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Posted by chavenet

https://www.metafilter.com/212334/Not-a-tale-of-a-plucky-underdog-regaining-his-rightful-place

It seemed clear that there was only one angle left to explore, and that was not Bowie the shape-shifting 1970s gender-bender, nor indeed his brief, unlikely heyday in the early 1980s as the world-conquering Let's Dance pop icon. Instead, I was more interested in the latter half of his life and career, as Bowie—once a figure who seemed to exert near-total influence over the music industry—became, all over again, the man who fell to earth. from In search of lost Bowie, in which Alexander Larman talks about his Bowie biography, Lazarus [Prospect; ungated]

https://www.metafilter.com/212334/Not-a-tale-of-a-plucky-underdog-regaining-his-rightful-place

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/chinese_law_enforcement_chatgpt_abuse/

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary

A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/chinese_law_enforcement_chatgpt_abuse/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/airport_bork/

Dude, where's my operating system?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/airport_bork/

silveradept posting in

dw_dev

Oh, hi, everybody! It's been a little bit since we did a code tour, hasn't it? But never fear, we're here to walk you through the changes that have happened since the last time we took a tour through the code changes in Dreamwidth.

Let's dive in, shall we?

( Your code tour, with some attempts at arrangement by topic. )

There we go! Another year's worth of code commits, issues resolved, and attempts to make Dreamwidth a greater and cooler place to be. And to have it continue working into the future.

(We should do these more often, but volunteers and, well…*gestures broadly around*. So it may be a while before someone has the spoons to do this again, but we're always trying to be more consistent about it.)

Here are the totals for this code tour:

104 total issues resolved.
Contributors in this code tour:

Copilot,

alierak,

cmho, [Bad username or site: dependabot[bot] @ github.com],

jjbarr,

kareila,

l1n,

momijizukamori,

pauamma,

sirilyan,

zorkian

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Daft Punk - Touch It

metafilter_feed

Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

https://www.metafilter.com/212333/Emu-raids-on-towns-rubbish-tip-spark-calls-to-bolster-site-security

Emu raids on Western Australian town's rubbish tip spark calls to bolster site security. Emus raiding Nannup's rubbish tip are ending up with rotisserie chicken bags and piping stuck around their necks.

https://www.metafilter.com/212333/Emu-raids-on-towns-rubbish-tip-spark-calls-to-bolster-site-security

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/threat_intelligence_supply_chain_research/

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts

Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/threat_intelligence_supply_chain_research/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/hp_inc_q1_2026/

Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster

HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/hp_inc_q1_2026/

atrios_feed

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/sotu.html

For the sickos.

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/sotu.html

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/gartner_orbiting_datacenter_peak_insanity/

Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth server farms

Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/gartner_orbiting_datacenter_peak_insanity/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/workday_q4_2026/

Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/workday_q4_2026/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/meta_sends_react_to_live/

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance

Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/meta_sends_react_to_live/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/ai_chips_vc_funding_1point1billion/

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon

AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/ai_chips_vc_funding_1point1billion/

atrios_feed

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/tuesday-evening.html

Enjoy

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/tuesday-evening.html

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/amazon_blame_human_not_ai/

Protect the robot, sacrifice the human

opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/amazon_blame_human_not_ai/

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t

What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/

planet_debian_feed

Posted by Louis-Philippe Véronneau

https://veronneau.org/montreals-debian-stuff-february-2026.html

Our Debian User Group met on February 22^nd for our first meeting of the year!

Here's what we did:

pollo:

reviewed and merged Lintian contributions:
released lintian version 2.130.0
upstreamed a patch for python-wilderness, fixed a few things and released version 0.1.10-3
updated python-clevercsv to version 0.8.4
updated python-mediafile to version 0.14.0

lelutin:

opened up a RFH for co-maintenance for smokeping and added Marc Haber who responded really quickly to the call
with mjeanson's help: prepped and uploaded a new smokeping version to release pending work
opened a NM request to become DM

viashimo:

fixed freshrss timer
updated freshrss
installed new navidrome container
configured backups for new host (beelink mini s12)

tvaz:

did NM work
learned more about debusine and tested it
uploaded antimony to debusine
(co-)convinced lelutin to apply for DM (yay!)

lavamind:

worked on autopkgtests for a new version of jruby

Pictures

This time around, we held our meeting at cégep du Vieux Montréal, the college where I currently work. Here is the view we had:

View from my office

We also ordered some delicious pizzas from Pizzeria dei Compari, a nice pizzeria on Saint-Denis street that's been there forever.

The pizzas we ate

Some of us ended up grabbing a drink after the event at l'Amère à boire, a pub right next to the venue, but I didn't take any pictures.

https://veronneau.org/montreals-debian-stuff-february-2026.html

atrios_feed

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/trump-has-opportunity-to-do-funniest.html

But if he doesn't do that, you sickos are supposedly in for a long speech.

Previewing Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Trump told reporters on Monday that “it's going to be a long speech because we have a lot to talk about."

(maybe)

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/trump-has-opportunity-to-do-funniest.html

metafilter_feed

Posted by gwint

https://www.metafilter.com/212332/The-Hunt-for-Dark-Breakfast

If breakfast is a vector space... are there empty subspaces? Might there be breakfasts that no one has ever had? With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of 'dark breakfasts,' breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

https://www.metafilter.com/212332/The-Hunt-for-Dark-Breakfast

atrios_feed

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/sure-you-werent.html

(I have no idea of course)

Police officers arrested Lord Mandelson at his London home on Monday afternoon because they worried he was a flight risk, his lawyers have said.
The peer's lawyers have told the BBC there is "absolutely no truth" in the suggestion that Lord Mandelson was planning to leave the UK and move abroad.

I suspect he wasn't planning, but if he was then it's a shame they didn't let him. Peter Mandelson, international fugitive, would be a funny story!

...Petey's big mad.

It said: “Peter Mandelson was arrested yesterday despite an agreement with the police that he would attend an interview next month on a voluntary basis.
“The arrest was prompted by a baseless suggestion that he was planning to leave the country and take up permanent residence abroad. There is absolutely no truth whatsoever in any such suggestion.
“We have asked the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] for the evidence relied upon to justify the arrest.
"Peter Mandelson’s overriding priority is to cooperate with the police investigation, as he has done throughout this process, and to clear his name.”

https://www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/sure-you-werent.html

theregister_feed

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/discord_drama_delays_age_verification/

Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing

Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. …

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/discord_drama_delays_age_verification/

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Page Summary

metafilter_feed - Not a tale of a plucky underdog regaining his rightful place
theregister_feed - OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
theregister_feed - Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
silveradept in dw_dev - Code Tour: 2024-12-01 to 2026-02-25
metafilter_feed - Emu raids on town's rubbish tip spark calls to bolster site security
theregister_feed - Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find
theregister_feed - HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
atrios_feed - SOTU
theregister_feed - Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner
theregister_feed - Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast
theregister_feed - Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
theregister_feed - It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding
atrios_feed - Tuesday Evening
theregister_feed - Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
theregister_feed - AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
planet_debian_feed - Montreal's Debian & Stuff - February 2026
atrios_feed - Trump Has The Opportunity To Do The Funniest Thing
metafilter_feed - The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
atrios_feed - Sure You Weren't
theregister_feed - Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

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