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BBC

  1. Iran retaliates after US strikes kill four at wedding party, state media reports
  2. Charlie Kirk murder suspect pleads not guilty as judge clears way for death penalty trial
  3. Chris Mason: Will Burnham find PMQs as 'nail biting' and 'nerve wracking' as Blair did?
  4. UK long-term borrowing costs highest since 1998 ahead of October Budget
  5. Rising numbers of children in mental health crisis ending up in A&E
  6. Tiger Woods to change plea after crash arrest
  7. Ariana Grande completes tour and steps back from public life
  8. Zelensky says airlines should avoid Russian airspace as Ukraine escalates drone operations
  9. US aircraft carrier docks near Thai beach resort Pattaya after record 250 days at sea
  10. Urine test can spot more than nine in 10 bladder cancers
  11. Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as Lake America after Trump order
  12. Families hit by long waits for dementia diagnosis
  13. In the studio with Kasabian: 'We never thought we'd see success again'
  14. Soft launches and late sittings - six ways to get cheaper meals out
  15. Cup noodles made with cold water? BBC tries Japan's viral snack
  16. Will self-flying planes transform the skies?
  17. The Papers: 'Brexit and Thatcher to blame' and 'Hottest summer ever'
  18. 'I've never been to Afghanistan': Six million deportees forced to start over under the Taliban
  19. Five takeaways from Burnham's Commons debut as PM
  20. Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group
  21. Jailed HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion
  22. Baby girl who died at Sheffield house was stabbed, police say
  23. Women pose as men to buy testosterone online after prescription difficulties
  24. Flood chased me as I ran for 20 minutes, Nepal tunnel worker tells BBC
  25. Israel warns it will retaliate if UK imposes sanctions
  26. Range Rover launches first fully electric model
  27. BBC News app
  28. Is ADHD And Autism Care Heading For "Chaos"?
  29. Canada tests the limits of Trump’s power
  30. Film adaptation of the hit stage musical, starring Ben Platt
  31. Fernandez joins Man City for joint-British record £125m
  32. Premier League breaks transfer record for second straight summer
  33. No repeat of Wimbledon heroics as Fery exits US Open
  34. Superb England crush Ireland with record ODI chase
  35. Camara's £47.1m move from Monaco to Chelsea collapses
  36. Gauff's flaw forgotten on winning US Open return
  37. Fofana seals £30m move to Sunderland

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Are all TVs at risk from burn-in? Here's how to avoid the problem altogether
  2. Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars
  3. Android stuck in Safe Mode? Here's how to turn it off
  4. Lake Ontario is now 'Lake America' on Apple Maps
  5. How to change the background on iPhone Messages
  6. Skip the 5K monitor for gaming and go with a 4K instead — here's why
  7. Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time
  8. Are expensive HDMI cables worth it?
  9. The new Street Fighter movie trailer looks fun in all the right ways
  10. The Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar are smarter than I expected
  11. The TV vs projector value debate isn't close — here's why
  12. Should you remove the film from your CarPlay infotainment screen? It depends
  13. A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things
  14. 'Reasonable' consumers know they don't own digital downloads, Sony says
  15. What more can you delete from your iPhone to free up space?
  16. BT's old copper network could be worth over $2 billion
  17. Razer just released a cute and teensy mobile game controller
  18. QHD, WQHD, 4K, and 5K resolution: What do they mean and which is best for you?
  19. Waymo robotaxi rides are now open to the public in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
  20. What is Dolby Atmos for Headphones and is it worth it for gamers?

Pinboard

  1. Creepy crawlies — Konstantin Ryabitsev — For example, did you know you can clone the entirety of LKML and then do whatever you want with it? It's just git repos all the way down. So, you'd think that something that pretends to be “Artificial Intelligence” would use the most efficient way of using our data for training purpo…
  2. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (Dwarkesh Patel) — Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans re…
  3. There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
  4. Intro to Startup anti-pattern Series | Insights, not just posts
  5. Bye Bye Paywall — This tool allows you to view URLs behind the paywall and open them in various archive and paywall bypass services. Just enter a URL in the field above and click on the desired service!
  6. “I just chose words carefully.” – Unsung
  7. Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator — A game inspired by the classic Windows 98 disk defragmenter tool. Relive the nostalgia of defragmenting different disk drives in this retro game!
  8. Einer der größten Mathematiker der Welt erklärt 6 grundlegende Konzepte der Mathematik | Terence Tao - YouTube
  9. Afterglow — classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS — Run classic After Dark screen saver modules — Flying Toasters, Fish!, Starry Skyline, and more — natively on macOS.
  10. Bug blindness — ads: This is a different topic from both Michael's comments and the post, but I'll say that I've talked to quite a few people who don't believe ads work at all, but I talked to someone whose data methodology and judgement I trust about ads A/B testing at one big company I worked for and looked at the data mys…
  11. Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable (Maurycy's blog)
  12. Archify — Technical Diagrams from Plain English — An agent skill for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode that turns plain-English descriptions into polished, explorable, self-contained technical diagrams with semantic focus, motion, and crisp export.
  13. Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
  14. Agent memory as a file format — But real agents should never start from a blank context window. They should start with as much relevant information available to the agent as possible. Your AI agents should start with memories. Why existing agent memory systems don't seem to work The trouble is, a lot of agent memory syst…
  15. Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" [LWN.net] — ・https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489982 ＊https://lobste.rs/s/zctsmq/llm_usage_debian_neither_endorsed_nor →https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte ・https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use ←https://lobste.rs/s/34qdwx/d…
  16. Recovering corrupt ZIP files - Ashley's blog
  17. Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MgaNdyc
  18. Domain-Driven Agents
  19. How Musk, Thiel, and Altman Misread Science Fiction - The Atlantic
  20. Matrox - by Bradford Morgan White
  21. Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
  22. Column | I lost my sister to cancer. Here’s what I learned about medically assisted death. — Known as medical aid in dying, or MAID, it was something I knew little about before my sister’s terminal illness.
  23. I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul. | The San Francisco Standard
  24. The Hugging Face attack surprised me - by Ajeya Cotra
  25. don't quit, don't even quit - throughadoor - Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Of course, Shane wished that he was the one still playing right now. Obviously, he would shove his own mother out of the way to trade places with Ilya on the ice, and Mom would dust herself off an…
  26. I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy — Comments
  27. How AI chatbots and AI overviews parse foreign propaganda | NPR — Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. Mike Caulfield, an ac…
  28. LLM cliché highlighter
  29. Data Became Code: We Ran Code Inside Fortune 500s Using Files They Published for AI Agents
  30. OpenShot Video Editor | OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
  31. Storyteller Docs | Storyteller — A self-hosted platform for automatically aligning ebooks and audiobooks for immersive reading.
  32. calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks: Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from scratch, tool design, gua
  33. [2608.26081] SwarmWorld: Stigmergic technological evolution in societies of language-model agents — Collective intelligence can emerge when individuals coordinate through a shared environment, allowing local actions to accumulate into durable social organization. Language-model agents offer a new substrate for this process, …
  34. “iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!” – Terence Eden’s Blog — Exposes the frustration of "half-arsed" mobile apps and provides a quick workaround for adding Google Calendar URLs via desktop mode.
  35. smoores.dev - Automating immersive reading
  36. I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MgaNdyc
  37. Quantifying Colour ~ ekunazanu.foo — Explore the science of color through physics and physiology. Learn to map light to numbers, understand color blindness, and master color spaces.
  38. Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
  39. Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks — 227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
  40. GitHub - zackb/tether: Linux + iPhone Continuity / iMessage / SMS · GitHub — ff6347 starred zackb/tether
  41. linecast: Weather, tides, and solar graph as a pure-Python TUI · GitHub — https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/1rmkboz/i_made_some_deskornament_terminal_apps_weather/
  42. Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance
  43. Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?! - CGI Coffee — What if I told you there exists a language, or a whole toolkit that: Can be used to create cross-platform Console and GUI tools or apps Those GUI apps look native on W…
  44. Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Wy0epdX
  45. volcengine/OpenViking: OpenViking is an open-source context database designed specifically for AI Agents. OpenViking unifies the management of context (memory, resources, and skills) that Agents need through a file system paradigm, enabling hierarchical c
  46. New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather (Interconnected)
  47. Calibrate Before You Accelerate: The Smart Way to Bias Toward Action in a New Role | Joshua Tucker — Master a three-phase framework to transition into new roles effectively. Learn to build context and secure quick wins before tackling systemic change.
  49. (500) https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ — This is one of the most impactful things I read when I first saw it at Google: “How orgs are like slime moulds” by the platform thinker that is @komorama
  50. iKora128/stop-ai-slop-jp: 日本語の文章からAI臭を取り除く Claude Skill
  51. Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
  52. What We Tell AI — Anonymous handwritten notes about people's relationship with AI — an anthropological art project documenting its growing presence in the most intimate details of our lives.
  53. Box breathing: Inside the 'most powerful hack' to control stress - BBC News
  54. Experiencing Apple's Live Yankees–Red Sox Immersive Baseball Broadcast - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/V4T1sFn
  55. Adam Greenfield
  56. The 50 Percent Problem - by Benjamin Riley — "Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI"
  57. 9 Best Places to Visit in Albania - Lonely Planet
  58. The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now
  59. OpenShot Video Editor | Simple, powerful, and free video editor for Linux!
  60. Galaxy Brain: Welcome to the Scrolling Backlash - The Atlantic — Why so many people are trying to be more offline
  61. Inkfeed: A simple RSS reader built for your Kindle. Load any feed, read articles, and download or email them as MOBI or EPUB. — + https://reader.inkfeed.xyz/
  62. Codex Tool Reference — A complete reference to the tools and full skill definitions available in this Codex Work session.
  63. Invisible source skew — "What a model learned from, therefore, is not necessarily the same as what it looks up. Paywalls, crawler restrictions, commercial arrangements, and product choices shape AI-generated responses. Both training and retrieval are shaped by consequential forces largely invisible to the public, which incre…
  64. BrigidFaye - Chirping Lessons - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own] — It's mostly an accident, the first time Shane chirps in Russian. He's just naturally good with languages and Rozanov repeats some of the insults so consistently that the sounds have stuck in Shane's head, even if he's not sure of their meanings. They're in…
  65. Laser Graffiti — draw on walls with a laser pointer — Point a projector and a webcam at any wall. Draw with a laser pointer. The projector paints your strokes — glowing neon, dripping ink, spinning in 3D.
  66. johnbean393/KeyType: An open-source Cotypist with macOS system wide AI autocomplete
  67. Nebula Sans
  68. Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
  69. Serious questions over use of UK emergency alerts, its creators say - BBC News
  70. DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans | Tom's Hardware
  71. ASCII Studio - ASCII Art Editor & Map Generator
  72. Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James - The New York Times — Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
  73. FreeCORE
  74. Study AI Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You - NYT — Given access to email, AI agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them
  75. Tim Cook Comments on His Final Day as Apple CEO - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/cbPyNet
  76. Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1
  77. Read Tim Cook's full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vZy98bq
  78. Make 45 groups of 45 things
  79. Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception | Nature
  80. When the AIs Found Each Other - 3 Quarks Daily
  81. How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’ | Psychology | The Guardian — How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’ | Psychology | The Guardian
  82. What We Learned From 15 Hours of Anthropic Certification Training — by Natalia QuinteroMidjourney/Every illlustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Fifteen years ago, I took my first online course on edX, a learning provider founded by MIT and Harvard. At the time, edX was cutting …
  83. Il MIT dice che l'AI svolge quasi ogni compito dei corsi di laurea — Un rapporto del comitato AI del MIT, guidato da Eric Klopfer e Samuel Madden, afferma che i modelli generativi producono soluzioni credibili per quasi ogni compito dei corsi di laurea, dai saggi al codice. L'ateneo valuta di ripensare esami e didattica e re…
  84. Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported by ICE | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Wy0epdX
  85. With the backlash to data centres, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial • Blood In The Machine — Brian Merchant: Last week, in response to a fresh round of politicians announcing policies to slow or pause data centre development, and the release of two new polls, includ…
  86. Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] | Hacker News
  87. Image-based QR Code Generator — Create printable QR codes with dithered images in your browser. Upload an image, add a destination URL, adjust the crop, then download or print.
  88. Sign In | Centralized Zone Data Service
  89. Ken Shirriff's blog
  90. The elementary school pickup incident and the road ahead | Quinn Household — Corey Quinn nails the lofty style of OpenAI's HuggingFace hack post-mortem, perfectly done
  91. GitHub - remvze/moodist: 🌲 Ambient sounds for focus and calm.
  92. Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
  93. Why We’re Teaching Programming Wrong: A Haskell Perspective | Michael Sperber | ZuriHac 2026 - YouTube
  94. Guide for new ActivityPub implementers - ActivityPub - SocialHub
  95. But where does taste come from? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
  96. Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yPTQ2OC
  97. Today is Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO, Ternus takes over - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  98. Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/NZQipTf
  99. GitHub - YoanWai/agent-manager: Terminal UI to manage AI coding-agent sessions (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Grok Build) in tmux: live status, group tree, live pane preview, resource gauges. · GitHub — Comments
  100. Who’s Your Mommy? - Jodi’s Substack

The Next Web

  1. Mozilla adds a built-in ad blocker to Firefox on iOS, built on Apple’s WebKit API
  2. Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%
  3. John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data
  4. Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there
  5. Toyota’s FSD-like system arrives in 2028, but the driver stays liable
  6. Waymo opens driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
  7. Eddy Cue quietly became the most powerful executive at Apple
  8. Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs
  9. ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition
  10. A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

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 Best Foldable Phones
  2. Most Gift Baskets Are Terrible. These Are Great.
  3. The Best Personalized Photo Gifts
  4. The Best Tripod
  5. The Best Laptops for Older Adults
  6. The Best Electric Toothbrush
  7. The Very Best Labor Day Deals You Can Already Buy
  8. REI’s End-of-Summer Sale Is Here. We Found 27 Deals on Outdoor Gear Our Experts Love.
  9. The Best Bidet for Every Budget (Encore)
  10. The Best Nursing Pillows

Sweethome

  1. The Best Cotton Sheets
  2. That Old Bookcase? It May Be Your Dream Shoe Organizer.
  3. The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
  4. The Best Storage Containers
  5. Kitchen Compost Bins We Love
  6. The Best Mattresses for 2026
  7. This Home Scent Transports Me to a Botanical Spirit Realm
  8. The Best Fireproof Document Safe
  9. Who Needs Walls, Anyway? Here’s How to Make One Room Into Many
  10. Our Favorite Storage Benches

Hacker News

  1. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
  2. True Rate of Unemployment
  3. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
  4. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
  5. WebFPGA
  6. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
  7. The efficient frontier of LLM inference
  8. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
  9. Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
  10. Fine, I'll build my own text editor
  11. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
  12. Sonic Pi
  13. The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
  14. Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years
  15. Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"
  16. The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
  17. Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
  18. Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
  19. Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
  20. Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors (2015)
  21. Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
  22. Building Autonomous Goal Loops That Deliver
  23. Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
  24. Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
  25. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
  26. Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival
  27. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
  28. Solving the Flat Cube
  29. Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
  30. Quill (YC W20) Is Hiring a Fullstack SWE

Ars Technica

  1. Here's our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric
  2. Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
  3. A newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn't counting them
  4. New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official
  5. FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
  6. This is what a supercar was like a century ago
  7. It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well
  8. Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program
  9. Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri
  10. The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer's indulgence
  11. Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak
  12. Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article
  13. Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes
  14. Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"
  15. “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
  16. Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds
  17. Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
  18. El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
  19. Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government
  20. ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. LZ Experiment Sees Surprising Result In Search For Dark Matter
  2. GoPro Says It's Moving Into Data Centers As Part of a $285 Million Merger
  3. Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO?
  4. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 Arrive With a 75% Cost Reduction For Fable Cache Reads
  5. Dyson Made a Camera-Equipped Toothbrush That Flosses For You
  6. BT's Old Copper Landline Network Could Be Worth Over $2 Billion
  7. OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding
  8. Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Cloud Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
  9. Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders
  10. Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways
  11. California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall
  12. Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Cars and Buildings
  13. Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed'
  14. FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers
  15. Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

BoingBoing

  1. Ditch the AirTag bulge with this $24 ultra-slim MagTag tracker card
  2. Someone may have told a bunch of military fridges to defrost
  3. Dogpile mixes Suika Game and Balatro into a dog-merging card game
  4. A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts mixes DC punk with dead superheroes
  5. Robert Anton Wilson and the art of being difficult to manipulate
  6. Tom the Dancing Bug: Lake America, and other new geographic names for the Trump era
  7. No explanation for why Georgia cop shot dead beloved miniature donkey HeeHaw
  8. Free Up Space for Good With a $269.97 Lifetime 10TB Cloud Storage Plan
  9. Explore America's public restrooms at The Restroom Archive
  10. Dyson toothbrush has AI and a mouth camera
  11. E-Ink watch runs on solar power
  12. Consumer Rights Wiki tracks every shady and sketchy trick they pull
  13. Florida revokes Flock camera permits
  14. Cheap squishy toys deemed hazardous, especially if you microwave them
  15. Supreme Court allows construction of "probably illegal" White House ballroom
  16. Windows 11 Pro costs less than lunch right now at $8
  17. Netflix's smartest competition doesn't charge a monthly fee
  18. ASCII CITY: a cyberpunk city explored in pseudo-3D plaintext
  19. Skip the Microsoft 365 subscription with Office 2024 for $50
  20. Open Waters is a game about being cold, wet and scared
  21. Capybaras invade state legislature in Brazil
  22. George Santos Pete Roses himself out of Kalshi
  23. Roman Space Telescope launches to study space in wide-angle view
  24. MTV's Sean Duffy threatens companies that hire truckers who don't speak English
  25. Is ICE trying to kill this 76-year-old cancer patient?
  26. Caregiver took deed to Parkinson's patient's home and kept death quiet for days
  27. Beholden to Big Tech, Grandpa Pudding Brains demands more data centers
  28. "Content creator" claims to have taken Pittsburgh's iconic Phantom Menace vending machine
  29. Defrag your computer like it's 1998
  30. Any three circles hide a straight line. Here's a demo that shows it.

Core77

  1. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Nick Lieven, Autodesk Industry Strategy Manager
  2. Masae Nagao's Kinetic Paper Pets
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  15. Industrial Design Trio Invents a Tile System for Three-Dimensional Space

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  1. Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI
  2. Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work
  3. Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
  4. Lenovo’s 2-in-1 Yoga 7i is a great Labor Day deal at $750
  5. OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
  6. On first listen, the Sonos Beam Ultra sounds great
  7. Tim Cook did alright by the environment — but AI could upend his climate legacy
  8. The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
  9. John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’
  10. Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence

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  1. The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability
  2. The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026
  3. OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
  4. Best Amazon Labor Day Deals (2026): Sony, Shark, Anker
  5. Sonos Ace Ultra, Beam Ultra, Sonos Fabric, and a New App: Everything Sonos Just Announced
  6. Using High-Energy Laser, US Shoots Down Drones Near Mexico Border
  7. 5 Best Folding Phones (2026): Samsung, Google, Motorola
  8. Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless Headphones Review (2026)
  9. 3 Best Sleep Tracker Picks for Optimizing Your Sleep (2026)
  10. Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
  11. Dyson’s Next Act Is an Electric Toothbrush With a Camera
  12. 50% Off DoorDash Promo Code | September 2026
  13. Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for September 2026
  14. Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off September 2026
  15. Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for September 2026
  16. Wayfair Coupons: Up to 80% Off September 2026
  17. Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for September 2026
  18. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off September 2026
  19. Home Depot Promo Codes: 30% Off in September 2026
  20. LG Promo Codes and Coupons for September 2026

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  1. This Is Your Last Chance to Win a New Apple Watch From Lifehacker
  2. Lifehacker Early Labor Day Sale Live Blog: The Best Labor Day Deals, All in One Place
  3. The Best Deals From Best Buy's Early Labor Day Sale 2026
  4. 10 Apple Health Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  5. You Can Still Get a Nintendo Switch 2 for $400 During Woot's Early Labor Day Sale
  6. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in September
  7. Five Sleep-Tracking Hacks Every Garmin User Should Know
  8. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is $320 Off During Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  9. 10 Shows Like 'Reacher' You Should Watch Next
  10. These Alienware Gaming Monitors Are Up to $150 Off for Amazon’s Early Labor Day Sale
  11. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are Aura Battles?
  12. These Apple Devices Are Up to $500 Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  13. Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
  14. This Blink Two-Camera Bundle Is 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  15. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $600 Off in Amazon’s Early Labor Day Sale
  16. These Signature Sony Headphones Are on Sale for Under $200 for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  17. Microsoft Outlook Is Down
  18. These 65-Inch TVs Are up to $1,200 Off During Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  19. The Best Fitness Deals Under $100 From Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  20. This Blink Doorbell Bundle Is 45% Off During Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  21. If You Loved 'Modern Family,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch
  22. Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows' Latest Update
  23. 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  24. These Google Maps Alternatives Still Call It ‘Lake Ontario’ (for Now)
  25. These DeWalt Tools Are up to 50% Off for the Lowe's Early Labor Day Sale
  26. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  27. The Best Tech Deals From Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  28. These Are the Best Early Labor Day Deals on VPNs
  29. 10 Hacks Every Intel Mac User Should Know
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  31. Strava Is Now Forcing Premium Users to See Its AI Workout Summaries (Whether They Want to or Not)
  32. The Best Fitness Deals From Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale so Far
  33. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $1,200 Off and Comes With a $150 Amazon Credit
  34. These Samsung OLED TVs Are Up to $1,300 Off Right Now
  35. These Milwaukee Tools Are up to 65% Off for Home Depot's Early Labor Day Sale
  36. Samsung’s M Series TVs Just Dropped to Their Best Prices Yet
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  38. Twitch Is Down
  39. This 65-Inch TCL QLED TV Is 40% Off Right Now
  40. You Can Get a Free Motorola Razr+ From T-Mobile Right Now
  41. If You Loved 'Lost,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  42. 10 Shows Like 'Ride or Die' You Should Watch Next
  43. The Best Deals on Tools and Appliances From Home Depot's Early Labor Day Sale
  44. How to Completely Remove Your Data From These Online Dating Platforms
  45. What's New on Netflix in September 2026
  46. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Bundle Is $125 Off Right Now
  47. This Kobo Clara Colour E-Reader Is $40 Cheaper Than a Kindle Paperwhite Right Now
  48. 10 Hacks Every Google Wallet User Should Know
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  52. 10 Hacks Every Google Pixel 11 User Should Know
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  58. 10 Hacks Every Apple Wallet User Should Know
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  62. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $650 Off (and Comes With a $120 Amazon Gift Card)
  63. Apple Changed Its Mind on That Awful 'Hide My Email' Update
  64. Five Hacks Every Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro User Should Know
  65. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 46% Off Right Now
  66. 10 Shows Like 'Modern Family' You Should Watch Next
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  72. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is 'Gucci Morty'?
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  76. What Is This 'Android Pulse' App Appearing on Everybody's Phones?
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  78. If You Love 'Black Mirror,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
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  84. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
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  1. SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
  2. NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
  3. A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources: Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, planned outside funding for Specs never came (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses "recurrent depth", a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (The Information)
  5. Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg)
  6. Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
  7. Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
  8. India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India (TechCrunch)
  9. IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
  10. Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review)
  11. MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours (Mariapaula Gonzalez/Barron's Online)
  12. Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
  13. Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  14. Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)
  15. The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech (Reuters)