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from the absolute-preventable-failures dept Meet the new year, same as the old year, at least as far as America’s measles problem goes. We talked a lot about this disease last year, and for good reason. In RFK Jr.’s first year as Secretary of HHS, America managed to suffer its worst measles infection count since 1991. […]
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Redditor has claimed that Samsung is artificially restricting UWB functionality for third-party tracker tags. The user asserted that third-party tags like the Moto Tag don’t benefit from precision finding and augmented reality features. Meanwhile, some Galaxy owners found that third-party tags worked fine, but that uninstalling and reinstalling […]
Verizon’s network is experiencing technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even the network provider’s own status page struggled to load, likely due to the number of customers trying to access it. Based on the […]
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Iran is systematically crippling StarlinkThe satellite internet service is meant to be impossible to jam—but the Iranian authorities are doing just that. (Rest of World) + Messages getting around Iran’s internet block suggest that thousands of people have been killed. (NYT $)+ On the […]
Dear patient readers, Our moderators and your humble blogger are wasting time on a persistent troll who has tried posting under many many handles. That is a violation of our written site Policies. We will keep not approving and on the occasion when they manage to briefly appear, ripping out these fuckwit comments and banning. […]
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service […]
Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embedded directly in the demo. Jhey’s demos come immediately to mind, like this one: CodePen Embed Fallback That’s a tool called TweakPane doing the work. There’s another one called […]
CsvPath Framework has had JSONL support for a while. It wasn’t until we updated FlightPath Data to edit JSONL that I really started noticing how seriously free-wheeling JSONL is. Here are some of the quirks: There is no header order Headers change line-by-line… …or is there one total set of headers that grows line-by-line? Arrays […]
An observation that I’ve personally found to hold true is that we overestimate what we can get done in a day, but we underestimate what we can get done in a year. It’s easy to get distracted or overwhelmed by the day-to-day busyness, and feel like we’re getting nowhere. Yet taking a succession of seemingly small actions, does amount to significant progress when we take a step back and […]
In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. December 08 19:51 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes) Between November 26, 2025, at 02:24 UTC and December 8, 2025 at 20:26 UTC, enterprise administrators experienced a disruption when viewing agent session activities in the Enterprise AI Controls page. During […]
