Tibane Labs builds open-source tools and infrastructure on Solana. Staking, token analytics, and more.

This is by some counts a third scandal. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/05/susan-collins-am-general-donations-government-contracts/

This week's video: Here in NC, we have a state senator with a 21,000+ acre farm. Where workers just kinda.... keep dying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xEKq-fiRs

A new California law legalizes the plug-in solar panels that are becoming popular in other states and in Europe.

CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."

Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

Microsoft has confirmed they’ve dropped the Copilot+ PC brand, after it flopped due to the botched launch of Microsoft Recall. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding

Engineers found that the hinge that keeps a ketchup cap open also explains how curved, folded shells can hold multiple stable shapes, a discovery that led them to build a robot that shifts shape and motion using magnets alone, no motors required.

"When you see enough of the vandalism, you know the writing is on the wall." The post Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll appeared first on Futurism.

*I really didn't expect to see mathematicians coming up with such mushy, humanistic objections about their time-honored community values https://mathandai.org