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Weekly Notes 23/2026

It’s been a good week in general. The work schedule is back under control. I am getting back to normalcy there. I also played after a long time on Sunday. We played singles again. It was tough but ...

San Francisco Omnistrate Event

Last month I had the opportunity to attend an event hosted by Omnistrate at the Amazon office on Market Street in San Francisco. I really wish a company like Omnistrate had existed when I was at Op...

Proton Drive is Now Faster (And Getting a Linux Client Soon)

The overhaul is part of a broader SDK rebuild that has been in the works throughout 2026.

The Children of Sweyn, Part 3

After the untimely death of King Eric the Evergood in Cyprus, his brother Niels became King of Denmark, the latest of the sons of Sweyn II to become king. He was born c.1063, and his reign began in...

Data doesn't speak for itself

Training in how to translate data

Planetary Science

Aliyev’s Digital Silk Road and Middle Corridor Experiences Reliability Gap

Sertaç Canalp Korkmaz

It’s An Open Secret

Read It’s An Open Secret Caller: "What time do you close?" Me: "We're open 24 hours." Caller: *Impatiently.* "But what time do you close?" Me: "Ma'am, we don't close. We're open 24 hours per day." ...

If You Want to Hack Me, Come in Through the Speaker

Some security hacks require someone to have physical access to your computer. In many cases, that’s easy to mitigate. Other attack vectors can put you at risk from anywhere via …read more

Matching Is Easy When You’re Raking In This Much — See Also

Quinn Emanuel Matches Milbank's Salary Scale: With $2.7 billion in revenue for 2025, they can afford it! This Boutique Is Doling Out Milbank Money: Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes is spreading the r...

Sam Bray's VC Post Cited by Justice Thomas's Opinion Today in Sripetch v. SEC

Congratulations to Sam, for having a total of six of his works cited in the same opinion. Counting all American… The post Sam Bray's VC Post Cited by Justice Thomas's Opinion Today in Sripetch v. S...

May 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

The trees leaf in May. So too do New Leaf Journal articles. I review the month that was at NLJ and related projects in May 2026.

Daily News Stuff 4 June 2026

Nonexistent Edition Top Story Apple's MacBook Neo is selling so well the company has doubled production. (MacRumors) At that rate they'll run out of bad chips and have to start using good ones, but...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-04-26

I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from. 1. Why I Built Bubbles (Ben at Bubbles Blog. March 26, 2026.) I’ve be...

Lawson opens a new mini supermarket, and the lucky bags can essentially stock your kitchen

You can haul back thousands of yen worth of ramen, rice, and snacks for a fraction of the price. Expanding its reach with additional sub-brands, one of Japan’s big-three convenience stores, Lawson,...

Kann die AI-Blase bitte endlich platzen?

Wo bleibt das lange angekündigte Platzen der AI-Blase? Ich brauche es dringend!

Privacy Roundup #0238 • May 2026

May 2026 brought a wave of mass data breaches, fresh fights over encryption backdoors and age checks, and a landmark order against a location data broker. 1. FTC bans Kochava from selling sensitive...

Raycast update enables team sharing of AI tools and adds Windows dictation

Raycast version 0.63 introduces the ability for teams to share AI Agents, AI Commands, and Dictation Styles across their organization, supporting unified workflows. Additional Clipboard History fea...

The Moment We Saw the Light: Fossil Tracks Reveal When and How the First Animals Began to Perceive the World

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. Or rather, they began to sense, because vision as we understand it today probably...

FOSS Weekly #26.23: Vim Forked, Coreutils on Windows, Reverse WSL, KDE Linux and a Giveaway

Linux gets some relief in the absurd OS-level age verification law fiasco.