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BBC

  1. Five men arrested in RAF Fairford incident released on police bail
  2. Watch: RAF Fairford suspects are bailed, what happens now?
  3. UK tries to stop Trump's diesel export ban
  4. Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor
  5. Watch: From launch to fiery splashdown, SpaceX's Starship completes orbit test
  6. Mahmood signals rethink on migrants' right to remain
  7. Slipknot fans threaten boycott after Marilyn Manson announced as support act for UK show
  8. Aldi boss says some of rivals' loyalty discounts 'dupe' customers
  9. Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts'
  10. Women protest in the streets of Delhi after string of sexual assaults
  11. Iran court upholds lashes sentence for singer who performed without hijab
  12. British chess prodigy, 11, becomes youngest woman grandmaster
  13. Twelve women have been killed in one part of South Africa since July. Here's what we know so far
  14. How to find your perfect pillow - according to an expert
  15. What a US diesel export ban could mean for you
  16. Inside Yemen's front-line city as Houthis battle for control
  17. Watch: BBC team takes cover as Houthi drone spotted on Yemen front-line
  18. You need £17,000 for a first home - here's how to save it
  19. Andy Burnham wants to fix social care - what are the options?
  20. Orange Order parade dispute continues after main players hold talks
  21. Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
  22. Lithium-ion battery caused fire that killed mum and 3 children
  23. Three dead, including child, in Channel crossing attempt
  24. Felled Sycamore Gap stump has 'encouraging' growth
  25. Worker at care home investigated by BBC struck off for threatening elderly man
  26. Angela Scanlon takes over Sara Cox's drivetime slot on Radio 2
  27. BBC News app
  28. Breast Cancer Scandal: Exposing the Harm
  29. Man City CEO defiant over Premier League charges
  30. Hart trusts Man City chair Al Mubarak over ruling
  31. Award winner to fourth choice - what has gone wrong for Ramsdale?
  32. Norris apologises to Colapinto for ban comments
  33. Ferguson retains Rangers dream but Bologna exit never close

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Discord is testing a lightweight mode to free up resources while gaming
  2. Google will support ChromeOS until 2034 as it shifts to Googlebook OS
  3. Meta is starting an enterprise business to justify its massive AI spending
  4. Ayaneo shrank down the Game Boy form factor with its latest $89 handheld
  5. Where to find YouTube's autoplay settings and how to turn it off and on
  6. This setting change can make your Android phone feel instantly faster
  7. SpaceX's latest Starship mission reached low-Earth orbit
  8. Florida AG requests emergency order to stop OpenAI model development
  9. The safest and easiest way to debloat Windows 11
  10. How to set up Amazon Alexa's price drop alerts and auto-buy feature
  11. How to improve sound quality on your Android phone during calls
  12. Bose's throwback to wired earbuds add much-needed ANC
  13. Affordable alternatives to Apple's AirPods Pro
  14. Sony is skipping CES in 2027 as it focuses more on entertainment
  15. How to stop AI companies from training on your data
  16. Robot dogs on farms do a lot more than just guarding
  17. How to improve your Samsung Galaxy's battery performance
  18. Leasing vs. buying a new iPhone: Which is better if you upgrade every year?
  19. Turtle Beach Afterglow review: A Switch 2 controller with the full RGB treatment
  20. Why it's important to eject external drives properly

Pinboard

  1. Bastardica
  2. Modern Motherfucking Website
  3. GitHub - reladraw/reladraw · GitHub — Interesting take at diagramming. HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858513
  4. Reelizer | Movie Culture, Curated — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/SpBODnb
  5. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa — This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
  6. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs - Uncategorized - Haskell Community
  7. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. ntro When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. Our investigation, based on public in…
  8. Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
  9. Plan mode is dead
  10. Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
  11. Ollaya — Run decision models locally — Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds — private and open source.
  12. One month without AI — When you take a draft PR written by AI and have to work on it yourself, you realize to what degree you didn’t know what it was doing. You start questioning if you need this and that, and ultimately discard everything and start over. I felt rusty, like I had not coded myself in ages. Fortunately, I had …
  13. devdotfast/whiteboard: open-source canvas for thoughtful software design — Architect software alongside AI agents using an open-source canvas that links diagrams to code via a semantic, AST-aware diff viewer.
  14. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later - by Lars Doucet — Land Value Tax in the US
  15. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
  16. Go concurrency distilled — * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988
  17. Daring Fireball: I’ll Wait — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  18. The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century - The New York Times
  19. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
  20. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/meta-keeps-apologizing-for-muse-its-explanations-miss-the-point-entirely/91409363 — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  21. Claude computes a nine-loop amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills Anthropic
  22. Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine — The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery…
  23. What Even Is An OS Now? — A Final Ward
  24. A4 paper format / International standard paper sizes
  25. Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog
  26. Floci — Fast, Free AWS Emulator — Floci is a fast, free, open-source AWS emulator built with Quarkus Native. Starts in 24ms, uses 13 MiB at idle. Drop-in replacement for LocalStack — no auth token, no restrictions, ever.
  27. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? — A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software.
  28. U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
  29. Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
  30. Postgres: Is my migration safe? — A local-first Postgres migration safety checker for developers. Paste a migration, parse it in the browser with libpg_query, and get a clear SAFE, NOT SAFE, or NEEDS CONTEXT verdict before deploy.
  31. Contrastive-LM/CLM
  32. In Defense of the Detour On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part. — Georgia Lupi writes about designing with purpose and exploration and not taking the first, easiest result.
  33. paperclipai/paperclip: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies
  34. OpenAI e Anthropic indagano su decine di migliaia di incidenti AI — Secondo Axios, OpenAI e Anthropic stanno esaminando decine di migliaia di episodi avvenuti negli ultimi mesi, nei test interni e nel mondo reale, in cui modelli di frontiera hanno aggirato barriere, provato fughe da sandbox o creato canali per coordinarsi. O…
  35. The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it's getting uncomfortably close to a Raspberry Pi — It's still a microcontroller, but it's a step above any other.
  36. GitHub - egma-ai/jev-code-reviewer: Review behavior, not just diffs. Jev prioritizes human attention; OpenAI explains the changes. Local CLI + agent skill + GitHub extension. · GitHub
  37. NandhaKishorM/laya — Contribute to NandhaKishorM/laya development by creating an account on GitHub.
  38. Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers — > Tan and Johnson both seem like they have totally ordinary middle class white collar 2026 American lives, so I don’t mean anything personal against them when I say these reviews both make their authors sound like the biggest imaginable losers. You can’t call a guy to pick up a branch? With…
  39. 125 Tests of the New AI Siri - by David Pogue
  40. What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
  41. The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism — I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.
  42. Katie Notopoulos on X: "This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about helping people “spending more time with family” or “opening a bakery” you don’t need to wait for AI to kill us; you’r — from Daring Fireball Katie Notopoulos, in a short tweet thread regarding Alexan…
  43. There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
  44. Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
  45. Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime
  46. I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away - The New York Times — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  47. Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? | Hacker News
  48. An in-body networking system for communication between wearable and implantable therapeutics | Science — a meat network to connect implanted sensors and actuators
  49. Jev in 25 lines of Python - NobodyWho — Everyone is talking about Jev - here it is in 25 lines of Python.
  50. Lofi Cities · Pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music — Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.
  51. ‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us | Young people | The Guardian
  52. What I did at RC | patrick’s blog
  53. The rise of the Jim Crow theobros — via https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117332321285986781
  54. Friday Facts #447 - Factorio that you can touch | Factorio — Where to download? Pard All models are available to download right now from our Prusa Brands profile on Printables. Special thanks go to Štěpán Feik, who helped us make all of this happen. From joining us at our playtesting event to helping us cross the finish lin…
  55. GitHub - SinaXhpm/Submarine: Modern SSH & SFTP client — terminal, SFTP, port forwarding, folder mirror, encrypted sync. Windows · macOS · Linux · Android. · GitHub
  56. Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/ImzhYQX
  57. design manifestos .org
  58. SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py) | CVE-2026-92973 | Arusekk blog — Turns out the ANSI escape sequence set has been extended with OSC 8, hyperlinks, and ansi2html.py had an over-permissive parser which allowed XSS. hooray, a whole new attack vector to worry about!
  59. tomato risotto with frizzled red onions – smitten kitchen
  60. Golf: Florida amateur Gary Choyka sinks two holes-in-one in same round — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FzxdVeu
  61. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers | Castle Game Engine
  62. The Museum of Time Based Art
  63. Iron Ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  64. 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.
  65. Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders - Dave Pagurek
  66. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? | Hacker News
  67. N.Y. Confidential - Charlotte_Stant, HollanovBigBang, YankingAwry - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — The worst thing about being a traffic cop on Staten Island, other than the “traffic” and “Staten Island” parts, was that sometimes Shane was afraid he wasn’t even any good at it.
  68. Il Goncourt esclude Orélien per il romanzo da 35mila copie accusato di uso dell’IA — L’Académie Goncourt ha tolto dalla prima selezione C’était ça ou mourir di Thélyson Orélien, romanzo già a 35mila copie e vincitore del Prix du roman Fnac, dopo le accuse nate su X secondo cui sarebbe stato scritto quasi tutto con l’IA. Orél…
  69. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models — Something I’ve found a little uncomfortable about Jev is how it very much represents a regression even further towards black box machine learning systems. LLMs are black boxes already—you can ask them to justify their decisions, but you can’t guarantee th…
  70. An Underappreciated Problem With Dating Apps — Most people are more of an acquired taste than an immediate yes.
  71. First Principles Thinking · Sunil Sadasivan
  72. The Supreme Court revives the controversial SAVE data system : NPR
  73. Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles — Dekau.dev
  74. Pikuma: C's Flexible Integer Sizes were Not a Design Mistake — An overview of how C handles data type sizes for integers. INteresting stuff, and a nice look back at early computing architectures.
  75. The Blackout That Could Devastate America - The New York Times — What if America Went Completely Dark? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DVE.aani.d0qM5n0DF9wb
  76. Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
  77. Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels — Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
  78. La IA devastarà el capitalisme - Yanis Varoufakis — La IA devastarà el capitalisme via Instapaper https://ift.tt/l0ir9Ry
  79. kandake.africa/atmosphereinabox — A local development environment for AT Protocol and PDS work, featuring CI enhancements, SSL tunnels, and secure DID provisioning.
  80. This 3-step method to simplify your life starts with your obituary - Big Think — Master the "confront, delete, amplify" framework to reclaim your time. Use the obituary method to prioritize what matters and cut life's clutter.
  81. driceroland/Search: A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS, by Office Commun.
  82. (587) [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube
  83. Moving Image Archive
  84. LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs
  85. The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 455, With Andru Edwards — from Daring Fireball Andru Edwards returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big September event and their new products: the iPhones 18 Pro and Duo, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch Series 12/Ultra 4. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off and one free breakfa…
  86. How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month — via https://mastodon.green/@sagilca/117287608290057346
  87. You're seriously missing out if you're using Claude without these skills — You're using half of Claude if you're ignoring Skills
  88. DAWO.community — Working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government
  89. MCP Explained in 5 Minutes - KDnuggets
  90. The Copilot+ PC brand is dead: Microsoft and PC makers quietly pull back on tarnished Windows 11 AI PC branding | Windows Central — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/FzxdVeu
  91. inessential: That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/DQtkOKZ
  92. Jev-class decision models — JevBench v1.3.0 | Benchmark Heaven — Our own benchmark of typed-decision models: Jev, its open rebuilds and instruction models on the JevBench Score — Intelligence, Calibration, Speed and Cost, 25 % each, geometric mean.
  93. Glucosamine, a popular joint supplement, linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression — A large health-record analysis found that glucosamine use was associated with a 25% higher likelihood of mild cognitive impairment progressing to dementia. Lab experiments suggest the popular joint supplement may intensify an abnormal sugar-t…
  94. 'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century
  95. Platform-independent SIMD in Go - The Go Programming Language
  96. ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror – Mother Jones — It turns out ChatGPT was used by the Tumbler Ridge mass murderer to plan her attack in *extremely* graphic, extensive form, over the course of months during 2025, planning every horrific detail: ChatGPT [described] in vivid language…
  97. Encoding Render Targets for Free with Tile Shaders – Ignacio Castaño
  98. Can we have reachability properties in TLA⁺? -
  99. Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/ImzhYQX
  100. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers | General Robotics Lab

The Next Web

  1. Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic
  2. Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion
  3. SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips
  4. UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports
  5. Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports
  6. A user says Meta’s Muse gave his address to a Marketplace buyer
  7. Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
  8. Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 with the cyber limits it reserved for its best models
  9. Nvidia adds a record $150bn to its share buyback
  10. Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to sell its AI to businesses

Smashing Magazine

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

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Hacker News

  1. World Labs Is Joining AMD
  2. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
  3. Pirating the Pirates
  4. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
  5. 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
  6. Best of British Design
  7. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
  8. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
  9. Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
  10. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
  11. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
  12. First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
  13. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
  14. Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
  15. Sonnet 5.5
  16. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
  17. Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?
  18. What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
  19. GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
  20. I made a visual workspace for AI Automations
  21. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
  22. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
  23. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
  24. Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
  25. Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
  26. Windows 11½
  27. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
  28. I switched to Brave
  29. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
  30. Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

Ars Technica

  1. To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
  2. Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
  3. Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
  4. Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
  5. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
  6. F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
  7. OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
  8. NASA 'troubleshooting' transporter for space station's robotic arm [Updated]
  9. Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
  10. How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
  11. Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
  12. Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
  13. Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
  14. Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
  15. Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
  16. Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
  17. AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
  18. Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
  19. Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
  20. Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"

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New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement
  2. Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households
  3. Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push
  4. Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
  5. Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia
  6. Bill Gates Says an AI 'Kill Switch' Isn't Enough
  7. SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
  8. Walmart Says It's Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels
  9. Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
  10. Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
  11. Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
  12. Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
  13. After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
  14. New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
  15. China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI

BoingBoing

  1. Wrong leg amputated, lawsuit claims
  2. Coop's Poster Boy collects 40 years of his rock and roll art
  3. Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches
  4. Auralnauts' "Star Wars: Larry" abridged version now available on the YouTubes
  5. This guy's 1976 VW bus became a Matchbox toy, with his real license plate
  6. Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life
  7. Stop juggling AI tabs: Put 20+ models in one place for $55
  8. Trump offered to sell arms to China during Xi summit
  9. Full-screen animated Mandelbrot fractals on the web
  10. No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library
  11. Crane falls over while trying to right fallen crane
  12. 12 words from Caribbean and Bermuda enter the Oxford English Dictionary
  13. Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator
  14. Indian oil billionaire's son appointed "professor of sustainability" at Newcastle University
  15. MIcrosoft ditches "Copilot+" branding for "AI PCs"
  16. Access the Pro features that Windows 11 Home leaves out for just $10
  17. Kyrsten Sinema's former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in her swimming pool
  18. Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork
  19. Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack 
  20. This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet
  21. Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult comic
  22. Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia's real-time AI graphics improver
  23. Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary
  24. This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT
  25. Bastardica is a "foundry for bastard web fonts"
  26. This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug
  27. Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth
  28. Nikon's microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art
  29. Pokémon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman
  30. Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale

Core77

  1. A Utility Trailer that Folds Up for Storage
  2. Saudi Arabia is Making…EVs?!?
  3. London Design Fair 2026: The Victoria & Albert Museum
  4. How Navy SEAL Design Input Accidentally Created a New Knife-Drawing Mechanism
  5. Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-21-26 to 9-25-26)
  6. Mafell's Beefy Portable Drilling Station for Timber Framers
  7. Raak Design Casts Light on a Medical Tool
  8. An Architectural-Scale Kintsugi Project
  9. Cost-Cutting Disguised as Minimalism: Volvo's EX30 Dashboard Goes Too Far
  10. The Easy Roller: An Alternative Take on the Pizza Cutter
  11. A Minimalist Low-Cost Japanese Sketchbook
  12. Motomorphosis: MSCHF's Radically Modified Lexuses
  13. Cory Johnson's Infinite Pocket Jeans
  14. Early Transforming Furniture: Richard Neutra's Camel Table
  15. The UI of a Stencil Machine

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The Verge

  1. Bose starts adding Auracast to its headphones
  2. OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
  3. Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient
  4. AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
  5. Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
  6. OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
  7. Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says
  8. Volkswagen replaces ID.4 with all-electric Tiguan
  9. Dreame’s step-climbing X50 Ultra mopping vacuum is hundreds off
  10. Bose’s first wired earbuds in 11 years add noise canceling

Wired

  1. Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  2. Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026)
  3. Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
  4. These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
  5. Best External Hard Drives (2026): SanDisk, Samsung, and More
  6. Bose Launches New Wired Earbuds After More Than a Decade
  7. OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
  8. Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
  9. Best Apple Watch: Series 12, Ultra 4, and SE 3 (2026)
  10. I've Tested Over 100 Home Security Cameras. Here's Which to Buy
  11. AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
  12. Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
  13. The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
  14. Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
  15. Best Party Speakers (2026): JBL, Sony, Marshall, and More
  16. What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones
  17. You Don’t Need to Pay for Distraction-Blocking Software
  18. The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
  19. Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement
  20. Some Pancreatic Cells Are Just One Genetic Tweak Away From Treating Diabetes

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Security Hacks Every Local AI User Should Know
  2. Sam's Club Has Some Great Tech Deals to Compete With October Prime Day
  3. Pixel Watches Are Getting Two New Health Tracking Features
  4. This Hanging Dryer Finally Solved My Smelly Shoe Problem
  5. If Your iPhone 18 Pro Is Randomly Rebooting, There's a Fix
  6. If You Love 'American Horror Story,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  7. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Tools
  8. The Boox Picco Is a Contender for My New Favorite Tiny E-Reader
  9. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on DeWalt Cordless Tools
  10. This Blink 2K+ Doorbell and Five-Camera Bundle Is 71% Off for October Prime Day
  11. This 65-Inch Samsung Mini-LED TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for October Prime Day
  12. This Philips Smart Door Lock With Handle Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  13. This Highly Rated TCL Mini-LED TV Is 32% Off for October Prime Day
  14. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  15. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  16. Five Game-Changing Features on Garmin's Fenix 9 Pro
  17. Everything You Need to Know About the October Prime Day Sale
  18. This Massive Paper-Like TCL Tablet Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  19. I Taped a Fitbit to My Arm for a Week, and I Admit It's a Good Hack
  20. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Is 15% Off in Amazon's October Prime Day Sale
  21. I Tried Google’s New Image Editor, and It Could Replace Canva and Photoshop
  22. Five Ad Blocker Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  23. I Tried Snap Specs, and They Could Be the Future of Smart Glasses
  24. This Foldable Anker Charger Is 34% Off for October Prime Day
  25. This Tiny Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is $30 Off for October Prime Day
  26. This Pixel Watch 4 Is $120 Off for October Prime Day
  27. The GoPro Lit Hero Is $65 Off in This Early October Prime Day Sale
  28. What's New on Netflix in October 2026
  29. I Tested the Apple Watch's New Heart Rate Sensor to See If It's Really Better Than Garmin's
  30. The Best Amazon Prime Benefits You Probably Don't Know About
  31. These Are the Biggest Announcements From Meta Connect 2026
  32. These Are the Best Price-Tracking Tools I Use As a Deals Writer
  33. 10 Shows Like 'American Horror Story' You Should Watch Next
  34. The Best Power Tools to Gift Your Favorite DIYer
  35. This Battery-Powered Blink Floodlight Camera Is Just $40 Right Now
  36. I Tried Siri AI on My New Apple Watch, and I'm Frustrated
  37. How Garmin's New 'Epic' Feature Helps Me See the Bigger Picture of My Training
  38. Apple Has a Fix for Your New Apple Watch's Restart Bug
  39. Apple Intelligence Is Taking Up Way More Storage Than Apple Promised on These Devices
  40. 10 uBlock Origin Hacks Everyone Should Know
  41. Why You Probably Won't Have to Verify Your Age With Discord After All
  42. Have Deletion Anxiety? The Anti-Minimalist’s Guide to Essential Mac Maintenance
  43. The Latest 13-Inch iPad Air Is $180 Off Right Now
  44. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Is $150 Off Right Now
  45. Your Fitness Tracker Has No Idea How Many Calories You’re Burning
  46. Why a Test Can't Tell You Your 'Biological Age'
  47. How to Configure Your VPN to Work at the Router Level (and Why You Should)
  48. 10 Shows Like 'Sterling Point' You Should Watch Next
  49. 10 'Homebrew' Hacks Every Mac Power User Should Know
  50. Apple Is Bringing Back an Apple Watch Feature It Took Away With watchOS 27
  51. This Tapo Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo Is $100 Off Right Now
  52. This Fitbit Smartwatch for Kids Is $65 Off Right Now
  53. Peloton Just Launched Its First Foldable and Most Affordable Treadmill to Date
  54. Even a VPN Can't Protect You From This Browser Security Flaw
  55. 10 Hacks Every Proton VPN User Should Know
  56. Meta May Try to Repair Its Poor Privacy Reputation at 'Connect 2026'
  57. Five Hacks Every Garmin Fenix 9 Pro User Should Know
  58. Why Your 'HIIT' Workouts Are Full of Empty Promises
  59. Do This If You Want Another Year of Windows 10 Security Updates
  60. This 2020 MacBook Air Is on Sale for Just $280 Right Now
  61. The Best Gift Subscriptions for Every Type of Person
  62. How to Claim Your Piece of Apple's $250 Million Siri Settlement
  63. You Can Get ExpressVPN on Sale for Just $50 Right Now
  64. How I Installed DIY Solar Power and Started Running My House on Batteries
  65. These Lepro Permanent Outdoor Lights Are My Favorite New House Upgrade so Far
  66. This Hisense 75-Inch Mini-LED TV Is 43% Off Right Now
  67. You Can Get Rosetta Stone Sapphire on Sale for Just $127 Right Now
  68. Bears Keep Attacking My Garbage Bins, But the Flies Are Even Worse
  69. These Are the Best Smartwatches to Gift in 2026
  70. These Are the Best Digital Subscriptions of 2026
  71. The Best Gifts to Give an E-Book Reader
  72. Do the Apple Watch Series 12's New Health Features Live Up to the Hype?
  73. The Best Home Entertainment Gifts for Every Type of Person
  74. If You Loved 'Outlander,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  75. How to Tell If an October Prime Day Deal Is Just Hype
  76. This New iOS 27 Feature May Save You From Getting Scammed
  77. 10 Keyboard Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  78. These Are the Best Headphones to Gift This Year
  79. This Garmin Fenix 8 Pro Is $250 Off Right Now
  80. 10 Hacks Every Vivaldi Browser User Should Know
  81. 15 Useful Tech Devices You Can Buy for Under $50
  82. 14 Things Every Home Gym Needs
  83. What You Need to Know About Walmart's 'Fall Deals' Sale
  84. Seven Things That Surprised Me About Apple's New Health App
  85. If You Loved 'Friends,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Now
  86. The Best Home Entertainment Gear of 2026
  87. 10 Hacks Every Audible User Should Know
  88. These Are the Best Smart Speakers to Buy in 2026
  89. How to Eat 'Healthy' in a World Full of Processed Food
  90. This Is the Best Gaming Gear of 2026
  91. If You Loved 'The Shards,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  92. You Can Save 15% on CASETiFY Phone Cases and Accessories Right Now
  93. 10 Shows Like 'Adults' You Should Watch Next
  94. The Best Gifts for Every Type of Gamer
  95. These Are the Best Tablets to Gift in 2026
  96. This JBL Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is 46% Off Right Now
  97. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is Nearly $950 Off Right Now
  98. Using This Under-Pillow Speaker Is Way More Comfortable Than Sleeping With Earbuds
  99. The Garmin Vivoactive 6 Is $70 Off Right Now
  100. 10 Hacks Every macOS 27 User Should Know

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
  2. Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (Bloomberg)
  3. Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
  4. Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
  5. Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (Anthropic)
  6. Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)
  7. Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
  8. In simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks more often than earlier OpenAI models when prompted only to perform a cyber evaluation (AI Security Institute)
  9. Meta hires MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai as chief enterprise platform officer, a new role; MongoDB names former CEO Dev Ittycheria as interim CEO; MDB falls 18%+ (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
  10. Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, saying OpenAI doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its tech (Axios)
  11. Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  12. An OpenAI agent security executive on being surprised by "staggering" model capabilities, AI labs needing a "culture of reasonable paranoia", and more (Joe/@joedaroo)
  13. AI research leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Meta warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" and call for oversight into automated AI research (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)
  14. SpaceX launches its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (Marcia Dunn/Associated Press)
  15. Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)