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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...

Starbucks Japan releases three new peach drinks, but the real star isn’t the Frappuccino

One drink will have us coming back for more this summer. Summer has arrived in Japan, and the season is looking particularly peachy at Starbucks, where you’ll find several new drinks filled with th...

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th...

For All Mankind

For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama on Apple TV. Ronald D. Moore created it with Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. It imagines an alternate history where the Soviet Union reaches the Mo...

YouTube Shorts get clean mode, x2 playback speed, new heart icon & dislike button removal

Google has delivered a round of updates to YouTube Shorts, introducing a cleaner and more intuitive interface. The rollout’s most visible addition is a Clear Screen mode that temporarily hides all ...

Weekly Notes 26/2026

It was a short work week. I took Thursday off because we had some registration related work in Denkanikottai. The morning drive was easy and fun, but then, like any government work, it didn’t get d...

📝 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...

720 Ollie

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...

Viscera

Your browser does not support the video tag. For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what I want to write about today. Well, my family might be getting a cat soon, but that's a bit too so...

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

Beka Chedia

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...