Collaborate Disseminate
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? “Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools” in its projects, documentation, and packaging… Generative AI “is neither exempt from nor … Continue reading Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI ‘Responsibly’
Needing less than 70 grams of filament, [Chefkoch]’s 3D printed PCB vise solder station might be a good way to use up some filament spool leftovers and get yourself a …read more Continue reading Compact PCB Vise Uses Up That Leftover Filament
Axios reports:
Some of the world’s largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
The suit is the openin… Continue reading Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works
The Los Angeles Times first calls Ridley Scott’s newest movie “a postapocalyptic thriller that trades zombies for pandemics and asks whether hope can outlast catastrophe.” But besides
The Dog Stars, Scott is also working on an adaptation of Robert Lou… Continue reading What’s 88-year-old Ridley Scott Doing Now?
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted agent runtime that turns an AI model into a persistent assistant. You can connect OpenClaw to apps and external platforms and let the agent take actions on your behalf. It can potentially browse websites, work wi… Continue reading How to secure OpenClaw desktop AI automation on Windows systems
CNN reports that “A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported.”
The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the hig… Continue reading With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life
The Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) is a board carrying a slightly older ESP32 variant, a display with a resistive touchscreen, an SD card, and not much else. It’s often used …read more Continue reading Wikipedia on a Cheap Yellow Display
The Washington Post shares this tip for car buyers.
Electric vehicles “are not driving the recent growth in recalls warning that vehicles could erupt into flames at any time, even when parked and turned off.”
A Washington Post analysis of National … Continue reading Millions of Cars Recalled Over Danger of Bursting Into Flames. But They’re Not EVs.
The Washington Post looks “a growing number of Americans who have had their private conversations with AI chatbots made public in court,” calling the chatbots “custodians of a fast-growing trove of intimate data that can be sought by law enforcement, o… Continue reading Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court
Phoronix reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s recent slide from his upcoming talk in Paris at Kernel Recipes 2026 (September 21 to 23):
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel’s vast codebase, there has been a surge in the num… Continue reading The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release