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BBC

  1. More than half of England in drought, Environment Agency declares
  2. Moment police officers set foot in 'horror scene' funeral home
  3. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers
  4. Police to take no further action against Polanski over guillotine re-post
  5. Saudi Arabia's dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war
  6. Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina
  7. Limiting sugar before age two linked to better brain health
  8. France fire crews battle heat as locals tell BBC of fight to save homes
  9. Burnham doesn't rule out tax rises to fix social care
  10. Some tech shares are plunging - what does that mean for the AI revolution?
  11. Peppa Pig owners win copyright battle against 'impostor' Wolfoo
  12. Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during tense US Senate hearing about Covid origins
  13. The athlete who has never held her Olympic medal
  14. Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up
  15. 'Every day I'm just winging it': The families hoping for social care reform
  16. Three ways that today's 20-somethings really do have it worse than their parents
  17. Amelia Dimoldenberg: I wouldn't invite Andy Burnham on Chicken Shop Date - but I'd love a chat
  18. BBC cancels Blankety Blank, Celebrity Mastermind and Live at the Apollo due to budget cuts
  19. Two firefighters die in Crete as wildfires threaten parts of southern Europe
  20. Cyber-attackers take 607,000 records from Department of Education
  21. Prince Harry media battle legal bill expected to cost millions
  22. Serial killer given whole life orders for murders of two men as police investigate four more deaths
  23. BBC News app
  24. Newscast
  25. Americast
  26. A powerful Australian drama set in a remote 1940s orphanage
  27. Fleming expected to be named England Test coach
  28. Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina
  29. Is World Cup sell-off plan a step too far by Infantino?
  30. Saltburn suspend Devine after 'finger-clicking' claim
  31. Why finger-clicking 'scandal' has gripped sporting world - Agnew
  32. Liverpool preparing opening bid for PSG's Barcola

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. The US government's robot ban also includes vacuums
  2. Waymos are starting to run on freeways again
  3. Here's how to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing any information
  4. Google teases the Pixel 11 Pro and hints at a new camera bar feature
  5. Runna's new coaching feature will adjust your workout based on local heat and humidity
  6. Major labels call for AI slop songs to be banned from entering charts around the world
  7. You can stream local TV channels for free — here's how
  8. X and an advertising trade group settle a legal dispute over an alleged 'boycott'
  9. Pokémon Pokopia's first DLC comes to Switch 2 on August 5
  10. Is there any benefit to restarting your phone regularly?
  11. DoorDash unveils its own drone delivery service after FAA approval
  12. Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key
  13. Netflix edges past the BBC in latest UK audience survey
  14. Are remote car starters still worth it in 2026?
  15. Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: A repairable notebook at the top of the class
  16. Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel
  17. Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
  18. OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
  19. Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged
  20. xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps

Pinboard

  1. Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man — Yes, Emily Wilson! "Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and n…
  2. PGSimCity · How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D — PGSimCity — an explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works.
  3. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
  4. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
  5. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic — We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
  6. A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. | Filip Roséen - refp.se — I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
  7. What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
  8. decker — Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now.
  9. Kill the Cookie Banner!
  10. Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex & All-Clad Now
  11. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
  12. The Rise of Intelligence Ownership: a task-trained open source model vs the frontier — Why the companies winning in the AI age own their intelligence: we fine-tune a small open-source model with reinforcement learning until it beats every frontier configuration on a real e-commerce workflow, at a fraction of the cost.
  13. Fonts In Use – Type at work in the real world. — Great site with tons of real world examples.
  14. We used to be able to buy things in this country — Explores the decline of in-store shopping in the us, linking it to corporate panic, political backlash, and the degradation of basic errands.
  15. Python Standalone Builds — python-build-standalone documentation — This project produces self-contained, highly-portable Python distributions. These Python distributions contain a fully-usable, full-featured Python installation: most extension modules from the Python standard library are present and their library dependencie…
  16. OmniDeck | Free Online Tools for Everyone — A growing suite of free developer, finance, text, conversion and image tools. 100% in your browser, no signup, no ads blocking your workflow.
  17. vercel-labs/scriptc: TypeScript-to-Native Compiler
  18. Ed Zitron: Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/a2NfdJL
  19. Claude Cookbook
  20. oppi.li/stinkpot at main · Tangled — sqlite-backed shell history
  21. Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
  22. NameThat — the visual dictionary of UI — what are the ui elements called
  23. Modern email can be built from borrowed parts | Andros Fenollosa
  24. Sunflowers Game - Reverse Minesweeper — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057666
  25. It's getting harder to focus every day | Glyphack
  26. Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch — Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
  27. pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt
  28. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works | Hacker News
  29. Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership (NVIDIA, ...) — In the 1980s, early open-source software pioneers challenged the prevailing belief that software would advance only if companies kept tight control over their code. This movement pushed for a transparent ecosystem where developers around the world could study, modify, a…
  30. Understanding large values: It's our ethical duty — "Most of us are terrible at understanding large values. Yet, we encounter these magnitudes frequently in the news: ChatGPT now has 1 billion users; America's national debt is over $39 trillion; Taylor Swift's net worth recently topped $2 billion; and briefly, Elon Musk beca…
  31. img2threejs/img2threejs: Rebuild the object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, quality-gated, animation-ready Three.js model. Token-efficient image-to-3D.
  32. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud | Vectoral
  33. Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
  34. 「大手町の絶滅メディア博物館」公式ページ : 絶滅メディア博物館：Extinct Media Museum — _φ(･_･ / 「大手町の絶滅メディア博物館」公式ページ : 絶滅メディア博物館：Extinct Media Museum
  35. With smart glasses, Meta holds all the cards but fails to play them well  | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/8U4VExZ
  36. (25) More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace
  37. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch
  38. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months • Ars Technica — Nate Anderson: A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__r…
  39. Castle Map — Explore 2,400 Castles, Fortresses & Palaces Worldwide
  40. Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation — the feeling of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame, weeks after they're back on the ground
  41. The IRS Is Imploding – Mother Jones
  42. Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration | Gowers's Weblog
  43. bitchat
  44. scriptc | TypeScript-to-Native Compiler
  45. Website Specification
  46. Laws of Software Engineering — This is a handy catalog, but the deeper value is knowing when each one clarifies reality and when it distorts it. Brooks’s Law, Conway’s Law, Hyrum’s Law, Goodhart’s Law, Gall’s Law, YAGNI, DRY, KISS: each names a recurring pressure, tradeoff, or failure mode. The mistake is treating them as un…
  47. nytimes.com — You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Guest Essay July…
  48. Open Minis — Your Private On-Device AI Agent — An on-device AI agent that goes beyond chat. It takes action — browsing the web, accessing your health data, managing your schedule, controlling your smart home, and automating complex tasks. All privately on your device. Available on iOS, Android, macOS, and visionOS.
  49. AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg — "This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. It applies tape noise, wow and flutter pitch modulation, bandwidth limits, and equalizer adjustments."
  50. Nel tech dilaga l'abitudine di registrare ogni conversazione senza avvertire — Cresce nel tech l'abitudine di registrare ogni conversazione senza avvertire, con app come Granola che trascrivono in silenzio. Michelle Lim di Flint 'si rattrista' quando dimentica di accenderla; Emmie Chang di Yuzu Labs registra gli appuntamenti…
  51. US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
  52. JustVugg/colibri: Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦
  53. Margin
  54. What will more intelligence actually do for us? • Noahpinion — Noah Smith: Not a lot of people expected that AI would come for the mathematicians before it came for the truck drivers, but it did. The other day, an AI model disproved the Jacobian Conjecture — an 87-year-old open problem that human mathematicians had struggled…
  55. It’s Time to Give Up on the Nonstick Pan as We Know It | Reviews by Wirecutter
  56. The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/8U4VExZ
  57. The voice of Google — "In the crusade to make everything social, Google ended up destroying one of the few genuinely social things it had ever made: the RSS-feed aggregator Google Reader. Reader wasn’t glamorous, but it had a passionate following. It was small, by Google standards (and only by Google standards), with a repor…
  58. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it. / Tobi Knaup
  59. Securing services with Rootless Containers — Some tips to improve security in applications deployed as containers.
  60. PyTorch: a reference language — PyTorch DevLog — A reference implementation is a simplified but complete version of a system that trades performance in return for clarity. We might then say a reference “language” is the fabric of APIs and conventions from which these implementations are cut. At first glance, PyTorch obviousl…
  61. Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place.
  62. How to survive boiling water
  63. ars astronomica | first english translations of historical hebrew and latin works in astronomy, cosmology, and natural philosophy.
  64. GitHub - nyblnet/bento · GitHub
  65. Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands — Developer Brian O’Neill wants to build a 2 million-square-foot data center in a former steel plant. Under Pennsylvania law, Plymouth Township (in which the plant is located) cannot simply say “no” to any lawful land use, but it can enforce zoning rul…
  66. Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine
  67. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying
  68. A Big Problem (Here’s a story about changelings:  Mary was a...) — Here’s a story about changelings:  Mary was a beautiful baby, sweet and affectionate, but by the time she’s three she’s turned difficult and strange, with fey moods and a stubborn mouth that screams and bites but never says mama. But her mother’s well-used t…
  69. Octane — React's programming model, compiled
  70. Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness — Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
  71. ASD-STE100 Home
  72. Fall in love with anyone - sistercacao — “If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?” Quickly, Ilya adds, “Don’t say that you want to know if you win the Cup.” “Why not? What if that’s my answer?” “Is so boring, Hollander. Of course yo…
  73. Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spen…
  74. Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs | Education policy | The Guardian
  75. A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
  76. Hedgie on X: "🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-
  77. Pacing the Frontier
  78. Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets): "🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers ano
  79. LM Studio Bionic adds support for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  80. UI Sound Design: 936 Interface Sound Effects | UI SFX
  81. You should self-host your mail server (in 2026)
  82. What is really happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
  83. don't call me captain - insatiablegaydesire - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — “Sometimes in Juniors, I’d think about my teammates in a circle and me on my knees in the center. They’d all be jerking off, and I wouldn’t be allowed to touch myself until every one of them came on me.” Shane Holla…
  84. There Is No Oil Price — The Oil Primer, Midstream. Everything between the wellhead and the engine, who owns it, and where the war's money really landed.
  85. Free Ink · An open ecosystem for e-readers
  86. Daring Fireball: Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/v1AfjOu
  87. Lock Launcher Introduces “No Redirect” Launchers, XL Widgets for iOS 27
  88. Smart rings from Pebble and Stream are looking like the AI gadget to beat | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/w6fRnlv
  89. GitHub - abue-ammar/tinycast: Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history · GitHub — bjtitus starred abue-ammar/tinycast
  90. ali on X: "22580: From GPT2 to Kimi3, Explained" / X
  91. Jacobian Conjecture for Baby
  92. SNAKEHABITATTURNAROUND - here is a strike beneath your knees - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] — Shane fixed his gaze down the side of the house, though he couldn’t see Ilya from this far away. Your husband. Him to me. Scott Hunter standing in his yard calling Ilya his husband. Black waves at the edges of his vision…
  93. Untitled (https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches) — @eric_seufert I mean on one hand there is all this: But also like: - - - Just to start! That's literally off the top of my head at local time
  94. Canvas UI: Creative Canvas and WebGL Component Library — An open source component library of creative html-in-canvas and WebGL effects for React, Vue, Svelte, and vanilla JS. Creative effects running over live HTML.
  95. https://www.curbed.com/article/williamsburg-domino-two-trees-hunters-point-south-waterfront.html
  96. digimata/quill
  97. The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar by Gregg Miner
  98. From the thebulwark community on Reddit: HOTTEST TAKE: Stupid-Americans are the New Irish-Americans, Trump is Their JFK.
  99. How to Actually Give Away Your AI Money | by Roy Bahat | Jul, 2026 | Also by Roy Bahat — Discover strategic frameworks for impactful philanthropy. Learn to prioritize theories of change over tax vehicles and avoid common donor pitfalls.

The Next Web

  1. BMW is cutting 8,000 jobs and handing its cars’ brains to Qualcomm
  2. This Cambridge startup is building a ‘foundation model’ for the chest to speed drug trials
  3. OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.
  4. DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.
  5. As AI Generates More Messages, Human Recognition Becomes More Valuable
  6. The Verification Imperative in Recruitment’s Trust Crisis
  7. PwC sells advice on using AI responsibly. Its own reports were written by a careless one.
  8. Audi bet its future on EVs. Now it’s selling America a V8 with cupholders.
  9. OpenAI hit its billion-user goal, just seven months late
  10. AI agents don’t log in like people. That problem just sold for $1bn.

Smashing Magazine

  1. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
  2. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
  3. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
  4. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
  5. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
  6. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
  7. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
  8. Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
  9. Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
  10. Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
  11. Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
  12. Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  13. Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
  14. The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
  15. The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
  16. How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
  17. June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  18. Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
  19. Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
  20. Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
  21. Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
  22. Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
  23. Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
  24. The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
  25. Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
  26. Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
  27. A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  28. The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
  29. The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
  30. Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
  31. How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
  32. Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
  33. A Practical Guide To Design Principles
  34. The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  35. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
  36. Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
  37. Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
  38. Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
  39. Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
  40. Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  2. The Best Removable Wallpapers
  3. What Has Four Doors, Three Cooling Zones, and Is the Best Fridge You’ve Never Heard Of?
  4. Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale Is Back. And It’s Packed With Surprisingly Good Deals on Wirecutter Picks.
  5. The Best Air Mattress
  6. The Best Mechanical Pencils
  7. Windows 10 Is Dead. But You Might Not Need a New Laptop Yet.
  8. The Best TVs
  9. This Gigantic Margaritaville Mixer Elevates All My Happy Hours
  10. The Best Bluetooth Audio Receivers and Transmitters

Sweethome

  1. The Best Removable Wallpapers
  2. The Best Outdoor Security Camera
  3. The Best Air Mattress
  4. The Best Ideas for Organizing Your Closet (Even If It’s Tiny)
  5. Forever Chemicals Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Limit Your Exposure.
  6. The Best Dishwasher Detergent
  7. The Best Cotton Sheets
  8. Looking to Cut Back on Single-Use Plastic in Your Bathroom Routine? Start Here.
  9. The Case for This $300 Hammer, From an Ex-Carpenter
  10. The Best College Dorm Essentials

Hacker News

  1. Kimi K3-256k
  2. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
  3. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident
  4. Superlogical
  5. Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
  6. KOReader
  7. Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)
  8. Claude Is Down
  9. Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
  10. Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness
  11. Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
  12. PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring
  13. A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
  14. Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals
  15. Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
  16. How much can you delegate to agents?
  17. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
  18. Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
  19. Darktable
  20. How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality
  21. The Rust on ESP Book
  22. Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used
  23. Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
  24. Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money
  25. Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
  26. Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
  27. Learning Musical Multitasking
  28. GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?
  29. More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
  30. User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

Ars Technica

  1. Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play
  2. Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
  3. Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
  4. Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
  5. Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
  6. New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
  7. Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer
  8. What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
  9. Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation
  10. Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?
  11. Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9
  12. Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
  13. College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
  14. We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
  15. eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign
  16. Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
  17. Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
  18. Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
  19. New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France
  20. Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus
  2. DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Business
  3. Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism
  4. OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
  5. More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack
  6. Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking
  7. Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots
  8. Workplaces Look For Cheaper AI As 'Tokenmaxxing' Fades As a Corporate Fad
  9. Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases
  10. AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype
  11. eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019
  12. Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
  13. Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets
  14. DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses'
  15. GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search

BoingBoing

  1. The SS Richard Montgomery's masts are coming down. The bombs are staying put
  2. Trump's participation trophy heads to the Big Apple
  3. English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College
  4. Todd Blanche tells Epstein survivors to "get to the point"
  5. Jeff Hays will play Princess Donut in the Dungeon Crawler Carl adaptation
  6. Metal fan defecates in moshpit, others vomit
  7. Two marketers gave the Chicago Handshake its bitter modern recipe
  8. Grandpa Pudding Brains is asked four times where Venezuela's $13 billion went
  9. Jordan Klepper uncovers MAGA's deepest fear
  10. The longest-running solo comic by a woman was one epic rant
  11. A king's court meeting dropped 60 nobles into a cesspit in 1184
  12. EXPOSED: Your identity sells for less than $1
  13. Your PC upgrade checklist starts here: Windows 11 Pro and Office 2021 for one $33 payment
  14. Three lighthouse keepers vanished and left the clock unwound
  15. New England needed candles at noon and nobody knew why
  16. Toast really does land butter-side down, and physics explains why
  17. Two teams quit competing mid-game, and FIFA rewrote the rules
  18. This 355-foot research ship worked by flipping vertical in the ocean
  19. A London pickle maker was crowned king of a breakaway state in China
  20. In 1895 a train burst through a Paris station and stood on its nose
  21. Shopify CEO endorses stripping voting rights from poor and pensioners
  22. Ebay and former execs to pay $55.7m after harassment campaign against journalists
  23. Supergiant Betelgeuse's smaller companion star imaged
  24. Your spreadsheet has officially been promoted—Microsoft Project is $44.97 right now
  25. Netflix honors Raygun with a documentary
  26. Grandpa Pudding Brains says airplanes didn't exist during his father's lifetime
  27. Tourists turned Auschwitz's death tracks into a photo set
  28. Iranian LEGO movies bashing Trump just get better
  29. Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon
  30. New video card has only 4GB of RAM

Core77

  1. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  2. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  3. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
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  1. What’s the catch with the Apple Upgrade program?
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  4. Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever
  5. The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans
  6. Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off
  7. DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division
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  9. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future
  10. Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

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  10. Apple Upgrade Isn’t the Best Way to Buy an iPhone
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  17. LG Promo Codes and Coupons for July 2026
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  1. Meta reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $60.8B and family daily active people up 3% to 3.6B on average for June 2026; META drops 4%+ after hours (Meta)
  2. Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90B, net income up 31% to $35.8B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 27% to $59.3B; MSFT jumps 3%+ after hours (Microsoft)
  3. Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
  4. Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (Google)
  5. Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns (The Information)
  6. OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)
  7. Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
  8. Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+ (Financial Times)
  9. Qualcomm says it has signed a 10-year deal to supply chips for BMW's future digital cockpit and advanced driver-assistance systems (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
  10. Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
  11. Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
  12. ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
  13. Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)
  14. Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)
  15. A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)