Why not Venus? buff.ly/VhornDx The planet next door may be rough, but it has a lot of atmosphere

Using the internet like it's 1999

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI buff.ly/uhX0Cvp It gave the leader of a nonprofit involved with it "a very grimy feeling."

Lauren Laverne Interview: "I feel terrified about all the things that I did at 16" buff.ly/EhgQHKa The broadcaster talks about being the busiest woman in radio <- TIL Kenickie supported the last ever UK Ramones gig!

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/a... Kernel 7.1 will demo one way to deal with bug-hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers <- by me on @theregister.com

1995: Email - what is it? "About half of all internet use is for email, but what exactly is it?" Vanessa Collingridge of This Multimedia Business delves into the exciting world of electronic mail.

The great Scouse pasty war buff.ly/kadWlkE Once a Liverpool institution, Sayers has been driven out of its own city centre by Greggs. What went wrong?

Lee Miller ~ Shadow of the Great Pyramid, 1938. #LeeMiller #BOTD #Photography

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Patti Smith and PJ Harvey #WomensArt

The AI backlash was always going to come — what nobody predicted was that it would come first from the generation born into the technology buff.ly/LDQHOGq The assumption seemed bulletproof. Gen Z [… is …] becoming the technology’s most vocal skeptics.

An interesting stunt: Malus.sh takes your money and in exchange ingests any free/open source code you want, refactors it using an LLM, and spits out a "clean room" version that is freed from all the obligations imposed by the original project's software license: www.404media.co/this-ai-tool... 1/

Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat buff.ly/OHnP29X A famous mine-clearing rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, has been commemorated with the world's first statue dedicated to a landmine-detecting rat.

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/l... Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers <- by me on @theregister.com

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet (Dynomight) buff.ly/6yHykwh Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors probably want you to know. <- way too American but interesting

To all of us on Spaceship Earth, Happy Earth Day! A Walt Kelly drawing from the first Earth Day in 1970. I was a senior in high school...

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

I don’t think you should be allowed to have an important job if you believe in demons

Poll: If we rebrand "mRNA vaccines" as "DIY peptide makers", will more people accept them?

A Thunderbird in the hand is worth 2 Outlooks in the bush -- or in spaaaaace -- as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/f... Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice <- by me on @theregister.com

Interview with Bill Joy (Unix Review, Aug '84) buff.ly/ULXOLpK Bill is 1 of those rare people who can carry on a rapid-fire technical conversation while coding at the keyboard. His seemingly inexhaustible energy has produced the C shell, vi, * Berkeley's paging kernel, among other accomplishments

I Don't Care for Gnome (August 29, 2024) buff.ly/FyfyXjc <- long, detailed, specific, and the kind of solid, reasoned feedback the project needs. And will totally ignore, of course.

A Tale of Two Countries (Bill McKibben, Sep 13, 2025) buff.ly/y1Muxf5 Two superpowers, one behaving pathetically

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/z... Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint <- by me on @theregister.com

Evergreen

OK, now I'm obsessing. This is at least 28 more seconds than I wanted to spend on this image.

A blue plaque has been unveiled for astronomer, Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin at her teenage home, 70 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London. Her thesis from 1925 proposed that stars are composed primarily from hydrogen & helium. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI as a Fascist Artifact tante.cc/2026/04/21/a...

Cross pollination is what happens when a bee is grumpy

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 buff.ly/PglQMn4 Morris was best known for his book, The Naked Ape, which was published in 1967. It framed modern humans as still being fundamentally ape-like despite our technological advances and evolution. He was also a surrealist painter […]

A mass shooting that took the lives of eight children should stop this country in its tracks. Instead, the Shreveport tragedy disappeared from the headlines in a day. We cannot allow this level of violence to fade into background noise. Ending America’s gun‑violence epidemic is a moral oblligation.

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/l... Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software <- by me on @theregister.com

Like most drug discovery researchers, I’ve been watching the “peptides for everything” craze with a mixture of amusement and alarm:

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Tolkien: here's my story about heroes who live sustainably, never take more resources than they need, are kind to each other, and lead by supporting and nurturing their followers. Tech bros:

`curl > /dev/sda` – How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd` buff.ly/7nTcWgd This is part 0 of a four-part series about doing weird things in early Linux boot. <- 1. brilliant & inspired 2. scary 3. initramfs is _way_ too complicated & we should eliminate it

What he had was a gun.

Surely, of all the newspaper audiences in the country, #Mail readers would be the most likely to stubbornly insist the fateful decision taken in June ten years ago was the right one? Well, no. Very much no. Hilarious

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot?

Synchronicity

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Forget you were ever Polly. Think young male, that was the thing. Fart loudly and with self-satisfaction at a job well done, walk like a puppet that’d had a couple of random strings cut, never hug anyone, and, if you meet a friend, punch them.”

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Seeing rabbits have an attitude makes me like them more 😂 I always thought they were boring (even tho i always wanted one)

RT @DudespostingWs Japanese engineers developed a “Sword Tip Visualization System” for the Fencing World Championships, and it makes fencing look absolutely incredible to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LGQ...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial - NBC News Don’t tell the MAGAt’s that a mRNA vaccine is proving to be very EFFECTIVE in preventing PANCREATIC CANCER. I wonder if they’ll scream about this mRNA VACCINE? 💉 mRNA TECHNOLOGY is GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE in action