📋 Log for 2026-05-31

😄 Joke of the Day

It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs, because they take everything literally.

Category: dad

YouTube Summaries

[How Jessica "accidentally" became a developer while living and working in Japan](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J6t5ev2Z9yk)

Channel: freeCodeCamp.org

Summary:

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Published: 2026-05-31T12:43:26+00:00

Latest OpenRouter Models

StepFun: Step 5 Preview (stepfun/step-5-preview)

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). It performs strongly in software engineering and professional...

Published: 08/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5)

Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. It succeeds Claude Haiku 4.5 with stronger coding, computer use, and...

Published: 07/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5

Google: Nano Banana 2.1 (google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1)

Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization,...

Published: 06/10/2026

https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1

📢 OpenClaw Releases

🌟 openclaw 2026.5.30-beta.1 🚧 Pre-release

Highlights

Agents and CLI-backed runtimes recover more cleanly from interrupted tool calls, stale session bindings, compaction handoffs, and media delivery retries. (#88129, #88136, #88141, #88162, #88182)
Channels and mobile delivery are steadier across Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Google Meet, and iOS realtime Talk. (#88096, #88105, #88183, #88231)
Provider and plugin requests now bound more timers, retries, OAuth/device-code lifetimes, media downloads, local service probes, and generated-content polling paths before they can hang a run.
Skills, session metadata, gateway runtime state, plugin metadata, and store writes do less repeated work on hot paths while keeping config and dispatch behavior stable.
Workboard, SecretRef plugin manifests, hosted iOS push relay, and external Copilot/Tokenjuice packaging add broader orchestration, integration, and plugin delivery surfaces. (#82326, #87469, #87796, #88107, #88117)
Relea...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.5.30-beta.1

🌟 openclaw 2026.5.28

Highlights

Agent and Codex runtime recovery is steadier: subagents keep cwd/workspace separation, hook context stays prompt-local, session locks release on timeout abort while live OpenClaw locks survive cleanup, stale restart continuations are avoided, and Codex app-server/helper failures no longer tear down shared runtime state. (#87218, #86875, #87409, #87399, #87375, #88129)
Channel delivery and session identity got safer across outbound plugin hooks, Matrix room ids, iMessage reactions/approvals, Slack final replies, Discord recovered tool warnings, runtime-config message actions, WhatsApp profile auth roots, Telegram polling, and Microsoft Teams service URL trust checks. (#73706, #75670, #87366, #87451, #87334, #84535, #82492, #83304, #87160)
Mobile and chat surfaces got a broader refresh: the iOS Pro UI, hosted push relay default, realtime Talk tab playback, Gateway chat transport, onboarding, Talk permissions, WebChat reconnect delivery, and session picker behavior n...

Published: today https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.5.28

Robot Technology

🤖 This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

In 1987, Richard Greenhill , a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn’t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic. To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wednesday...

Source: spectrum.ieee.org • Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:01 +0000

Batteries That Use Sodium Instead of Lithium Could Be Low-Cost Rival to Tesla’s

A new study shows that a low-cost sodium-ion battery currently used in cars and large-scale energy storage systems in China matches most performance parameters and production quality found in Tesla’s lithium-ion batteries. Since sodium is much more abundant and widely available than lithium, using it for batteries could cut raw material costs for manufacturers and [&#8230;] The post Batteries That Use Sodium Instead of Lithium Could Be Low-Cost Rival to Tesla’s appeared first on Good News Networ...

Published: Sat, 30 May 2026 17:00:55 +0000

Grieving Mother Finds 3.09 Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park

A grieving mother discovered a 3.09-carat white gem at Crater of Diamonds State Park, catching a wave of emotional release and hope following a year of personal loss. Keshia Smith planned the trip to Arkansas a year ago, joining her boyfriend and brother on the journey from Pennsylvania. Little did she know she’d be healing [&#8230;] The post Grieving Mother Finds 3.09 Carat Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH)

A British couple has spent 20 years perfecting the practice of sculpting trees to grow into the shapes of ready-made seats designed with living branches. Alice and Gavin Munro began creating the ‘furniture orchard’ on a two-acre English farm in 2006, but the harvesting typically takes between 6-9 years per chair. The process involves pruning [&#8230;] The post Britain’s First Furniture Orchard Grows Chairs Right on the Trees (WATCH) appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 13:29:38 +0000

Incredibly Rare Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Area They Were Thought to be Extinct

It&#8217;s World Bongo Day today, and scientists dedicated to their survival have shared new field camera images that prove these magnificent animals have reappeared in a region where they were thought to be extinct. For more than half a decade, conservationists feared the wild mountain bongo population, detected in four isolated areas eight years ago, [&#8230;] The post Incredibly Rare Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Area They Were Thought to be Extinct appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:05 +0000

Good News in History, May 31

100 years ago today, Kruger National Park was established in Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa. One of the largest game reserves on the continent, it is more than twice the size of Yellowstone, at 7,576 square miles (19,623 square kilometers). Part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, it crosses over the border with [&#8230;] The post Good News in History, May 31 appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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