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Oct 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 5 October 2026

Dragonspit Edition Top Story Sam Altman says you have to accept some bad with the bad when it comes to AI. (Politico) I'm sure he does. Oh, forgot to mention: Daylight saving time has kicked in her...

Oct 05, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

Swift Server Has Another Google - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #156

Last week, Google Cloud introduced a Swift SDK for server-side development. It covers more than a hundred Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage, IAM, Secret Manager, and AI, while providin...

Oct 05, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

You Can Lead A Man To Seahorses…

Read You Can Lead A Man To Seahorses… Friend: "Don't get me wrong, I think it's wholesome as f***, but why did a bunch of grown-a** men decide to all go to the aquarium of all places?" Me: "[Other ...

Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Thunderbird breaks ground on long-awaited native iPhone & iPad email application

After years of community anticipation, Thunderbird has officially begun development of a native iPhone email application, marking a significant expansion of the open-source email client's reach. Un...

Oct 05, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The October Term 2026 of FantasySCOTUS is now in session

Predict all of the biggest cases at the Supreme Court.

Oct 05, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Krispy Kreme Japan gets extra-local with adorable new Hokkaido snow fairy donuts

Northern Japan’s heart-meltingly cute birds inspire new mouthwatering sweets. A lot of foreign sweets brands that set up shops in Japan create special desserts that cater to local Japanese tastes, ...

Oct 05, 2026 from Above the Law

Morning Docket: 10.05.26

* Justice Alito went public with vague plan to retire in the near future, which is surely genuine and not at all an instance of a deeply cynical actor making a last ditch bid to rally Republican mi...

Oct 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The End of Mazdak

Two days ago I promised you a grisly end to Mazdak and his followers. Yesterday was the set-up: Iranian Emperor Kavad tried to be tolerant of Mazdak, a priest who preached a doctrine that was not i...

Oct 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Ancient Greek Paradox May Help Explain Why the Universe Could Be Stuck in the Wrong State

Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades. If the universe is built from invisible fields, why has each one ended up in the state we find it in, and not in some other? A team at t...

Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday

Porting Video Games to VHS

Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they always tended to be rather sparse gaming experiences. For example, …read more

Oct 05, 2026 from Jordi Villar

2026W39

Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — The idea I keep turning over is that contentment with a small life is actually subversive, a quiet refusal of the American reflex to keep climbin...

Oct 05, 2026 from It's FOSS

Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement

The Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.

Oct 05, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al

🗨️ the feminist’s greatest enemy is not men, but stories about how things have always been

Excerpts from The Perpetual Present Tense:

Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday

Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026

If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more

Oct 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

Read Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Customer: "So, you're not gonna sell those last few donuts." Me: "We close in five minutes, so not looking likely." Customer: "So, I can have them?" M...

Oct 04, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics #379

Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30 days, evaluating LiDAR performance, Figure robots going out in flames, and more!

Oct 04, 2026 from Above the Law

Missouri’s Terrible Week — See Generally

Three Time Losers: The Supreme Court shut down the third attempt to impose Missouri's gerrymandered map for this election in direct violation of applicable law. Along the way, the Court directed si...

Oct 04, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Libertarianism and Democracy

Matt Zwolinski is right to emphasize that democracy is generally superior to authoritarianism, but wrong to suggest it should be a central libertarian commitment. Moreover, recent events highlight ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026

Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...

Oct 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese food hack says to soak your grapes in carbonated water, but is the fizz worth the buzz?

We try a Shine Muscat experiment that method claim lets Japan’s most delicious grapes shine in a different way. Shine Muscats don’t really need to be any tastier than they already are. The extra-sw...