Sep 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Tourists Are Never Going To Change Read Tourists Are Never Going To Change I was working in a tourist town in New Brunswick, Canada, and some American tourists asked me: Tourist: "We're going across to Prince Edward Island after thi...
Sep 27, 2026 from Hackaday Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse...
Sep 27, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #378 Today in Weekly Robotics, some very creative robotics projects: a tethered aerial robot, a drone working as a periscope, a Cartesian robot manipulator, a robotic ball, and more!
Sep 27, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Big Fifth-ish, Part 10 It’s time once again to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures. Last time, we had a mini-season of further travels with Nyssa in that gap between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity that Big...
Sep 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 27 September 2026 Prisoner Of RSA Edition Top Story There's a new way to break RSA security that only requires you to (checks notes) occupy the entire infrastructure of Cloudflare for a day to break a single Privacy...
Sep 27, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ich frag' für 'nen Freund Wir möchten herausfinden, wo man in der Stadt Krankheiten geheilt kriegt ohne dass die Annahme entsteht, dass wir eine Seuche in die Stadt bringen.
Sep 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan now has facial-recognition ticket gates, but why aren’t people using them? New walk-through gates are designed to speed up the flow of passengers, but there’s something tripping them up. With the cyberpunk masterpiece Ghost in the Shell set in the year 2029, we’ve been in...
Sep 27, 2026 from Avenyora Journal Forgot to Reply to a Friend? What to Say After the Gap A late reply does not need a long defense. Acknowledge what happened, answer your friend's message, and match any apology to the impact of the delay.
Sep 27, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog NixCon 2026 These notes are a little raw, I'll come back to clean things up after the conference. On this page As I mentioned in my post on swap, zram, zswap and hibernate, I went to NixCon2026 at Jagiellonian...
Sep 27, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Low Trust Stymies Emergence of a ‘Chinese Palantir’ Aidan Powers-Riggs & Leon Li
Sep 27, 2026 from Galaxy Garden New House Keys as Mid-Autumn Festival Present It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and received mooncakes, but also received a different, special present: the keys to our new...
Sep 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The Center of the Milky Way Smells Like Rum and Tastes Like Raspberries, But There’s Also Other Smells, Not So Pleasant In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy tastes of raspberries and smells of rum. The line came from the Guardian, which bu...
Sep 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval Justinian and Iran When Justinian I became emperor (527 - 565), he inherited from his uncle the war with the Sassanid Empire to the east. This Iranian Empire was ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651 CE.His chi...
Sep 27, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787 9/27/1787: First Anti-Federalist letter by "Cato" is published. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787 appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Sep 27, 2026 from Remote Synthesis Wired's Women in Tech Survey Tech is a tough place to work right now, but especially for women.
Sep 27, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Theranos Scandal United States · 2002–2025 · Fraud — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and COO Sunny Balwani raised over $700 million by falsely claiming their proprietary devices could run hundreds of blood tests ...
Sep 27, 2026 from Roy Tang Weeknotes 2026-09-27 The World I think there was a UN general assembly meeting last week where Trump and Netanyahu both spouted off so much nonsense. My Week Google Fit says I walked 70,357 steps from last Sunday to ye...
Sep 27, 2026 from It's FOSS AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.
Sep 27, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Are LLMs 'Other Minds'? On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Although they can certainly make mistakes and hallucinate, they are useful. Regardless ...
Sep 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Microsoft redesigns its Copilot desktop app with new Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs In an effort to regain market share lost to rivals like ChatGPT and Claude, Microsoft has announced what it calls the biggest redesign yet of the Copilot app, built around three tabs: Home, Code, a...
