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Worth Wandering: HTML Energy
HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.
Inspired by html.energy · Laurel Schwulst & Elliott Cost
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2026
A Kidney Disease Linked to Extreme Heat Is Showing Up in Texas
Texas Monthly reports chronic kidney disease of unknown origin among young immigrant outdoor workers—a pattern long seen in Central America, now appearing where heat, labor, and limited care collide.
Inspired by texasmonthly.com · Texas Monthly
The Netherlands Is Making Its Gold Easier to Reach in a Crisis
De Nederlandsche Bank moved 86 tonnes of gold from the United States and Canada toward London for crisis preparedness—liquidity and diversification, not a secret election forecast.
Inspired by theguardian.com · The Guardian
153 Million Driver's Licenses Are for Sale, and This Is Why Centralized ID Verification Worries Me
Brian Krebs reports the FBI is investigating Nexus, a dark-web service selling scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses—and centralized ID verification looks like a honeypot.
Inspired by krebsonsecurity.com · Brian Krebs
A Summer Camp Helped Every Student Earn a Ham Radio License
At an Alliance for Indigenous Math Circles STEM camp, high school intern Ruchira Shree helped every student earn an FCC Technician amateur radio license—something real that continues after the week ends.
Inspired by spectrum.ieee.org · Liz Wegerer
There Is Finally a Murder Conviction in Tupac Shakur's Killing
Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was killed, a Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder—legal responsibility without settling who pulled the trigger.
Inspired by bbc.com · BBC News
One Machine, Several Linux Kernels, No Hypervisor
Multikernel Linux's first public release lets several independent Linux kernels share one machine on bare metal—dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices, with no hypervisor in between.
Inspired by lkml.iu.edu · Cong Wang
Prop. 40 Without the Commercials: What California's Billionaire Tax Actually Says
After reading the measure, Proposition 40 is a one-time billionaire wealth tax plus a broad billion-dollar net-assets declaration—not the two cartoons in the commercials.
Inspired by oag.ca.gov · California Attorney General
Apple's Repair Restrictions Are Back in Court, and the Reason Matters
A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
Inspired by courthousenews.com · Courthouse News
Spacelab's 128 KB of RAM Was More Than a Million Tiny Ferrite Rings
Ken Shirriff's teardown of a 1980 Spacelab core-memory module makes 128 KB of RAM feel extraordinary again—each bit a ferrite ring you can point at.
Inspired by righto.com · Ken Shirriff
JSON Is Cheap to Send and Expensive to Believe
A Full Disclosure post on "Commas of D00m" shows how valid JSON full of nulls can still exhaust a server—because deserialization creates state the attacker did not have to create.
Inspired by seclists.org · Full Disclosure
California Is Carving Linux Out of Its Age-Gating Law
California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.
Inspired by tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware
Plugging In a Display Should Not Install Adware on My Computer
LG monitors can trigger Windows to install manufacturer software that later advertised McAfee—exposing a trust boundary between hardware identity and automatic app distribution.
Inspired by s-config.com · S-Config
Europe's New Packaging Rules May Make Small Sellers Stop Shipping There
Europe's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is already pushing small tabletop publishers to reconsider EU shipping—not because they dislike the goal, but because compliance does not scale.
Inspired by rascal.news · Khee Hoon Chan
The AI Industry Is Saying the Current Security Baseline Is Not Enough
More than 100 organizations signed an open letter calling for stronger cyber defense as AI-enabled attacks grow—and for agent identities that are traceable and accountable.
Inspired by openai.com · OpenAI
Worth Wandering: Ytoo!
Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.
Inspired by ytoo.org · VegBao
What Does "Unlawful" Mean If the Damage Happens First?
A federal judge ruled the Anthropic blacklisting unlawful. The harder question is what “unlawful” means when consequences arrive before the courts.
Inspired by nytimes.com · The New York Times
Terminal-Bench-Science Is Testing Agents on Actual Scientific Work
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 grades agents on researcher-contributed workflows, not textbook Q&A—and the best system still only clears about 30% of tasks.
Inspired by terminal-bench-science.ai · Steven Dillmann
Joshternet.org Is Live
Joshternet.org is live as the public home for the Joshternet—still PRE-JOSH, with three draft RFCs and room for other Joshes to find what is wrong.
Inspired by joshternet.org
Columbia House Looks a Lot Like SaaS in Hindsight
Ernie Smith’s Columbia House retrospective reads like SaaS: penny bait, negative-option billing, and retention that means making leaving annoying.
Inspired by tedium.co · Ernie Smith
