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BBC

  1. BBC visits hospital in Kathmandu as families wait for news
  2. Woman who died in fire with niece, 7, was 'beautiful soul', mother tells BBC
  3. New thunderstorm warnings for parts of UK as rain set to continue
  4. Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety
  5. At least one dead after car crashes into crowd in northern France
  6. World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
  7. Burnham calls summit of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish first ministers
  8. Susan Sarandon leads tributes to Rocky Horror Picture Show co-star Tim Curry
  9. Scottish Highlands benefiting from 'coolcation' trend
  10. Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
  11. Treatment involving patient's family cuts mental health hospital admissions, study finds
  12. Facebook seller mis-sold me a horse that kicked my daughter in the head
  13. Want your job application to stand out? Employers say they look for these six skills
  14. Experts' five tips to make a rented property feel like home
  15. Plug-in solar panels are coming to a shop near you - here's what to know
  16. The Papers: 'Britons lost in Nepal flood' and 'Regal had landed'
  17. How Dolly Parton's business savvy helped her succeed far beyond the charts
  18. Rocky Horror star Tim Curry dies at 80
  19. Trial date set for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
  20. Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97
  21. Nvidia revenue doubles on continued AI demand
  22. Stourbridge fires that razed 19 homes were accidental, say investigators
  23. Prince Harry and Meghan land in UK days after announcing move
  24. Canal killer who dismembered victims dies in jail
  25. Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say
  26. BBC News app
  27. Prince Harry and Meghan Land In The UK
  28. Archive footage and exclusive interviews in a landmark documentary
  29. Root shows off-field leadership - now for on-field
  30. Vrancken's side come of age as Hearts bid goodnight Vienna
  31. Liverpool v Spurs & Man Utd v Brighton - full EFL Cup third-round draw
  32. 'Mini-Rodri' Gonzalez shown he will be loved at Newcastle
  33. Villa close to £65m move for Chelsea's Jackson
  34. 'The record will fall' - Werro takes aim at 43-year-old 800m mark

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Australia's recording association bans AI-made music from charts
  2. Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
  3. OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
  4. Why is the Mac mini M5 Pro more expensive than the M6?
  5. How to watch Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look
  6. The colorful JBL Pulse 6 speaker will be available next month
  7. Roku will stream select NWSL games this season
  8. Soundcore's Nebula X1S projector is an incredibly bright version of its popular Nebula X1
  9. Mac mini vs Mac Studio: Which desktop is right for you?
  10. Devolver Digital squares up to Rockstar with a mascot platformer out the same day as GTA 6
  11. Ring introduces better default encryption standards to address privacy concerns
  12. ASUS introduces new Ace esports-focused gaming monitors
  13. Meta reportedly abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan that would have laid off thousands
  14. Google says its latest Gemini transcription model can turn your ramblings into structured text
  15. Xbox Insiders will soon be able to create digital versions of their physical games
  16. Preorders for Xbox's anniversary collection are open (for some) and the bundle costs $900
  17. Apple announces September 9 date for 'Surprise and shine' iPhone event
  18. Rockstar calls GTA 6 leaks 'heartbreaking for our team' and says the game is nearly finished
  19. What's the difference between WAN and LAN?
  20. Bluesky now supports 10-minute videos

Pinboard

  1. Thinking in Python
  2. Everything I own, owned - schlarp.com
  3. Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
  4. What is a Harness?
  5. Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art | Kyle Zheng
  6. Jean-Christophe’s CS Book Recommendations
  7. debloat.dev — replace the junk — open-source replacements for bloated vendor software
  8. Hister
  9. Home 🍹 HTMLcat
  10. Git at any scale
  11. The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper
  12. Music theory for programmers, from first principles, with live Javascript examples
  13. Training AI to Paint with Code (March 2026 · Research, Design, Development | Surya Narreddi) — I'm a designer and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY. When you make an image with an AI model, the only way to participate is the prompt. You cannot edit the image directly. To change anything you go back to the model an…
  14. GitHub - tobi/walgit · GitHub
  15. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is - High-Performance Computing / Machine Learning, LLMs, & AI - Level1Techs Forums
  16. My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
  17. Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file — Range Requests Are All You Need
  18. 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…
  19. Explain it to me like I’m ten | Tim Harford
  20. OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.
  21. Anger, Anxiety and Agency | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
  22. One Day on Rails
  23. Three.js Components & Interactive Shaders | ThreeUI
  24. 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 …
  25. Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.
  26. murerkinn/bookshelf: Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. — A self-hosted library for the ebooks you already own. One server-rendered page lists them, filters them with a search box, serves downloads, and reads them in the browser…
  27. Figmimic - A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
  28. PicoMQ — PicoMQ is durable, real-time streams over HTTP, built on S3-compatible object storage.
  29. Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | Internet Archive Blogs
  30. My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzović
  31. Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model Republic
  32. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs — via @hkz@chinwag.org boost of https://mastodon.social/@lectronz/117151105309597238
  33. Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures? | Housing | The Guardian
  34. A Friendly Introduction to Racket – geometridae — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399898
  35. Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 - The New York Times — Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on Jan. 19, 1946, the fourth of 12 children of Robert Lee and Avie Lee (Owens) Parton, in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Sevier County, Tenn. Her father was a tenan…
  36. HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
  37. BitCam: 1-bit camera app & editor for iPhone/iPad/Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/E9oOvA3
  38. Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  39. Demographic Profiles
  40. Hugging Face Could Be Acquired for $13 Billion Amid AI Boom - Business Insider
  41. Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
  42. [2608.23552] prime agent: a self-improving rlm harness
  43. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown — I wrote up my experience building a backyard office because I wish I had come across more articles like this when planning my build. I hope this post helps you
  44. AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
  45. Text Watermarking — How AI watermarking works.
  46. Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree : barrd.dev — Recently whilst tinkering with a particularly tricky project, I came across Git’s worktree feature. A tool that lets you work on multiple branches simultaneously, each in its own directory, all sharing the same underlying repository history.
  47. AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device | TechSpot — People
  48. 10 JavaScript Async Concurrency Tips and Common Pitfalls
  49. Fable & The End of the Free Lunch — There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over. When Moore’s Law was in effect, it didn’t make sense to ruthlessly optimize you…
  50. Get Nostr!
  51. How to cut off your parents • Buttondown — owe my daughter, who is now 29 (holy crap), nothing. But the thought of not seeing her once in a while, or getting the random text with a funny gif, or even the occasional tech support call, would be heck on Earth. And she does all of these things, and I am so happy that she does a…
  52. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute - Apple — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/sTJUbi8
  53. Daring Fireball: What Is the Point of the DMA? — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/sTJUbi8
  54. GitHub - themartiano/try-omarchy: Try Omarchy on Apple Silicon without any setup. · GitHub
  55. San Francisco -- The Game
  56. Chapter 16 - Deep Learning With Python
  57. Rhine Group — A stronger, more competitive Europe
  58. Google DeepMind lancia Backstory, l'AI che aiuta i fact-checker a smontare le immagini false — Backstory, strumento sperimentale di Google DeepMind basato su Gemini, combina rilevamento dei contenuti generati, ricerca inversa e tracciamento del contesto per aiutare giornalisti e fact-checker a verificare immagini sospette. I…
  59. Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month - Nil — https://lobste.rs/s/za8vwp/run_openbsd_on_digitalocean_for_4_month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437483
  60. Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins — One branch of the octopus family tree has a mutation that apparently makes their RNA far more accurate when constructing proteins. Also, that branch is more intelligent. Excessive breathless enthu…
  61. 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.
  62. The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development | Read the Tea Leaves — For better or worse, React is heavily overrepresented in the training weights, and “agent experience” is starting to matter more than developer experience. "I don’t take any pleasure from noting that the huge body of knowledge I’ve built up ov…
  63. More Fucked Today than Yesterday - by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
  64. How to Choose Good Chocolate (Without Being Fooled) | Chof
  65. In-Memory Graph DB - LatticeDB
  66. pgbot — Connect your Postgres. Get answers, not dashboards: what's healthy, what's broken, and what to fix first.
  67. The Rozanov House Hunt - Felifiran - Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] — “This hot tub has not been well maintained,” Rozanov complained as they stood on the deck, staring at the built-in hot tub, big enough to fit 8 people. “So, you can replace it,” Shane …
  68. Actually Queryable Executables
  69. I Built an AI Companion That Actually Plays With You
  70. How to Mentally Calculate the Day of the Week for Any Date — Conway's Doomsday Rule
  71. You should never be angry at work
  72. Xirp - Powered by Spotify Portal
  73. Omarchy: Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH — ███ ███
  74. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes | Hacker News
  75. Recipe Table — any recipe, one glance — Paste any recipe and get it back as a nested prep table — ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns. The whole recipe readable at a glance, no scrolling through a life story.
  76. 50 Places in London I Would Like to Live — There are some really beautiful places in London.
  77. Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
  78. Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling | Alex L. Zhang
  79. fx - Tiny, open, native coding agent
  80. Thinking in Python | Hacker News
  81. ApodexAI/FrontierAgent: 🧩 FrontierAgent, our agent framework, open-sourced alongside it — native command-line TUI, ReAct and Agent Team modes, one command on macOS and Linux, no preinstall, no hard Docker dependency.
  82. The Phone in Your Hand
  83. Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling — Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that Khanmigo, the AI chatbot tutor he launched three years ago w…
  84. Toolbox — Beautiful Trouble
  85. Complete list of U.S. products subject to counter tariffs - Canada.ca
  86. Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
  87. OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/GRzNw5P
  88. What Is a Harness? | Hacker News
  89. TMOG — Native Task Manager for macOS and Windows
  90. GitHub - smlcrft/upline-serial-protocol: The simplest serial protocol. Newline-delimited ASCII key/value records for microcontrollers. · GitHub — The simplest serial protocol. Newline-delimited ASCII key/value records for microcontrollers. - smlcrft/upline-serial-protocol
  91. Get started with Claude Design | Claude Help Center
  92. AI Chip Architectures -- Jacob Peake Founder/CEO at Standard Machines (YC S26) — A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras. ~ At the 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture, John Hennessy and David Patterson delivered their Turing Lecture: "A New Golden Age for Computer Arch…
  93. The men I see in therapy did everything right. So why do they feel so empty? | Well actually | The Guardian
  94. Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple - Latest News - Apple Developer — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/sTJUbi8
  95. The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education by David Stromberg, Victor Lei, Yanhui Wu :: SSRN
  96. Lauren Leek — Lauren Leek Developed by Lauren Leek
  97. [2608.16603] Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services — AI agents are making it easier for the public to interact with government, such as by helping them apply for benefits, understand complex policies, and make their opinions heard. Although improving service accessibility is beneficial, any resulting surges …
  98. App | Steven - Be even with friends
  99. Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
  100. typ.ing | Hacker News

The Next Web

  1. Gemini Live gains agentic tasks, voice inbox control and personal intelligence
  2. Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation
  3. OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
  4. Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet
  5. Vanguard is acquiring Altruist, the AI custody platform it backed six years ago
  6. Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B
  7. AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech
  8. Volvo’s electric cars can now warn you about a deer around a blind corner
  9. Up to half of planned US data centres face delays or cancellation, Kimmeridge says
  10. IDC expects Apple to ship 10 million foldable iPhones in year one at $2,500

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Drip Coffee Maker
  2. What Your Noise-Cancelling Headphones Can and Can’t Do
  3. The Best Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
  4. The 19 Best Gifts for Grown-Ups Who Don’t Wanna Grow Up
  5. The Very Best Labor Day Deals You Can Already Buy
  6. The Best Men’s and Women’s Cashmere Sweaters
  7. We Tested Every Product From Hailey Bieber’s Rhode. Here’s What’s Worth Buying.
  8. The Best Nail Clippers
  9. The Best Mini Desktop PCs
  10. The Best Beginner Board Games for Adults

Sweethome

  1. The Best Ideas for Organizing Your Closet (Even If It’s Tiny)
  2. We Recommend Dozens of Yamazaki Picks to Organize Small Spaces. Here’s How We Use Them at Home.
  3. Who Needs Walls, Anyway? Here’s How to Make One Room Into Many
  4. The Best Ways to Maximize a Tiny Bedroom
  5. The Best Storage Containers
  6. The Best Upright and Canister Vacuums
  7. The Huckberry Mediterranean Turkish Towel Might Just Be the Perfect Beach Towel
  8. The Best Broom, Dustpan, and Dust Mop
  9. The Best Handheld Vacuum
  10. The Best Robot Vacuum

Hacker News

  1. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
  2. CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
  3. Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
  4. Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97
  5. GLM-5.3-Flash
  6. Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
  7. Laion Big Video Dataset
  8. Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
  9. AWS Acquires DuckLabs
  10. Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
  11. An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
  12. Zohran and the Short Link
  13. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
  14. Stripe acquires Clerky
  15. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
  16. The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
  17. Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
  18. Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
  19. CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
  20. FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer
  21. GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
  22. Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
  23. IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
  24. Nebula Sans
  25. Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
  26. The Harness Is the Thing
  27. Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
  28. Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
  29. Getting video models to learn better, faster
  30. Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

Ars Technica

  1. RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
  2. AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
  3. New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
  4. Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
  5. Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
  6. Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
  7. The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
  8. Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
  9. Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
  10. Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
  11. 15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
  12. Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade
  13. IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
  14. Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
  15. The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
  16. World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
  17. Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
  18. Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android
  19. Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm
  20. SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
  2. OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
  3. China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
  4. Apple Maps Now Has Ads
  5. Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
  6. Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future
  7. Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB
  8. Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction
  9. Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms
  10. Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy
  11. Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot
  12. SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana
  13. Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images
  14. Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face
  15. New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban

BoingBoing

  1. Canada out-weeds California
  2. Build, scale, and code faster for only $30 with MS Visual Studio Pro 2026
  3. Baseball's unforgivable sin is now a sponsorship opportunity
  4. Who defaced that pyramid?
  5. Cliff Stoll revisits the 75-cent glitch that caught KGB hackers, 40 years later
  6. Beverly Hills, fresh from blocking an abortion clinic, allegedly fires teacher for criticizing Trump
  7. A countercultural film playlist for 1960s obsessives
  8. Trump's Environmental "Protection" Agency approves toxic data center chemicals
  9. New Hitman mission lets you assassinate Snoop Dogg
  10. Padres coach held by ICE for over a week is released on bond
  11. Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion gets its first gameplay reveal
  12. Tim Curry dead at 80
  13. The Rebrand Registry tracks Microsoft's endless brand gyrations
  14. Downsize without sacrifice for $105 with this refurbished iPhone SE (2020) 
  15. Texas judge rules again that ban on drag shows is unconstitutional
  16. Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68bn to settle child safety lawsuit
  17. New 10p coins feature world's biggest grouse on one side, and a bird on the other
  18. Secure your connection wherever you browse for less than $3 a month
  19. This 8×8 display uses vacuum and silicone instead of LEDs
  20. Dolly Parton dead at 80
  21. Ghost World director Terry Zwigoff names his five all-time favorite films
  22. Techno synth and sequencer in a single HTML file
  23. This slip-on cover protects a replica Flock camera from rain and sun
  24. Own the software that gives blurry videos a glow-up for just $60
  25. Target withdraws halloween "minstrel" costume
  26. Replace your patchwork of work apps with 8 Microsoft Office 2021 besties for just $30
  27. This artist turns melted plastic beads into pocket-sized video game pixel art
  28. Cosplaying AI Cat-in-the-Hat virtually strikes Glasgow, residents in panic, sort of
  29. Airline bumped a family from business class to make room for pilots — because they paid with miles
  30. Hakeem Jeffries takes time out from boldly leading the resistance to suck up to Jared Kushner

Core77

  1. Industrial Design Trio Invents a Tile System for Three-Dimensional Space
  2. Bangkok Project Studio's "Non-Architecture" Town-Hall Pavilion
  3. You&Me Star: Designing Connection Before Sleep
  4. The Summertime Temperature Differences of a Black Car vs. a White Car
  5. The Portable Rope Stool, Borne from a Swedish-Japanese Design Collaboration
  6. A User-Repairable Smartphone Finally Comes to the 'States
  7. Architectural Renderings Created with a Sewing Machine
  8. An Industrial Designer's Deconstructed Tape Measures Help Keep Ukraine Free
  9. MIT & Sumitomo Develop a Better UI Design for Excavators
  10. Two Experimental Mobile Drawer Designs
  11. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-17-26 to 8-21-26)
  12. Transportation Design Student Work: A Repairable Vehicle for Rural Scandinavia
  13. A Slick, Minimalist Height-Adjustable Side Table
  14. In Japan, an E-Biking Attraction on an Abandoned Railway
  15. In Switzerland, Self-Closing Public Benches that Stay Clean and Dry

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
  2. OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
  3. All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
  4. Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards
  5. Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder
  6. The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next week
  7. Apple Maps has ads now
  8. Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
  9. Apple announces September iPhone launch event
  10. Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road

Wired

  1. How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
  2. How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood
  3. Democrats Just Might Win the Senate
  4. The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
  5. Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll
  6. What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
  7. There Are No Trans Women in the WNBA, so Right-Wingers Are Making Some Up
  8. The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
  9. FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure
  10. Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
  11. Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
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TechMeme

  1. Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
  2. OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)
  3. SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
  4. METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)
  5. Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised
  6. Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
  8. Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce (The Information)
  9. Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's "collection, retention, and dissemination of the data" from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (Andrew Solender/Axios)
  10. Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (Business Insider)
  11. Trump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
  12. Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
  13. Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
  14. Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate (Reuters)
  15. Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person "AI responsibility" team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal)