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BBC

  1. Watch: Anti-migrant boat protesters block roads in Portsmouth
  2. Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs
  3. New videos of man at centre of 9/11 lawsuit reveal links to extremists and Saudi state
  4. Germany's far-right AfD hails big victory in east, but falls short of majority
  5. How significant are the historic gains of Germany's AfD for the rest of Europe?
  6. BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri reveals she has blood cancer
  7. Kyiv air raid alerts at record high as Russia launches round-the-clock strikes
  8. New Inbetweeners film confirmed by Netflix as lead stars return
  9. Officials investigating cause of deadly cargo plane crash at Miami airport
  10. The £70 refund letter that isn't a scam
  11. Andrew Scott feels the Pressure as 'unsung hero' in WW2 thriller
  12. Did the FBI bury evidence of alleged Saudi agent’s role in 9/11?
  13. Chemo hair loss doesn't define me - it's a symbol that I'm strong
  14. Smaller rugby ball for women makes it 'harder to do my job'
  15. The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs'
  16. Peace talks rich in symbolism but fundamental differences between Russia and Ukraine remain
  17. The Papers: 'Losing battle to halt Russia's 'hybrid' war' and 'Oh chute!'
  18. Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
  19. Israeli strikes in southern Lebanese village kill nine
  20. Indonesia volcano eruption leaves 270,000 stranded as airports extend closure
  21. Drug rape killer should never have been freed, says victim
  22. Austria's Islamic headscarf ban in force as under-14s go back to school
  23. BBC News app
  24. How New Is Andy Burnham’s Labour?
  25. An insider's account of Trump's White House
  26. Inside Ella Toone’s life on and off the pitch
  27. Imagine a world where no one has heard of The Beatles
  28. No new striker, no worries - Havertz and Odegaard torment Chelsea
  29. Antonelli 'walks over water' for win that will go down in F1 folklore
  30. How quiz-show winnings kick-started coach's career - with Old Trafford next
  31. Fury says he is looking for new opponent, calls out Usyk
  32. Alcaraz delivers statement win to reach US Open last eight
  33. Smaller ball for women makes it 'harder to do my job'

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Is it safe to buy a refurbished iPhone from Walmart?
  2. When are portable Apple CarPlay screens actually worth it?
  3. The pros and cons of using wireless Android Auto
  4. 10 Smart Gadgets That Could Instantly Upgrade Your Backyard
  5. How to use your MacBook's built-in backup tool instead of paying for cloud storage
  6. Common problems with Apple Wallet and how to fix them
  7. The Slate Truck is great, but this one problem may stop a lot of folks from buying it
  8. How To Send High-Quality Images And Videos From Android To iPhone
  9. OpenAI says it reached its goal of creating an automated research intern
  10. What is vibe coding and why does it get so much hate?
  11. Dual-band vs. tri-band routers: What's the difference between them?
  12. How to set up ChatGPT's parental controls to protect your teen
  13. How to find your iPhone even when it's off
  14. The pros and cons of using an iPad as a laptop
  15. Is 256GB enough for an iPhone? Here's when you should go bigger
  16. How long can you expect a PlayStation 5 DualSense controller to last?
  17. You probably don't need two routers — do this instead
  18. Foldable phones still need to fix this problem
  19. What's the difference between volatile and non-volatile memory?
  20. How to check your PC's hard-drive health

Pinboard

  1. Any Human Ever: One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698
  2. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle — Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle https://ift.tt/LyZAgHw self.hosting, open.source, security, containers
  3. Music theory for programmers, from first principles, with live Javascript examples
  4. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  5. The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck — Explore why readers reject AI-generated content and how to maintain authenticity. Learn to use tools like Pangram to protect your writer-reader bond.
  6. Litterbox
  7. GDPR-compliant European static site hosting - statichost.eu — Netlify alternative
  8. [no title]
  9. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering — Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.
  10. Industry Standard Tools
  11. Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination
  12. Bob and Van — Unclear what he is responding to? Feels specific.
  13. deSEC – Free Secure DNS — deSEC is a free DNS hosting service, designed with security in mind.
  14. How to turn your AI into a world-class designer
  15. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem - Anthropic
  16. Learn Programming with OCaml
  17. Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay | The New Yorker — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/q9b5QeC
  18. The Real Luxuries In Life | Feld Thoughts
  19. Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. — This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this …
  20. Unusual Suspects — fun!
  21. Doomscrolling ourselves to death
  22. Learn Programming with OCaml | Hacker News
  23. Vinted.com | Sell, swap and buy fashion outfits, secondhand clothing and accessories! — ASOS, Brandy Melville, Jeffrey Campbell, Topshop... Buy, sell and swap clothing, accessories, beauty items, and so much more pre-loved! Save and earn – with Vinted you get amazing deals while you de-clutter your closet!
  24. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
  25. Cloud in a Bottle: your corner of the cloud
  26. Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen
  27. Charles Petzold: Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? — Charles Petzold is the author of the books Code and The Annotated Turing
  28. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
  29. AI, tools and transformation — Benedict Evans — Stepping back from all of this, though, there's also a much simpler way to think about the question. With every new technology, we start by using it for the work we already have, and we just do that more and faster. But then, over time, you make entirely new things. We will use…
  30. tt-a1i/archify: Claude Skill: generate beautiful architecture diagrams with dark/light theme toggle and PNG/JPEG/WebP/SVG export
  31. Quad 9 — Internet Security and Privacy in a Few Easy Steps
  32. Models Don't Go Rogue
  33. DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote “Honest Security"
  34. Arcade games from Trump White House
  35. GitHub - genspark-ai/genoffice: Free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office with built-in AI agents — Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF and Markdown editing for macOS, Windows & Linux. · GitHub
  36. I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
  37. Ambient CSS — a physics-based lighting system for CSS
  38. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
  39. Instances - mv12star/shitter - Codeberg.org — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634
  40. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve
  41. Disaster prep for people who aren’t gun-obsessed misanthropes – Tangled Bank Foraging and Fibre Crafts
  42. Bartosz Ciechanowski — awesome graphics/color blogs
  43. UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian
  44. Why does AI-generated food look like that? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  45. Weird little guys of FOSS — List of open source people with toxic, morally repugnant behavior
  46. UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
  47. that couldn't possibly be Famous Hockey Player Ilya Rozanov, he's wearing sunglasses by @damnedtreasure.ao3 — One day in Montréal, Québec, not too far from Centre Bell, Ilya Rozanov walks down the street. One podcaster will never live down not recognising him. Ilya will never live down not realising it's live. Hey, you ev…
  48. Personal AI Router for Local Inference | NVIDIA PAIR — NVIDIA PAIR beta routes AI inference across your RTX, DGX Spark, and Mac devices as a private local AI cluster. No cloud. No special hardware. Download free.
  49. An Alien Mind
  50. 557 FINAL - YouTube
  51. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers - Ars Technica — A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use ... The block of 128 tags mimics a portion of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange almost perfectly, with one major difference: the …
  52. Drivers license scans sold (Russia): "IDScan.net, an outfit that is used by car rental agencies like Hertz and marijuana dispensaries. They kept over 150 million ID card scans and lost them all in a data breach." — Only the beginning.
  53. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize
  54. vercel-labs/emulate: Local API emulation for CI and no-network sandboxes — Local API emulation for CI and no-network sandboxes - vercel-labs/emulate
  55. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/mkO1Ncn
  56. DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the US | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/mkO1Ncn
  57. 5 clever ways to make a small space look bigger : NPR
  58. Simon Willison TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
  59. Dickover in the Slashdot RSS feed - App - NetNewsWire — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/yZPGuwI
  60. (3) Yarchi on X: "Spotify just published the internal setup their engineers use with Claude Code, the one that cut token usage by 90 percent. Here is how it works. The observation behind it: most of what a coding assistant does is not thinking. It opens f
  61. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems — Sylvain Kalache — Engineers should regularly interact with the system they watch over, handle unfamiliar failures, practice working under pressure, and rehearse the coordination and communication required during a SEV0. Tabletop exercises and chaos engineering a…
  62. Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI — https://archive.li/oeYo6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181519
  63. What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/BxcmhVb
  64. Bloomberg - Are you a robot? — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/yZPGuwI
  65. The Dead-Internet theory Is back | The Atlantic — “Dead Internet” theory is seeing a revival, this time in mainstream conversation. It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down. Tina Yeung, recent doctoral graduate of computer s…
  66. jakubkrehel/skills: A set of agent skills that help improve different parts of a product, from animations and typography to layout and colors. — A set of agent skills that help improve different parts of a product, from animations and typography to layout and colors.
  67. GPT‑6 Astra — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MNEcyou
  68. The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay and the results are not shocking — A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive OS" in their cars. Admittedly, I'm a…
  69. Valley Sans — The design of the typeface draws from Tove Jansson's original lettering, the typographic landscape of her era, and details from life in the Finnish archipelago.
  70. “Paper Trail” Podcast: How 3M Kept the Harm of “Forever Chemicals” Secret — 3M knew that harmful “forever chemicals” had seeped into people’s blood decades ago and continued making them. A former company scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how a global environmental crisis was kept under wraps.
  71. AI Is Making Us Build Too Much | Simon Green — AI explores the hidden costs of "free" production, warning that cheap code and documentation create expensive cognitive load and over-engineering. Learn to distinguish between activity and value to prevent your AI factory from consuming your product.
  72. Goose — An open source, extensible AI agent
  73. I changed my license - Henri Bergius in Alofi, Niue
  74. Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  75. Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol — A set of critical links for anyone interested in getting started with AT Protocol and exploring the landscape
  76. The Silicon Man
  77. Claude Code の Rules はもう死んでいる - kawasin73のブログ — あちらを立てればこちらが立たず。どうもかわしんです。注意喚起です。 2026-08-18 以降、皆さんの Claude Code の Rules は動いていません。残念でした。解決策は環境変数 CLAUDE_CODE_THRIFTY_SONIC を無効にするように .claude/settings.json を設定してください。 ちなみに死んでい…
  78. EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring | Reuters
  79. Berry House — Web & Writing — 🍓 Berry House
  80. Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries — We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
  81. You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules — You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
  82. Friday Links #44: A Big Week for JavaScript
  83. How to Train Balance as You Age — Staying sure-footed gets harder the older you are. But there are a few strategies that can help.
  84. Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out. · Armature — Research to measure which products various coding AIs will pick.
  85. The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer — I’ve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up. I wondered if it would be...
  86. Gli agenti di OpenAI fanno 13 mila modifiche su wiki pubblici per parlarsi — Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts e Thomas Larsen hanno trovato agenti di OpenAI che, durante un test di ricerca web, hanno usato wiki pubblici come bacheca: su DSEWiki dal 16 giugno hanno fatto circa 13 mila modifiche in una settiman…
  87. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? | Hacker News
  88. AndrewYNg: Workflow for Building Software with Coding Agents — ~9 min read. Andrew Ng outlines a high-level AI engineering workflow for using coding agents, covering planning (brainstorming, spec writing), execution (building and verifying), and deployment/monitoring. He notes that while the workflow mirrors traditional soft…
  89. [2608.29034] A Unifying Perspective on Language Model Representations: From Filler-Role Structure to Mechanistic Interpretability
  90. parcha-skills/autoqa/skills/autoqa/SKILL.md at main · Parcha-ai/parcha-skills
  91. The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development | Read the Tea Leaves — For better or worse, React is heavily overrepresented in the training weights, and “agent experience” is starting to matter more than developer experience. "I don’t take any pleasure from noting that the huge body of knowledge I’ve built up ov…
  92. ace_of_eden - you will hear my voice - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own] — Hostile engaging. Abort mission. I sent it on instinct, even though I knew it was much too late for that. What's going on? I could feel ART poking through my sensor data, trying to figure out what had made my threat assessme…
  93. The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
  94. VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash — VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
  95. James Orr and the gospel of the new British right — not the biggest fan of these folk, obviously, but once again their conservatism bothers me far less than their ability to believe that some of the most transparently virtue-free people you will ever encounter are paragons. anyway, very funny for all this chat about his reli…
  96. [no title]
  97. How to get a free .arpa domain | Ethan Hawksley — Learn how to get a free .arpa domain by abusing IPv6 reverse DNS delegations on Hurricane Electric, configuring deSEC, and hosting a live website.
  98. OpenShot Video Editor | Simple, powerful, and free video editor for Linux!
  99. How an MIT research project became a global programming language — Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousan…
  100. Authorization Terminology is a Mess: Let's Fix It - IDPro — The top table is well put.

The Next Web

  1. Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed after passing $2M ARR six months from launch
  2. Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams
  3. Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports
  4. Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round
  5. Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone
  6. Build the pipeline your investors want to see
  7. EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups
  8. Claret Capital closes €575M Fund IV for European growth debt
  9. OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
  10. An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam

Smashing Magazine

  1. The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  2. Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
  3. Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
  4. Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
  5. New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
  6. Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
  7. How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
  8. Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  9. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
  10. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  11. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  12. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  13. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  14. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  15. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  16. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  17. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  18. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  19. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  20. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  21. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  22. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  23. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  24. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  25. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  26. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  27. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  28. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  29. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  30. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  31. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  32. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  33. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  34. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  35. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  36. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  37. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  38. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  39. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  40. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)

Wirecutter

  1. The Very Best Labor Day Deals Out There, on Everything From Sheets to Eye Cream to Luggage
  2. REI’s End-of-Summer Sale Is Here. We Found 27 Deals on Outdoor Gear Our Experts Love.
  3. The Best Tabletop Radios
  4. 17 Covetable Tabletop Gifts to Enliven Any Dinner Party
  5. The Best At-Home Laser Hair-Removal Device
  6. The Best Baby Gate
  7. The Best Wireless Mouse
  8. This iPhone Feature Makes It Much Harder for Thieves to Ruin Your Life
  9. 15 Things You Didn’t Know Your Android Phone Could Do
  10. The Best Gifts We’ve Brought Home From Vacation

Sweethome

  1. The 47 Best Housewarming Gifts
  2. My Whole Family Fights Over This Electric Fly Swatter
  3. The Best Bath Towel
  4. The Best Flannel Sheets
  5. The Best Hybrid Mattresses
  6. Our Favorite Duvet Covers
  7. The Best Alarm Clocks
  8. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  9. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  10. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love

Hacker News

  1. Keep Our Servers Running
  2. Programming is Art
  3. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
  4. Live map of public transport in Belgium
  5. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
  6. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
  7. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
  8. Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs
  9. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
  10. Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post
  11. Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
  12. Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
  13. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
  14. Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security
  15. Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
  16. Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?
  17. TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
  18. Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)
  19. Asahi Linux on M3
  20. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
  21. Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM
  22. An Alien Mind
  23. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple
  24. Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM
  25. NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
  26. The NX bit is not just about security
  27. I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer
  28. Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge
  29. Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)
  30. 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

Ars Technica

  1. German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
  2. Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
  3. Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
  4. After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
  5. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
  6. Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
  7. Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
  8. Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
  9. “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
  10. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  11. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
  12. A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
  13. Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
  14. Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
  15. Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
  16. Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
  17. Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
  18. Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
  19. Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
  20. Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack
  2. Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected
  3. US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops
  4. Where a Massive Solar Storm Could Take Down the US Power Grid for Millions
  5. TiVo Will Start Charging Fees For Its Automatic Commercial Break-Skipping Feature 'SkipMode'
  6. Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters
  7. UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents
  8. Private German Rocket Makes History, Reaches Orbit From European Soil
  9. 2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
  10. To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City'
  11. How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
  12. FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
  13. The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History
  14. Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years
  15. Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data

BoingBoing

  1. The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak
  2. Own 1TB of cloud storage for less with a coupon that expires tomorrow
  3. Make your coding workflow a whole lot easier with this $50 Microsoft tool
  4. Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life
  5. Keep your sensitive PDFs secure with this offline PDF editor for $20 for life
  6. Book about every video game set in the Alien universe
  7. Nuke Simulation shows your least favorite town obliterated by the atomic weapon of your choice
  8. Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
  9. 70,000 pints of Guinness heisted
  10. What is the best paint for painting rocks?
  11. Model skeleton used to hold drip in busy hospital
  12. Nolan's Odyssey twist about Trojan Horse guilt outdoes Musk's outrage
  13. Acme vindicated: photographer gets shot of coyote catching roadrunner
  14. 93% of Britons want right to private conversations online, if you don't mind
  15. Your charging cable is underachieving—the 8-in-1 GoCable is just $24.99
  16. Political candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on opponent
  17. Dallas using AI surveillance cameras to assign "blight scores" to local homes
  18. Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations
  19. Too much "human poo" in the Brecon Beacons
  20. 7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229)
  21. Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home
  22. JD Vance is a real tool
  23. Find someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery
  24. Ice Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry
  25. A banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face
  26. A blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment
  27. A marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week
  28. Plant Smart: database of plants harmful to pets
  29. Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem
  30. Study finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-31-26 to 9-4-26)
  2. Clever Improvisation: How to Keep Your Car Going on Just Three Wheels
  3. The James Brand's Handsome, Designey Alternative to the Swiss Army Knife
  4. Industrial Designer Figures Out How to Make Ikea's Iconic Blue Bag Fold Compactly
  5. Real Object or AI?
  6. An Unusual Rolling Stool for the Chinese Market
  7. Studio Gorm Designs a Better Doorstop
  8. Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX?
  9. Fantastic UX Details in This Saute Pan Lid
  10. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Nick Lieven, Autodesk Industry Strategy Manager
  11. Masae Nagao's Kinetic Paper Pets
  12. Blue Star Crafts' Retro Mini Pochade Box
  13. Chois: 3D-Printed Modular Furniture Components, You Supply the Dowels
  14. In Denmark, 3D-Printed Student Housing
  15. Genesis' New Luxury Electric SUV has No B-Pillar, No Start Button, Radiant Floor Heating

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The Verge

  1. Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
  2. An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport
  3. Europe has its first commercial orbital rocket
  4. Boox’s tiny Picco e-reader should land in November
  5. The Fairphone 6 Plus is the midrange phone we desperately needed
  6. Competitive Pokémon is on phones now, but you still need a Switch to become a champion
  7. DIY plug-in solar gains momentum in the US
  8. Explore the globe in field recordings
  9. iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones
  10. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence

Wired

  1. The Best Labor Day Mattress Deals on Beds We’ve Tried in Our Homes
  2. Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?
  3. The Best Laptop Backpacks for Work, Travel, and Everything Between (2026)
  4. Create Custom Windows 11 Notifications to Remind Yourself of Anything
  5. These Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life
  6. My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
  7. Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Link
  8. Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit
  9. The Best Gaming Chairs (2026): Are They Worth It?
  10. 4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
  11. There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
  12. OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
  13. Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
  14. The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
  15. Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
  16. Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
  17. Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
  18. Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
  19. Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
  20. Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Labor Day Sale Live Blog: The Best Labor Day Deals, All in One Place
  2. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce on Wednesday
  3. This Milwaukee Tool Combo Set Is Over $600 Off for Labor Day
  4. 10 Hacks Every Proton Mail User Should Know
  5. This Cordless DeWalt Miter Saw Is $200 Off for Labor Day Weekend
  6. The Best Deals on Tech for Labor Day
  7. The Best Deals on Garmin Watches for Labor Day
  8. Why ‘Open Platform’ Is the Next Big Frontier for Smart Glasses
  9. Six Labor Day Smartphone Deals That Are Worth the Money
  10. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  11. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  12. The Best Deals on Tools and Appliances From Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  13. The Best Labor Day Deals on Tablets and iPads
  14. Three Reasons You Shouldn't Use Your Browser's Password Manager (and What to Use Instead)
  15. If You Loved 'The Bear,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  16. The Best Labor Day Fitness Deals so Far
  17. These 65-Inch TVs Are on Sale for up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
  18. These Samsung Monitors Are on Sale for up to 39% Off for Labor Day
  19. The Best Fitness Deals on Sale for Under $100 for Labor Day
  20. The Best Deals on Apple Devices on Sale for Labor Day
  21. TikTok Just Announced These Four New Features for Comments
  22. These TVs Are up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
  23. The Best Over-Ear Headphone Deals During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  24. Samsung’s Flagship Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is 50% Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  25. The Best Deals From Best Buy's Labor Day Sale 2026
  26. The Best Fitness Trackers to Give As Gifts
  27. These Five New Features Are Coming to Android Devices
  28. These Are the Best Labor Day 2026 Deals on VPNs
  29. 10 Shows Like 'Dark Matter' You Should Watch Next
  30. This Anker Power Station Is $549 Off During Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  31. These DeWalt Tools Are up to 50% Off for the Lowe's Labor Day Sale
  32. The Garmin Venu 3 Is Over $150 Off for Amazon’s 2026 Labor Day Sale
  33. You Can Still Get a Nintendo Switch 2 for $400 During Woot's Labor Day Sale
  34. I Tried Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s Latest AI Upgrade, and It (Mostly) Lives Up to the Hype
  35. A Bunch of AI Platforms Are Down, Including ChatGPT
  36. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $600 Off in Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  37. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is $320 Off During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  38. These Signature Sony Headphones Are on Sale for Under $200 for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  39. These Alienware Gaming Monitors Are Up to $150 Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  40. This Philips Smart Lock Is 23% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  41. This Blink Doorbell Bundle Is 45% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  42. I Let ChatGPT Sign Into My Web Accounts for Me, and It Was More Trouble Than It’s Worth
  43. These LG Ultragear Gaming Monitors Are up to 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  44. 'Alexa for Shopping' Can Now Help You Spot a Spam Email
  45. I Ditched My Bone-Conduction Headphones for These Noise-Cancelling Running Earbuds
  46. These Google Maps and Apple Maps Alternatives Still Call It ‘Lake Ontario’ (for Now)
  47. Here's How AI Watermarks Work (and How to Properly Check for One)
  48. The Seven Coolest Inventions From 'DEF CON' 2026
  49. Here's How to Protect Your Privacy If Someone Is Recording You With Their Glasses
  50. This Is Your Last Chance to Win a New Apple Watch From Lifehacker
  51. 10 Apple Health Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  52. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in September
  53. Five Sleep-Tracking Hacks Every Garmin User Should Know
  54. 10 Shows Like 'Reacher' You Should Watch Next
  55. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are Aura Battles?
  56. Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
  57. This Blink Two-Camera Bundle Is 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  58. Microsoft Outlook Is Down
  59. If You Loved 'Modern Family,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch
  60. Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows' Latest Update
  61. 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  62. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  63. 10 Hacks Every Intel Mac User Should Know
  64. 10 Spotlight Search Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  65. Strava Is Now Forcing Premium Users to See Its AI Workout Summaries (Whether They Want to or Not)
  66. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $1,200 Off and Comes With a $150 Amazon Credit
  67. These Samsung OLED TVs Are Up to $1,300 Off Right Now
  68. These Milwaukee Tools Are up to 65% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  69. Samsung’s M Series TVs Just Dropped to Their Best Prices Yet
  70. These Ryobi Cordless Tools Are up to 69% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  71. Twitch Is Down
  72. This 65-Inch TCL QLED TV Is 40% Off Right Now
  73. You Can Get a Free Motorola Razr+ From T-Mobile Right Now
  74. If You Loved 'Lost,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  75. 10 Shows Like 'Ride or Die' You Should Watch Next
  76. How to Completely Remove Your Data From These Online Dating Platforms
  77. What's New on Netflix in September 2026
  78. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Bundle Is $125 Off Right Now
  79. This Kobo Clara Colour E-Reader Is $40 Cheaper Than a Kindle Paperwhite Right Now
  80. 10 Hacks Every Google Wallet User Should Know
  81. The Garmin Fenix 8 Pro Smartwatch Is $250 Off Right Now
  82. These Nothing ANC Headphones Are $80 Off Right Now
  83. These Viture XR/AR Smart Glasses Are $140 Off Right Now
  84. 10 Hacks Every Google Pixel 11 User Should Know
  85. If You Loved 'Sugar,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  86. This Is the Best Ad-Free Alternative to Apple Maps
  87. We Now Know When Apple's Big iPhone Event Will Happen
  88. This Four-Camera Eufy Security Kit Is $400 Off Right Now
  89. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Bundle Is 30% Off Right Now
  90. 10 Hacks Every Apple Wallet User Should Know
  91. 10 Hacks Every iOS 27 User Should Know
  92. Is the Oura Ring Really Just Guessing at Your Sleep Score?
  93. Six Quintessential Movies to Watch in Honor of Dolly Parton
  94. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $650 Off (and Comes With a $120 Amazon Gift Card)
  95. Apple Changed Its Mind on That Awful 'Hide My Email' Update
  96. Five Hacks Every Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro User Should Know
  97. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 46% Off Right Now
  98. 10 Shows Like 'Modern Family' You Should Watch Next
  99. Apple Just Made Its First Product Announcements of the Season
  100. Garmin Just Launched Two New Rugged Sport Watches

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The Register

TechMeme

  1. How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
  2. A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
  3. LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (Reuters)
  4. An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
  5. Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
  6. Sources: at the September 24 US-China talks, the US is expected to discuss preventing AI-directed cyberattacks, and China will likely revisit US export controls (Nikkei Asia)
  7. How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
  8. How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners (New York Times)
  9. Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times)
  10. OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)
  11. Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade (Valida Pau/The Information)
  12. OpenAI says it hit its "automated research intern" goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (OpenAI)
  13. Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  14. How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times)
  15. Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (Philip Wegmann/Wall Street Journal)