Doc Searls Weblog
• Doc Searls
I am a heavy Photoshop user, and recently upgraded to Photoshop 2026 at Adobe’s robotic insistence. But, when I went to do a “generative fill” on an old photo (in the outlined area above), I was met with this: Fuzzed by that, I hit the View my balance button and got this: This shows I’m […]
Ars Technica
• Jeremy Hsu
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
I made a change today for new users to essentially require setting the “about me” text for a Micro.blog profile. After you confirm signing up, you’ll get this page with some random profiles. I hope that it’ll help with discovery in the future and also weeding out non-humans more easily.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“California and 22 other Democratic-led states urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block President Trump’s plan to take control of voting by mail through the U.S. Postal Service,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “They said it is too late in the election year to impose a new set of regulations for mail ballots.” “Doing […]
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emptywheel
• emptywheel
Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?
The post Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? appeared first on emptywheel.
Racket
• Jay Boller
Plus St. Paul needs a mayor, RIP David Rivkin, and b-ball bigot booed in today's Flyover news roundup.
Vasily Kandinsky, Vignette next to "Adventure" (Vignette bei "Abenteuer") (headpiece, folio 45 verso) from Klänge (Sounds), (1913) #museumarchive #museumofmodernart
The City Reporter
• Gwynne Hogan
An El Salvadoran man held for the past six weeks at Delaney Hall, the largest ICE detention center in the New York metro area, has died, his mother and attorneys say. It is the second death at the facility since it opened a year and a half ago. In a lengthy interview posted to Facebook […]
The post El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says appeared first on The City Reporter.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
Apple now caps how many security reports some researchers can have open at once. And once they hit that cap,
The post Apple and Bynario agree GPT-5.5 found a real macOS bug. They disagree on the report cap. appeared first on The New Stack.
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