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12 AM or 12 PM Birth Time? Check Midnight, Noon, and the Date

A noon–midnight mix-up is an input problem, not a personality mystery. Translate confirmed clock notation, check the date boundary, and preserve uncertainty.

Dealing with the Uncles

So Khosrow II had regained his throne and the usurper Bahram Chobin had fled and been killed. Order was restored in the Iranian Empire. Khosrow had originally be put on the throne when his two uncl...

Trump und Folter

Die USA klagen Maduro wegen Folter an. Warum? Ich dachte, Trump sei pro Folter.

Webb Telescope Finds Water Clouds on a Jupiter-Sized World Seven Light-Years Away

About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it. Jupiter is large enough to fit some 11 Earths side by side. (A light-yea...

The revolutionary art of fixing the thing people are complaining about

Project Stethoscope, potholes, and everything in between

Dogcatcher

Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its ...

Debian checkinstall utility

I recently ended up on Debian’s “Don’t Break Debian” page while looking for advice about installing software that isn’t available in the standard repositories. The page contains plenty of sensible ...

The World’s Richest Law Firm Has Decided Money Isn’t Everything — See Also

Kirkland & Ellis Is Done Sharing Its Revenue With The Media: Turns out $10 billion is right where the numbers stop providing 'meaningful value.' Biglaw Wants Lawyers Who Know How To Use AI: But som...

Ukraine Struggling to Counter Russian Jet-Powered Drone Campaign

David Traugott

Turning a Run-Over Samsung Galaxy S23 into a Gaming PC

Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ante by going from a Samsung Galaxy S23 that looks like …read more

The Spice Must Flow, Part 4

Read The Spice Must Flow, Part 4 Customer: "So what is the spice that comes from the pumpkin?" Me: "Well, there's no spice from the pumpkin itself. Pumpkin is the main flavor profile, and the spice...

Google unveils Playground: an AI platform that lets anyone create games without coding

Google has launched Playground, a new experimental AI gaming platform that enables users to build, play, and share custom games without requiring any programming knowledge. Released yesterday for u...

Daily News Stuff 8 October 2026

Gearded Becko Edition Top Story I wondered recently when Saleforce blamed their failure to increase profits on their AI spending habits what the hell they were doing with it, because while they did...

Disparate Treatment of Anti-Israel Protestors?

A report from Amnesty International and the ACLU argues that if universities allowed misbehavior in the past, they must continue to do so.

The “Doodles” of Greek Mathematicians: Scribe’s Notebooks Reveal How They Calculated in Roman Egypt

When we think of Greek mathematics, we think of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga: elegant proofs and general rules. Alongside that tradition ran a humbler one, which rarely makes it into ...

LaVilla's 318 Broad Street headed to DDRB

A project to rehabilitate LaVilla's former Progress Furniture building at 318 Broad Street seeks approval from the Downtown Development Review Board on October 8, 2026. Here is a look at what's pro...

Matcha ice cream discontinued by one of Japan’s favorite ice cream brands

24 years after its debut, green tea flavor gets kicked out of the Super Cup family. With matcha being one of Japan’s favorite ice cream flavors, and confectioner Meiji’s Essel Super Cup series bein...

FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More

Open Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble.

Someone Vibe Coded a Free and Open Source Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite

“Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After ...