Sacramento Sheriff sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276848586.html

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

GPT-4 API General Availability https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability

For the sixth year, Algeria blocks internet to prevent cheating during exams https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-blocks-internet-stop-cheating-during-final-exams

Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year https://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/83770853308/update-single-fire-hydrant-nets-nyc-33000-a

USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/tap-water-study-detects-pfas-forever-chemicals-across-us

Open source code with profanity in comments is statistically better https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/open-source-with-profanity-in-comments-is-statistically-better-than-code-without-it/

Demystifying Text Data with the Unstructured Python Library https://saeedesmaili.com/demystifying-text-data-with-the-unstructured-python-library/

A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/07/06/a-gigantic-landslide-shows-the-limit-to-how-high-mountains-can-grow

Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?” https://uselessdevblog.wordpress.com/2023/07/03/responding-to-are-bugs-and-slow-delivery-ok-the-blog-post-that-ive-hated-the-most-ever/

PlanetScale Scaler Pro https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-scaler-pro

Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/health/pfas-nearly-half-us-tap-water-wellness/index.html

Tor’s history of D/DoS attacks and future strategies for mitigation https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-tors-history-of-d-dos-attacks-strategy-for-mitigation/8145

StackRot (CVE-2023-3269): Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability https://github.com/lrh2000/StackRot

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth https://apnews.com/article/global-record-breaking-heat-july-27069b5380117534d78f1f40a6edc7a0

Lego building instructions https://archive.org/details/lego-set-instructions

Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/

Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours https://www.threads.net/t/CuWGPjwrfq9

Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours https://www.threads.net/t/CuVjWxcJ22Z

Bret Victor update http://worrydream.com/July2023/