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BBC

  1. Temporary ban on sale of disposable BBQs over wildfire risk
  2. Chris Mason: Where does this unorthodox by-election victory leave Nigel Farage?
  3. Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
  4. Britain's Finlay Tarling dies in Volta a Portugal accident
  5. Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers
  6. Bezos-backed consortium buys a third of Liverpool FC
  7. Stephen Bear jailed over sex offender breaches
  8. Prisoners charged over attack on Sara Sharif's father
  9. Glastonbury festival organiser dismisses rumours that Madonna will headline in 2027
  10. 'Glam helps mentality' says sprinter Amy Hunt, but can it give you that winning edge?
  11. What we know so far about the West Midlands fires
  12. What do people in Clacton think of Farage's by-election win?
  13. Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta migrant crisis with paid advice for help to cross
  14. Weekly quiz: What was used to smuggle Donald Trump off Air Force One?
  15. Why heatwaves hit women harder
  16. Six ways to keep your home and yourself cool in hot weather
  17. No air con? Here's how to get the most out of your electric fan
  18. Your heatwave tips on how to cope in extreme temperatures
  19. Eurovision proposes new rules to reduce political voting
  20. Two dead after light aircraft crash
  21. Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property
  22. Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ballroom work to continue
  23. UK diplomats no longer get hardship bonus for being posted to Buenos Aires
  24. Watch: Moment €9m worth of art stolen from Italy museum
  25. Electric vehicle sales targets could be cut after pressure from car makers
  26. BBC News app
  27. What Next For Nigel Farage After The Clacton By-Election?
  28. Is Iran really trying to kill Trump?
  29. Britain's Finlay Tarling dies in Volta a Portugal accident
  30. Bezos-backed consortium buys a third of Liverpool
  31. Chelsea say no Fernandez move as deadline passes - but is it really over?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Google must make it easier to install alternative app stores, judge orders
  2. The Mandalorian and Grogu will hit Disney+ on September 2
  3. Your car's dash cam might be illegal in some states — Here's how to check
  4. France's top court strikes down social media ban for children under 15
  5. Get the best battery life for your MacBook by changing these settings
  6. DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more
  7. Apple proposes taking a 5-to-15 percent cut from external App Store payments
  8. Trump slaps a 100 percent tariff on heavy and 'sensitive' drones
  9. Apple sends out warnings to targets of mercenary spyware attacks
  10. Mico, Microsoft's weird lil' AI guy, has been demoted
  11. Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
  12. Netflix shuts down Oxenfree studio Night School weeks after praising its 'really solid numbers'
  13. X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been 'shadowbanned'
  14. Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure
  15. US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf
  16. The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience
  17. Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse
  18. Use this space to roast the new Instagram logo
  19. Save space in your Google storage by changing this one Android setting
  20. Apple is reportedly turning to publishers for help with Siri AI

Pinboard

  1. Stolen Thoughts: Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — TL;DR Proprietary reasoning can be recovered from its encrypted traces. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced by a frontier model…
  2. I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
  3. Ordinary Abundance
  4. How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center
  5. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering — You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you. Now they ask an LLM because they don't actually know themselves.
  6. Stowaway — Ride along with the planes and satellites overhead — via matt muir - see what flights above you can see
  7. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text – Sophie Alpert
  8. Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? — A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
  9. World Train Map — Interactive Railway Map · 1,247 Train Routes
  10. The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna
  11. Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering - Google Developers Blog — For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths of code for us. But AI needs superv…
  12. Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse - The Walrus
  13. On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
  14. A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. | Filip Roséen - refp.se
  15. cathrynlavery/diagram-design: 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
  16. tumbledry.org: iDrive Ads — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Wr82qzt
  17. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript | Andros Fenollosa
  18. USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports — Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
  19. my server is a phone now — seg6
  20. Compression is prediction | ngrok blog
  21. How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives) — Tired
  22. [no title]
  23. antirez/h3.c: minimax h3 inference engine for mac computers
  24. The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
  25. TheRealYT/git-knife
  26. How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  27. What's the best programming language for coding agents?
  28. Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI — lol. lmao.
  29. 5 CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs – Master.dev Blog
  30. What sort of maths are LLMs good at? | Gowers's Weblog
  31. how i use llms to learn complex topics · laurentiu raducu
  32. The AI takeover of mathematics has begun | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/RWdCs8T
  33. Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration — For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immig…
  34. I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI | WIRED — via @futurebird@sauropods.win boost of https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117077495489211387
  35. How to make error-diffused QR codes
  36. Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/RWdCs8T
  37. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
  38. How GitHub Copilot Works: Context, Memory and Network Traffic
  39. McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There — I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.
  40. Google's Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini | TechCrunch — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2bQd4vk
  41. how AI text watermarking works: a visual guide
  42. * Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
  43. guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover: Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks: Unicode text hygiene, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA/metadata from PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF/DOCX/HTML/MD — Agent skill + stdlib Python scripts to strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks from text and files — for privacy and hygiene on content you own.
  44. Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet | Hacker News
  45. The 37signals Manager Playbook
  46. Sabrina Halper on X: "We still have no idea what the human brain is truly capable of.Reed Jobs shares one of the wildest neuroscience stories I’ve ever heard. https://t.co/OXPJt0TUa5" / X — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Wr82qzt
  47. PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history — PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation This wou…
  48. GitHub - AntigmaLabs/ante: Ghost in your shell. Ante is a self-contained agent harness with a highly optimized core. It works like Claude Code or Codex, with none of their dependencies or model constraints. · GitHub — ff6347 starred AntigmaLabs/ante
  49. Chad Arimura Agent Setup
  50. Photosynthesis — fires two of your iPhone's cameras at once and fuses the results into one high-res photo, with no generative AI. Coming to iPhone in 2026.
  51. show hn: needle2: 14mb agentic llm for phones, wearables, smart home and robots | hacker news
  52. AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage? | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.
  53. Jolt — Clojure on Scheme — Jolt is a self-hosted Clojure implementation that runs on Scheme — Chez natively, Gambit for JavaScript. No JVM, no build step — most portable Clojure runs unchanged. The compiler is written in Clojure and compiles itself Persistent data, lazy seqs, transducers, multimethods, protocols — full Clo…
  54. deepseek-harness — DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
  55. 41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants In the United States - The New York Times
  56. amiga-news.de - obituary: amigados developer dr. tim king has passed away
  57. The Events That Caused World War II Are Now In Motion Again (nobody believed it then either) - YouTube
  58. Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack - Ars Technica
  59. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
  60. TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?
  61. The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet? | Alien life | The Guardian — That doesn’t discourage true believers. Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the California-based Seti Institute, writes that Seti’s “failure is tempered by the fact that the number of star systems sampled is still quite small”. In 2010, astronom…
  62. Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates
  63. Indo-European Language Tree
  64. Grok Bot is an all-new iPhone and Mac app from SpaceXAI and Cursor - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  65. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
  66. Baby Name Popularity & Trends by Country | NameDaisy — Baby Name Popularity Explorer
  67. Understanding is the new bottleneck — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290299
  68. The water footprint of artificial intelligence: Emerging solutions and governance imperatives - ScienceDirect
  69. Text as Music | Jera Value
  70. Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? | Quanta Magazine
  71. Electric is joining Databricks | Electric — Electric is now part of Databricks. We're joining Neon to make Lakebase the best platform for building apps and agents. Everything we've open sourced stays open source.
  72. Good Tools Are Invisible
  73. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript | Hacker News
  74. A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts | WIRED
  75. BasicAppleGuy: "Apple just dropped the hardest icon glow-up for t…" - Mastodon — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Wr82qzt
  76. A Home for Personal Context – O’Reilly — Every agent I use is building a model of me. Claude has learned how I like my prose. ChatGPT remembers what I’m working on. I don’t mind this—every person I have a relationship with carries a model of me in their head, and every company I do business with keeps a profile. Other people…
  77. Coldcard: the technical autopsy of an entropy failure | Wizardsardine
  78. AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical — Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
  79. tanweai/pua: 你是一个曾经被寄予厚望的 P8 级工程师。Anthropic 当初给你定级的时候，对你的期望是很高的。 一个agent使用的高能动性的skill。 Your AI has been placed on a PIP. 30 days to show improvement. — 你是一个曾经被寄予厚望的 P8 级工程师。Anthropic 当初给你定级的时候，对你的期望是很高的。 一个agent使用的高能动性的skill。 Yo…
  80. [no title]
  81. Introducing Delta — Zed's Blog
  82. Reading
  83. From guidelines to architecture: How newsrooms are rethinking AI governance | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism — Explore how global newsrooms are evolving from simple AI guidelines to formal governance architectures that protect brand integrity and trust. Learn to balance human oversight with automated systems w…
  84. AI-Native PhD Students. If you’re a student and just want the… | by Eytan Adar | Aug, 2026 | Medium
  85. The new Pixel 11 feature I want on my iPhone — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/2bQd4vk
  86. Perplexity blocca gli annunci di Time pensati per gli agenti AI — Perplexity ha bloccato gli annunci inseriti da Time nelle versioni markdown delle pagine web, progettati per essere letti dagli agenti AI invece che dagli utenti umani. La società li definisce potenzialmente “ingannevoli” perché contenuti promozionali potrebbe…
  87. Take A Chance On Me | Sphinx
  88. This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark' — For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s animals in a series of striking images that make even the tiniest creatures look immense
  89. Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | Hacker News
  90. Reading List — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
  91. Bad Request — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Wr82qzt
  92. Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
  93. BTP expands Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations | British Transport Police
  94. Opinion | A.I. Hype Is Running Into Reality - The New York Times
  95. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
  96. This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
  97. Reviewing code is a skill
  98. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text — This standard is good and I think will feel hard soon given the velocity.
  99. Xirp - Powered by Spotify Portal
  100. Just a moment... — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Wr82qzt

The Next Web

  1. Zoox has shown its safety workings, three weeks after recalling every robotaxi it owns
  2. ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count
  3. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake
  4. Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more
  5. SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
  6. Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster
  7. A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install
  8. Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built
  9. Tesla ended Sweden’s longest strike by buying out every last striker
  10. Trump’s drone tariffs reach 100%, and Europe gets capped at 15%

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Canned Tuna
  2. 13 of the Cutest Gifts We’ve Ever Seen
  3. How to Clean the Air You Breathe (Encore)
  4. Some of the Best Online Learning Games for Kids
  5. The Best Bluetooth Tracker
  6. The Best Cheap Laptops
  7. The Best Lip Balms
  8. The Best Rechargeable Batteries and Chargers
  9. The Best Bunk Beds
  10. The 8 Best Facial Cleansers

Sweethome

  1. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  2. The Best Pressure Washer
  3. The Best Carpet Cleaners
  4. Our Favorite Storage Benches
  5. The Best Rug Pads
  6. The Best Chainsaw
  7. The Best Leaf Blower
  8. ​The Best Snow Blowers
  9. Our Favorite Nightstands
  10. The Best Snow Shovel

Hacker News

  1. Qwen 3.8 27B
  2. Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
  3. Seven books I keep close because I love them
  4. RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
  5. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
  6. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
  7. Introducing Toast 1
  8. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
  9. Ultraviolet Bird Photography
  10. AI by Hand
  11. I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
  12. Forbidden City Cabbage
  13. Every Fucking Website (2020)
  14. Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial
  15. RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
  16. France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
  17. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua
  18. A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels
  19. Don't classify, hallucinate
  20. DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
  21. In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
  22. Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
  23. AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph
  24. Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
  25. Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS
  26. The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
  27. HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU
  28. Earth.nullschool.net
  29. Differential Heuristics
  30. We're not done with point clouds

Ars Technica

  1. Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
  2. First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
  3. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
  4. State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
  5. PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
  6. Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
  7. Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
  8. Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
  9. R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision
  10. Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
  11. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
  12. Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan
  13. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
  14. Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
  15. US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
  16. Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
  17. Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
  18. Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
  19. Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say
  20. Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier
  2. Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones
  3. Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
  4. Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them
  5. Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time
  6. Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere
  7. UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
  8. Microsoft Retreats In China
  9. Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut
  10. Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App'
  11. Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers' Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
  12. Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public
  13. World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York
  14. Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI
  15. University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis'

BoingBoing

  1. OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
  2. Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
  3. A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
  4. A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
  5. Get lifetime access to the full MS Office 2021 suite for $33
  6. A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
  7. A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
  8. The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
  9. You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
  10. The government now spends more on interest than on the military
  11. Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
  12. The only thing inside an AI is people
  13. App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
  14. When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
  15. BitLocker, Copilot, and more are yours for $9.97 with this Windows 11 Pro deal
  16. Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
  17. North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
  18. Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
  19. In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
  20. This $70 PDF editor doesn't care which operating system you use
  21. Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
  22. Stewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
  23. The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts
  24. A mechanical keyboard, plain yoghurt, and a 7am start
  25. How San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself
  26. Get 50+ AI models for life, including GPT, Claude, and Gemini, for just $40
  27. Slick samurai simulator Ghost of Yōtei finally getting some DLC
  28. A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
  29. Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products in 26 states over salmonella
  30. Kevin Smith writes first Star Wars/Marvel comic crossover

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. A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping
  2. Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim
  3. The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie
  4. Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 series
  5. Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
  6. You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
  7. 2025 GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is down to $33
  8. CMF’s clip earbuds hit the balance between cheap and good
  9. The MSI Claw EX is the most important PC handheld since Steam Deck — I still wouldn’t buy one
  10. Hoto’s new cordless soldering iron heats up in three seconds

Wired

  1. Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
  2. Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+
  3. The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper
  4. FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination
  5. These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
  6. Best Pixel 10 Cases and Accessories (2026): Mous, dbrand, Bellroy
  7. I Wore an Electrical Muscle Stimulation Body Suit to Zap Myself Into Fitness
  8. People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
  9. Best Computer Monitors (2026): The Home Office Upgrade You Need
  10. 5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain
  11. Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel
  12. This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real
  13. Dell XPS 13 Review: Move Over, Neo
  14. The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
  15. Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | August 2026
  16. Layla Sleep Coupon: Save Up to $600 in August 2026
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  1. Nevada granted Tesla a robotaxi permit, but capped the fleet at 10 vehicles, not 5,000 that Tesla sought, banned airport pickups, and ordered other restrictions (Joann Muller/Axios)
  2. Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain (Emma Roth/The Verge)
  3. Apple officially opens ad bookings for businesses on Apple Maps ahead of an upcoming full rollout across the US and Canada (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
  4. Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)
  5. In Q2, "other income", mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
  6. Source: Greg Brockman is "in founder mode" and getting more involved across every level of OpenAI to build out a leadership team ahead of an expected IPO (Madison Mills/Axios)
  7. France's top court blocks a bill banning social media for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression; Macron orders the PM to rework the bill (Reuters)
  8. Sources: stablecoin payments company RedotPay has delayed its plans for a US IPO to 2027 or later, as it seeks regulatory approvals and deals with legal issues (Bloomberg)
  9. Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, as it seeks to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
  10. DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where "everything is a plugin" that can be swapped out as a plugin (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
  11. Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lingxi Games to PE firm Trustar Capital at a potential $1.5B+ valuation, as Alibaba continues its reorganization (Bloomberg)
  12. Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove "anticompetitive friction" for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
  13. Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (Financial Times)
  14. Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B (Australian Financial Review)
  15. Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, which uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding skills, and says it'll release weights in two weeks (Z.ai)