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New specs from the LoRa Alliance are aimed at cutting manual work from low-power network onboarding and reducing coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations (including cows). www.networkworld.com/article/4205...
Moo! LoRaWAN makes it easier to connect more things to the low power networking protocol—even cattle
New specs from the LoRa Alliance are aimed at cutting manual work from low-power network onboarding and reducing coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations.
networkworld.com
Just published on FOSS Force: At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years fossforce.com/2026/08/at-4...
Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame zdnet.com/article/the-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Windows is in decline, and both Macs and #Linux are gaining ground at its expense.
Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame
Windows is in decline, and both Macs and Linux are gaining ground at its expense.
zdnet.com
#ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style - arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/c... " New behavior capturing a writer’s “broad qualities” could have legal implications. "
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
arstechnica.com
Mea Culpa: Apple Confesses It Can't Keep Up With AI Bug Reports securityboulevard.com/2026/08/mea-... by @sjvn.bsky.social When even #Apple can’t keep up with the flood of AI-discovered security holes, you have to wonder whether #AI is a blessing or a curse.
AI is finding bugs faster than humans can fix them: How you must adapt www.zdnet.com/article/ai-i... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social It's far easier to find security holes than to fix them, and leaving it to #AI can introduce 9x as many new vulnerabilities as developers do.
AI is finding bugs faster than humans can fix them: How enterprise security teams must adapt
It's far easier to find security holes than to fix them, and leaving it to AI can introduce 9 times as many new vulnerabilities as developers do.
zdnet.com
LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own techstrong.ai/articles/llm... by @sjvn.bsky.social One LLM is not enough these days, so LLM routers now juggle between models, letting users get the most out of the least expensive ones for any particular job. #AI
LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own
One AI LLM is not enough these days, so LLM routers now automate juggling between models, letting users get the most.
techstrong.ai
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other #AI systems. Lucky us.
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know
The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other AI systems. Lucky us.
zdnet.com
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social It's not an #AI war between China and the US. It's a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs: Open vs. closed.
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
zdnet.com
In case you missed it, today the #Pentagon announced huge, world-changing advancements in #AI driven warfare, in true Clint Eastwood fashion. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up, and it’s HUGE (not as they expected, though): mfioretti.substack.com/p/today-year... #iran #warfare #middleEast
Just published on FOSS Force: Anthropic’s Claude for OSS Program Adds Codenotary’s immudb fossforce.com/2026/08/anth...
Just published on FOSS Force: Synex 13 u11 Released With Multiple Desktop Options fossforce.com/2026/08/syne...
Just published on FOSS Force: GNU nano 9.2 Adds New Buffer Synonym and Fixes Crashes fossforce.com/2026/07/gnu-...
I'm not a Deadhead — I've only been to a couple of dozen shows — but I'm certainly on the bus. Why? Well, if that's your question, give this excellent show a listen. www.npr.org/2026/07/28/n...
How to love the Grateful Dead : NPR Music
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest places, if you look at it right. And if you get confused, just listen to the music play. This week, resident Deadheads Isabella Gomez Sarmiento...
npr.org
LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own techstrong.ai/articles/llm... by @sjvn.bsky.social One LLM is not enough these days, so LLM routers now juggle between models, letting users get the most out of the least expensive ones for any particular job. #AI
LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own
One AI LLM is not enough these days, so LLM routers now automate juggling between models, letting users get the most.
techstrong.ai
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other #AI systems. Lucky us.
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know
The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other AI systems. Lucky us.
zdnet.com
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social It's not an #AI war between China and the US. It's a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs: Open vs. closed.
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
zdnet.com
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social You may think the #AI war is between China and the US, but it's really a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs.
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
zdnet.com
Glen Hansard, Irish musician and actor, has died in a motorcycle accident outside of Dublin. I'm so sorry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)
YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO
youtube.com
The open-source Malloy semantic modeling language gets some 'Credible' backing to build out AI context. "It's the same pain point people have had for 30 years, the lack of governed data analysis," Kyle Nesbit told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. venturebeat.com/data/57-of-e...
Credible bets open source on AI context layer | VentureBeat
A VB Pulse survey of 101 enterprises found most AI agent errors trace to missing context. Credible raised $10M to build a portable, open-source alternative.
venturebeat.com
This wouldn't be half so funny if there wasn't a lot of truth to it.
