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BBC

  1. Organised crime arrests as police investigate A66 crash that killed two officers
  2. How the deadly A66 crash unfolded leaving seven dead
  3. Burnham vows support for Ukraine despite 'outrageous threats' from Russia
  4. Is UK's Storm Shadow missile a game changer for Ukraine?
  5. Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan's UK life look like?
  6. World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
  7. Briton fighting for Russia killed in Ukraine
  8. Police pass Mohamed Al Fayed case file to prosecutors
  9. US-Canada trade war escalates as Trump threatens tariff hike on autos after Carney vows to retaliate
  10. Snooker champion Graeme Dott guilty of child sex abuse
  11. Manga-inspired theme park to be built near Paris
  12. Hodgkinson withdraws from Zurich Diamond League
  13. Videos showing dangerous driving easily found on social media
  14. Divorce, smartphones and control - BBC sees how Taliban run Afghanistan
  15. UK missiles offer may help Ukraine - but they are not what Zelensky needs most
  16. Toddler with sun allergy can play in daylight thanks to UV window film
  17. 'Half my business will be gone' - firms in Canada and US fear trade war
  18. Prince Harry steps down from African wildlife charity board
  19. Nearly 90,000 told to evacuate as wildfire approaches Reno, Nevada
  20. Man charged with murder and eight attempted murders after house fire
  21. Iran faces 'greatest financial offensive ever', says US treasury secretary
  22. Teenager arrested after four viable devices found in security alert
  23. Graduate job vacancies drop by almost 50% in a year, survey suggests
  24. Race Across the World star Jo Gardiner dies aged 61 one year after son's death
  25. BBC News app
  26. What Is Andy Burnham's Missile Offer To Ukraine?
  27. Americanswers… Are Trump’s Canada tariffs legal?
  28. Busby, Shankly and Stein: The makers of modern football
  29. An action-revenge thriller steeped in mythology, starring Dev Patel
  30. Watkins' departure would cut deepest - and Villa did not see it coming
  31. Rogers & Palmer star but Sanchez struggles - Fulham v Chelsea player ratings
  32. Alvarez's Arsenal dilemma amid summer's most bitter transfer tussle
  33. England drop Carse after nightclub incident
  34. Hodgkinson withdraws from Zurich Diamond League
  35. Al-Hilal in advanced talks to sign Arsenal's Martinelli

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. How does converting a video to 4K actually work?
  2. How to use Samsung's new My FanCam feature to make yourself the main character in your videos
  3. Threads is testing a podcast transcription feature
  4. The only GameCube that could play CDs and DVDs is rarely found below $1,000 today
  5. CDPR is aiming to release The Witcher 4 in 2028
  6. How to add Bluetooth to a TV that doesn't have it
  7. How to cancel your ChatGPT subscription (and why you might want to)
  8. ESPN is raising prices on most of its streaming subscriptions, even bundles with Disney+
  9. What are the downsides of a mini PC?
  10. Zillow settles antitrust lawsuit with the FTC
  11. Hot vs cold: What's the ideal temperature for solar panel efficiency?
  12. Why are more movies not shot in IMAX?
  13. The biggest downsides to using a digital car key
  14. The best way to test your Dolby Atmos sound system
  15. What's the difference between Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Plus?
  16. The new Shokz OpenFit Air 2 earbuds are nearly 20 percent lighter than the previous generation
  17. Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
  18. What is a VESA mount and how to know what type your TV has
  19. How is Android Auto different from Android Automotive?
  20. How to stop Siri from interrupting while you're using CarPlay

Pinboard

  1. Home 🍹 HTMLcat
  2. HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
  3. Thinking in Python
  4. OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.
  5. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases - lina's blog
  6. Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  7. I'm becoming AI-blind - Rafal Cymerys
  8. Git at any scale
  9. The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper
  10. Cobalt: apps and an SDK for Kobo e-readers
  11. Music theory for programmers, from first principles, with live Javascript examples
  12. jsomers.net | I should have loved biology
  13. What is a Harness?
  14. Claude Academy · Learn to work and build with Claude — Resources for everyone — whether you’re exploring AI, getting started with Claude, or rolling it out to your team.
  15. Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe - Berkeley Lab – Berkeley Lab News Center
  16. Hister
  17. Huzzah — With coding agents, prompts are (a) longform, (b) imperative, and (c) transient. With Huzzah, prompts are (a) pseudocode, (b) declarative, and (c) persistent.
  18. Jean-Christophe’s CS Book Recommendations
  19. How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti — "The more often I go through this process, the easier it becomes. When I show genuine interest in someone's problem, ask useful questions or help solve it, they remember. [...] This differs from the idea that becoming a staff engineer means replacing technica…
  20. A Friendly Introduction to Racket – geometridae — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399898
  21. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is - High-Performance Computing / Machine Learning, LLMs, & AI - Level1Techs Forums
  22. You should never be angry at work
  23. Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million — Omarchy News
  24. Is Agentic by Vercel — AI Agent Readiness Score
  25. PostgreSQL for Everything - Dr. Raphael A. Bauer, MBA | Fractional & Interim CTO | PE/VC Tech Strategy & Due Diligence | Berlin | London | Austin, Texas
  26. AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late - Anna’s Blog — Exposes how AI firms destroy physical books to monopolize data. Join the global mission to scan and preserve rare texts before they vanish forever.
  27. Explain it to me like I’m ten | Tim Harford
  28. Stop Making TUIs — Quarrelsome
  29. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore — Dan Luu’s performance argument is that AI does not make optimization trivial, but it changes the economics enough to redraw the boundary of what is worth trying. Work that used to require rare expertise and days of tedious verification can now be explored with minutes of hu…
  30. @masnick.com on Bluesky — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/PQb59HF
  31. NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents | NVIDIA Technical Blog — NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents The research project elevates Cla…
  32. What happens when a GPU reads memory | Doubleword
  33. Favicons To Go — Generate favicons, apple touch icons, and open graph images
  34. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs, …
  35. The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto — "IndieWeb is Punk Three chords and a domain name. You don’t need a record deal. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. You need a guitar you barely know how to play, or a text editor and a hosting bill. That’s it. That’s the whole scene. I. We Are the DIY Kids Punk didn’t wait for …
  36. Figmimic - A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
  37. You don't need a new Mac. You need a new keyboard | Macworld — via Macworld https://ift.tt/Em61LKl
  38. EXCLUSIVE: How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt | Reuters — Demir stood his ground and the sabotage attempt was thwarted. The 24-year-old native of Turkey figured he had caught a wily hacker red-handed. So he said he was shocked when Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) got in touch to tell hi…
  39. Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures? | Housing | The Guardian
  40. BookOrbit
  41. Life without internet made smoother. Get access to tools that help. — Butter features a collection of apps to make life without the internet a little smoother. Use it to discover and download free, ad-free apps or to spread the love and share offline. Be in-the-know, be entertained, manage business and life—even with little …
  42. Are Crows Really Our Friends? | Audubon
  43. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
  44. I like 'em thick - by Adam Mastroianni — The snobs are in full retreat. We have swung the pendulum so far toward poptimism, toward the blinkered idea that all art is equal because all humans are equal, toward the ethos that guilty pleasures are simply pleasures, that I’m not sure if we can ever swing it back. Erasing the …
  45. Body Language and Non-Verbal Communication - Psych Safety
  46. desktopcolors.com — The desktop color archive
  47. Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
  48. Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
  49. Munder Difflin — Agent harness to run an office of your clones
  50. Annual Report Archive — "For the better part of the last century, annual reports were things that companies put lots of effort into, hiring graphic designers, illustrators, and artists. Graphic design work was pricey either way, and so companies took advantage of this sunk cost to turn everyday reports into things with true …
  51. Alternative to what? Experimental schools and self-organized art education - Features - Education - e-flux — "Over the coming months, e-flux Education will republish a series of texts from the e-flux archive on experimental schools, self-organized education, and other attempts to rethink how and where art can be taught. The …
  52. Three.js Components & Interactive Shaders | ThreeUI
  53. Does AI stop children from learning?
  54. Thinking in Python | Hacker News
  55. Three important steps in my maturation process – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake
  56. People of ACM - Russ Cox
  57. Ordinary Abundance
  58. How to usher in an era of abundant vengeance • Buttondown — "This week’s question comes to us from Geoff McIntosh: A lot of people on the Internet who I once respected seem to have full-blown AI brain worms. Am I going to get conned like them at some point? Have you ever been conned by something as pervasive as this? Y…
  59. New Worlds — Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story that startles or alarms me, that feels like pure cyberpunk, nestled between reports about council bin collections and …
  60. AIに書かせたら、前より休めなくなった｜松浦勝人
  61. How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
  62. Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.1b · Hugging Face — Audio8 TTS 0.1B supports speech generation and zero-shot voice cloning. This repository contains the complete v4 mixed checkpoint, its neural audio codec, tokenizer, processor, and Hugging Face remote code. Compact Scale The defining characteristic of this release is its si…
  63. Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
  64. Market Pulse - Stock Market Tracker, News, Fundamentals, COT Data, Earnings and More
  65. A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  66. Exploring new frontiers of AI and games research — Google DeepMind — Our latest research partnership with Fenris Creations, the independent studio behind the EVE Universe, represents a new chapter in our history of AI research in games. Fenris Creations has spent more than two decades building one of the most extraordinar…
  67. Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels - Ars Technica
  68. Emily Paulson's favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
  69. He self-published a novel ‘late in the game.’ Now it’s the biggest book in the U.S. — and Tom Hanks might star in the movie
  70. Virtualization Howto: 7 Things I’d Install First on a Brand-New Proxmox Server This Weekend
  71. Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs | Pew Research Center
  72. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier — Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
  73. A dream of Cambridge - New Statesman
  74. How to rediscover your purpose later in life | Psyche Guides
  75. How React Keeps You Logged In With JWT and Zustand
  76. Walking The Length of Manhattan — Ridgeline issue 232
  77. U.S. Graphics Company - TX-02 Berkeley Mono™ Typeface — Engineering graphics for professionals
  78. Bloomberg - Are you a robot? — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/PQb59HF
  79. (1) Barry R McCaffrey on X: "In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases. Iran now poised to control access the Gulf States. US will have to negotiate new access in western Saudi Arabia, Israel, sout — In my judgement, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost …
  80. How I Hacked and Turned My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device | HackerNoon
  81. Build models. Understand AI. — Language Model Builder is a free Mac app that walks you through building a small language model from scratch: train a tokenizer, pick your data, pre-train, fine-tune, and chat with a model that you made.
  82. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all | MIT Technology Review
  83. Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  84. Daring Fireball: When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/PQb59HF
  85. Casey Newton si è costruito una wiki personale con gli LLM, su idea di Karpathy — Ispirato da Andrej Karpathy, Casey Newton racconta su Platformer la sua wiki personale basata su LLM dentro Obsidian: il sistema aggiorna da solo pagine, timeline e concetti a partire da archivi, fonti e appunti, e gli serve per il lavoro giorn…
  86. More Ways to Pay: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/PQb59HF
  87. nobuzz/README.md at main · adnanakil/nobuzz · GitHub
  88. Compression is prediction | ngrok blog
  89. New brain wave theory explains cognition and consciousness — A new theory, published in The Journal of Neuroscience by three scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, offers an explanation of how the brain produces cognition and consciousness: It uses traveling waves of rhythmic neural activity to c…
  90. The men I see in therapy did everything right. So why do they feel so empty? | Well actually | The Guardian
  91. Hello, world! · Rust Glancer
  92. Training a 125M-parameter Model to Autocomplete Piano - SimEdw's Blog — Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?
  93. TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/YBOFLTG
  94. The “Magic Just”
  95. Flock-You Detection: Counter-Surveillance Setup Guide — The Flock-You project is an open-source, community-driven initiative to detect and map Flock Safety’s ALPR surveillance infrastructure. Hosted on GitHub at colonelpanichacks/flock-you, this project uses affordable ESP32-based hardware to identify Flock cameras through t…
  96. My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzović
  97. What's the Difference Between Skirt, Flank, Hanger, and Flat Iron Steaks? — hanger, flat iron, skirt and flank steaks
  98. Toolbox — Beautiful Trouble
  99. Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash | The Guardian — Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singu…
  100. GitHub - zachahn/vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM. Save your tokens, Claude 5 is hopeless · GitHub — Save tokens by piping Claude's verbose output through a local LLM. Use this Go tool to translate "token vomit" into concise, readable English.

The Next Web

  1. Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days
  2. UPS is investing more than $2bn across international, healthcare and supply chain
  3. SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips
  4. OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
  5. Walmart went from zero to 100 charging stations in under two years
  6. OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce
  7. The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next
  8. Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036
  9. The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers
  10. Trump wants a $103,265 fee on new H-1B visas

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Salad Spinner
  2. The Best Cottage Cheese
  3. The Best Maple Syrup You Can Find at the Grocery Store
  4. The Best Uncrustables and Their Dupes
  5. The Best Robot Mop-Vac Combos
  6. 8 Very Practical Gifts That Are Unexpectedly Great
  7. The Best Waffle Maker
  8. The Best Milk Frothers
  9. The Best Smartwatch for Android Phones
  10. The Best Hurricane Preparedness Supplies and Strategies

Sweethome

  1. The Best Ironing Board
  2. The Best Clothing Iron
  3. Our Favorite Trinket Trays
  4. The Best Jewelry Boxes and Organizers
  5. 10 Ways to Make Your Washing Machine Work Better
  6. Forever Chemicals Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Limit Your Exposure.
  7. A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know.
  8. The Best Washing Machines (and Their Matching Dryers)
  9. The Best Bike Pump
  10. Your Security Camera’s Video Storage May Be Its Most Important Feature. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Hacker News

  1. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
  2. One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
  3. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
  4. The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
  5. Oceans hit highest temperature on record
  6. IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
  7. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
  8. Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
  9. Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
  10. Where did all the public bathrooms go?
  11. Anger, Anxiety and Agency
  12. Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
  13. LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
  14. Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
  15. Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
  16. Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
  17. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
  18. Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
  19. SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
  20. OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
  21. Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
  22. Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
  23. What Is a Syslog Server?
  24. Executable Is a SQLite Database
  25. Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
  26. Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders
  27. FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
  28. Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are
  29. Fences, Not Sandboxes
  30. Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge

Ars Technica

  1. GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports
  2. Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
  3. Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores
  4. Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
  5. F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate
  6. Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.
  7. Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
  8. Due to need for "absolute success," China delays critical Moon launch to 2027
  9. Volcanoes that made history
  10. Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
  11. Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
  12. Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land
  13. Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
  14. Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
  15. Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
  16. Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
  17. Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
  18. Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform
  19. Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
  20. Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas
  2. Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck
  3. Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China
  4. China Delays Ambitious Chang'e 7 Lunar Mission Until 2027
  5. FDA Approves First Alzheimer's Blood Test For Americans As Young As 40
  6. Humanoid Robots Run 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record Pace
  7. Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs
  8. After 50 Years, Physicists May Have Finally Found a Particle Made of Pure Force
  9. SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey
  10. One-Third of Web Pages are Now Written With AI, Says Pew Research
  11. Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones?
  12. The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward
  13. Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content
  14. OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens'
  15. Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days

BoingBoing

  1. Replace your patchwork of work apps with 8 Microsoft Office 2021 besties for just $30
  2. This artist turns melted plastic beads into pocket-sized video game pixel art
  3. Cosplaying AI Cat-in-the-Hat virtually strikes Glasgow, residents in panic, sort of
  4. Airline bumped a family from business class to make room for pilots — because they paid with miles
  5. Hakeem Jeffries takes time out from boldly leading the resistance to suck up to Jared Kushner
  6. The National Guard never wanted to be Trump's tool of oppression
  7. JD Vance brags about getting his wife to have the baby she didn't want
  8. Grandpa Pudding Brains gets to wave the green flag
  9. California State University system uses AI as a money incinerator
  10. Fastest star yet seen orbits black hole at 8% speed of light
  11. Epic Rap Battles of History pits Tom Cruise against Evel Knievel
  12. Replace another rewatch with lifetime access to MagellanTV's 4,000+ docs for just $150
  13. FDA upgrades Diarrhea Blueberries recall
  14. Golden Axe animated TV show airs September
  15. It is called Death Valley as a warning
  16. Play piano like an expert with a 5-year subscription to flowkey for $67.97
  17. Grandpa Pudding Brains has had too much pudding
  18. Pay $24 once to edit, split, convert, and generally show your PDFs who's boss
  19. Let ChatGPT, Gemini & more fight for your approval—ChatPlayground is just $60 for lifetime access
  20. A one-time $49.97 gives you 2,000+ bestselling book summaries for life
  21. Update to Windows 11 Pro for less than $11 with this limited deal
  22. Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
  23. Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
  24. This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
  25. Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
  26. Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
  27. ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
  28. Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
  29. Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
  30. Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped

Core77

  1. Two Experimental Mobile Drawer Designs
  2. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-17-26 to 8-21-26)
  3. Transportation Design Student Work: A Repairable Vehicle for Rural Scandinavia
  4. A Slick, Minimalist Height-Adjustable Side Table
  5. In Japan, an E-Biking Attraction on an Abandoned Railway
  6. In Switzerland, Self-Closing Public Benches that Stay Clean and Dry
  7. BikeBox: Bike-Storing Garden Planters
  8. Brilliant Design for a Specialty Construction Tool
  9. The Emergent Low-Effort Way to Share Dimensions for Plans
  10. A Sectional Hiking Stick with Tools in Each Section
  11. Tick-Tock! Time's Running Out to enter DIA
  12. A Clock That Lives on the Edge
  13. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Alex Pearce, Associate Design Director at Seymourpowell
  14. Felice Varini's Optical-Illusion Interiors
  15. CMPT's Take on the Apple Box

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. The cat-and-mouse game over 3D-printed guns has begun
  2. Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership
  3. Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback
  4. The Witcher 4 developers target a 2028 release
  5. ESPN streaming plans are getting more expensive
  6. Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck
  7. Apple’s four-pack of second-gen AirTags is $20 off
  8. How GoFundMe became America’s backup plan
  9. Netflix reportedly considers opening its app to other streamers
  10. De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year

Wired

  1. Bitdefender VPN Review: Fast and Affordable Privacy
  2. Can You Kill Salmonella in Eggs Without Cooking Them? I Tried It
  3. The Best Kitchen Gadget to Prevent Salmonella Is a Good Meat Probe
  4. My Daily Driver Gaming Headset Is Super Cheap Right Now
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TechMeme

  1. Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B (Bloomberg)
  2. Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)
  3. Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (Colin Campbell/Axios)
  4. At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
  5. Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7% (Michael Kan/PCMag)
  6. The UK backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people (Raphael Boyd/The Guardian)
  7. Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July (Cassandre Coyer/Bloomberg Law)
  8. The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership (Financial Times)
  9. The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US (Andrew Kreighbaum/Bloomberg)
  10. A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
  11. Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence (The Register)
  12. The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
  13. Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing est. of ~$17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B est. (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
  14. IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
  15. Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)