https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3

finally you can get gen ai faces in your vidya

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02783649261418155

youtube video

Global EV sales are surging across China and many international markets, highlighting how quickly the industry is evolving while the United States risks falling behind in the electric transition. With companies like BYD and Tesla expanding rapidly worldwide, the latest numbers send a stark warning about competitiveness in the future of mobility.

I have this old Cd that contains files I need to extract. I’ve used 3 external drives. Two of them don’t recognize the CD at all. The other one is anewer drive. Half the time it can’t recognize the cd, occasionally it will recognize it, I’ll be able to see the contents of the cd but when I try to transfer them, the transfer gets stuck. Also, there’s a god awful noise coming out of the drive as it tries to process the cd. Is there any way I can get these files?

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

Wasn't sure if this was the right comm, but wanted to warn my fellow selfhosters.

Tldr: Booklore is in all likelihood vibe coded slop based on the maintainer's commit history.

Someone pointed this out on Reddit in the linked thread and provided examples of their other behavior toward contributors. Dev crashed out in Discord and started banning people, locking channels, saying forks are theft. Wild stuff.

If you're running Booklore, I'd urge you to switch to something else before this turns out to be another Huntarr situation. There are good alternatives suggested in that thread, but likely none of them that will have all the features you want.

I use Calibre Web Automated (which I suspect is also vibe coded to an extent considering the amount of features that get thrown at the wall in each new release) + Shelfmark because I need Kobo Sync and embedding metadata to file. A lot of the other suggested apps can do one or the other, but not both. Audiobookshelf can embed metadata to file, but since it isn't focused on ebooks, doesn't do Kobo Sync. Komga has great Kobo Sync, but only embeds to a database.

So I'm opening the floor to see other people's suggested setups for ebook storage and consumption also.

EDIT: The Booklore dev responded.

Harper also warns that embedding age verification at the device level could create new privacy risks. Because the system would broadcast a user's age category to apps that request it, critics argue it could introduce a persistent age-tracking layer across devices and online services.