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BBC

  1. Trump says every adult American would get $5,000 if Republicans win midterm elections
  2. Watch: Is Trump's $5,000 election pledge legal?
  3. England's mayors to be given power to introduce tourist tax
  4. RNLI reviews security after volunteers targeted online
  5. Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over
  6. 'My cancer spread while I waited months for surgery': The cost of England's cancer wait times
  7. Apple's new boss starts with big gamble on $2,000 first folding iPhone
  8. Russia's new jet-powered drones outpacing Ukraine's air defences with daily launches
  9. August joint hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive heat
  10. Five dead and 86 missing as 'heartbreaking' fire breaks out on Philippines ferry
  11. Primark finally set to launch home deliveries
  12. We spent £23,000 on fertility treatment - now our embryos will be destroyed
  13. Four takeaways from Trump's speech at first Republican midterms convention
  14. Land in limbo: BBC visits West Bank village in area earmarked by Israel for settlement
  15. The one thing you need to do to succeed - according to top bosses
  16. Menstrual fitness: Should you be 'cycle-syncing' your workouts?
  17. American football is coming to Australia - can it succeed?
  18. The Papers: 'Farage faces Met inquiry' and 'Ready for departure?'
  19. UK needs new laws for AI in healthcare, says watchdog
  20. Migraines and acne among five more conditions pharmacists can treat
  21. Royal family rift after popular TV news presenter chosen to succeed Ugandan king
  22. Prince William, Kane and Shearer in campaign to use sport to prevent suicide
  23. BBC drops Drag Race UK after eight series
  24. Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
  25. Crowd gathers after Pakistani cricket team mistaken for migrants
  26. BBC News app
  27. Is This The Biggest Row Between Israel And The UK?
  28. Americanswers… on 5 Live! Why is Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial dividing America?
  29. Why Dolly Parton meant so much to so many around the world
  30. A vivid account of WHAM!'s legendary 1985 tour in China
  31. Spurs should be awarded 2016-17 title - Pochettino
  32. Arsenal are passing every test - and Odegaard is in form of his life
  33. 'It started as a joke, a fantasy' - F1 heads to football-obsessed Madrid
  34. Why we should expect another Solheim Cup thriller
  35. Liverpool come from behind to beat Atletico Madrid

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Xbox swoops in to publish Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' after Sony dropped out
  2. 2028 Volvo XC40 First Look: Hello new tech, goodbye EV
  3. Google has removed the Pixel Tablet from its store
  4. Apple Wallet is not the same as Apple Pay: Here's how they differ
  5. Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent
  6. Engadget Podcast: Diving into the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Apple's new hardware
  7. Playdate Season 3 kicks off on October 8
  8. iPhone Duo hands-on: Apple's most exciting device in a decade
  9. Motorola teases new compact foldable Razr
  10. Google AI Mode can hold your hand through fantasy football season
  11. Blizzard employees have ratified their first union contracts
  12. iPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: here's how they stack up
  13. Apple increases older iPhone prices by $100
  14. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro camera innovations went well beyond megapixels and AI
  15. Apple Watch's new Audio Intelligence enables a real-life conversation rewind
  16. Microsoft strikes deal with national teachers union to not use school data to train AI
  17. iPhone 18 Pro hands-on: Variable aperture and stunning new colors
  18. The iPhone Duo lacks variable aperture and a dedicated telephoto camera
  19. iPhone Duo's interface is iPad-like, with some extra tricks
  20. Apple Watch Ultra 4 comes with better battery and upgraded health tracking

Pinboard

  1. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices | Notebookcheck News
  2. Weird little guys of FOSS — List of open source people with toxic, morally repugnant behavior
  3. How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
  4. Trackables — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/6crHtRu
  5. A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
  6. MarkView - The Markdown Viewer for Everyone — The Markdown Viewer for Everyone
  7. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle — Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle https://ift.tt/LyZAgHw self.hosting, open.source, security, containers
  8. An Alien Mind — Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
  9. ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence | | The Guardian
  10. Lean-Verified Finite-Time Blowup Results for Porous Media, Boussinesq, and 3D Euler Equations — Access Lean-verified proofs of finite-time blowup for Euler and Boussinesq equations, achieved via human-LLM collaboration and formal verification.
  11. Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts | Vale.Rocks
  12. OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch — Although the problem is widely pursued among mathematicians, the specific tactic taken by Buckmaster and his collaborator is far less common. As a result, Buckmaster found it suspicious that OpenAI ended up taking the same approach at th…
  13. Industry Standard Tools
  14. Write Things Down – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
  15. GPT 6 Astra - Multi Loop Transformers and Hidden Reasoning
  16. Do you even need a presentation? — This meeting could have been an email.
  17. Marginalia Search Engine — Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
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  19. Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help - The New York Times — To treat brain rot, we need to treat the infrastructure problem it lays bare. Platforms could measure success not by time spent, but by users feeling their time was spent well. They could endeavor to make algorithmic decision-making more transpar…
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  22. Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”. — If you are hard up and working-class it would after all be nothing short of bizarre to vote for the AfD in the hope of improved social protection. There are parties in Sachsen-Anhal…
  23. Models Don't Go Rogue
  24. The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
  25. A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over — Border Patrol’s predictive policing program has led to innocent people being pulled over and questioned. In the case of Alek Schott, who was pulled over on Interstate 35 by a Bexar County sheriff’s deputy in 2022, auth…
  26. TALA is open-source | D2 Documentation
  27. "how a mobile operating system (of all places!) got data interoperability for password managers that’s easier, more secure, and more comprehensive than on desktop." — A rather quiet standard has emerged for data transfer among password managers -- mobile only
  28. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem — + https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf + https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openai-claims-blockbuster-math-breakthrough-amid-swirl-of-controversy/ + https://read.misalignedmag.com/is-openai-taking-everyone-for-fools-2481fa851544 + https://www.science.org/content…
  29. McKinley — Design your own SF Symbols — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/6crHtRu
  30. Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic
  31. Creepy crawlies — Konstantin Ryabitsev — For example, did you know you can clone the entirety of LKML and then do whatever you want with it? It's just git repos all the way down. So, you'd think that something that pretends to be “Artificial Intelligence” would use the most efficient way of using our data for training purpo…
  32. Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
  33. How well do agents use test/verification techniques?
  34. GitHub - Foadsf/vintage-latex: Twenty LuaLaTeX and MetaPost (fiziko) examples of the old scientific-paper aesthetic: engraved plates, star charts, computed log tables, knots, telescopes · GitHub
  35. GitHub - ayghri/i-have-adhd: Claude Code skill to stop it from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. · GitHub
  36. maxwellito/minimator: Minimalist graphical editor
  37. OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ - The New York Times
  38. GNU Radio in the Browser | Hacker News
  39. Omarchy: Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH — ███ ███
  40. The Real Luxuries In Life | Feld Thoughts
  41. Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  42. The Dark Side of Mindfulness - The Atlantic
  43. Bad Vibes Coding – Spectre Collie — == “It’s just like code complete.” “People already copy and paste code from stackoverflow, you know.” So why not use code complete? Why not use stackoverflow? Why choose the least efficient system and least reliable computing systems ever devised to reproduce tools we’ve already got?
  44. Usenet-Rewind
  45. Daring Fireball: SuperDuper 4 — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/6crHtRu
  46. Cloud in a Bottle: your corner of the cloud
  47. Scenarios for our Economic Future Anthropic
  48. redhat-et/ripwire: The ripgrep of AI context — “ripwire, from Red Hat Emerging Technologies, is a remarkably substantial new approach to giving coding agents repository context without embeddings, a vector database, an LLM indexer or a daemon. The zero-dependency C++23 binary parses 21 languages with Tree-sitter and builds a…
  49. Destroying Books to Build a Mind | The New Yorker
  50. OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say | Scientific American — Absolutely incoherent article. Archive here: https://archive.ph/NrZYE Just read the article and I am curious what you find compelling in the argument. It seems to be mostly "they didn't cite X and Y," "their argument is a co…
  51. LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices - Ars Technica
  52. How to get a free .arpa domain | Ethan Hawksley — Learn how to get a free .arpa domain by abusing IPv6 reverse DNS delegations on Hurricane Electric, configuring deSEC, and hosting a live website.
  53. Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
  54. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering — Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.
  55. The best dark mode toggle is probably none • Lea Verou
  56. LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features ⁄ Manual do Usuário — LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with…
  57. 15-year-olds who use AI for schoolwork are on average a year behind ones who don't
  58. The Education of a Doomer
  59. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes - Austin Z. Henley
  60. copperhead. Cursor for circuit boards. — npm i -g copperhead
  61. we have a year to fix security everywhere — GLM 5.3-flash released last week, and that means Project Glasswing and Daybreak are running out of time. Cheap models capable of dangerous hacking are now available to anyone, without the normal safeguards for refusing malicious actions. We need to fix vulnerabilities across the in…
  62. Guidance on Using CC Licenses in an AI Ecosystem - Creative Commons — Creative Commons publishes guidance on sharing openly using CC licenses and tools to meet your goals in the age of AI.
  63. Youtube. com: 216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem — The LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition) functionality that can pry into your personal life with greater precision than you might realize, with LG Ad Solutions' executives and leadership saying, on camera, that LG "owns th…
  64. Favorite by @PublicDomainRev — Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.6: “John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America”, highlights from a remarkable collection of photographs…
  65. Migrate to Apple Passwords from your current secret-keeper
  66. A faster way to convert a timestamp ➜ Hour, Min, Sec
  67. The state of European cloud providers in 2026 // crescentro.se
  68. Anthropic crea un sistema predittivo per monitorare gli attivisti contro l’AI — Secondo The American Prospect, annunci e interviste mostrano che Anthropic sta creando un sistema per seguire attivisti, proteste e minacce contro dirigenti e sedi, anche con avvisi in tempo reale di Samdesk. L’azienda dice di tracciare “persone …
  69. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  70. Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please | Larvitz Blog
  71. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
  72. composer drupal-patch-check
  73. Self-driving cars could prevent 580,000 deaths every year
  74. On-device intelligence for every product | Desert Ant Labs
  75. LLM Attention Visualization — A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
  76. EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring | Reuters
  77. Broadway Visual Explainer — After my last post about GenStage, this one's a visual explainer of how Elixir's Broadway works and all the knobs you can use to tune pipelines.
  78. Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo' - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/IUnsiTo
  79. A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await — via https://mastodon.social/@tonofcrates/117241380083291749
  80. Movie Scene Map — The Filming Locations Map for Film & TV
  81. Apple Unveils A20 Pro as First 2nm Smartphone Chip - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/IUnsiTo
  82. US datacenters face further backlash over wastewater pollution | Datacenters – US | The Guardian
  83. Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' - BBC News
  84. Vibes Are Not Data - GlitterCity - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Wyatt Hayes figures things out
  85. How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect — With their search tool, one can examine union-busting law firms, consultants, and individual attorneys; the companies that have hired them; the unfair labor practices they have committed; and much more. With their cost estimator, one can make a rough guess a…
  86. Gates on near term ai risk: “We need time to prepare for the social, political, and economic upheaval” — I absolutely agree. Note he is not talking about ai escaping human control.
  87. How Are We Building Inclusive Collections? | Katina Magazine
  88. AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute — AI as Normal Technology An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence BY ARVIND NARAYANAN &
  89. The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
  90. calesthio/Crucix — Your personal intelligence agent. Watches the world from multiple data sources and pings you when something changes.
  91. Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/5r4s7iV
  92. 消えた天才CTO。ーCloudflareの技術を作ったリー・ホロウェイ伝【後編】｜占部雅一　masakazu urabe
  93. The coming product retention crisis - by Andrew Chen — Explore why AI excels at workplace utility but fails in consumer novelty. Learn to navigate "adversarial creativity" and collapsing product retention.
  94. There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
  95. Unusual Suspects — fun!
  96. Simple is not the same as small — * https://lobste.rs/s/entcaa/simple_is_not_small * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558685
  97. Police were told night before Dover unrest that far-right agitators had converged on village | The far right | The Guardian
  98. Torph – Dependency-Free Text Morphing — Dependency-free animated text component.
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  100. astraagi hub

The Next Web

  1. Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet
  2. Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself
  3. Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
  4. Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027
  5. China rejects the US distillation advisory as unfounded accusations and smears
  6. Germany is evaluating 30 AI tools for its military with a prototype due in 2027
  7. Huawei’s US racketeering trial opens with prosecutors calling it a criminal enterprise
  8. The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal to avoid antitrust review
  9. Bernie Sanders convenes a private Senate briefing on AI dangers
  10. OpenAI asks Congress for mandatory national AI safety rules before it adjourns

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. Which iPhone Should I Get?
  2. The Best Foldable Phones
  3. Apple Just Unveiled a Folding iPhone, and It Looks Good
  4. The Apple Watch Is the Best Smartwatch for iPhone Owners
  5. Apple Event Live Updates: New Foldable iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, and More
  6. The Best Roll-Top Dry Bag
  7. The Best Card Games
  8. The Best TVs
  9. You Don’t Need a New Phone. Here’s How to Make the One You Have Last Longer.
  10. Your Phone’s Camera Roll Is a Mess. Here’s How to Clean It Up.

Sweethome

  1. The Best Bidet Toilet Seat or Washlet
  2. The Best Dish Rack
  3. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  4. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  5. The 47 Best Housewarming Gifts
  6. My Whole Family Fights Over This Electric Fly Swatter
  7. The Best Bath Towel
  8. The Best Flannel Sheets
  9. The Best Hybrid Mattresses
  10. Our Favorite Duvet Covers

Hacker News

  1. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
  2. iPhone Duo
  3. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
  4. Larger Pacific Striped Octopus
  5. Shopify acquires Tailwind
  6. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
  7. All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it
  8. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
  9. No Man's Sky Cosmos
  10. Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators
  11. GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
  12. AirPods 5
  13. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
  14. Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast
  15. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
  16. Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres
  17. Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998
  18. Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
  19. Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills
  20. Factoring RSA 260
  21. Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets
  22. ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
  23. Version control second coming
  24. Apple Watch Series 12
  25. How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
  26. The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
  27. Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
  28. GNU Radio in the browser
  29. I think I hate the internet
  30. Planet Labs' open satellite feed

Ars Technica

  1. 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
  2. Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment
  3. Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
  4. Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo
  5. When it comes to Beatles references, scientists can't let it be
  6. Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs
  7. Apple debuts $129 AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation and transparency mode
  8. Apple starts preorders for Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with new Health Sensing System
  9. The quick guide to fall vaccines and when you should get them
  10. Apple's iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip
  11. Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution
  12. Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
  13. Prime Video releases full trailer for Mike Flanagan's Carrie
  14. Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change
  15. NOAA is putting commercial fishing ahead of conservation
  16. Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
  17. LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
  18. GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time
  19. Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
  20. The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Dark Energy Debunked? Cosmic Acceleration May Be an Illusion
  2. Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI
  3. Google to Invest Record $15 Billion In AI Infrastructure In Finland
  4. Apple's New iPhone Camera Mode Promises to Prove Your Photo Isn't AI
  5. Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI 'Could Kill All Humans'
  6. OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Communications
  7. Apple Launches iPhone 18 Pro With Variable-Aperture Camera System
  8. Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone
  9. Microsoft Breaks Another Patch Tuesday Record
  10. GOG Brings Back 'Big Box' PC Games, One Printable Template At a Time
  11. Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government
  12. OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'
  13. Star Trek Turns 60
  14. Google Will 'Degrade' Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
  15. Feds Accuse China of 'Systematic' Distillation of US AI Models

BoingBoing

  1. You can still buy Microsoft Office outright, and it's only $50
  2. 22-year-old bitcoin thief who stole $240 million in bitcoin pleads guilty, faces 20-years in prison
  3. I lifted this yellow-green from a 1933 painting using a hidden Mac tool
  4. This $28 PDF editor handles the jobs you usually need 3 websites for
  5. Catfishing.net turns Wikipedia categories into a daily guessing game
  6. Tom the Dancing Bug: These are the people in your neighborhood – Mr. ICE Officer!
  7. "Donald J. Trump Memorial" appears above a Canadian public toilet
  8. Ocarina of Time's remake finally shows gameplay, and it's a mess
  9. There's a pretend country hiding in every book's barcode
  10. This 1979 photo shows a room full of Dolly Parton lookalikes
  11. Photos of stuffed animals stuffed in car grilles
  12. Normally $199, it's only $10 to get Windows 11 Pro right now
  13. RFK Jr. suggested Pennsylvania fabricated measles deaths. A coroner just confirmed one
  14. A cereal-box whistle that could trick the phone system into free calls
  15. Nathan Fielder spent three years trying to figure out Elizabeth Holmes
  16. Texas won't show voters its post-ban maternal death report until after they vote
  17. Climber holds on with one hand and calls 911 with the other
  18. A 1930s catalog sold Mickey Mouse masks that don't look quite right
  19. Six sparrows sit down for a tiny tea party, one place setting each
  20. Labor Day savings just got extended! This touchscreen Chromebook is under $100
  21. Enhance the innate beauty of your photos for life with this $70 Luminar Neo Bundle
  22. Go beyond ChatGPT basics with this $15 AI E-Degree
  23. Disney's first creator conference brings Dude Perfect to Hollywood
  24. German artist patches broken buildings with colorful LEGO bricks
  25. Years of sunlight turn ordinary signs into heavy metal-looking logos
  26. Japan's museum has 1,700+ rocks that look like faces and animals
  27. The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak
  28. Own 1TB of cloud storage for less with a coupon that expires tomorrow
  29. Make your coding workflow a whole lot easier with this $50 Microsoft tool
  30. Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life

Core77

  1. Kitchen Scissors Designed Specifically to Deal with Three Aspects of Sauce Packets
  2. Izzy Swan Revolutionizes Workbench Hold-Down
  3. Flip: Flexible, Flippable Modular Public Seating
  4. Experimental Linkage-Based Clocks
  5. Handsome, Utilitarian Pop-Up Furniture by Industrial Designer Tom Ducarouge
  6. ShiftLens: A System for 3D-Printing Lenticular Objects
  7. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-31-26 to 9-4-26)
  8. Clever Improvisation: How to Keep Your Car Going on Just Three Wheels
  9. The James Brand's Handsome, Designey Alternative to the Swiss Army Knife
  10. Industrial Designer Figures Out How to Make Ikea's Iconic Blue Bag Fold Compactly
  11. Real Object or AI?
  12. An Unusual Rolling Stool for the Chinese Market
  13. Studio Gorm Designs a Better Doorstop
  14. Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX?
  15. Fantastic UX Details in This Saute Pan Lid

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The Verge

  1. The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike
  2. Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 update adds VRR support in TV mode
  3. Xbox picks up Kojima’s Physint after PlayStation dropped it
  4. Volvo XC40 PHEV is back with a new look, better sensors, and Gemini AI
  5. There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way
  6. The black iPhone Pro returns
  7. The incomplete history of Duo devices
  8. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg placed on leave
  9. It’s the year of smartphone price hikes
  10. Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

Wired

  1. Our Favorite GoPro 360 Camera Is Now 40 Percent Off
  2. Trump Offers $5,000 To Every American If Republicans Win The Midterms
  3. NZXT Discount Codes: 50% Off in September 2026
  4. Hungryroot Coupon Codes: 30% Off This September 2026
  5. Norton Coupon Codes: Up to 58% Off
  6. Govee Discount Codes and Deals: 30% Off
  7. Herman Miller Promo Codes: 40% Off September 2026
  8. Coleman Promo Codes and Deals: Up to 75% Off in September 2026
  9. The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
  10. San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
  11. A Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, Turning Point Plans to Spend Big on the Midterms
  12. Everything Apple Announced: iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch, AirPods 5
  13. Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
  14. UK Lawmakers Are Freaking Out Over AI’s Summer of Chaos
  15. I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
  16. Apple Debuts the iPhone Duo, Its First Folding iPhone
  17. Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4: Ceramic, Specs, Release Date
  18. You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
  19. A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
  20. Apple Event Live Blog: Folding iPhone, Apple Watch Series 12, AirPods, and More

LifeHacker

  1. This Linksys Wifi Range Booster Will Fix the Dead Zones in Your House for Just $28
  2. This Classic Nintendo Switch Bundle Is on Sale for Less Than $200 Right Now
  3. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  4. Here's Everything Apple Announced at Its Big September Hardware Event
  5. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What is Face Dancing?
  6. This Is the Best Preorder Deal for 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' on the Nintendo Switch 2
  7. This Smart Robot Mower Is $600 Off Right Now
  8. How to Preorder the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Duo
  9. All the Differences Between the AirPods 5, AirPods 4, and AirPods Pro 3
  10. Why the iPhone 18 Pro's Variable Aperture Is a Big Development for Smartphone Photography
  11. We Finally Know iOS 27's Release Date
  12. iPhones Are Getting More Expensive, but AirPods Are Cheaper Than Ever
  13. Why the Apple Health App's Redesign Is a Big Deal
  14. Apple's 'Reference Image' Preserves Your Original Photos (Even After You Edit Them)
  15. Where’s the iPhone 18?
  16. The iPhone 18 Pro Series Comes With Big Gains in Battery Life
  17. Microsoft's Record-Setting Patch Tuesday Update Fixes Nearly 1,000 Flaws
  18. Apple Just Announced the Foldable 'iPhone Duo'
  19. Apple Just Announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
  20. Samsung’s 65-Inch Frame TV and Frame Pro Are Up to 38% Off Right Now
  21. 10 Shows Like 'The Shards' You Should Watch Next
  22. This 9th-Gen iPad Costs Less Than Some Budget Android Tablets Right Now
  23. This Apple AirTag Four-Pack Is $20 Off Right Now
  24. The JBL Charge 6 Speaker Is $80 Off Right Now
  25. The Best Way to Get Past an Article's Paywall
  26. This Meta Quest Pro Is Over $370 Off Right Now
  27. OpenAI Just Launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, and Here’s How It Compares to Google’s Nano Banana 2
  28. Lifehacker Labor Day Sale Live Blog: Your Last Chance for These Labor Day Deals Before They End
  29. The Best Last-Minute Deals From Best Buy's Labor Day Sale
  30. The Best Last-Minute Deals on Tools and Appliances From Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  31. These Soundcore Sleep Earbuds Are $60 Off Right Now
  32. Five Devices I Expect Apple to Announce on Wednesday
  33. 10 Shows Like 'The Paper' You Should Watch Next
  34. How to Disable ACR to Stop Your TV From Tracking You
  35. If You Love 'Reacher,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  36. These Are the Best Last-Minute Labor Day Deals on Bluetooth Speakers
  37. This Versatile Sony Bravia TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
  38. This Milwaukee Tool Combo Set Is Over $600 Off for Labor Day, Ending Today
  39. This Cordless DeWalt Miter Saw Is $200 Off for Labor Day Weekend, Ending Today
  40. The Best Deals on Garmin Watches on Sale for Labor Day, Ending Today
  41. These Six Smartphone Deals Are Worth the Money Before Labor Day Ends
  42. The Best Labor Day Deals on Tablets and iPads Before Sales End Tonight
  43. These Are the Best Labor Day Fitness Deals Until Sales End Tonight
  44. These 65-Inch TVs Are on Sale for up to $1,200 Off Until Labor Day Ends Tonight
  45. These Samsung Monitors Are on Sale for up to 39% Off Until Labor Day Ends
  46. The Best Fitness Deals on Sale for Under $100 Before Labor Day Ends
  47. The Best Deals on Apple Devices on Sale Before Labor Day Ends
  48. These TVs Are up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day, but Sales End Today
  49. The Best Over-Ear Headphones on Sale Before Labor Day Ends
  50. Samsung’s Flagship Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is 50% Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale, Ending Today
  51. These DeWalt Tools Are up to 50% Off for the Lowe's Labor Day Sale, Ending Today
  52. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce on Wednesday
  53. 10 Hacks Every Proton Mail User Should Know
  54. These Labor Day Tech Deals Are Still Live
  55. Why ‘Open Platform’ Is the Next Big Frontier for Smart Glasses
  56. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  57. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  58. Three Reasons You Shouldn't Use Your Browser's Password Manager (and What to Use Instead)
  59. If You Loved 'The Bear,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  60. TikTok Just Announced These Four New Features for Comments
  61. The Best Fitness Trackers to Give As Gifts
  62. These Five New Features Are Coming to Android Devices
  63. These Are the Best Labor Day 2026 Deals on VPNs
  64. 10 Shows Like 'Dark Matter' You Should Watch Next
  65. This Anker Power Station Is $549 Off During Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  66. The Garmin Venu 3 Is Over $150 Off for Amazon’s 2026 Labor Day Sale
  67. You Can Still Get a Nintendo Switch 2 for $400 During Woot's Labor Day Sale
  68. I Tried Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s Latest AI Upgrade, and It (Mostly) Lives Up to the Hype
  69. A Bunch of AI Platforms Are Down, Including ChatGPT
  70. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $600 Off in Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  71. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is $320 Off During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  72. These Signature Sony Headphones Are on Sale for Under $200 for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  73. These Alienware Gaming Monitors Are Up to $150 Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  74. This Philips Smart Lock Is 23% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  75. This Blink Doorbell Bundle Is 45% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  76. I Let ChatGPT Sign Into My Web Accounts for Me, and It Was More Trouble Than It’s Worth
  77. These LG Ultragear Gaming Monitors Are up to 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  78. 'Alexa for Shopping' Can Now Help You Spot a Spam Email
  79. I Ditched My Bone-Conduction Headphones for These Noise-Cancelling Running Earbuds
  80. These Google Maps and Apple Maps Alternatives Still Call It ‘Lake Ontario’ (for Now)
  81. Here's How AI Watermarks Work (and How to Properly Check for One)
  82. The Seven Coolest Inventions From 'DEF CON' 2026
  83. Here's How to Protect Your Privacy If Someone Is Recording You With Their Glasses
  84. This Is Your Last Chance to Win a New Apple Watch From Lifehacker
  85. 10 Apple Health Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  86. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in September
  87. Five Sleep-Tracking Hacks Every Garmin User Should Know
  88. 10 Shows Like 'Reacher' You Should Watch Next
  89. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are Aura Battles?
  90. Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
  91. This Blink Two-Camera Bundle Is 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  92. Microsoft Outlook Is Down
  93. If You Loved 'Modern Family,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch
  94. Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows' Latest Update
  95. 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  96. 10 Hacks Every Intel Mac User Should Know
  97. 10 Spotlight Search Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  98. Strava Is Now Forcing Premium Users to See Its AI Workout Summaries (Whether They Want to or Not)
  99. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $1,200 Off and Comes With a $150 Amazon Credit
  100. These Samsung OLED TVs Are Up to $1,300 Off Right Now

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years (Ghosts of Electricity)
  2. The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
  3. Sources: Grab is in talks to buy a majority stake in Advance Intelligence Group's Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial at a $2B+ valuation (Bloomberg)
  4. How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
  5. Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
  6. Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
  7. Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)
  8. Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron (Océane Herrero/Politico)
  9. OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an "acceptable" level (Paul Christiano/@paulfchristiano)
  10. Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (Bloomberg)
  11. Amazon names Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, noting his extensive experience "combating cyber threats" in public and private sectors (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
  12. New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press)
  13. Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and advisor at CAISI, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
  14. Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M (Lauren Goode/Wired)
  15. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)