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Eidechsen

Ich habe im botanischen Garten in Bochum heute zwei Eidechsen gesehen.

Does Tokyo need self-driving taxis? Waymo thinks so, plans to launch fleet soon

It’s hard to see why Tokyoites would prefer self-driving cabs to regular ones, but that might not be what Waymo is betting on. Japan has, by and large, passed on ride-sharing services. Though they’...

The Nika Riots, Part 1

Constantinople during the reign  of Emperor  Justinian I (482 - 565) saw a tumultuous week in 532. The catalyst was a little earlier, when in 531 the city prefect, Eudaimon, arrested some citizens ...

A 3,200-Year-Old War Horse’s Tomb Turns Up Inside a Ramesses II Border Fort

Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, the kingdom kept a chain of garrisons along its western frontier, watching for ra...

Local AI Weekly #2: Agents Everywhere

Debuggers, memory, and a browser for your agents. And a tool that finally tells you what your hardware can run.

Veronese's Dogs

“Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laq...

Pollution

Woke up. Went to gym. Lifted weights. Came back home. Showered. Had coffee. Turned on computer. Replied to some work stuff. Scrolled through some feeds. Highlights include “No way to find what I’m ...

What AI can and cannot do in biosecurity

And what needs to happen

september 16th: missed deadline, one story [The Salt in the Well], etc.

so. this story was supposed to go somewhere else. i had written it for a publisher's call, revised it, overthought it, opened the document several unnecessary times as though staring harder might c...

Summer

Apple is adding Apple TV and Apple Arcade to iCloud+ subs for free in over 100 markets

Apple has announced that is adding Apple TV and Apple Arcade to every paid iCloud+ tier in more than 100 countries, including the 50GB plan, at no additional cost. Existing subscribers will receive...

Even A Stacked Supreme Court Couldn’t Save Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rule — See Also

Tweedle Dee, Meet Tweedle Dumb: Disbarred John Eastman joining Professor Amy Wax's legal team as she fights to get out of the sanctions she earned from the University of Pennsylvania. Third Time's ...

Coffee Maker Steam Wand Gets a Safe Outlet

Sometimes a hacker has a specific sort of problem, and uses the tools they have to solve it in a way that just might be helpful to someone else. That’s …read more

Flush With Knowledge

Read Flush With Knowledge Customer: "Are you an expert on toilet paper?" Me: "Um… I can try to help you find something if you like?" Customer: "I want something that's soothing when I wipe, but str...

Doctor/Political Candidate Has Standing to Sue Over Medical Board Investigations Related to His Public Comments about the COVID Pandemic

From today's decision in Jensen v. Minn. Bd. of Med. Practice, written by Eighth Circuit Judge David Stras and joined… The post Doctor/Political Candidate Has Standing to Sue Over Medical Board Inv...

Russian Sabotage Campaign Against NATO Surges

Maksym Panchokha

Daily News Stuff 15 September 2026

I'm A Gnu Edition Top Story Nvidia has stopped selling its own "Founders Edition" RTX 5090. (Tom's Hardware) You can still buy third-party models - but they cost as much as $9500. The MSRP is still...

My harness, or whatever that means

That’s one of those words that, one year ago without context in a question, it could get you off guard. Today it appears to be pretty common in conversations. Of course I’m talking about the tools ...

It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)

“A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.

The pipe dream of the useful augmented reality

Somewhere in '98 or '99 I fired up ICQ for the first time. Take it into account that I was living in Hungary, a 14 years old boy, and while I was learning English since I was 6, the teaching method...