Records Show UC Sharing Data with US Customs and Border Protection
https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/records-show-uc-sharing-data-with-us-customs-and-border-protection/article_785ac3ca-9ab2-4ab0-bbb8-07742e62d3d8.html
https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/records-show-uc-sharing-data-with-us-customs-and-border-protection/article_785ac3ca-9ab2-4ab0-bbb8-07742e62d3d8.html
Daily Cal | Berkeley news
Records show UC sharing data with US Customs and Border Protection
Public records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with
OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7
https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released
https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released
Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/
Reuters
Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
Danish pension fund Akademikerpension said on Friday it had placed SpaceX on its portfolio exclusion list ahead of the company's initial public offering, citing concerns about the governance structure and what it said was an overvalued stock.
Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390
Gamedev Mastodon
Jeremiah Fieldhaven (@JeremiahFieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)
So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.
Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.
So I go…
Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.
So I go…
The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory
Deadcarl
The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History
A Case Study in the Historical Importance of Incompetence
Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism
The Economist
Leo’s first encyclical attacks technological messianism
The Pope warns against replacing humans with AI, though he seems to use it himself
Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain
https://helios.southlondonscientific.com/
https://helios.southlondonscientific.com/
Southlondonscientific
Helios. Is plug-in solar worth it?
Address-specific yield estimates for plug-in solar in Great Britain. Built by South London Scientific.
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/
Ars Technica
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado
https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001aT5IcKAK/adding-linux-support-back-for-the-basic-free-version-of-vivado?language=en_US
https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001aT5IcKAK/adding-linux-support-back-for-the-basic-free-version-of-vivado?language=en_US
Amd
Adding LINUX support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado
<p>Hello All,</p><p> </p><p>We’ve heard the feedback from the FPGA and Linux developer community regarding upcoming Vivado licensing changes, particularly concerns around Linux support.</p><p>Supporting developers across diverse workflows and environments…
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
https://qazinform.com/news/anthropic-surpasses-openai-to-become-worlds-most-valuable-ai-startup
https://qazinform.com/news/anthropic-surpasses-openai-to-become-worlds-most-valuable-ai-startup
Qazinform.com
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become world’s most valuable AI startup
Anthropic has become the most valuable artificial intelligence startup in the world, surpassing OpenAI in market valuation. Following a new funding round, the valuation of the developer behind the Claude AI assistant has approached the $1 trillion mark, reports…
Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/05/memory-decline-after-menopause-linked-to-loss-of-estrogen-production-in-brain-tissue
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/05/memory-decline-after-menopause-linked-to-loss-of-estrogen-production-in-brain-tissue
Northwestern
Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue
Preclinical study findings may help explain why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers
https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/
https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/
jackmaguire.org
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers
Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.
A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits
https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A13%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C72%2C720%2Cnull%5D
https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A13%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C72%2C720%2Cnull%5D
To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks
https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks
Martyn's random musings
To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. — Martyn's random musings
I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI. I do not believe any positive out...