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BBC

  1. Record 230 people cross Channel in one small boat
  2. Travelodge staff gave domestic abuser key to his victim's room
  3. Thames Water gave finance boss a £1m signing-on fee
  4. Ban on 'subscription traps' brought forward by three months
  5. Evidence that South African special forces murdered top detective shared with BBC
  6. Schools in England have new rules on branded uniforms - will the changes save you money?
  7. Suspected crime boss Kinahan spends first night in custody in Ireland
  8. At least 13 killed in Ukrainian strike on Russia's Tatarstan region, officials say
  9. Fifa and Infantino accused of 'deception' in open letter from football confederations
  10. China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm makes landfall
  11. Could your tattoo stop you from getting a job?
  12. Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
  13. The team behind Hodgkinson's golden rise and the hunt for a world record
  14. Buried abuse memory brought sisters' abuser to justice
  15. You could be missing out on £150 off your energy bill - here's how to check
  16. Former Thai MP allegedly kills official and confesses on YouTube
  17. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's freezing her eggs
  18. Watch: Bungalow destroyed in explosion captured on camera
  19. Rare £3.7m Ferrari seized in police crackdown
  20. Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says
  21. Risk of patient safety 'bonfire' with Health Bill changes, Lib Dems say
  22. 'Body in suitcase' found in Australia turns out to be lifelike doll
  23. BBC News app
  24. Is The Ukraine War Entering A New Phase Of Aggression?
  25. Which PM punched John Simpson?
  26. With great power comes great responsibility
  27. Infantino broke trust 'through deception' - confederation presidents
  28. The team behind Hodgkinson's golden rise and the hunt for a world record
  29. Mourinho says he agreed to replace Ferguson at Man Utd
  30. How Liverpool are shaping up under Iraola
  31. Niemann wins as Rahm secures LIV season title

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Future Apple Watches may include more screen sizes or even a model with no display
  2. OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns
  3. The FCC wants to ban drones with LiDAR that it previously approved
  4. How to use Claude's voice mode
  5. Here's how to format a USB drive on Windows
  6. How to use ChatGPT's new, more natural Voice Mode for conversations
  7. How to hide and unhide an app on your iPhone or iPad (and why you may want to)
  8. The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android
  9. The pros and cons of the switch to digital games
  10. How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV
  11. How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console
  12. Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use?
  13. Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ
  14. Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do
  15. Mario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy
  16. The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed
  17. Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
  18. Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
  19. X is replacing revenue sharing with a new original content rewards program
  20. Framework customer information was accessed as part of a data breach

Pinboard

  1. Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? — A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
  2. 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | PatronView
  3. Reading
  4. How to make error-diffused QR codes
  5. (1) Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - YouTube — The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AIWhen AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed E...
  6. Taste Is All That's Left
  7. "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers — Senko Rašić — "One of the comments I hear often lately boils down to “LLMs may be good at coding, but software was never the hard part” and “coding is easy, it's figuring out what to code that's hard”. I believe that's a gross insult to all programmers everywhere."
  8. AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones — Google DeepMind
  9. Meta accusata di monetizzare contenuti di neo-nazisti su Facebook — Un’inchiesta di ABC News sostiene che Meta abbia pagato creator e pagine neo-naziste o suprematiste bianche tramite il programma di monetizzazione di Facebook, nonostante contenuti potenzialmente in violazione delle policy sull’odio. Il caso solleva nuove do…
  10. Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick – Semi-Rad.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/nwPldHx
  11. Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight — ref https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
  12. I didn't set a cookie.
  13. MAKE MY DRIVE FUN
  14. Katherine Rundell: l’AI in classe minaccia apprendimento, autonomia e democrazia — Katherine Rundell denuncia l’impatto dell’AI generativa su scuola e giovani: riduzione dello sforzo cognitivo, compiti delegati ai chatbot, disuguaglianze educative e rischi per pensiero critico e benessere. Pur riconoscendone i potenziali ben…
  15. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | Databricks Blog
  16. “As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program.” – Unsung
  17. Ancient Library - The Greek and Latin classics — every word parsed, every form defined. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214770
  18. Mario meets Pareto
  19. Gadgets · Build in Public
  20. Elixir's GenStage Demand (a Visual Explainer) – Andrea Leopardi
  21. Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill | Greenland | The Guardian
  22. my server is a phone now — seg6
  23. GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance · GitHub
  24. From constraint models to playable puzzle games - zayenz.se
  25. Understanding is the new bottleneck — Master AI-generated code with explainer docs, quizzes, and micro-worlds. Return to participate creatively and deepen your understanding.
  26. Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. - The New York Times
  27. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays (scalex.dev) — Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead. A couple of months ago I published a small browser game: you play the human-in-the-loop for an AI coding agent, a…
  28. Incentives are for losers — An argument against thinking about "people do things cuz incentives", discussion on morality, the illusion of explanatory depth etc.
  29. A Cartoon from The New Yorker — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  30. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | Hacker News
  31. SnakeViz
  32. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD - malisper.me
  33. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on Security — This sums up how I tend to use AI. Not for anything I can't check, nor for any skills I want to keep.
  34. Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content - ABC News
  35. Simon Willison on Technical Blogging - by Cynthia Dunlop — Simon Willison on Technical Blogging via Instapaper https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging New year, new round of tech blogger interviews. Let’s kick it off with Simon Willison: co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette. Over th…
  36. Archive - Incorrect AI Predictions
  37. cloudflare/computer: Give your agent a computer 👾
  38. Don't be a meat proxy
  39. _for-sale DNS records · Website Spec
  40. The next chapter of our AI momentum: Demis Hassabis will be taking on a new strategic role as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet (in order to focus on Isomorphic and human health benefits from AGI) — Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams. Editor’s note: Today…
  41. Software Stewardship Lab — via https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/07/the-software-stewardship-lab.html via @clew@ecoevo.social boost of https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117053850151600277
  42. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work — During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the actions now underway.
  43. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled (2026) - Shopify — Shopify tells how they found a way to move high transaction volume reservations into the DB.
  44. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
  45. Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers | The Cloudflare Blog
  46. nytimes.com — Opinion | These 25 Artifacts Explain America https://ift.tt/rOHCaZi america, culture, history, society, art
  47. ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley | Life and style | The Guardian
  48. how i use llms to learn complex topics · laurentiu raducu
  49. Agent Plugins
  50. 20 Modern JavaScript Tricks for Cleaner Everyday Code
  51. The End of Reading Is Here — In 2024, in a national test, just 35 percent of high-school seniors were “proficient” at skills such as analyzing complex fictional themes and evaluating the effectiveness of an author’s argument. About the same number scored below “basic,” meaning that they may struggle to draw conclusions from …
  52. TypeStax: A type scale generator that feels like vintage audio hardware
  53. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an if | Serhii Potapov (greyblake) — An example of branchless programming making things faster. Want to extract all items from a list with value > threshold. Instead of "if value > threshold, copy value" write "copy value to [place calculated by value > threshold]". It r…
  54. how I use llms to learn complex topics | hacker news
  55. Triple Threat: Has the new AI made the old AI relevant again? — GRAPH_TABLE ftw
  56. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
  57. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  58. Home — Documentation on the Kindle and Mesquito
  59. US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses | US news | The Guardian
  60. The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness — And if in a year or two or ten the paragraphs above look hopelessly naïve … well, I think I’ll be glad to have been naïve, in this context. Because I suspect that a certain form of naivete may be a precondition for aliveness.
  61. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/zcu5TWB
  62. Junkbin.io - Right to Repair Database
  63. I ♥ RSS
  64. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
  65. Novels can help us understand our place in the world - The Globe and Mail — Opinion: Novels can help us understand our place in the world https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-literary-novels-fictional-worlds-honore-de-balzac-marcel-proust/ books, literature
  66. The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs? [Study] | DanielStanica.com — Daniel Stanica — Advise, Broker, and Invest in Digital Assets — Discover why 79% of successful blogs collapsed and what the 21 survivors do differently. Learn to create irreplaceable content and build an owned audience.
  67. Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci - The Atlantic
  68. OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 | TechCrunch — More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device — described previously as an AI-fueled smart speaker that will be the “physical manifestation” of ChatGPT. Bloomberg now reports that the device wil…
  69. Thinking orbs — Dotted thought-orb loading indicators for AI and agent UIs. Nine hand-tuned states, two sizes, auto dark/light theme.
  70. GrammaTech/ddisasm: A fast and accurate disassembler — https://twitter.com/ptracesecurity/status/1350322795465633792?s=20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151146
  71. React Router v8 in Action: Lazy Loading and Nested Routes
  72. Making difficulty curves in games - Stuff Made By Dave
  73. Taste Is All That's Left | Hacker News
  74. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI — lol.
  75. Joe Fabisevich :verified:: "I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. Th…" - Macaw-Social — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  76. Daring Fireball: Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/zcu5TWB
  77. The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
  78. The Software Stewardship Lab | Andrew Nesbitt
  79. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking · Radically Ethical Data Consulting — If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as…
  80. Building Better React Forms Without a Form Library
  81. Dogfooding vs. QA vs. User Research - NN/G
  82. Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
  83. Town | The AI Assistant That Does the Work — Meet Town, the personal AI assistant that manages your inbox, schedules your meetings, and handles the busywork — working quietly in the background for you.
  84. I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
  85. Plato’s Warning Has Been Vindicated | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review
  86. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles — A fabulously gay blind author.
  87. What Makes Humans Stupid (David Krakauer) — "Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth parasitic on ingenuity. In a world obsessed with ever more powerful cognitive technologies, understanding stupidity is…
  88. Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep spinning, fuel-free, to steady the solar that replaced — Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant tha…
  89. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update — To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
  90. High-Heeled Squat Benefits: How To Do The Anti-Aging Exercise — It builds thigh and glute strength. “This is key to making sure you can get off the floor in your 80s,” Dr Kate Ella says. That said, progressive overload is important for building strength and muscle so, if you are able to, consider including additional strengt…
  91. Stowaway — Ride along with the planes and satellites overhead — via matt muir - see what flights above you can see
  92. SmolPhone: a smartphone with energy limits — via: https://community.mnt.re/t/will-mnt-please-make-a-cell-phone/4523
  93. How This Simple Stretch Changes Your Hips, Permanently. — This is how one stretch can significantly transform your hips. The Shinbox and 90 90 are extremely versatile allowing beginners to build pain-free mobility w...
  94. If You Only Read One Book This Year, Make It This - YouTube — Join my free newsletter: https://www.sandeepswadia.com/newsletterTake us on your morning run or commute, follow us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/...
  95. Bundeszentrale gegen Kinderfiguren: Benjamin, du lieber Anarchist | taz.de
  96. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
  97. Protopia - by Kevin Kelly - KK
  98. A beginner's guide to setting up Proxmox
  99. How solar donors helped take down a Trump-backed Republican - POLITICO — The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC spent $2 million opposing Ogles and boosting Republican primary opponent Charlie Hatcher — more than both candidates combined — and the group is now poised to be a force in future contests. Ogles was the third Rep…
  100. What Happened to Talenti?

The Next Web

  1. Moburst reveals AI-powered mobile growth playbook following record campaign performance milestones
  2. Microsoft brings its fourth Indian cloud region online in Hyderabad, the first delivery against a $17.5 billion commitment
  3. Grok’s image tools get a professional upgrade with templates, precise editing, and an Arena number two ranking
  4. You can’t regulate your way to AI sovereignty
  5. Cerebras CEO says it’s “mind-boggling” that people think working 38 hours a week leads to greatness
  6. Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.
  7. Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
  8. Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
  9. Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
  10. OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Laptops
  2. The Best Laptops for College Students
  3. The Best Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds
  4. The Best Windows Laptop
  5. How to Save on School Supplies
  6. A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know.
  7. 11 Gifts That Feel Like Going on a Road Trip
  8. The Best Duffel Bags
  9. The Gadget That Fixed My 8-Hour Screen-Time Habit
  10. The Best Tweezers

Sweethome

  1. The Best Bike Storage Ideas
  2. This Emergency Light Bulb Was My Saving Grace During a Weeklong Power Outage
  3. The Best Smart Smoke Alarm
  4. The Best Flashlight
  5. Our Favorite Writing Desks (That Don’t Look Like Office Furniture)
  6. Our Favorite Reclining Chairs (That Are Also Stylish)
  7. A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know.
  8. The Best Smart Hose Timers
  9. The Best Compact Washer and Dryer
  10. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera

Hacker News

  1. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
  2. What Happened to HackerOne?
  3. Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro
  4. Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice
  5. Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler
  6. An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise
  7. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
  8. An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018)
  9. How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
  10. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
  11. Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself
  12. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
  13. ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers
  14. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
  15. Nearest Pint
  16. Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges
  17. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
  18. Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC
  19. Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
  20. New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
  21. Slap ROM Patcher
  22. Everything you do is being recorded
  23. I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
  24. Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents
  25. The Ambition Project
  26. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
  27. Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
  28. "The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)
  29. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
  30. The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Ars Technica

  1. Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
  2. The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
  3. DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
  4. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
  5. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
  6. Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
  7. The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
  8. New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
  9. DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
  10. OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
  11. How snails engineer their slime
  12. Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
  13. Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
  14. AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
  15. ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
  16. The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
  17. Trump is losing his war on wind power
  18. Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
  19. Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
  20. Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?
  2. Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines
  3. Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
  4. AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
  5. Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
  6. California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
  7. AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch
  8. Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
  9. Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
  10. OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra
  11. Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
  12. GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
  13. Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
  14. Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
  15. RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out

BoingBoing

  1. Turn complicated ideas into clear diagrams with Microsoft Visio 2024 for $45
  2. This AI PDF editor can answer questions about your documents for $50
  3. From Word to Excel, score seven Microsoft Office apps for just $20 (MSRP $229)
  4. A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
  5. Four died after a military exercise took GPS away over New Mexico
  6. The sharpest pictures ever taken of the Sun show it swirling
  7. Mars dust is full of perchlorates, silica, and heavy metals
  8. Roku launches 24 hour AI slop channel
  9. Own Headway for life for $69.99 and finally make waiting in line productive
  10. Why Osaka and Tokyo keep landing in the world's top 10 cities
  11. This $100 subscription helps protect against identity theft and financial fraud
  12. Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center
  13. Can you guess Rock Hard's branding problem?
  14. Never lose your wallet again with this $32 smart tracker
  15. Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
  16. Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet
  17. A Dutch doctor translated acupuncture through four languages
  18. A Kentucky water tower says "Y'all" because of a legal problem
  19. Take a seat and watch the trailer to Primetime
  20. Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song
  21. Cancel your AI subscriptions—get a lifetime of ChatGPT, Claude & a ton of other tools for just $70
  22. When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks
  23. The world's most dangerous golf hole is surrounded by minefields
  24. The thin blue line encounters an unfamiliar last name
  25. AI self-checkout bills a snack run at $8.5 billion
  26. A whaling museum printed its worst review on a hoodie. It sold out
  27. In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus
  28. Tesla headlights were twice as bright as legal
  29. Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill
  30. Trump's $100 billion tariff refund skips the people who paid higher prices

Core77

  1. Unique Form Factor for a Security Robot: Rollo's Monowheel 'Bot
  2. Gazelle's Quick-Assemble Hub Tents
  3. A Transparent CD Player
  4. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-27-26 to 7-31-26)
  5. A Space-Saving Retractable Spiral Staircase
  6. Second White's Sleek Folding Electric Scooter
  7. Improvised Transport on Abandoned Infrastructure: Colombia's Ingenious Motorcycle-Railroad Adapters
  8. Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
  9. U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
  10. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  11. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  12. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
  13. Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
  14. Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
  15. Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
  2. Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat
  3. 49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed
  4. Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
  5. AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
  6. X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’
  7. An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
  8. Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business
  9. Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro
  10. Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Wired

  1. Best Wireless Earbuds We’d Buy Right Now (2026): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More
  2. Why Each Octopus Arm Has a Mind of Its Own
  3. Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight
  4. The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
  5. 4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026)
  6. Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
  7. TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video
  8. The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime
  9. 8 Best Workout Headphones & Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026)
  10. These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
  11. Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation
  12. The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon
  13. Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket
  14. The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today
  15. Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Razer, Asus, Dell, and More
  16. Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited
  17. Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
  18. How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs
  19. Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
  20. Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  2. Apple Just Added These New Android Devices to Its Trade-In List
  3. Five Ways to Make Gemini Behave More Like Google Assistant
  4. DuckDuckGo Just Made It Easier to Share Links Without Getting Tracked
  5. This Loud and Rugged JBL Speaker Is $65 Off Right Now
  6. If You Loved 'Futurama,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  7. Free ChatGPT Users Will Get a Huge Upgrade Next Week
  8. This Blink Wireless 2K Floodlight Camera Is 40% Off Right Now
  9. This LG Ultrawide OLED Gaming Monitor Is $200 Off Right Now
  10. How to Watch Made by Google 2026: The Pixel Event's Start Time and What to Expect
  11. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  12. How to Count Calories Accurately (and Why You Might Want To)
  13. Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security Flaw
  14. This Pre-Order Deal for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 Ultra2 Ends Today
  15. Today Is Your Last Chance to Preorder a Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Get a $50 Amazon Gift Card
  16. This 27-Inch Asus OLED Gaming Monitor Is $120 Off Right Now
  17. Why Your Garmin VO2max Number Drops in the Summer (and How to Fix It)
  18. Today Is Your Last Chance to Preorder a Samsung Galaxy Z Phone and Get a $350 Amazon Gift Card
  19. 10 Shows Like 'Furious' You Should Watch Next
  20. Google Maps Has Launched 'Agentic Food Ordering,' but Don't Get Too Excited
  21. Apple's iCloud Private Relay Can Actually Expose Your Real IP Address
  22. AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy
  23. The Easiest Way to Earn Rewards on Fuel, Groceries, and Dining
  24. Made by Google 2026: What to Expect From the Pixel 11 Event
  25. Is It Good or Bad to Stretch Before a Workout?
  26. Hisense’s Latest 65-Inch Mini-LED TV Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  27. This Anker Portable Projector With Google TV Is Over $70 Off Right Now
  28. The Apple Watch Series 11 Is $150 Off Right Now
  29. Here's When ChatGPT Atlas Will Shut Down for Good
  30. These Advanced Stretching Techniques Can Actually Make You More Flexible
  31. If You Loved 'Ted Lasso,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  32. You Can Score a MacBook Neo for $599 in the Middle of 'RAMageddon'
  33. My Favorite Earbuds for Sleep Are $60 Off Right Now
  34. This 15.6-Inch Dell Laptop Is $130 Off Right Now
  35. Here's Why Microsoft Is Encouraging Users to Stay Off Public Wifi Networks
  36. 10 Shows Like 'Ted Lasso' You Should Watch Next
  37. My Favorite Pocket-Sized E-Readers Are Under $60 Today Only
  38. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  39. Here's When Google Assistant Is Leaving Android
  40. These Amazon-Exclusive Metallic Pink Beats Headphones Are 50% Off
  41. This Tiny Waterproof GoPro (With a Built-In Light) Is Almost $50 Off Right Now
  42. Apple Could Owe Some Users up to $5,000 Each in This Class Action Lawsuit
  43. This Massive Mini LED QLED From TCL Is $800 Off Right Now
  44. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Balance 3 User Should Know
  45. How to Protect Yourself From This Massive Ongoing Cryptocurrency Hack
  46. This 45-Inch LG UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Monitor Is $700 Off Right Now
  47. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  48. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra User Should Know
  49. These Are the Best Clipboard Managers for Your Mac
  50. The New Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Are Already 35% Off (With a Caveat)
  51. Here's How to Avoid Installing Malware on Your Smart TV
  52. WhatsApp Just Added Five New Group Chat Features, Including '@All'
  53. 10 Hacks Every Google Drive User Should Know
  54. These Apple AirPods 4 With ANC Are Half Off Right Now
  55. Samsung's Latest Flagship Soundbar Is Nearly $800 Off Right Now
  56. How to Finally Sync Your Fitbit Data to Apple Health
  57. This 27-Inch Sony OLED Gaming Monitor Is $300 Off Right Now
  58. My Favorite Sony Headphones Are $60 Off Again
  59. Google Never Should Have Put Nano Banana Into Google Earth in the First Place
  60. This Unlocked Google Pixel 10a Is Now $75 Off
  61. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in August
  62. Why Buying a MacBook Air From Apple Isn't a Great Idea Right Now
  63. Five Hacks Every Amazfit Cheetah 2 Pro User Should Know
  64. This Floatable Anker Speaker Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
  65. This Clip-On JBL Speaker Is 38% Off Right Now
  66. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  67. 10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know
  68. AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
  69. 10 Hacks Every Google Sheets User Should Know
  70. Google's Take on Apple's AirTag May Have Just Leaked
  71. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 LTE Is $100 Off Right Now
  72. Your Samsung Galaxy Watch's Browser Just Got a Useful Upgrade
  73. You Might Soon Have to Pay More for Higher Access to Siri AI
  74. If You Loved 'Gilmore Girls,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  75. This Self-Cleaning Roborock Vacuum Is $700 Off Right Now
  76. This 2026 Samsung OLED TV Is $700 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Hacks Every Samsung Galaxy User Should Know
  78. One of the Best QLED TVs of 2026 Is $1,000 Off Right Now
  79. This Budget Samsung OLED TV Is Now $800 Off Its Original Price
  80. Google Docs Is Rolling Out These Three New Gemini Features
  81. If You Loved ‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  82. The Pixel 11's Biggest New Feature Might Be Its Inflated Price Tag
  83. This Anker Charging Station Is 30% Off Right Now
  84. I Upgraded to an Otterbox, and It Saved My Brand New iPhone's Screen
  85. These Shokz Clip-On Headphones Are 30% Off Right Now
  86. This Four-Pack of Apple's Newest AirTag Is at Its Lowest Price Ever Right Now
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  88. Spotify Just Launched a New Running Mode, and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It
  89. Nano Banana 2 Is Coming to Google Earth
  90. Five Hacks Every Boox Palma User Should Know
  91. This Is the Robot Vacuum I Use Every Day, and It's 47% Off Right Now
  92. This Roomba Mops and Vacuums Automatically, and It's $400 Off Right Now
  93. Here's What Lifehacker Readers Think Apple Will Announce in the Fall
  94. 10 Shows Like 'Futurama' You Should Watch Next
  95. This App Is (Sort of) Bringing Back Samsung Messages
  96. Dyson's OnTrac ANC Headphones Have Great Battery Life, and They're Half Off Right Now
  97. 10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know
  98. This Ultra-Thin QLED TV Is 45% Off Right Now
  99. What's New on Netflix in August 2026
  100. How to Stop Scammers From Showing You Ads on Your Android After Every Phone Call

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TechMeme

  1. Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
  2. Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)
  3. Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
  4. Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (Financial Times)
  5. Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting (South China Morning Post)
  6. Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
  7. A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total (Joel Khalili/Wired)
  8. Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched (Liam Knox/Bloomberg)
  9. How credit card issuers and reservation apps like OpenTable and Amex-owned Resy fragment restaurant reservations, wiring the best tables into premium card perks (Wall Street Journal)
  10. A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
  11. Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
  12. Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph)
  13. Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
  14. Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
  15. Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)