⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many.

It's hot, and we're desperate - so we turned to Adobe ColdFusion and APSB26-68, our favorite Security Bulletin.

Enjoy, and speak soon... ;-)

https://labs.watchtowr.com/its-37oc-and-all-we-can-think-about-is-coldfusion-adobe-coldfusion-security-bulletin-apsb26-68-cve-bonanza

Alien from the Xenomorph's perspective is literally Die Hard
you're inside a japanese corporation
everyone is trying to kill you
you crawl around in vents, hiding from them, slowly picking them off one by one
the main person trying to kill you has a beard
you can't prove that it's not christmas

so various projects just disappeared from kernel.org hosting overnight

for example https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth is gone, https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/iw is gone, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/usb is 403

anyone got any idea what happened? this hosts a *lot* of various core distro utils

The European Space Agency has contracted Spanish company EMXYS for the first CubeSat designed to operate on the surface of an asteroid.
Surface CubeSat contracted for Ramses asteroid mission

Good morning Europe I have written about the bewildering array of mechanisms available to prevent authentication token theft and also explained why we still basically have none of them available and so the authentication tokens are still being stolen and used. It is here: https://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/preventing-token-theft/

Longshot, but does anyone own the Nokia 9110 Upgrade Kit CD and could put an iso on the archive?

Testing my pi-hole, I just turned off adblocking and loaded some gaming sites (RPS, eurogamer).....

How do people without adblocking use the Internet? It's just...horrific...it's like when Nada puts the special shades on in They Live. I'm not joking...it really is that bad 😱

Twenty nine years ago today, Apple announced Newton Internet Enabler 2.0, bringing enhanced networking and connectivity features to #NewtonOS devices.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/20010725083138/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970701.pr.rel.newton.html

Well, I'm taking the leap of becoming a freelance software engineer. After many talks (and some early convincing) I've decided to earn by own bread by writing great software instead of being a nameless cog in a machine.

So, if you're looking for a C/C++, Python, or TypeScript systems or back-end engineer, let's talk! Anything you need, I'll do with fast, maintainable code and love for the craft.

Check out my web for proof of skill as well: https://taxorubio.com/

#Work #FediHire #GetFediHired

Starting with January 2028, all Playstation games will be digital only.

No more physical disks.

Seems like GTA 6 coupon in the physical case was just the beginning of it.

Era of ownership ends, rentership begins.

Remember, only this week, Playstation removed purchased movies from their platform.

People who purchased the 'digital edition' of Terminator 2 like movies just saw their movies disappeared.

Can Sony guarantee that the same won't happen with games?

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, @godotengine is firming up its contribution requirements.

🎮 https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/
🎮 https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

#gamedev #aicoding #godot #opensource #godotgameengine #dev #aicoding #oss #games #aislop #gameengine #article

I'm hiring 👀🐙⚡

This is a rare opportunity to join the Data Visualisation team at Octopus Energy, the largest (and most exciting) energy supplier in Britain.

It's a tiny team with a big remit and an outsized impact. You'll be working directly alongside me to help shape how the public understands the energy transition.

You'll turn complex energy data into clear, compelling stories; working closely with senior leadership, marketing, policy, press and product teams.

https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/bc8c843f-5f07-4522-8da8-d27f0ceeed1b

"Almost all UK workers now have to deal with AI, but few firms report big productivity gains because of all the time lost in hand-holding the systems and cleaning up their mistakes.

So says a report by the Work AI Institute, a research arm of AI biz Glean Technologies.

It claims there are productivity gains to be had from introducing AI-based tools, yet much of this is being negated by the amount of time employees waste making them work – a phenomenon it has christened "botsitting."

The organization surveyed 1,500 digital workers for "The Work AI Index: UK 2026" report, finding 90 percent are now required to use AI in their roles, 80 percent use multiple AI tools every week, and 39 percent use four or more.

The workers indicate AI automation saves them roughly 12 hours a week, or just under a third of their working week. Yet only 18 percent agree AI has significantly improved their organization's performance.

The time freed up isn't flowing into productive work, it's being absorbed by the unglamorous human labour required to keep those systems running, according to the Work AI Institute."

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/10/brit-workers-waste-nearly-six-hours-a-week-botsitting/5253483

#AI #Productivity #Automation #Chatbots

Q. why has Keir Starmer announced an expensive defence plan/strategy in the dying days of his PMship, while also warning Andy Burnham not to raise taxes to pay for it (in other words to continue the austerity Blue Labour love)?

And the answer is: to try to severely limit Burnham's fiscal room to manoeuvre.

Its a classic bit of sabotage dressed up in the language of national security - while hardly a surprise its yet one more disappointing move from Starmer!

#politics

OK, that works... Quite impressed with @jlc3dp - zoom in to see the detail!

The PCB with LEDs to go inside is expected tomorrow.

Update: Someone asked me if this image was real, not AI, or proof of concept: FFS, it is a real photograph I took of a real 3D print!

And yes, I am mastodon only now, so bloody well boost 🙂 thanks.

P.S. never expected "bloody well boost" to work. Thanks all.

Video (old): https://youtu.be/WVHiRrihJwM
And making video: https://youtu.be/PWHTEPsODhw

#stargate #openscad #stl

Now with a hypnotic code sandbox: https://codepen.io/heydon/pen/RNKgMEe

@Tijn 100%. I used to play games I didn't pay for, now I pay for games I don't have time to play!

@pluralistic at what point does the open web collapse. If there is no content for Gemini to base its answers on it will become useless. What if all sites block google (and OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, facebook, and X?