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BBC

  1. US envoys set for Ukraine talks after meeting Putin in Russia
  2. TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death in Egypt drugs case
  3. Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption
  4. Police slow to respond to Dover protest, says council boss
  5. Temperatures could climb to 28C in late burst of warmth
  6. The next James Bond: The (00)7 questions fans want answered
  7. Volcano eruption leaves 150,000 passengers stranded in Indonesia
  8. Why more women carry the 'mental load' - and how couples can share it
  9. 'We feel abandoned by police': A community's despair after months of crime
  10. Natalie Imbruglia on her worst audition: 'I remember feeling icky'
  11. Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts
  12. Why Munya Chawawa is 'jumping ship' from socials to Shakespeare
  13. Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover
  14. Katie Taylor crowns career in stylish Croke Park triumph
  15. Prince William to attend King Harald's funeral in Norway
  16. US and Iran trade retaliatory attacks on ships as conflict flares
  17. City plan change sought to protect Tower of London
  18. Watch: Moment 64-year-old Nepali woman is found alive in mud-buried home
  19. I brushed off my sore throat as a hangover, but it turned into sepsis
  20. Why 'sleepmaxxing' could be making your sleep worse
  21. 'Not only did I survive, I thrived' - Meera Syal after assaults
  22. 'I didn't want a wedding car, I wanted a dragon boat'
  23. Dog 'grounded' after rescue from roof of house
  24. BBC News app
  25. How Damaging Is Reform's Donations Row?
  26. An insider's account of Trump's White House
  27. Inside Ella Toone’s life on and off the pitch
  28. Imagine a world where no one has heard of The Beatles
  29. Taylor's place among greats set in stone after extraordinary swansong
  30. Hunt 'not afraid of anyone' after second podium in two days
  31. Arsenal had more than 20 players on shortlist to capitalise on title win
  32. Zheng goes from 5-0 and match point down to victory
  33. 'Not Football Manager' - De Zerbi says misfiring Spurs need time
  34. Fernandez and Ndiaye show signs of promise on Man City debuts

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2026?
  2. How to find your MacBook's diagnostic menu
  3. OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue
  4. The reasons rugged laptops are rarely bought by consumers
  5. How to track prices with Safari's Notify Me tool on iPhone, iPad and Mac
  6. You're probably wasting these keys on your keyboard — here's how to remap them
  7. Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
  8. What makes IMAX theaters different from normal ones?
  9. Why it's important to regularly restart your router
  10. New Twitter rebrands to Tweet.app after court's double-edged ruling
  11. Installing an iOS public beta on your iPhone? Always do this first
  12. How to safely dispose of your old TV
  13. Your Roku TV offers AI slop for free (if you're into that sort of thing)
  14. How does Ottocast CarPlay work and how much does it cost?
  15. Razer launches a cheaper version of Clio, its head cushion wireless speaker
  16. Acer Project DualPlay Mini concept hands-on: Flipping from powerful handheld to powerful tiny laptop
  17. Does your Android Auto keep lowering the volume? This might be why
  18. How to check your MacBook's hard drive health
  19. Is it worth paying extra for iCloud storage?
  20. How to check which apps are draining your iPhone battery

Pinboard

  1. Any Human Ever: One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698
  2. Industry Standard Tools
  3. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  4. Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination
  5. VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash — VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash
  6. The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive | kciter.so
  7. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH · brennan.day — > "Apolitical" has never meant a lack of politics. It's meant politics that current power doesn't have to defend. via @MaddieM4@raphus.social boost of https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/117196600480460269 references https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
  8. Bob and Van — Unclear what he is responding to? Feels specific.
  9. Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
  10. How to turn your AI into a world-class designer
  11. [no title]
  12. GDPR-compliant European static site hosting - statichost.eu — Netlify alternative
  13. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
  14. UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian
  15. GPT‑6 Astra — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/MNEcyou
  16. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem - Anthropic
  17. Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out. · Armature — Research to measure which products various coding AIs will pick.
  18. Weird little guys of FOSS — List of open source people with toxic, morally repugnant behavior
  19. deSEC – Free Secure DNS — deSEC is a free DNS hosting service, designed with security in mind.
  20. Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay | The New Yorker — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/q9b5QeC
  21. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
  22. Introducing K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open ( September 3, 2026 - Institute of Foundation Models) — Explore K2 Horizon, IFM’s open-source fleet of six frontier AI models for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, edge devices, and enterprise deployment. Artifacts Socials K2 Horizon mountain artwork at su…
  23. 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…
  24. Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners — The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
  25. Ambient CSS — a physics-based lighting system for CSS
  26. skills/plugins/show-me/skills/show-me/SKILL.md at main · humanlayer/skills
  27. Unusual Suspects — fun!
  28. Charles Petzold: Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? — Charles Petzold is the author of the books Code and The Annotated Turing
  29. How to get a free .arpa domain | Ethan Hawksley — Learn how to get a free .arpa domain by abusing IPv6 reverse DNS delegations on Hurricane Electric, configuring deSEC, and hosting a live website.
  30. Learn Programming with OCaml
  31. ‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T | Culture | The Guardian
  32. Models Don't Go Rogue
  33. 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/HT1It9D
  34. Arcade games from Trump White House
  35. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
  36. tt-a1i/archify: Claude Skill: generate beautiful architecture diagrams with dark/light theme toggle and PNG/JPEG/WebP/SVG export
  37. How to Train Balance as You Age — Staying sure-footed gets harder the older you are. But there are a few strategies that can help.
  38. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle — Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle https://ift.tt/LyZAgHw self.hosting, open.source, security, containers
  39. The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer — I’ve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up. I wondered if it would be...
  40. Quad 9 — Internet Security and Privacy in a Few Easy Steps
  41. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering — Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.
  42. UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
  43. Vinted.com | Sell, swap and buy fashion outfits, secondhand clothing and accessories! — ASOS, Brandy Melville, Jeffrey Campbell, Topshop... Buy, sell and swap clothing, accessories, beauty items, and so much more pre-loved! Save and earn – with Vinted you get amazing deals while you de-clutter your closet!
  44. Why does AI-generated food look like that? | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  45. Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. — This week a massive new data breach has been revealed that should put the nail in the coffin for the idea that any sort of age or identity verification could be safe. 153 million scans of drivers licenses easily available based on this …
  46. Adobe names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, replacing Shantanu Narayen
  47. A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
  48. GitHub - genspark-ai/genoffice: Free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office with built-in AI agents — Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF and Markdown editing for macOS, Windows & Linux. · GitHub
  49. How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality - The GitHub Blog — Learn how GitHub Copilot optimizes agentic workflows by prioritizing task outcomes over token counts to reduce costs without sacrificing quality.
  50. Exit the Cave - by Justin Andersun - Turtle's Pace — Stop mistaking effort for progress. Learn why "grinding" in isolation is a trap and how to embrace the brutal, necessary feedback of the real world.
  51. Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/HT1It9D
  52. The Dead-Internet theory Is back | The Atlantic — “Dead Internet” theory is seeing a revival, this time in mainstream conversation. It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down. Tina Yeung, recent doctoral graduate of computer s…
  53. Movie Scene Map — The Filming Locations Map for Film & TV
  54. GitHub - shell-pool/shpool: Think tmux, then aim... lower — minimalistlikum tmux
  55. You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules — You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
  56. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/mkO1Ncn
  57. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
  58. OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’ | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  59. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers - Ars Technica — A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use ... The block of 128 tags mimics a portion of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange almost perfectly, with one major difference: the …
  60. Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 - The New York Times
  61. UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different | CNN
  62. Bloomberg - Are you a robot? — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/meJgQic
  63. Cloud in a Bottle: your corner of the cloud
  64. The Real Luxuries In Life | Feld Thoughts
  65. Plant Smart · Helping plants and pets peacefully coexist.
  66. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki — In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
  67. darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable
  68. Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering? | Hacker News
  69. Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/uiBG4np
  70. Uber allies with driver unions in bid to slow robotaxi rollout — Rivals and some close to the company say Uber’s newfound focus on employment and social concerns is largely self-interested. The ride-hailing company has long pursued self-driving technology itself, but is behind its arch-rival Waymo. Regulations enforcing a…
  71. Drivers license scans sold (Russia): "IDScan.net, an outfit that is used by car rental agencies like Hertz and marijuana dispensaries. They kept over 150 million ID card scans and lost them all in a data breach." — Only the beginning.
  72. Exploring Mojo’s raw pointer type - Tech and Thoughts
  73. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (Dwarkesh Patel) — Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans re…
  74. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly | Hacker News
  75. 557 FINAL - YouTube
  76. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve
  77. Berry House — Web & Writing — 🍓 Berry House
  78. Friday Links #44: A Big Week for JavaScript
  79. 46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple - Upworthy
  80. Designed in California Makes Its Official Debut - MacStories — via MacStories https://ift.tt/uzyZq1S
  81. jakubkrehel/skills: A set of agent skills that help improve different parts of a product, from animations and typography to layout and colors. — A set of agent skills that help improve different parts of a product, from animations and typography to layout and colors.
  82. Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » LLMs and self-referentiality
  83. Gli agenti di OpenAI fanno 13 mila modifiche su wiki pubblici per parlarsi — Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts e Thomas Larsen hanno trovato agenti di OpenAI che, durante un test di ricerca web, hanno usato wiki pubblici come bacheca: su DSEWiki dal 16 giugno hanno fatto circa 13 mila modifiche in una settiman…
  84. NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI: AudioMuse-AI uses sonic analysis to rediscover forgotten songs, uncover hidden connections in your music library, and generate intelligent playlists for Navidrome, Jellyfin, LMS, Lyrion, Emby and Plex: no metadata or external serv — AudioMuse-AI uses sonic analysis to rediscover forgotten songs, unco…
  85. GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence | OpenAI — We’re introducing GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model. GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment. Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineer…
  86. Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds
  87. Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex | WerWolv
  88. Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
  89. vorssaintapp/vorssaint-utils: Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit.
  90. confluentinc/agent-skills: AI agent skills for stream processing and event streaming — A collection of AI skills for developing data streaming applications and pipelines with Confluent. These skills help developers using coding assistants quickly build production-ready Kafka producers, Flink applications, and real-time data …
  91. The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck — Explore why readers reject AI-generated content and how to maintain authenticity. Learn to use tools like Pangram to protect your writer-reader bond.
  92. Opinion | Summer Has Gotten Much Hotter. See How Bad It Is Where You Live. - The New York Times
  93. ‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers
  94. The Funniest Emails From The Kawhi Leonard Investigation Are Also The Most Clarifying | Defector — The 35-page report released on Wednesday by the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which contains a great deal of evidence that Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the NBA's salary-cap rules, makes for…
  95. Runway Research | Introducing GWM Worlds 2 - Interactive worlds generated in real time: continuous 720p video at 24 fps and audio at 48000 Hz, responding to your inputs as you explore. - September 3, 2026 — Built on top of our foundational audio-visual generation model, GWM Worlds 2 turns high-fidelity video and audio genera…
  96. OpenAI auf X: „This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast. https://t.co/gDd0IsewJw“ / X
  97. This Study Covered 500,000 EV Batteries. Some Models Aged Much Better Than Others
  98. Cognitive augmentation, cognitive surrender, and oblivious centaurs — In the new course I briefly demonstrate how generative AI (GenAI) can be integrated into a design workflow; other courses in the OVA go deeper into that. In one of the videos I discuss a tentative personal heuristic about GenAI: I'd consider using it for a…
  99. Emulate
  100. [no title]

The Next Web

  1. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher
  2. Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft
  3. Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
  4. Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later
  5. OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
  6. California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
  7. Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
  8. TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
  9. More plugs beat more power, a Finnish charger maker says
  10. Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Very Best Labor Day Deals Out There, on Everything From Sheets to Eye Cream to Luggage
  2. REI’s End-of-Summer Sale Is Here. We Found 27 Deals on Outdoor Gear Our Experts Love.
  3. The Best Tabletop Radios
  4. 17 Covetable Tabletop Gifts to Enliven Any Dinner Party
  5. The Best At-Home Laser Hair-Removal Device
  6. The Best Baby Gate
  7. The Best Wireless Mouse
  8. This iPhone Feature Makes It Much Harder for Thieves to Ruin Your Life
  9. 15 Things You Didn’t Know Your Android Phone Could Do
  10. The Best Gifts We’ve Brought Home From Vacation

Sweethome

  1. The Best Alarm Clocks
  2. The Best Memory Foam Pillows
  3. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  4. Outdoor and Backyard Lighting We Love
  5. The Best Dish Rack
  6. The Best Cotton Sheets
  7. That Old Bookcase? It May Be Your Dream Shoe Organizer.
  8. The Slimmest, Hardest-Working Gear for Your Small Entryway
  9. The Best Storage Containers
  10. Kitchen Compost Bins We Love

Hacker News

  1. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
  2. Play GTA Vice City in the Browser
  3. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
  4. Music Theory for Programmers
  5. The revolt of the reader
  6. You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules
  7. The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50
  8. AI, Tools and Transformation
  9. OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices
  10. AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
  11. Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark
  12. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  13. Learn Programming with OCaml
  14. Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
  15. IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2
  16. The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
  17. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
  18. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
  19. A Computer History Time Capsule
  20. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
  21. Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
  22. Topologist's Map of the World
  23. GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
  24. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
  25. RecurseCenter.return()
  26. How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map
  27. Site Is Closed on Sundays
  28. Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor
  29. Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan
  30. Matching Puzzle Pieces and Disappointing Benchmarks

Ars Technica

  1. Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
  2. After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
  3. OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
  4. Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
  5. Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
  6. Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
  7. “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
  8. Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
  9. Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
  10. A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
  11. Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
  12. Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
  13. Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
  14. Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
  15. Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
  16. Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
  17. Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
  18. Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
  19. 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
  20. Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. 2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel
  2. To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City'
  3. How US Campaigns Are Already Using AI to Try to Sway Voters
  4. FSF is Now on Bluesky - But Won't Advocate Signing Up Due to Nonfree JavaScript
  5. The World Now Has More Seniors Than Young People - for the First Time In History
  6. Cancer Deaths Attributable to Alcohol Rose 58% Over the Last 33 Years
  7. Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data
  8. OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox
  9. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie
  10. Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars
  11. Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Keeps Man Alive For Record Nine Months
  12. Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin
  13. Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
  14. Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
  15. Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules

BoingBoing

  1. Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life
  2. Keep your sensitive PDFs secure with this offline PDF editor for $20 for life
  3. Book about every video game set in the Alien universe
  4. Nuke Simulation shows your least favorite town obliterated by the atomic weapon of your choice
  5. Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
  6. 70,000 pints of Guinness heisted
  7. What is the best paint for painting rocks?
  8. Model skeleton used to hold drip in busy hospital
  9. Nolan's Odyssey twist about Trojan Horse guilt outdoes Musk's outrage
  10. Acme vindicated: photographer gets shot of coyote catching roadrunner
  11. 93% of Britons want right to private conversations online, if you don't mind
  12. Your charging cable is underachieving—the 8-in-1 GoCable is just $24.99
  13. Political candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on opponent
  14. Dallas using AI surveillance cameras to assign "blight scores" to local homes
  15. Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations
  16. Too much "human poo" in the Brecon Beacons
  17. 7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229)
  18. Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home
  19. JD Vance is a real tool
  20. Find someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery
  21. Ice Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry
  22. A banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face
  23. A blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment
  24. A marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week
  25. Plant Smart: database of plants harmful to pets
  26. Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem
  27. Study finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990
  28. One $30 app now runs GPT, Gemini, Claude, and Sonar side by side
  29. Can you draw the unusual suspects?
  30. Cat in the Hat memes alarming school officials

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-31-26 to 9-4-26)
  2. Clever Improvisation: How to Keep Your Car Going on Just Three Wheels
  3. The James Brand's Handsome, Designey Alternative to the Swiss Army Knife
  4. Industrial Designer Figures Out How to Make Ikea's Iconic Blue Bag Fold Compactly
  5. Real Object or AI?
  6. An Unusual Rolling Stool for the Chinese Market
  7. Studio Gorm Designs a Better Doorstop
  8. Which Folding Bicycle Design has the Best UX?
  9. Fantastic UX Details in This Saute Pan Lid
  10. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Nick Lieven, Autodesk Industry Strategy Manager
  11. Masae Nagao's Kinetic Paper Pets
  12. Blue Star Crafts' Retro Mini Pochade Box
  13. Chois: 3D-Printed Modular Furniture Components, You Supply the Dowels
  14. In Denmark, 3D-Printed Student Housing
  15. Genesis' New Luxury Electric SUV has No B-Pillar, No Start Button, Radiant Floor Heating

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The Verge

  1. Explore the globe in field recordings
  2. iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones
  3. CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence
  4. Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy
  5. Content creators drop the ball
  6. The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026
  7. OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
  8. Robotaxis enter their villain era 
  9. Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
  10. The White House is making arcade games racist

Wired

  1. The Best Gaming Chairs (2026): Are They Worth It?
  2. 4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
  3. There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
  4. OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
  5. Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
  6. The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
  7. Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
  8. Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools
  9. Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability
  10. Tesla’s Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It’s Already Under Investigation
  11. Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
  12. Japan Is Launching a Probe to Collect the First-Ever Samples From a Martian Moon
  13. The Best Dyson Vacuums (2026) to Buy—and Some to Avoid
  14. The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
  15. How a Secret Orangutan Breeding Program Is Creating a Baby Boom
  16. The 6 Best Monitors That Actually Work Well With Macs
  17. Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Parents of Immunocompromised Kids to Make Hard Choices
  18. ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
  19. AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
  20. What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Labor Day Sale Live Blog: The Best Labor Day Deals, All in One Place
  2. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce on Wednesday
  3. This Milwaukee Tool Combo Set Is Over $600 Off for Labor Day
  4. 10 Hacks Every Proton Mail User Should Know
  5. This Cordless DeWalt Miter Saw Is $200 Off for Labor Day Weekend
  6. The Best Deals on Tech for Labor Day
  7. The Best Deals on Garmin Watches for Labor Day
  8. Why ‘Open Platform’ Is the Next Big Frontier for Smart Glasses
  9. Six Labor Day Smartphone Deals That Are Worth the Money
  10. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  11. I'm Obsessed With the 'Conversate' App on These Smart Glasses
  12. The Best Deals on Tools and Appliances From Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  13. The Best Labor Day Deals on Tablets and iPads
  14. Three Reasons You Shouldn't Use Your Browser's Password Manager (and What to Use Instead)
  15. If You Loved 'The Bear,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  16. The Best Labor Day Fitness Deals so Far
  17. These 65-Inch TVs Are on Sale for up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
  18. These Samsung Monitors Are on Sale for up to 39% Off for Labor Day
  19. The Best Fitness Deals on Sale for Under $100 for Labor Day
  20. The Best Deals on Apple Devices on Sale for Labor Day
  21. TikTok Just Announced These Four New Features for Comments
  22. These TVs Are up to $1,200 Off for Labor Day
  23. The Best Over-Ear Headphone Deals During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  24. Samsung’s Flagship Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is 50% Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  25. The Best Deals From Best Buy's Labor Day Sale 2026
  26. The Best Fitness Trackers to Give As Gifts
  27. These Five New Features Are Coming to Android Devices
  28. These Are the Best Labor Day 2026 Deals on VPNs
  29. 10 Shows Like 'Dark Matter' You Should Watch Next
  30. This Anker Power Station Is $549 Off During Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  31. These DeWalt Tools Are up to 50% Off for the Lowe's Labor Day Sale
  32. The Garmin Venu 3 Is Over $150 Off for Amazon’s 2026 Labor Day Sale
  33. You Can Still Get a Nintendo Switch 2 for $400 During Woot's Labor Day Sale
  34. I Tried Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s Latest AI Upgrade, and It (Mostly) Lives Up to the Hype
  35. A Bunch of AI Platforms Are Down, Including ChatGPT
  36. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $600 Off in Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  37. The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is $320 Off During Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  38. These Signature Sony Headphones Are on Sale for Under $200 for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  39. These Alienware Gaming Monitors Are Up to $150 Off for Amazon’s Labor Day Sale
  40. This Philips Smart Lock Is 23% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  41. This Blink Doorbell Bundle Is 45% Off for Amazon's Labor Day Sale
  42. I Let ChatGPT Sign Into My Web Accounts for Me, and It Was More Trouble Than It’s Worth
  43. These LG Ultragear Gaming Monitors Are up to 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  44. 'Alexa for Shopping' Can Now Help You Spot a Spam Email
  45. I Ditched My Bone-Conduction Headphones for These Noise-Cancelling Running Earbuds
  46. These Google Maps and Apple Maps Alternatives Still Call It ‘Lake Ontario’ (for Now)
  47. Here's How AI Watermarks Work (and How to Properly Check for One)
  48. The Seven Coolest Inventions From 'DEF CON' 2026
  49. Here's How to Protect Your Privacy If Someone Is Recording You With Their Glasses
  50. This Is Your Last Chance to Win a New Apple Watch From Lifehacker
  51. 10 Apple Health Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  52. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in September
  53. Five Sleep-Tracking Hacks Every Garmin User Should Know
  54. 10 Shows Like 'Reacher' You Should Watch Next
  55. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Are Aura Battles?
  56. Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
  57. This Blink Two-Camera Bundle Is 42% Off for Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale
  58. Microsoft Outlook Is Down
  59. If You Loved 'Modern Family,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch
  60. Why You Might Need to Roll Back Windows' Latest Update
  61. 10 Video Downloading Hacks Every YouTube User Should Know
  62. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  63. 10 Hacks Every Intel Mac User Should Know
  64. 10 Spotlight Search Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  65. Strava Is Now Forcing Premium Users to See Its AI Workout Summaries (Whether They Want to or Not)
  66. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $1,200 Off and Comes With a $150 Amazon Credit
  67. These Samsung OLED TVs Are Up to $1,300 Off Right Now
  68. These Milwaukee Tools Are up to 65% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  69. Samsung’s M Series TVs Just Dropped to Their Best Prices Yet
  70. These Ryobi Cordless Tools Are up to 69% Off for Home Depot's Labor Day Sale
  71. Twitch Is Down
  72. This 65-Inch TCL QLED TV Is 40% Off Right Now
  73. You Can Get a Free Motorola Razr+ From T-Mobile Right Now
  74. If You Loved 'Lost,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  75. 10 Shows Like 'Ride or Die' You Should Watch Next
  76. How to Completely Remove Your Data From These Online Dating Platforms
  77. What's New on Netflix in September 2026
  78. This Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Bundle Is $125 Off Right Now
  79. This Kobo Clara Colour E-Reader Is $40 Cheaper Than a Kindle Paperwhite Right Now
  80. 10 Hacks Every Google Wallet User Should Know
  81. The Garmin Fenix 8 Pro Smartwatch Is $250 Off Right Now
  82. These Nothing ANC Headphones Are $80 Off Right Now
  83. These Viture XR/AR Smart Glasses Are $140 Off Right Now
  84. 10 Hacks Every Google Pixel 11 User Should Know
  85. If You Loved 'Sugar,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  86. This Is the Best Ad-Free Alternative to Apple Maps
  87. We Now Know When Apple's Big iPhone Event Will Happen
  88. This Four-Camera Eufy Security Kit Is $400 Off Right Now
  89. This Insta360 Phone Gimbal Bundle Is 30% Off Right Now
  90. 10 Hacks Every Apple Wallet User Should Know
  91. 10 Hacks Every iOS 27 User Should Know
  92. Is the Oura Ring Really Just Guessing at Your Sleep Score?
  93. Six Quintessential Movies to Watch in Honor of Dolly Parton
  94. This Ultra-Wide Samsung Gaming Monitor Is $650 Off (and Comes With a $120 Amazon Gift Card)
  95. Apple Changed Its Mind on That Awful 'Hide My Email' Update
  96. Five Hacks Every Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro User Should Know
  97. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 46% Off Right Now
  98. 10 Shows Like 'Modern Family' You Should Watch Next
  99. Apple Just Made Its First Product Announcements of the Season
  100. Garmin Just Launched Two New Rugged Sport Watches

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TechMeme

  1. Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (Philip Wegmann/Wall Street Journal)
  2. Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
  3. OpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune)
  4. The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)
  5. As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
  6. The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
  7. Trump admin launches arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake game clone and a Tetris-like game; Tetris says it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" (ABC News)
  8. Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)
  9. Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (Miranda Murray/Reuters)
  10. Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)
  11. Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
  12. In response to the "wiki incident", OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (@openai)
  13. Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
  14. Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
  15. Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)