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- BBC News app
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- CloudNC raises $20M to expand its AI machining tools and launch a quoting product
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- Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates for you
- OpenAI now supplies the image models inside Adobe’s creative studio
- Why rising threats against tech executives may signal a deeper crisis of trust
- The mathematicians published machine-checkable proofs. OpenAI announced its result on a call with reporters.
Smashing Magazine
- The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
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- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
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- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
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- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
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- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
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- Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
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Hacker News
- How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
- Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
- On Really Trying (2009)
- Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
- Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants
- How to build a printer
- Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
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- A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)
- Mercury 2.5
- Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
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- Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme
- DaVinci Resolve 21.1
- I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
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- Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
- On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
- Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
- AI Has a Discovery Problem
- The origins of Partner’s computer case
- Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)
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- Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)
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- A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
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- ChatGPT Images 2.5
Ars Technica
- LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
- GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time
- Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
- The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.
- NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research
- Supreme Court forces TV stations to sell more election ads at steep discounts
- Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change
- Godzilla Minus Zero IMAX trailer teases King Ghidorah
- “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
- Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy
- Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink
- The White House made a "Tetris" clone. The Tetris Company was not amused.
- The secret to protecting next-gen spacecraft might be eggshells
- The combat demo for Free Stars: Children of Infinity is out, and it's free
- EV batteries last longer than drivers feared
- With another huge infusion of cash, Stoke Space goes even bigger
- The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
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Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'
- Star Trek Turns 60
- Google Will 'Degrade' Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
- Feds Accuse China of 'Systematic' Distillation of US AI Models
- Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent
- Australia To Let Social Media Users 'Opt Out' of Algorithm-Based Feeds
- A Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Stuns Telluride
- LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby
- Google DeepMind Publishes AI-Powered Predictions For Effect of All 9 Billion Mutations to Human DNA
- Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time
- Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits, Pulling Them Over
- AMD Working To 'Push Rust Deep into the GPU Stack'
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BoingBoing
- "Donald J. Trump Memorial" appears above a Canadian public toilet
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- Normally $199, it's only $10 to get Windows 11 Pro right now
- RFK Jr. suggested Pennsylvania fabricated measles deaths. A coroner just confirmed one
- A cereal-box whistle that could trick the phone system into free calls
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- Texas won't show voters its post-ban maternal death report until after they vote
- Climber holds on with one hand and calls 911 with the other
- A 1930s catalog sold Mickey Mouse masks that don't look quite right
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- Labor Day savings just got extended! This touchscreen Chromebook is under $100
- Enhance the innate beauty of your photos for life with this $70 Luminar Neo Bundle
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- Disney's first creator conference brings Dude Perfect to Hollywood
- German artist patches broken buildings with colorful LEGO bricks
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- The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak
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- Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life
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- Real Object or AI?
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The Verge
- Apple’s foldable ‘iPhone Duo’ will reportedly start at $2,000
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TechMeme
- Google plans to invest €13B in Finland, its biggest investment in Europe to date, over two years to build three new data centers and expand an existing center (Kirsi Heikel/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times)
- Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (The Information)
- Sources: Apple's first foldable will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at $2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a ">10%" chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub)
- Over 10 US states have rolled back tech giants' tax breaks, which top $1B/year in some states, as many others propose similar bills amid a data center backlash (Wall Street Journal)
- Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, bringing its total flaws patched in 2026 to 2,760, more than double from 2025 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI may spend $100M+ annually on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer yet (The Information)
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
- The NSA, CISA, and FBI issue a joint advisory warning that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are conducting "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns (Reuters)
- In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier (Hayden Field/The Verge)
- Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
- Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
- Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)