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Will Courts Uphold the EPA's Rescission of the "Endangerment Finding"?

The legal arguments put forward by the EPA are weak and unpersuasive, and could undermine the Administration's position in other climate litigation.

Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?

I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was “they were never cool.” But I read on to see his perspective. ...

Daily News Stuff 22 July 2026

Summertime In July Edition Top Story LLM company OpenAI says that LLM archive site Hugging Face was breached by hackers using OpenAI's LLMs to gain access to models hosted at Hugging Face in order ...

'The' Closet Drama

July 22, 2026. 11:20 PMWhat’s a closet drama? Well. It is a play you read. Yes, that’s it. It is meant to be read by one solitary reader. Academics believe that women writers who couldn’t use their...

New Shinkansen luggage drop-off system begins in Japan, making train travel even easier

“Hands-Free” service lets Shinkansen travellers send their suitcases by bullet train without carrying them onboard. Travelling by Shinkansen is one of the highlights of any trip to Japan, but there...

Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducting excavation work at the necropolis of Tell el-Quwaysna, located in the Menufia governorate, has documented th...

Starting Over

Something shifted; now my computer should be a tool. I'm trying The Artist's Way.

6 Slow Productivity Principles That Beat Hustle Culture in 2026

Slow productivity principles are having their moment, and it is about time, because the hustle culture experiment has delivered its verdict: record burnout rates, shrinking attention spans, and a w...

YubiKey 5.8 extends passkeys from secure authentication to verifiable authorization

Yubico has officially released YubiKey 5.8, marking an expansion of the role of the passkey from secure authentication to include hardware-backed, verifiable authorization for digital actions. This...

Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says

“OpenAI’s blog post essentially says an evaluation was going on that was intended to test the ability of the models to carry out cyberattacks—benchmarks as they’re called. These instances of the mo...

Urinalysis, Part 3

William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffered painful internal damage. Physicians examined his urine a...

Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You

It's a pyramid-shaped Orange Pi 4 Pro that ships with OpenClaw or Hermes preloaded and now talks back so you get that "Iron Man" feel.

Growing up as a semi-speaking, undiagnosed Autistic person in Singapore

Content Warning: lots of ableism (both systemic and internalised) These are just some snapshots of my life growing up in a society with a poor understanding of neurodivergence (particularly during ...

Ending clock changes. But which direction should we reset the clock?

The science says Congress is getting it wrong

Let’s Get Back to the Basics at JTA

CEO Nat Ford’s departure is an opportunity to rethink what works and retire what doesn’t. -

Calibration Nobel

Fallibly Lost

Many things in life can seem cruel or indifferent, but that's just because we can't always recognize the greater things that lie ahead. Today I read about the life of Saint Markella, martyr of Chio...

This Judge Is Just Begging For A Benchslap — See Also

Judge VanDyke Has Taken To Asking The Supreme Court For Favors: Of the benchslap variety. Full Metal Briefing: Todd Blanche feared DOJ would get "skullfucked" by the courts. The Tortured Logic Of J...

Can’t See The Forest For The Boring Trees

Read Can’t See The Forest For The Boring Trees Me: "Is everything okay, ma'am?" Tourist: "No, everything is not okay! We drove all this way to see the forest, and the trees here look just like the ...

Who’s Building that Data Center?

One of the biggest “David versus Goliath” stories in tech right now is the towns beset by AI data center projects they may or may not have asked for. Powered …read more