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Echolocation for Drones

Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more

SCOTUS To Decide If Cops Can Steal 82-Year-Old’s Plane Over Passenger’s Bud Lights

Smokey and the Bandit 4's extended Supreme Court oral argument scene is going to be LIT! The post SCOTUS To Decide If Cops Can Steal 82-Year-Old’s Plane Over Passenger’s Bud Lights appeared first o...

The Next Smartphone Generation

Read The Next Smartphone Generation Customer: "I want the 10% discount." *Points to a banner.* Me: "Those are for signing up to the store app. I can help you do that now if you like. Then all I hav...

Wiring Capital to Compute

America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still waiting for a market to wire them together. The post Wiring Capital to Compute ...

Daily News Stuff 20 July 2026

Tally Deck Views Edition Top Story OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld) Like accidentally deleting all your...

Starbucks Japan unveils new peach milk pudding drink that’s like a decadent dessert

Limited-edition chilled cup combines summer fruit with creamy pudding pieces in new “Delight Me” release. Starbucks has welcomed the early throes of summer this year with a bevvy of peachy releases...

2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3 by Nick Needham

Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 3: The Renaissance and Reformation. It is the third book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume cover...

Hugging Face confirms it suffered a breach driven end-to-end by autonomous AI agent system

Hugging Face has confirmed that it recently detected and responded to a security incident orchestrated entirely by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent system. This marks one of the first pu...

Taiwan Intensifies Resistance to PRC Political Warfare

Matthew Fulco

The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in its Recent Tylenol Decision

Last week, in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., the Second Circuit revived failure-to-warn claims under state law relating to maternal use… The post The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in it...

When Inspiration Outruns the Results - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #145

Over the past few months, I've been refining my own AI-assisted workflow. Real progress has been made, but for long-running tasks, I've consistently lacked any quantifiable benchmark data.

Roman camp from the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Marcomannic Wars with strange legionary burials found in Slovakia

The extensive archaeological project linked to the future industrial park of Šurany, in southwestern Slovakia, has provided one of the most relevant discoveries in recent years for understanding th...

Urinalysis, Part 1

Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance in that flask, and it wasn't blood; it was urine. Blood's c...

Visions of Vibrancy: Pittsburgh

The Jaxson Magazine takes a visual walk through the urban core of a city that has transformed itself from its steelmaking past: Pittsburgh -

2026W28

@clickhouse/rowbinary: when your library is also a parser compiler — The framing that stuck with me is that the compiler here is the LLM itself. Instead of shipping a codegen tool, they ship tested...

📝 2026-07-20 08:10: Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Keep Writing

After yesterday's difficult confession, I feel somewhat spiritually hungover, weirdly enough. One thing I have trouble coming to grips with is the fact that this website, while I enjoy cataloging m...

Arthurian Connector

The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems

Slide to Unlock by Solstad This year we’ve seen cracks in Windows 11 BitLocker, VeraCrypt developers losing their ability to distribute their software on Windows, and Apple removing encryption supp...

Bad News Out Of Biglaw — See Generally

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff -- accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm. U.S. A...