As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011)
https://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than
https://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than
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💬 0 🔁 388 ❤️ 259 · Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense · Music matters. It’s so integral and pervasive in our culture that it almost feels invisible. It’s even hard to imagine…
'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin
Yale News
Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV
https://hellorecon.com/blog/cve-2026-25089
https://hellorecon.com/blog/cve-2026-25089
RECON
CVE-2026-25089: Fortinet FortiSandbox Unauthenticated OS Command Injection — How to Find Exposed Instances on Your Network
Fortinet FortiSandbox contains a critical OS command injection vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the web UI allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Third FortiSandbox CVE exploited in 2026. CISA KEV listed with BOD 26-04 deadline (FCEB agencies).
My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software
https://imdanielkendall.com/the-great-software-regress-how-move-fast-and-break-things-broke-our-lives/
https://imdanielkendall.com/the-great-software-regress-how-move-fast-and-break-things-broke-our-lives/
Dan Kendalls' Fluff
The Great Software Regress: How "Move Fast and Break Things" Broke Our Lives
Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking chang...
M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027
https://thenextgennexus.com/2026/05/14/google-kills-custom-search-api-on-jan-1-2027-you-have-9-months/
https://thenextgennexus.com/2026/05/14/google-kills-custom-search-api-on-jan-1-2027-you-have-9-months/
The Next Gen Nexus - AI Agents, Automation, and Web Data Tools
Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027. You Have 9 Months - The Next Gen Nexus
Google is shutting down the Custom Search JSON API on Jan 1, 2027. Here's what breaks, your migration timeline, and the drop-in alternatives — including a pay-per-result scraping option with no quota — to keep your search data flowing.
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
PrivacyPros
DV Safe Phones Australia: Protecting Survivors from Tech Abuse in 2026 | PrivacyPros
Tech abuse is increasing in domestic violence cases across Australia. Learn how configured DV Safe Phones help survivors reduce tracking, and regain control.
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/
Smithsonian Magazine
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? A 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers New Clues About the Material's Impressive Durability
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
journals.plos.org
Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced…
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
Bbc
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681
Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
Kaggle
Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.