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BBC

  1. Suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan appears in court after extradition
  2. Burnham brings forward ban on 'subscription traps' to ease cost of living
  3. Evidence that South African special forces murdered top detective shared with BBC
  4. Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says
  5. Brief relief ahead of fifth heatwave - as more areas could move into drought
  6. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez freezing her eggs and hasn't 'ruled out' presidential run
  7. How much parents could save from September's new school uniform rules
  8. 'Spectacular' Game of Thrones stage spin-off opens at home of Shakespeare
  9. You could be missing out on £150 off your energy bill - here's how to check
  10. Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid 'Dobby's grave'
  11. Drones spotted over German base days after Leipzig bomb incident
  12. Man arrested after boat capsizes near Statue of Liberty killing woman and infant
  13. Could your tattoo stop you from getting a job?
  14. The Papers: 'New prisons outrage' and 'Days of danger'
  15. Australia is the planet's extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hope
  16. Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped - I'm still in shock
  17. Why eclipse chasers are crossing continents for solar spectacle: 'It's like the World Cup'
  18. Killed a month after his wedding - why PC Andrew Harper's story touched so many
  19. What is clearing and what do I need to know ahead of results day?
  20. Ancient Roman shipwreck discovered off Sicily coast
  21. Perez Hilton faces long recovery after reports he self-harmed during livestream
  22. Hot weather reveals hidden history across the South
  23. Vehicle fire shuts stretch of A31 as fire crews combat blaze
  24. Banksy works cost public almost £150,000
  25. BBC News app
  26. Is The Ukraine War Entering A New Phase Of Aggression?
  27. Which PM punched John Simpson?
  28. With great power comes great responsibility
  29. Mourinho says he agreed to replace Ferguson at Man Utd
  30. We cannot sustain the level we want - Iraola
  31. Defiant Hodgkinson says home European title would mean as much as Olympic gold
  32. Bonding & building - what we learned about Alonso's Chelsea in pre-season
  33. McInnes left frustrated amid Rangers' poor start to season
  34. Guimaraes can ignite something different in us - Arteta
  35. Sunrisers thump Fire to close in on qualification

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. How to use Claude's voice mode
  2. Here's how to format a USB drive on Windows
  3. How to use ChatGPT's new, more natural Voice Mode for conversations
  4. How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to)
  5. The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android
  6. The pros and cons of the switch to digital games
  7. How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV
  8. How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console
  9. Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use?
  10. Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ
  11. Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do
  12. Mario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy
  13. The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed
  14. Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
  15. Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
  16. X is replacing revenue sharing with a new original content rewards program
  17. Framework customer information was accessed as part of a data breach
  18. One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead
  19. Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones
  20. Static Hour challenges you to be the arbiter of truth and fear

Pinboard

The Next Web

  1. Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
  2. Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.
  3. Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
  4. China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.
  5. X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.
  6. American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
  7. China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
  8. South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.
  9. Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead
  10. Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Laptops
  2. The Best Laptops for College Students
  3. The Best Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds
  4. The Best Windows Laptop
  5. How to Save on School Supplies
  6. A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know.
  7. 11 Gifts That Feel Like Going on a Road Trip
  8. The Best Duffel Bags
  9. The Gadget That Fixed My 8-Hour Screen-Time Habit
  10. The Best Tweezers

Sweethome

  1. The Best Bike Storage Ideas
  2. This Emergency Light Bulb Was My Saving Grace During a Weeklong Power Outage
  3. The Best Smart Smoke Alarm
  4. The Best Flashlight
  5. Our Favorite Writing Desks (That Don’t Look Like Office Furniture)
  6. Our Favorite Reclining Chairs (That Are Also Stylish)
  7. A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know.
  8. The Best Smart Hose Timers
  9. The Best Compact Washer and Dryer
  10. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera

Hacker News

  1. What Happened to HackerOne?
  2. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
  3. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself
  4. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
  5. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
  6. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
  7. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
  8. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
  9. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC
  10. "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)
  11. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
  12. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
  13. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers
  14. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
  15. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
  16. Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent
  17. Everything you do is being recorded
  18. The German Mittelstand
  19. Touring the Consensus, Six Months In
  20. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
  21. The Ambition Project
  22. Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
  23. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
  24. How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
  25. Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language
  26. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
  27. To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes
  28. The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)
  29. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
  30. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

Ars Technica

  1. Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
  2. The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
  3. DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
  4. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
  5. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
  6. Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
  7. The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
  8. New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
  9. DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
  10. OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
  11. How snails engineer their slime
  12. Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
  13. Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
  14. AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
  15. ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
  16. The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
  17. Trump is losing his war on wind power
  18. Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
  19. Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
  20. Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
  2. AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
  3. Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
  4. California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
  5. AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch
  6. Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
  7. Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
  8. OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra
  9. Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
  10. GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
  11. Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
  12. Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
  13. RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
  14. Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
  15. Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones

BoingBoing

  1. Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45
  2. This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50
  3. From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)
  4. A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
  5. Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
  6. The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
  7. Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
  8. Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
  9. Own Headway for life for $69.99 and finally make waiting in line productive
  10. Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
  11. This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud
  12. Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
  13. Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
  14. Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
  15. Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
  16. Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
  17. A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
  18. A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
  19. Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
  20. Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
  21. Cancel your AI subscriptions—get a lifetime of ChatGPT, Claude & a ton of other tools for just $70
  22. When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
  23. The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
  24. The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name
  25. AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion
  26. A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out
  27. In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus
  28. Tesla headlights were twice as bright as legal
  29. Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill
  30. Trump's $100 billion tariff refund skips the people who paid higher prices

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. No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
  2. Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat
  3. 49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed
  4. Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
  5. AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
  6. X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’
  7. An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
  8. Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business
  9. Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro
  10. Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Wired

  1. The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
  2. 4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026)
  3. Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
  4. TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video
  5. The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime
  6. 8 Best Workout Headphones & Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026)
  7. These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
  8. Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation
  9. The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon
  10. Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket
  11. The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today
  12. Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Razer, Asus, Dell, and More
  13. Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited
  14. Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
  15. How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs
  16. Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
  17. Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots
  18. Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like
  19. WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats
  20. Best Solar Generators for Off-Grid Trips, RVs, and Home Backup

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  2. Apple Just Added These New Android Devices to Its Trade-In List
  3. Five Ways to Make Gemini Behave More Like Google Assistant
  4. DuckDuckGo Just Made It Easier to Share Links Without Getting Tracked
  5. This Loud and Rugged JBL Speaker Is $65 Off Right Now
  6. If You Loved 'Futurama,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  7. Free ChatGPT Users Will Get a Huge Upgrade Next Week
  8. This Blink Wireless 2K Floodlight Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  9. This LG Ultrawide OLED Gaming Monitor Is $200 Off Right Now
  10. How to Watch Made by Google 2026: The Pixel Event's Start Time and What to Expect
  11. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  12. How to Count Calories Accurately (and Why You Might Want To)
  13. Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security Flaw
  14. This Pre-Order Deal for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 Ultra2 Ends Today
  15. Today Is Your Last Chance to Preorder a Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Get a $50 Amazon Gift Card
  16. This 27-Inch Asus OLED Gaming Monitor Is $120 Off Right Now
  17. Why Your Garmin VO2max Number Drops in the Summer (and How to Fix It)
  18. Today Is Your Last Chance to Preorder a Samsung Galaxy Z Phone and Get a $350 Amazon Gift Card
  19. 10 Shows Like 'Furious' You Should Watch Next
  20. Google Maps Has Launched 'Agentic Food Ordering,' but Don't Get Too Excited
  21. Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Actually Expose Your Real IP Address
  22. AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
  23. The Easiest Way to Earn Rewards on Fuel, Groceries, and Dining
  24. Made by Google 2026: What to Expect From the Pixel 11 Event
  25. Is It Good or Bad to Stretch Before a Workout?
  26. Hisense’s Latest 65-Inch Mini-LED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  27. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  28. The Apple Watch Series 11 Is $150 Off Right Now
  29. Here's When ChatGPT Atlas Will Shut Down for Good
  30. These Advanced Stretching Techniques Can Actually Make You More Flexible
  31. If You Loved 'Ted Lasso,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  32. You Can Score a MacBook Neo for $599 in the Middle of 'RAMageddon'
  33. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $60 Off Right Now
  34. This 15.6-Inch Dell Laptop Is $130 Off Right Now
  35. Here's Why Microsoft Is Encouraging Users to Stay Off Public Wifi Networks
  36. 10 Shows Like 'Ted Lasso' You Should Watch Next
  37. My Favorite Pocket-Sized E-Readers Are Under $60 Today Only
  38. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  39. Here's When Google Assistant Is Leaving Android
  40. These Amazon-Exclusive Metallic Pink Beats Headphones Are 50% Off
  41. This Tiny Waterproof GoPro (With a Built-In Light) Is Almost $50 Off Right Now
  42. Apple Could Owe Some Users up to $5,000 Each in This Class Action Lawsuit
  43. This Massive Mini LED QLED From TCL Is $800 Off Right Now
  44. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Balance 3 User Should Know
  45. How to Protect Yourself From This Massive Ongoing Cryptocurrency Hack
  46. This 45-Inch LG UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Monitor Is $700 Off Right Now
  47. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  48. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra User Should Know
  49. These Are the Best Clipboard Managers for Your Mac
  50. The New Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Are Already 35% Off (With a Caveat)
  51. Here's How to Avoid Installing Malware on Your Smart TV
  52. WhatsApp Just Added Five New Group Chat Features, Including '@All'
  53. 10 Hacks Every Google Drive User Should Know
  54. These Apple AirPods 4 With ANC Are Half Off Right Now
  55. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is Nearly $800 Off Right Now
  56. How to Finally Sync Your Fitbit Data to Apple Health
  57. This 27-Inch Sony OLED Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off Right Now
  58. My Favorite Sony Headphones Are $60 Off Again
  59. Google Never Should Have Put Nano Banana Into Google Earth in the First Place
  60. This Unlocked Google Pixel 10a Is Now $75 Off
  61. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in August
  62. Why Buying a MacBook Air From Apple Isn't a Great Idea Right Now
  63. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Cheetah 2 Pro User Should Know
  64. This Floatable Anker Speaker Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  65. This Clip-On JBL Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  66. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  67. 10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know
  68. AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
  69. 10 Hacks Every Google Sheets User Should Know
  70. Google's Take on Apple's AirTag May Have Just Leaked
  71. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 LTE Is $100 Off Right Now
  72. Your Samsung Galaxy Watch's Browser Just Got a Useful Upgrade
  73. You Might Soon Have to Pay More for Higher Access to Siri AI
  74. If You Loved 'Gilmore Girls,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  75. This Self-Cleaning Roborock Vacuum Is $700 Off Right Now
  76. This 2026 Samsung OLED TV Is $700 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Hacks Every Samsung Galaxy User Should Know
  78. One of the Best QLED TVs of 2026 Is $1,000 Off Right Now
  79. This Budget Samsung OLED TV Is Now $800 Off Its Original Price
  80. Google Docs Is Rolling Out These Three New Gemini Features
  81. If You Loved ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  82. The Pixel 11's Biggest New Feature Might Be Its Inflated Price Tag
  83. This Anker Charging Station Is 30% Off Right Now
  84. I Upgraded to an Otterbox, and It Saved My Brand New iPhone's Screen
  85. These Shokz Clip-On Headphones Are 30% Off Right Now
  86. This Four-Pack of Apple's Newest AirTag Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  87. This TP-Link WiFi 7 Travel Router Is 31% Off Right Now
  88. Spotify Just Launched a New Running Mode, and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It
  89. Nano Banana 2 Is Coming to Google Earth
  90. Five Hacks Every Boox Palma User Should Know
  91. This Is the Robot Vacuum I Use Every Day, and It's 47% Off Right Now
  92. This Roomba Mops and Vacuums Automatically, and It's $400 Off Right Now
  93. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce in the Fall
  94. 10 Shows Like 'Futurama' You Should Watch Next
  95. This App Is (Sort of) Bringing Back Samsung Messages
  96. Dyson's OnTrac ANC Headphones Have Great Battery Life, and They're Half Off Right Now
  97. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  98. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 45% Off Right Now
  99. What's New on Netflix in August 2026
  100. How to Stop Scammers From Showing You Ads on Your Android After Every Phone Call

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph)
  2. Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
  3. Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
  4. Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)
  5. Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
  6. Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
  7. An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)
  8. More than 500 US towns and counties have passed bans on data centers, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas added statewide restrictions (Shane Burke/The Information)
  9. A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight (Financial Times)
  10. Sources: Apple is testing CXMT's RAM chips, but it needs to share technical details with CXMT for custom versions, which is blocked by US tech transfer rules (Wall Street Journal)
  11. In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
  12. A look back at "Move 37", a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
  13. Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (Tim O'Reilly/Asimov's Addendum)
  14. Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country (John Paul Rathbone/Financial Times)
  15. Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M (FinTech Global)