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Apr 08, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 8 April 2026

Terabyte Edition Top Story Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a version of its AI system aimed at security analysis. (Security Week) This is good and bad. Good because developers can use it to f...

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

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Read (I am roughly ten years old, and it is New Year’s Eve. Me, my mom, and one of her friends are hanging out waiting until midnight. Chatting, eating snacks, all the usual stuff. At one point her...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

PRC Supply Chain Ecosystem Behind Iran's Drone Campaign

Christopher Nye & Charles Sun

Apr 08, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: April 8, 1952

4/8/1952: President Truman signs executive order 10340. The Supreme Court declared this executive order unconstitutional in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co… The post Today in Supreme Court History: Apri...

Apr 08, 2026 from Hackaday

Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines?

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — so …read more

Apr 08, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 8] - it was nothing serious

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 8]Day Eight Happy second Wednesday of Na/GloPoWriMo, everybody! Today’s featured participant is Smita Vyas Kumar, whose response to Day Seven’s clapping/skipping prompt is a s...

Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthal children hunted pond turtles in Central Europe 125,000 years ago, but not to eat them

An international research team led by Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, from the Institute of Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the archaeological research cent...

Apr 08, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekend drive to Camden

We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also perfect fir for the ...

Apr 08, 2026 from It's FOSS

PyTorch Foundation Expands Its Open Source AI Portfolio With Helion and Safetensors

Meta's Helion and Hugging Face's Safetensors are now hosted projects under the PyTorch umbrella.

Apr 08, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

PeaZip 11.0 boosts archive browsing, upgrades drag and drop & enhances fractional scaling

PeaZip 11.0 brings several user-focused improvements for those using this open-source file manager and archiver. The latest update accelerates archive browsing for faster file operations and introd...

Apr 08, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Man bites woman at cherry blossom park in Japan, dies shortly after

Senior citizen passes away shortly after being arrested and taken to hospital by police. With cherry blossom season winding down, last Sunday many people were out at Suimeidai Edohigan no Mori, a p...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer

Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both posts are interesting and include valuable tips for protecting digital photo col...

Apr 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search

Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.

Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes

When to split one idea into two posts

Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.

Apr 07, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

Over on X, @Optimist_Gaza challenged readers to list five examples of supposed international law Israel's critics invented to apply to… The post Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel appeared first...

Apr 07, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Giving Them Something To Chew On

Read Giving Them Something To Chew On I used to be a kitchen manager at a restaurant. A server came up to the kitchen to tell us that a customer had an allergy to onions to justify a drastic and un...

Apr 07, 2026 from Hackaday

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not!

When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of …read more

Apr 07, 2026 from Above the Law

Yale Law Has Fallen — See Also

Not Very Far, But It Still Counts!: Read the newest law school rankings here. How Much Do Rankings Actually Matter Though?: Legal academia shares their thoughts. Losing And Winning Go Hand In Hand:...

Apr 07, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Orbán’s Rule Could End Despite Russian Interference

Péter Fazekas

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

April’s Pink Moon

The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...