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BBC

  1. Prince Harry and six others face privacy case legal bill of up to £34.5m
  2. Girl, 6, dies days after Shoreham sea tragedy killed three family members
  3. Russian double-tap drone strike kills 15 in Ukrainian mall, officials say
  4. Meghan in talks for role in Netflix series The Gentlemen, BBC understands
  5. Watch: How 'strongest' El Niño could affect weather around the world
  6. Under-fives and pregnant women told to avoid runny eggs when eating out over salmonella risk
  7. Supreme Court temporarily unfreezes Trump ballroom construction
  8. Murder investigation after wildfire uncovers body in park
  9. Watch: UK marks first national day for victims and survivors of terrorism
  10. Ofcom investigating Sky News over Farage harassment claims
  11. One killed in sword attack at Swedish school
  12. How Israel is expanding settlements in drive to reshape West Bank
  13. Steve Rosenberg: Shortage of petrol but not patriotism as Russians feel growing impact of war
  14. Wellness habits you can start now - at no (or little) cost
  15. A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism
  16. Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality
  17. Millennials have found it hard to buy homes – but things may be turning a corner
  18. Will Harry's return heal deep-rooted rift with William?
  19. Stifling heat and broken toilets: TUI River Cruise passengers tell of their holiday hell
  20. The town whose council wants migrants to move in
  21. Tupac murder accused told police in 2008 his nephew fired fatal shots
  22. Argentina's Paredes banned for 10 games after World Cup final clashes
  23. Stormy autumn, cold winter - El Niño could bring a tough few months for the UK
  24. Arran ferry evacuated over 'bomb threat' by passenger rescued from sea
  25. Royal Mail misses delivery targets again but hails 'encouraging' signs
  26. BBC News app
  27. Is Andy Burnham Actually Popular Or Just New?
  28. Harry & Meghan: Why Are They Moving Back?
  29. An intense psychological thriller with Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum
  30. Arsenal start title defence with comfortable win over Coventry
  31. Man Utd agree £70m fee for Brighton's Baleba
  32. It would be 'nice to have choice' over Ashes venues - Root
  33. Tzolis shines on Premier League debut - Arsenal v Coventry player ratings
  34. Hunt second in Diamond League 200m as White wins
  35. 'I fear for them' - Vaughan & Raja lament 'desperate times' for Pakistan

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. TikTok will pay $400 million to settle Justice Department lawsuit over child privacy
  2. Take-Two subpoenas Discord and Microsoft in hunt for GTA VI leaker
  3. LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working
  4. Season two of Netflix's Cyberpunk 2077 anime streams October 20
  5. Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing
  6. Tesla and others recall over 4 million vehicles in China over hidden door handles
  7. We have more details on Apple's camera-equipped AirPods and they are pretty dang weird
  8. Walmart will finally accept tap to pay in stores by the end of 2026
  9. Can you use a satellite dish as a free TV antenna? It depends where you live
  10. Pixel Watch 5 review: A fantastic watch that's missing features at launch
  11. Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens
  12. ChatGPT on Mac can now read and respond to Apple iMessages
  13. Nevada allows Uber, Tesla and Waymo to start paid robotaxi service
  14. RayNeo is going both minimalist and maximalist with its latest AR smart glasses
  15. Genesis' GV90 NeoLun is a luxury electric SUV with heated floors and coach doors
  16. Amazon's God of War show brings in Dave Bautista as its new Kratos
  17. GitHub says commits have doubled in the last four months
  18. HyperX's first open-back gaming headset brings the bass
  19. Apple Music will reportedly label any AI-made tracks later this year
  20. Riot is ending active development of 2XKO in December

Pinboard

  1. HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
  2. PostgreSQL for Everything - Dr. Raphael A. Bauer, MBA | Fractional & Interim CTO | PE/VC Tech Strategy & Due Diligence | Berlin | London | Austin, Texas
  3. OpenLogi
  4. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  5. The Amazon tax | Seth's Blog — Examine how Amazon’s $50B search ad engine drives up consumer prices and degrades product quality. Learn why "legal theft" hurts both sellers and buyers.
  6. Git at any scale
  7. Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet :: Posit Open Source — Polars is a library for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with a fast and expressive DataFrame API. It was first released by Ritchie Vink in 2020. Install Polars with all of its optional dependencies from the terminal: uv pip install "polars[all]" Im…
  8. Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | Andros Fenollosa
  9. Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape | Technology | The Guardian — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4Ez7LxO
  10. Don't paste the AI. —
  11. I like 'em thick - by Adam Mastroianni — The snobs are in full retreat. We have swung the pendulum so far toward poptimism, toward the blinkered idea that all art is equal because all humans are equal, toward the ethos that guilty pleasures are simply pleasures, that I’m not sure if we can ever swing it back. Erasing the …
  12. HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
  13. How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
  14. F-B100W-1A | CASIO
  15. Daring Fireball: Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hSPJY5t
  16. Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects | Yale School of Public Health
  17. How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
  18. General-Legal/legal-templates: Public collection of high-quality templates created by General Legal attorneys with CC0 license
  19. Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
  20. Ordinary Abundance
  21. Does AI stop children from learning?
  22. Sun Clock - a 24hr clock that shows the position of the sun — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077914 https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xk08dt/a_sun_clock_my_dad_made/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824
  23. fx - Tiny, open, native coding agent
  24. Casey Newton si è costruito una wiki personale con gli LLM, su idea di Karpathy — Ispirato da Andrej Karpathy, Casey Newton racconta su Platformer la sua wiki personale basata su LLM dentro Obsidian: il sistema aggiorna da solo pagine, timeline e concetti a partire da archivi, fonti e appunti, e gli serve per il lavoro giorn…
  25. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
  26. SQLite for Everything | JoeCode
  27. ‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware | WIRED — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4Ez7LxO
  28. 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.
  29. A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  30. Favicons To Go — Generate favicons, apple touch icons, and open graph images
  31. Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI • The Register Forums — Because this is totally normal and should be encouraged...
  32. RyanCodrai/turbovec: A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings — A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings
  33. 6 Exercises Physical Therapists Wish Everyone Did to Age Well - The New York Times
  34. Canon
  35. Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds – Ryan Moulton's Articles
  36. How teams build – Linear
  37. gralhix #004
  38. cathrynlavery/diagram-design: 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
  39. fx: Tiny, open, embeddable, native coding agent — https://fx.sh/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353339
  40. And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog — "Could the [mobile] networks have refused to send the message about wildfires -- or indeed any other message? If your least favourite politician gets their hands on the emergency alert system and tries to abuse it, would you want the networks to stan…
  41. Daring Fireball: Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4Ez7LxO
  42. Opinion | How to Find Your Daughter’s Therapy Speak Less Traumatizing - The New York Times — via GNews
  43. Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action - MacRumors — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/4Ez7LxO
  44. Storied Colors
  45. Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID - Anil Dash
  46. A Practical Guide to Reducing Token Spend
  47. Origin Code Hosting: Cursor can now host your code. · Cursor built a GitHub clone. — Cursor can now host your code. Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship s…
  48. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (OpenAI | August 18 2026) — OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development. Over the past several weeks, two developments have underscored the growing risks …
  49. declaude — Paste in AI-flavored text and get the same content back as plain prose.
  50. 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.
  51. iAmCorey/Wake: Every coding-agent session on your Mac in one place — browse, search, resume. Rust + GPUI.
  52. U.S. Graphics Company - TX-02 Berkeley Mono™ Typeface — Engineering graphics for professionals
  53. Cooking Notebook
  54. BookOrbit
  55. Ollee Watch
  56. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement | Ornith Blog
  57. Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking
  58. Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!
  59. Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out – Krebs on Security
  60. wsj.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/kD70hSM
  61. AI Is Ruining Scholarship — Some telltale signs of a “missing middle” paper: No direct quotations or even references to specific pages. No nuanced narrative about how a field got from those seminal works to where it is now. No signs that the author understands the history of empirical work that tested and refined those pione…
  62. Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs | Pew Research Center
  63. Shading Motion - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
  64. AprilNEA/OpenLogi: ⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry. — Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift, and switch profiles per app — without a Logitech account, telemetry, or the official Options+ install. No cloud, …
  65. (500) https://linear.axler.net/ — In the spirit of being constructive, here are some resources on linear algebra, ordered roughly from beginning to intermediate:
  66. Beware management consultants – About Iceland
  67. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  68. 5 science-backed health benefits of tea, from longevity to brain health - The Washington Post
  69. とまり木 — 各地のカメラから、日本のいま。
  70. DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly: A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome — A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to fle…
  71. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/woke-1-was-crazy-aoc-analysis/
  72. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | Responsible Statecraft
  73. These 5 Claude prompts turned my plain-text research into something people actually want to read — From a wall of text to a graph you can drag around, with no design skills involved.
  74. AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  75. I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence – quailblog
  76. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 | Tom's Hardware — Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
  77. modelmap
  78. Moonshine Voice | on-device speech demos — Voice interfaces that never leave the device. Five live demos of Moonshine Voice compiled to WebAssembly. The models download once, then run on your own CPU: no API key, no account, and not a single byte of audio sent to a server.
  79. how EncroChat was hacked — Extreme detail on the methods used to get control of, and copies of data from, the EncroChat network of encrypted mobile phones
  80. Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/nZzOyEU
  81. it's the monster hiding under your bed - some1_around - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own] — Shane’s ex-girlfriends keep coming out as queer. He’s trying to be supportive, he really is, okay? Listen, he’s an ally! But it’s sort of becoming a problem. For pretty obvious reasons, because people are definitely starting to notice—…
  82. The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday – Byline Times
  83. openleetcode: local LeetCode runner built around open test suites, made in Haskell — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347178
  84. desktopcolors.com — The desktop color archive
  85. Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data - Ars Technica
  86. Sticky Wage Norms and the Real Wage Cost of Unexpected Inflation - BFI Working Paper 2026-108 — This paper analyzes administrative payroll data to show that **sticky firm-level wage norms** caused persistent real wage declines for millions of U.S. workers during the 2021–2024 inflation surge. ### Key Insights & Value: * **Th…
  87. laserphile: AliExpress webpage keeping multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting — "During an idle capture of the AliExpress homepage, the page created two AudioContext objects. Both entered the running state and both connected nodes to AudioContext.destination." "The oscillator generates a known…
  88. PostgreSQL for Everything | Hacker News
  89. Palomar – a registry of Lean verified mathematics | What's new
  90. The carrion-eaters - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge — on Jason Arday
  91. Meta AI is getting a Mac app | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/nZzOyEU
  92. Objective-See: Tools — Free, open-source tools to protect your Mac
  93. Beeswax — A speller's daily spelling bee — Five words a day, read aloud and getting harder each time. You hear them; you spell them. One wrong letter and the day is over. Two minute time limit per word. Every hint is spoken: definition, used in a sentence, language of origin, and part of speech. Accents are never spelled,…
  94. Brex Benchmark: The 15 newsletters startups are paying for in 2026
  95. Rethinking Database Programming | Acadia — “New functional query language for PostgreSQL and SQLite by Evan Czaplicki the author of Elm.”
  96. The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna
  97. cottaging - gone_girl - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] — Ilya was good at noticing things about people, and he was good at understanding them. Shane was not. That was okay. Shane had developed his own way of getting to know Ilya. It involved a lot of inane questions and, more importantly, no longer i…
  98. Executive Intelligence - can we build an agentic system of work? Oracle's Chris Leone on why enterprise AI can (and should) be different — Executive Intelligence - can we build an agentic system of work? Oracle's Chris Leone on why enterprise AI can (and should) be different Executive Intelligence - can we build an agentic s…
  99. How I turned my fish tank high tech | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/8Cu7coi
  100. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net

The Next Web

  1. 4 super smart shifts proving privacy is software’s new killer feature
  2. Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself
  3. Apple cuts more than 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro
  4. Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai
  5. Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads
  6. Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day
  7. China is recalling millions of EVs because the emergency release blends into the trim
  8. Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
  9. Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
  10. Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Waffle Maker
  2. The Best Milk Frothers
  3. The Best Smartwatch for Android Phones
  4. The Best Hurricane Preparedness Supplies and Strategies
  5. The Best Bacon
  6. The Best Tinned Fish
  7. All the Things You Can (and Absolutely Cannot) Do With Bacon Grease
  8. The Best Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches
  9. Our Favorite Writing Desks (That Don’t Look Like Office Furniture)
  10. The Best Electric Griddles

Sweethome

  1. My Partner Thinks My Mini Dustpan and Broom Set Is Pointless. I Think It’s Perfect.
  2. ​The Best Snow Blowers
  3. The Best Handheld Vacuum
  4. How Can I Clear My Home of Wildfire Smoke?
  5. The Best Wall Outlets With USB Charging Ports
  6. The Best Chainsaw
  7. The Best Leaf Blower
  8. How to DIY Your Own Outdoor Movie Theater
  9. The Best Cordless Fans
  10. The Best Smart Doorbell Camera

Hacker News

  1. Kobo can run apps now
  2. Felony Bench
  3. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe
  4. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
  5. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
  6. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
  7. SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
  8. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  9. Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
  10. People of ACM – Russ Cox
  11. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
  12. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms
  13. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
  14. A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
  15. Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler
  16. What happens when a GPU reads memory
  17. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
  18. Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
  19. Using an old Android phone as a music player
  20. Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
  21. I'm becoming AI-blind
  22. Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it
  23. The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)
  24. The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
  25. Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout
  26. Quantifying the honey bee dance floor
  27. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
  28. Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine
  29. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
  30. The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

Ars Technica

  1. Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
  2. Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
  3. Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
  4. Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform
  5. Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
  6. Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
  7. As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
  8. Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss
  9. US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban
  10. Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket
  11. They survived 9/11; 25 years later, their bonds remain unbroken
  12. Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids
  13. Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
  14. SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
  15. Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
  16. Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
  17. NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
  18. Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
  19. Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
  20. Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges
  2. AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped
  3. Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council
  4. Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise
  5. Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI
  6. Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay
  7. Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button to Fight AI-Driven Traffic Losses
  8. Microsoft Gives Task Manager Another Task: Watching AI Workloads
  9. China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet
  10. Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
  11. China's YouTube Rival Bilibili Is Going Global
  12. Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network
  13. Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books
  14. Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
  15. Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument?

BoingBoing

  1. Update to Windows 11 Pro for less than $11 with this limited deal
  2. Why seafoam green was used in control rooms
  3. Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market
  4. This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube
  5. Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward
  6. Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE
  7. ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with… Subway
  8. Anti-AI fonts considered harmful
  9. Big Beef has big beef with Big Fraud's cut-rate meat
  10. Trump meets boy rescued from drowning, tells him he probably wouldn't have helped
  11. The latest HTML trickery for web designers
  12. A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below
  13. Emperor Palpatine loves Flock
  14. Dutch police get lucky identifying mystery man
  15. Fans smelled AI in James Pond Legacy's trailer. The studio says they're wrong.
  16. Darth Vader tells San Diego that the Emperor is a fan of Flock
  17. Navy considers replacing a Black Pearl Harbor hero with a fat, fraudulent loser
  18. Decrease your cortisol by increasing your control of your PDFs
  19. Year in jail for tourist who wouldn't shut up on Bali's Day of Silence
  20. More reflecting pool nonsense
  21. Vaccination rates show what leadership is for
  22. Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots
  23. Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment
  24. An edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why
  25. Someone ranked every Ikea product by assembly complexity
  26. An Illinois man built all six Magic Kingdom lands out of Lego in his basement
  27. Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street
  28. Jimmy Bond: In the first filmed version of James Bond, he was American
  29. Kindle update disables favorite slow reader trick
  30. Build and manage your website on one platform — now for 73% off

Core77

  1. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-17-26 to 8-21-26)
  2. Transportation Design Student Work: A Repairable Vehicle for Rural Scandinavia
  3. A Slick, Minimalist Height-Adjustable Side Table
  4. In Japan, an E-Biking Attraction on an Abandoned Railway
  5. In Switzerland, Self-Closing Public Benches that Stay Clean and Dry
  6. BikeBox: Bike-Storing Garden Planters
  7. Brilliant Design for a Specialty Construction Tool
  8. The Emergent Low-Effort Way to Share Dimensions for Plans
  9. A Sectional Hiking Stick with Tools in Each Section
  10. Tick-Tock! Time's Running Out to enter DIA
  11. A Clock That Lives on the Edge
  12. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Alex Pearce, Associate Design Director at Seymourpowell
  13. Felice Varini's Optical-Illusion Interiors
  14. CMPT's Take on the Apple Box
  15. Sigma's Minimalist BF Camera

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
  2. Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri
  3. $100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday
  4. Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay
  5. Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks
  6. Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend
  7. Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?
  8. Google’s Pixel 10A is a great deal at 15 percent off
  9. Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
  10. Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January

Wired

  1. Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
  2. I Tried the Best Robotic Pool Cleaners of 2026: Beatbot, iGarden, Dreame
  3. Nyrius Phoenix Home True 4K60 (2026): A Solution for Cord Clutter
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  1. Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
  2. Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog)
  3. Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
  4. DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News)
  5. Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information)
  6. The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
  7. Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
  8. Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude)
  9. Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
  10. Sources: the US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
  11. Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
  12. Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes (Jamie John/Financial Times)
  13. A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR (Financial Times)
  14. Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
  15. Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027 (Reuters)