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The Volokh Conspiracy

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

• Trump Administration Will Appeal Ruling Requiring Tariff Refunds May 30, 2026

  They claim the injunction requiring refunds cannot be universal, and can only apply to those businesses who filed law...

• Libel Suit by "King of Vape" Against N.Y. Post, Over Allegations of Misconduct and Anti-Israel Actions, Thrown Out May 30, 2026

  "Plaintiff's allegations in [an earlier] complaint let the cat out of the bag that he is a public figure. He cannot p...

• The Satanic Temple Loses Libel Suit Against Newsweek Over "Accounts of Sexual Abuse Being Covered up" Allegation May 30, 2026

  From Thursday's decision in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Digital LLC, written by Judge Alison Nathan and join...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• Replace Yourself With a Human, Not Bot May 30, 2026

  An article about an outgoing Baidu employee replacing himself with a chatbot reminded me of the time I replaced mysel...

• Be the Blogger You Want to Be (Or Read) May 27, 2026

  I conclude The New Leaf Journal's sixth birthday project with the case for making the blog or writing website that yo...

• On Spotify’s SpotifAI Podcasts May 27, 2026

  Today I learned that Spotify is offering AI/LLM generated podcasts. I had thoughts after I considered what I learned ...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI — Where Is Her Voice Going? May 30, 2026

  Don’t get me wrong, I think AI has very many useful things it can be used for. It can also be cloud based or self-hos...

• Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy May 26, 2026

  “Unlike earlier experimental systems that relied on expensive sensors or specialised equipment, the new method works ...

• MeshCore SAR – The final hurdle has been reached for MeshCore May 25, 2026

  I did a post about a week back when I started investigating a possible migration from Meshtastic radio to MeshCore ra...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Breaking Enigma with an FPGA, Just like at Bletchly Park May 30, 2026

  The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the histo...

• The Uncooperative Mirror Will Not Help You May 30, 2026

  The value of a mirror is in its clarity. If the reflection is cast by [danicakostic17]’s Uncooperative Mirror though,...

• Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts May 30, 2026

  Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very s...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• When The Silver Spoon They Were Born With Falls From Their Mouth To The Floor May 30, 2026

  Read When The Silver Spoon They Were Born With Falls From Their Mouth To The Floor Our hotel is very high-end, with r...

• Ink-dentity Crisis May 30, 2026

  Read Ink-dentity Crisis Me: *Handing over my debit card.* "Here you go." Clerk: *Examining the back.* "I can't take t...

• The Day Can Be Ruined By A Sprinkle May 30, 2026

  Read The Day Can Be Ruined By A Sprinkle Customer: "Can I get a Venti half-caf soy mocha with two pumps of sugar-free...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. It is written by Nicholas A. Ferrell, the editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal. Our weekly issues include links to the newest articles at *The New Leaf Journal* and its sister projects and associated new...

• Leaf out in May 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXII May 30, 2026

  Leaves from the week that was I only managed to publish two NLJ articles since mailing Newsletter 281, but I like to ...

• Café Building 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXI May 23, 2026

  Thank you as always for reading The Newsletter Leaf Journal. If you enjoy this issue and have not done so already, yo...

• Virid Burnout 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXX May 16, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 280th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 30 May 2026 May 30, 2026

  Phlegmish Edition Top Story In the comments yesterday, Seth asked:Regarding Anthropic and their IPO. Why the statemen...

• Daily News Stuff 29 May 2026 May 29, 2026

  Fiery But Fireful Edition Top Story Anthropic has raised another $65 billion as it approaches a planned $1 trillion I...

• Daily News Stuff 28 May 2026 May 28, 2026

  The Beeg Cat Who Walks Through Walls Edition Top Story Nvidia is planning to spend $150 billion a year in Taiwan. (Re...

Peter's Path

Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

• Pelgrims Path part 04 May 30, 2026

  Hiked part 4/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 16.3 kilometres from Aarlanderveen to Reeuwijk. The four windmills of the Aarla...

• Magnifica Humanitas May 26, 2026

  102: The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touche...

• The Iliad by Homer May 25, 2026

  Why read the book? Homer wrote The Iliad around 800 BC. It is one of the oldest and greatest works in Western literat...

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

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

• Osaka is hosting a “hentai” event, but it’s probably not what you think May 30, 2026

  No tentacles here, folks! Only beautifully strange plants. If you’ve spent any time online, the word “hentai” probabl...

• Japan’s cafe that won’t let you go home until you solve a puzzle is opening in Osaka’s canal district May 30, 2026

  Hatena Coffee continues to make customers smile as they scratch their heads. The line that separates cafes from regul...

• Starbucks Japan has a problem with its sell-out breakfast that might annoy solo diners May 30, 2026

  A flaw in the system makes this Starbucks breakfast less than stellar.  They say the third time’s the charm, and that...

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• New Law Engineers Unity May 30, 2026

  James Leibold

• Blaming ‘Foreign Forces’ Backfires for Beijing May 29, 2026

  Shijie Wang

• Central Asia Accessing Pakistani Sea Ports that Bypass Afghanistan May 28, 2026

  Syed Fazl-e-Haider

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Sweyn's Daughter, Estrid May 30, 2026

  Estrid Svensdatter, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and sister of Cnut, was born c.990s and lived at last until after 105...

• Sweyn Invades May 29, 2026

  It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivat...

• The Oxford Massacre May 28, 2026

  One site of the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a m...

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Are We Overlooking Signs of Extraterrestrial Life? A Study Warns of “False Negatives” in Biosignature Detection May 30, 2026

  The possibility that there are signs of biological activity beyond Earth, and that these signs have been systematical...

• Remains of a Roman Bridge from the Year 363 AD Discovered in the Bed of the Meuse River in the Netherlands May 29, 2026

  A sand extraction operation in the channel of the Meuse River, near the municipality of West Maas en Waal, in the cen...

• A 5th-Century BC Ship with Over Three Hundred Amphorae Found on the Seafloor of the Ionian Sea in Calabria May 29, 2026

  Archaeologists located a sunken wreck in the waters of the Ionian Sea, dated between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, of...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with faster mode, better reasoning, and Claude Code updates May 30, 2026

  Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, its latest model upgrade less than two months after the previous release. Pri...

• Raycast for iOS introduces BYOK for AI access with user API keys May 29, 2026

  Raycast for iOS now supports Bring Your Own Key, letting users connect Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, or OpenRouter API k...

• Obsidian1.13.0 debuts revamped settings panel with search and keyboard navigation May 29, 2026

  Obsidian 1.13.0 introduces a redesigned Settings panel that opens in a new window, featuring built-in search and enha...

Above the Law

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

• Bonuses Are In The Air! — See Also May 29, 2026

  Selendy Gay Springs Money On Their Associates!: This boutique pays out the big bucks! The Climate Scoreboard Is Out!:...

• A Breakdown Of The DOJ’s Immigration Departures May 29, 2026

  The brain drain is for real. The post A Breakdown Of The DOJ’s Immigration Departures appeared first on Above the Law.

• Back To Basics May 29, 2026

  AI hallucinations are exposing weaknesses in legal review processes. The post Back To Basics appeared first on Above ...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Gap Week: May 29, 2026 May 29, 2026

  Hey folks! I had a few other projects that I really needed to get finished this week, which left me with limited time...

• Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights May 22, 2026

  This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and ...

• Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026 May 16, 2026

  Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odd...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-29-26 May 29, 2026

  Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook...

• Video: A Defense of Visual Novels May 29, 2026

  I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and...

• Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0 May 29, 2026

  This site is (as of the publication of this post) on WordPress 7.0. I became aware that WordPress added some AI featu...

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 22/2026 May 29, 2026

  This Saturday, we drove to Palakkad to meet Pradeep and Dhanya. It was a short morning walk and breakfast meet. We me...

• Weekly Notes 21/2026 May 22, 2026

  I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had t...

• Embedding user code in your app using Extism May 19, 2026

  Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful ...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Steam Deck OLED is Absurdly Overpriced Now, Yet It Sold Out in North America Overnight May 29, 2026

  The handheld returned at $789 and $949, sold out in North America within 24 hours, and is now back with inconsistent ...

• FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More May 28, 2026

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

• Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028 May 27, 2026

  Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• Farewell AWS May 29, 2026

  Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn...

• The Grand Hyatt Gets an AI Agent May 26, 2026

  I have just returned home from a two week work trip. As part of that trip I spent two nights at the Grand Hyatt in Se...

• Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out May 23, 2026

  Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday. I have to say being fired from AWS is actually...

Your Local Epidemiologist

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

• Should I cancel my trip to Africa? Plan for Covid-19 vaccines? Do airport checks really work? And U.S. Prev. Task Force? May 29, 2026

  Question grab bag

• Ebola, chemical plants and health, hantavirus, common colds, heat and more May 27, 2026

  The Dose: May 27

• From questions to confidence: What changed my mind on vaccines May 23, 2026

  YLE webinar recording, takeaways, and FAQs