Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
TechCrunch
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
Live Stream from the Namib Desert https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html
Blogspot
Live Stream From the Namib Desert
4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792
Dropsafe
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself…
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…
Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
Dwarkesh
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-chiplet-apu-an-overview-of-strix
Chipsandcheese
AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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Root System Drawings https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
./techtipsy
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a brand new one
Having a home server and a few smart plugs leads to interesting data points like this one. Well, interesting to me, at least.
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
Medium
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!
We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…
The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish
Southern Woodenboat Sailing
The Spilhaus Projection-A World Map according to Fish — Southern Woodenboat Sailing
When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!
Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/
Carmelo Maiolino's blog
Distro – Dosbian 3.0
09/01/2025 released DOSBIAN 3.0 for Raspberry Pi 3/4/400/5/500 WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 Latest distro updates applied to run in Raspberry Pi 5/500. Dosbox Staging updated to version 0.82, no…