'Western' air defenses in the Middle East seem pretty crap.

7NEWS

Australians caught up in the war as Iranian drones strike base

The Middle Eastern base currently serves as the headquarters of the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Task Force 633 and supports Australian opera...

This is old now, from last Christmas Eve, but well worth a read.

The One Chart That Explains Everything

And the seven books that make sense of America's AI Anxiety and China's AI Optimism

Says it all...

Mastodon

Sven A. Schmidt (@finestructure@mastodon.social)

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

"More than half of the UK’s electrical power was supplied by renewable energy on February 25 2026. That consisted mainly of solar, wind and hydroelectric sources. The next day, a new source of electricity started feeding into the grid for the first time – geothermal power." Not a game-changer for the UK, but interesting all the same.

The Conversation

What the UK’s first geothermal power plant means for the nation’s electricity supply

Unlike wind and solar which are weather-dependent sources of renewable energy, geothermal heat can produce energy steadily, day and night, all year...

It seems a good day for this AI AMA...

X (formerly Twitter)

Sam Altman (@sama) on X

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

Tehran walking tour.

"The US and Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran on Saturday, targeting senior regime figures, command centers and key elements of Iran’s air defenses"

Euractiv

US-Israel strikes mark latest chapter in Iran conflict | Euractiv

The US and Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran on Saturday, targeting senior regime figures, command centers and key elements of Iran’s air defe...

Our future will be using AI agents to stop us wasting time dealing with middlemen, only to find out AI agents consider us to be the middlemen.

Bluesky Social

Stop That (@stopthatgirl7.bsky.social)

Dude is mad a candidate used an AI for the interview, when they were using an AI to do the interviewing, and the two bots started trying to out-syc...

You come to the crossroads. Do you go left, right, or straight ahead?

Bluesky Social

Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea.com)

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

(No, you're not allowed to turn around. That's not an option.)

LOL! Someone's misbehaving on Wikipedia...

Matt Goodwin - Wikipedia

"Matthew James BadLoss (born December 1981) is a British..." I expect it won't be there for long...

Have a dog? Give them something useful to do...

I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak

My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.

"In an email sent to list holders, Amazon said beginning March 25, it will reveal users’ shipping addresses to third-party sellers. The platform added that gift purchasers might end up seeing your address as part of this process, too."

404 Media

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Passwords...

Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse

opinion: The only good password is no password at all

I installed Linux on one of my computers a few months back, and it does love asking for passwords. Along with upgrades equally as common as Win10 did upgrades. But I didn't have to enter a password for every Windows upgrade, unlike with Linux.

"The four-year Cass Review, carried out for NHS England recommends limiting the use of puberty blockers to research settings. It also urges unhurried holistic care, caution around irreversible treatments, and the recognition of complex factors such as mental health, neurodiversity and social media as possible contributors to the rise in young people questioning their gender. Report author Baroness Dr Hilary Cass is a paediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK. She joins Susie live from the UK." https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023992/dr-hilary-cass-puberty-blockers

Talking about the weather... "In 2002, across the country, only four days of local states of emergency were declared. In the first two months of this year alone, there have been at least 70."

Newsroom

A state of emergency, again and again and again

Today from The Detail: One-in-a-hundred-year storms are coming thick and fast, and the number of states of emergency declared across the country ha...

AI's cost may be outstripping its usefulness.

Bluesky Social

The Register (@theregister.com)

ICYMI: Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions http://dlvr.it/TR3N2c

It's not surprising a former British prince has been arrested in the wake of the Epstein files. What is surprising is all the Americans who've been mentioned in the Epstein files without the police knocking on their doors.

Ministers say the oddest things...

Bluesky Social

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa (@sanjanah.bsky.social)

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