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BBC

  1. Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead
  2. Fires prompt national alert as 19 homes destroyed
  3. Temporary ban on disposable BBQs as military deployed to help battle wildfires
  4. Five years after the Taliban swept to power, does the West have any influence?
  5. Heathrow Airport warns of disruption following floods
  6. BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit
  7. At least 14 dead after 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia
  8. Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
  9. Many Canadians are boycotting the US - here's where they're travelling instead
  10. Like Greg James, I lost my dog and my grief was overwhelming and complicated
  11. I wish I had been a more rebellious teenager, says Bella Ramsey
  12. How is parkour helping these seniors avoid injuries?
  13. 'I shot Mr Thompson'- What it was like inside court as Mangione pleaded guilty
  14. The Papers: 'Row professor found dead' and 'barbecue ban'
  15. Air India pilot's reported cannabis test: What it can and can't tell investigators
  16. Derailed Essex to London train leads to travel chaos
  17. Hodgkinson beaten to European gold by rival Werro
  18. Britain's Finlay Tarling dies in Volta a Portugal accident
  19. Stephen Bear jailed over sex offender breaches
  20. 'I started in my 20s and made £8,000': Why women are often better investors than men
  21. The 101-year-old who created a dolls' house museum with her childhood toys
  22. Peter James returns to Sussex with his 57 animals
  23. Why are 'human fridges' being sold in Japan?
  24. BBC News app
  25. What Next For Nigel Farage After The Clacton By-Election?
  26. Is Iran really trying to kill Trump?
  27. Fresh rivals & forced to settle for silver - but Hodgkinson up for fight
  28. Premier League clubs looking to EFL for next Semenyo & Eze
  29. Are fans now more invested in star names than clubs?
  30. Britain's Finlay Tarling dies in Volta a Portugal accident
  31. Scheffler equals course record to lead first play-off event
  32. 'This is the right one' - Rohl on leaving Rangers for Salzburg

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Waymo receives permission to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego
  2. Kia's EV3 will start under $31,000 in the US
  3. Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from AI content
  4. Google must make it easier to install alternative app stores, judge orders
  5. The Mandalorian and Grogu will hit Disney+ on September 2
  6. Your car's dash cam might be illegal in some states — Here's how to check
  7. France's top court strikes down social media ban for children under 15
  8. Get the best battery life for your MacBook by changing these settings
  9. DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more
  10. Apple proposes taking a 5-to-15 percent cut from external App Store payments
  11. Trump slaps a 100 percent tariff on heavy and 'sensitive' drones
  12. Apple sends out warnings to targets of mercenary spyware attacks
  13. Mico, Microsoft's weird lil' AI guy, has been demoted
  14. Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
  15. Netflix shuts down Oxenfree studio Night School weeks after praising its 'really solid numbers'
  16. X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been 'shadowbanned'
  17. Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure
  18. US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf
  19. The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
  20. Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse

Pinboard

The Next Web

  1. EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why
  2. Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year
  3. OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT
  4. Zoox has shown its safety workings, three weeks after recalling every robotaxi it owns
  5. ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count
  6. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake
  7. Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more
  8. SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
  9. Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster
  10. A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install

Smashing Magazine

  1. New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
  2. Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
  3. How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
  4. Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  5. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
  6. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  7. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  8. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  9. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  10. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  11. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  12. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  13. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  14. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  15. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  16. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  17. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  18. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  19. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  20. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  21. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  22. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  23. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  24. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  25. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  26. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  27. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  28. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  29. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  30. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  31. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  32. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  33. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  34. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  35. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  36. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  37. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  38. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  39. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  40. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Laptops for College Students
  2. The Best Laptops
  3. The Best Parental Control Apps to Manage Screen Time (and Keep Your Kid Safer Online)
  4. 12 Apps to Add to Your Kid’s First Phone (That Aren’t Social Media)
  5. The Best Canned Tuna
  6. 13 of the Cutest Gifts We’ve Ever Seen
  7. The Best Bar Soaps
  8. How to Clean the Air You Breathe (Encore)
  9. Some of the Best Online Learning Games for Kids
  10. The Best Bluetooth Tracker

Sweethome

  1. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  2. The Best Pressure Washer
  3. The Best Carpet Cleaners
  4. Our Favorite Storage Benches
  5. The Best Rug Pads
  6. The Best Chainsaw
  7. The Best Leaf Blower
  8. ​The Best Snow Blowers
  9. Our Favorite Nightstands
  10. The Best Snow Shovel

Hacker News

  1. The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
  2. Qwen 3.8 27B
  3. Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
  4. Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
  5. eigendrum
  6. Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
  7. Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
  8. RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
  9. The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
  10. Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
  11. Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
  12. Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)
  13. AI by Hand
  14. Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
  15. "That's not SOC 2 compliant"
  16. This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever
  17. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
  18. I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
  19. Super Mario Derivations
  20. Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
  21. Introducing Toast 1
  22. Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city
  23. Racket v9.3
  24. Ultraviolet Bird Photography
  25. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
  26. Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing
  27. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
  28. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
  29. Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes
  30. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

Ars Technica

  1. Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
  2. First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
  3. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
  4. State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
  5. PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
  6. Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
  7. Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
  8. Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
  9. R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision
  10. Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
  11. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
  12. Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan
  13. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
  14. Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
  15. US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
  16. Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
  17. Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
  18. Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
  19. Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say
  20. Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
  2. Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories
  3. Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead
  4. Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network
  5. France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s
  6. PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider
  7. Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile
  8. Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier
  9. Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones
  10. Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
  11. Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them
  12. Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time
  13. Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere
  14. UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
  15. Microsoft Retreats In China

BoingBoing

  1. In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair
  2. Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination
  3. Your next gaming obsession is half off right now
  4. Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit
  5. Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values
  6. OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
  7. Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
  8. A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
  9. A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
  10. Get lifetime access to the full MS Office 2021 suite for $33
  11. A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
  12. A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
  13. The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
  14. You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
  15. The government now spends more on interest than on the military
  16. Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
  17. The only thing inside an AI is people
  18. App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
  19. When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
  20. BitLocker, Copilot, and more are yours for $9.97 with this Windows 11 Pro deal
  21. Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
  22. North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
  23. Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
  24. In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
  25. This $70 PDF editor doesn't care which operating system you use
  26. Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
  27. Stewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
  28. The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts
  29. A mechanical keyboard, plain yoghurt, and a 7am start
  30. How San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself

Core77

  1. Unique Form Factor for a Security Robot: Rollo's Monowheel 'Bot
  2. Gazelle's Quick-Assemble Hub Tents
  3. A Transparent CD Player
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-27-26 to 7-31-26)
  5. A Space-Saving Retractable Spiral Staircase
  6. Second White's Sleek Folding Electric Scooter
  7. Improvised Transport on Abandoned Infrastructure: Colombia's Ingenious Motorcycle-Railroad Adapters
  8. Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
  9. U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
  10. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  11. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  12. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
  13. Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
  14. Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
  15. Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works
  2. A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping
  3. Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim
  4. The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie
  5. Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 series
  6. Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
  7. You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
  8. 2025 GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is down to $33
  9. CMF’s clip earbuds hit the balance between cheap and good
  10. The MSI Claw EX is the most important PC handheld since Steam Deck — I still wouldn’t buy one

Wired

  1. Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for August 2026
  2. New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
  3. The Best Movies to Stream This Month (August 2026)
  4. The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
  5. Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
  6. Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+
  7. The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper
  8. FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination
  9. These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
  10. Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2026): Mous, dbrand, Bellroy
  11. I Wore an Electrical Muscle Stimulation Body Suit to Zap Myself Into Fitness
  12. People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
  13. Best Computer Monitors (2026): The Home Office Upgrade You Need
  14. 5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain
  15. Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel
  16. This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real
  17. Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo
  18. The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
  19. Layla Sleep Coupon: Save Up to $600 in August 2026
  20. Office Depot Coupons: Save With Promo Codes in August 2026

LifeHacker

  1. Microsoft Is Combining Its Two 'Copilot' Apps (and Ditching These Three Features)
  2. 10 Gboard Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  3. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  4. All the Health and Fitness Products You Didn't Realize You Could Buy With HSA Funds
  5. How to Tell If That Apple 'Threat Notification' Is Legit
  6. You Can Have Google Meet Take Notes for Your In-Person Meetings Too
  7. This Soundcore Bluetooth Party Speaker Is $80 Off Right Now
  8. If You Loved 'Silo,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  9. ChatGPT Can Now Remember Actions You Take on Your Mac
  10. This Blink Outdoor 2K Camera Bundle Is 45% Off Right Now
  11. You Can Get This 5.1-Channel Surround Sound Setup on Sale for $399 Right Now
  12. I Tried the Android App That's Helping People Around the World Bypass Censorship Laws
  13. Here's How Google's New 'Tap to Share' Android Feature Works
  14. This Asus Portable Monitor Is Under $100 Right Now
  15. Apple Is Offering a $150 'Back-to-School' Gift Card When You Buy One of These MacBooks or iPads
  16. That Chrome Update Pop-Up May Actually Be Malware
  17. 10 Shows Like 'Lanterns' You Should Watch Next
  18. Apple TV Just Added These 'Classic' Movies to Its Catalog for Free
  19. This 8K Action Camera Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  20. You Can Get Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra2 for $100 Off Right Now (Plus a $100 Amazon Gift Card)
  21. Samsung’s New Galaxy Watch 9 Is Already $50 Off (and Comes With a $50 Amazon Gift Card)
  22. Here’s What to Do Now That Microsoft Edge Is Phasing Out Ad Blockers
  23. Six New Features Coming to the Pixel Watch 5
  24. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  25. You Can Still Get a Samsung Galaxy Z Phone With a $350 Amazon Gift Card
  26. Four Features Coming to Every New Pixel 11 Device
  27. Here's How the Cameras on Google's New Pixel 11 Phones Compare to the iPhone
  28. The Best Preorder Deals for the New Google Pixel Lineup
  29. Five Hacks Every Garmin Cirqa User Should Know
  30. This Acer Gaming Laptop Is $600 Off Right Now
  31. Everything Already Announced Ahead of Made by Google 2026
  32. This Lightweight Google Pixelsnap Wireless Charger Is 50% Off Right Now
  33. If You Loved 'Widow’s Bay,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  34. Why Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates Suddenly Have So Many More Fixes
  35. These TP-Link Roam 6 Travel Routers Are at Their Lowest Prices Ever Right Now
  36. This Solar-Powered Security Camera Kit Is 33% Off Right Now
  37. Five New Changes in iOS 27 Beta 5
  38. The Best Way to Get Past an Article's Paywall
  39. The First Five Things You Should Do With Your Garmin Cirqa Smart Band
  40. Seven Surprisingly Useful Mac Apps You've Never Heard Of
  41. This Entry-Level Acer Nitro V16 Gaming Laptop Is $200 Off Right Now
  42. 10 Hacks Every In-Flight Wifi User Should Know
  43. 10 Shows Like 'Black Mirror' You Should Watch Next
  44. Vibe-Coded Apps Are a Security Nightmare, but They Don't Have to Be
  45. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is the Matcha Filter?
  46. You Can Get These Nothing Over-Ear Headphones for 27% Off Right Now
  47. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is $90 Off Right Now
  48. Watch Out for These Fake Fraud Alerts From Apple and Amazon
  49. You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer
  50. This Portable Vlogging Camera Is $130 Off Right Now
  51. My Favorite Bose ANC Earbuds Are $50 Off
  52. This Solar-Powered Garmin Smartwatch Is 50% Off Right Now
  53. Garmin's Basic GPS Running Watch Is $70 Off Right Now
  54. 10 Shows Like 'Sugar' You Should Watch Next
  55. The Best Apps to Use After Gmail's 'Send As' Feature Goes Away
  56. This Is Google Play's First Third-Party App Store
  57. You Can Get the Samsung Galaxy S26+ for Over $250 Off Right Now
  58. The Feature-Packed Pixel Buds 2a Are $30 Off Right Now
  59. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  60. Apple Just Added These New Android Devices to Its Trade-In List
  61. Five Ways to Make Gemini Behave More Like Google Assistant
  62. DuckDuckGo Just Made It Easier to Share Links Without Getting Tracked
  63. This Loud and Rugged JBL Speaker Is $65 Off Right Now
  64. If You Loved 'Futurama,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  65. Free ChatGPT Users Will Get a Huge Upgrade Next Week
  66. This Blink Wireless 2K Floodlight Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  67. This LG Ultrawide OLED Gaming Monitor Is $200 Off Right Now
  68. How to Watch Made by Google 2026: The Pixel Event's Start Time and What to Expect
  69. How to Count Calories Accurately (and Why You Might Want To)
  70. Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security Flaw
  71. This 27-Inch Asus OLED Gaming Monitor Is $120 Off Right Now
  72. Why Your Garmin VO2max Number Drops in the Summer (and How to Fix It)
  73. 10 Shows Like 'Furious' You Should Watch Next
  74. Google Maps Has Launched 'Agentic Food Ordering,' but Don't Get Too Excited
  75. Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Actually Expose Your Real IP Address
  76. AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
  77. The Easiest Way to Earn Rewards on Fuel, Groceries, and Dining
  78. Made by Google 2026: What to Expect From the Pixel 11 Event
  79. Is It Good or Bad to Stretch Before a Workout?
  80. Hisense’s Latest 65-Inch Mini-LED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  81. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  82. The Apple Watch Series 11 Is $150 Off Right Now
  83. Here's When ChatGPT Atlas Will Shut Down for Good
  84. These Advanced Stretching Techniques Can Actually Make You More Flexible
  85. If You Loved 'Ted Lasso,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  86. You Can Score a MacBook Neo for $599 in the Middle of 'RAMageddon'
  87. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $60 Off Right Now
  88. This 15.6-Inch Dell Laptop Is $130 Off Right Now
  89. Here's Why Microsoft Is Encouraging Users to Stay Off Public Wifi Networks
  90. 10 Shows Like 'Ted Lasso' You Should Watch Next
  91. My Favorite Pocket-Sized E-Readers Are Under $60 Today Only
  92. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  93. Here's When Google Assistant Is Leaving Android
  94. These Amazon-Exclusive Metallic Pink Beats Headphones Are 50% Off
  95. This Tiny Waterproof GoPro (With a Built-In Light) Is Almost $50 Off Right Now
  96. Apple Could Owe Some Users up to $5,000 Each in This Class Action Lawsuit
  97. This Massive Mini LED QLED From TCL Is $800 Off Right Now
  98. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Balance 3 User Should Know
  99. How to Protect Yourself From This Massive Ongoing Cryptocurrency Hack
  100. This 45-Inch LG UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Monitor Is $700 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to "effective giving" (Financial Times)
  2. Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral)
  3. SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
  4. Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
  5. Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (The Economic Times)
  6. Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
  7. Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its "preparedness" team in July (Financial Times)
  8. Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework (Michael Martina/Reuters)
  9. How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. Sriram/Newcomer)
  10. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is "not in favor" of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be "other solutions to the memory issue" (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO (Echo Wang/Reuters)
  12. Waymo receives approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand across 18 counties, including Sacramento and San Diego (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
  13. Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
  14. SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (Bloomberg)
  15. Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users (Reuters)