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Linux laptop? Stick to a budget. Shop and check compatibility on somewhere like ubuntu.com/certified/la... Thinkpads are considered "easy". Then there are specialists like Slimbook, Tuxedo etc.

I wish posts from Twitter didn't make their way here. It's like dual booting GNU/Linux with Windows. No good will come of it.

Something for the admins. #php2shell

trying to do better at remembering to cross post important #HPC stuff.... We're hiring at HMx Labs. 2 roles open, one graduate level and one more senior. If you know anyone that would be a good fit I'd appreciate you sharing this with them. Thanks! cloudhpc.news/hiring-2026-...

Some early morning reading for the Energy Minister #Jackdaw #Rosebank👇

“Just switch to Linux” used to be advice reserved for super-nerds on obscure forums, but these days it’s far less intimidating. Give it a try. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

🇩🇰 Greetings from #NextcloudEnterpriseDay Copenhagen! Great talks about making digital sovereignty work in practice, with people from across Scandinavia and beyond. Anna presented OpenProject, Robin and Gina are meeting the community, and we caught up with our friends from @xwikisas.bsky.social!

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Reminder! Submit to present your work at WHPC's 5th annual CIUK Breakfast! 👉 Submit: forms.gle/jfjuPs7yhBS5... 💫 Know an inspiring speaker? We’re also seeking keynote speaker nominations from any career stage. Who has influenced or inspired you? 👉 Nominate a speaker: forms.gle/ZmgYTZiGKcP9...

Let’s have another look at the time Nigel Farage went to the US to bad mouth Britain, but ended up getting his arse handed to him by the US Senate.

Sovereign data lake, where orphaned data goes to rest.

QHack is back! October 16th Free online coding competition with $67k cash prize skrr skrr Register here: qhack.ai?utm_source=s...

Changed my perspective on Ben, he's literate on AI. He's a bit more like his accountant character than I thought. Also I wish the interviewer asked more about what the use cases for his AI company. Are they focused on VFX? How are they rendering things differently? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXE...

Drone damaged RAM anyone? Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Won't somebody think of the RAM?

The world's an unhappy place. We're constantly asked to compare one group to another for who is most deserved. Instead of pitting one group against another let's all implement Nomnomnomics: fully Automated Luxury Communism. Governments (we the people) already subsidise wages. Go the whole hog. #ai

The #HPC team at Ghent University is looking for an extra pair of hands to help us with the integration of the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) in the EuroHPC Federation Platform. Application deadline is Sunday 11 Oct 2026 jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-HPC...

Tories are complaining that Whitehall is a third bigger. We used to benefit from outsourcing some of the functions of government to the EU. Now the British government must do it. #bbcbh

Remember to maintain the tyre pressure on your turbo training bike! Frak.

Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company

NATS, DNS anyone?

Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof gizmodo.com/identity-ver...

@news.sky.com ebikes Vs electric motor bikes. Get a grip. www.bikeyardonline.co.uk/blogs/news/w...

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts

Oi, Copilot, you're making it up!!!

Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator

Sainsbury's have just started personalised pricing through Nectar. They're going to nudge us all into only buying Solent Green and Coors Light. I bet Solent Green will taste like Coors Light.

"Many of the thousands afflicted each year by criminal driving felt that “the harm they had suffered mattered less” than that from other serious crimes" - this double-standard is exactly what we called out in our work on motonormativity. Road crime is crime www.theguardian.com/law/2026/aug...

Planetary science on a budget using a 300mm lens with space foil stretched over the lens hood.

Rain, wuhoo.

Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak

Statcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone. linuxiac.com/linux-deskto... #Linux #OpenSource

Yet another job ad! We're looking for a software engineer to work on our open source Tierkreis workflow system (focussing on quantum-HPC hybrid integration). The job is based in Singapore. #quantumcomputing #jobad jobs.eu.lever.co/quantinuum/8...

ico.org.uk/make-a-compl... in case you get an unsolicited email from Team Labour. First the data leak and, now, not cleaning their databases!!!

30 of the World’s Worst Bike Lanes That Should Never Have Been Built. Send in your own suggestions for round 2! momentummag.com/30-of-the-wo...

📣 JOB ALERT: We're hiring a Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships to help us build the long-term support we need to make cycling in London safe everywhere and fun for everyone... Head to our website for all the details, including how to apply: lcc.org.uk/jobs/

The fabulous 18th-century Abbey Library of Saint Gall in Switzerland 🇨🇭

Estonia lost out on $28m of tax revenues due to a poorly written law AI systems were able to identify in an instant. It sparked the country to rethink how it uses AI - putting it front and centre. My latest for @wired.com, supported by a @tarbellcenter.bsky.social grant www.wired.com/story/the-28...

A YouTube creator built the perfect alternative for anyone switching from Photoshop to GIMP. This free and open-source patch turns GIMP into a Photoshop-like editor with a familiar tool layout, keyboard shortcuts, more canvas space, and fully local files

Austria's new #supercomputer was officially inaugurated today! Multi-Site Computer Austria #MUSICA is a distributed system located in Vienna, Linz and Innsbruck. Learn more about it in our latest news article: asc.ac.at/news/2026/ne... #hpc #highperformancecomputing #Austria

The end of an era! The last broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on Longwave (198kHz). The transmitter will be switched off at the end of June after nearly a century of transmission from Droitwich.

As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

24 June via @mayflybooks.bsky.social

Keir Starmer keeps referring to the consultation as evidence for why the social media ban isn't a last gasp by-election gambit in his answers to the press. The consultation had 116,211 responses to 54 questions. The government has published a single percentage of answers to just two questions

Work punctuated with new password pauses!

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach