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BBC

  1. Rosenberg: Putin draws new red line on long-range missiles
  2. TV host Jay Blades charged with abusive behaviour
  3. Plan quashed for UK's first deep coal mine in 30 years
  4. China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s
  5. Watch: Moment Banksy artwork stolen from London gallery
  6. Teenager who showed his cricket skills in Flintoff's TV series dies in crash
  7. Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first person to hit 1bn social media followers
  8. Hospital bosses deny suppressing Letby concerns
  9. More than 2,000 prisoners let out in a week after early release scheme
  10. Census may have overestimated number of trans people in England and Wales
  11. Northern Lights may be seen again tonight
  12. Stephen Lawrence would have been 50 today. Is there still a chance to get justice for him?
  13. Prince Harry: I was anxious about 30, I'm excited about 40
  14. 'Normally when police show up, it's bad news'
  15. One in six children sexually abused in Jesus Army cult
  16. Russia's targeting of 'enemies within' evokes ghosts of the Soviet past
  17. Weekly quiz: Who blew out the Paralympic flame?
  18. Richard Osman: I'm terrible at playing detective
  19. N Korea releases rare photos of Kim at uranium facility
  20. Rape crisis centre chief stands down after report into failings
  21. A baby hippo is going viral - and paying the price
  22. Former Met officer jailed for theft from dead man
  23. Teenager builds robot to solve Rubik's Cube
  24. Vodafone and Three reject claims that merger will mean higher prices
  25. Download now
  26. The Russians snitching on each other for anti-war views
  27. How healthy is the NHS?
  28. Tom Hanks stars in an intense thriller based on true events
  29. Guardiola happy Man City hearing to begin on Monday
  30. Former England manager Eriksson's funeral held in Sweden
  31. Watch: Evans wins 'unbelievable' point in Davis Cup
  32. Teenager who appeared in Freddie Flintoff show dies
  33. Tap water is 'rank and mouldy', say residents
  34. Rape crisis centre CEO stands down after report into failings
  35. Two charged with murder after assault victim dies

Bitcoin

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Engadget

  1. My iPhone 11 is perfectly fine, but the new buttons on the iPhone 16 are compelling
  2. Roomba robot vacuums are up to $620 off right now
  3. How to pre-order the Apple AirPods 4
  4. Annapurna's entire video game team has reportedly left the company
  5. How to pre-order the new Apple Watch Series 10
  6. Tesla Semi fire required 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish
  7. How to pre-order the new iPhone 16 from the Apple Store
  8. Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16, AirPods 4 and Apple Watch Series 10 impressions
  9. The Morning After: OpenAI made its latest model slower, on purpose
  10. The best wireless earbuds for 2024
  11. An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work
  12. Elgato's latest Stream Deck is a $900 rackmount unit for pros
  13. Google Wallet is testing turning passports into digital IDs
  14. The LCD Steam Deck is up to 25 percent off right now
  15. The PS5 is getting a more customizable home screen
  16. Apple's iOS 18 release date is September 16 but is your iPhone compatible? Here are the eligible devices and new features to expect
  17. White House gets voluntary commitments from AI companies to curb deepfake porn
  18. OpenAI's new o1 model is slower, on purpose
  19. A new report raises concerns about the future of NASA
  20. iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 16 Pro: Specs and features compared side by side
  21. Unity dumps the runtime fee that caused a developer revolt
  22. I don't get why Apple’s multitrack Voice Memos require an iPhone 16 Pro
  23. One of our favorite MagSafe power banks is 40 percent off right now
  24. The FDA greenlights Apple’s Hearing Aid feature for AirPods Pro
  25. GM and Hyundai plan to work together on cars and clean-energy tech
  26. Chrome's latest safety update will be more proactive about protecting you
  27. Roland just released an (almost) pocket-sized sampler with a built-in mic
  28. Starlink competitor AST SpaceMobile launched its Bluebird smartphone satellites this morning
  29. Flappy Bird is finally returning, 10 years after its demise
  30. Amazon discounts the Apple 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro below its Prime Day price
  31. Google's AI notebook can generate a podcast about your notes
  32. These Anker earbuds we love are cheaper than they were during Prime Day
  33. iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
  34. Meta and the Mental Health Coalition launch a data-sharing program to reduce violating suicidal content
  35. Microsoft lays off another 650 Xbox employees as part of its Activision deal
  36. Polaris Dawn astronauts successfully perform the first commercial spacewalk
  37. The Morning After: Everything we know so far about Nintendo’s next console
  38. The best wireless headphones for 2024: Bluetooth options for every budget
  39. How to watch Polaris Dawn astronauts attempt the first commercial spacewalk
  40. Disney+ Basic is only $6 for three months in this limited-time deal
  41. Steam Families library sharing is live, and you can all play at the same time
  42. Friend requests are returning to Xbox
  43. Nevada will use Google AI to process a backlog of unemployment cases
  44. Bluesky now lets you upload videos, but there are some caveats
  45. Adobe previews AI video tools that arrive later this year
  46. The Apple Watch Series 10 deserves more than 18-hour battery life
  47. Google searches now link to the Internet Archive
  48. Ultimate Ears Everboom review: A floatable outdoor speaker that packs a punch
  49. The ‘audio earrings’ Kamala Harris didn’t wear during the debate barely even exist
  50. Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely

Pinboard

  1. How to Monetize a Blog
  2. Transparent Textures
  3. Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
  4. Why GitHub Actually Won
  5. How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids | Simply Explained
  6. We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI — Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog. Brace yourselves, this is one of our most astounding discoveries. Summary What started out as a bit of fun between colleagues while avoiding the Vegas heat and $20 bottles of water in our Black Hat hotel roo…
  7. Yaak — a minimal app for REST, GraphQL, and gRPC* *Websocket coming soon!
  8. Lighthouse - Inbox Zero for RSS Feeds
  9. Learning to Reason with LLMs | OpenAI
  10. Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock
  11. B-trees and database indexes
  12. The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion - lcamtuf’s thing
  13. Why some of us like "interdiff" code review systems (not GitHub)
  14. Konty | Sketch your app ideas without stress — Konty | Sketch your app ideas without stress https://ift.tt/UFsp7dI prototyping, design, tools
  15. expand.ai — https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1833539593054130336
  16. Actual Size Online Ruler (mm,cm,inches) - Screen Measurements
  17. Carpentopod: A walking table project
  18. The Modern CLI Renaissance | Gabe Venberg
  19. Be a thermostat, not a thermometer | Lara Hogan
  20. Why Haskell? — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41518600
  21. Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries | MIT Technology Review — This decision also renders the fair use doctrine—legally crucial in everything from parody to education to news reporting—almost unusable.
  22. SQLite on Rails | Fractaled Mind
  23. Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable | Quanta Magazine — via Quanta Magazine https://bit.ly/3hiuSb1
  24. OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning model - The Verge
  25. Lab-grown diamonds - Works in Progress
  26. 黑客新闻书籍地图
  27. Lottery Simulator
  28. Citizen DJ / Homepage
  29. Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models
  30. The US finally takes aim at truck bloat - The Verge — Andrew Hawkins: This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly ma…
  31. How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose: a songwriter’s practical lesson in written advocacy – The Law and Policy Blog
  32. Infinite Mac: Collection of classic Macintosh system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser
  33. Tuneshine — display album artwork
  34. Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown
  35. Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
  36. A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time — Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source…
  37. Google's AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits
  38. Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have | Ars Technica
  39. Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong
  40. Taylor Swift | Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven’t already, now is a great time to do your research on the issues at hand and... | Instagram
  41. Konty | Sketch your app ideas without stress
  42. orhun/binsider: Analyze ELF binaries like a boss 😼🕵️‍♂️ — Binsider can perform static and dynamic analysis, inspect strings, examine linked libraries, and perform hexdumps, all within a user-friendly terminal user interface!
  43. Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model | TechCrunch
  44. Radicle 1.0 — Radicle is a decentralized platform for code collaboration, offering secure and sovereign infrastructure for developers.
  45. The autonomous vehicle scam: “fake it till you make it” — “By creating the illusion of complete autonomy, companies can fuel interest in their technology and raise the billions of dollars they need to build a viable robot taxi service.” They use remote monitors. Far from commercially viable. A bit like Siri. Musk takes th…
  46. 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place - BBC News
  47. Pico.css • Graceful & Minimal CSS design system in pure semantic HTML
  48. Binsider - Analyze ELF binaries like a boss
  49. Words on Founder Mode – Rands in Repose — The whole team is involved in the details. Anyone can argue about the product because everyone works to be a product expert. Everyone does the work. The stratification of responsibility is a red flag not just in rapidly growing team, but any company. Everyone files bugs because every…
  50. Satellites Spotting Aircraft
  51. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison - by Julio Merino
  52. Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks
  53. Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever — Design patterns are these cool things that make you go 'hell yeah' because they make a certain problem easier to deal with. Whether it's applicable to all languages, or due to a language constraint, they're pretty nice. Of course, some people go crazy with them r…
  54. ii.com: Git Bash Is My Preferred Windows Shell — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504832
  55. Departure Mono
  56. Illuminate
  57. My Homelab Setup — crazy home server setup
  58. Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills | Time management | The Guardian
  59. ell — A language model programming framework.
  60. Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism | The New Republic
  61. ergo-services/ergo: a Framework for creating microservices using technologies and design patterns of Erlang/OTP in Golang — https://cloud.ergo.services/
  62. exponential rate limiting – Tony Finch
  63. Reasons I still love the fish shell
  64. Google's AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud | TechCrunch — Image Credits: Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding an “Audio Overview” feature. Audio Overview will give users another …
  65. Introducing OpenAI o1 | OpenAI
  66. diyPresso - World’s first DIY espresso machine
  67. Our RNG Git Hash Bug | Tim Mendez Blog — NICE
  68. Going Buildless | Max Böck
  69. ‘Ivan the Troll’ Has Made a 3-D-Printed Gun, the FGC-9, Go Viral - The New York Times
  70. On over-engineering; finding the right balance — A big debate among developers is whether to write code for today’s problem or to build a general-purpose solution for future needs. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Specific-purpose code can
  71. Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives - Mixonline
  72. The ‘Safe Space’ Where America's History is Debated in Real Time - POLITICO
  73. GeoHack — 1、先到百度地图获取你想查询地点的经纬度：https://api.map.baidu.com/lbsapi/getpoint/index.html，116.492806,39.951008，第一个数（116.492806）是经度，第二个数（39.951008）是纬度 2、到这个网站，输入刚才的经纬度，Latitude（or decimal ）填入纬度，Longitude（or decimal ）填入经度，点击「Do it」，就可以看到这个地点的所有地图合集
  74. Mark Zuckerberg says he's done apologizing | TechCrunch
  75. Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad - by Hamilton Nolan
  76. repl.it - Online REPL, Compiler & IDE — https://blog.replit.com/database https://repl.it/
  77. Isocons — Carefully crafted isometric icons for your products, projects, posters.
  78. Your company needs Junior devs — Making personal knowledge available to others is the central activity of the knowledge-creating company. Teaching helps not just the juniors, but the seniors too. The “Protege effect” is a well studied phenomenon where the teacher’s knowledge deepens when required to teach. Juniors force-m…
  79. GitHub - fishaudio/fish-speech: Brand new TTS solution
  80. Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option - ABC News
  81. How to turn gas cars into electric vehicles in Latin America - Rest of World — "Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety. - Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV. - Retro…
  82. Antibiotics damage the colonic mucus barrier in a microbiota-independent manner — Antibiotics inhibit production of the protective mucus in the colon, thus predisposing to gut inflammation.
  83. Why Not Comments • Buttondown
  84. New feature alert: access archived webpages directly through Google Search • Internet Archive Blogs — Chris Freeland: In a significant step forward for digital preservation, Google Search is now making it easier than ever to access the past. Starting today, users everywhere can view archived versions of webpages directly thr…
  85. Two Ways To Create Custom Translated Messaging For HTML Forms | CSS-Tricks — via CSS-Tricks https://bit.ly/39gvElW
  86. Web-based tooling for BPMN, DMN and CMMN
  87. David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way – Herbert Lui — Just because we’re a casual restaurant, doesn’t mean we don’t hold ourselves to fine dining standards. We try to do things the right way. That usually means doing things the long, hard, stupid way.
  88. Quick guide to web typography for developers · OlegWock
  89. Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus — “Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”
  90. What's become of The Times & Co.? — BuzzMachine
  91. Exclusive photos reveal Apple's subterranean Apple Park Observatory — from Daring Fireball My iPhones 16 briefing yesterday was at this new building. It is very nice. A little cozy — it’s not that big. Great light, and from the main room, a splendid view of the main building. Restroom doors are like bank vault doors.  ★ 
  92. The Ultimate Guide to Font Performance Optimization | DebugBear
  93. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system | Hacker News
  94. The guide to Git I never had. | Glasskube.dev
  95. Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions
  96. Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community
  97. Windhawk — The customization marketplace for Windows programs. Customize your programs with available code snippets or create your own customizations.
  98. Blog - Stack Auth — Page description
  99. josephburnett/jd: JSON diff and patch
  100. How I Review GitHub PRs - bitquabit

The Next Web

  1. German startup secures $62M for ‘carbon negative’ biogas power plants
  2. Ukrainian startup plans to defend companies from disinformation with AI
  3. 25 startups enter UK late-stage accelerator on the journey to IPO
  4. 4 startup pitch battles not to miss this October
  5. This Swedish startup wants to pay the flight tracking community using blockchain
  6. Depop taps AI to generate listings for clothes from just 1 photo
  7. TNW Podcast: The finances of OnlyFans, quantum accelerators, WeTransfer cuts
  8. Rotterdam startup aims to improve laparoscopy with turbine tech
  9. Dutch ‘seabed security’ robots have caught the eye of NATO
  10. Revolut founder shares 7 tips for building high-performance startups

Smashing Magazine

  1. How To Build Custom Data Visualizations Using Luzmo Flex
  2. Why Anticipatory Design Isn’t Working For Businesses
  3. How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack
  4. Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
  5. The Big Difference Between Digital Product And Web Design
  6. Goodbye Summer, Hello September (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  7. Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 2)
  8. Generating Unique Random Numbers In JavaScript Using Sets
  9. Mastering Typography In Logo Design
  10. Regexes Got Good: The History And Future Of Regular Expressions In JavaScript
  11. Pricing Projects As A Freelancer Or Agency Owner
  12. How To Defend Your Design Process
  13. If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 2)
  14. Best Of Pro Scheduler Libraries
  15. It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”
  16. If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1)
  17. How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js
  18. Sweet Nostalgia In August (2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  19. Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting
  20. Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (Part 1)
  21. Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
  22. Build Design Systems With Penpot Components
  23. How To Design Effective Conversational AI Experiences: A Comprehensive Guide
  24. When Friction Is A Good Thing: Designing Sustainable E-Commerce Experiences
  25. Useful Customer Journey Maps (+ Figma & Miro Templates)
  26. Tales Of An Eternal Summer (July 2024 Wallpapers Edition)
  27. How To Improve Your Microcopy: UX Writing Tips For Non-UX Writers
  28. How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility
  29. So Your Website Or App Is Live… Now What?
  30. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Multimedia Writing
  31. Uniting Web And Native Apps With 4 Unknown JavaScript APIs
  32. T-Shaped vs. V-Shaped Designers
  33. Useful Email Newsletters For Designers
  34. What Are CSS Container Style Queries Good For?
  35. 2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It
  36. The Scent Of UX: The Unrealized Potential Of Olfactory Design
  37. How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024
  38. Useful CSS Tips And Techniques
  39. Presenting UX Research And Design To Stakeholders: The Power Of Persuasion
  40. Scaling Success: Key Insights And Practical Takeaways

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Wildfire Preparedness Supplies and Strategies
  2. How to Get Rid of Ants, Mice, and Other Pests
  3. The Best Bug-Killing Gear
  4. The Best Needle-Nose Pliers
  5. The Best Meat Thermometers
  6. 10 Questions to Consider Before Buying Solar Panels
  7. Yes, Everyone’s Socks Are Showing. Here’s How to Rock the Trend—and the Pairs We Love.
  8. The Best Water Bottles
  9. The Best Shoe Rack
  10. The Best Thermal Underwear
  11. My Family Can Never Agree on a Movie. But We Can Always Agree on This Board Game.
  12. How Can I Clear My Home of Wildfire Smoke?
  13. The Best Sheets
  14. The Best Cordless Fans
  15. The Best Game Consoles
  16. The Best TVs
  17. The Best Bed Pillows
  18. Home Energy Rebates Are on the Way. Here’s What to Know.
  19. The Best Laptops
  20. The Best Respirator Mask for Smoke and Dust
  21. The Best Robes
  22. This Hair-Removal Device Saved Me From a Year of Painful Bikini Waxes
  23. You Probably Don’t Need a Foldable Phone. But If You Really Want One, These Are the Best.
  24. Choosing the Right PlayStation 5
  25. These Molds Turn Anything Into a Portable Ice Pop. And They Make Me a Hero to My Kid.
  26. The Best OLED TV
  27. How to Clean Your Rain Jacket
  28. The Wirecutter Show Episode 5: Bedsheets Mythbusting
  29. The Best Baby Gate
  30. The Best Android Phones

Sweethome

  1. The Best Wildfire Preparedness Supplies and Strategies
  2. The Best Massage Chairs
  3. The Best Gear for a Home Theater System
  4. The Best String Trimmers
  5. The Best Wasp and Hornet Sprays
  6. The Best Air Conditioner
  7. The Best Gear for Small Apartments
  8. Everything I Did to Flood-Proof My Old House
  9. How to Get Rid of Ants, Mice, and Other Pests
  10. The Best Weighted Blankets
  11. The Best Bug-Killing Gear
  12. The Best Emergency Preparedness Supplies
  13. The Top 10 Tools for Earthquake Preparedness
  14. The Best Duct Tape
  15. The Best Smart Assistive Devices for People With Disabilities
  16. The Best Smart Security Devices to Make Your New Home Feel Safe
  17. The Best Smart Smoke Alarm
  18. The Best Needle-Nose Pliers
  19. The Best Gas Grills
  20. The Best Storage Containers
  21. Our Favorite Scented Candles
  22. Coat Racks to Declutter Your Entryway
  23. Our Favorite Bedside Lamps
  24. The Best Space Heaters
  25. Stop Murdering Houseplants. Try Lego Flowers Instead.
  26. The Best Fan
  27. The Best Outdoor Patio Heaters
  28. How to Shop for a Ceiling Fan
  29. The Best Smart Locks
  30. All the Best Dyson Products We Recommend, From Vacuums to Hair Dryers

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs
  2. Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch
  3. JG Ballard's Apocalyptic Art
  4. FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software
  5. Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
  6. Boeing workers vote to strike
  7. How to Spot NASA's Solar Sail Demonstration Streaking Through the Night Sky
  8. Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
  9. The Spellbinding Life of Koji Kashin: Japan's Legendary Wandering Magician
  10. Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
  11. Show HN: A whiteboard that writes math equations
  12. Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
  13. Exploring the scalable matrix extension of the Apple M4 processor
  14. Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
  15. DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
  16. Fall of the wild: why pristine wilderness is a human-made myth
  17. Notepat – Aesthetic Computer
  18. F3 – Fight Flash Fraud
  19. Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and JavaScript
  20. The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)
  21. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
  22. Why Haskell?
  23. Kolmogorov-Arnold networks may make neural networks more understandable
  24. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
  25. GAZEploit: Remote keystroke inference attack by gaze estimation in VR/MR devices
  26. Who Owns Nebula?
  27. Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring Software Engineers
  28. Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent and Behaviour
  29. The Strange Case of the Rogue HP-12c Calculator
  30. If I could dissect a sauropod

Ars Technica

  1. Rocket Report: China leaps into rocket reuse; 19 people are currently in orbit
  2. CEO of “health care terrorists” faces contempt charges after Senate no-show
  3. Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
  4. Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data
  5. Unity is dropping its unpopular per-install Runtime Fee
  6. OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini
  7. Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998
  8. Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
  9. AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans
  10. Reported Dreamcast addict Tim Walz is now an unofficial Crazy Taxi character
  11. US sting of online gun part sales started with a shipment marked “fidget spinner”
  12. EVgo and GM reveal their new fast charger experience
  13. Eminent officials say NASA facilities some of the “worst” they’ve ever seen
  14. Europe’s privacy watchdog probes Google over data used for AI training
  15. GM, Hyundai team up to slash costs of new vehicles and clean tech
  16. iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket
  17. Keeping your eyes on the road is easy with the Engo 2 AR sunglasses
  18. Two private astronauts took a spacewalk Thursday morning—yes, it was historic
  19. My dead father is “writing” me notes again
  20. As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

Digg

  1. Seven Sex Tips That Every Man Should Know
  2. This Is What It Looks Like When Disney Adults Decorate A House
  3. A List Of Peculiar European Things That Confuse Americans And Other Foreigners, According To Reddit
  4. Eight Experiences That You Simply Won't Believe Are True
  5. What Should I Do After Learning That My Girlfriend Believes The Earth Is Flat, And Other Advice Column Questions
  6. How Much $100 Is Worth In Each State, Mapped
  7. Don't Be Fooled, This Pretty Water Holds A Pretty Disgusting Truth
  8. Five Terrifying Facts About 'The Wizard Of Oz' That May Ruin The Movie For You
  9. She Used AI To Manifest Her Dream Life – Here's How You Can Too
  10. These People Might Be The Worst College Roommates Of All Time
  11. These US States Have The Most Million-Dollar Homes
  12. Ditch The Marshmallow, And Make The Best S'mores Of Your Life
  13. This Storybook House In The Hollywood Hills Just Hit The Market For $3.2 Million. Take A Look Inside
  14. Sony Unveils The PS5 Pro, And You Won't Believe How Much It Costs
  15. What Traffic Cameras Are Really Watching For And No, It's Not To Give Tickets
  16. Dave Grohl Announces The Birth Of A Daughter Outside Marriage
  17. Americans In These Jobs Are The Happiest
  18. Jon Stewart Breaks Down Harris And Trump's Presidential Debate
  19. The Best Memes From Trump's Car-Crash Presidential Debate With Kamala Harris
  20. Trump's Racist Pet-Eating Rant, Taylor Swift Endorsing Harris And More Election Updates
  21. Martin Short's Jiminy Glick Interview With Conan O'Brien Is A Masterclass In Comedy
  22. These Are The World's Top Tax Havens, By Offshore Wealth
  23. This Breakdown Of US Median Household Incomes Highlights America's Best And Worst Parts
  24. The Kremlin Is Really Annoyed About The Debate
  25. Eight Jobs That People Would Love To Have If The Pay Wasn't So Bad
  26. It's Cheaper To Fly Out Of These Airports Than Before
  27. People Who Dropped Major Bombshells On Their Deathbeds
  28. 'The Daily Show' Delves Into Trump's Bizarre 'Pet-Eating' Conspiracy
  29. Dave Grohl's Infidelity, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
  30. Baby Boomers Are Buying Homes Fastest In These Metro Areas

New Scientist

  1. Weather forecasts could warn about events made worse by climate change
  2. Blood test could diagnose ALS with up to 97 per cent accuracy
  3. The deepfakes of Trump and Biden that you are most likely to fall for
  4. Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days
  5. Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction
  6. Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own
  7. Quantum experiment rewrites a century-old chemistry law
  8. Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals a permanent shift
  9. Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia
  10. SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew complete 'stand-up' civilian spacewalk
  11. Visible aurora spotted for the first time on Mars by NASA rover
  12. One dose of a smallpox vaccine still gives good protection for mpox
  13. Why everyone needs to stop joking that they're "a little bit OCD"
  14. Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America
  15. Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star
  16. Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io
  17. Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if they can win a fight
  18. When did humans leave the trees for the savannah – or did they at all?
  19. Ants change the way they build nests to stop diseases spreading
  20. Astronomers worried by launch of five new super-bright satellites
  21. SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission blasts off for first civilian spacewalk
  22. Most cities are rainier than their surroundings due to heat and smog
  23. I took control of NASA's Valkyrie robot and it blew my mind
  24. Chronic fatigue syndrome could be quickly diagnosed via a blood test
  25. Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed
  26. Endangered wombat's rare encounter with echidna caught on camera
  27. The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change
  28. Clown visits may shorten the amount of time children spend in hospital
  29. AI helps find simple charging trick to boost battery lifespan
  30. The Atlantic has been suspiciously quiet this hurricane season
  31. Sharks leap out of the water more often than you might think
  32. Evidence mounts that saline nasal drops and sprays help treat colds
  33. The mathematical theory that made the internet possible
  34. Greenland voyage sheds light on little-known ancient Arctic culture
  35. Smart speakers at crime scenes could provide valuable clues to police
  36. Stunningly preserved pterosaur fossils reveal how they soared
  37. Mice turned see-through by a dye that lets you watch their organs
  38. Bat die-off led to more insecticide use and more infant deaths in US
  39. Even simple bacteria can anticipate the changing seasons
  40. Can we spot every incoming asteroid before they hit Earth?
  41. Most detailed map of uterine lining yields clues about endometriosis
  42. We finally know exactly how dark deep space is
  43. A note from the executive editor on New Scientist Live
  44. Google breakthrough paves way for large-scale quantum computers
  45. A small asteroid hit Earth and burned up over the Philippines
  46. Sweat monitor could reveal when you are exercising too hard
  47. The Starliner stranding shows why NASA was wise to have a backup plan
  48. Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft
  49. Does the structure of your brain affect your risk of depression?
  50. A fifth of the world's plastic garbage is either burned or littered
  51. Will an experimental mRNA vaccine help fight the mpox outbreak?
  52. Pregnant shark that disappeared may have been eaten by another shark
  53. Wild bees have found a surprising place to nest in cities
  54. Huge asteroid impact may have knocked over Jupiter's largest moon
  55. Potato yarn may cut the fashion industry's environmental footprint
  56. Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock
  57. Lab-grown stem cells could be a 'breakthrough' for cancer treatment
  58. What are the weird noises coming from Boeing's Starliner capsule?
  59. Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code
  60. Is ultra cheap green hydrogen on the horizon?
  61. Quantum holograms can send messages that disappear
  62. Why is the US military getting ready to launch new spy balloons?
  63. Does mpox cause lingering symptoms like long covid?
  64. Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense
  65. Ultracold quantum battery could be charged with quantum tunnelling
  66. Falling satellite will give clues to how objects burn up on re-entry
  67. Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed stars
  68. Plastic vaporising process could recycle bags and bottles indefinitely
  69. Marmosets seem to call each other by name
  70. Another blow for dark matter as biggest hunt yet finds nothing
  71. World's largest sailing cargo ship makes first transatlantic voyage
  72. Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature
  73. SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew set to attempt the riskiest spacewalk yet
  74. Fungus transforms food waste into haute cuisine
  75. Stranded ISS astronauts reveal the US space programme is not in crisis
  76. Mosquito-borne illnesses are spiking across the world
  77. How strange ice could form in the extremely hot interiors of planets
  78. Lyme disease test gives hope for a speedier diagnosis
  79. Will mpox become a global pandemic like covid-19?
  80. What can governments do about online disinformation from abroad?
  81. JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
  82. Tweezers made of light could illuminate the quantum twin paradox
  83. This is how your brain knows when the beat is about to drop
  84. A simple driving trick could make a big dent in cars' carbon emissions
  85. We can diagnose an object’s quantumness from the way it radiates heat
  86. Neolithic engineers used science knowledge to build megalith monument
  87. How deadly is mpox and what treatments are available?
  88. DNA computer can play chess and solve sudoku puzzles
  89. Our galaxy may host strange black holes born just after the big bang
  90. Starlink tests show how to save radio astronomy from satellites
  91. A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy
  92. Engineered bacteria destroy antibiotic resistance DNA in wastewater
  93. Most climate policies do little to prevent climate change
  94. Your brain may be mutating in a way that was thought to be very rare
  95. Why do covid cases rise in summer, unlike other respiratory viruses?
  96. A glob of jelly can play Pong thanks to a basic kind of memory
  97. Strange stars full of metals may be created by imploding supernovae
  98. Intestinal parasites may reduce covid-19 vaccine effectiveness
  99. Quantum trick lets you cool objects down using nothing at all
  100. Long covid causes very different symptoms in children versus teenagers

Slashdot

  1. GM and EVgo To Build 400 Ultra-Fast EV Chargers Across the US
  2. You Can Now Legally Bet On the 2024 Congressional Elections
  3. Google Tests Desktop Windowing For Android Tablets
  4. How SEC Mobile Phones Can Signal an Imminent Stock Price Drop
  5. Court Clears Researchers of Defamation For Identifying Manipulated Data
  6. White House Gets Voluntary Commitments From AI Companies To Curb Deepfake Porn
  7. Hasbro CEO Claims All His Friends Use AI For D&D, Signal To Embrace It
  8. AMD's New Variable Graphics Memory Lets Laptop Users Reassign Their RAM To Gaming
  9. Unhappy Workers May Reduce Global GDP By As Much As 9%, Gallup Estimates
  10. Billionaire and Engineer Conduct First Private Spacewalk In SpaceX Mission
  11. FDA Approves Apple AirPods As Hearing Aids
  12. Music Industry's 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying
  13. Microsoft To Revamp Windows Kernel Access for Security Vendors
  14. Dumbphones and Fax Machines Are the New Boss Flex
  15. OpenAI Releases o1, Its First Model With 'Reasoning' Abilities

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. An AI-Driven Industrial Design Database
  2. EV Owners: Is Tire Noise a Problem?
  3. Extreme Space Saving: Architects Design 74-Square-Foot Apartment for Themselves
  4. A Thoughtful Trucker Tries to Design a Safer Bike Light
  5. Cat-Friendly Furniture Concepts
  6. 3D Printing Metal Successfully Achieved in Space
  7. From Craftsy to Designey Bird Feeders
  8. Industrial Design Student Work: A High-Capacity Autonomous Cargo Hauling System
  9. Industrial Designer with a Sore Throat Gets a Product Idea
  10. New Winning Image for "I Voted" Sticker: A Jacked Werewolf
  11. Opinion: Making Dumbbells "Smart" is Dumb
  12. Form Follows Function: This Minimalist Electric Delivery Vehicle
  13. Shaping the Future of Design: A Conversation with Omari Souza
  14. Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-3-24 to 9-6-24)
  15. Industrial Design Case Study: Pruners with Better UX

CNET

  1. AI Can Summarize Your Excel Spreadsheets for You. Here's How
  2. Here's the Average Power Bill in Connecticut, and How to Save
  3. No Need to Count Sheep. This New Sleep Hack Conquers Late Night Anxiety
  4. This Versatile Anker Portable Cooler Has Dropped by 38% to Its Lowest Price Yet
  5. Peacock Kicks Off Halloween Early With Horror Movie Buffet
  6. You Can Already Save $250 on This EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus Portable Power Station
  7. iPhone 16 Preorders Are Open Now. Best Deals and How to Get the iPhone You Want
  8. You Can Grab iPhone 16 Pro for Free With This T-Mobile Preorder Deal
  9. iPhone 16 Pro vs. 15 Pro vs. 14 Pro vs. 13 Pro: Should You Upgrade This Year?
  10. How to Use AI as a Career Coach and Get Guidance That Might Actually Help
  11. The iPhone Wasn't the Star of the iPhone 16 Event video
  12. Vosker VKX LTE Security Camera Review: An LTE Cam Striving For Affordabiity
  13. WOW Internet Review: Plans, Pricing, Speed and Availability
  14. 76th Emmy Awards: How to Watch the Show Without Cable
  15. How to Screen Record on an iPhone or iPad
  16. The Gruesome Horror Movie You Should Watch Right Now
  17. iOS 18 Cheat Sheet: What You Need to Know About the Upcoming iPhone Update
  18. No, It’s Not Just You: 5G Home Internet Can Be More Complicated Than You Think
  19. Key Mortgage Refinance Rate Moves Up: Refinance Rates for Sept. 13, 2024
  20. Small Improvements in Mortgage Rates: Mortgage Interest Rates Today for Sept. 13, 2024
  21. Best Tax Software: Freelancers, Pay Your Quarterly Taxes by September 16
  22. Melatonin Muddling Your Mornings? Wake Up Alert With This Natural Sleep Supplement Instead.
  23. Best CD Rates Today, Sept. 13, 2024: Don't Sleep on These High APYs. A Fed Rate Cut Is Looming
  24. 4 Smart Home Products We Purchased After Unruly Guests Nearly Tanked Our Airbnb
  25. Best Savings Rates Today, Sept. 13, 2024: Rate Cuts Might Be Days Away. Here’s Where You Can Still Earn Up to 5.25% APY

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Here’s what you need to know about preordering the new iPhone 16
  2. The real cost of the PS5 Pro
  3. Waymo and Uber expand their robotaxi partnership to Austin and Atlanta
  4. Don’t ask if AI can make art — ask how AI can be art
  5. European iPad users can soon download apps from third-party stores
  6. United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes
  7. Netflix is ending support for some older iPhones and iPads
  8. Come pixel-peep what the PS5 Pro can maybe actually do
  9. The best ebook reader to buy right now
  10. The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

Wired

  1. The 7 Best Mesh Wi-Fi Routers of 2024
  2. Which iPhone 16 Model Should You Buy?
  3. How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3
  4. Election Deniers Want AI Cameras to Stream Footage of Ballot Dropboxes
  5. How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Dumb Phone
  6. The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder
  7. ReMarkable Paper Pro Review: A Colorful Delight
  8. Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
  9. The Coast Guard’s OceanGate Hearings Start Next Week—but Key Witnesses Won’t Appear
  10. Beautiful 1.7-Liter Electric Kettle Review: When Form and Function Make Sense
  11. This Is How Johnnie Walker Made the World’s Lightest Whisky Bottle
  12. The 32 Best Movies on Hulu This Week (September 2024)
  13. 27 Gifts Teens May Actually Like (2024)
  14. OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
  15. Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US
  16. Lockly Visage Zeno Series Smart Lock Review: Infrared Sensors for Face Detection
  17. Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up
  18. 16 Best Cozy Games (2024), Tested and Reviewed
  19. How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us
  20. A Diamond-Making Machine Will Cost You $200,000 on Alibaba

LifeHacker

  1. The Best Movies to Stream This Week
  2. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Friday, September 13, 2024
  3. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Hisense 65-Inch Class U8
  4. Which Event Ticket Sites Have the Best Deals?
  5. The Best Ways to Add Storage Space to Your Living Room for Under $175
  6. You Can Get Windows 11 Pro on Sale for $20 Right Now
  7. My Favorite Thai Dessert That My Mom Makes in the Fall
  8. Five Roblox Games You'll Actually Like Playing With Your Kids
  9. 10 Things You Can Rent Out for Extra Cash
  10. How Fitbit’s Readiness Score Works (and Whether You Should Pay Attention to It)
  11. A Decade Later, 'Flappy Bird' Returns
  12. Here's What's New In the Latest PS5 Update
  13. You Can Get This 12-Port USB-C Hub on Sale for $90 Right Now
  14. Nine Demo-free Ways to Remodel Your Home
  15. The Best Gifts for Foodies (Whether or Not They Like to Cook)
  16. How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
  17. These Brands of Cinnamon and Spices Might Contain Lead
  18. You Can Install Apple Security Updates Without Upgrading to iOS 18
  19. You Can Get This MacBook Air on Sale for $515 Right Now
  20. This TP-Link Gaming Router Is $130 Off
  21. The Most Common Netflix Error Codes (and How to Fix Them)
  22. Why You Should Buy Perennial Mums Instead of Annuals (and Where to Find Them)
  23. Now Is the Time to Buy Spring-Blooming Bulbs
  24. You Might Be Able to Get a 401K Match for Your Student Loan Payments
  25. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Thursday, September 12, 2024
  26. Five New Features Coming to AirPods Pro 2 (and How to Update Them)
  27. Why It Matters If You Have ‘Dense’ Breast Tissue
  28. The Best Gifts for Home Cooks (That Cost Less Than $50)
  29. You Can Get This JBL Wireless Party Speaker on Sale for $300 Right Now
  30. 'Windhawk' Is Like an App Store for Windows Mods
  31. The Best Deals on Streaming Services Right Now
  32. The Easiest Way to Motivate Yourself to Clean
  33. Sony Will Soon Sell Regular PS5s for Half the Cost of a PS5 Pro
  34. Seven Ways to Improve Your Yard's Lighting Before Winter
  35. This HP EliteBook 840 Is On Sale for $300 Right Now
  36. Adobe's AI Video Generator Might Be as Good as OpenAI's
  37. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Google Pixel 8 Pro (With a Free Pixel Watch)
  38. 'Plenty More' Will Make You Fall in Love With Vegetables Again
  39. Five Things to Know Before You Make a Political Donation
  40. You Can Get AdGuard on Sale for $19 Right Now
  41. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 Is $400 Off Right Now
  42. How to Avoid Paying for Security Camera Subscription Plans
  43. This App Actually Helped Curb My Doomscrolling Habit
  44. The Soundboks Go Is the Most Powerful Party Speaker You Can Carry in One Hand
  45. Why Pistol Squats Are So Hard (and How to Do Them Anyway)
  46. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Wednesday, September 11, 2024
  47. This Tool Finds Matching Usernames Across 400 Social Media Networks
  48. Microsoft Office Pro for Windows Is on Sale for $40 Right Now
  49. TikTok's Favorite Kitchen Organizing Tools
  50. The 11 Different Kinds of Checking Accounts
  51. You Can Get This Kodak Film Scanner on Sale for $172 Right Now
  52. These Air Fryer S’mores Are Just As Good
  53. Despite Its Drawbacks, Strava Is Still the Best Running App
  54. The Best Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything
  55. Nine Practical, Everyday Uses for AI Tools
  56. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Apple AirPods Max
  57. 13 of the Best Spooky Episodes From (Mostly) Un-Spooky Shows
  58. We Finally Have Our First Look at the PS5 Pro
  59. iOS 18 Lets You Finally Pause While Recording Video
  60. Five Reasons to ‘Upgrade’ a Credit Card (and When to Apply for a New One)
  61. The Best Gifts for DIYers and Woodworkers
  62. How to Retrieve Something You've Flushed Down the Toilet
  63. How to Keep Ceramic Flower Pots From Cracking in the Winter
  64. You Can Get One-Year Membership to BJ's Wholesale Club+ for $50 Right Now
  65. This Roborock Vacuum and Mop Is 44% Off Right Now
  66. Target's Popular Car Seat Trade-in Event Is Back for Two Weeks
  67. 10 Ways to Eat Your Feelings on Debate Night
  68. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Tuesday, September 10, 2024
  69. How the iPhone 16 Compares to the Pixel 9 and Galaxy S24
  70. How the Apple Watch 10 Compares to the Competition
  71. Both the M2 iPad Pros Are up to 43% Off Right Now
  72. These Wireless Sony WH-1000XM4 Headphones on Sale for $200 Right Now
  73. The Biggest Features Coming to iPhones With iOS 18
  74. The AirPods 4 Now Have the AirPods Pro's Best Feature
  75. Why C-SPAN Is the Only Place I Will Watch the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate
  76. How the Apple Watch 10 Compares to the Apple Watch 9
  77. Seven Grammar and Language Red Flags to Help You Spot Scam Emails and Texts
  78. You Can Get Babbel Language Learning on Sale for $140 Right Now
  79. The Pixel Watch 3 Is Great for Casual Fitness Tracking
  80. All the Details on the iPhone 16, Apple Watch 10, and AirPods 4
  81. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Apple Watch Ultra 2
  82. This Pumpkin Spice Bread Pudding Couldn't Be Easier
  83. Get Out the Door Faster in the Morning With a ‘Bag Zone’
  84. These JBL Wireless Headphones Are on Sale for $70 Right Now
  85. My Favorite Gifts for Any Gardener
  86. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Everyone Hates the 'Minecraft' Trailer
  87. This Breville Espresso Machine Is $200 Off Right Now
  88. How the NFL's New Kickoff Rules Work
  89. 15 Great 2000s Movies You Should Watch With Your Kids
  90. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Monday, September 9, 2024
  91. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, September 8, 2024
  92. You Can Get a 9th-Gen iPad and Beats Flex Headphones on Sale for $300 Right Now
  93. Today’s Wordle Hints (and Answer) for Saturday, September 7, 2024
  94. You Can Get Microsoft Project Pro 2021 on Sale for $20 Right Now
  95. Use 'Tusks' to Turn Mastodon Into a Threaded Blog
  96. How to Download YouTube Videos on Android
  97. When You Should (and Shouldn't) Buy Your Leased Car
  98. Harness the Power of TikTok's 'Angry Cleaning' Trend
  99. You Must Make Crispy Air Fryer Kielbasa Right Now
  100. Five Things a Real Cop Will Never Ask You to Do

The Onion

The Register

  1. Microsoft is updating Windows to avoid repeat of CrowdStrike catastrophe
  2. Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike
  3. As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing
  4. UK watchdog fears Voda-Three merger would bump phone bills for customers
  5. 'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London
  6. Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way
  7. OpenAI's latest o1 model family can emulate 'reasoning' – but might overthink things a bit
  8. Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon
  9. Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps
  10. Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech
  11. Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices
  12. Fortinet admits miscreant got hold of customer data in the cloud
  13. 'Hadooken' Linux malware targets Oracle WebLogic servers
  14. FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns
  15. Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead
  16. I stole 20 GB of data from Capgemini – and now I'm leaking it, says cybercrook
  17. Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service
  18. Mastercard splurges $2.65B on another big cyber purchase – Recorded Future
  19. Adobe fixed Acrobat bug, neglected to mention whole zero-day exploit thing
  20. Boeing to launch quantum comms satellite testbed in 2026
  21. Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
  22. Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline
  23. AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals
  24. Major ISP bungles settings, causing Microsoft 365, Azure outage
  25. SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission completes first commercial spacewalk
  26. Redis justifies open source shift with fresh hardware, LLM cost-saving features
  27. EU kicks off an inquiry into Google's AI model
  28. About that Windows Installer 'make me admin' security hole. Here's how it's exploited
  29. UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status
  30. NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries
  31. Mind your header! There's nothing refreshing about phishers' latest tactic
  32. Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha
  33. If HDMI screen rips aren't good enough for you pirates, DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM
  34. Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official
  35. Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers
  36. Samsung faces strikes in India, amid reports of global layoffs
  37. Healthcare giant to pay $65M settlement after crooks stole and leaked nude patient pics
  38. Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up
  39. Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected
  40. Google bets on carbon capture tech to clean up its mess – in the 2030s
  41. Major sales and ops overhaul leads to much more activity ... for Meow ransomware gang
  42. Hunters International cyber-gang extorts Chinese mega-bank's London HQ
  43. Dell says biz transformation continues. Translation: More layoffs
  44. Oracle boasts zettascale 'AI supercomputer,' just don’t ask about precision
  45. HPE wants investors to buy shares to help finance $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
  46. SpaceX blasts being stuck in bureaucratic orbit as Starship approval slips
  47. So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work
  48. Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move
  49. Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not
  50. 'IT failure' hits blood tests as another critical incident declared by NHS

TechMeme

  1. FanDuel and Betfair's parent company, Flutter, agrees to acquire a 56% stake in Brazilian online gaming operator NSX for a cash consideration of about $350M (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
  2. Second Front, which helps companies deploy software in sensitive government networks, raised a $75M Series C led by Salesforce, sources say at a $750M valuation (David Jeans/Forbes)
  3. The White House plans to curb the "overuse and abuse" of the de minimis loophole used by Shein and Temu, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs (CNBC)
  4. A profile of Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, which aims to create "spatial intelligence" in AI and raised $230M from a16z and others, reportedly at a $1B valuation (Steven Levy/Wired)
  5. Sources: Microsoft has pitched its AI to ExxonMobil, Chevron, and others to find and develop oil and gas reserves while publicly committing to reduce emissions (Karen Hao/The Atlantic)
  6. Apple to allow alternative app stores and browser engines on iPads in the EU with iPadOS 18 on September 16, after the EU applied DMA rules on iPadOS in April (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)
  7. Elon Musk calls Australian government "fascists" after it unveiled a bill to fine online platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for enabling misinformation (Renju Jose/Reuters)
  8. In a provisional ruling, the CMA says Vodafone and Three's planned $19B merger could lead to higher prices, diminished service, and reduced investment in the UK (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
  9. Q&A with Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang on the enduring importance of the US market, navigating geopolitical tensions, competing with Shein and Temu, and more (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
  10. OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved "reasoning" (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
  11. Researchers detail GAZEploit, a now-fixed Vision Pro vulnerability allowing hackers to determine which key a user is typing based on the user's eye movement (Matt Burgess/Wired)
  12. In two experiments with 2,190 American conspiracy theorists, conversations with GPT-4 Turbo reduced their belief in conspiracy theories by about 20% on average (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)
  13. Every, which offers startups an all-in-one finance and human resources suite that combines banking, cards, tax, payroll, and more, raised a $22.5M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
  14. All 25 staffers of Annapurna's gaming division resigned this month after CEO Megan Ellison pulled out of talks to spin off the unit as an independent entity (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
  15. Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put on hold, calling it a "strong franchise" but declining to share further information about its future (Oliver Darcy/Status)