Are you a mosquito magnet?

[NotAllThere]

My wife and daughter get bitten every day even wearing repellent. I don't wear repellent, but seldom get bitten.

Now we're closing to understanding why. https://phys.org/news/2026-08-people...-unbitten.html

Yes, I have left an open goal...

[cojak]

Here is another note from Firgas:



Thank you to anyone who read my article and it seems there is so much more to this story - please get in touch with me directly if you have anything to share. I am especially interested in:

• Which company did you deal with when you first

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[NickFitz]

Back to work after my week off to find that a critical bug surfaced bang on 09:00 this morning (not an automated thing, just somebody doing something then), and the process for deploying things has been changed in my absence so I no longer know how to ship the fix. Still, at least somebody has lost...

[ladymuck]

Maybe the UK has better capabilities at other sites, and this is all hyperbole. On the face of it, it looks to me like further evidence that the UK is eroding its place as a centre of excellence for science.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo...

[NickFitz]

I’m off work this week, so you can expect the somewhat gloomier weather to continue for a bit longer

• Strays - ”A homeless man, a lost cat, and a 3600 mile journey.” Michael King rescued a lost cat, which travelled around the USA with him for nearly a year before he found out where it lived

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[m0n1k3r]

I've come across an opportunity for a fully remote DB2-to-DB2 migration contract across about 40 servers in a SAP environment on Red Hat Linux. Start in August.

DM me for details.

[cojak]

I have been working in the background with Firgas Esack of DAPS Agency (commissioned by CUK) on West 28th Street loan recalls.

Here is their note:

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Hi all,

With the moderator's permission, I'm carrying out some independent research into the...

[mudskipper]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o


OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack...

[Martin@AS Financial]

Key points:

• Annual UK house price growth rose to 2.2% in June.
• Market activity softened amid economic and geopolitical uncertainty.
• Energy-efficient homes command only a modest price premium.
• Buyer interest in greener homes continues to grow.
• Northern Ireland remained the UK’s strongest-performing

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[NickFitz]

Dawn of a new era is it? That’s nice but meanwhile, the Internet won’t read itself!

• The Service - ”We called it, simply, The Service. The first time I entered its stash house—a $14,000-a-month penthouse near the Williamsburg waterfront—I was met by a wall of rankness. Not the burn of weed,

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