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Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules

The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.

Central Asia Walls Off as Russian Fuel Dries Up

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Ride the Rails on a OneWheel

The US has tons of abandoned rail, especially in urban environments, so it seems a shame to let it go to waste. [OneWheel] decided to modify one of their boards …read more

DOJ Promises Lindsey Halligan Wasn’t A Fake U.S. Attorney — See Also

You Miss 100 Percent Of The Shots You Don't Take: Trump administration argues that insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan really was a legally appointed U.S. Attorney despite all the facts and law. Fixi...

Literally, Money Or Your Life?

Read Literally, Money Or Your Life? I work in a bank downtown. There is an active shooter situation outside, so the police have surrounded the building and won't let anyone in or out. We're being t...

Things done properly

Sakura pens are great, but they’re hard to tell apart from one another, especially in a stuffed pencil case at the bottom of a messenger bag. The pens have faint size markings, but some have worn o...

OpenCode is an open source alternative to Claude Code

OpenCode is an open source agent that helps you write and run code with any AI model, including free (for now although the free tier uses a limited subset of backend models including Big Pickle) us...

Daily News Stuff 16 September 2026

Tonight We Dine Edition Top Story OpenAI is paying human reviewers $50 per hour in an attempt to teach ChatGPT not to be a dick. (Tom's Hardware) What, you ingested all of Reddit and you couldn't j...

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

The Great Train Robbery

United Kingdom · 1963 · Heist — A criminal gang tampered with track signals to stop a Royal Mail train in Buckinghamshire, making off with over £2.6 million in cash before abandoned clues at their ...

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 ...