Kent Persson

Veckans podd handlar om annonserna som infekterade nyhetsnätverket Al Jazeera och om PHP-sårbarheterna som tvingade företag att stänga av sina webbplatser. #BliSäker

Mars has two weird moons, Phobos and Deimos. Are they captured asteroids? Are they impact-ejected chips off the ol’ Martian block? No one knows, but Japan’s just launched MMX mission should find out—and the answers could rewrite the Red Planet’s history. sciam.com/article/japa...

Explainer: What is PHP and why did it take government websites offline? reut.rs/4ixC7hF

“We are finally starting to put a face to the Denisovan” go.nature.com/4dSoWp7

Vast Beatles museum, hailed as ‘extraordinary’ by Paul McCartney, to open in Liverpool in 2028

Ukrainian forces have completed a "first-of-its-kind" mission, using a heavy aerial drone to evacuate an injured soldier from a front-line position where ground rescue was impossible.

Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠

There are more operating systems than just Linux. Here's a list of a few that are under active development. itsfoss.com/open-source-...

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Varför ansluter man frysar till internet? Det verkar onödigt. thehackernews.com/2026/10/atta...

After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought. Learn more on #IndigenousPeoplesDay: https://scim.ag/4ASnSLt

on AI eroding trust and humanity

Today marks World Day Against the Death Penalty. The death penalty is cruel, racist, and unpopular in our country. It must be abolished.

A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 destroys a Geran-4 drone at point-blank range with its onboard cannon, then flies through the resulting cloud of fire. Spectacular footage, but also a good illustration of why cannon interceptions are dangerous.

Uranium cubes recovered from Nazi Germany’s nuclear program have helped reveal how far its scientists were from building a working reactor. https://scim.ag/4zaXrz8

Denmark ’s Population Registry Breached, 8.8 Million Affected

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art

En 'Kajan Special'

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

Sixteen years of #LibreOffice: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09... #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Weekend vibes

Nu är hösten här! Julmust i butikerna

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ that Saturn's moon Mimas looks like the Death Star? The iconic crater that gives it this appearance is Herschel, and its sharp central peak and steep walls may tell us about the age of a potential ocean deep beneath the surface!

Chile seizes more than 200 fossils of extinct mollusks reut.rs/4yWl1PU

Steam Frame Teardown: This Is How You Build a VR Headset www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHtn...

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Happy mushroom season!

RealPlayer is buffering

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Given the outrageous, dangerous, and outright false statements made about how the polio (and other) vaccine was a "fraud" (at the Children's Health Defense conference), here's a reminder of what a massive success it was. RFK Jr. & his minions must be stopped from destroying the US healthcare system.

Första gången jag sett en Archer utanför AF-borgen i Lund.

New #ScienceAdvances research finds that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, according to enamel isotopic data from three T. rex teeth. https://scim.ag/4AdOvKR

Den här var faktiskt rätt kul

Min moster avrättades av Saddam Husseins regim 1986 just för att hon kämpade för demokrati. Så ursäkta om jag inte skrattar när den moderate riksdagsledamoten Fredrik Kärrholm använder diktatorn för att göra sig lustig över hur människor i svenska förorter röstar.

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

All DLC for the original Total War: SHOGUN 2 is now free to everyone who owns the base game on Steam! Experience the Rise and Fall of the Samurai before Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition launches on Oct 13th 🌸 More info: news.totalwar.com/s2ce-faq

politicians: "we can't afford to let China get ahead with AI!" sweetie i don't think we can afford to let America get ahead

Är det verkligen bara Kandyland som har valvaka på twitch?

An abandoned quarry in southwestern China has given scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the lives and abilities of the mysterious ancient humans called Denisovans go.nature.com/4duLDza

Blåbärsfrön som passerar vargars matsmältningssystem har större chans att gro och gror dessutom snabbare. share.google/CAYb8M6sEjRu...

it's funny to me that the non-RGB versions of computer hardware now sometimes go for ~$20 more than the RGB