May 29, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 29 May 2026 Fiery But Fireful Edition Top Story Anthropic has raised another $65 billion as it approaches a planned $1 trillion IPO. (Tech Crunch) Buy the dip. Or just stand back and enjoy the crashing sounds....
May 29, 2026 from Hackaday This Week in Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, and FreeBSD Joins the Club you Don’t Want to Join Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities …read...
May 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Starbucks Japan releases a new limited-edition Frappuccino inspired by espresso affogato Find out if this exclusive drink has what it takes to combat a Japanese summer. Some might say the best time to enjoy a Frappuccino is in the heat of summer, especially in Japan when the high humid...
May 29, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Walla Walla Of Shame Read The Walla Walla Of Shame So, this guy pushing past people to get ahead is likely just being a jerk. He pushes past three older ladies: Passenger #1: "Smart. You’ll reach the exit a full twelve...
May 29, 2026 from It's FOSS Steam Deck OLED is Absurdly Overpriced Now, Yet It Sold Out in North America Overnight The handheld returned at $789 and $949, sold out in North America within 24 hours, and is now back with inconsistent availability.
May 29, 2026 from Above the Law Morning Docket: 05.29.26 * Amy Coney Barrett targeted with possible swatting call. [NBC News] * CFPB is already undermining and bad-mouthing its own career attorneys, but its return to office plan might actually make some ...
May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A 5th-Century BC Ship with Over Three Hundred Amphorae Found on the Seafloor of the Ionian Sea in Calabria Archaeologists located a sunken wreck in the waters of the Ionian Sea, dated between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, off the coast of Monasterace, a municipality in the province of Reggio Calabria. T...
May 29, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy The Art of the Deal, cont'd Thirty-five retired federal judges ask the court to re-open Trump's case against the IRS because the dismissal of the claims constitutes, put simply, a fraud.
May 29, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Blaming ‘Foreign Forces’ Backfires for Beijing Shijie Wang
May 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval Sweyn Invades It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard to invade England. The St. Brice's Day Massacre is said to ha...
May 29, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software Farewell AWS Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings. The outpouring of support on LinkedIn was...
May 29, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist Should I cancel my trip to Africa? Plan for Covid-19 vaccines? Do airport checks really work? And U.S. Prev. Task Force? Question grab bag
May 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Mistral AI relaunches its Le Chat chatbot as Vibe with work automation & new coding tools Mistral AI has rebranded Le Chat as Vibe, turning its consumer chatbot into a broader AI work agent for emails, reports, coding, and recurring business tasks. Existing conversations and settings ca...
May 29, 2026 from Improve Something Today Our favorites (so far) Now that Improve Something Today is a decade old, here are some of your favorite—and my favorite—of the things I’ve offered to date.
May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Video: A Defense of Visual Novels I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been colle...
May 28, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Central Asia Accessing Pakistani Sea Ports that Bypass Afghanistan Syed Fazl-e-Haider
May 28, 2026 from Above the Law Naming Unnamed Fornicating Judges — See Also This Is Going To Be The Best AI Sleuthing Story You Read Today: Here's how we figured out Eleanor Ross was the unnamed judge. Todd Blanche Faces NY Bar Complaint: Vindictive prosecution has consequ...
May 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Lamination Intimidation Read The Lamination Intimidation Last week, a customer was upset at the need to present ID to pick up his package, and when I pointed to the paper sign stating this, he took it and tore it up as if...
May 28, 2026 from Hackaday Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards ...
May 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 28 May 2026 The Beeg Cat Who Walks Through Walls Edition Top Story Nvidia is planning to spend $150 billion a year in Taiwan. (Reuters) That used to be a lot. Anthropic and OpenAI have found a product-market f...
