May 17, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #360 If you were eagerly awaiting your weekly dose of robotics news and it didn't come - apologies; I've been traveling quite a bit and getting older, I find it harder and harder to borrow 4+ hours of s...
May 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Emu Café and Blog Hospitality In part four of six of my blogging "wisdom" series, I revisit "Welcome to The Emu Café" six years after its original publication and use it to discuss blog hospitality.
May 17, 2026 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) A Markdown-based test suite This article is not about AI and it is not written with AI, but the work that I’m about to present was definitely motivated by AI. And because I generally like telling stories, I have to give you t...
May 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizdat From Wikipedia, photo by Dmitry Rozhkov of display "Rock on bones" in Gallery "Vinzavod", Moscow (2008) My father Vladimir was… The post Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizdat appeared first...
May 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA MeshCore radio network in Cape Town for off-grid communications Many may be familiar with the Meshtastic network which uses cheap LoRa radios (usually linked to a mobile phone app) to send direct text messages or post text messages to a public or private group....
May 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 May 2026 Polypole Edition Top Story If you're looking for an inexpensive CPU to soothe the bite of memory and storage prices, should you choose AMD's 7600X3D, or Intel's new 250K? (Tom's Hardware) Both have...
May 17, 2026 from Peter's Path Who Is Jesus? by R.C. Sproul Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Who Is Jesus? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sproul looks at what the Bible says about the person and work of Christ. He explai...
May 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Choc mint ice cream season hits Japan with a spectacular drinkable ice cream from Tully’s Why go to Starbucks when you can find hidden gems like this at a locally born chain? Are you a Chokomintou supporter? If you are, then you will be gearing up for a very busy, and refreshing, summer...
May 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval King Edmund of East Anglia The Kingdom of East Anglia formed in the first half of the 6th century. Its first king was Wehha, ruling people who came from Frisia and Jutland. He was followed by Luffa, who was followed by Tytil...
May 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit Imagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era were a few administrative texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. Something lik...
May 17, 2026 from Ethan Hawksley's Blog Mitigating Ongoing Registry Supply Chain Attacks They are only becoming more frequent and more damaging.
May 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 7-Eleven Japan now sells canned water, but does funky packaging mean funky flavor?[Taste test] Lotte’s canned water makes its convenience store debut. The first time you take a look at the drink section in a Japanese convenance store, you might be surprised by some of the packaging, specific...
May 16, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Virid Burnout 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXX Leafy intro Welcome to the 280th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...
May 16, 2026 from Hackaday After Stumbling From CVE to CVE Will Linux get a Kill Switch? For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the subject of multiple severe bugs in the form …read more
May 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Selfie-Incriminating Evidence Read Selfie-Incriminating Evidence Customer: "My phone has stopped charging!" Me: "Have you got it wet or left it in the sun?" Customer: "I've never even had it near the water!" Read Selfie-Incrimi...
May 16, 2026 from The Linkfest Linkfest #45: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I scroll through the endless Borgesian microfiche of the Internet, looking for the finest items of science, cu...
May 16, 2026 from Peter's Path Marskramer Path part 04 Hiked part 4/20 of the Marskramer Path, 21.5 kilometres from Delden to Rijssen. You walk through the stream valley of the Boven- and Midden-Regge. The word regge means 'he who carries water' and im...
May 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News stuff 16 May 2026 Dipole Edition Top Story SpaceX has shown of its Starship V3 and is planning for a test flight as early as this week. (Teslarati) The upgrades include an improved PEZ dispenser. Disappointingly, th...
May 16, 2026 from Chuniversiteit I’m not sure what to make of Google’s Pixel 10 Pro The Pixel 10 Pro is supposed to be Google’s flagship phone, but it certainly doesn’t feel like one.
May 16, 2026 from Kev Quirk Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale? Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas writes about the warning signs that Bitwarden might be heading for a private equity sale. The irony is that founder built Bitwarden beca...
