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Oct 06, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 6 October 2026

Fih Edition Top Story Hacking group Shiny Hunters hacked the FBI. So the FBI arrested them. (The Register) What did they think was going to happen? Tech News AI is junk food for the mind: Easy, tem...

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

Left For Dead End

Read Left For Dead End I used to work in a store that is admittedly large (about eight aisles). During my last week before retirement, a customer asked for directions to a part of the store. Me: *P...

Oct 06, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Apple tightens Full Disk Access permissions on macOS to enhance user privacy and security

Apple has announced stricter controls around Full Disk Access permissions on macOS, citing growing concerns about how third-party applications exploit the elevated privilege. The tech giant acknowl...

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Has Been Found in Cleopatra’s Sunken Harbour

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 and 1323, brought down the tower that had guided ships towards the city fo...

Oct 06, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-10-06 09:47: Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really...

Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really enjoying it. It's modern and has a tonne of features. https://hylki.app/ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. R...

Oct 06, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

06 October, 2026

I've done this a little while ago as well. Most new Pi projects are scaled for Pi 4 or 5, my old 3Bs were struggling a lot. I built a streamer at one point with PiDAC and all, only to realise that ...

Oct 06, 2026 from Hackaday

A New Type of LLM on the Block: Decision-Making Models

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some kind instead of writing an essay or chat reply. An LLM …read more

Oct 06, 2026 from Roy Tang

Uncharted 2: Among Theieves, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Tomb Raider (2013), Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Like many young male gamers of a certain age, back in the day I did try playing the original Tomb Raider games a bit but never got particularly far or even enjoyed them really. This was back at the...

Oct 06, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

How Should A.I. Change Legal Scholarship—and the Job of Being a Law Professor?

A panel discussion.

Oct 06, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Tokyo no-map-app walk! Getting lost with Mr. Sato on the way to Kishimojin

Mr. Sato wanted to get lost in order to rediscover the joy of urban exploring. With the wonders of modern technology, there’s hardly any fear of getting lost when you’re out and about. Unfortunatel...

Oct 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

June 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

October is the season for many things. One of those things is now publishing reviews for June.

Oct 06, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al

🗨️ spotify numbers are not the pulse of culture, it’s the music that plays in a doctor’s office.

[Macklemore is] the hottest act there is right now, but you’d never know it from looking at his popularity on Spotify, where “Can’t Hold Us” is already regressing to the mean. This isn’t necessaril...

Oct 06, 2026 from tenticle

Pricing Rarity

Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards, Kinder surprise toys, Pogs, Cs… Most of them managed to mostly pass me. I had ...

Oct 05, 2026 from Above the Law

Gotta Love A Perjury-Trap Subtweet — See Also

Jack Smith Takes Selfies With Fans At Power To The People Fest While Foo Fighters Roast Eric Schmitt: Fans of his legal stylings lined up for selfies. First Monday In October, Same Old Alito Leak B...

Oct 05, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Chornomorsk Concession Advances Ukraine’s Maritime Recovery

Aybaniz Ismayilova

Oct 05, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Will Not A-Peel To Reason

Read Will Not A-Peel To Reason My coworker is one of those people who goes around the store completing online shopping orders. She walks over to me (I'm at the customer service desk) with her littl...

Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday

Ambition, Thy Name is a 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet

Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine …read more

Oct 05, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Wir streiken!

Wir überreden die Geister, sich gegen den Krarket zu stellen. Sie machen dass und gehen in Streik. Was kann da schon schiefgehen?

Oct 05, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

"Federal Judges Receive Life Tenure—Not a Life Sentence"

"Public criticism is not for everyone. But if it's too much to take, you can always resign."

Oct 05, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection

Supplement Supplemental! (Ravens, Foxes, and Fish – Chaosium Animal People Special)

Time for another round-up of RPG supplements I’ve been reading lately. This time, it’s a bunch of Chaosium supplements for various Basic Roleplaying-powered RPGs. There’s an extra linking factor he...