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Daily News Stuff 26 June 2026

Fuligin Calling The Vanta Black Edition Top Story As we saw yesterday, Micron has locked in contracts delivering the company 90% margins. (The Register) For the next five years. Apple has raised pr...

This Week in Security: Stealing Email with AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, the World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, and GPSD Bugs

Firefox recently added integrated AI support — a generally poorly received move among many Firefox users — that includes an AI chatbot integration for interacting with web pages. Florian Port …read...

Gemini app debuts adaptive study notebooks and integrated test prep

Google Gemini has introduced study notebooks, enabling students to generate personalized lessons and quizzes based on their learning goals and class materials. These adaptive notebooks sync with No...

A Mighty Morphin’ Mistake

Read A Mighty Morphin’ Mistake When I was about five, I went to a Power Rangers Live Show. Walking into the venue, there were vendors lining the entrances to the real theater, selling all sorts of ...

New Essay: Obergefell's Second Decade

Progressives continue to bemoan the Roberts Court's supposed "illegitimacy." But a case they venerate remains the measuring stick for judicial hubris.

Morning Docket: 06.26.26

* Todd Blanche "conceded" to breaking Epstein file disclosure law. Judge gives DOJ a week to fix it. [Politico] * Republicans flail trying to explain how they oppose birthright citizenship and stil...

Tokyo cops arrest foreigner for suspected visa violation, don’t know what new residence cards look like

Seems like the people doing on-the-street immigration checks should know what immigration documents look like, doesn’t it? As we’ve talked about before, police officers in Japan sometimes engage in...

📝 2026-06-26 13:59: My first rather large #3DPrinting project. Can anyone work out what they are? (No they're...

My first rather large #3DPrinting project. Can anyone work out what they are? (No they're not abstract Starship Enterprises) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You...

Why Did the Romans Never Recover Their Hoards? A Massive Study with 18,200 Finds Reveals the Reason

Throughout history, humans have hidden their most precious belongings—coins, jewelry, weapons, religious objects—underground. From the Romans to the Vikings, through the Middle Ages, archaeologists...

Race and Ethnicity, Part 3

Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote (again) Regino of Prüm:"Nor should it be forgotten that, just as different nati...

The irony of the hantavirus quarantine

Can we finally have an honest conversation?

Strava killed its free API, so I built my own fitness platform with Endurain and FitPub instead

“Strava has been a big part of my fitness workflow for one big reason. I don’t really care about leaderboards or social features, but it acts as a great hub between devices, apps, and services. I u...

Banking Apps, No Google, and a Locked Bootloader: How iodé Makes Privacy Android Work for Everyone

In discussion with Brian from Iodé project and how Iodé is addressing issues de-Googled smartphone users face.

How to Play Hytale With Friends and Host Your Own Server

Most games are more enjoyable when played with other people, and Hytale is no different. There is more than one way to play this game in multiplayer, so the fun never stops. Here are several ways y...

Un petit mot de nos sponsors…

Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Comme pour les stades ou les équipes cyclistes, il est important de nommer les vagues de chaleur et les canicules selon les sponsors qui ont rendu cela possible. C’est...

No Points For Held Tongues — See Also

Alito Whines He Could Have Said More In Disagreement With Sotomayor: Reserve what you should have argued for the shower, bub. Who Needs Milbank When You Have Groombridge?!: The boutique firm is com...

Russia Expanding Soft Power in Georgia via Culture and Language

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Fixing a Warped Paperback Spine With Gentle Heating

Although paperbacks are a much-loved aspect of the literary world, they are not really intended to last the decades the way that hardcover books are. Beyond the typical ravaged covers, …read more

No Sitting On The Fence With This Customer Service

Read No Sitting On The Fence With This Customer Service Customer: "So the caps arrived this morning." Me: "That's great to hear!" Customer: "But they would have arrived today anyway if we'd stuck t...

Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies