Technology

A new feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery will remotely revert problematic drivers without any manual intervention required.

Among today’s links are markdown editors Upnote, Seychl, HedgeDoc and Apostrophe. Plus we look at Deckless, a markdown to slide presentation tool that turns its back on the world of proprietary formats, and DokuWiki, which is going native on us by introducing markdown support

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #wikis #slides #Upnote #Seychl #HedgeDoc #Apostrophe #Deckless #DokuWiki #Joplin

https://archive.ph/2026.05.13-143034/https://www.404media.co/war-and-data-centers-are-driving-up-the-cost-of-fiber-optic-cable/

https://archive.ph/2026.05.12-050231/https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1

From techcrunch:

This time around, the site is focused on ranking news - specifically, AI news. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.” AI is the area it’s testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics.

It scrapes x.com and uses that to decide what's newsworthy.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

Researchers find proxy services discreetly swap AI models and log everything.

Today’s links include markdown editors Brainio, Tokyo Notes and Nota. Plus a look at MarkMello, a markdown viewer with a built-in editing mode, and Zim Wiki, which is described as a graphical text editor

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/

Today’s links include markdown editors Plain Text Editor and Clearly, plus Herbert, a writing environment for long-form content. We also cover Blank, an open source blog app, and Quik, which allows you to speak your notes and export them as markdown

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #staticsitegenerators #PlainTextEditor #Clearly #Herbertapp #Blank #Quik

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

The company that wanted AI regulation under Biden may have gotten its wish, just not on its own terms.

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.

Among today’s links are markdown editors Cyberwriter, Wrangle and t-ext, and markdown viewer Mdterm. Plus a quick look at Nisus Writer Pro, a useful word processor. I first used it back in the 1990s, when I was converted over to it from WordStar by friend and magazine designer Joel Scott from the US. Even back then he had a lot to say about the ubiquity of Word

cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/2911581

Edit: Adding a warning here; The post was probably heavily AI written and contains mistakes to that effect, which is unfortunate. The data in general is still interesting though.

Today’s links include markdown editors Mark Us Down, Nimbalyst, Sveltemark, Markoun and ReText. Plus there’s static site generator Zensical and a nifty little macOS utility called Markset