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BBC

  1. Trump says 'threat' led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford
  2. Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
  3. King's funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against police
  4. What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's legal action against police
  5. Teenager's hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and police
  6. Prisoner took his own life after terror order had 'substantial impact' on mental state, inquest finds
  7. British Museum boss 'sorry' for Bayeux Tapestry visitor issues
  8. Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told
  9. Blue Planet and Gandhi composer George Fenton dies aged 76
  10. US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia
  11. BBC appoints Rachel Jupp as new director of news
  12. Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
  13. Jeffrey Archer: successful novelist, disgraced politician and convicted liar
  14. Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election
  15. Would the Conservatives' plan make new houses £50,000 cheaper?
  16. Henry Zeffman: Tensions exposed among Greens by 'Zionism is racism' conference vote
  17. Rachel Jupp is a bold choice for BBC News chief, says Katie Razzall
  18. It's been a terrible year for farming, Jeremy Clarkson tells Tory conference
  19. Pickford 'almost caused crash' with careless driving
  20. Average five-year mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years
  21. Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport or building, reports say
  22. Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
  23. Twelve arrested for allegedly running cat trafficking ring in Vietnam
  24. Failed asylum seeker jailed for life over knife attack attempt at Israeli embassy in London
  25. BBC News app
  26. Are The Public Ready To Vote Tory Again?
  27. England's greatest international? Kane is now a serious contender
  28. F1 needs to have hard look at itself - Sainz
  29. Player welfare, injury worries & boredom - has extended break worked?
  30. Medvedev disqualified from Djokovic match for hitting spectator with ball
  31. Gabriel in Man Utd team photo but no hint of reconciliation
  32. ECB will 'look at' funding women's Windies Test if needed

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Instagram is toying with a read-only mode for Plus subscribers
  2. Wikimedia links OpenAI agents to an outage and unauthorized activity
  3. Arc Raiders and The Finals are both getting TV and film adaptations
  4. OpenAI will add a digital watermark to text and code generated in the EU
  5. What is the purpose of a battery symbol next to a USB Port?
  6. Oura Ring 5 vs. Apple Watch Series 12: Which smart health wearable is right for you?
  7. Hyundai's all-electric hot hatch goes on sale in the UK, starting at around $25,000
  8. What are the limitations of using a USB-C to HDMI adapter?
  9. Are there any disadvantages to using IMAX theaters?
  10. Poland's antitrust regulator accuses Google of unfair market practices
  11. Wing and Walmart are bringing drone deliveries to Denver and Seattle in 2027
  12. Here's why it's important to keep your phone apps updated
  13. How to turn on Developer Mode on your Chromebook
  14. OpenAI is testing more ads in ChatGPT
  15. Siri can index more of your personal data — here's how to limit it
  16. Are phone coolers actually worth it?
  17. How far away can a Wi-Fi extender be from your router?
  18. Google admits some 'complex' Android apps run poorly on Intel Googlebooks
  19. How long can you expect an Xbox Series X to last?
  20. Qalo SL-1 review: A barebones smart band that's priced like a flagship

Pinboard

  1. Book of Shapes
  2. DwarfStar 4 (ds4): Local DeepSeek V4.1, Qwen and GLM
  3. matduggan.com/what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like/
  4. Modern Motherfucking Website
  5. The Inner Ring | Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
  6. CSS Bed
  7. Bastardica
  8. So You Think You Could Be An Electrician?—Asterisk
  9. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake | Butler's Log — Backwards incompatibility will be ROUGH.
  10. arXiv has updated its rate limit policy for all submitters.
  11. GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. · GitHub
  12. The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding - by Alex Martsinovich
  13. With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now - Ars Technica — In Stratego, there’s 40 pieces on the board that could be in any order. That’s more than a decillion possible setups. Then there’s the game’s length. In chess, usually the game lasts 40 moves, but in Stratego, a game can easily last 2,0…
  14. FrankMoji — A bold emoji set. Pixel-perfect, even on low-resolution screens. Installable color font. Supports Unicode 18 emoji.
  15. Normal Tools — Useful online tools, no nonsense — 193 focused calculators, converters, checkers, generators, and hardware tests. No account, no download, and no clutter.
  16. ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database — DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
  17. LukeW | Design Systems for AI Agents — Design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. Agents read it every single time.
  18. Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models - The New York Times
  19. The death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearing
  20. Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | Cloudflare Blog — We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to f…
  21. e2e: The open source AI testing framework
  22. Photo Finish, Picture Perfect - some1_around - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own] — There were four pictures in the tweet that ruined Ilya’s life. Or, a woman secretly takes explicit photos of Shane while they were hooking up and later vindictively posts them online, causing a shitstorm of a media scandal that just …
  23. Un progetto GitHub “tortura” tre LLM locali e scatena il caso sul benessere dei modelli — Su GitHub l’utente terrafying ha messo online “AI Torture Chamber”, un esperimento su tre LLM locali, Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B e Phi-4-mini, a cui viene iniettato un “vettore di dolore” e offerto un pulsante di stop che cancella l’ultimo …
  24. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
  25. Automatic Transmission — a data-privacy study of connected vehicles — Academic research study measuring privacy and data-sharing practices in the connected-vehicle ecosystem. Tests 21 vehicles and 30 companion apps to document what personal data (location, identity, VIN) manufacturers and third parties collect and share with…
  26. Space Now · Belle Lune 2
  27. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? | Simon Green
  28. Inlark——一款美观的桌面电子邮件应用 — A fast, keyboard-first email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Your JMAP and IMAP accounts in one inbox, with no hosted service or telemetry.
  29. Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
  30. GitHub - realZachi/pg-jev: Ask your Postgres tables questions in plain language. A PostgreSQL extension powered by TypeSafe's Jev. · GitHub — bjtitus starred realZachi/pg-jev
  31. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
  32. Tiny Brutalism by Placeholders - a relaxing freeform building game inspired by brutalist architecture — A cozy little sandbox for making not-so-cozy architecture. Tiny Brutalism is a relaxing freeform building game inspired by brutalist architecture. Create strange monuments, impossible structures, concrete towers, or …
  33. Pi Durable | Earendil — *** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969 * https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/ * https://deepakness.com/blog/deepseek-harness/ *** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929489
  34. go fish - PenAndInkPrincess - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — “Shane,” he says, dread filling his stomach, “is this Boston Lily’s house?” “Maybe,” Shane says, dropping down another cooler with a loud bang. “But shhhhh,” he says, putting a finger to his lips, “you can’t tell, okay?” “Shane,” Hayden says, a li…
  35. Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha
  36. Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? | Read the Tea Leaves
  37. Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason | MIT Technology Review
  38. [no title]
  39. The best multi day hikes in the world (2026 edition) - We12Travel
  40. GitHub - nicoverbruggen/ebook-fonts: Selection of fonts with modified line height and family names, optimized for e-reading, particularly for Kobo, Kindle and Boox devices.
  41. Every lighthouse in the world | mapped.earth
  42. GitHub - tester-army/e2e: Next generation e2e testing framework for web and mobile apps. · GitHub
  43. Pass Designer - Apple Developer — Design and preview custom Apple Wallet passes with real-time rendering. Use templates and semantic tags to build brand-aligned, feature-rich tickets.
  44. Vorssaint — The modular Swiss Army knife for macOS — I made Vorssaint: one small native menu bar app that does the jobs you'd otherwise buy several separate utilities for.
  45. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  46. GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🐹 Dig deep like a mole to clean you Mac. 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理你的 Mac — 🐹 Dig deep like a mole to clean you Mac. 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理你的 Mac - tw93/Mole
  47. 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.
  48. The rise, fall, and rise of portable MP3 players | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/UdPaSHI
  49. Ledge: The notebook that runs code — Ledge is a Markdown notebook for developers and DevOps. Run a code block in place and its output streams in beneath it. Free and open source, for Mac, Linux, Windows, and iPhone.
  50. DeepSeek Harness | Explore the limits of intelligence — Use DeepSeek Harness to work with documents, analyze spreadsheets, write code, and schedule tasks. Extend its capabilities with composable plugins.
  51. boneyard - skeleton screens for your UI — Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.
  52. Hike, Bike, Drive Offline Navigate with Privacy | CoMaps
  53. Shotbase — Capture, Record, Edit, and Share in One Place
  54. Widdecombe suspect charged with planning acts of terror against Farage - BBC News
  55. Things that Apparently Cause Cancer — What does this methodology measure anyway?
  56. Mandelnaut — Making Fractal Wallpapers
  57. McDonald's Caught Cheating Consumers for Profit as Rage Over Cost of Living Burns — Why are people so mad about the price of a Big Mac, and what does all that anger say about where our politics are headed? It’s not just the inflation, it’s the cheating and profits behind it.
  58. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype  | MIT Technology Review
  59. Foundr Radio — Internet Radio — A community-owned internet radio platform. Browse the spectrum, listen live, buy a frequency, go live.
  60. To grieve, or not to grieve? | Xena — a rare optimistic view
  61. Color Psychology in UI Design: How Color Shapes User Behavior
  62. Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Y1zA7wc
  63. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? | Hacker News
  64. Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified - 404 Media
  65. Cloudflare/clef · Hugging Face
  66. How to Cost Your AI-Powered Filters | Full Stack Data Lab
  67. Line height playground
  68. https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
  69. Yemen government announces major operation to retake Houthi territory — Saudi-announced campaign against the Houthis is going great I see =| The frontline in Yemen remains focused around the key city of Taiz, which is still controlled by the internationally recognised government. On Sunday, the Houthis cut a vital su…
  70. Compositor – The Photoshop alternative for Mac — Free, open source, and always yours. A Photoshop alternative for Mac.
  71. vodka_and_gingerale - I'm Spartacus! - Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — “And what about the others?” Crowell stops mid-sentence, his mouth hanging open. “The others?” Shane can see Ilya in his periphery, can imagine the shock on his face as he snaps it in Shane’s direction,…
  72. On Social Reality in China
  73. Why are doctors paid less for procedures on women? | Vox — When gynecological procedures don’t bring in as much money to hospitals, those same hospitals are disincentivized to offer women’s health services. That can lead to worse care for women and, crucially, fewer training opportunities for the surgeons who do that work. D…
  74. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash - Ars Technica
  75. MakerMap: find indie makers and founders near you
  76. AI in Science: Early Insights
  77. Tarnif NYRB
  78. Ryu Journal
  79. AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/Y1zA7wc
  80. RIP, vector database
  81. Phare® | The Smoke Alarm, Minus the Drama
  82. Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
  83. The private library for everything you save — FaveNest
  84. What Meta Got Right With Muse - by Mete Polat — Muse did just that and abstracted away the unnecessary complexity. There’s no model selector, work vs chat switch, obscure slash commands, or mentions of MCPs or cron jobs. It’s one main chat, and everything else serves to support it - a space to elevate ideas (although I think…
  85. Pi 1.0 | Earendil
  86. Automatic Transmission — a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
  87. Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion? | Hacker News
  88. 12 CSS features you can use today with no build step
  89. Yubi · 和你的Mac对话。她会帮你打字。 — Hold a key, talk, let go. Your words land where the cursor is, and she points at the button you cannot find. Transcription runs on this Mac. Your voice never leaves it.
  90. The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds : ScienceAlert — via GNews
  91. ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong | Europe | The Guardian
  92. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner - Derek Thompson — The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
  93. 光——在思绪消散之前到达的笔记 — Lume is a native Windows note app. A floating QuickNote bar, a Scratchpad, a Draw tool, and formats that feel alive.
  94. Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
  95. The empty brain — Your brain is not a computer
  96. Daring Fireball: Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy — I don’t think this is complicated. Their revenue is accelerating rapidly because they’re selling compute at a loss. They spent $13 billion to make $5 billion last year. Their revenue is growing rapidly, yes, but their costs are growing even faster. They’re alre…
  97. Declutr: Mac file organizer that tidies your Downloads in one click
  98. anteloc/ldraw-nova: Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev — Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev - anteloc/ldraw-nova
  99. All the AI agents that can live in your text messages  | TechCrunch
  100. The Dot and the Swarm - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing

The Next Web

  1. OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU
  2. Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval
  3. Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells
  4. US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance
  5. Security teams are starting to treat AI like staff, and that means managing it
  6. Collibra acquires Munich’s trail ML to automate AI governance
  7. OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design
  8. Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
  9. Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents
  10. PwC and Cohere form an enterprise AI alliance, launching first in Canada

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. 14 Deals We Love From Best Buy’s ‘Techtober’ Sale
  2. The 13 Best Deals from Walmart’s Fall Sales Event
  3. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  4. The Best Fireproof Document Safe
  5. The Best Wi-Fi Routers
  6. Packable Winter Essentials That Will Actually Fit in Your Suitcase
  7. Ask Wirecutter: I Need a Cheap but Fun Halloween Costume. Help!
  8. How I Saved My D&D Party From Certain Doom
  9. The Best Laser Printer
  10. The Best Projectors

Sweethome

  1. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  2. The Best Fireproof Document Safe
  3. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  4. The Best Cotton Sheets
  5. The Best Bath Towel
  6. The Best Jewelry Boxes and Organizers
  7. The Best Label Makers
  8. 11 Things You Might Be Cleaning Wrong — and What To Do Instead
  9. The Best Cordless Stick Vacuum
  10. The Best Digital Photo Frame

Hacker News

  1. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
  2. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
  3. Web Search API
  4. How to save a life without knowing CPR
  5. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
  6. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
  7. Incident with Actions
  8. The Future of Mathematics
  9. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
  10. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
  11. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
  12. Our approach to EU text provenance rules
  13. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort
  14. Apple and a hacker's future
  15. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
  16. The lamps in my house
  17. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients
  18. A third way of using Linux
  19. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses
  20. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`
  21. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)
  22. WSL containers is now generally available – Windows Developer Blog
  23. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
  24. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel
  25. Beating the compiler (2024)
  26. After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi
  27. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?
  28. Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
  29. Martian chaos terrain
  30. Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)

Ars Technica

  1. Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
  2. Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
  3. Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
  4. F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
  5. Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
  6. AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
  7. Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
  8. New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
  9. Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
  10. All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
  11. Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
  12. The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
  13. Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
  14. Someone got Doom in an SQL database
  15. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
  16. Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
  17. Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
  18. The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
  19. US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
  20. Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI's 'Rogue' Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
  2. Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
  3. Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
  4. Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
  5. Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement
  6. Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI
  7. Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal
  8. Flock Blamed for Wrongful 13-Day Imprisonment and a Police Stalking Incident in Florida
  9. After Siemens Re-Licenses OpenRadioss, Rocky Linux Announces Open-Source Fork
  10. FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees
  11. Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection
  12. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead
  13. How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
  14. Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'
  15. Disney/Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Beats 'Avatar' as Top-Grossing Film, 'Coyote vs Acme' #1 on Apple TV

BoingBoing

  1. Stream globally and securely with this $30 lifetime VPN
  2. Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care
  3. AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI
  4. Having spent enough time with her family, Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News
  5. Playing The Last of Us in first person is like an entirely different game
  6. Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass"
  7. Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale
  8. SNL does GTA 6
  9. The next co-op indie darling is probably going to be an egg-cracking simulator
  10. Van goes off PCH and into the Pacific; firefighters go in for the dog
  11. You're not using Claude to its full potential — this $15 E-Degree can help
  12. One and done—get 10TB of cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment
  13. Give your PC a makeover with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $26
  14. Get professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal
  15. Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles
  16. Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park
  17. Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press
  18. Doom ported to Commodore 64
  19. Manage your PDFs with ease for life with this $80 Mac PDF Editor 
  20. New camera database has 1482 entries and it hasn't even gotten to "B"
  21. Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?"
  22. The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker
  23. Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results
  24. Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways
  25. First-time U.S. passport applicants will soon be able to apply online
  26. Man exonerated by dashcam
  27. Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK
  28. Mandelnaut: an atlas of beautiful fractals
  29. Pay $70 and get $150 in travel data with this lifetime eSIM
  30. Man charged with child rape set to become Louisiana police chief

Core77

  1. Industrial Designer Eduardo Blanco's Cartesian Pencil Holders
  2. A Super-Easy-to-Install Add-On Clip for Swiss Army Knives
  3. The Tuff Jug Ripper Cap Solves a Tricky Fueling Situation
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-28-26 to 10-2-26)
  5. Translucent Leather Wallets
  6. In an Industrial Space, a Freestanding Bedroom Structure as Home-Within-a-Home
  7. These Ignition Button Covers for Cars Will Surely Fill the Hole in Your Life
  8. Hell in a Handbasket: An Add-On Reading Screen for Your Phone So You Don't Have to Develop Willpower
  9. UTV Decks: How to Transport a UTV Without a Trailer
  10. "A Design Wonderland:" The X-D-E-P-O-T, a Repository of Good Design
  11. London Design Festival 2026
  12. Strutt's Chief Designer Covers the Development of Their Powered Wheelchair Battery
  13. The Unusual Joinery in Abuse Studio's 1000L Furniture
  14. LDF 2026: Design collectives
  15. Meta's Radically Thinner, More Lightweight VR Glasses

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports
  2. The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
  3. This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
  4. All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics
  5. Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
  6. Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China
  7. OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex
  8. OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
  9. Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
  10. Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

Wired

  1. Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
  2. Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever
  3. The Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals 2026: WIRED-Tested Picks to Shop Now
  4. Best Power Banks (2026): My Picks After Testing Over 100
  5. Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight
  6. Omega Has New Bond Watches Even if There Isn’t a New James Bond
  7. A Prediction Market About the Past? Sure, Why Not!
  8. Staples Print and Marketing Services Review: Fast Holiday Gifts
  9. 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026—We Tested 70 to Pick Them
  10. The Best Gifts Under $25 for Everyone on Your List (2026)
  11. Meta Glasses Nova (Gen 3) Review: Not Much New
  12. The Best Online Gift Cards and Digital Gift Ideas (2026)
  13. Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
  14. Keurig Alta First-Look: No More Plastic K-Cups
  15. Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior
  16. The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
  17. Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
  18. How to Collect CDs
  19. The Best E-Readers That Aren't a Kindle (2026): Kobo, Boox
  20. Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)

LifeHacker

  1. The New Apple Watch Series 12 Is Already on Sale for October Prime Day
  2. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Smartwatches
  3. During October Prime Day, You Can Get a MacBook Air for What It Cost Before the RAM Crisis
  4. Amazon's Lightest and Most Compact Kindle Is Just Over $100 for October Prime Day
  5. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Power Banks
  6. Google May Be Working on a New Fitbit
  7. The Mini Version of the Beloved Bissell Green Machine Is 20% Off for October Prime Day
  8. These Are the Best Deals on Apple Tech From the October Prime Day Sale
  9. These Sony Open-Ear LinkBuds Are 31% Off for October Prime Day
  10. You Might Need to Replace Your iPhone 18 Pro Max
  11. Four Major Issues Are Plaguing the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max
  12. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Is 15% Off for October Prime Day
  13. These Are the Best Bluetooth Speaker Deals for October Prime Day
  14. The Best Samsung Tech Deals for October Prime Day
  15. These Are the Best Wifi Network Sales for October Prime Day, From Routers to Mesh Networks
  16. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  17. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  18. Apple Wants to Make It Harder to Run Agentic AI on Your Mac
  19. Changing This Setting May Extend Your Battery Life on iOS 27
  20. Why I Think the Apple Watch Series 12 Is Worth the Upgrade
  21. October Prime Day 2026 Live Blog: The Best Deals on Headphones, TVs, Fitness Tech, and More
  22. 15 Hacks Every Opera Browser User Should Know
  23. These DeWalt Cordless Power Tools Are up to 40% Off at Lowe's Right Now
  24. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  25. This TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Router Is 32% Off for October Prime Day
  26. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  27. The Best Deals on Anker Tech During the October Prime Day Sale
  28. These Are the Best Laptop Deals From the October Prime Day Sale
  29. 10 Apple 'Photos' Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  30. Why You Shouldn't Expect a Tiny Kindle Any Time Soon
  31. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in October
  32. The Best Deals on Fitness Equipment From the October Prime Day Sale
  33. The Best Outdoor Home Maintenance Tools on Sale for October Prime Day
  34. I Tried the Pixel Watch's New 'Health Guardian,' and I'm Not Convinced It's Useful
  35. 10 Shows Like 'Crew Girl' You Should Watch Next
  36. You Could Lose Your Access to 'Old Reddit' Forever, but There's a Workaround
  37. Amazon Just Released New Kindles, but I'm More Excited About the Accessories
  38. The Kindle Kids Is Nearly $60 Off for October Prime Day
  39. These Are the Best Cordless Power Tools on Sale at Home Depot, Ahead of October Prime Day
  40. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Specialty Tools for DIY
  41. This Eero Max Wifi Mesh System Is $350 Off for October Prime Day
  42. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Smart Home Tech
  43. 10 Hacks Every 'YNAB' User Should Know
  44. The Best Deals on Sony Tech During October Prime Day
  45. This Credit Card-Sized E-Reader Has a Front Light and a Touchscreen, and It's 15% Off for October Prime Day
  46. How to Sign up for Amazon's ‘Invite-Only’ Deals During October Prime Day
  47. This Compact Sony Soundbar Is Under $100 in an October Prime Day Sale
  48. One Tech Brand Will Get the Biggest Discounts During October Prime Day
  49. 10 'One UI 9' Hacks Every Samsung Galaxy User Should Know
  50. Three Reasons Not to Use ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ During the Amazon Prime Day Sale
  51. Is the Treadmill or Your Watch More Accurate on How Far You've Run?
  52. How Often You Need to Order From Amazon to Cover the Cost of Prime
  53. If You Loved 'Furious,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  54. Your Mac Should Be Doing More of the Work. Here's How MacPaw Helps
  55. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Cordless Power Tools
  56. This Versatile Multi-Port Charger Is on Sale for Under $100 Right Now
  57. These Top-Rated TVs Are up to 41% Off for October Prime Day
  58. 10 Spotlight Search Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  59. The Best Deals on Tablets and iPads From the October Prime Day Sale
  60. The US Government Just Launched an AI Chatbot
  61. ‘Aura Battle,’ ‘Tylenol Baby,’ and Other Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding
  62. OpenAI Just Announced 'Dots,' a New Type of Personalized AI Agent
  63. 10 Shows Like 'Lioness' You Should Watch Next
  64. 10 Hacks Every Canva User Should Know
  65. Spotify and Claude Are Both Down
  66. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Viking Rap?
  67. These Are the Best Headphones on Sale Right Now for October Prime Day
  68. This Blink Floodlight Camera Is 60% Off for October Prime Day
  69. These Fire TV Soundbars Are up to 42% Off for October Prime Day
  70. These Kindle Scribes Are 21% Off for October Prime Day
  71. This 65-Inch Sony OLED TV Is $800 Off During the October Prime Day Sale
  72. These Are the Best Tech Gifts Under $50
  73. 10 Security Hacks Every Local AI User Should Know
  74. Sam's Club Has Some Great Tech Deals to Compete With October Prime Day
  75. This Hanging Dryer Finally Solved My Smelly Shoe Problem
  76. If Your iPhone 18 Pro Is Randomly Rebooting, There's a Fix
  77. If You Love 'American Horror Story,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  78. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on Tools
  79. The Boox Picco Is a Contender for My New Favorite Tiny E-Reader
  80. These Are the Best October Prime Day Deals on DeWalt Cordless Tools
  81. This Blink 2K+ Doorbell and Five-Camera Bundle Is 71% Off for October Prime Day
  82. This 65-Inch Samsung Mini-LED TV Is at Its Lowest Price Ever for October Prime Day
  83. This Philips Smart Door Lock With Handle Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  84. This Highly Rated TCL Mini-LED TV Is 32% Off for October Prime Day
  85. Five Game-Changing Features on Garmin's Fenix 9 Pro
  86. Everything You Need to Know About the October Prime Day Sale
  87. This Massive Paper-Like TCL Tablet Is 26% Off for October Prime Day
  88. I Taped a Fitbit to My Arm for a Week, and I Admit It's a Good Hack
  89. I Tried Google’s New Image Editor, and It Could Replace Canva and Photoshop
  90. Five Ad Blocker Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  91. I Tried Snap Specs, and They Could Be the Future of Smart Glasses
  92. This Foldable Anker Charger Is 34% Off for October Prime Day
  93. This Tiny Clip-On Bluetooth Speaker Is $30 Off for October Prime Day
  94. This Pixel Watch 4 Is $120 Off for October Prime Day
  95. The GoPro Lit Hero Is $65 Off in This Early October Prime Day Sale
  96. What's New on Netflix in October 2026
  97. I Tested the Apple Watch's New Heart Rate Sensor to See If It's Really Better Than Garmin's
  98. The Best Amazon Prime Benefits You Probably Don't Know About
  99. These Are the Biggest Announcements From Meta Connect 2026
  100. These Are the Best Price-Tracking Tools I Use As a Deals Writer

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TechMeme

  1. SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX "cheap", reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
  2. TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
  3. Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4× less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks (Semafor)
  4. Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year (The Information)
  5. Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
  6. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg)
  7. The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
  8. An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran (BBC)
  9. To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally (OpenAI)
  10. In a first-of-its-kind pilot in the US, Nolla Health will use AI to diagnose and prescribe acne medications to Utah patients without direct human oversight (Annika Inampudi/Bloomberg)
  11. Meta, TikTok, and X challenge UK's Ofcom over the amount of info it is demanding under the Online Safety Act, saying it creates unprecedented regulatory burdens (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
  12. Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation (Zoya Hasan/Forbes)
  13. Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more (New York Magazine)
  14. Sources: Nico Caprez, son-in-law to Jensen Huang, rapidly ascended to become an Nvidia VP, serving as its main contact for neoclouds and Huang's "consigliere" (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
  15. Cohere launches North 2, an update to its enterprise agent platform with cross-session memory and a redesigned harness, available across cloud and on-premises (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)