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BBC

  1. Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
  2. Watch: Moroccan police clash with migrants near border with Spain's Ceuta
  3. 'If that means I lose my job, so be it': Top Fifa official questions Infantino's World Cup plan
  4. No sentence long enough for jailed funeral director Robert Bush, say families
  5. How Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's Rein Me In broke the UK's singles chart record
  6. Two more small boat pilots jailed for Channel crossings
  7. AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company
  8. Parents sue school over 'inhumane' calming rooms after BBC report
  9. Burnham faces criticism over plans for mayors to get share of income tax
  10. Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children after judge rejects legal challenge
  11. Bowen: Plan for Hamas to disarm faces big obstacles, yet it offers rare hope for Gaza
  12. What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
  13. Google withdraws new Earth AI tool after warnings over misinformation risks
  14. Is Infantino finished? Could Uefa boycott World Cup? What happens now?
  15. 'I pay £580 a month to live in a disused care home': Property guardians show us around
  16. What your summer reading list says about you
  17. Who is Nirmal Purja, the famed mountaineer missing in Broad Peak avalanche?
  18. Massive Attack banned from Singapore after pro-Palestine display at show
  19. The local girls preparing to take on Liverpool and Manchester United
  20. Hundreds escape Greek wildfire by sea as blazes continue across Europe
  21. England and Wales on course for driest July on record
  22. Two bodies located and search ongoing after avalanche hits Nirmal Purja's team
  23. Southport killer charged with prison attacks and possessing weapon
  24. Budget to be held in October, Healey announces
  25. BBC News app
  26. How does the UK fight wildfires?
  27. Americast
  28. Infantino on the brink? Who might replace him if he goes?
  29. Watch: Women's Open second-round highlights
  30. Chelsea's Mudryk free to play after appeal against doping ban
  31. Newcastle confirm Howe resignation as head coach
  32. 'At least I'll sleep well tonight' - Fifa executive joins Burnham in questioning Infantino

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. New York alleges Kalshi is running an 'illegal gambling operation' in new lawsuit
  2. Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
  3. Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
  4. Pandora's ad-free subscription is less than $10 a month in 2026: Is it worth it?
  5. Ubisoft is shutting down its weird NFT game that came out two years after the whole craze died down
  6. Sony will move forward with its plans to stop making PS5 discs despite backlash
  7. This new drone spins so fast the human eye can barely see it
  8. EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
  9. Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far
  10. Is the Apple Watch waterproof?
  11. How to fight a data center
  12. Slow downloads? These tweaks could speed up your router
  13. A $2 sticker let me bypass the Meta Glasses' anti-creep feature
  14. Super Mario Sunshine is the Switch 2's next GameCube addition
  15. The EU's Right to Repair directive kicks in today
  16. Slate Truck first drive: A minimalist's delight
  17. Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
  18. You can now play Xbox games on Hisense TVs without a console
  19. HoverAir's Versa is a pocket gimbal camera and drone mashup
  20. Amazon's Zoox is the first steering wheel-free robotaxi to get regulatory approval for paid rides

Pinboard

  1. 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…
  2. 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.
  3. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
  4. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
  5. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers for Low-Latency App Servers | Micrologics
  6. What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
  7. The Rise of Intelligence Ownership: a task-trained open source model vs the frontier — Why the companies winning in the AI age own their intelligence: we fine-tune a small open-source model with reinforcement learning until it beats every frontier configuration on a real e-commerce workflow, at a fraction of the cost.
  8. The coolest use for the Vision Pro
  9. OmniDeck | Free Online Tools for Everyone — A growing suite of free developer, finance, text, conversion and image tools. 100% in your browser, no signup, no ads blocking your workflow.
  10. Introduction - The Rust on ESP Book
  11. Please use AI
  12. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
  13. Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
  14. LearnVector — A new AI company
  15. Superlogical
  16. GitHub - drumih/turbo-fieldfare: Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook · GitHub — bjtitus starred drumih/turbo-fieldfare
  17. Jailbroken Kindles can now do more with Tailscale
  18. PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's. | boringSQL
  19. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
  20. block/buzz: A hive mind communication platform — It's a Nostr relay: every message, reaction, workflow step, review approval, and git event is a signed event in one log. Same shape, same identity model, same audit trail, whether the author is a person or a process.
  21. GitHub - openai/codex-security: SDKs and CLI for Codex Security · GitHub
  22. Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing my Security Deposit) :: prilik's blog — Stepper motors!
  23. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
  24. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months • Ars Technica — Nate Anderson: A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__r…
  25. Kimi K3 Architecture Notes | Sebastian Raschka, PhD
  26. NameThat — the visual dictionary of UI — what are the ui elements called
  27. PGSimCity · How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D — PGSimCity — an explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works.
  28. Laws of Software Engineering — This is a handy catalog, but the deeper value is knowing when each one clarifies reality and when it distorts it. Brooks’s Law, Conway’s Law, Hyrum’s Law, Goodhart’s Law, Gall’s Law, YAGNI, DRY, KISS: each names a recurring pressure, tradeoff, or failure mode. The mistake is treating them as un…
  29. Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick – Krebs on Security
  30. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic — We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
  31. Internet Security by Zscaler
  32. A malicious word document read in to CoPilot can spread itself to new documents and maliciously alter others.
  33. How to survive boiling water
  34. Pastebot — If you didn't get a chance to download Pastebot public beta you can now grab a 14 day trial version to try it out:
  35. SQLite vs DuckDB on the same $16 box: every cliff moved 100x · Traceway — Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB.
  36. The AI Aesthetic - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
  37. digimata/quill
  38. PyTorch: a reference language — PyTorch DevLog — A reference implementation is a simplified but complete version of a system that trades performance in return for clarity. We might then say a reference “language” is the fabric of APIs and conventions from which these implementations are cut. At first glance, PyTorch obviousl…
  39. Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
  40. Github - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop
  41. The Great Chinese Oil Mystery — America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.
  42. The US government just banned Roombas | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/rF2o5dt
  43. Claude Cookbook
  44. We used to be able to buy things in this country — Explores the decline of in-store shopping in the us, linking it to corporate panic, political backlash, and the degradation of basic errands.
  45. Apple says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ isn't for new Upgrade program leases - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/q58fF3Z
  46. GitHub - abue-ammar/tinycast: Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history · GitHub — bjtitus starred abue-ammar/tinycast
  47. Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana — Monitor Spring Boot applications on a small VPS using Actuator and StatLite, without operating a full Prometheus and Grafana stack.
  48. wsj.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/rKHBa7w
  49. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch
  50. One Ring to Rule Them All: Wiring Radios to Laptops the Hard Way — All the joys of TRS and TRRS jacks, how handheld radios (mis-)use them, and of the varying voltage levels needed to be discovered to prevent burning out microcontrollers acting as the interface.
  51. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT — I've started exploring MCP in more detail. The web chat UIs for both Claude and ChatGPT can access MCP servers but it's not obvious how to set them up. Here's what I figured out.
  52. this transparent phone case grows moss and plants inside
  53. The IRS Is Imploding – Mother Jones
  54. Website Specification
  55. Margin
  56. Ed Zitron: Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/a2NfdJL
  57. Substack writers, you need a website!
  58. Simon Willison's Weblog: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
  59. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — Google DeepMind
  60. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack | MIT Technology Review — Explore why LLMs are fundamentally unable to distinguish between user prompts and internal logic, making them permanently vulnerable to hijacking.
  61. Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place.
  62. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on Security — This sums up how I tend to use AI. Not for anything I can't check, nor for any skills I want to keep.
  63. Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books — Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial weight. We test that assumption with full-text AI detection across 14,41…
  64. We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yWURQTa
  65. Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift - FT
  66. FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway. - E&E News by POLITICO
  67. Best Travel Clothes For Men — Article listing best travel clothing for men.
  68. Le testate nonprofit crescono su Google nonostante gli AI Overviews — Nieman Lab rileva che diverse testate nonprofit statunitensi hanno registrato forti aumenti di traffico da ricerca e Discover, nonostante i timori che gli AI Overviews riducano i click. Guide elettorali, copertura locale approfondita, scoop e storie human-…
  69. Dr. Dobb’s Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009) – Jacob Filipp
  70. Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
  71. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | Hacker News
  72. AI streaming fraud sentencing tomorrow: Bot network stole $8M from all artists | Tech Times — Tomorrow, a North Carolina record producer will become the first person in U.S. history sentenced by a federal court for AI-assisted music streaming fraud — a distinction earned by stealing $8,091,843.64 from every songwriter and mu…
  73. Apple Snubs the IAd - Business Insider — from Daring Fireball Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services. “No ads…
  74. Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books | WIRED — "Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children."
  75. Making Postgres Queues Scale | DBOS — xceptions and need to be retried.
  76. rust-magic-patterns/delightful-integration-tests/Readme.md at master · alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns · GitHub — Nice explanation of how to effectively use a particular crate in rust to spin up (and down) infrastructure in Docker containers for use in integration tests.
  77. ali on X: "22580: From GPT2 to Kimi3, Explained" / X
  78. Fluid Functionalism
  79. GitHub - reflex-dev/xy: Ultra-fast and customizable Python charts · GitHub
  80. The Brand Ledger — Worse on Purpose — Tracking brands across tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.
  81. Understanding Drupal's Service Container and Dependency Injection | Specbee
  82. Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. - The New York Times
  83. 'An absolute disaster': 645 prospective Washington lawyers left in limbo after bar exam cancelled over technology issue | The Spokesman-Review — The Washington Bar Association announced Wednesday it had canceled the exam after the technology issue made the test impossible to administer to the 645 applicants registered to tak…
  84. After the AI Crash | POTs and PANs
  85. Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget — 'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics — A million dollar "whoopsie" https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vay198/amazon_accidentally_spent_18_million_using_claude/…
  86. Worse on Purpose | How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality | Worse on Purpose — Worse on Purpose | Worse on Purpose https://ift.tt/9c17qX6 newsletters, business, companies, ethics, brands
  87. It's getting harder to focus every day | Glyphack
  88. Scientists say this is the reason some relationships flourish and others flop — How attachment styles influence our interactions with others — and how to change them.
  89. Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale | by Rohit Girme | The Airbnb Tech Blog | Jul, 2026 | Medium — Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale How Airbnb teams build trustworthy Generative AI products by treating evaluation as a first-class engineering discipline; not an …
  90. The AI Future Is for Everyone - WSJ — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express our ideas, learn new concepts, and improve our lives, heal…
  91. It’s Cool to Be Weird — Its Cool to Be Weird https://ift.tt/pfPVNvF via:feedbin
  92. GitHub - VladUZH/qwen-scribe: Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. · GitHub
  93. It’s Time to Give Up on the Nonstick Pan as We Know It | Reviews by Wirecutter
  94. US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference | US foreign policy | The Guardian — State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
  95. KOReader — KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. It supports PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, EPUB, DOC, MOBI, and ZIP files. It currently runs on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Ubuntu Touch and Android devices.
  96. What book is absolutely flawless and impossible to put down once you start it? : AskReddit — r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
  97. Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yWURQTa
  98. Il debito nascosto dietro la corsa ai data center per l’AI — Un’inchiesta di Nikkei Asia stima che Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta e Oracle abbiano 1.650 miliardi di dollari di debiti fuori bilancio legati agli investimenti in AI e data center. L’uso di veicoli societari speciali richiama i rischi del caso Enron e alimenta…
  99. Joomy Korkut - Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  100. Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex & All-Clad Now

The Next Web

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best LCD/LED TV
  2. The Best TV Wall Mounts
  3. The Best Shoe Racks
  4. The Best Rug Pads
  5. The Best Neck Fans
  6. I Thought I Was Too Chesty to Wear a Bralette. The Defy Bra Proved Me Wrong.
  7. 33 Gifts for Gen Z
  8. The Best Grabber Tools
  9. The Best Extension Cords for Your Home and Garage
  10. The Best Things to Get for Your New Laptop

Sweethome

  1. The Best Ceiling Fans
  2. The Best Rug Pads
  3. The Best Shoe Racks
  4. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  5. The Best Removable Wallpapers
  6. The Best Extension Cords for Your Home and Garage
  7. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  8. The Best Air Mattress
  9. The Best Bath Towel
  10. The Best Window Air Conditioner Bracket

Hacker News

  1. Elevators
  2. qm
  3. Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
  4. Big Food vs. the People
  5. Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)
  6. Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
  7. Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
  8. Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
  9. Severance
  10. June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
  11. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
  12. Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion
  13. DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
  14. Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion
  15. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
  16. Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
  17. Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
  18. Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Is Missing Opportunities to Apply Lessons
  19. A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig
  20. How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
  21. Making Referential Stability a Type
  22. Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers
  23. The End of an Era
  24. The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule''
  25. The Art of Decision-Making (2019)
  26. 13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS
  27. Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
  28. Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
  29. Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
  30. Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Ars Technica

  1. High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
  2. Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle
  3. China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
  4. Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs
  5. Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.
  6. AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
  7. Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
  8. How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
  9. Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon
  10. Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple's Q3 2026 earnings call
  11. Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers
  12. Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV
  13. Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show
  14. Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future
  15. Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required
  16. Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety
  17. Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit
  18. Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
  19. New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
  20. Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say
  2. Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links
  3. New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation'
  4. Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts
  5. LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
  6. Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie
  7. Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
  8. Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US
  9. New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption
  10. A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack
  11. Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History
  12. ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship'
  13. Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval For Paid Robotaxis Without Human Controls
  14. Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
  15. Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot

BoingBoing

  1. Patronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars
  2. If you like indie games, have you tried the Itch desktop app?
  3. AI won't take your job, but someone who knows Claude might — this course is just $14
  4. At $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war
  5. Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage
  6. AI assistant named for long-dead pharmacy founder mutters incomprehensibly and "demands that you talk to him"
  7. Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"
  8. Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features
  9. U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference
  10. Lawsuit claims underperforming Comcast workers subjected to abusive ritual
  11. The cars he hated became the prosecution's photo department
  12. Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård
  13. The new Washington bar exam could not demonstrate minimum technical competence
  14. Wisconsin moves to shut down anti-Trump brewery over minor permit violations
  15. Grandpa Pudding Brains befouls a funeral
  16. A pig named Daisy rates foods by how much she licks her lips
  17. Happy Mutants! Please help rescue marine mammals!
  18. New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
  19. Skip the resume rewrites with FirstResume for $39.99
  20. In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers
  21. Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research
  22. A town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras
  23. The only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats
  24. Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
  25. FCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots
  26. Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years
  27. Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison
  28. A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator
  29. Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results
  30. AI companies are scanning and destroying old books

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-27-26 to 7-31-26)
  2. A Space-Saving Retractable Spiral Staircase
  3. Second White's Sleek Folding Electric Scooter
  4. Improvised Transport on Abandoned Infrastructure: Colombia's Ingenious Motorcycle-Railroad Adapters
  5. Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
  6. U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
  7. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  8. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  9. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
  10. Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
  11. Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
  12. Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
  13. Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
  14. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
  15. A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Apple’s new AirTags are back down to their best price
  2. Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
  3. The NHTSA is investigating 1.2 million Tesla vehicles over suspension failure reports
  4. Google might launch a ‘Pixel Tag’
  5. The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse
  6. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a quirky life sim that’s worth buying at this discount
  7. Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth
  8. The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts
  9. New York sues Kalshi for allegedly running an ‘illegal gambling operation’
  10. It’s time to panic about AI safety

Wired

  1. Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
  2. Can Republicans Actually Send Anthony Fauci to Jail?
  3. Best Robot Vacuum of 2026: Shark, Eufy
  4. AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
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  6. Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Omni Review: For Multisystem Gamers
  7. Best Dyson Vacuums (2026): V15 Detect, Gen5Detect, PencilVac
  8. 6 Best Phones With Headphone Jacks (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  9. Daisy One Review: Comfy and Tactile Headphones
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  11. The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
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  13. Mattress Firm Coupons: Save up to $700 |
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  15. Alo Discount Code: Save on Activewear August 2026
  16. Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Into 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests
  17. How the FCC’s New Rule Will Affect Robot Vacuums
  18. A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran
  19. Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
  20. Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

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  4. Your Samsung Galaxy Watch's Browser Just Got a Useful Upgrade
  5. You Might Soon Have to Pay More for Higher Access to Siri AI
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  12. This Budget Samsung OLED TV Is Now $800 Off Its Original Price
  13. Google Docs Is Rolling Out These Three New Gemini Features
  14. If You Loved ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  15. The Pixel 11's Biggest New Feature Might Be Its Inflated Price Tag
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The Register

TechMeme

  1. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to "addictive" social media algorithms (Ben Szalinski/Capitol News Illinois)
  2. An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add "stronger guardrails" after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (Geoff Brumfiel/NPR)
  4. Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
  5. Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
  6. Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
  7. OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
  8. Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: "I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent" (Reuters)
  9. Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
  10. SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
  11. South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (Haram Lim/Bloomberg)
  12. MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
  13. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis)
  14. Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (Abner Li/9to5Google)
  15. Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)