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South Korea Broadens Multifaceted Ties with Central Asia

Vusal Guliyev

"The Court Requires Me to Warn You That I Pose a Risk of Stalking and Harassment to Intimate Partners"

From Judge Ted Stewart (D. Utah) in U.S. v. Wang, dated Sept. 9 but just docketed today: Defendant objected to… The post "The Court Requires Me to Warn You That I Pose a Risk of Stalking and Harass...

Self-hosting doesn’t actually save you money, and the people who promise it does are setting beginners up to quit

Yep it’s quite true. If you are just going to host one or two things, you could get away with a Raspberry Pi, but I have about 40+ containers running, and I realise I’m on my 3rd or 4th iteration o...

Virtualization tool UTM 5.0 brings DirectX graphics support, Vulkan 1.3, and snapshots

The open-source virtualization project UTM has officially released version 5.0, delivering its most substantial feature set to date with breakthrough graphics acceleration and innovative hardware i...

Daily News Stuff 19 October 2026

Ptah Edition Top Story A district court judge in Utah has blocked that state's law requiring magical ponies age restrictions for all websites that somehow stops precisely at the state border. (EFF)...

Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had e...

Umamusume anime concerts in U.S. may have to be cancelled over visa problems

After six months of trying, organizers say they still don’t have the necessary OK from the U.S. government to bring the horse girl concert to the City of Angels. One of the clearest examples of the...

Who Is the Real Threat to AI-Relay Apps? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #158

Last week, I was invited to Beijing to attend the inaugural Apple App Incubator event, where Tim Cook attended in person to present awards to the winners.

Valentinus to the Rescue

Constantine's arrangement and gift of money to Valentinus for the army, to support Constantine's son in the line of succession, was almost prescient. Constantine died three months after becoming em...

The Lean Educator Conference

Announcing a Lean Educators Conference. Teaching Lean in the Age of AI. November 18-19th at K&S Ranch, California. When AI hit our spring Lean Launchpad for Deep Tech class, our teaching team was u...

CutefishOS is Back With a Vibe-Coded Desktop That Doesn't Use Qt or GTK

The project says the new desktop has its own Wayland compositor and graphics library.

How to Ask a Friend to Return Something You Lent

A borrowed item can become an awkward unfinished conversation. Ask for it back clearly, agree on an actual handover, and decide what to do if the plan slips.

The Securitas Depot Robbery

United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, stealing £53.1 million in Britain's largest cash robbery.

A thank-you for your Neighbourhood Watch coordinators: a photo from the street as a jigsaw, with your note at the end

Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with Neighbourh...

Divisibility patterns and the size of a witness

A superexponential lower bound for the maximum, an exact family rate, and a universal upper bound. The exact growth remains open.

Fusion Device

On buying intelligence as a service

In the last couple of years, most companies have adopted some kind of AI. Most of them have done so by buying API access from a small number of frontier labs. This approach has the lowest barrier t...

Off-Grid Refrigeration Using Fire and Salt

Refrigeration has been a challenge for humanity since the start. Ancient civilizations in dry climates like Persia and Egypt could use evaporative cooling on a large scale with specialized architec...

When Shower Thoughts Aren’t Happening, Part 2

Read When Shower Thoughts Aren’t Happening, Part 2 Customer: "I want to be able to shower in my own tent." Me: "We don't sell tents that have separate shower rooms, I'm afraid." Customer: "I don't ...

Weekly Robotics #381

Today in Weekly Robotics: An open-source humanoid, an API for general robots, how to build a monocular camera AI-racing drone, an open-source micro-manipulator you can build yourself, and more!