19-year-old Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer known as "Big Balls" online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA (Wired)
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New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
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Unwetterwarnung vom 26.06.2025, 17:28 Uhr für Brandenburg an der Havel:
Amtliche UNWETTERWARNUNG vor SCHWEREM GEWITTER mit ORKANBÖEN
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Von Südwesten ziehen Gewitter auf. Dabei gibt es orkanartige Böen mit Geschwindigkeiten zwischen 85 km/h (24 m/s, 47 kn, Bft 9) und 105 km/h (29 m/s, 56 kn, Bft 11) sowie Starkregen mit Niederschlagsmengen um 20 l/m² in kurzer Zeit und Hagel.…
Američtí uživatelé začnou platit za přístup k internetovému zpravodajství britské BBC. Od čtvrtka 26. června si mohou pořídit předplatné za 9 dolarů…Filip Rožánek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter: george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-…
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I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.George Mandis
Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
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Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.Zac Bowden (Windows Central)
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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Amazon announced that it was bringing same-day and next-day delivery to 4,000 small towns and rural communities by the end of 2026.Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)
It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 open-source and free disk cloning and imaging tool is now available for download with various changes and updates.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Explore free and vmstat, two small utilities that reveal a surprising amount about your Linux system's health.Andreas Haerter (Fedora Project)
Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs"
Vijf beklaagden zijn dinsdag voor weerspannigheid tijdens een manifestatie van "Code Rood" eind 2023. De correctionele rechtbank van Antwerpen vond het voor drie van hen niet bewezen dat ze aanwezig waren. De twee anderen namen wel deel aan de actie, maar de rechtbank zag geen bewijs dat ze weerspannig waren geweest.
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Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes
Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with "low-level" digital intrusions by pro-Iran hacktivists.…
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: Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attemptsJessica Lyons (The Register)
Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia
Link: monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/
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Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web [...]LWN.net
That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents
What if you want to find out more about the PS/2 Model 280? You head out to Google, type it in as a query, and realise the little "AI" summary that's above the fold is clearly wrong. Then you run the same query again, multiple times, and notice that each time, the "AI" overvi
Git 2.50 distributed revision control tool removes the legacy recursive merge engine, completing the transition to the faster, more robust ORT engine.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
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New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.Timothy B. Lee (Understanding AI)
I don’t know if any of you have used the app, jacket.FM. But I hear that people are having trouble getting into it today. I have also been hearing that the developer plans to close it down and make a different app.www.applevis.com
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You'll think you're cruising through hyperspace -- Warp brings speed, insight, and next-level productivity to the command line.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
Learn how to show progress of cp, mv, rm, rsync, dd, scp, adb, tar, gzip, zip, 7z, unzip, etc., commands in Linux with/without using any tool.Linux TLDR
Many WordPress plugins offer limited GPL versions, locking key features behind paywalls. I share 5 truly free and open source WordPress plugins I use.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
for macOS Sequoia Intro When performing searches within apps, you can use keywords to narrow your search without having to navigate through popup menus.www.applevis.com
Linux system administrators have seen remarkable salary growth leading into 2025, with the increasing reliance on Linux in enterprise IT and emerging technologies driving up demand significantly.Linux Jobs & Careers
Desítky miniaturních FPV dronů zdecimovaly strategické letectvo Ruska – to jste si už asi všichni přečetli. Ale víte, co v těch FPV dronech bylo za…Redakce (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
Trump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are clashing over a major budget bill Trump wants passed, which the Tesla CEO says will blow out federal deficits.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
Learn how to install WordPress on Debian 13 using our step-by-step guide or have one of our Linux system admins install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
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Learn how to check disk health in Linux using smartctl, badblocks, and fsck utilities. Identify failing HDDs/SSDs early and prevent data loss.sk (OSTechNix)
Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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