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Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15

I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...

Geekbench 7 launches with new workloads to measure the performance of your CPUs and GPUs

Geekbench 7 has been released as the latest version of the cross-platform system benchmark, introducing a range of new and updated workloads aimed at measuring real-world device performance. The ne...

Conservative Commentator Robby Starbuck's Lawsuit Alleging Google AI Had Defamed Him Can Go Forward

A Delaware trial court has denied Google's motion to dismiss, and concluded that, if the facts as alleged by Starbuck were true, he would have a legal basis for recovery.

MeshCore Radio for Social Networking and Disasters with zero Internet required

The Boland Amateur Radio Club (BARC) invited me to do this talk on 23 July 2026. HAMNET Emergency Communications provided the Zoom platform. The audience consisted of radio amateurs, citizens, and ...

1,000 Years Ago There Were Tens of Thousands of Languages in the World, Today Only 7,500 Remain: This Is What Happened

Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages. However, this figure, impressive as it may seem, represents only a snapshot of a constantly changing history, and questi...

Daily News Stuff 24 July 2026

Nonfrangible Edition Top Story AMD has announced its new Zen 6 Epyc server CPUs and we know, if anything, less about them than we did before the announcement. (WCCFTech) Here's the problem: Zen 6 i...

Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional

Luckily, a fix is already out, shipped as a security update.

Japanese Coo-Che becomes a viral sensation, and everyone wants a taste

“Drinkable Cigare” is so hard to get it’s been dubbed a “phantom”. Tokyo Station is packed with all sorts of delicious offerings, but right now one of the most sought-after treats you’ll find there...

Putin Delegates Fuel Crisis Response to Regional Heads

Sam Jones

Criminal Cases, Part 2

Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He had a ship docked at Queenshithe filled with salted herring. He was a wholesaler, ...

Weekly Notes 30/2026

I have been to and seen many protests. But this one (#cjpprotests) is very different from the rest. I see them not only facing so much harshness but also having so much fun and so much camaraderie....

Why is gauging health risk so hard?

Hantavirus.

When You Build the Wrong Thing

AI makes it almost too simple to release stuff, which can, as in my case, lead to not enough preparation.

📝 2026-07-24 11:20: I think if I had my time again, I would have become a software developer....

I think if I had my time again, I would have become a software developer. I just so much fun - coming up with ways to solve a problem in an elegant way is very satisfying. Then people emailing sayi...

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Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloated desktop website. Ars Technica has a great article with a breakdown of Reddit's ...

Analog Photography Assistant - 1.3.0

Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.3.0 with a bunch of new features and updates. The greatest hits are ...

Recursive Trucker's Hitch

Turn And Face The Strange

We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our c...

Grains

I spent most of yesterday asleep, but my body can't keep me from the page for long. No, I'm back here again today, and I have nothing on my mind really—but I still have to write because, well, you ...

Todd Blanche Can’t Admit The Slush Fund Was A Mistake Because ‘That’s Not Proper MAGA Talk’ — See Also

Liar, Liar: Todd Blanche's unique confirmation strategy. Stop Waiting For Cravath: Biglaw firms don't need permission anymore. It's time to make your money moves. That's A Pretty Big Malpractice Cl...