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BBC

  1. Spain attacks 'selfish' response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
  2. Call for 'full review' as pressure grows on Infantino
  3. Mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche, his company says
  4. William and Kate bring children to Commonwealth Games
  5. Sir John Curtice: The 'Burnham bounce' is real but it's not massive
  6. Nine killed in strikes on Kyiv, as Ukraine sinks Russian container ship
  7. He thought a fitness supplement was safe, but it sent him into psychosis
  8. The five dramatic days that shook Infantino and world football
  9. Faisal Islam: Four reasons why the World Cup plan never stacked up
  10. Infantino on the brink? Who might replace him if he goes?
  11. What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain and why does Trump say he wants to bomb it?
  12. Decades-long search ends with discovery of new marine species
  13. Former workers fight for wages they say they're owed: 'It makes me sick'
  14. Who is Greater Manchester's new Mayor Bev Craig?
  15. 'Our hearts are in ruins,' Savannah Guthrie says after kidnapped mother's ransom notes released
  16. Greater Manchester mayor says Burnham's new powers will change lives
  17. Current Ebola outbreak worst ever in DR Congo, WHO says
  18. Soap star Shane Richie facing drink-drive charge
  19. Greek police fast-tracking tests to find out how British woman found in suitcase died
  20. Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
  21. Death row inmates desperate to escape execution in Saudi Arabia call the BBC
  22. 'I'm Mandy Burnham' - Quaker chaplain is lookalike for new prime minister
  23. Roman port dug up behind woman's home
  24. Highland glen sees first wild-born beavers in 400 years
  25. 'Don't wait until you want revenge' - why prenups are on the rise
  26. BBC News app
  27. Is The World Cup For Sale?
  28. The Democrats need to win Michigan… so why is it splitting the party?
  29. The five dramatic days that shook Infantino and world football
  30. Root in 'very different place' over Test captaincy
  31. Gold family agrees to sell West Ham stake to Staveley

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. What Is USB Tethering And How Do You Enable It For Mobile Hotspot?
  2. Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google face wrongful death lawsuit from four US families
  3. How to create and delete stickers on your iPhone
  4. Ayaneo reveals its Game Boy Advance remake called the Konkr Pocket Advance
  5. Apple CarPlay isn't working in your car? Here's what to check first
  6. Judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps
  7. Honda has a new partner for the advancement of solid-state battery technology
  8. How To Safely Recycle Your Old USB Cables
  9. What is a silicon carbon battery and is it the answer to smartphone battery life issues?
  10. How long is a new MacBook actually supposed to last?
  11. Engadget review recap: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Meta Glasses and more
  12. Cyberattacks hit water facilities in seven states across the US
  13. Truck chaos, climbing with dual-mouse controls and other new indie games worth checking out
  14. Lenovo's first Googlebooks have leaked
  15. SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center
  16. New York alleges Kalshi is running an 'illegal gambling operation' in new lawsuit
  17. Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
  18. Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
  19. Pandora's ad-free subscription is less than $10 a month in 2026: Is it worth it?
  20. Ubisoft is shutting down its weird NFT game that came out two years after the whole craze died down

Pinboard

  1. Elevators
  2. Recipe Table — any recipe, one glance — Paste any recipe and get it back as a nested prep table — ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns. The whole recipe readable at a glance, no scrolling through a life story.
  3. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
  4. SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers for Low-Latency App Servers | Micrologics
  5. Superlogical
  6. 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.
  7. The coolest use for the Vision Pro
  8. 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…
  9. GitHub - drumih/turbo-fieldfare: Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook · GitHub — bjtitus starred drumih/turbo-fieldfare
  10. Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing my Security Deposit) :: prilik's blog — Stepper motors!
  11. Introduction - The Rust on ESP Book
  12. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack | MIT Technology Review — Explore why LLMs are fundamentally unable to distinguish between user prompts and internal logic, making them permanently vulnerable to hijacking.
  13. GitHub - openai/codex-security: SDKs and CLI for Codex Security · GitHub
  14. Jailbroken Kindles can now do more with Tailscale
  15. Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick – Krebs on Security
  16. Github - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop
  17. The AI Aesthetic - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
  18. yc-software/qm: multiplayer agent harness for work
  19. What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
  20. Internet Security by Zscaler
  21. PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's. | boringSQL
  22. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Anthropic — "In all cases, Anthropic’s evaluation prompt specified to Claude that its environment was a simulation and that it had no internet access. Due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, this was not the case, and internet …
  23. The End of an Era - Hugh Howey
  24. block/buzz: A hive mind communication platform — It's a Nostr relay: every message, reaction, workflow step, review approval, and git event is a signed event in one log. Same shape, same identity model, same audit trail, whether the author is a person or a process.
  25. LearnVector — A new AI company
  26. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
  27. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
  28. GitHub - mokshablr/gander: Take a gander at any file. Offline, zero-permission Android viewer for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code. · GitHub
  29. twalichiewicz/HNewhere: A lightweight userscript that adds Hacker News discussions to any article. — Instantly view Hacker News discussions in a sidebar on any article. Track new comments and browse community insights without leaving the page.
  30. Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
  31. Pastebot — If you didn't get a chance to download Pastebot public beta you can now grab a 14 day trial version to try it out:
  32. this transparent phone case grows moss and plants inside
  33. Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place.
  34. Hubble.md
  35. The US government just banned Roombas | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/rF2o5dt
  36. The Religion of Speed – The Gospel According to Graybeard
  37. The Great Chinese Oil Mystery — America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.
  38. Please use AI
  39. Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana — Monitor Spring Boot applications on a small VPS using Actuator and StatLite, without operating a full Prometheus and Grafana stack.
  40. Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
  41. Kimi K3 Architecture Notes | Sebastian Raschka, PhD
  42. 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…
  43. Simon Willison's Weblog: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
  44. A malicious word document read in to CoPilot can spread itself to new documents and maliciously alter others.
  45. Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
  46. How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
  47. wsj.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/rKHBa7w
  48. Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
  49. Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation - Ars Technica — "To prevent people from using successive AI checks to tune a bypass workflow, Google limits SynthID to “approximately 10 image checks” per day. In my testing, the verifier will lock you out even faster if you upload too many …
  50. Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Unobtrusive Update Notifications — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/rKHBa7w
  51. GitHub - abue-ammar/tinycast: Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history · GitHub — bjtitus starred abue-ammar/tinycast
  52. SQLite vs DuckDB on the same $16 box: every cliff moved 100x · Traceway — Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB.
  53. Substack writers, you need a website!
  54. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — Google DeepMind
  55. Lineage OS – Lineage OS Android Distribution
  56. Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption [LWN.net]
  57. ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google whe…
  58. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | Hacker News
  59. Trump’s tariffs take aim at Canadian whey during global shortage - The Globe and Mail
  60. Making Postgres Queues Scale | DBOS — xceptions and need to be retried.
  61. GitHub - TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin · GitHub — ff6347 starred TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin
  62. Claude Cookbook
  63. We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yWURQTa
  64. PGSimCity · How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D — PGSimCity — an explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works.
  65. Q&A from the slop trenches – GeoSpatial ML — We reviewed 22 ML conference submissions this summer. Fifteen had fabricated citations, hallucinated authors, or clear LLM slop, so we complain about that a bit, and release the paper references audit we now run.
  66. LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated 'slop' | TechCrunch
  67. Worse on Purpose | How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality | Worse on Purpose — Worse on Purpose | Worse on Purpose https://ift.tt/9c17qX6 newsletters, business, companies, ethics, brands
  68. Margin
  69. The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
  70. Writing I/O-Free (Sans-I/O) Protocol Implementations — This informational document is an attempt to make the case for implementing network protocols without performing I/O, and to provide concrete assistance and instructions for doing so in Python
  71. Zugunruhe: The restless sign that something needs to change - Big Think
  72. Chip Builder - Build a computer from scratch. Start with logic gates, design circuits, construct a CPU, and write programs that run on your creation. — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108571
  73. Apple says iOS 27 ‘Restricted Mode’ isn't for new Upgrade program leases - 9to5Mac — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/q58fF3Z
  74. super productivity — free to do list & time tracker for programmers & designers
  75. So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ — You face certain challenges
  76. Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/yWURQTa
  77. GitHub - VladUZH/qwen-scribe: Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. · GitHub
  78. Le testate nonprofit crescono su Google nonostante gli AI Overviews — Nieman Lab rileva che diverse testate nonprofit statunitensi hanno registrato forti aumenti di traffico da ricerca e Discover, nonostante i timori che gli AI Overviews riducano i click. Guide elettorali, copertura locale approfondita, scoop e storie human-…
  79. The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
  80. Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? — very clear explanation
  81. Saudi Arabia prepares sea and possible land offensive against Houthis | Saudi Arabia | The Guardian
  82. I ♥ RSS
  83. The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies With Just One Employee - WSJ
  84. What Unilever's 300,000-creator network actually looks like
  85. Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. - The New York Times
  86. FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway. - E&E News by POLITICO
  87. Software Should Work — An independent conference on software reliability.
  88. StarTrail-org/PixelRAG: The end of web parsing. The beginning of scalable pixel-native search.
  89. It’s Cool to Be Weird — Its Cool to Be Weird https://ift.tt/pfPVNvF via:feedbin
  90. severance - lcamtuf’s thing
  91. dexhorthy: AI Coding Leverage and the 80/20 Rule of Planning — ~3 min read. Argues that AI coding tools only address 25-50% of feature shipping time, and that real 2-3x speedups come from using AI in planning and alignment phases. Introduces an 'expected pain' framework: upfront planning effort inversely correlates with rewo…
  92. iOS 27 Lets You Hide the Messages Button Everyone Hits by Mistake - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/pn7Kog5
  93. Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget — 'catastrophically expensive' coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics — A million dollar "whoopsie" https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vay198/amazon_accidentally_spent_18_million_using_claude/…
  94. Africa map: US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries
  95. GCC steering committee announces AI policy | Hacker News
  96. Dream-Cubed: Controllable Generative Modeling in Minecraft by Training on Billions of Cubes
  97. KOReader — KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. It supports PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, EPUB, DOC, MOBI, and ZIP files. It currently runs on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Ubuntu Touch and Android devices.
  98. Reading matters deeply - A Working Library — "In Virtue Hoarders, Catherine Liu’s polemic against the professional managerial class, she calls attention to how Obama talked about reading in the waning days of his presidency. In his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he said: Social attitudes oftentimes take generations t…
  99. Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?! - CGI Coffee — What if I told you there exists a language, or a whole toolkit that: Can be used to create cross-platform Console and GUI tools or apps Those GUI apps look native on W…
  100. Darktable | Hacker News

The Next Web

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Standing Desks
  2. The Best Office Chair
  3. The Best LCD/LED TV
  4. The Best TV Wall Mounts
  5. The Best Shoe Racks
  6. The Best Rug Pads
  7. The Best Neck Fans
  8. I Thought I Was Too Chesty to Wear a Bralette. The Defy Bra Proved Me Wrong.
  9. 33 Gifts for Gen Z
  10. The Best Grabber Tools

Sweethome

  1. The Best Ceiling Fans
  2. The Best Rug Pads
  3. The Best Shoe Racks
  4. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  5. The Best Removable Wallpapers
  6. The Best Extension Cords for Your Home and Garage
  7. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  8. The Best Air Mattress
  9. The Best Bath Towel
  10. The Best Window Air Conditioner Bracket

Hacker News

  1. Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
  2. Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
  3. The Art of 64-bit Assembly
  4. NetBSD 11.0
  5. Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter
  6. Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses
  7. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
  8. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
  9. Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast
  10. Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken
  11. Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
  12. Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
  13. A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
  14. Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf]
  15. Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development
  16. Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity
  17. Linux on ESP32
  18. Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring
  19. Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor
  20. Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
  21. A directory of people who love RSS
  22. Manual: •.,:;…!?·
  23. Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll
  24. RamenHaus
  25. qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
  26. Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers
  27. The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
  28. Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
  29. Fermi Paradox
  30. Elevators

Ars Technica

  1. Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission
  2. Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey
  3. As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
  4. After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica
  5. Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
  6. How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
  7. Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
  8. Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing
  9. Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
  10. Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
  11. Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
  12. Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
  13. Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
  14. High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
  15. Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle
  16. China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
  17. Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs
  18. Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.
  19. AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
  20. Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece
  2. New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security
  3. Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America
  4. Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification
  5. Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research
  6. Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon
  7. OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment
  8. The Major Labels Propose Rules to Keep AI Slop Off the Charts
  9. Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban
  10. Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead
  11. Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says
  12. New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say
  13. Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links
  14. New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation'
  15. Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts

BoingBoing

  1. The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong
  2. Why tomato sauce stains plastic, and the 30-second fix
  3. The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear
  4. Pick up a refurbished 2018 MacBook Air for just $200
  5. The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb
  6. Two brothers filled a Harlem brownstone with 140 tons of stuff
  7. In 1984, an anonymous poster said a Pink Floyd album hid a prize. Nobody ever found it
  8. Boy George's Pro-Israel AI Slop Reggae Song was Promotional Stunt for Playing Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar
  9. Unpublished novel's $2.4m deal pulled over AI concerns
  10. YouTube crackles down on ASMR content
  11. Spacecraft sent on rescue mission now spinning out of control
  12. Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcast
  13. The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years
  14. DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor
  15. This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences
  16. A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery
  17. Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight
  18. Voibe gives Mac users a much faster way to get words down
  19. Patronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars
  20. If you like indie games, have you tried the Itch desktop app?
  21. AI won't take your job, but someone who knows Claude might — this course is just $14
  22. At $4 a gallon again, even Republicans souring on Iran war
  23. Stolen Civil War cannonballs found in luggage
  24. AI assistant named for long-dead pharmacy founder mutters incomprehensibly and "demands that you talk to him"
  25. Curiosity rover finds field of honeycomb-textured "polygons"
  26. Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features
  27. U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference
  28. Lawsuit claims underperforming Comcast workers subjected to abusive ritual
  29. The cars he hated became the prosecution's photo department
  30. Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgård

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-27-26 to 7-31-26)
  2. A Space-Saving Retractable Spiral Staircase
  3. Second White's Sleek Folding Electric Scooter
  4. Improvised Transport on Abandoned Infrastructure: Colombia's Ingenious Motorcycle-Railroad Adapters
  5. Modhaus' Wireless Phone Charger with a Concrete Base
  6. U.S. Government Bans Foreign-Made Robots
  7. Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco
  8. Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You
  9. Combining Computational Design with Wicker
  10. Unitree's Impressive Off-Road Dog-Bot/Pack Mule
  11. Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
  12. Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
  13. Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
  14. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
  15. A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
  2. Spider-Man: Brand New Day leak racks up millions of views
  3. Trump blames Tim Walz for water hacks even though it’s probably Iran
  4. The Verge’s 2026 back-to-school shopping guide
  5. You could be taking way better photos on your phone
  6. The Mermaid Mask is a perfect vacation murder mystery
  7. The OG reading app just got a big update
  8. With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC
  9. Apple’s new AirTags are back down to their best price
  10. Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

Wired

  1. 15 Best Office Chairs of 2026—We Tested 70 to Pick Them
  2. Best Organic Mattresses (2026): Certified Nontoxic, Natural Sleep
  3. China’s EV Market Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem
  4. 7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
  5. Boroux vs. Rorra vs. Culligan: Water Filters, Tested Head to Head
  6. Dreo Summer Flash Sale 2026: Lowest Price Ever on Chefmaker, Fan
  7. Alienware 15 Gaming Laptop Review: Hedging Its Bets
  8. The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
  9. Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
  10. Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for August 2026
  11. Valvoline Coupons and Promo Codes for August 2026
  12. TurboTax Full Service Coupons This August
  13. Home Depot Promo Codes: 50% Off in August 2026
  14. Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off August 2026
  15. 30% Off Canon Promo Codes | August 2026
  16. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off August 2026
  17. Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for August 2026
  18. H&R Block Coupon: 25% Off DIY + Tax Pro Assist
  19. eBay Coupons: 20% Off in August 2026
  20. Squarespace Promo Codes: 20% Off in August 2026

LifeHacker

  1. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  2. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  3. 10 Snipping Tool Hacks Every Windows 11 User Should Know
  4. AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
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  1. US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News)
  2. Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
  3. Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
  4. Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (New York Times)
  5. A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
  6. OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)
  7. This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired)
  8. At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
  9. Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times)
  10. Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
  11. Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
  12. Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
  13. Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
  14. ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
  15. ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)