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A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil t...

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...

Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As A Super Hardened Linux Distro

Fedora Hummingbird ships the entire OS as a bootable OCI image with atomic updates and rollback support.

Edmund Crouchback

Henry III wanted another son. His first son, Edward, was followed by a daughter, Margaret, and Henry needed at least "an heir and a spare." So he prayed to the 9th-century East Anglian king Edmund ...

[dVerse] May 12th - A Room that Misremembers its Windows

A Room that Misremembers its WindowsIn the stitched room,the window does not promise escape.The window is not open.The window is performing openness.It offers a square of greenheld in place by pati...

Weeknotes 2026-05-17

The World Crazy, crazy week for local politics over here in the PH. The VP has been impeached by the HOR for the second time. While this was happening, a Senate coup occured, with the VP's allies t...

Blogging Promises, Schedules, and Burnout

On how to establish a sort of blogging/online writing rhythm or routine while avoiding what the kids call "burnout" or ruining one's enjoyment of his or her online writing endeavor.

Seeking

Man, novelty sucks. I think I feel this way because whenever something new gets introduced in my life, I get so into it for a little while, and then once the dust settles, it just gets tossed into ...

Results Age

You Can See The Strings On These Supreme Court Justices — See Also

Trump Reminds ACB And Gorsuch He's The Reason They're On The Bench: Sitting President demands loyalty from the "neutral" branch of the government. Kevin Hart Isn't The Only One Getting Roasted: Jam...

All Of Our Grains Are Grains Of Truth

Read All Of Our Grains Are Grains Of Truth Customer: "I want the [dish], but I can't have white rice because I'm gluten-free. Get me the brown rice." Read All Of Our Grains Are Grains Of Truth

Trying to Fix a GoPro Hero 10 With No Camera Input Issue

In the search for more exciting broken electronics to repair, [Hugh Jeffreys] bought a GoPro Hero 10 for US$100 with an apparently rather common issue of no camera input, along …read more

Kazakhstan and Oman Sign Preliminary Strategic Partnership Agreement

Emil Avdaliani

Daily News Stuff 12 May 2026

Stewed Mice Edition Top Story Digg is back - again - this time as an AI news aggregator. (Tech Crunch) That is, the content is about AI, but it seems to be ranked by human readers. I'm not sure why...

Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre

As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest and greatest when it comes to technology. As a result, we were previously "limit...

War in Iran causing dark development for potato chip packages in Japan

Japanese convenience store snack sections are going to be looking drab later this month. Though your body does need some minimum amount of calories, sodium, and fat in order to function properly, p...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-12-26

I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group organization and proxy support options (Fla for AlternativeTo. May 12, 2026.) I ...

Parrot Security 7.2 launches with Linux kernel 6.19, Copy Fail patch, and updated packages

Parrot Security 7.2, the latest release of the security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, arrives powered by Linux kernel 6.19.13. This kernel incorporates the patch for CVE-2026-31431 “Copy...

The Earth’s crust has broken and mantle fluids are reaching the surface: a new tectonic plate is forming beneath southern Africa

Scientists from the University of Oxford have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science showing that the Kafue Rift, a geological structure in Zambia that has so far been little s...

Eleanor the Queen

A queen can have several duties, one of which is to produce heirs that can either succeed their parents or be used to make politically advantageous marriages. Eleanor of Provence was one of four si...