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BBC

  1. Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford
  2. What we know about RAF Fairford counter-terror probe
  3. Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England
  4. Orange Order march row goes to heart of ongoing divisions in Northern Ireland
  5. Inside Yemen's front-line city as Houthis battle for control
  6. No handshakes between Republic of Ireland and Israel
  7. Ten NHS staff removed over Noah Woods data breach
  8. England win series as Banton delivers on potential
  9. Two mass shootings in South Africa leave 27 dead
  10. Why Premier League faces uncertainty and chaos after Man City ruling
  11. Iranian minister says only negotiation can end conflict after Trump rejects Hormuz deal
  12. Celebrity Traitors 2 cast: Who are this year's 'big dogs' and dark horses?
  13. Killer Christa Pike to be executed within days - but her defence say she's a victim too
  14. Big Bang wins over fans old and new at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
  15. China's new youth idol isn't a pop star - he's an academic
  16. Social care reform could mean big risks and big rewards for Burnham
  17. Switzerland rejects stricter interpretation of its neutrality
  18. Watch: At the scene of counter-terrorism operation near RAF Fairford
  19. Two bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan climbing group
  20. Thousands affected and roads closed after burst pipe
  21. US states declare emergency as powerful storm brings flooding and power cuts
  22. Police get more time to quiz suspects in alleged plot against Jewish community
  23. Pope says 'scourge' of abuse must be rooted out as he visits Lourdes
  24. BBC News app
  25. Breast Cancer Scandal: Exposing the Harm
  26. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in a psychological thriller
  27. No handshakes between Republic of Ireland and Israel
  28. Bellamy 'hurting' as Denmark outclass Wales
  29. England win series as Banton delivers on potential
  30. McNulty first US world road race winner in 33 years
  31. Chelsea restore resilience - are they title contenders again?

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Bill Gates says it's 'completely irresponsible' for AI to not have safeguards
  2. Should you ditch your tablet for a foldable phone?
  3. BYD says its new solid-state EV battery tech is nearly ready for the open road
  4. The pros and cons of using a foldable phone
  5. Why the iPhone Duo could be beneficial for Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8
  6. How to use Android's Desktop mode to turn your phone into a tiny PC
  7. How to use Spotify's Running Mode on iOS and Android
  8. How to improve your router's security in 10 minutes
  9. Why you should avoid holding down your PC's power button
  10. Why letting Claude clean your TV's bloatware isn't the best idea
  11. Gemini Live vs. ChatGPT Voice: Which AI offers a more natural conversation?
  12. Why it's important to not put your PC on the floor
  13. Humanoid robots are getting even creepier (this one can cry on command)
  14. How to use the Live Text feature on your iPhone
  15. iPhone Duo vs Microsoft Surface Duo: One name, two very different devices
  16. How to use Android apps on your Windows PC (and why you might want to)
  17. Why we won't know how visible the iPhone Duo's crease is for a long time
  18. How powerful of a power bank do you need to safely charge a laptop?
  19. Your old GPU could be worth more than you think
  20. Why your iPhone hates printer cables

Pinboard

  1. Bastardica
  2. Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
  3. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. ntro When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. Our investigation, based on public in…
  4. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
  5. The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century - The New York Times
  6. The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it's getting uncomfortably close to a Raspberry Pi — It's still a microcontroller, but it's a step above any other.
  7. What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
  8. Reelizer | Movie Culture, Curated — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/SpBODnb
  9. Ollaya — Run decision models locally — Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds — private and open source.
  10. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs - Uncategorized - Haskell Community
  11. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges • Ars Technica — Scharon Harding: Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Goog…
  12. I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802871
  13. MCP Explained in 5 Minutes - KDnuggets
  14. One month without AI — When you take a draft PR written by AI and have to work on it yourself, you realize to what degree you didn’t know what it was doing. You start questioning if you need this and that, and ultimately discard everything and start over. I felt rusty, like I had not coded myself in ages. Fortunately, I had …
  15. Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog
  16. Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  17. GitHub - reladraw/reladraw · GitHub — Interesting take at diagramming. HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513
  18. devdotfast/whiteboard: open-source canvas for thoughtful software design — Architect software alongside AI agents using an open-source canvas that links diagrams to code via a semantic, AST-aware diff viewer.
  19. Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser – pagetable.com
  20. Floci — Fast, Free AWS Emulator — Floci is a fast, free, open-source AWS emulator built with Quarkus Native. Starts in 24ms, uses 13 MiB at idle. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack — no auth token, no restrictions, ever.
  21. Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime
  22. loading.dev
  23. F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository — For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds on that foundation with a modern interface, better app discovery, improved search, and a simpler…
  24. Transformer Explainer — https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04619
  25. Stanford CS336 | Language Modeling from Scratch
  26. GitHub - saragordic/rooms: Switch between projects on your Mac. Every project is a room: its windows, laid out, one shortcut away. · GitHub — bjtitus starred saragordic/rooms
  27. Platform-independent SIMD in Go - The Go Programming Language
  28. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/meta-keeps-apologizing-for-muse-its-explanations-miss-the-point-entirely/91409363 — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  29. U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
  30. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models — Something I’ve found a little uncomfortable about Jev is how it very much represents a regression even further towards black box machine learning systems. LLMs are black boxes already—you can ask them to justify their decisions, but you can’t guarantee th…
  31. Contrastive-LM/CLM
  32. Why ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like That
  33. Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine — The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery…
  34. I don't want the details — Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
  35. A4 paper format / International standard paper sizes
  36. Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine with Calibrated Probabilities
  37. GitHub - egma-ai/jev-code-reviewer: Review behavior, not just diffs. Jev prioritizes human attention; OpenAI explains the changes. Local CLI + agent skill + GitHub extension. · GitHub
  38. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
  39. UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer | Climate crisis | The Guardian
  40. NandhaKishorM/laya — Contribute to NandhaKishorM/laya development by creating an account on GitHub.
  41. 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.
  42. Plan mode is dead
  43. What Even Is An OS Now? — A Final Ward
  44. Jev in 25 lines of Python - NobodyWho — Everyone is talking about Jev - here it is in 25 lines of Python.
  45. Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills Anthropic
  46. The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism — I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.
  47. driceroland/Search: A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS, by Office Commun.
  48. kandake.africa/atmosphereinabox — A local development environment for AT Protocol and PDS work, featuring CI enhancements, SSL tunnels, and secure DID provisioning.
  49. It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute | The Verge — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  50. Hegel | Hegel
  51. Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/dIU4Pu0
  52. Malicious AI agents steal 600K credit cards, infect 100+ sites with skimmers
  53. GitHub - SinaXhpm/Submarine: Modern SSH & SFTP client — terminal, SFTP, port forwarding, folder mirror, encrypted sync. Windows · macOS · Linux · Android. · GitHub
  54. California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet - by Greg Miller
  55. The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Built to Break
  56. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/meta-debuts-a-dedicated-palm-sized-muse-charm-device-to-use-ai-on-the-go?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MDIwNzg4MCwiZXhwIjoxNz — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  57. Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
  58. I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away - The New York Times — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  59. Wrongly convicted Pe Ell man files federal lawsuit against Lewis County  | The Daily Chronicle — On Friday, Sept. 18, attorneys for Jordan D. Coleman, 44, of Pe Ell, filed a federal lawsuit on his behalf against Lewis County, three officers of the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and two members of the Lewis County Prosecutor’s…
  60. affaan-m/ECC: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond. — The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Co…
  61. Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/tHNX0EL
  62. thibault: "Yesterday I read about @brentsimmons@indieweb.soc…" - mastodon.design — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FzxdVeu
  63. AI labs need to start funding historical research
  64. Artificial symbiotic intelligence: Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds — DeepMind Institute
  65. DAWO.community — Working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government
  66. Postgres: Is my migration safe? — A local-first Postgres migration safety checker for developers. Paste a migration, parse it in the browser with libpg_query, and get a clear SAFE, NOT SAFE, or NEEDS CONTEXT verdict before deploy.
  67. koi.rest - watch some fish and regain your balance — * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837006
  68. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard | Hacker News
  69. Touchstones: An Appreciation of Nirvana’s 1991 Album, “Nevermind” | The New Yorker — via The New Yorker https://ift.tt/2vBNPRa
  70. [no title]
  71. China Has No Use for AI Doomerism - The Atlantic
  72. AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California
  73. N.Y. Confidential - Charlotte_Stant, HollanovBigBang, YankingAwry - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — The worst thing about being a traffic cop on Staten Island, other than the “traffic” and “Staten Island” parts, was that sometimes Shane was afraid he wasn’t even any good at it.
  74. The Supreme Court revives the controversial SAVE data system : NPR
  75. McKinley — Design your own SF Symbols — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/6crHtRu
  76. First Principles Thinking · Sunil Sadasivan
  77. lauren on X: "here's how i shipped 2,500 PRs last month to production this was originally supposed to be for Cursor Compile in London. i couldn't make it since i was livestreaming for Grok @Bot Galaxy so i'm making it available for free here on X! watch i
  78. laya-mlx — Native MLX runtime for Laya typed decision models — 7–14 ms short decisions on M3 Max. No text generation, PyTorch, or cloud API. - mizorewww/
  79. We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary | Cloudflare Blog — Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.
  80. Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/tHNX0EL
  81. paperclipai/paperclip: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
  82. Paseo – Manage coding agents from your phone and desktop — Paseo – Manage coding agents from your phone and desktop https://paseo.sh/ ai, vibecoding, vibing, agent, agents, coding, automation, genai, llm, dev, code, software, terminal, claude, claudecode, self-hosted, cli A self-hosted daemon for Claude Code, Codex, and Ope…
  83. AI labs need to start funding historical research — Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
  84. Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch | Factorio — Where to download? Pard All models are available to download right now from our Prusa Brands profile on Printables. Special thanks go to Štěpán Feik, who helped us make all of this happen. From joining us at our playtesting event to helping us cross the finish lin…
  85. GitHub - SkyeShark/eidoverse-video: Video-production toolkit for AI agents: Deno + WebGPU + three.js/TSL render engine with VRM character locomotion, simulations, effects, and a full audio pipeline — real-time GPU rendering with minimal CPU · GitHub
  86. CommonGrid — A registry of U.S. energy infrastructure. CommonGrid is a public, citable, community-maintained registry of utilities, territories, grid operators, programs, rates, and assets. Free to read, download, cite, and build on.
  87. The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding | Windows Central — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FzxdVeu
  88. tokens too cheap to meter — tokens too cheap to meter via Instapaper https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/ The price of using machine learning intelligence is decreasing by several orders of magnitude a year and shows no signs of slowing. We are likely to see LLMs…
  89. Avinash-jetwani/jevmem: Automatic project memory for Claude Code. Also works with Cursor and Codex.
  90. Peter Thiel accusa Leone XIV: l’enciclica sull’AI favorisce la Cina — In un’intervista a Mathias Döpfner di Axel Springer, Peter Thiel ha accusato papa Leone XIV di fare da «utile idiota» al Partito comunista cinese con l’enciclica di maggio che chiede regole per l’AI. Secondo il cofondatore di PayPal, Pechino la ignora ment…
  91. I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write
  92. Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/dIU4Pu0
  93. Rails World 2026 DHHキーノートの日本語要約 — 37signalsの開発方針、HEYのネイティブ化とRust、Railsの役割、CLI、Omarchy。DHHのキーノートを日本語で要約。正式公開動画の時刻リンク付き。
  94. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/tHNX0EL
  95. Four Islamic polymaths prove breadth beats specialisation | Aeon Essays
  96. Teaching Students to Follow an Idea - JSTOR Daily
  97. ‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us | Young people | The Guardian
  98. Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/ImzhYQX
  99. Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels — Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
  100. why I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it — Now this is fascinating - for example hyperinflation isn't a consequence of first contact that had occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense.

The Next Web

  1. UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia
  2. Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports
  3. China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips
  4. From AI endpoints to IAM: 5 cybersecurity CEOs we’ve been watching this summer
  5. GlobalFoundries reportedly sees strong demand for Chinese optical modules
  6. Discord rolls out global age checks that sort most users automatically
  7. The inevitable problem with measuring B2B marketing by leads
  8. EU’s AI envoy tells commissioners to focus on using AI, Politico reports
  9. Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports
  10. Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify

Smashing Magazine

  1. Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
  2. Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
  3. The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
  4. The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  5. Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
  6. Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
  7. Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
  8. New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
  9. Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
  10. How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
  11. Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  12. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
  13. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  14. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  15. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  16. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  17. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  18. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  19. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  20. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  21. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  22. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  23. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  24. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  25. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  26. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  27. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  28. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  29. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  30. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  31. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  32. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  33. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  34. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  35. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  36. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  37. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  38. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  39. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  40. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable

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Hacker News

  1. When did Google get so weird?
  2. Ember-1
  3. Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"?
  4. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
  5. The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
  6. Lunar Terminator Paradox
  7. Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
  8. What I did at Recurse Center
  9. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
  10. Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
  11. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
  12. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
  13. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
  14. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out
  15. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers
  16. Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
  17. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
  18. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
  19. Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi
  20. Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp
  21. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
  22. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
  23. KICKI: a DECsystem1060
  24. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
  25. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer
  26. Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress
  27. Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web
  28. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
  29. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
  30. Go Concurrency Distilled

Ars Technica

  1. How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
  2. Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
  3. Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
  4. Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
  5. Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
  6. Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
  7. Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
  8. AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
  9. Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
  10. Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
  11. Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
  12. After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild
  13. US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
  14. With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
  15. Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
  16. Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
  17. Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027 target for return
  18. CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
  19. Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun
  20. F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
  2. After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
  3. New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
  4. China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI
  5. KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
  6. After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
  7. AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
  8. Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?
  9. Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
  10. Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
  11. There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
  12. Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
  13. Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
  14. F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan
  15. How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability?

BoingBoing

  1. Kyrsten Sinema's former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in her swimming pool
  2. Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork
  3. Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack 
  4. This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet
  5. Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult comic
  6. Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia's real-time AI graphics improver
  7. Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary
  8. This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT
  9. Bastardica is a "foundry for bastard web fonts"
  10. This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug
  11. Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth
  12. Nikon's microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art
  13. Pokémon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman
  14. Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale
  15. Official trailer for "Musk" documentary
  16. GTA 6 collector's edition will cost $400, will not include the game
  17. Daycare sued over "Child Fight Club"
  18. Underground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah's Ark
  19. Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system
  20. Pay once, store a ridiculous amount while Internxt's 10TB plan is just $269.97
  21. Elizabeth Holmes headed to halfway house next year
  22. A chronology of early Star Trek computer games
  23. Make up to six AI models answer the same prompt for $39.99
  24. Roland's Minions keyboard sounds just like them
  25. Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on
  26. Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries
  27. Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing
  28. Rare Moomin mug sells for €46k
  29. Disney built a subway inside Houston's airport
  30. A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-21-26 to 9-25-26)
  2. Mafell's Beefy Portable Drilling Station for Timber Framers
  3. Raak Design Casts Light on a Medical Tool
  4. An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project
  5. Cost-Cutting Disguised as Minimalism: Volvo's EX30 Dashboard Goes Too Far
  6. The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
  7. A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook
  8. Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses
  9. Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans
  10. Early Transforming Furniture: Richard Neutra's Camel Table
  11. The UI of a Stencil Machine
  12. What an Anodized Aluminum Baseball Cap Holder Says About Our Product Landscape
  13. Industrial Designer Alberto Essesi's Pen for Precision Sketching
  14. The Celluveyor: A Next-Generation Omnidirectional Modular Conveyor Belt
  15. KAIST Develops a Way to Detect Hidden Cameras Using Your Smartphone

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The Verge

  1. Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
  2. OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
  3. Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance
  4. Googlebooks might be the real deal
  5. The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
  6. Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents
  7. Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song
  8. Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
  9. OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
  10. Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

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  4. The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
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  7. Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
  8. 12 Best White Elephant Gifts, Plus a Prank Box to Put Them In (2026)
  9. Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All
  10. Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
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  13. The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)
  14. Quince Luggage Is Affordable but Doesn’t Feel Cheap (2026)
  15. Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
  16. Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
  17. War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
  18. The Trump Administration Is Trying to Get Musk and X Out of a $137 Million EU Fine
  19. Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds
  20. Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections

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  6. I Taped a Fitbit to My Arm for a Week, and I Admit It's a Good Hack
  7. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Is 15% Off in Amazon's October Prime Day Sale
  8. I Tried Google’s New Image Editor, and It Could Replace Canva and Photoshop
  9. Five Ad Blocker Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  10. I Tried Snap Specs, and They Could Be the Future of Smart Glasses
  11. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Tools
  12. This Foldable Anker Charger Is 34% Off for October Prime Day
  13. This Tiny Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is $30 Off for October Prime Day
  14. This Pixel Watch 4 Is $120 Off for October Prime Day
  15. The GoPro Lit Hero Is $65 Off in This Early October Prime Day Sale
  16. What's New on Netflix in October 2026
  17. I Tested the Apple Watch's New Heart Rate Sensor to See If It's Really Better Than Garmin's
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  20. These Are the Best Price-Tracking Tools I Use As a Deals Writer
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TechMeme

  1. Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
  2. A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
  3. Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases (Qianer Liu/The Information)
  4. Sources: Trump plans to host Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, an indication of thawing relations; Trump personally invited Amodei (Axios)
  5. Meta VR Glasses is the product Vision Pro should have been; sources: Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is still on "life support" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  6. In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals (Lily Kuo/New York Times)
  7. How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry (Wall Street Journal)
  8. New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital (Brian Danga/The Block)
  9. PicoJool, which is developing AI data center interconnects based on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, raised a $27.5M Series A led by Socratic Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
  10. Numeral, a provider of AI-powered tech to automate sales tax compliance workflows in over 90 countries, raised a $100M Series C led by Insight Partners (FinTech Global)
  11. Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking (Madison Mills/Axios)
  12. Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
  13. Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)
  14. Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
  15. Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)