 2026 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform app...
May 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ONLYOFFICE Workspace 12.8.0 adds Apple, Visio, and Hancom file support ONLYOFFICE has released Workspace 12.8.0, an update focused on broader file compatibility and stability improvements. The main change is expanded support for Apple formats, allowing users to open a...
May 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- A letter from our reporter’s deceased mother arrives at just the right time A 10-year wait turns out to be exactly the right length to warm her heart. A while back, our Japanese-language reporter Mariko Ohanabatake was sorting through her mail for the day, and mixed in amo...
May 08, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Minimizing and Finding Satisfaction with Less We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years. During that time, my in-laws from Viet Nam stayed with us for s...
May 08, 2026 from Roy Tang MTG: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New set has already been out for like a few weeks, so this is my set recap for the previous set Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set! Flavor I have decent familiarity with the source material, possibly...
May 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Preserving Strawberry Freshness I came across a blog post by Chris Glass titled Strawberries were on sale. Having not long ago published an article about once purchasing out-of-season cherries on sale. I had to open. While Mr. Gl...
May 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Blogging and the Niche Question Considering whether a blog or writing website should be niche or generalist leads to reflections on related issues about "true blogging."
May 07, 2026 from Above the Law Decades Spanning Web Of Insider Trading — See Also Yale Law Grad Accused Of Facilitating Insider Trading Scheme: Some of the largest M&A practices were taken advantage of. Taking A Break With The Kardashians: Kim plans to break from bar prepping un...
May 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Medically Approved Molecules Read Medically Approved Molecules Me: "Let me go check the back. If I can't find any back there, shall I substitute it for another brand?" Customer: "I don’t drink anything but Evian because other ...
May 07, 2026 from Hackaday How To Avoid Failed Screw Holes In 3D Printed Parts Screws are useful fasteners for 3D prints, but the effectiveness of a screw (not to mention the ease or hassle of insertion) depends on the hole itself. This comprehensive guide …read more
May 07, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Georgian Dream Sends Mixed Messages Amid Push for U.S. Diplomatic ‘Reset’ Beka Chedia
May 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy US Court of International Trade Rules Against Trump's Section 122 Tariffs The 2-1 decision concludes Trump's massive new tariffs are illegal because there is no "balance of payments deficit" of the kind needed to authorize them.
May 07, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net Pico de las Nieves in the cloud My first destination on Gran Canaria was the pine forest close to me. I've been to southern pine forests at other locations, but that wonderful, serene scent that a canary pine forest disperses whe...
May 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Writer’s Take on Not Wasting Readers’ Time Cesar Aguirre writes “[t]elling readers you don’t want to waste their time is already wasting it.” I agree. It comes off as protesting too much. In Staying the Course in Writing in the LLM Moment, ...
May 07, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 7 May 2026 Young Hannibal Edition Top Story New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma came from the company's AI division, leading to unease among gamers. She just cancelled Copilot on Xbox and mobile. (The Verge) The only wa...
