"If you use Adobe products with cloud storage or backup, like Photoshop or Lightroom, the company may be using your data to train machine learning algorithms. Here’s how to opt out." https://www.howtogeek.com/858952/adobe-is-using-your-data-to-train-ai-how-to-turn-it-off/

In 1822, as an 18 year old medical student at Edinburgh University, he was charged with “violating the sepulchres of the dead, and raising and carrying away dead bodies from their graves” – put simply, body snatching. To aggravate matters, he promptly absconded, possibly to Paris, and was declared an outlaw. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Dr-John-Forrest/

Why structures made using Roman concrete are so durable has remained something of a mystery. Now researchers say they have discovered one possible explanation: the technique used to make the material may have helped to give it self-healing properties. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/06/self-healing-roman-concrete-could-aid-modern-construction-study-suggests

This is great. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/army-corps-of-engineers-calendar-of-giant-cats-2023/

The sarcophagi respectively hold the remains of a high-ranking clergyman who led a largely sedentary life, according to an inscription on his coffin, and a young nobleman who likely suffered from chronic illness before his death.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/experts-reveal-who-is-in-the-notre-dame-sarcophagi-1234651356/

Dog data as a service! https://dogapi.dog

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has been the Brooklyn Public Library's most borrowed book throughout its 125-year history. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136714167/brooklyn-public-library-most-borrowed-book-ever-where-wild-things-maurice-sendak

The new Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, a document which allows a vast group of independent publishers to use the basic game rules created by D&D owner Wizards of the Coast, significantly restricts the kind of content allowed and requires anyone making money under the license to report their products to Wizards of the Coast directly.
https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634

In a recent experiment by a Turkish farmer, outfitting his cows with VR goggles that simulate being in a pasture upped milk production by 2 gallons per cow per day. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/a-turkish-farmer-tests-out-vr-goggles-on-cows-to-get-more-milk

This device was used to resuscitate canaries in coal mines https://museumcrush.org/this-device-was-used-to-resuscitate-canaries-in-coal-mines/

A list of works that entered the public domain in 2023. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

Kubernetes Secrets are often used to share secrets used by applications deployed in the Kubernetes cluster. The caveat is that Secrets are not as secure as their name may imply. #kubernetes

https://redis.com/blog/kubernetes-secret/

"A fire that broke out at a Wisconsin dairy plant on Monday night sent a river of melted butter flowing across the factory floor and into nearby storm drains, where it clogged a historic water artery." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/05/butter-wisconsin-dairy-plant-canal-melted

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“Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet.” https://psyche.co/ideas/why-it-took-us-thousands-of-years-to-see-the-colour-violet

2023 predictions from my old boss, John Battelle (who started Wired among other ventures). I like that he doesn't pick easy choices. https://pgsignal.com/2023/01/04/john-battelles-top-business-predictions-for-2023/