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BBC

  1. Cleveland police chief proud of force but being 'let down' by funding
  2. 'I'd rather die than ring the police': Distrust and fear in Middlesbrough after A66 crash
  3. Lindsay Clancy murder trial has divided US on whether she's victim or criminal
  4. Reform promises to increase tax-free personal allowance to £15,000
  5. Trump's response is key as Argentina's Falklands demands get louder
  6. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef and Giggs among surprise guests at Jay-Z's long-awaited UK show
  7. Recipe for success - the Chicken Shop Date moments that created a YouTube star
  8. Counterfeit copies of experimental weight-loss jab flood black market
  9. Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
  10. The Grand Tour's new presenters: 'I hope we prove the critics wrong'
  11. Michael Owen doesn't tell his children he loves them - how big a deal is that?
  12. Heat exceeds 40C in parts of Europe - is a September heatwave in store for the UK?
  13. Germany's far-right AfD bids for first taste of power in eastern vote
  14. Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem
  15. Flock says its cameras make US safer - so why are they being sabotaged?
  16. Flight price rises due to 'foolish leaders' starting wars, Virgin's Branson says
  17. Ancient cave art discovery suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales
  18. 'My parents won't lend me £10k but helped my brother': When families play financial favourites
  19. Thieves steal 70,000 pints of Guinness in two lorries
  20. US man struck by lightning describes 'horrific' experience
  21. Prue Leith: 'You come into your own growing old'
  22. BBC News app
  23. Newscast
  24. Has Pete Hegseth lost control of the Pentagon?
  25. Inside Ella Toone’s life on and off the pitch
  26. Imagine a world where no one has heard of The Beatles
  27. Isak finally arrives as Gakpo proves value to Liverpool
  28. 'Best bend I've ever run' - Hunt's strong season continues in Brussels
  29. I've never spoken to Everton owner Friedkin - Moyes
  30. Antonelli 'disrupting rules of fandom' in Ferrari's Italy
  31. 'It's so strong' - Sabalenka halts play over cannabis smell
  32. Superstar-led London City live up to hype as Man Utd suffer

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. How to see what's taking up space on your Windows PC
  2. The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House's new copycat game
  3. Flock cameras are officially banned on state roads in Florida
  4. Nintendo just announced two Direct livestream events for next week
  5. Rogue OpenAI agents took over a German coding forum in a previously undisclosed hijacking
  6. Tesla's Cybercab is under federal investigation almost immediately after hitting the streets
  7. Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers
  8. Boox Go 6 (Gen II) review: A worthy Android ereader, with some tradeoffs
  9. How to edit Claude's memory
  10. I flossed fake teeth with Dyson's tech-riddled CameraJet toothbrush
  11. Volkswagen confirms cutting 50,000 jobs as part of its survival plan
  12. This rugged smartphone's camera is a removable action cam
  13. Tesla starts offering Cybercab robotaxi rides
  14. Audacity's new look is finally here, along with its largest feature update in years
  15. What Is The Best Waterproof Rating For Bluetooth Speakers?
  16. OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is 'the most intelligent and aligned model in the world'
  17. Netflix has ordered a live-action adaptation of D&D's Ravenloft
  18. Ugreen's new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs
  19. SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'
  20. The Apple Vision Pro was used for a successful hip surgery

Pinboard

  1. Any Human Ever: One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698
  2. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH · brennan.day — > "Apolitical" has never meant a lack of politics. It's meant politics that current power doesn't have to defend. via @MaddieM4@raphus.social boost of https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/117196600480460269 references https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
  3. Industry Standard Tools
  4. 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
  5. A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
  6. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
  7. Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
  8. The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive | kciter.so
  9. [2608.29530] the emergent symbolic structure of artificial neural networks
  10. 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...
  11. Weird little guys of FOSS — List of open source people with toxic, morally repugnant behavior
  12. Ambient CSS — a physics-based lighting system for CSS
  13. [no title]
  14. 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/HT1It9D
  15. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  16. Report – AI and Education
  17. Matt Pocock AI Skills
  18. How to turn your AI into a world-class designer
  19. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini | Kevin Lewis — Build a private, high-speed LLM server on Apple Silicon to achieve AI sovereignty, eliminate API costs, and ensure data privacy across all devices.
  20. 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…
  21. Visual ML Pipeline Editor | Tangle — Build machine learning pipelines visually with Tangle. Drag-and-drop editor for creating, managing, and executing ML workflows.
  22. Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination
  23. Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
  24. Unusual Suspects — fun!
  25. Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex | WerWolv
  26. tt-a1i/archify: Claude Skill: generate beautiful architecture diagrams with dark/light theme toggle and PNG/JPEG/WebP/SVG export
  27. GPT‑6 Astra — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MNEcyou
  28. 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.
  29. ‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T | Culture | The Guardian
  30. LISEP Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity
  31. 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…
  32. Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen
  33. 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 …
  34. zvec-ai/zvec-grep: Local-first search across your workspace, built for humans and AI agents. — Local-first search across your workspace, built for humans and AI agents. - zvec-ai/zvec-grep
  35. The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. — We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.
  36. Check if content is made with Claude | Claude
  37. Charles Petzold: Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? — Charles Petzold is the author of the books Code and The Annotated Turing
  38. Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners — The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
  39. How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? | Pew Research Center — Pew Research Center, "How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?" via Instapaper https://ift.tt/oHz5wTl
  40. 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.
  41. ‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us? | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Resea…
  42. AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
  43. Why does AI-generated food look like that? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  44. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
  45. The Silicon Man
  46. Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds
  47. Introducing K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open ( September 3, 2026 - Institute of Foundation Models) — Explore K2 Horizon, IFM’s open-source fleet of six frontier AI models for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, edge devices, and enterprise deployment. Artifacts Socials K2 Horizon mountain artwork at su…
  48. Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable (Maurycy's blog)
  49. Attention Required! | Cloudflare — via GeekWire https://ift.tt/Qz2hEnB
  50. Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/URQkhew
  51. ~rabbits/fashware - Nothing to see here - sourcehut git
  52. 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!
  53. smoores.dev - Automating immersive reading
  54. skills/plugins/show-me/skills/show-me/SKILL.md at main · humanlayer/skills
  55. I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul. | The San Francisco Standard
  56. UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian
  57. ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data | TechCrunch
  58. Friday Links #44: A Big Week for JavaScript
  59. Models Don't Go Rogue
  60. 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.
  61. Arcade games from Trump White House
  62. Orca — The most powerful Agent Development Environment (ADE) — Orca is the Agent Development Environment (ADE) for shipping with coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor CLI, and every other CLI agent in parallel across isolated worktrees. Get work done dramatically faster than any IDE. New features shipped ever…
  63. The ReTerminal Sticky Is An E-Paper Display Begging You To Hack It — "While companies like Xteink have found an unlikely audience with hackers and tinkerers, Seeed Studio is actively cultivating one."
  64. iOS 27 Introduces New 'iPhone Handoff' Feature - MacRumors — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/meJgQic
  65. Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
  66. GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence | OpenAI — We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineer…
  67. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize
  68. Emulate
  69. Public Work by Cosmos
  70. OpenTrailPaper — DIY e-paper bike computer
  71. Runway Research | Introducing GWM Worlds 2 - Interactive worlds generated in real time: continuous 720p video at 24 fps and audio at 48000 Hz, responding to your inputs as you explore. - September 3, 2026 — Built on top of our foundational audio-visual generation model, GWM Worlds 2 turns high-fidelity video and audio genera…
  72. GitHub - shell-pool/shpool: Think tmux, then aim... lower — minimalistlikum tmux
  73. The Fate of the Riemann Hypothesis
  74. Designed in California Makes Its Official Debut - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/uzyZq1S
  75. Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope | Electronics etc…
  76. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki — In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  77. 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…
  78. OpenAI auf X: „This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast. https://t.co/gDd0IsewJw“ / X
  79. On Poisson Disk Sampling | Stripe Across — looking at angles of placement to exclude regions for subsequent point options and make fewer invalid prospects
  80. opencode
  81. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence — Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.
  82. Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT — ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more. Healthcare organizations need AI that works across the systems and information central to care and operati…
  83. Stanford CS329Z | Engineering AI Agents
  84. Simplifying Git Worktrees
  85. Data Became Code: We Ran Code Inside Fortune 500s Using Files They Published for AI Agents
  86. Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics
  87. Wendell Berry's Eternal Story - First Things — "Ten years ago, an editor at Penguin approached me to ask if I would like to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience. Berry’s essays had never been published in book form in the U.K.; the editor had only recently discovered his writing and decided to …
  88. Why office workers are turning against AI: Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power. — * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553414
  89. confluentinc/agent-skills: AI agent skills for stream processing and event streaming — A collection of AI skills for developing data streaming applications and pipelines with Confluent. These skills help developers using coding assistants quickly build production-ready Kafka producers, Flink applications, and real-time data …
  90. Retro Computing Fonts — bitmap ass fonts
  91. Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  92. 82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984 | Joe Kloc | The New York Review of Books
  93. Invisible Companies: Why Overlooked Businesses Win- Colossus
  94. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly | Hacker News
  95. How "ghost creators" cashed in on America’s divided politics • Semafor — Max Tani: “William,” a middle-aged man in a blue short-sleeved button-down shirt whose YouTube videos have more than 14 million views, looked straight into the camera at his kitchen table in August and read a script about New York City’s mayor. His vide…
  96. 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker — 1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
  97. Keep Chasing That Bird: The Oral History of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’
  98. Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
  99. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
  100. A Beginner’s Deep Dive Guide to Entra Passkeys – EMS Route — Microsoft Entra is fully supporting Passkeys. Both Device Bound and Synced passkeys are in GA and this article is basically going through every aspect of passkeys when it comes to Entra.

The Next Web

  1. Chinese profits rose 25.7%. The CSI 300 fell 9% and the Star 50 fell 29%
  2. Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
  3. AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
  4. AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
  5. Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI’s most capable model
  6. Zoox asked NHTSA for permission and got it. Tesla certified itself, and now has a federal investigation.
  7. The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
  8. Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and leaves the rest to kids
  9. Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
  10. Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it

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

Sweethome

  1. The Best Alarm Clocks
  2. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  3. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  4. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  5. The Best Dish Rack
  6. The Best Cotton Sheets
  7. That Old Bookcase? It May Be Your Dream Shoe Organizer.
  8. The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
  9. The Best Storage Containers
  10. Kitchen Compost Bins We Love

Hacker News

  1. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
  2. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
  3. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  4. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
  5. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
  6. Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
  7. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
  8. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
  9. Can AI design circuit boards yet?
  10. GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
  11. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
  12. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
  13. Git Submodules as a Package Manager
  14. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
  15. Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
  16. Git hosting that never leaves Europe
  17. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
  18. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
  19. IBM Bob
  20. The Highest Point in the Netherlands
  21. An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
  22. Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils
  23. Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
  24. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
  25. The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
  26. Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
  27. Decompiler Explorer
  28. Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
  29. RSA-260 Factorized
  30. deSEC – Free Secure DNS

Ars Technica

  1. After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
  2. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
  3. Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
  4. Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
  5. Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
  6. “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
  7. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  8. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
  9. A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
  10. Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
  11. Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
  12. Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
  13. Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
  14. Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
  15. Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
  16. Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
  17. Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
  18. 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
  19. Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
  20. Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox
  2. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie
  3. Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars
  4. Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months
  5. Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin
  6. Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
  7. Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
  8. Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules
  9. Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
  10. 'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
  11. Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
  12. OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts
  13. Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
  14. Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks
  15. Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling

BoingBoing

  1. Book about every video game set in the Alien universe
  2. Nuke Simulation shows your least favorite town obliterated by the atomic weapon of your choice
  3. Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
  4. 70,000 pints of Guinness heisted
  5. What is the best paint for painting rocks?
  6. Model skeleton used to hold drip in busy hospital
  7. Nolan's Odyssey twist about Trojan Horse guilt outdoes Musk's outrage
  8. Acme vindicated: photographer gets shot of coyote catching roadrunner
  9. 93% of Britons want right to private conversations online, if you don't mind
  10. Your charging cable is underachieving—the 8-in-1 GoCable is just $24.99
  11. Political candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on opponent
  12. Dallas using AI surveillance cameras to assign "blight scores" to local homes
  13. Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations
  14. Too much "human poo" in the Brecon Beacons
  15. 7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229)
  16. Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home
  17. JD Vance is a real tool
  18. Find someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery
  19. Ice Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry
  20. A banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face
  21. A blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment
  22. A marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week
  23. Plant Smart: database of plants harmful to pets
  24. Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem
  25. Study finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990
  26. One $30 app now runs GPT, Gemini, Claude, and Sonar side by side
  27. Can you draw the unusual suspects?
  28. Cat in the Hat memes alarming school officials
  29. Command control of PDFs for just $40 for life
  30. More than 153 million drivers licenses on sale after "breach" at identity verification service

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

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
  2. The White House is making arcade games racist
  3. GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’
  4. Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
  5. AGI is whatever you want it to be
  6. Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
  7. The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far
  8. Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot
  9. What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event
  10. Nintendo’s next two Direct events are both happening next week

Wired

  1. The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
  2. Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
  3. Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
  4. Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
  5. Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
  6. Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
  7. Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
  8. The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid
  9. The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
  10. How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom
  11. The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs
  12. Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
  13. ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
  14. AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
  15. What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn
  16. Silicon Valley Is Having a ‘Hot Girl Renaissance’
  17. Foreo Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off
  18. Sportsman's Warehouse Promo Code: Save in September 2026
  19. Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for September 2026
  20. Mattress Firm Coupons: Save up to $700

LifeHacker

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

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. In response to the "wiki incident", OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (@openai)
  2. Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
  3. Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
  5. The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
  6. Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (Eve Bender/MobiHealthNews)
  7. Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (Moneycontrol)
  8. Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
  9. Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
  10. Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
  11. Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs "once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
  12. Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
  13. Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (Echo Wang/Reuters)
  14. California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
  15. Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)