My cat finally napped with me! ⌘ Read more
Carney says Canada will arrest Netanyahu if he visits, in keeping with ICC warrant ⌘ Read more
My new kittens, Marble and Pearl ⌘ Read more
Gunboat diplomacy: How classic naval coercion has evolved into hybrid warfare on the water
Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean—ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy destroyer bobbed along waters close to Iran for similar reasons. And in the Taiwan Straits and Pacific, China and the U.S. frequently show off their respective maritime military might. ⌘ Read more
Canadian snowbirds now required to provide fingerprints when entering U.S., officials say ⌘ Read more
His face looks like he’s in one of those old school department store portraits 📸 ⌘ Read more
Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime ⌘ Read more
Is this normal cat behavior? ⌘ Read more
Giant Russian gas plant suspends intake from Kazakhstan after Ukrainian drone strike ⌘ Read more
That Looks Sh*tty: Kohler Launches $600 Toilet Camera to Monitor Your Gut Health
Kohler, the faucet and toilet brand, is expanding into the tech market in a rather innovative and unusual way; by launching Dekoda, a $600 iPhone-connected toilet camera that monitors your waste for various health metrics. Dekoda apparently can monitor your hydration levels and provide other information about your gut health, as well as detect signs … [Read More](https://osxda … ⌘ Read more
Summer joys of Musil ⌘ Read more
Omarchy Linux Hits 150,000 Installs This Month Alone
“Nazi! ⌘ Read more
Beta 4 of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Apple has issued the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1, for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The betas continue to offer refinements, adjustments, improvements, and bug fixes to the various OS 26 operating systems. The latest 4th beta build includes a new Liquid Glass … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/beta-4-of-ios-26-1 … ⌘ Read more
Strawberries hard to come by as weather extremes affect supply
Queensland strawberry growers are finishing their season early due to hot weather, while cold temperatures have delayed ripening in the south. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft breaks USB input in Windows Recovery Environment
With official support for Windows 10 having officially ended a few days ago, let’s take a look and see how its successor, Windows 11, is doing. Microsoft released the first Patch Tuesday update (KB5066835) for Windows 11 25H2 this past week and it is probably fair to say that it has been a rough start for the new feature update. Despite the announcement of a wide rollout wherein the new version is now available for … ⌘ Read more
Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178
Points: 503
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Servo 0.0.1 released
Today, the Servo team has released new versions of the servoshell binaries for all our supported platforms, tagged v0.0.1. These binaries are essentially the same nightly builds that were already available from the download page with additional manual testing, now tagging them explicitly as releases for future reference. ↫ Servo’s official blog Servo is making steady progress, and that’s awesome news. Every month a whole slew of new features and improvements make their way into this new br … ⌘ Read more
Europe moves to end all Russian gas imports ⌘ Read more
My Husband Saved A Baby Calico ⌘ Read more
“I remember taking a screen shot of a video, and when I opened it in Paint, the video was playing in it!”
In older versions of Windows, if you had a video playing, took a screenshot, and pasted that screenshot into Paint, you could sometimes see the video continue to play inside Paint. What kind of sorcery enabled this to happen? A few of you will realise instantly why this used to happen: rener surfaces. Back in at least the Windo … ⌘ Read more
The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root
Chris Siebenmann with another interesting look at a tiny detail of UNIX history. A few years ago I wrote about the divide in chown() about who got to give away files, where BSD and V7 were on one side, restricting it to root, while System III and System V were on the other, allowing the owner to give them away too. The answer is that the restriction was added in V6, where the V6 chown(2) manual page has the same word … ⌘ Read more
How my cat became a ceiling cat! ⌘ Read more
Jewish extremists brutally assault Palestinian olive harvesters in West Bank ⌘ Read more
Why is Halloween starting so much earlier each year? A business professor explains
Halloween is a fun, scary time for children and adults alike—but why does the holiday seem to start so much earlier every year? Decades ago, when I was young, Halloween was a much smaller affair, and people didn’t start preparing until mid-October. Today, in my neighborhood near where I grew up in Massachusetts, Halloween decorations start appearing in the middle of summer. ⌘ Read more
Cutie ⌘ Read more
Zlatý kľúč 2025
Včera večer v Dome kultúry v Selenči premiérovo odznelo desať nových skladieb populárnej hudby. Laureátmi štyridsiateho štvrtého festivalu Zlatý kľúč sa stali Samuel Kováč s piesňou Ako na dlani, (interpretkou bola Martina Sklabinská), druhoumiestnený bol Natanael Fiala Promonael so skladbou Pozeraj sa do nebies a na tretiu pozíciu sa umiestnil Boris Gabríni s piesňou Zrno nádeje, ktorú zaspievala Jana Stupavská. ⌘ Read more
Trump complained to Zelensky that he did not receive the Nobel Prize: media revealed new details of the leaders’ meeting ⌘ Read more
Boots! ⌘ Read more
7th US Boat Strike: The United States has confirmed a seventh strike in the southern Caribbean, killing three more alleged “narco-terrorists”, bringing the total death toll of the US military’s lethal boat strikes since September to 32. ⌘ Read more
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these complex systems work ⌘ Read more
Grab the 17 Different iPhone 17 Default Wallpapers
The iPhone 17 series is now in the wild, and along with the new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Air, we have new default wallpapers for those devices too. Depending on the device model, you’ll find some star-like designs for the standard model, or futuristic glassy designs that spell out “AIR” or … Read More ⌘ Read more