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Apr 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 23 April 2026

Double Stacker Edition Top Story TSMC has shown off its roadmap through 2029 - heading towards 1.2nm chips. (Tom's Hardware) That used to be not a lot. In fact, it probably wouldn't be possible if ...

Apr 23, 2026 from Hackaday

VCF East and Maker Faire Make For a Busy Weekend

For those of us with an interest in hacking and making, events where we can meet up with like minded folks and check out the projects they’re working on don’t …read more

Apr 23, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Update on My Coffee Ridden Framework 13

A week or so ago, I talked about how I might have killed my Framework 13 by dumping a full mug of coffee over it while it was running. In that last post I explained how I'd stripped the laptop down...

Apr 23, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Noble Roots

Read Noble Roots Me: "Oh, carrots. We need those. Grab them." Friend: *Looks at the price.* "Wow! These are soooo expensive!" Me: "Oh, well, those are heirloom carrots, so they would be." Read Nobl...

Apr 23, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Claim Over Firing for Kirk-Assassination-Related Post Can Go Forward, Court Rules

From McVeigh v. Kelly, decided last week by Chief Judge Allen Winsor (M.D. Fla.): The facts come from the complaint,… The post Claim Over Firing for Kirk-Assassination-Related Post Can Go Forward, ...

Apr 23, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Armenia Diversifies and Balances its Foreign Policy

Emil Avdaliani

Apr 23, 2026 from Above the Law

Morning Docket: 04.23.26

* Republican county judge blocks Virginia's redistricting effort. The same judge already tried to block it before and keeps getting swatted down by the state supreme court. [Reuters] * SBF says he ...

Apr 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Manfred's Imperial Ambition

After Manfred of Sicily (née Lancia) was excommunicated by the pope in 1254, he handled it in two ways. The first was to talk to the pope and resolve whatever issue the pope had. This led to Manfre...

Apr 23, 2026 from It's FOSS

Microsoft Has WSL, But This Developer Built One for Windows 95

WSL9x lets you run a modern Linux kernel 6.19 inside Windows 9x without needing virtualization.

Apr 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Two-Meter-High White Marble Statue of Athena Found in the Western Theater of Laodicea

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of a sculpture of the goddess Athena approximately two meters in length, carved in white marble, during t...

Apr 23, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

The GitHub CLI now collects and sends pseudonymous telemetry data by default

The GitHub CLI has recently begun sending pseudonymous telemetry data by default. This change was brought to light through user reports and has raised privacy concerns among the community. Accordin...

Apr 23, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Burger King offers every fast food franchisee in Japan 40M yen to jump ship and join them

McWhoNow? I’ll take the 40 mil. Burger King has been on quite the tear in Japan recently. Their explosive post-pandemic expansion saw them grow from 77 locations to 352, with a target of 600 by 202...

Apr 23, 2026 from Toni Notes

What makes an archive worth staying in?

Archive depth is not a post count. A small publication starts feeling worth staying in when one post prepares the next and older work still participates.

Apr 22, 2026 from Above the Law

Tenure Means Never Having To Say Sorry — See Also

Jonathan Turley's Remarks Wouldn't Fly In An Undergraduate Paper: But we have to pretend its credible because he's saying it. Calling Your Own Words "Lies" Is A Strong Start: Kash Patel's $250M com...

Apr 22, 2026 from Hackaday

Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km

For those who haven’t been following along, [BPS.space] aka [Joe] is on a journey to launch a home-built rocket past the Kármán line where it will officially reach outer space. …read more

Apr 22, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

That’s Some Dogged Determination To Be Wrong

Read That’s Some Dogged Determination To Be Wrong Random Customer: "What service does he provide?" Me: "Excuse me?" Random Customer: "What. Service?" Me: "He helps his mom, but she's not here right...

Apr 22, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Russia Threatens Georgia With Sanctions in Case of EU Accession

Beka Chedia

Apr 22, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,

and thus presumptively a First Amendment violation (though here the presumption was rebutted by national security interests).

Apr 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Claude Desktop app was reportedly found changing browser access settings without consent

The Claude Desktop app for macOS has recently been reported to quietly alter browser level settings behind the user’s back. Reports say the app installs a Native Messaging manifest that pre authori...

Apr 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Remembering My Clamshell Landline Phone

Dan Lewis’ April 21, 2026 “Now I Know” newsletter covered the subject of Garfield (the comic cat) phones washing up in France. It is a good (and well-sourced) story, but here I will focus on his op...