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Hegseth Defense in Total Collapse as Leaks on Strike Grow More Damning

Pete Hegseth’s defense of the killing of two men clinging to an incapacitated boat is falling apart on multiple fronts. Lawmakers who saw video of this horror are letting it be known that the two men were waving before their execution, suggesting they were either s...

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DHH & Open Source

I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David Heinmeier Hansson’s insistence on calling it open source. “One more thing…  Fizzy is open source and … Continue reading DHH & Open Source →

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Hyperacute Interdynamics

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

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How X made the EU's case for it

How X made the EU's case for it

By banning an ad account on a flimsy pretext, X demonstrated the exact behavior that led the European Union to fine it. PLUS: The state AI law moratorium is back, and the Paramount-Netflix fight

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Blanco County Courthouse.

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Johny Srouji, in Memo Responding to Gurman Report: ‘I Love My Team, and I Love My Job at Apple, and I Don’t Plan on Leaving Anytime Soon’

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CNBC: Apple chip leader Johny Srouji addressed rumors of his impending exit in a memo to staff on Monday, saying he doesn’t plan on leaving the company anytime soon. “I love my team, and I love my job at Apple, and I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon,” he wrote. Bloomb...

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AI optimism is a class privilege via Josh Collinsworth

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I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.

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Trunk & Tidbits, November 2025

Hello, friends! Last month was momentous and exciting: we announced a new organisation structure; Eugen changed roles; and, we also announced a new path for donors to support us in Europe, thanks to fiscal sponsorship from WE AID. Alongside these changes, we’ve also started ...

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How Jeffery Hicks goes behind-the-scenes in his newsletter

Jeffery uses his newsletter to share tips, tricks, and explore areas within PowerShell that are often overlooked, yet super useful to consider.

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EU Court Rules That Apple Must Face Dutch Antitrust Lawsuit Regarding App Store Commission Rates

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Juli Clover, writing at MacRumors (regarding a report at Reuters): Apple could ultimately have to pay up to an estimated 637 million euros to address the damage suffered by 14 million iPhone and iPad users in the Netherlands. That’s about €45/user. The lawsuit date...

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Get ready for Trump’s World Cup

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The 2026 World Cup is being held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Before the tournament selection took place Friday in Washington D.C., FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented President Donald Trump with an inaugural Peace Prize from soccer’s global governing body....

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Meet Whamm: The WebAssembly Instrumentation Framework

Every once in a while, a particularly interesting release or project is introduced at a larger conference amid zero marketing

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BTW, a frequently asked question, where can I get your blogroll list to import into my feed reader? Answer -- here.

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The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away

The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.

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Linux Foundation Leader: We’re Not in an AI Bubble

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin at Open Source Summit Japan 2025.

TOKYO — In his keynote speech at Open Source Summit Japan on Monday,  Executive Director Jim Zemlin argued that “Artificial

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Rayan Cherki’s Pass Was A Thing Of Beauty

Rayan Cherki’s Pass Was A Thing Of Beauty
The video of any great goal is a rich text that offers the viewer countless details to plunge into and enjoy. One of my favorite aspects are the players' reactions. There's so much to read into the body language of a scorer and their teammates after the ball hits the net: th...

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I should have demo'd the blogroll stuff at WordCamp Canada. Next time I will show products people can use right now.

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Doc always has a link on my home page. That's because I have the best blogroll ever. It's hooked up to a feed reader via a technology called websockets that came along after the heyday of blogging. If you want to see its heart beating, go to scripting.com, in the browser, open the JavaScript console, and watch the updates flow in (screen shot). While we weren't watching the web got some really badass new features.

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OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist

From “cameo” to “io,” OpenAI keeps trying to call its new and upcoming releases by names that resemble existing trademarks.