Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full details o … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 17 minutes ago

Push V3: One Message From Your Server to Every Surface

Codename One Push V3 adds typed messages, managed credentials, segmentation, analytics, and Surface updates. Existing push apps should test the new cloud endpoint before next week's cutover. The post Push V3: One Message From Your Server to Every Surface appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading


@foojay.io | 59 minutes ago

Build Yourself A Fortress

In 1936, John Russell Scott, the sole owner and chairman of one of the world’s most respected newspapers, The Guardian, handed over all his shares … The post Build Yourself A Fortress appeared first on Gapingvoid. | Continue reading


@gapingvoid.com | 1 hour ago

New York woman arrested after nearly 1,000 neglected rats found in home with child

Volunteers have removed several dozen rats, including four in critical condition. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Photo Ark project's 18,000th species is a rare fish that 'walks' on hands, with fewer than 250 left

Recovery of the red handfish is being held back by shrinking habitat, contamination, climate pressures, and human disturbance. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Malaysia bans all e-waste imports as falsified shipping documents feed a toxic black market

Hazardous loads have been passed off as ordinary raw materials, so they can clear customs and reach illegal recycling sites. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

An eBike for Fitness

Ride a heavy-ass bike with a heavy ass... | Continue reading


@rasterweb.net | 1 hour ago

Trump launched big new solar tariffs. Here's what it means.

A far-reaching new tariff on solar imports promises to both raise the cost of installing the clean energy source and strengthen efforts to reshore solar manufacturing. The White House announced the new tariffs Thursday on imported polysilicon and related products, including sili … | Continue reading


@canarymedia.com | 1 hour ago

As Texas spreads outward, extreme heat is making daily life harder without a car

Sprawl can translate into longer trips and fewer workable alternatives when traffic builds or temperatures rise. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

The Joyless Return of ‘Ted Lasso’

The show’s newest season replaces real character complexity, depth, and heart with big, sweeping political statements that stir progressive pundits and academics and precisely no one else, writes Liel Leibovitz. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Florida termites are riding private boats from marina to marina, UF study finds

"I would say it's been a long train crash in slow motion." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Fur eye day

Book now The next three IIWs. November 3 – 5, 2026IIWXLIII #43 Fall 2026 April 27 – 29, 2027IIWXLIV #44 Spring 2027 October 19 – 21, 2027IIWXLV #45 Fall 2027 Early bird ends in 15 days | Continue reading


@doc.searls.com | 1 hour ago

Impolite Spiders

For years now I have been aghast at the terribly impolite behavior of some bots who spider my site. It is extremely common to see many successive requests to the... | Continue reading


@sheep.horse | 1 hour ago

Orphaned elephant Wangalla became inseparable from Bumpy, a rescued baby hippo

As they get older, instinct will lead each back to its own species. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Dubai billionaire's $250 million yacht shows private luxury's public carbon cost

The largest privately owned yachts can rack up fuel bills in the millions. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI

The data center buildout has hit a new inflection point. It has long been true that artificial intelligence is fueling climate change by driving up power demand; more recently, tech companies have started directly financing new natural gas plants in their quest for AI glory. Now … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 2 hours ago

The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is ope … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 2 hours ago

Fujifilm X-T6 Announcement Postponed??

According to Fujirumors, Fujifilm is delaying the announcement of the upcoming X-T6; however, Fujifilm has not announced that they’re announcing any camera. How can something be postponed that hasn’t even been publicized? Let me put it this way. Let’s say that you are the manager … | Continue reading


@fujixweekly.com | 2 hours ago

Why The Most Surprising Murder-Mystery Of The Year Defies Its Genre

'The Samurai and the Prisoner' director Kiyoshi Kurosawa speaks about why he doesn't consider his movie to be a true mystery film. | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 2 hours ago

Puerto Rico orders 48-hour water shutoffs for 180,000 customers as drought deepens

"We are seeing that El Niño continues to get stronger." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Oh, So Trump Loves Solar Power After All?

Photo: The US solar power profile keeps growing, and some solar stakeholders anticipate an additional boost from the President's new Section 232 order under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. The post Oh, So Trump Loves Solar Power After All? appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 2 hours ago

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 2 hours ago

DiCaprio, Bezos launch $200M effort to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species

The project will include animals like the Galápagos pink land iguana, the Malayan pangolin, and Tanzania's pancake tortoise. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

The 2027 Chevrolet Bolt is the budget EV buyers want, and GM already plans to phase it out

Buyers say it fits well in city parking spaces, handles daily errands, and does not strain the budget. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Play Any Apple II or Apple IIgs Game in Your Browser

If you’ve been using computers for a long time, you might recall the Apple II and Apple IIgs, two of Apple’s early computers that were before they had fully committed to the Macintosh platform. While there were plenty of productivity apps and programming tools for Apple II and Ap … | Continue reading


@osxdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Deals: AirPods Pro 3 for $189

Amazon is offering some great discounts on AirPods models, check them out and pick which is right for you: AirPods Pro 3 for $189 (down from $249) AirPods Max for $449 (down from $549) AirPods 4 for $99 (down from $129) Misc Deals Anker 7-in-1 USB-C hub For $20 (down from $26) Ai … | Continue reading


@osxdaily.com | 2 hours ago

Ancient DNA suggests Shimao rulers in China kept power within elite family lines, had gendered sacrifices

Researchers determined that male and female sacrificial victims were buried in separate areas. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

A SpaceX Rocket Part Just Slammed Into the Moon, Creating a Dust Plume and Crater. Here's What Some Scientific Instruments Saw

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute captured before-and-after images of the impact site, and a telescope in Chile detected signs of the plume. However, no one was able to watch the collision live | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 2 hours ago

Django: introducing django-msgspec

It’s another day, another new package day here. Say hello to django-msgspec, a package of drop-in replacements for Django and Django REST Framework (DRF) components backed by msgspec. msgspec is a C-based serialization library covering JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML, with opti … | Continue reading


@adamj.eu | 2 hours ago

In the UK, false widow sightings surge as bite-related hospital admissions double

It is thought to have arrived in fruit cargo from Madeira. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Restart, Walmart's Gaming Site, Lays Off Entire Editorial Team

The site started in December 2024 | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 2 hours ago

Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 hours ago

Microplastics found in deep-sea vent animals from the North Fiji Basin to the Indian Ocean

Particles have already been detected in the human body and throughout the food chain. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video

Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. | Continue reading


@schneier.com | 3 hours ago

Preparing for and Executing a Red Carpet Shoot Like a Pro

Red carpet photography looks straightforward from the outside, but the access, gear, and etiquette behind a single clean frame are anything but obvious. After nearly two decades away from the assignment, I returned to the carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival and relearned what it … | Continue reading


@fstoppers.com | 3 hours ago

Foto Walks 2026, happening on Saturday 26 September 2026

Foto is a photo sharing platform I should really use more often. I originally signed up just over a year ago, but haven’t really used it much lately. Possibly because of my attitude at the moment to apps, and anything that is too much like social media. Nonetheless, I ought to po … | Continue reading


@disassociated.com | 3 hours ago

This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud

TL;DR: If you regularly bank, shop, and manage your finances online, this discounted 15-month subscription offers an affordable way to monitor your identity and respond quickly if fraud occurs—grab it now for just $99.99 (reg. $187.35). With LifeLock Core Identity Theft Protectio … | Continue reading


@boingboing.net | 3 hours ago

Along for the ride

NYC's the booyah! kids are on the Sunday afternoon schedule for this weekend's Show Brain Fest in Tompkins Square Park. The trio just released this video today for "rwm," from their upcoming covers EP. (This is a cover of Nelly's "Ride Wit Me.") | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 3 hours ago

Viagra May Slow the Spread of Cancer

And statins can help The post Viagra May Slow the Spread of Cancer appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 3 hours ago

Pennsylvania senators unite on lanternfly bill as pest ravages grapes, apples, and peaches

If the infestation isn't brought under control, it could cost Pennsylvania's economy at least $324 million every year. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Sázava River Cabin Rebuilds a Retreat Around a Stone Plinth

The Sázava River Cabin, on the banks of the Sázava in the Czech Republic, replaces its predecessor on the same site. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 3 hours ago

What is the extent of Sherlock Holmes’s random scientific knowledge?

Holmes’s scientific knowledge is somewhat incoherent from text to text. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes shocks Watson by remarking that he does not know about the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe or the names of the nine planets in the solar system. Why? Because it is … | Continue reading


@crimereads.com | 3 hours ago

Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber Drivers Into Mobile Snitches

More eyes on you. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

Los Angeles shelter euthanasia rises 33% as rescuers warn prevention is falling short

"We've never had dogs put on the kill list like we do now." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Trump informs Lisa Cook that he is “considering” her removal

President Donald Trump has renewed his effort to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The Supreme Court on June 29 temporarily thwarted Trump’s initial effort to remove Cook, emphasizing the need for the Federal Reserve to remain free of political … | Continue reading


@scotusblog.com | 3 hours ago

Learn linear least squares with me

We’re going to ignore the statistical interpretation entirely and just look at this from the perspective of basic high-school math. | Continue reading


@clojurecivitas.org | 3 hours ago

“AI Is Not What God Intended” Powerful New Single by Michellar Feat. Ilya

Michellar's new single, "AI Is Not What God Intended," serves as a powerful and impassioned critique of the use of AI in music, highlighting not only its irresponsible nature but also its potential legal issues. | Continue reading


@lessthan1000followers.com | 3 hours ago

Antarctica's giant iceberg break exposed a hidden fish nursery in the Weddell Sea

"This would offer a significantly reduced risk to the nests in the center of the cluster." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago