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Jun 13, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad’s Women’s Wing: Jamaat-ul-Muminat

Animesh Roul

Jun 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Innocent Meddling

Pope Innocent III believed in the absolute power of the pope over secular authorities, and he did what he could to assert that power wherever he could.A couple months after Innocent became pope, in...

Jun 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Anthropic disables all Fable 5 and Mythos 5 model access after Trump blocks foreign access

Anthropic has suspended all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the Trump administration, through the U.S. Commerce Department, invoked national security export controls on June 12. The order bloc...

Jun 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

How one GPL lawsuit accidentally created the homelab router that changed networking forever

“No company sets out to make a product that exceeds its purpose and becomes a legend. In some cases when it happens, the company might even regret it. I recall a few NVIDIA GPUs, like the 8800GT an...

Jun 13, 2026 from BEEW

Centralized Elation: KNICKS NBA CHAMPIONS!

Everyone said NO. Not this year. Not this time. Not this team. We were all wrong. But never before has being so wrong felt so right. Likely every New York Knick fan knows the exact moment when they...

Jun 13, 2026 from Roy Tang

Mighty Gunvolt (Steam)

Trying to very slowly work through my Steam backlog (an impossible task) by playing through some shorter games in addition to my favored very long RPGs. First up is Mighty Gunvolt. This 2014 game i...

Jun 13, 2026 from It's FOSS

There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI

Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.

Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0

ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...

Jun 13, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse

Egyptian fractions for 2/105

The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for , but everything else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that for example h...

Jun 12, 2026 from Above the Law

Even Biglaw Is Celebrating The Knicks! — See Also

Knicks Supporting Partner Tells Associates The Work Can Wait Until Later: If your partner didn't, they're probably a Spurs fan. Judge Ross's Sorry Apologies Have No Consequence: Chief Judge Pryor s...

Jun 12, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Wrong On Every Account

Read Wrong On Every Account Me: "He's going on and on about me sabotaging his security verification steps, but he's just not getting any of the answers right. He's not hanging up." My manager nods,...

Jun 12, 2026 from Hackaday

The Air Position Indicator for the B-29

When you think of a computer, you probably don’t think of a tube full of motors and mechanics. However, as [Our Own Devices] shows, the Bendix AN5841 API Computer, an …read more

Jun 12, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Assessing Non-Packing Rationales For Increasing the Size of the Supreme Court

These arguments are relatively weak. And to the extent they are valid, they can be addressed without changing the Court's ideological balance.

Jun 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts

I share various tools for finding backlinks to one's own articles, blog posts and other online media.

Jun 12, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration

This is the second part (I, IIa) 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. While I hope t...

Jun 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 12 June 2026

202 Flows Edition Top Story It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again. (The Register) It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people car...

Jun 12, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 24/2026

I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped...

Jun 12, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

New Japanese overnight train coming to connect Tokyo with Tohoku in sleep-travel style

Luna Azul can take you from Tokyo to Akita or Aomori while you snooze. The Shinkansen is usually the fastest way to get from Point A to Point B when traveling within Japan. Since the stations tend ...

Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26

I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...

Jun 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Coinbase for Agents can manage trading, payments, and execute workflows on your behalf

Coinbase has introduced Coinbase for Agents, enabling users to connect AI agents directly to their Coinbase accounts for trading, payments, and other financial tasks. These agents operate within st...