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Text • Fred Lambert

Trump weaponizes FCC to ban new foreign-made connected solar inverters

The FCC added foreign-made connected power inverters to its Covered List on July 28, cutting off the federal authorization new models need to be imported, marketed, or sold in the US.

It’s aimed at the radios inside modern inverters, not the power electronics. And it lands on a market where US factories are on track to supply just 40% of combined solar and battery demand next year, according to testing firm Intertek CEA.

WIRED
Text • Lily Hay Newman

The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

Waxy.org
Text • Andy Baio

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in alphabetical order

vimeo.com/1215576459

the latest submission to Supercut.org, inspired by Of Oz The Wizard

via supercut.org #

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Text John Gruber

Apple News Ad of the Week

mastodon.social/@gruber/117044545772667716

I look forward to this level of class and brand prestige coming to Apple Maps.

 ★ 

WIRED
Text • Ej Dickson

TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

Ars Technica
Text • Jon Brodkin

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.

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Sherrod Brown's U.S. Senate campaign releases a new ad scorching Jon Husted for slashing Medicaid:

"You can't hug our daughter, take your picture with her, and then cut the care that she relies on."

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Evan Paul

Gary LeVox is Helping Out Military Families

Gary LeVox just helped raise $1.25 million for military families — and the way it happened is worth hearing about. Continue reading…

History Facts
Text • Kristina Wright

5 Life Lessons From Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as one of history’s geniuses, a man whose curiosity seemed to have no limits. Born in 1452 during the Italian Renaissance, he created some of the world’s most celebrated works of art, including the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” while fill...

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Text Jason Kottke

The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...

The Computer That Helped Win World War II. “…it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the fascination of a Colossus at work: its sheer bulk and apparent complexity; the fantastic speed of thin paper tape round the glittering pulleys…”

Electrek
Text • Michelle Lewis

EVgo-branded Tesla Superchargers are coming

EVgo is installing Tesla’s newest Supercharger hardware on its own network, but the stations will be EVgo-branded.

rss.chat: all posts
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WebSub support in RSS.chat

Previously we were only able to notify via rssCloud.

Now we also support WebSub because there are also a fair number of feed readers that only use WebSub.

We're using Andrew Shell's rsscloud.io as our WebSub hub, as we have for a long time with rssCloud.

Andrew please help us figure out if this is working correctly.

The source is in the repo, along with a worknote.

Ars Technica
Text • Eric Berger

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

demo.rss.chat: all posts
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WebSub support for RSS.chat

Previously we were only able to notify via rssCloud.

Now we also support WebSub because there are also a fair number of feed readers that only use WebSub.

We're using Andrew Shell's rsscloud.io as our WebSub hub, as we have for a long time with rssCloud.

Andrew please help us figure out if this is working correctly.

The source is in the repo, along with a worknote.

rss.chat worknotes
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rss.chat feeds now support WebSub

github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md

Andrew Shell's rssCloud server speaks both protocols as of its 4.0 release, over one shared list of subscribers -- so a reader that speaks WebSub can now follow an rss.chat feed in real time, the way an rssCloud reader always could. Two things make it work. Every feed we serve announces the hub in a Link header, which is the first place the spec tells a subscriber to look. And when a feed changes we tell the hub, right alongside the rssCloud ping we already send. It covers the per-user feeds, the everyone feed, and the subscription list at data/subs.opml -- WebSub works for OPML as well as RSS. (Server v0.6.14, on rss.chat and demo.rss.chat now.)

rss.chat worknotes
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You can point it at any hub

github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md

Two new settings, both with working defaults, so there's nothing to configure: flWebsubEnabled is on, and urlWebsubHub is Andrew's hub at https://rpc.rsscloud.io/websub. Put a different address in config.json and both the announcement and the ping follow it. Set flWebsubEnabled to false and neither happens. One note for operators: the header rides on feeds the server itself serves, so if yours publishes to S3 instead, there's nothing to announce.

rss.chat worknotes
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Updating a server you already run

github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md

Get the new rssnetwork.js and package.json from the repo and restart. No new packages this time, so there's no npm install step.

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Q: What message does it send if Trump fires a U.S. attorney because she determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge four people with a crime?

Blanche: He's allowed to do that

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Amanda Caswell

Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently”

Google logo above the glass entrance to a modern office building, with pedestrians and trees outside.

At the start of 2025, investors wondered whether Google could keep pace with OpenAI. By December, Alphabet was completing its

The post Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently” appeared first on The New Stack.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Jana Deak

No Jail Time in Historic Landmark Fire Case

Two teenagers and two young adults set fire to one of the Hudson Valley's most historic landmarks — and a Westchester County Parks worker was the first to find the damage. Continue reading…