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BBC

  1. Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack
  2. More than 170 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
  3. Afghan boxer arrested in Greece over discovery of Scottish woman's body in suitcase
  4. Oil prices fall on hopes Strait of Hormuz could reopen
  5. Infantino calls executive meeting as criticism mounts
  6. Mass funeral in Gaza for 112 Palestinians killed in 2023 Israeli strike
  7. Princess Eugenie gives birth to baby girl in Portugal
  8. Bono, Eddie Vedder and Hozier among mourners at Glen Hansard's funeral
  9. Athletes go 'missing' after Commonwealth Games ends
  10. Justice secretary apologises to families affected by early release scheme
  11. Scottish exam pass rates rise as students find out results
  12. Surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting organs
  13. How Italians are avoiding the worst of the heat this summer
  14. What's behind having to release some prisoners early?
  15. What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
  16. Which area has the best grades? Key takeaways from Scotland's exam results
  17. Analysis: Trump challenged by cold reality from top allies
  18. Burnham invites swimmer Goodburn to meeting after cancer funding plea
  19. Major search under way for boy missing at sea
  20. EU commends Spain's 'swift response' to Ceuta migrant crisis
  21. Fires started 'deliberately' on mountain as crews tackle blaze
  22. Paramount chief executive David Ellison breaks silence on Warner Bros mega merger
  23. Man 'driven insane' by noise admits killing fish
  24. Family funeral held after suspected triple murder
  25. BBC News app
  26. Why Does The Government Keep Releasing Prisoners Early?
  27. The Democrats need to win Michigan… so why is it splitting the party?
  28. Drinking culture embedded in cricket - Stokes
  29. Infantino calls executive meeting as criticism mounts
  30. Man Utd set to appoint ex-Hearts boss Olid as women's manager
  31. Why £1m-a-season deal will be hard for Pollock and Hearn to find
  32. Arsenal in talks to sign Newcastle's Guimaraes
  33. GB Snowsport loses UK Sport funding but athletes unaffected

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars
  2. DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations
  3. Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)
  4. Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions
  5. NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors
  6. Don't use your car's USB ports to charge your laptop — Do this instead
  7. BMW is forcing a weird Spider-Man ad onto its dashboard displays
  8. Windows 11 Home Vs Pro: What's the difference, and is it worth the upgrade?
  9. CMF announces its first pair of open-ear earbuds for under $100
  10. How to cancel your PlayStation Plus subscription
  11. Apple claims that even more ex-employees may have given trade secrets to OpenAI
  12. exFAT vs NTFS: What's the difference between these formats?
  13. 2026 Lexus ES 500e first drive: A classy sedan with a slow charge
  14. New Samsung TVs will support HDR10+ Advanced streaming on Prime Video starting this month
  15. You have no reason not to watch Babylon 5 now that it's free on YouTube
  16. How to connect your Roku Streaming Stick or TV to Wi-Fi without the remote
  17. You can now bug your WhatsApp group chats with an @all ping
  18. Never put your phone in the refrigerator — here's why
  19. Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition review: A capable ultralight laptop that's way too expensive
  20. Spotify just hit 300 million Premium subscribers

Pinboard

  1. Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight — ref https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
  2. Removing Intrusive AI from stuff – librarian.net
  3. LLMs reward expertise
  4. Free Printable Paper Globes — Folding Paper Globes
  5. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
  6. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
  7. Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
  8. yc-software/qm: multiplayer agent harness for work
  9. Elevators
  10. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed — via @ike@pkm.social boost of https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles/statuses/01KXX7EG8HYD2E4YSE31SNZ5TC
  11. Don't be a meat proxy
  12. The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
  13. (1) Andrej Karpathy on X: "We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of t
  14. 30-Minute Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup) Recipe
  15. How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners - The New York Times
  16. Anime User Interfaces
  17. For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts: The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month; experts say the service may violate insider trading laws | NPR
  18. TerminalWidget for Mac, iPhone, and iPad | Terminal Widget
  19. Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 — Leonardo de Moura
  20. Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog — Use an agent to personalize your software
  21. Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter — Chris Morgan
  22. Qwen3.8-Max Blog
  23. Diátaxis Framework — > The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
  24. Superlogical
  25. firecrawl/pdf-inspector: Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions. — Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart …
  26. How to Exist
  27. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
  28. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking · Radically Ethical Data Consulting — If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as…
  29. The End of an Era - Hugh Howey
  30. Elena | Progressive Web Components
  31. How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking: Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems | Was
  32. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | Hacker News
  33. Software for One - Adam Waxman
  34. What DMARC Actually Protects You From, and What It Does Not - SenderLedger
  35. Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view | Ephemeral New York — via @carrideen@c18.masto.host boost of https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116992332158831104
  36. Ars Technica - All content: Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
  37. Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation | KYOTO UNIVERSITY
  38. Please use AI
  39. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences - ABC News — "Today, salmon sushi is a staple of Japanese cuisine, all thanks to the Norwegian government."
  40. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
  41. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
  42. GitHub - 0xchasercat/draco: Draco is a faster, cheaper and lighter firecrawl drop-in replacement that you own entirely, running on your machine, with a built in MCP, free websearch, and browserless JavaScript console. · GitHub
  43. Forget em-dashes: A viral report on AI-generated writing has surprising new clues
  44. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
  45. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
  46. So Someone You Know Is Having the Worst Time of Their Life… – signalstation
  47. prime-radiant-inc/smevals: A framework for running evals against small (and large) models — A framework for running evals against small (and large) models - prime-radiant-inc/smevals
  48. The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
  49. Let Everything Change | Online Only | n+1 | Nate Wooley
  50. How to Run a Gauntlet Loop: The Prompting Method Behind Claude of Duty
  51. Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
  52. isopolis — behind the scenes
  53. The coolest use for the Vision Pro
  54. Internet Security by Zscaler
  55. Go 1.27 interactive tour
  56. You could be taking way better photos on your phone | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/xowbRzh
  57. Recipe Table — any recipe, one glance — Paste any recipe and get it back as a nested prep table — ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns. The whole recipe readable at a glance, no scrolling through a life story.
  58. Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man — Yes, Emily Wilson! "Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and n…
  59. ‘What can you live without?’: How the Nordics have perfected the summer cabin
  60. NetBSD Blog — Stay updated on the latest OS releases, installation guides, and security patches. Access direct download links and critical system advisories.
  61. The rooting, firmware analysis and hardcoded, reset-persistent credentials of the TP-Link TL-841N! — In light of continuing my bumbling foray into the hardware hacking landscape, I bought a bottom-of-the-line $10 TP-Link TL-841N(EU) router off a random fellow on Facebook Marketplace, in a thrilling, high-stakes deal conducte…
  62. ssh.place: r/place over SSH
  63. Did Ulysses S. Grant Predict This About the Next Civil War? | Snopes.com
  64. MCP vs. REST: What's the right way to connect AI agents to your API? — WorkOS — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hEx31L0
  65. OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions
  66. sish
  67. Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality - The New York Times
  68. You have been mislead about lightbulbs (Maurycy's blog) — The story goes, the light bulb makers had a cartel that ensured no light bulb lasted more than 10,000 hours, in order to maximize their profits. In truth, it was in order to keep the quality of bulbs high, because making it last longer means it wastes (significantly) …
  69. GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem - POLITICO — via https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117021565626871425
  70. The Listening Museum — 36 mechanical keyboards, sound-mapped. Click any one. Type on your keyboard. Hear it. From IBM Model M to HHKB to modern thocky customs.
  71. How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
  72. Comfy — Professional Control of Visual AI — Comfy is the AI creation engine for visual professionals who demand control over every model, every parameter, and every output.
  73. SwiftUI After 7 Years | Hacker News
  74. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology"
  75. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic — The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic https://ift.tt/CJ4nBfZ via:mediaeater, journalism, ai, politics, media, openai, society
  76. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. | Filip Roséen - refp.se — I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
  77. Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
  78. Leopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then it Melted Down. - The New York Times — Situational Awareness has roughly $8 billion left, down [-73%] from around $30 billion at the start of July. Most of that is private stakes in companies such as Anthropic, which the firm has wide latitude to value and may or may no…
  79. Science Fiction Interfaces
  80. Caravan SandWitch — Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.
  81. sqliteai/waste: run the full 2.78-trillion-parameter kimi k3 model beyond available ram by streaming activated weights directly from nvme. a dependency-free, embeddable c inference engine.
  82. Daring Fireball: Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
  83. Caldera Music
  84. sirius_ate_my_homework - The World's Leading Xenobiologist (And Engineer, Apparently) - Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir [Archive of Our Own] — Eva nods again, slowly. “Okay. So. What you’re saying is… your telepathic alien soulmate named Rocky has been helping you brainstorm solutions to the problems …
  85. Is memory the moat? | Wafer
  86. IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System – OSAdmins — I find these kinds of Enterprise systems very interesting because they often meet their customer's requirements exceedingly well, but they didn't succeed in the way that they perhaps should have, and are slowly dying because of that.
  87. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
  88. The true power of regular expressions — https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210135 https://www.reddit.com/r/pr…
  89. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
  90. Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
  91. Starty: A minimal, customizable startpage for your browser — https://sijan-dev.github.io/starty/
  92. But can your calculator run Linux? - Raymii.org
  93. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133889
  94. The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
  95. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS
  96. Manual: •.,:;…!?· — Dots and commas, numbers in English, bullet, interpunct, and operators
  97. Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future - Ars Technica
  98. Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
  99. PGSimCity · How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D — PGSimCity — an explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works.
  100. Jules Vernacular — France's signs.

The Next Web

  1. Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform
  2. Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets
  3. Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion
  4. Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.
  5. Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows
  6. The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.
  7. Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days
  8. A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.
  9. Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate
  10. The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Hand Warmer
  2. The Best Blackout and Room-Darkening Curtains
  3. The End of Passwords
  4. The Best Home Bluetooth Speaker
  5. How to Revive an Old Computer for Your Kid — or Decide on a New One
  6. The Best 4K TV on a Budget
  7. Why the ChefsChoice Trizor XV Knife Sharpener Has Been Our Pick Since 2016
  8. The Best Robot Lawn Mowers
  9. The Best Bidet Toilet Seat or Washlet
  10. The Best Baby Bottles and Bottle Brush

Sweethome

  1. The Best Blackout and Room-Darkening Curtains
  2. The 47 Best Housewarming Gifts
  3. The Best Blackout Shades
  4. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  5. The Best Weed Killers and Weeding Tools
  6. The Best Shoe Racks
  7. The Best Ceiling Fans
  8. The Best Ideas for Organizing Your Closet (Even If It’s Tiny)
  9. The Best Robot Lawn Mowers
  10. The Best Bidet Toilet Seat or Washlet

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
  2. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
  3. Waymo – Dallas Open to All
  4. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
  5. The Warp Agent CLI
  6. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
  7. Why some people mow a lawn better than others
  8. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
  9. Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
  10. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
  11. Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
  12. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
  13. Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
  14. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
  15. Web security is too hard
  16. Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
  17. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
  18. The Red Strings Club
  19. Perspec 1.0
  20. Blackmail Fail (2013)
  21. Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
  22. Harness engineering for self-improvement
  23. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
  24. Everything I Know (1975)
  25. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
  26. What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?
  27. Nobel Disease
  28. MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt
  29. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)
  30. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

Ars Technica

  1. China is Tesla's cash cow, but for how much longer?
  2. The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does
  3. Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it
  4. Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting
  5. 2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware
  6. OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"
  7. US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
  8. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
  9. Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
  10. An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
  11. 2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet
  12. SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana
  13. Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters
  14. How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark
  15. Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission
  16. Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey
  17. As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
  18. After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica
  19. Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
  20. How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'
  2. Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street
  3. Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices
  4. Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI
  5. Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data
  6. Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard
  7. Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch
  8. Spain Offers $1.14 Billion To Get Thirty Meter Telescope Moved To Canary Islands
  9. OpenAI's Astra Solved Decades-Old Math Problems For $2,000
  10. An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It
  11. Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks For MacBooks By the Thousands
  12. Microsoft Is Bringing Xbox 360 Games to PC
  13. Microsoft CEO Touts His Own DIY AI Project To Wall Street and His 20 Million Followers
  14. Apple's iCloud File Sharing Left Ex-Employees With Access to Secret Documents
  15. Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Share Users' Internet Connections

BoingBoing

  1. Rocky Horror Show musical director sent threats to self to end production and avoid cast drama
  2. "It was vandalism!" cried Grandpa Pudding Brains after his DOJ blamed his contractor's shoddy installation
  3. A 50-year-old short story written for today
  4. A German strip mall hides a museum of Braun's design history
  5. This AI photo editor turns your blurry vacation pics into gallery material
  6. The world's largest goat tower was built by accident
  7. U.S. Central Command asks for ideas on beating Iran
  8. Congressional candidate arrested after Flock surveillance cameras shot at
  9. 16 felony charges for LAPD officer who recorded colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks
  10. These little dragons are dried rays, cut and folded by hand
  11. This $399 AutoCAD deal is suspiciously well drafted
  12. Give your PC an upgrade that BitLocker, Hyper-V, and Copilot can all agree on
  13. Type a word, get it back in 50 ASCII art fonts
  14. This 1940 time capsule came with its own windmill
  15. Get 8TB of secure cloud storage for life for $280
  16. America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have
  17. A man spent three days erasing himself on camera, then died on a beach
  18. The world's only psychedelic animal lives in a cartel zone
  19. Grandpa Pudding Brains says his "REAL Polling Numbers" are his best ever
  20. The world's most precise water costs $120,000 a gallon
  21. Bernie Moreno "held his breath" for two years before warning Congress about Max Miller
  22. Trump Org's "woke debanking" lawsuit produced an anti-money-laundering filing
  23. Japanese prints show tiny workers running the human body
  24. Goats, pigs, and chickens tuck themselves in every night
  25. Virgil the goat is a terrific caprine percussionist
  26. Infamous raccoon Jimothy can now accompany you in Skyrim
  27. Former NPS ranger shares the history Trump removed
  28. RFK Jr. praises nicotine as tech companies hand it to workers
  29. Students once played a sport with a ball taller than they were
  30. Life-size sand sculptures once lined the Atlantic City boardwalk

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. Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store
  2. How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired 
  3. Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS is down to its lowest price ever
  4. ‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think
  5. BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is villain behavior
  6. T-Mobile’s $0-down financing plan bundles taxes and fees
  7. Skylight’s smart calendars are up to $90 off during its back-to-school sale
  8. Samsung’s HDR10 Plus Advanced is launching this month on Prime Video
  9. Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid
  10. The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is at one of its lowest prices

Wired

  1. Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal
  2. The Best Gaming Mouse You Can Buy After Testing Dozens of Models
  3. Purple Carrot Meal Kit Review: Tastier Than Meal Kits With Meat
  4. The Best Cordless Vacuums (2026): My Brand-New Top Pick
  5. Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
  6. How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot
  7. ‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
  8. How Data Centers Broke American Politics
  9. The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout
  10. Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
  11. Nomad Goods Promo Codes: Get 25% Off in August 2026
  12. Loop Earplugs Discount Codes: 40% Off
  13. Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | August 2026
  14. Lowe’s Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $300 Off Appliances
  15. Lovehoney Coupon Offers: Toys, Lingerie, and Gift Set Discounts
  16. Wayfair Coupons: Up to 80% Off August 2026
  17. Expedia Coupons: 40% Off
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  20. Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals in August 2026

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  10. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is Nearly $800 Off Right Now
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  15. This Unlocked Google Pixel 10a Is Now $75 Off
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  17. Why Buying a MacBook Air From Apple Isn't a Great Idea Right Now
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TechMeme

  1. SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (Bloomberg)
  2. Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News)
  3. Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
  4. Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)
  5. Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (Maria Curi/Axios)
  6. Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
  7. Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
  8. Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
  9. Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (Reuters)
  10. The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (Jimmy Jenkins/Bloomberg)
  11. Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
  12. Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
  13. Nvidia makes Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)
  14. Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
  15. New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it abuses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (Jody Godoy/Reuters)