Monday · August 17 2026
The day’s shape isn’t drawn yet — no calendar is connected, so the terrain stays still water. Connect Google Calendar and the meetings, the clusters and the open stretches appear here instead.
Thirty days before the Oracle trial content goes
Oracle wrote just after lunch on Sunday that the free trial expired that day, and that the data and cloud account content built during it is removed thirty days from now — mid-September, unless the account is upgraded or the work is pulled out first.
Stripe can take payments, the setup isn’t finished
Stripe confirmed by email on Sunday that the account is live for payments and listed the next steps still open on it — the account works, but nothing is wired to it yet.
A device Stripe didn’t recognise
Stripe flagged a sign-in from an unfamiliar device around midday Sunday, minutes before a new passkey was added to the same account. If that was the desktop setup run, nothing to do; if it wasn’t, this is the item that can’t wait.
The Oracle account unlocked itself again
Oracle locked the profile just after three in the morning Sunday and unlocked it twenty minutes later once the password was reset — closed before it cost anything.
GitHub finished its account changes
GitHub confirmed across Sunday afternoon that the password reset went through, a passkey from Chrome on Windows was added, and the portal@astramentalica.com address is now on the account.
Namecheap is back online
Namecheap restored services on Friday evening after a cooling failure in one of its data centres — the outage window closed before the weekend.
Anthropic explained how Claude watermarks its text
A post in the Anthropic newsroom on Friday sets out the mechanism behind the text watermark and how it survives editing.
Anthropic brought in a chief global affairs officer
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar joined in that role announced earlier this month — a policy-side hire, and a signal of where the regulatory pressure is landing.
Hurricane Lala knocked out power across Hawaii
A category one storm hit the islands on Sunday, per RTVSLO, leaving more than a hundred thousand homes without power and flood warnings still standing.
Prekmurje’s anniversary marked with a state ceremony
The government held the annexation commemoration on Sunday afternoon, reported by RTVSLO alongside the closing night of the European athletics championships.