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More than 340 local U.S. outlets are blocking Internet Archive archiving bots, shrinking the Wayback Machine’s access to their journalism. The affected publishers include USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, Tribune Publishing (Alden Global Capital), Condé Nast, The Atlantic, Folha de S.Paulo, among others. Blockers cite IP protection and leverage in licensing AI training; archiving advocates warn it harms long-term preservation and research. The Internet Archive says it limits bulk downloads and coordinates with publishers; a Poynter-IRE program aims to boost digital preservation.
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A keyword-rich collection focused on calculators and related devices, spanning types (pocket calculators, abacus, slide rules), displays (LED/LCD), brands (Casio, HP, TI, Sharp, Panasonic, Nokia, etc.), and multilingual terms, plus mentions of museums, collectors, and vintage computing.
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Cloudflare 520 error means an unknown issue between Cloudflare and the origin server, preventing the page from loading. Visitors should retry in a few minutes; owners should check the origin server and logs and share the Ray ID (9ff57cb98d0c2db6) with Cloudflare to aid investigation.
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WordPress.com 429 error indicating a small system issue; refresh the page and, if the error persists, contact support.
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WordPress.com shows a 429 error due to a small system issue; refresh the page and contact support if the error persists.
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Benjamin Breen surveys upheavals in publishing: Granta’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner appears AI-written, raising questions about AI-detection, trust, and how judges assess prose. He notes flaws in AI evaluation tools and contemplates broader implications for the industry. He contrasts this with a continued decline in non-fiction sales, citing WSJ data showing fiction outselling non-fiction by large margins, and argues that longform non-fiction hinges on sustained attention and physical books. Breen defends the irreplaceable value of print and imagines a future where AI, podcasts, and new formats coexist, even via AI-driven book shelves like Andon.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract to use Palantir’s AI for intelligence analysis, citing procurement rule breaches and a risk of vendor lock-in. Mopac had not approved the procurement strategy and argued value for money wasn’t demonstrated. Scotland Yard had been in talks with Palantir; Khan urged public money go to values-aligned suppliers. The decision comes amid broader UK concerns over Palantir’s role in public services and politics, though Palantir continues to win other contracts; Mopac plans a new procurement process.
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Runtime provides sandboxed coding agents for teams, with company data, integrations, and guardrails. It connects to enterprise environments, offers pre-warmed sandboxes for quick sessions, and a mission-control dashboard for session visibility and cost governance. Agents run in the background, auto-pause on completion, and can be prompted by anyone, with mid-session handoffs and real-time collaboration. It enables multi-agent orchestration, automated investigations, and role-specific agents across engineering, design, marketing, support, and finance. Available as self-hosted or hosted, with sandboxed data and policy controls.
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Waymo has paused robotaxi service in Atlanta and San Antonio after vehicles struggled with heavy rain and flooded roads. In Atlanta, a Waymo car drove into a flooded intersection and was stuck for about an hour before recovery. The company had issued a software recall and pushed an update restricting operations in high‑risk flooded areas, but says the flood occurred before official warnings. The pauses come as NHTSA and NTSB investigate Waymo’s handling of school buses and a January Santa Monica crash.
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Docker Sandboxes run AI agents inside microVMs, each with its own Docker daemon for strong isolation. The authors reverse‑engineered Docker's undocumented /vm API to create, manage, and destroy per-VM sandboxes, load images into VMs, and run containers inside those VMs via the VM-specific Docker socket. Networking is routed through a filtering proxy; TLS may be disabled in dev with a CA cert path provided. They built the Sandbox Agent SDK to simplify session lifecycle, agent communication, and multi-agent orchestration. The API is undocumented, limited to whitelisted agents today, and requires Docker Desktop 4.58+ (Linux unsupported).
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Julia Evans builds git-commit-folders, mounting a git repo so every commit is a folder, usable via FUSE or NFS (WebDAV is broken). Branches/tags are symlinks to commits. The aim is to illustrate how git history resembles a folder structure. Core idea: expose commits as folders, with a shared core fs.FS and adapters (Fuse2NFS, Fuse2Dav). Commits are organized by two-char prefixes, with cached pack/loose objects. The post lists many challenges: not-a-directory errors, stale NFS handles, inode issues, limited branch histories, submodules, NFSv3 vs v4, and startup performance. Overall experimental and exploratory.
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An Africa-based filmmaker solved his video-archive bottleneck by building a local, index-first workflow for Mara Hilltop footage. Instead of relying on cloud AI editors, he created per-clip sidecars (YAML frontmatter + prose) and a searchable English index covering lighting, time, color, audio, faces (Embeddings), location, and transcripts. The pipeline uses ffprobe/exiftool/Nominatim/WhisperX, with Claude Code (via Max CLI), Anthropic API, and a local LM Studio backend. The index makes querying clips in English possible on a five-year-old laptop; the editor layer is next. Two-tier indexing planned.
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Thom Holwerda warns Bitwarden may be headed for trouble after a new CEO, a premium price hike, and quiet shifts signaling changes to the free plan. The site dropped the explicit “Always free” pledge, and the GRIT values were rewritten (dropping Inclusion and Transparency, adding Innovation and Trust). He recommends exporting passwords to open formats like KeePass and using self-hosted or alternative solutions (e.g., Vaultwarden) to maintain control, suggesting Bitwarden’s long‑term reliability is in doubt despite its Apache 2.0 license.
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Lawmakers plan an amendment to a highway bill: no federal highway funds may be used for automated license plate readers except for tolling. The amendment, by Rep. Perry and Rep. García, would apply to Title 23 funds, affecting about a quarter of U.S. road mileage; states would have to remove ALPRs or limit them to tolling. Supporters say privacy risks are real; critics argue it could hamper police tools and safety. The measure would bypass courts by using spending power.
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Palomar Observatory's 1950 POSS-I survey photographed nine transient, star-like flashes on a single Palomar plate XE 325 that vanished within minutes and were absent in the blue plate. Beatriz Villarroel launches the VASCO project to find vanished/appearing sources across a century. In 2025, she and Stephen Bruehl report an Earth-shadow test showing these transients are real, likely reflective objects in Earth orbit, possibly linked to nuclear tests the day after they occurred. Independent replications (Doherty, Busko, Cann) and ongoing debates (Hambly) pursue whether this signals artificial technosignatures or novel physics; the work remains controversial.
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An Economic Policy Institute report finds US employers spend more than $1.5bn annually to oppose unions, funding union-avoidance consultants, lawyers, and litigation. About $442m goes to union-avoidance consultants; Amazon spent $26.6m in 2025. Critics say this diverts money from workers and helps shrink union density, which stands at 10% vs 20.3% in 1983, even as nearly 70% of Americans support unions. Law firms like Littler Mendelson, via its Workplace Policy Institute, have opposed pro-worker legislation. Delays and appeals extend the path to first contracts, averaging 465 days, with voluntary recognition sometimes avoided.
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Michael Keating, the actor best known as Vila Restal in Blake's 7, has died at 79. Born 10 February 1947 in Edmonton, London, he built a long theatre career before appearing in Blake's 7 (1978–1981) across all 52 episodes. He later returned to Big Finish, debuting Vila in 2004 and continuing in audio dramas, including The Turing Test (2012); his final Big Finish credit was The Terra Nostra (2022). He also played Reverend George Stevens in EastEnders. Producer Peter Anghelides praised his warmth and timing.
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Sid's Blog reports that Google rolled out Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026 as a standalone Codex-like experience, automatically upgrading users and replacing the IDE with a chatbot. The update hijacks launch paths and blocks side-by-side installations, forcing a complete purge to revert. Restoring the old setup loses chat history and settings, with some data possibly left in an antigravity-backup folder. The author condemns forced background updates as poor practice, worries about auto-update control, and seeks ways to disable updates while staying in the Google ecosystem.
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