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BBC

  1. Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
  2. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments for millions
  3. Major incidents across UK putting firefighters under 'incredible pressure', fire chief says
  4. Ariana Grande leaves problems at home as her tour hits the UK
  5. Hurricane Lala lashes Hawaii with strong winds and torrential rain
  6. US women in politics spark conversation about balancing family and career
  7. Hunt wins third gold as Asher-Smith makes history
  8. What's driving men to get penis fillers, despite the risks?
  9. From making friends to managing money: Students' advice for this year's freshers
  10. The influencers getting bitten while chasing the perfect shark shot
  11. I survived two years as prime minister in a hit new game - then my cabinet deserted me
  12. Why is Australia's mushroom killer back in court this week?
  13. Bangladesh thrash Australia for historic win
  14. Athletics medal ceremonies postponed after fraud arrest
  15. Britain's youngest Formula E driver says talent isn't enough anymore
  16. Morocco detains dozens of migrants trying to cross into Ceuta, reports say
  17. Twelve killed as Polish bus veers off Hungarian motorway
  18. The Papers: UK-made drones 'strike Russia' and 'phone theft Britain'
  19. Unauthorised sites are growing but travellers say they are forced to break the law
  20. 'I started in my 20s and made £8,000': Why women are often better investors than men
  21. The 101-year-old who created a dolls' house museum with her childhood toys
  22. Peter James returns to Sussex with his 57 animals
  23. Why are 'human fridges' being sold in Japan?
  24. BBC News app
  25. What Next For Nigel Farage After The Clacton By-Election?
  26. Is Iran really trying to kill Trump?
  27. Hunt wins third gold as Asher-Smith makes history
  28. Bangladesh thrash Australia in one of Test cricket's greatest upsets
  29. How important is Community Shield to a team's season?
  30. Fery wins on return as Djokovic struggles in heat
  31. Strong favourites or tougher task - will Arsenal defend their title?
  32. Rashford returns as AC Milan highlight issues facing Carrick

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Engadget

  1. What is a Bluetooth codec and which one offers the best audio quality?
  2. Apple Watch battery replacement: How much does it cost and is it worth it?
  3. Why are RAM prices so high right now?
  4. Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law
  5. What the world's oldest telecommunications company looks like today
  6. Here's how to reset your ASUS router
  7. How to request an Xbox refund
  8. What is analog TV and how is it different from digital TV?
  9. What's the USB trident symbol for? How to know what kind of port you have
  10. What happens when a hybrid battery dies and what to do about it
  11. USB4 Vs USB-C: What's the difference between them?
  12. SpaceX has officially acquired AI coding startup Cursor
  13. Expensive earbuds: When and why it's worth paying more
  14. Riffs on GoldenEye 007, Star Fox and Kingdom Hearts, and other new indie games worth checking out
  15. Engadget review recap: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Dell XPS 13 and more
  16. A Kingdom Hearts anime is coming to Disney+
  17. Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
  18. Waymo receives permission to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego
  19. Kia's EV3 will start under $31,000 in the US
  20. Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from AI content

Pinboard

  1. Ordinary Abundance
  2. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering — You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you. Now they ask an LLM because they don't actually know themselves.
  3. I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
  4. how AI text watermarking works: a visual guide
  5. Unforgetful – Marco.org
  6. Understanding is the new bottleneck — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290299
  7. Gloomberb — Open source stock portfolio manager & trading terminal
  8. deepseek-harness — DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.
  9. Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
  10. Stowaway — Ride along with the planes and satellites overhead — via matt muir - see what flights above you can see
  11. https://defector.com/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong
  12. The 37signals Manager Playbook
  13. A Swarm of Blood Robots — by Craig Mod
  14. How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
  15. On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
  16. AI by Hand ✍️ | Tom Yeh | Substack
  17. Gemini 3.7 Flash: our most intelligent workhorse model
  18. How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  19. 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.
  20. nurb · describe the part, print the part — You talk to your AI. It designs the 3D-printable part while you watch. Drag sliders, download, print. No CAD software.
  21. How Claude's text watermarking works | Anthropic | Aug 14, 2026 — Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU…
  22. Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering - Google Developers Blog — For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths of code for us. But AI needs superv…
  23. Everything is about to “go dark” – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
  24. AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
  25. eigendrum.com — Eigendrum - draw a shape, hear the sound it would actually make https://ift.tt/pkaloXT via:kottke, music, tools, web, science, sound, apps, design, education
  26. AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them. — The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
  27. Stolen Thoughts: Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — TL;DR Proprietary reasoning can be recovered from its encrypted traces. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced by a frontier model…
  28. DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin — DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability is implemented as a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed.
  29. guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover: Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks: Unicode text hygiene, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA/metadata from PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF/DOCX/HTML/MD — Agent skill + stdlib Python scripts to strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks from text and files — for privacy and hygiene on content you own.
  30. local.ai — Independent Local AI Benchmarks — Independent benchmarks comparing AI model intelligence, speed, energy use, and hardware across Apple silicon and NVIDIA GPUs.
  31. “That's not SOC 2 compliant” - Amp
  32. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions | Hacker News
  33. Prompt injection in tribunale: istruzioni nascoste in un atto legale per influenzare l’AI — In Connecticut, un ricorrente ha inserito in atti giudiziari testo invisibile con istruzioni rivolte a eventuali sistemi AI, chiedendo output favorevoli alla propria posizione. Il tribunale ha scoperto la manipolazione e ha sanzionato…
  34. If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them - Schneier on Security 2026-08
  35. GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities
  36. Zeron — control your coding agents from any device
  37. pi.dev
  38. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions | Claude by Anthropic
  39. Docker Sandboxes | Sandboxes for Coding Agents | Docker
  40. Blog about things you don't understand yet
  41. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case - Ars Technica — In a decision published last week, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. confirmed that the hidden text had no impact in a case where a man alleged a healthcare provider was improperly withholding access to records. The court weig…
  42. Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros | Charlie Holland's Blog
  43. Every Fucking Website (2020) | Hacker News
  44. PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history — PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation This wou…
  45. Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | PCWorld
  46. Patterns and problems in multiagent systems Anthropic — The conditions that allow multiagent interaction to go well will be discovered one way or another: either deliberately and early, or—and by default—in production, after agents’ interactions far outnumber ours. We would prefer the former.
  47. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text – Sophie Alpert
  48. Impeccable: The missing upgrade to Anthropic's frontend-design skill — Impeccable: Design skills for AI coding tools https://ift.tt/laKnNpv ai, tools, design, ai.skills
  49. LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
  50. McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There — I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.
  51. GitHub - danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill: ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English rules, repurposed as a Claude Code skill for rewriting ambiguous agent-facing English. · GitHub
  52. Deep Unlearning | Book by Timnit Gebru | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
  53. How Compaction Works in Pi | EARENDIL
  54. https://smry.ai
  55. CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues | WIRED — The 2009-2022 dataset shines light on what officers did with the access they already had prior to gaining even more access. According to CBP, digital surveillance tools are supposed to help officers screen travelers and investig…
  56. World Train Map — Interactive Railway Map · 1,247 Train Routes
  57. More models, more choice: Comparing 11 different AI models — Netlify now runs any OpenRouter model, including Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4. We tested 11 of them on the same build prompt to see how they differ.
  58. ‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/l1TPpMd
  59. Unforgetful
  60. Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
  61. Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI — https://archive.li/oeYo6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181519
  62. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript | Andros Fenollosa
  63. 41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants In the United States - The New York Times
  64. Expressive Design: Google's UX Research - Google Design — - really interesting accessibility data
  65. An American Mosaic - The New York Times — "This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. Use it to explore the many ways we describe our heritage and ourselves."
  66. Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
  67. Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling
  68. AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical — Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
  69. Does the Alpha School Model Work for Regular Kids? — "Here is some new evidence." "What did Unbound Academy deliver? As a public school, Unbound Academy has requirements for transparency that exceed those of Alpha School. For example, Unbound Academy must advertise the meetings of its board of directors, post board min…
  70. Humans did not invent art. It was the other way around | Aeon Essays — "When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images"
  71. Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hadeird Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
  72. 方言配音在线生成_AI粤语四川话文字转语音 | 乡音阁
  73. Gloomberb | Hacker News
  74. mole
  75. I'll build a house inside of you — Hollander trails off. “You don’t want to go to Russia, right?” To call it an understatement would itself be an understatement. Ilya is sick with fear at the thought of what will happen to him in Russia. He lies awake at night imagining the ways they will break him. “No,” he says, which i…
  76. Finite State Machines in Forth - Noble — This note provides methods for constructing deterministic and nondeterministic finite state automata in Forth. The "best" method produces a one-to-one relation between the definition and the state table of the automaton. An important feature of the technique is the absence of (slow) n…
  77. explain-diff
  78. [no title]
  79. Every Fucking Website
  80. Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates
  81. What will be left for us to work on?
  82. Redacted Risk Report August 2026 - Anthropic — Model 2, which is somewhat more capable than Mythos 5. Our rough qualitative sense is that this model is a noticeable improvement on Mythos 5 for many tasks relevant to internal use but does not display a capability jump of the degree observed from Claude Opus 4.6 to Mythos P…
  83. The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich — The power set lattice of natural numbers contains every possible countable order as a suborder, including the rational numbers. It also has uncountable structures like the real line and large antichains, showing great complexity. Moreover, any two infinite coinfinite subsets o…
  84. And now it’s all this: My rules for using spreadsheets
  85. Matic Cues feature lets you just talk to your robot vacuum or point at a mess to clean - 9to5Mac — via 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/
  86. Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives | TechCrunch
  87. 30 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 27 - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/fIjFTac
  88. DeltaDB — Early Access
  89. The Making of Cursor's Icons – Minor Adventures
  90. Jolt — Clojure on Scheme — Jolt is a self-hosted Clojure implementation that runs on Scheme — Chez natively, Gambit for JavaScript. No JVM, no build step — most portable Clojure runs unchanged. The compiler is written in Clojure and compiles itself Persistent data, lazy seqs, transducers, multimethods, protocols — full Clo…
  91. Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale | by Rohit Girme | The Airbnb Tech Blog | Jul, 2026 | Medium — Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale How Airbnb teams build trustworthy Generative AI products by treating evaluation as a first-class engineering discipline; not an …
  92. ‘Quite frustrating:’ what it’s like to have a treaty with the United States - High Country News — "Heirs to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott explain their ancestors’ wisdom and how they defend it today."
  93. mdpi-di/taxonomy · Datasets at Hugging Face
  94. how i use llms to learn complex topics · laurentiu raducu
  95. Indo-European Language Tree
  96. AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage? | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian — The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.
  97. DONKEY.BAS — IBM PC (1981)
  98. antirez/h3.c: minimax h3 inference engine for mac computers
  99. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? | Hacker News
  100. GitHub - github/spec-kit: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

The Next Web

  1. Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
  2. Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
  3. Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
  4. Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
  5. LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T
  6. AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale
  7. The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI
  8. Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off
  9. Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns
  10. Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Laptops for College Students
  2. The Best Laptops
  3. The Best Parental Control Apps to Manage Screen Time (and Keep Your Kid Safer Online)
  4. 12 Apps to Add to Your Kid’s First Phone (That Aren’t Social Media)
  5. The Best Canned Tuna
  6. 13 of the Cutest Gifts We’ve Ever Seen
  7. The Best Bar Soaps
  8. How to Clean the Air You Breathe (Encore)
  9. Some of the Best Online Learning Games for Kids
  10. The Best Bluetooth Tracker

Sweethome

  1. The Best Smart Sprinkler Timer
  2. The Best Pressure Washer
  3. The Best Carpet Cleaners
  4. Our Favorite Storage Benches
  5. The Best Rug Pads
  6. The Best Chainsaw
  7. The Best Leaf Blower
  8. ​The Best Snow Blowers
  9. Our Favorite Nightstands
  10. The Best Snow Shovel

Hacker News

  1. What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
  2. Asus Bike Booster
  3. Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
  4. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
  5. Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
  6. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
  7. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
  8. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
  9. Health benefits of Tai Chi
  10. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
  11. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
  12. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
  13. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
  14. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
  15. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  16. Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite
  17. Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
  18. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
  19. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
  20. Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
  21. Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
  22. AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
  23. Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
  24. A spectre is haunting Unicode
  25. AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
  26. Not sure where I am going with this garbage collection rabbit hole
  27. Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils
  28. Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
  29. SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
  30. Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny

Ars Technica

  1. VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event
  2. Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
  3. So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
  4. Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
  5. First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
  6. Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
  7. State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
  8. PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
  9. Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
  10. Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
  11. Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
  12. R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision
  13. Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
  14. OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
  15. Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan
  16. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
  17. Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
  18. US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
  19. Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
  20. Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart
  2. Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design
  3. X Open Sources Its Ranking and Filtering Algorithms
  4. Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves
  5. How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors
  6. How Larry Ellison Dropped From World's 2nd-Richest To No. 8 In Just 2 Months
  7. AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies
  8. It's Not Just RAM: Windows Licenses Are Also Pushing Up PC Prices
  9. Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships
  10. Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?
  11. Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation
  12. Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star'
  13. Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
  14. Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories
  15. Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead

BoingBoing

  1. Lock in this back-to-school season with a Grade A refurbished Chromebook for only $55
  2. Elevate your prompt game with Prompting Systems for $29.99
  3. In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair
  4. Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination
  5. Your next gaming obsession is half off right now
  6. Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit
  7. Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values
  8. OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
  9. Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
  10. A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
  11. A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
  12. Get lifetime access to the full MS Office 2021 suite for $33
  13. A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
  14. A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
  15. The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
  16. You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
  17. The government now spends more on interest than on the military
  18. Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
  19. The only thing inside an AI is people
  20. App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
  21. When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
  22. BitLocker, Copilot, and more are yours for $9.97 with this Windows 11 Pro deal
  23. Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
  24. North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
  25. Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station
  26. In Japan, press the button on your table and a server appears
  27. This $70 PDF editor doesn't care which operating system you use
  28. Ansel Adams shot 226 park photos for a mural that never got made
  29. Stewart Brand put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for free
  30. The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-10-26 to 8-14-26)
  2. In Nashville, Farm-to-Table Dinner Served in a Creek
  3. The Bizarre Shadows Projected During an Eclipse
  4. Haüsa Homes Demonstrates How to Fit a Folding House Into a Shipping Container
  5. Vintage Folding Railcar Sinks for Sleeper Cars
  6. Amona Lab's Wildly Different Take on Domestic Furniture
  7. Fusion Forward Juror Spotlight: Keren Ruth Wong of IDEO's Play Lab
  8. Low-Tech Toy Design: This Tuminy Truck Lets Kids Unload Goods
  9. Xiaomi's Shocking $45,000 Luxury Hybrid SUV
  10. Form Follows Function: A New Camera Type That's Mostly Viewfinder, No Screen
  11. Industrial designer Gudmundur Ludvik Re-Thinks the Folding Chair
  12. Sponsored: 5 CNC Machining Pitfalls Industrial Designers Make (And How to Avoid Them in CAD)
  13. A More Ergonomic Baby-Carrying Sling
  14. The MegCell Pulse: A 3D-Printed Guitar-Playing Contraption
  15. Another Low-Tech Disappearing-Door Solution from Japan

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Reddit

The Verge

  1. Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film
  2. Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback
  3. Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
  4. Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments
  5. Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals
  6. Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 and Starfighter get teased at D23
  7. Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more
  8. I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove
  9. Marvel reveals the new X-Men cast, including Inde Navarrette and Adam Driver
  10. Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

Wired

  1. Retrospec Joe Rev 2 Review (2026): Putting the ‘Joy’ in Joyride
  2. This Beautifully Weird Necklace Is Secretly a USB Drive
  3. Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade
  4. 6 Best Apple Watch Accessories to Upgrade Your Watch (2026)
  5. Auk Mini 2 Indoor Smart Garden Review: Better Where It Counts
  6. Zyzz Was the Original Looksmaxxer. His Rise and Untimely Death Feel More Relevant Than Ever
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TechMeme

  1. Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)
  2. Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)
  3. BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times)
  4. Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI)
  5. Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (Grace Shao/Bloomberg)
  6. Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)
  7. How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)
  8. A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
  9. Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)
  10. Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information)
  11. A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (Washington Post)
  12. Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (Anthropic)
  13. Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
  14. Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
  15. BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)