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May 07, 2026 from Peter's Path

Privacy Roundup #0237 • April 2026

April brought a hacked FBI wiretap system, fresh fights over government location buying, and a wave of breaches and fines across Europe and the United States. 1. Suspected Chinese breach of FBI sys...

May 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscriptions from ancient Teos honoring the market supervisor show the activity of Roman negotiatores’ associations in greek cities in the 1st century BC

Excavations in the ancient Greek city of Teos, in present-day Turkey, have brought to light two inscriptions from the 1st century BC that document for the first time the organized presence of Roman...

May 07, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Visual Studio Code 1.119 improves agent-browser integration and tracking

Visual Studio Code 1.119 introduces agent-browser integration, allowing agents to request and use browser access within the environment. The release adds OpenTelemetry tracing to improve agent sess...

May 07, 2026 from It's FOSS

FOSS Weekly #26.19: Ubuntu Under Attack, Linux Exploitation Ongoing, Upgrading to 26.04, Linux on PS5 and More

Not a good week for Ubuntu fans.

May 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Dictum of Kenilworth, Part 1

The end of the Second Barons' War required closure and reconciliation, and it came in the Dictum of Kenilworth, need for the castle in which the last rebels held out against royalist assault, until...

May 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Gross Human Constants

Man, rationality is such a meme. I think rationality is important when you have something tangible you're dealing with, like a problem at work or figuring out what you need to say; but when it's ju...

May 06, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

PACE Establishes Platform for Russian Opposition Delegation

Vadim Shtepa

May 06, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Hantavirus: Situation update and getting nerdy

A recording from Katelyn Jetelina's live video

May 06, 2026 from Above the Law

First The Partners, Then The Associates — See Also

Paul, Weiss Associates Are Being Shown The Door: Looks a lot like the first firm to fold to Trump is doing stealth layoffs. At Least McDermott Was Honest About It: The firm confirms suspected layof...

May 06, 2026 from Hackaday

A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift

We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more

May 06, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Going Through This Maize Makes You Feel Blue

Read Going Through This Maize Makes You Feel Blue Customer: "Why do you put dye into your tortilla chips?" Me: "We don't. They're made from blue corn." Customer: "I don't appreciate being lied to."...

May 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsuit Over "Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left"

From Taibbi v. Higgins, decided yesterday by Judge George Daniels (S.D.N.Y.): This action centers around Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought… The post Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsu...

May 06, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Bassbombe

Auf uns soll ein false-flag-Anschlag verübt werden. Mit einer Bombe. Aber wo genau ist die Bombe?

May 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 May 2026

Overweight Bin Edition Tech News The latest version of Google Chrome has a neat new feature: It installs a 4GB local AI model on your computer without asking or even telling you. (That Privacy Guy)...

May 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-06-26

I missed publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to a work deadline. But we are back today with nine new links from around the world wide web. 1. Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of...

May 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Does the Fukuryumon Chinese restaurant in Koenji offer the best lunch deal in Tokyo?

The main dishes are already cheap to begin with–but the unlimited free side dishes could even be a meal by themselves! Our Japanese-language reporter/resident musician Seiji Nakazawa has always lov...

May 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at Nuraghe Barru Reveal That Bronze Age Towers in Sardinia Functioned as Cult Centers in the Iron Age

The Nuraghe Barru complex is set atop a sparsely vegetated hill in the south-central area of Sardinia. From this commanding position, the stone structure, originally erected over 3,200 years ago du...

May 06, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Revisiting Trademarks

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source ...

May 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google brings Multi-Token Prediction drafters to Gemma 4: 3x speedup without quality loss

One month after the introduction of Gemma 4, Google is now releasing Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 model family. These drafters use a specialized speculative decoding archit...

May 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Second Baron's War Ends

Simon de Montfort was in control of London in April 1264. Northampton was under siege by supporters of King Henry, and Simon assembled his army to stop the royalists, but he was too late. Simon the...