Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws
LawFlash August 21, 2026 A new wave of litigation focused on violations of municipal regulations is emerging against multifamily housing landlords, many of whom are facing antitrust litigation targeting their use of certain revenue management products. The new regulations may potentially provide a simpler path to liability and the possibility of significant penalties. Following federal, […]
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
FreeBSD® 15 · OpenZFS © 2026 The FreeCORE Project Team. FreeCORE is an independent fork of TrueNAS® CORE 13.3, rebased on FreeBSD 15 after upstream development of CORE ended. FreeCORE is an independent project, not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by iXsystems, Inc. or The FreeBSD Foundation. TrueNAS® is a registered trademark of iXsystems, […]
Benjamin Franklin’s Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom
America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark A Smithsonian magazine special report Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said Victoria Maxfield Benjamin Franklin’s fertile mind constantly spun off inventive and useful ideas. His lightning rod saved buildings and lives. His […]
Bug Blindness
Bug blindness Bug blindness | Patreon I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk to don’t see anything like this. For a long time, I thought this had something […]
Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Scientists have recorded the highest temperature ever measured in the world’s oceans, as climate change combines with a powerful El Niño in the tropical Pacific. The global average sea-surface temperature hit a record 70 degrees on Aug. 22, according to Europe’s Earth observation agency Copernicus, which has been tracking the metric daily since 1979. The […]
Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
Never miss a story! The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter gives readers the most essential Texas news. Sign up for The Brief. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. In 2023, the Texas Legislature unanimously passed a law raising auto insurance costs for […]
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the hard drive sounds, and relive the nostalgia of watching your disk defragment, just like the good old days of 1998. Watch the familiar grid of colored clusters rearrange itself in real […]
$44M Solar-Powered EV Production Deal Struck
Aptera Signs $44M Production Deal On August 20, Aptera announced a $44 Million partnership with Launch Design to design and build their first solar electric vehicle. The deal seems like a win-win: Launch becomes an early investor in Aptera Aptera gains a partner with access to volume discounts and mass production facilities Launch is incentivized […]
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn’t find themselves frustrated at the abyss. When you read books about a utopia without material demands on our time, the key aspect seems to be how […]
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview
Ranked among the top tier of open-source models, Hy4 preview is built for real-world productivity tasks, delivering outstanding performance across coding, office work, and scientific research Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens. It […]