Are they trying to recreate the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Police probe mysterious cases of people entering New York sewer system manholes

A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery.

Security cameras have recorded at least three night-time instances where groups of people entered or exited sewer tunnels via maintenance holes on streets in Brooklyn and Queens.

In one video, taken early in the morning in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, a group of roughly seven people were recorded popping out of a maintenance hole in the middle of an intersection, in full view of passing cars.

Retro gaming enthusiast attempts loading games to Sega Genesis from a vinyl record player, recording game data as sound

The project should have worked out but the toy-like turntable chosen proved to be too lo-fi and unreliable.

For the extremely dedicated BOINC crunchers where space is limited.
The PC 2 is here: Thermaltake case fits two PCs in one case

Thermaltake says the CAPO X is a dual-system Micro-ATX chassis for parallel workflows, AI applications and multitasking. In practice, this means two motherboards, two sets of components and two independent systems inside one tower.

So, it's just a tower PC. I've just seen a video on Youtube of a Pentium III tower that could also house two PSUs and had enough space for a garage.

New stuff to watch our for on Gmail.

New credentials attack on Google, it's a subtle one.

The email actually comes from http://account.google.com. It informs you that your recovery contact (an email you don't recognize) is about to reset your password and prompts you to take action. There's a link that appears to point to http://accounts.google.com but uses the continue URL parameter to redirect you to http://sites.google.com, which hosts the attacker's site. If you scroll down, you can see the bottom of the email, which just shows that someone is asking to add you as their recovery contact. The entire first part of the email is a user-controlled field in Google's system that the attacker controlled to include the malicious link and text.

This is why my Smart TV is only connected to the WWW as needed to check for software updates, about every 6 months.
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

In this post, we’re going to explore how the company Bright Data facilitates modern AI models scraping training data from the Internet using its residential proxy network.

Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through. The supply behind that network comes from an SDK: a piece of software embedded in consumer apps that, with the user’s consent, turns their phone or smart TV into one of those exit nodes.

We’ll document what you, the average user, should know about what this company’s SDK does on your systems such as your mobile phone and your smart TV. We’re going to explore how their SDK works, which platforms have shipped it, and why your Internet-connected TV is the ultimate proxy for AI models looking to train on data scraped from the Internet.

This is why my Smart TV is only connected to the WWW as needed to check for software updates, about every 6 months.

Something to add to my list of reasons why I don't have a television.

In reply to Dave's message of 11 Jun 2026:

This is why my Smart TV is only connected to the WWW as needed to check for software updates, about every 6 months.

Something to add to my list of reasons why I don't have a television.

You're not the only one.

I do have a smart TV, but it's never connected to the Internet. I only connected it to download updates, and then immediately disconnected it again. There will not be any more updates available, so no need to ever connect it again to the Internet.

Apart from smart TV's, I'm also allergic to smartphones. I have a simple 4G phone, that is totally dumb :-)

Another Boeing problem?
Translated from Norwegian to English...
KLM plane from Bergen (Norway): - Parts in the engine came loose

A KLM flight en route from Bergen had to be diverted to Billund (Denmark) on Friday afternoon after a dramatic experience for the passengers.

– We heard two powerful thumps. Then there was smoke in the cabin, and it smelled of burnt electronics, says Arild von Feste, who was a passenger on the plane.

The plane, a Boeing 737-800, was en route to Amsterdam, but was diverted to Billund in Denmark where it landed with an engine intact.

On the phone from Billund, von Feste says that the pilot has just informed that they received a warning of low oil pressure on the engine, and that they shut it down after hearing the cans.

Right engine
– The pilot says that it turns out that parts in the right engine have come loose and ended up in the engine, causing major damage to it, says von Feste.

News that isn't even news in the Netherlands, despite it being about a Dutch plane.