Plus, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) answers our questions about the Delaney Hall protests.
Thomas Ward has published an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a 26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in April:
There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to help take over flavor management. They haven't formally introduced themselves yet, but I can safely say that other developers HAVE stepped up for the future of the MATE…
In Windows, a great deal remains hidden beneath the surface. As soon as it starts up, the operating system launches several applications, initializes drivers, and checks for new software updates. Many of the programs that Windows loads automatically are then executed as processes in the RAM and run invisibly in the background.
The Task Manager, accessible by right-clicking the taskbar and…
In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic’s claims that it’s now common wisdom that Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than other models. Which is just not true.
In any case,…
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28/05/2026-03/06/2026
[1] OnRouteMap, an OSM-based tool for planning and analysing outdoor routes | © Nico Isenbeck | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Community
- Innocent Maholi, from OpenMap Development Tanzania, published a tribute to his friend, Iddy Rashid Chazua, remembering his impact and the legacy he leaves.
- Raquel Dezidério Souto wrote, in her OSM User Diary, about…
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The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is not dead, according to the president.
Donald Trump told the _New York Post_ podcast _Pod Force One_ that his administration had not dropped the $1.8 billion slush fund, putting him at odds with what his officials told Congress.
“No. A court ruled against it. But just so you understand, these are people that’ve been decimated. These are people who have lost their…
Plus, how Kentucky and Tennessee became states.
The Fedora Project has published interviews with candidates running for the open seats on the Fedora
Council, Fedora Engineering
Steering Committee, Fedora
Mindshare Committee, and EPEL
Steering Committee. Voting is open through Friday, June 12 at 23:59 UTC.
For a few months now the consensus amongst many powerful firms & institutions is that the SoH would reopen in June, the world thereafter returning to normality. But with that fallacy now disproven, it's time to consider the possibility that the SoH might remain closed for months, even years on end.
Instagram blocks a video on data centres on the order of the Indian Govt; Nepali press freedom erodes further; A "cockroach people's party" gets its social media blocked on...national security grounds?; A Baloch film student goes missing; Mohammad Hanif pens an open letter to Junaid Hafeez.
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https://phys.org/news/2026-05-homing-pigeons-simple-winging-home.html
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/8643879
How homing pigeons keep navigation simple when winging their way home together
Credit: Altaf Shah from Pexels
When it comes to flocking together, homing pigeons use a simple strategy to find better ways home,…
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Hello,
Below I have compiled recent news related to the OSM Foundation (OSMF) board’s work. Most of these are or are going to be publicly documented on the OSMF website, so if you follow the Atom feed for the board meetings’ page, you can skip this.
What this diary entry is
It contains my personal selection and recollection of recent OSMF board-related updates.
What this diary entry…
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21/05/2026-27/05/2026
[1] Several animal-related infrastructure features | © imagico | map data © by OpenStreetMap
Contributors.
Community
- Ari Alvarez explained how to find speed limit data for highways, trunk roads, and primary roads in the USA.
- Raquel Dezidério Souto
published on her OSM User Diary, an article entitled _"About us": two years of experience as editor for Brazilian…
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https://agencia.fapesp.br/study-clarifies-conditions-for-amphibian-species-richness-on-marine-islands/58182
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/8626390
Study clarifies conditions for amphibian species richness on marine islands
Ecology
Study clarifies conditions for amphibian species richness on marine islands
Analysis of data…
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https://agencia.fapesp.br/study-clarifies-conditions-for-amphibian-species-richness-on-marine-islands/58182
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/8626390
Study clarifies conditions for amphibian species richness on marine islands
Ecology
Study clarifies conditions for amphibian species richness on marine islands
Analysis of data…
The Tangle staff picks our favorite reader essays.
Apple has published the source code for their corecrypto libraries on GitHub, along with the tools and formal verification libraries they used to evaluate their cryptography, so independent cryptography experts can verify it for themselves.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at…
Apple has published the source code for their corecrypto libraries on GitHub, along with the tools and formal verification libraries they used to evaluate their cryptography, so independent cryptography experts can verify it for themselves.
Enterprises deploying closed AI models have generally relied on published safety benchmarks to assess risk before procurement and deployment decisions. New research from Cisco’s AI Threat Intelligence and Security Research team finds those benchmarks may systematically understate the threat.
Standard safety tests submit a single adversarial prompt and record the model’s response. Multi-turn…
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14/05/2026-20/05/2026
[1] tracking geese sightings around the University of Waterloo | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Mapping
- A proposal for the
surface=lateritetag, intended to describe roads, tracks, or paths surfaced with lateritic soil has been open for a request for comments since 19 May. Lateritic soil is a cohesive iron oxide-rich tropical and subtropical material…
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.
WHAT THE LEFT IS DOODLING.
WHAT THE RIGHT IS DOODLING.
SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.
Aliens, antisemitism, GOP infighting, and some scorn for nature: This week, Isaac, Ari, and Kmele chopped it up about the latest primary results, the UAP disclosures…
Punjab government officials have denied claims, circulating widely in Indian media since May 19, 2026, that Lahore's streets and localities have been restored to their pre-partition names.
The iVerify Pakistan team contacted multiple Punjab government authorities and found no official notification, renamed signboards or credible documentation to support the claim.
Has the Punjab…
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The Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 presidential election has finally reached the public—and it leaves a lot to be desired.
CNN published the report Thursday after months of the DNC refusing to release it, with chair Ken Martin saying it would be a “distraction” back in December. On Wednesday, Martin repeated that assessment, and added that, “When I received the report late…
Macworld
Apple is no longer the top dog in the smartphone market, in one respect at least. The company has dropped from joint top to second place in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study.
In a new report published earlier this week, the ACSI reports that Apple has dropped one point for overall cellphone satisfaction, from 81 percent in 2025 to 80 percent this year.…
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Minnesota State Senator John Marty was furious with the nonprofit National Council on Problem Gambling, so much so that he couldn’t wait until morning to fire off an angry email. “I am deeply disappointed to see this!” he wrote to an NCPG staffer one night in April 2025, after a Senate colleague shared the draft of an op-ed by Keith Whyte, NCPG’s longtime executive director and one of America’s…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
It’s nasty, but it requires physical access to the computer:
The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full-volume encryption protection Microsoft provides to make disk contents off-limits to anyone without the decryption key, which is stored in a…
The 2025H2 Project Goal period has now concluded. Over these months, the Rust Project pursued 41 Project Goals, 13 of which were designated as Flagship Goals. This post contains curated updates on our progress since the last post and the final status for each of the goals (many of which continue as part of the 2026 period). Full details for any particular goal are available in its tracking…
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07/05/2026-13/05/2026
[1] A walking tracker for Apple watchOS | © David Smith | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Mapping
- Comments are requested on this proposal:
data_center:tier,data_center:total_power,data_center:IT_power,data_center:IT_area, proposed by LunaLune, to extendtelecom=data_centerfeatures with standardised technical attributes such as…
Israel on Thursday threatened to take The New York Times to court over a piece it published denouncing allegedly widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar have ordered the “initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times ”, according to a joint statement issued by their offices.
The offices said…
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