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• Daily News Stuff 4 July 2026 Jul 04, 2026

  Birthday Edition Top Story Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 240! (Actually you look a lot better th...

• Daily News Stuff 3 July 2026 Jul 03, 2026

  One... Dace Edition Top Story SK Hynix - the third of the Big Three memory manufacturers after Micron and Samsung - i...

• Daily News Stuff 2 July 2026 Jul 02, 2026

  Two Dace Edition Top Story Sony has announced it will stop releasing PlayStation games on disc in 2028. (BBC) But tha...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it Jul 04, 2026

  “Copy-on-write (CoW) changes that bargain in a way that almost feels like cheating. Instead of rushing to overwrite o...

• Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’t Jul 04, 2026

  “Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered b...

• David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 Jul 04, 2026

  “South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket compute...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• The discovery of an abandoned defective ingot leads to the uncovering of a Roman-era lead smelting workshop in Germany Jul 04, 2026

  The first systematic excavations on a hillock of the Rothaargebirge massif, near the town of Brilon in the German dis...

• A Complete Byzantine City Discovered in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt Jul 03, 2026

  The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities operating at the Ain el-Sabil site, loca...

• Secrets Uncovered in an 18th-Century Nautical Map Guiding Sailors Between India and the Horn of Africa Jul 03, 2026

  A team of researchers has managed to unravel the mysteries hidden for two hundred years in an 18th-century navigation...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• Call It A Patriot Tax! Jul 04, 2026

  Read Call It A Patriot Tax! Customer: "It's the Fourth of July." Me: "It is!" Customer: "So where's the discount?" Me...

• No Fireworks? Hold My Beer… Jul 04, 2026

  Read No Fireworks? Hold My Beer… Uncle: "Hey, [My Dad's Name], I heard you're not shooting off any fireworks tonight?...

• A Refuse to Be Wrong Moment Jul 04, 2026

  Read A Refuse to Be Wrong Moment Neighbor: "Isn’t it a little early to be taking the trash out? You guys going on vac...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• Best Wishes for a Happy 250th! Jul 04, 2026

  And for many happy returns of this day.

• Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the Meaning of the American Revolution Jul 04, 2026

  Links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant on the 250th anniversary of the Declarat...

• People with Past Mental Hospital Commitments May Regain Second Amendment Rights Jul 04, 2026

  From Thursday's Seventh Circuit decision in U.S. v. Rose, written by Judge Frank Easterbook and joined by Judges Thom...

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Der Gruppenheiler Jul 04, 2026

  Als nach dem Kampf alle Gruppenmitglieder für Heilung zu Fredegar kommen, versteht Fredegar, warum die Klerikerin Cel...

• Das Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch Jul 03, 2026

  Über ein Kochbuch meiner Mutter, dass sie von meiner Oma geerbt hat.

• Rollenspielszenen: Die Fliedermaus Jul 01, 2026

  Willow sucht ein Buch über Fledermäuse, findet aber nur das Kinderbuch „Die Fliedermaus“. Das Buch handelt von einer ...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today Jul 04, 2026

  Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and th...

• Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested Jul 04, 2026

  For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap the...

• Warp Point: a Web Ring for Gaming Sites Built for 2026 Jul 04, 2026

  At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• This blog is written in en-GB Jul 04, 2026

  This blog is written in en-GBby Terence EdenTerrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British ...

• 📝 2026-07-02 23:05: I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼‍♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk Jul 02, 2026

  I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼‍♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk Thanks for reading this post v...

• 📝 2026-06-30 11:37: Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10,... Jun 30, 2026

  Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Don’t judge this Kiki’s Delivery Service book by its cover, because it’s not actually a book! Jul 04, 2026

  Studio Ghibli pseudo-literature isn’t for reading, but is still something fans will want on their shelf. Ghibli speci...

• KFC Japan creates spicy summer fried chicken chips together with Calbee Jul 04, 2026

  Red-hot KFC chicken chips are on the way, and green-hot ones too. In May, Calbee, maker of some of Japan’s favorite p...

• Sanrio’s new McDonald’s Japan Happy Meals give the spotlight all to Cinnamoroll[Photos] Jul 04, 2026

  One of Sanrio’s top dogs is headed to McDonald’s Japan with some very cute stuff. The recently concluded Sanrio Chara...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Plex Lifetime Pass price is now $750 as Plex adds a new 5-year recurring pass at $250 Jul 04, 2026

  Plex’s new Lifetime Plex Pass price has been in effect since July 1, raising the cost for new customers from $249.99 ...

• GitHub will offer limited CD-ROM copies of public repos as Sony drops physical games Jul 04, 2026

  In an ironic and unusual move, GitHub has announced a new limited initiative that lets developers request a CD-ROM co...

• Immich 3.0 adds non-destructive editing & OCR on mobile, workflows, and improved backups Jul 03, 2026

  Immich 3.0 marks a major release for this open source, self-hosted solution for high-performance photo and video mana...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Ashkenazi and Sephardic and Mizrahi Jul 04, 2026

  The difference between different groups of Jews arts with the Jewish Diaspora, the displacement of Israelites outside...

• Rashi's Writings Jul 03, 2026

  The first book printed in Hebrew with a date on it was printed in Italy and dated 18 February 1475. It was a commenta...

• Rashi Jul 02, 2026

  An exegete is someone who interprets a text, especially religious texts. One of the leading Jewish exegetes in the Mi...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks Jul 04, 2026

  Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.

• Collabora Office 26.04 Keeps AI Optional and Refines Writer and Calc Jul 02, 2026

  The desktop suite's first major update pulls features from CODE 26.04.

• FOSS Weekly #26.27: Dev Mode in KDE Linux, Local AI, De-Google Android, Free Terminal Starter Course, KDE Step and More Jul 02, 2026

  To AI or not to AI, that is the intelligent question.

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Collections: On the Declaration of Independence Jul 04, 2026

  Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s po...

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It Jun 26, 2026

  This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guid...

• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals Jun 19, 2026

  This is the second half of the second part (I, IIa, IIb) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out so...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Proof of Something Jul 04, 2026

  You get to fuck off; I have to fuck off. That was a negative piece of self-talk I had in an internal monologue agains...

• That One Thing Jul 02, 2026

  I've been quite tired lately, and I suspect this is because I haven't taken a midday nap in some time. Even after my ...

• Not Done Yet Jul 01, 2026

  Yesterday, I played trivia at a new bar. I was at this place a few minutes from my house a few weeks ago—in an entert...

Roy Tang

A blog is a website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries, typically displayed in reverse chronlogical order. A single entry is called a blog post.

• The End is Nigh for Physical Gaming Jul 03, 2026

  Physical gaming collectors, enthusiasts, and preservationists got a lot of bad news over the last week or so. First, ...

• Movies / TV - May & Jun 2026 Jul 01, 2026

  These are the movies and TV shows I watched over the past couple of months. A note about ratings: I had a convo with ...

• Weeknotes 2026-06-28 Jun 28, 2026

  The World The Iran ceasefire is "holding", more or less, although both sides have accused the other of violations alm...

Refereeing and Reflection

Tangled Thoughts On RPGs and Related Hobbies

• Elfquest Revisited Jul 03, 2026

  Following in the wake of their Kickstarters to put out special archival rereleases of old RuneQuest and Call of Cthul...

• Over On Fake Geek Boy: Boldly Going Where No Gamebooks Have Gone Before! May 10, 2026

  I’ve just put out a review of various Star Trek: Lower Decks spin-off publications over on my books-movies-and-TV blo...

• The Fifty-Year Mayday: This Is Free Trader Beowulf May 05, 2026

  Shannon Appelcline has cultivated a bit of a career as an RPG historian, producing material which is less academic th...

Thejesh GN

A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

• Weekly Notes 27/2026 Jul 03, 2026

  It’s been a hectic week. Lots of work, meetings, and things to get done. I still have things on my list. I might have...

• Getting Started with SimulIDE and Arduino Jul 02, 2026

  I was looking for an alternative to Tinkercad to simulate building, coding, and running Arduino projects. SimulIDE Ci...

• Building kannada-kasturi-embeddings Jul 01, 2026

  Embeddings are numerical representations of real-world objects, such as words, phrases, text, images, audio, and vide...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic Jul 03, 2026

  I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues ...

• Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo Jul 02, 2026

  Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For th...

• Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026 Jul 02, 2026

  Last month, I participated in Robert Birming’s “Junited” project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from ...

xkcd.com

• Types of Tornado Alert Jul 03, 2026
• Holes Jul 01, 2026
• Asteroid Threat Jun 29, 2026

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• Fireworks, Firm Raises, And Fantasy Vacations — See Also Jul 02, 2026

  The Supreme Court's Politics Are Becoming A Big Problem: And Americans are catching on. Compensation Decisions Don't ...

• Plotting Biglaw’s Growth Pattern Jul 02, 2026

  Biglaw is taking advantage of the moment. The post Plotting Biglaw’s Growth Pattern appeared first on Above the Law.

• Goodbye Ratings, Hello Benchmarks: If Legal Tech Can Benchmark Attorneys, Shouldn’t  Attorneys Be Able To Ethically Benchmark Back? Jul 02, 2026

  The legal profession needs to understand what benchmarks are, how they work, and whether existing ethics rules are eq...