Aug 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26 I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 ...
Aug 20, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 20 August 2026 Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition Top Story Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combination of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft VS Code. (The Register) Have you tried t...
Aug 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KDE Gear 26.08 brings improvements to Okular, Dolphin, Konsole, Kdenlive, Minuet, and more KDE Gear 26.08 has been released, introducing updates across a wide range of applications developed by the KDE community. This release brings user-facing changes and workflow enhancements that affe...
Aug 20, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Burger King Japan brings back its insane all-you-can-eat One Pounder Challenge Can you eat more than 12 mega burgers in just 45 minutes for a chance at winning the national final? Fast-food enthusiasts, please prepare yourselves: Burger King Japan’s legendary One Pounder Chal...
Aug 20, 2026 from Roy Tang SNES Games I finished ~30 years ago! Previously: 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed console games from around 2002 Intro This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entiret...
Aug 20, 2026 from It's FOSS FOSS Weekly #26.34: StillOS Review, Kernel 7.2 Released, PINE Trouble, Beautifying GNOME, Terminal Multiplexers and More New kernel is here, folks.
Aug 20, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Beijing Signals Tiered Governance of Open-Weight Models Sunny Cheung & Shijie Wang
Aug 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval History of the Lombards Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts t...
Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Scientists Create a ‘Mini Big Bang’ and Manage to Reproduce in the Laboratory the State of Matter That Filled the Cosmos During the First Moments of the Universe Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, have managed to reproduce in the laboratory the state of matter that filled the cosmos during its first millionth of a seco...
Aug 20, 2026 from The Jaxson The South Will Not Be Silenced Artists Are Essential to Building a Just Future -
Aug 19, 2026 from Above the Law Jim Comey Case Proves Words Are Hard For DOJ — See Also 86: DOJ says no one disputes the meaning of term that literally everyone disputes. Get Out While You Can: Meanwhile, DOJ whistleblower disclosure suggests government attorneys are starting to fear ...
Aug 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Tanked The Test Read Tanked The Test Me: "Okay, so as this is a pretty exotic fish, I want to confirm what temperature you're keeping your tank—" Customer: "—Why so many questions?! Just sell me the d*** fish!" Me...
Aug 19, 2026 from Hackaday HYDR8 Will Lead You to Water, But Will You Drink? [Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, this one might be an anomaly, because it seems …read more
Aug 19, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection Kwisatz Your Own Haderach: the Sweeping Ambition of the Dune RPG Dune is, it’s fair to say, a fairly troubled franchise. In terms of the novels, the original book is a landmark of science fiction by any measure, but its sequels are a bit of a bumpy ride, incorpo...
Aug 19, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "Trendy Eateries May Keep a Secret Menu; the United States Code Does Not" Some excerpts from the long opinion in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco v. FDA, written by Judge Don Willett and joined in… The post "Trendy Eateries May Keep a Secret Menu; the United States Code Does Not" a...
Aug 19, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie zweiter Teil Wie ein sonniger Tag sich kurz vor Beginn der Sonnenfinsternis in eine Waschküche verwandelte.
Aug 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 19 August 2026 Triple-Baked Baklava Edition Top Story A federal judge has ruled that a state judge who used AI to handle the entire decision in a case so she could spend the day playing Cookie Run Kingdom or some...
Aug 19, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to ...
Aug 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- 7-Eleven Japan brings back best-selling flat croissant that became a hit on social media Meet the newest Japanese convenience store find that’s soon to flood your feed. If you’ve been scrolling through social media looking for the latest convenience store food find, there’s a good chan...
Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26 Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...
