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Daily News Stuff 13 July 2026

Seven Ate Nine Edition Top Story Apple's upcoming M7 processor, destined for a full rollout with Pro, Max, and Ultra models, is expected to support as much as 1.5TB of RAM for local AI and other ma...

Shizuoka police inspector punished for playing crane games on duty

To serve and get plush toys. They say it’s the place where dreams are made. People from far and wide are drawn to the bright lights and all the glitz and glamour that crane games, or UFO catchers a...

Matrix 1.19 launches with encrypted room history sharing, custom emojis, and six new MSCs

Matrix 1.19 delivers several enhancements to this open standard and protocol for real-time communication. The update introduces encrypted room history sharing, allowing clients to specify which dev...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-13-26

It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze i...

I Got Scammed

After what happened to me this morning, I expect the North Carolina School of Science and Math to ask for my diploma back. I got scammed. This is very embarrassing for me, as I consider myself pret...

The Best Ways To Preserve Family Memories

Life is about making memories, and you should document them however you can. With so much to look back on, you may find it difficult to keep everything organised in a meaningful way. If you need so...

Aaron of Lincoln

In the pipe rolls (the records of royal finances in Medieval England) for 1166 is a mention of £616 12s 8d owed to Aaron of Lincoln by King Henry II, who borrowed from him for projects in nine coun...

When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #144

Recently, OpenAI’s Codex was found to have a logging issue: the program kept writing large volumes of logs to a local database, causing the files to grow continuously and generating far more disk w...

Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source

Built by one developer over the past year, Chatto is a team chat solution that can be self-hosted.

Bronze and Iron Age Seals with Cuneiform Writing and Hieroglyphs That Mean Nothing: Created for Those Who Could Not Read

In ancient Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing was the domain of a small elite. Scribes, trained for years, mastered a complex system of signs used to administer, record, and communicate. But what happe...

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

“In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-pr...

2026W27

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source — The detail that stuck is the monthly drill where they deliberately shut down a datacenter to force the system to survive it. Most teams write high availabil...

How Dennis Street Became an Industrial Powerhouse

Long before Jacksonville's Westside became synonymous with warehouses and distribution centers, a single developer saw opportunity in an overlooked stretch of land along Dennis Street. His gamble t...

Means Everything

Information is pretty overrated, isn't it? In so many ways, it feels like we're really just going around in circles, and the sense of novelty feels more dangerous to me than anything. I keep circli...

The Princess and the Pea

If At First You Fail Miserbly At The Supreme Court, Try, Try Again — See Generally

Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing Twice And Expecting...: Trump wants the same Supreme Court that just rejected his birthright citizenship order to rehear the whole thing "immediately." And he decid...

A Storybook Ending

Read A Storybook Ending A gaggle of six kids ran into the library while I was watching the front desk; none of them over the age of eight, and all of them talking excitedly and "whispering" their o...

Hackaday Links: July 12, 2026

Although we’d rather bring you news of clever modifications and repairs down on the farm, more often than not, the name “John Deere” has appeared on the pages of Hackaday …read more

Weekly Robotics #368

Weekly Robotics 368: an agile robot hand, building an over-engineered tiny rover, a clay 3D printer, a free course on VLAs that you can run on your PC, and more!

The Sinking of Victory Chimes

In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park and was in the process of being converted into a restaurant boat. My article ...