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May 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 9 May 2026

New Who Phone This Edition Tech News Maybe we should just not install software for a bit. (Xe Iaso) There's another new - or newish - Linux privilege escalation bug. It's literally called Copy Fail...

May 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mystery of Bronze Fish Found in Tombs in an Ancient Qin Capital in China Unraveled

An international team of scientists has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden in some unique bronze fish, made more than 2,500 years ago, which were found at the Weijiaya archaeological site, in ...

May 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Read I work as a tour-guide to a scenic boat ride that stops at a historical fort on a little island in the middle of the river. After each tour, our guests are given the opportunity to rate us. I ...

May 09, 2026 from It's FOSS

Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You

Lenovo and Dell are now funding the service that ships firmware to millions of Linux devices.

May 09, 2026 from Hackaday

Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now

If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out [Hardware Haven]’s latest video on an …read more

May 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Floorp 12.14.0: Command Palette, passkeys & iCloud passwords for enhanced browsing

Floorp version 12.14.0 introduces the Command Palette, letting users quickly access over 100 browser actions using keyboard shortcuts. Search and switch between tabs, and reach recently used items ...

May 09, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

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May 09, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Police cracking down on outdoor seating in Tokyo’s liveliest street market neighborhood[Video]

Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers issue warnings to pub owners in Ueno. There are two sides to Tokyo’s Ueno neighborhood, both literally and figuratively. Head out one side of the station, and you...

May 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-08-26

I was busy this morning and forgot to write daily Pook-Emu Bee links. But since tomorrow is newsletter day and there are no Pook-Emu Bee links on newsletter day, I figured I would publish a late-ni...

May 08, 2026 from Above the Law

Biglaw Insider Trading Scheme Gets Even Bigger — See Also

More Biglaw Firm Names Enter The Fold: The former associates weren't making enough money as it was?! Many Roads To Preventing Fair And Free Elections: Louisiana v. Callais teed up Virginia's Suprem...

May 08, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries

This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised and structured. Last week, we looked at Carthage’s unusual system for raising v...

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

This Is Not How We Roll

Read This Is Not How We Roll Back in the day, when I worked at a bank drive-thru, customers could make deposits in the tube that got sucked up by air (pneumatic tubes). You can't put heavy things i...

May 08, 2026 from Hackaday

Win95-Tracker-CYD is a Cheap Yellow Mod Tracker with I2S

The Cheap Yellow Display is a great little module to start a project with, but it wouldn’t necessarily be our first choice for an audio device. That’s because the PWM …read more

May 08, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Strategic Snapshot: Russia Cracks Down on Internet

Russia has been severely cracking down on Internet access for its population over the past few months.

May 08, 2026 from Home on A blog

Building WikiVisage: Active Learning for Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons has over 100 million freely licensed media files. A lot of these are photographs of people, politicians, artists, scientists, and athletes, but most of them lack structured metada...

May 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Alvin Roth on Organ Markets

Roth explains why legalizing kidney sales can save lives.

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 Latest entries from petermolnar.net

Barranco de Guayadeque

Due to some road closures I moved my openstreetmaps planned journey through the mountains to more cave houses up one day, and it was definitely worth it. The view is magnificent - squint, the ocean...

May 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Dante described a planetary impact in his “Divine Comedy” 500 years before modern science

Researchers from Marshall University reexamine the Divine Comedy through the lens of cosmic collision physics and conclude that the nine circles of the inferno represent an impact crater generated ...

May 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

This historical Kyoto zen garden is hosting a guitar and beatbox concert

Blending modern beats with the sounds of nature for a one-night-only ambient session. For many, Kyoto is just a list of famous spots to check off an itinerary: the shining golden pavilion, the crow...