The Last Astronomers. “Many fear that if unleashed in all parts of the scientific process, AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics as a human endeavor.”
Wow, NBA summer league is almost here already, starting on Friday. I like re-signing Harrison Barnes and Julian Champagnie. Plus the new rookies, great roster, don’t mess with what worked last season. 🏀
Testing the redesigned Wavelength app that @vincent has been working on and it looks so nice. The original app hasn’t gotten much attention. The new app is a modernized rewrite and we’re bringing it to Android too.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Zeen Rachidi
The call is coming from inside your pipeline: the anatomy of a Codecov attack

In January 2021, an attacker added a single line of code to a popular bash script. Tens of thousands of
The post The call is coming from inside your pipeline: the anatomy of a Codecov attack appeared first on The New Stack.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md
new columns in the users table
ctHits, ctHitsToday, whenLastHit
when the user calls savePrefs, we
if now not in the same day as whenLastHit
ctHitsToday++
ctHits++
set whenLastHit to now
this will give us a way to see who's using the system most
really important in startup mode
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Kia’s midsize electric SUV gains AWD and a special new ‘Storm’ edition

The new Storm edition variant offers “more bang for your buck,” Kia said after introducing the new special edition model.
WP Tavern
• Nathan Wrigley
#223 – Ivana Ćirković on How WordPress Credits Bridges Education and Industry in the WordPress Ecosystem
On the podcast today we explore the WordPress Credits initiative, and its strategic importance in integrating young talent into the WordPress ecosystem through structured university programs. We discuss the alignment of the program with modern workforce demands, the benefits for businesses in recruiting pre-trained contributors, and the need for universities to update curricula in partnership with the WordPress Foundation. We also get into the demographic challenge facing the WordPress community and the critical necessity of proactive outreach to ensure generational renewal and the continued viability of the project.
smays.com
• Steve Mays
Energy Boost by Nicolas Monterrat
Unable to download the animated GIF, so click here or the image above to get the full effect. More by this artist.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
"Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life."
Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
(Podcast) The Rebound 605: I Don’t Want to Go to Tatooine
Apple hikes prices, Dan goes down a rabbit hole, Moltz is holding confessional and Lex rightfully self-promotes.…
Defector
• John Garrison Marks
“We Hold These Truds”: A Search For The Weirdest Piece Of America 250 Merchandise
smays.com
• Steve Mays
Religion in the Age of Stories
I prompted Perplexity to write an essay based on the seventy-five posts in the Religion category on my blog. (First one was in 2004.) Rather than have this written in my own voice with first-person interjections, I told Perplexity to … Continue reading →
Pre-Thought Listen
• rmccue
Pull Requests Are for Humans
This is a post I originally wrote internally at Human Made, but I think is worth sharing publicly. Both in private repositories and in open source repositories, there’s been a huge rise in the use of AI as LLMs have become more powerful. While many of us are using AI constantly to write code (myself […]
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Cybertruck failure kills home charging, and Tesla is avoiding a recall

A growing number of Tesla Cybertruck owners are losing the ability to charge at home due to failures of the truck’s Power Conversion System (PCS), the unit that handles AC charging and steps the high-voltage pack down to the 48-volt system.
Tesla is aware of the problem and is quietly replacing the part case-by-case, but it has not issued a recall, and owners are waiting weeks for replacement units they can’t source.
Idris Elba DJs a House Party
Idris Elba, knight of the realm and forever Avon Barksdale’s right-hand man in my heart, has been a DJ since he was 14 years old. He recently DJed a house party for Black House Radio and it looks like everyone had a lot of fun.
You can also find this mix on Soundcloud, along with many more of Elba’s mixes.
Tags: Idris Elba · music · video
Six Colors
• Dan Moren
Report: Security vulnerability makes Hide My Email not so anonymous ↦
Joseph Cox at 404Media reports on a hole in Hide My Email’s security:
…A vulnerability in Apple’s “Hide My Email” tool lets almost anyone discover a person’s real email address that is supposed to be hidden by the feature, and Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year, according to a security researcher and 404 Media’s own tests.
We’ve released a bug fix update to Micro.blog for iOS, fixing an issue with the editing toolbar getting covered by the keyboard after attaching a photo to a new post.
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
SCOTUSblog
• Jake S. Truscott, Adam Feldman
The 2025-26 term by the numbers