# hour ago (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hour ago. Page: Feed: --- ## [How landscape gardening is being electrified](https://dabargains.co.uk/how-landscape-gardening-is-being-electrified/) _2026-08-21 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Getty Images Christine Ro Technology Reporter, Los Angeles 3 hours ago Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment. Noise is one of the main reasons that cities around the US are banning petrol landscaping tools or encouraging electric alternatives. These alternatives have the additional benefits of \[…\] ## [81,000 warning letters sent to crypto holders in HMRC tax crackdown](https://dabargains.co.uk/81000-warning-letters-sent-to-crypto-holders-in-hmrc-tax-crackdown/) _2026-08-20 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Getty Images Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service 9 hours ago HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sent more than 81,000 letters warning cryptocurrency holders they may owe capital gains tax in the past year. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request seen by the BBC showed the number of letters sent by the tax authority \[…\] ## [The critical tech staying safe by going underground](https://dabargains.co.uk/the-critical-tech-staying-safe-by-going-underground/) _2026-08-19 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Earthgrid Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter 3 hours ago A wall of white granite towered above a small team of engineers gathered in a California quarry. The ancient, ultra-hard material before them was, to most things, completely impermeable. Then the rock-melting tunnel-boring machine (TBR) roared to life. “It’s kind of like igniting a rocket,” says Troy \[…\] ## [If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever](https://dabargains.co.uk/if-meta-loses-this-trial-instagram-and-facebook-could-change-forever/) _2026-08-17 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Getty Images Kali Hays Technology reporter 3 hours ago Meta has been hit with successive losses in court over how its platforms have targeted and harmed young users, but a jury trial set to begin on Tuesday may pose the biggest threat yet to its operations. The trial stems from a lawsuit filed in 2023 \[…\] ## [I survived two years as prime minister in a hit new game – then my cabinet deserted me](https://dabargains.co.uk/i-survived-two-years-as-prime-minister-in-a-hit-new-game-then-my-cabinet-deserted-me/) _2026-08-16 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Sleepy Boy Games Laura Cress Technology reporter 3 hours ago A mobile game made by a developer in Manchester has recently beaten the global phenomenon Minecraft to top Apple’s paid games chart. Its success is perhaps even more surprising given its subject matter – UK politics. No 10: Full Confidence by Benjamin Brewis sees players \[…\] ## [Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI](https://dabargains.co.uk/why-tech-bosses-keep-sharing-their-manifestos-about-ai/) _2026-08-15 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Reuters Lily Jamali North America Technology correspondent 3 hours ago This past week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter entitled “The Future is for Everyone”. To some, it’s an expression of hope in AI’s promise. To others, it’s little more than a verbose public relations exercise. Zuckerberg’s manifesto is the latest \[…\] ## [Bumble divides users by ditching its signature ‘women-first’ chat rule](https://dabargains.co.uk/bumble-divides-users-by-ditching-its-signature-women-first-chat-rule/) _2026-08-14 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Getty Images James W Kelly Technology reporter 13 August 2026 356 Comments Dating app Bumble has divided its users by dropping its signature rule which allowed only women to send the first message to a match. When the app launched 2014, founder and boss Whitney Wolfe Herd said it distinguished itself from rivals like Tinder \[…\] ## [Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI](https://dabargains.co.uk/why-japanese-firms-are-being-so-slow-to-use-ai/) _2026-08-13 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ AFP via Getty Images Michael Fitzpatrick Technology reporter 2 hours ago Facing acute labour shortages, ageing demographics and chronic productivity problems, Japanese companies should be fertile ground for the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, compared with the US and UK, adoption in many workplaces remains sluggish and cautious. Japan’s response to AI is beginning \[…\] ## [Nvidia gets $500bn from major investors to develop AI infrastructure](https://dabargains.co.uk/nvidia-gets-500bn-from-major-investors-to-develop-ai-infrastructure/) _2026-08-11 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Reuters Kali Hays Technology reporter 4 hours ago Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street’s largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the \[…\] ## [Is football AI-proof? Why tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup](https://dabargains.co.uk/is-football-ai-proof-why-tech-investors-wanted-a-slice-of-the-world-cup/) _2026-08-09 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Getty Images Michael Race Business reporter, New York 8 August 2026 Fifa has been forced to U-turn on plans to sell off a slice of the World Cup after fierce opposition, with threats of future boycotts and calls for the governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, to quit. But why were a group of tech investors interested \[…\] ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AThl2K9R6xYO) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant](https://dabargains.co.uk/meta-fined-567m-in-largest-child-safety-ruling-against-social-media-giant/) _2026-08-07 · DA Bargains · DA Bargains_ Reuters Kali Hays Technology reporter 7 August 2026, 00:34 BST Updated 1 hour ago A US judge in New Mexico on Thursday ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest ruling against the company over child safety. Judge Bryan \[…\] ## [I Violated the Geneva Conventions by Implementing Kerberos in TypeScript](https://thepotato.tech/posts/kerberos-in-typescript/) _2026-08-02 · Neil Hanlon_ A couple weeks ago I shipped a swamp workflow that tells me what Fedora wants from me on a given day. Three models fan out in parallel, pull bugs and builds and package state, and one command writes a markdown snapshot I can diff against last week’s. It’s the workflow I wanted, and it runs every time I have the spoons for it. Two of the three models are pure fetch , and carry no… ## [What Does Fedora Want From Me Today?](https://thepotato.tech/posts/what-does-fedora-want-from-me-today/) _2026-07-14 · Neil Hanlon_ I began contributing as a packager with Fedora a few years ago, in concert with my participation in founding and bootstrapping Rocky Linux from the ground up. That alone deserves a blog post series I may write some day… but more to the point… I haven’t done a great job of maintaining my packages. There’s a host of reasons I could get into for why, but particularly in… ## [I Put My Son in a Swamp](https://thepotato.tech/posts/i-put-my-son-in-a-swamp/) _2026-07-11 · Neil Hanlon_ My son is a typed resource now. He has a sync method that pulls the last seven days of his life into a versioned snapshot, a stack of reports that summarize how he slept and ate, and — I did think about this — a delete that’s careful to be idempotent, because deleting the same diaper twice shouldn’t be an error. I did not set out to put a baby in a swamp. It followed, the way these… ## [The WiFi Certificate That Didn't Exist an Hour Ago](https://thepotato.tech/posts/the-wifi-cert-that-didnt-exist-an-hour-ago/) _2026-07-10 · Neil Hanlon_ My laptop is on WiFi right now on a certificate that didn’t exist an hour ago. I made the keypair, my own CA signed it, the private key went into my secret store, and the machine authenticated onto the 802.1X network and pulled a DHCP lease — all through code I’d finished writing about twenty minutes earlier. I want to talk about the boring part that made it safe, because the boring… ## [Joining ResolveX as a Technical Advisor: Infrastructure and Crisis Response](https://thepotato.tech/posts/joining-resolvex-technical-advisor-crisis-response/) _2025-08-08 · Neil Hanlon_ I’m excited to share that I’ve joined ResolveX as a technical advisor. ResolveX builds software and data solutions for crisis call centers—988 suicide prevention lines, domestic violence hotlines, and other critical mental health resources. Why This Matters Mental health crisis response has significant gaps that technology can help address. ResolveX builds tools to make crisis…