Ireland’s Diarmuid Early Wins World Microsoft Excel Title
Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the “Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets,” has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted competitors worldwide as 256 spreadsheet heads battled it out across knockout rounds to join the final 24 in Ve … ⌘ Read more

The terror and beauty of being Australia’s official war artist
Australia has been sending artists to the frontline since World War I, with more than 50 local artists taking part since then. But what’s it actually like to head into war armed with a paintbrush? ⌘ Read more

Son, Simons and mini Spurs revival lift Frank’s spirits
Son Heung-min’s emotional return sets the tone for another significant step forward for Spurs and head coach Thomas Frank, says chief football writer Phil McNulty. ⌘ Read more

Championship should have VAR for ‘more fairness’
Bristol City head coach Gerhard Struber believes the Championship should have VAR brought in to create “more fairness”. ⌘ Read more

Maternity care failings ‘much worse’ than anticipated, says head of national review
An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services. ⌘ Read more

NRL proposes lengthy bans for Tonga officials following Katoa head knocks
Three Tonga team officials are facing two-year suspensions following the NRL’s investigation into the incident that forced Eli Katoa out of the 2026 season. ⌘ Read more

Labuschagne praises Aussies’ makeshift opening pair as Khawaja call looms
Marnus Labuschagne says Australia’s opening partnership is making the rest of the batting order improve, as selectors deliberate over Usman Khawaja’s Test future. ⌘ Read more

Man in coma after allegedly smashing head into ambulance windscreen
A 25-year-old man is in a coma and cannot attend court after he allegedly smashed an ambulance windscreen with his head while naked. ⌘ Read more

England coach says team ‘over-prepared’ for Brisbane Test, as players head for Noosa getaway
England coach Brendon McCullum claims his team trained too hard for the Gabba Test, which ended in a bruising eight-wicket loss that leaves the tourists’ Ashes hopes in tatters. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Insists Target Links in ChatGPT Responses Weren’t Ads But ‘Suggestions’ - But Turns Them Off
A hardware security response from ChatGPT ended with “Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target.”

But “There are no live tests for ads” on ChatGPT, insists Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT. Posting on X.com, he said “any screenshots you’ve seen are either not real or not ads.” … ⌘ Read more

Naked man smashes ambulance windscreen in Kalgoorlie-Boulder
A video circulated on social media shows a naked male using his head to smash the windscreen of a moving ambulance. ⌘ Read more

Netflix deal puts Gary Lineker in podcast super league - but can he succeed?
In a big money move, Lineker will go head-to-head with his old employer with The Rest Is Football. ⌘ Read more

Smith leaps into Australian Open contention, Lee and Scott in the mix
Cameron Smith is only two shots off the lead heading into the final round of the Australian Open, while Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott remain in the hunt at Royal Melbourne. ⌘ Read more

No summer break for Australian athletes chasing Winter Olympic glory
At a time when many Aussies are heading off for beach holidays, a group of snow sports athletes are chasing winter with their sights set on the next Olympic Games. ⌘ Read more

Five quick hits: Smith starstruck by surprise cameo as England fumbles
Steve Smith is starstruck by a surprise cameo, England rues a slew of drops and Jake Weatherald announces his arrival with a wink. Here are the quick hits from the second day of the pink-ball Ashes Test in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Alas, poor Usman: Ashes injury may end Khawaja’s Test career
After another slashing partnership between openers Travis Head and Jake Weatherald, the future of Usman Khawaja in the Test arena appears to be getting murkier. ⌘ Read more

‘A total miscue’ - England finally get breakthrough as Head departs
After being dropped on three, England remove Travis Head for 33 for their first Australian wicket of the second Test, with Gus Atkinson taking the catch off the bowling of Brydon Carse, with the home side 77-1 in their first innings in Brisbane. ⌘ Read more

Smith says Australia is taking an adapt-and-conquer mentality to the Gabba
Steve Smith reveals the mindset Australia is taking into the second Test as the Aussies look to go up 2–0 in the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is an eight-year-old boy who was taken to hospital with a “nasty cut to the head”. ⌘ Read more

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Como é que estas palavras não estão trocadas?

Na notícia em https://eco.sapo.pt/entrevista/amazon-web-services-prepara-investimento-em-novo-centro-de-servicos-em-portugal-data-sera-conhecida-em-breve/ , lê-se o título:

“Amazon Web Services prepara investimento em novo centro de serviços em Portugal. Data será conhecida “em breve””

mas depois temos como subtítulo:

“André Rodrigues, head of technology para a Europa do Sul da Amazon Web Services, afirma que a tecnológica está interessada em investir na cloud soberana que o Governo quer implementar.”

Portanto a acreditar nestes textos, a Amazon, quer “investir” na “cloud soberana” do Governo. Mas, claro, isso não faz sentido, a cloud soberana não é uma empresa cotada em bolsa ou algo em que se possa investir… Que poderá então isto querer dizer?

Ora, a notícia propriamente dita diz que “André Rodrigues, head of technology para a Europa do Sul da Amazon Web Services, afirma que a tecnológica está interessada em investir na cloud soberana que o Governo quer implementar. A tecnológica aguarda apenas que sejam “definidas as guidelines sobre aquilo que será a diretriz do governo para a cloud“.”

Ou seja, a Amazon está a pensar em concorrer para ser fornecedor para a nossa cloud soberana: vai tentar que Portugal invista na Amazon, não o contrário.

Esperemos que as diretrizes sejam para uma cloud verdadeiramente soberana - e se forem, então a Amazon não poderá ser fornecedora.

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia’ top 20 articles of 2025 sees Charlie Kirk and Trump head the list
Wikipedia has released its 20 most-read articles on English Wikipedia for the year. ⌘ Read more

Air force and Olympians team up for special Christmas exercise
With Olympians on board and a cargo of presents, the Royal Australian Air Force is getting a head start on Santa with Exercise Christmas Hop. ⌘ Read more

Young detainee forced to wear makeshift spit hood, report finds
An incident at a Tasmanian youth detention centre where a detainee had an improvised spit hood put over his head while being transported by a contracted security company, has been criticised for being “entirely incompatible” with human rights. ⌘ Read more

Russian Launch Site Mishap Shows Perilous State of Storied Space Program
A Soyuz launch at Baikonur damaged Russia’s only launchpad capable of sending astronauts and crucial propellant to the ISS. “The rocket itself headed to space without incident, taking three astronauts – Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev of Russia and Chris Williams of NASA – to the space station,” reports the New York Ti … ⌘ Read more

Bulldogs’ top AFLW draft pick wants to join Kangaroos
The Kangaroos’ domination of the AFLW is set to be given another boost, with a former number one draft pick confirming she wants to head to North. ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy eyes talks with Trump on ‘key issues’ as Witkoff heads to Moscow
The Ukrainian president meets French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as he sounds out European allies on Washington’s blueprint to end Russia’s war. ⌘ Read more

Gold Coast urged to curb car dependence after light rail loss
With the population heading toward 1 million, the Gold Coast is being urged to overhaul its transport system or risk becoming defined by traffic. ⌘ Read more

Head happy to ‘play any role’ in day-night Ashes Test
Travis Head says he has no qualms if he is shifted back down Australia’s batting order following his exploits as an opener in the first Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

How the Rabbitohs and a DM landed Albo in love
Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon will head off on a five-day honeymoon tomorrow after an intimate wedding at The Lodge among only their closest family and friends. ⌘ Read more

South-East Asia floods kill hundreds as cyclone hits Sri Lanka
Parts of South-East Asia have been hit with record levels of rain as a cyclone hits Sri Lanka, causing floods and landslides, as the system heads towards India. ⌘ Read more

Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for “unprecedented societal and ecological collapse” ⌘ Read more

Child safety inquiry flags subpoena as department accused of ignoring law
The head of Queensland’s child safety inquiry says he “might need to subpoena” files from the department after hearing it was often “not” following its own legislation around preferred permanency options for children in care. ⌘ Read more

A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19
A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance improvements that will make loop block device users “wow”… ⌘ Read more

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

Sovereign Tech Fund Hiring A New Leader For Driving Open-Source Funding
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund / Sovereign Tech Agency has been a godsend the past few years for the open-source community. This funding from the German government has led to significant funding for dozens of prominent open-source infrastructure projects to provide more resources for enhancing security, enabling new features, and more. As the Sovereign Tech Fund prepares for the next phase of growth, they are hiring a new head to lead the efforts.. … ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Losing Another Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer
Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO. His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, signaling his departure. He hasn’t yet said where he’s headed next. Phoronix reports: David Hildenbrand serves as … ⌘ Read more

Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. From the report: Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationali … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I wished my mate would see it, too. But he turned his head a second too late. :-(

Cummins weighs in on transition debate
Australian captain Pat Cummins explains why the ageing Test team remains largely the same heading into the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

‘He will never grow up’: Jail for baby killer who tried to blame partner for death
Benjamin Swann deliberately caused a blunt-force trauma to baby Elijah’s head when he got up to settle the crying infant at a Werribee home last year. ⌘ Read more

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports
But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis. ⌘ Read more

Man hit over the head with gun in Sydney
Police are searching for attackers after a man was smashed over the head with a gun at Quakers Hill. ⌘ Read more

Double congrats, @thecanine@twtxt.net! \o/

I’m not a fan of the gemtext limits. This being only a single page (which probably doesn’t get updated a whole lot), the efforts of having two dedicates files are not all that big, or so I’d at least naively imagine.

I always recommend checking the W3C validator results, even though I’m very guilty of not doing that myself. It just doesn’t occur to me in the heat of the moment. I reckon if I were writing HTML on a more regular basis, I would pick up on making that a real habit. Anyway, your HTML being generated, you probably can’t address the findings, though. So, might not be even worth the time heading over to the validator.

From a privacy point of view, personally, I would definitely host the CSS myself. Other than that, nice link collection. :-)

GNOME Declares War on Framework Computer
GNOME OS Team says Framework “supports Fascist and Racist s***heads”, “does not feel comfortable in further collaboration”. ⌘ Read more

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says China ‘Will Win’ AI Race With US
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the AI race, thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations. From a report: In the starkest comments yet from the head of the world’s most valuable company, Huang told the FT: “China is going to win the AI race.” Huang’s remarks come after the Trump administration maintained a ban o … ⌘ Read more