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BBC

  1. Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK later this month
  2. Harry and Meghan are experts in surprise - but why are they returning to UK now?
  3. Travelodge boss resigns as chain tackles security after sex assault at hotel
  4. School 'deeply saddened' by death of family in sea off Shoreham
  5. At least 13 killed in Kyiv as Ukraine grapples with air defence shortages
  6. Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
  7. Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet
  8. New personalised vaccine breakthrough stops cancer returning in trial
  9. People smuggler exposed by BBC investigation arrested and charged
  10. Rain to continue for UK with risk of flash flooding
  11. The dangers of politicians being 'too online' - or not online enough
  12. What are BTecs and how are they graded?
  13. What are T-levels and what are the grades worth?
  14. Captured Ukrainian-born soldiers tell BBC why they fought for Russia
  15. Coolcations: 'They used to joke about our weather - now they can't wait for the rain'
  16. 'I can't do the things my friends do': Life as a teenage carer
  17. Premier League predictions 2026-27: BBC Sport pundits pick their top four
  18. Anger and fear over 'dangerous' illegal e-motorbike riders
  19. Watch: What to know about Trump's trusted aide Natalie Harp
  20. I quit my £80,000 job to make ice cream - here's how
  21. Burnham announces plans to clean up worst three illegal waste dumps
  22. US national debt passes $40tn after doubling in a decade
  23. Belgian car salesman becomes prince after royal parentage confirmed
  24. Verstappen extends Red Bull deal to 2030
  25. Vapes could lead to health harms in children, doctors warn
  26. Tenders open for highly-sensitive West Bank settlement project, Israel announces
  27. Four workers dead after being hit by train in Japan
  28. BBC News app
  29. Russia Threatens The UK (Again)
  30. Who is Trump aide Natalie Harp… and why are Democrats targeting her?
  31. Premier League predictions 2026-27: BBC Sport pundits pick their top four
  32. Verstappen extends Red Bull deal to 2030
  33. Tottenham in talks to sign Man City's Savinho and Marmoush
  34. Which supplements do athletes take and why?
  35. Briton Hennessy in talks for undisputed world title fight

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. NASA calls off mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory
  2. Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless 5 earbuds come with user-replaceable batteries
  3. Samsung is holding another Galaxy Event on August 27
  4. The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ Online release goes head-to-head with GTA 6 on November 19
  5. Valve Steam Frame videos show how to wear the headset, perfect the fit and sign in
  6. Waymo Ojai vans are now available for all riders in three cities
  7. Pokémon and Polaroid are collaborating on three new adorable cameras
  8. A robot could eventually conduct your blood draw at the doctor's office
  9. Google is offering college students a year of its AI Pro plan for free
  10. Study finds a 15 percent increase in traffic deaths after major music streaming releases
  11. Mattel is releasing a full-scale building brick set of the original Xbox
  12. Deus Ex and Dishonored designer Harvey Smith has a new studio making immersive sims
  13. IKEA is teasing some Xbox... things
  14. Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for Mac
  15. Google is trying to solve contrails with AI
  16. Amazon is bringing drone deliveries to the Chicago and Atlanta metro areas as part of a major expansion
  17. Flock is testing a new AI tool that tracks and identifies people based on their driving habits
  18. Google Pixel 11 review: A lot of phone for a little more money
  19. Pixel 11 Pro review: Google AI as your enabler
  20. Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: Doing more but not quite enough

Pinboard

The Next Web

  1. YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix
  2. Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client
  3. Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law whether they carry news or not
  4. Callosum raises $100m to make AI workloads cheaper, with the British state on the cap table
  5. A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed
  6. China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you
  7. Revolut wants to let Nik Storonsky borrow $250mn against his own shares
  8. Meta’s first witness told a jury the problem was Mark Zuckerberg’s culture
  9. Trump hosts crypto executives as the SEC proposes its friendliest rules yet
  10. Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’

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. How to Shop for a Hot Tub
  2. The Best Pet Subscription Boxes
  3. The Best Fish Tank, Heater, Light, and Accessories
  4. The Best Chicken Coop and Accessories
  5. The Best Combination Square
  6. The Best Android Phones
  7. The Best Pancake Mix
  8. The Best Bike Patch and Flat Kit
  9. The Best Kids Bike Helmets
  10. The Best Citrus Juicer

Sweethome

  1. The Best Washing Machines (and Their Matching Dryers)
  2. The Best Air Mattress
  3. My Partner Thinks My Mini Dustpan and Broom Set Is Pointless. I Think It’s Perfect.
  4. The Best Combination Square
  5. The Best Wall Outlets With USB Charging Ports
  6. Our Favorite Trinket Trays
  7. Here’s How to Not Mess Up Mounting Your TV on the Wall
  8. The Best Ideas for Organizing Your Closet (Even If It’s Tiny)
  9. The Best Handheld Vacuum
  10. How to Shop for a Hot Tub

Hacker News

  1. Don't Paste the AI, please
  2. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone
  3. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
  4. OpenRouter is joining Stripe
  5. Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
  6. Go 1.27
  7. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
  8. A faster way to calculate the day of the week
  9. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
  10. Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures
  11. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
  12. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs
  13. Casio F-B100W-1A
  14. Sol loves to cheat
  15. The Chauffeur Problem
  16. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
  17. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
  18. Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
  19. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
  20. PostgreSQL for Everything
  21. Mathematics in the age of AI
  22. Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
  23. What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  24. Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams
  25. Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020)
  26. RAPx: A static analysis tool for Rust programs
  27. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
  28. The little-known winstart.bat batch file
  29. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
  30. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

Ars Technica

  1. NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
  2. Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
  3. Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
  4. Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
  5. FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
  6. The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
  7. A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer
  8. mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
  9. Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
  10. Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
  11. Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
  12. Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA
  13. "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research
  14. Ukrainian drones overwhelm Russian tanks’ new active protection system—for now
  15. Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
  16. Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor
  17. Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable
  18. The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program
  19. Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650
  20. Ford hopes this Hypercar will be its next Le Mans winner

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope
  2. Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta
  3. PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages
  4. Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion
  5. Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns
  6. Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic
  7. CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs
  8. Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
  9. X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
  10. Army Unit Offers 4-Day Pass to Play GTA VI As Reenlistment Incentive
  11. Chinese Robotics Giant Unitree Soars In Stock Market Debut
  12. Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk
  13. Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers
  14. Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes
  15. Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative

BoingBoing

  1. This $19.99 app turns a pile of receipts into a professional invoice in seconds
  2. $100 gets you GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini 3.1, with no monthly fee
  3. Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun
  4. Cop found dead in home of woman who wrote book praising cops
  5. Polaroid and Pokémon team up to catch all the moments
  6. Darline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answer
  7. Your kid can't legally drive, so why did you buy them a 40 mph motorcycle?
  8. Turns out Grandpa Pudding Brains' expertise is poles, not polls
  9. Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great
  10. Fairphone finally sells its repairable phones directly in the US
  11. Slow Horses season 6 is coming September 16th
  12. NASA image shows crater on moon created by SpaceX rocket crash
  13. Florida Republican who wants child sex abusers put to death is one, say cops
  14. Tired of recreating the same AI prompt from scratch? This $39.99 app saves it
  15. Logos of the early UFOlogy scene and Japanesel love hotels
  16. Drug dealer jailed after taking gun to probation meeting
  17. How reusable heat packs work
  18. Android ported to reMarkable's color tablet
  19. White House furious after Jon Ossoff mentions Trump's fawning aide Natalie Harp
  20. Trump may be ready to claim he doesn't know Pete Hegseth
  21. Mixed reviews for Instagram's new logo
  22. Keep your cats entertained with this $27 self-rolling LED cat toy
  23. Kevin Kelly: AI will be a microscope we point at our own minds
  24. Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries
  25. Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era
  26. Harder boners for a longer life
  27. Enhance your workflow with this $55 MS Office 2024 Pro Plus lifetime license 
  28. 24-hour clock face shows the hours of darkness
  29. The Pilot Kakuno Fountain costs under $20 and writes beautifully
  30. A lost Spanish flagship could be under the ocean, under a river, or even a beach

Core77

  1. Brilliant Design for a Specialty Construction Tool
  2. The Emergent Low-Effort Way to Share Dimensions for Plans
  3. A Sectional Hiking Stick with Tools in Each Section
  4. Tick-Tock! Time's Running Out to enter DIA
  5. A Clock That Lives on the Edge
  6. Meet Fusion Forward Juror Alex Pearce, Associate Design Director at Seymourpowell
  7. Felice Varini's Optical-Illusion Interiors
  8. CMPT's Take on the Apple Box
  9. Sigma's Minimalist BF Camera
  10. In Holland, a Self-Powered River Crossing for Bikes
  11. The Leitz Portable Desk Organizer for Hot-Desking
  12. Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-10-26 to 8-14-26)
  13. In Nashville, Farm-to-Table Dinner Served in a Creek
  14. The Bizarre Shadows Projected During an Eclipse
  15. Haüsa Homes Demonstrates How to Fit a Folding House Into a Shipping Container

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. Sennheiser’s new Momentum 5 earbuds feature easily replaceable batteries
  2. LG’s new OLED breakthrough can boost display lifespans
  3. Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
  4. Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching
  5. Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub
  6. Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos
  7. The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo
  8. Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the June increase
  9. OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
  10. GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere

Wired

  1. The 3 Best USB Phone Chargers (2026): Anker, DeWalt
  2. A MAGA County’s Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters
  3. How Teen ‘After-Prom’ Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager
  4. Salmonella Is Everywhere
  5. Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off August 2026
  6. TurboTax Full Service Coupons This August
  7. Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for August 2026
  8. Booking.com Promo Codes: 20% Off | August 2026
  9. Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for August 2026
  10. Chewy Promo Codes: $20 Off August 2026
  11. eBay Coupons: 20% Off in August 2026
  12. H&R Block Coupon: 25% Off DIY + Tax Pro Assist
  13. T-Mobile Promo Codes: 25% Off | August 2026
  14. iRobot Promo Code: 15% Off
  15. 20% Off Samsung Promo Code | August 2026
  16. Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas Politics
  17. I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
  18. Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
  19. Google Pixel Watch 5 Review: More Health, More AI
  20. Google Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL Review: Smart Software, Small Upgrade

LifeHacker

  1. 10 Finder Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  2. These Beats Products Are on Sale for Up to 50% Off
  3. Amazon Is Making Alexa+ Free for These TVs
  4. Seven of the Most Common WhatsApp Scams (and How to Avoid Them)
  5. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Why Did Starbucks Bring Back the Unicorn Frappuccino
  6. If You Loved 'The Hawk,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  7. The Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet Is on Sale for $90 Right Now
  8. 10 Shows Like 'Lucky' You Should Watch Next
  9. Six Emergency Features You Should Enable on Your iPhone
  10. This Sony 48-Inch OLED TV Is $400 Off Right Now
  11. The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro Is a Solid Alternative to the Pixel 10a, and It's on Sale for $449
  12. This Anker Smart-Display Fast Charger Is 35% Off Right Now
  13. Social Media Platforms Are Training Their AI Models on Your Content, but You Can Stop Them (Sometimes)
  14. How Much Recovery Do You Really Need Between Workouts?
  15. The Best Tech Deals From Best Buy's 60th Anniversary Sale
  16. ‘Outlier’ Is a New Word-Search Game That Makes Me Feel Smart
  17. Firefox Can Now Block Ads on iOS (but You Have to Enable It)
  18. 10 Shows Like 'The 100' You Should Watch Next
  19. One of the Best QLED TVs of 2026 Is $1,100 Off Right Now
  20. This Is Our First Look at Apple's Rumored AirPods With Cameras
  21. The Final Round of Lifehacker's Big Guessing Game Has Begun
  22. How to Run a Local LLM on Your Phone (and Why You’d Want To)
  23. This 360-Degree Action Camera Is 23% Off Right Now
  24. Firefox Is Rolling Out Three New Features for 'Smart Window'
  25. You Can Now Use Whoop's Blood Tests Without a Membership
  26. The Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar, One of Their Best, Is Over $300 Off Right Now
  27. This 65-Inch LG OLED TV Is $900 Off Right Now
  28. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  29. The Google Pixel 10a Is $75 Off Right Now
  30. I Like This $30 Charging Case Better Than the One Oura Sells for $99
  31. This Samsung Odyssey Gaming Monitor Is $150 Off Right Now
  32. GitHub Is Down, but There's a Fix
  33. This Malware Can Take Over Web Browsers on macOS, but You Can Protect Yourself
  34. Hackers Are Screen Sharing on Macs Without Permission, but You Can Stop Them
  35. This Solid Midrange Samsung Galaxy Is $100 Off Right Now
  36. This $45 JBL Speaker Is Small Enough for a Bag and Tough Enough for the Beach
  37. Microsoft Is Combining Its Two 'Copilot' Apps (and Ditching These Three Features)
  38. 10 Gboard Hacks Every Android User Should Know
  39. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know
  40. All the Health and Fitness Products You Didn't Realize You Could Buy With HSA Funds
  41. How to Tell If That Apple 'Threat Notification' Is Legit
  42. You Can Have Google Meet Take Notes for Your In-Person Meetings Too
  43. This Soundcore Bluetooth Party Speaker Is $80 Off Right Now
  44. If You Loved 'Silo,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  45. ChatGPT Can Now Remember Actions You Take on Your Mac
  46. This Blink Outdoor 2K Camera Bundle Is 45% Off Right Now
  47. You Can Get This 5.1-Channel Surround Sound Setup on Sale for $399 Right Now
  48. I Tried the Android App That's Helping People Around the World Bypass Censorship Laws
  49. Here's How Google's New 'Tap to Share' Android Feature Works
  50. This Asus Portable Monitor Is Under $100 Right Now
  51. Apple Is Offering a $150 'Back-to-School' Gift Card When You Buy One of These MacBooks or iPads
  52. That Chrome Update Pop-Up May Actually Be Malware
  53. 10 Shows Like 'Lanterns' You Should Watch Next
  54. Apple TV Just Added These 'Classic' Movies to Its Catalog for Free
  55. This 8K Action Camera Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  56. You Can Get Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra2 for $100 Off Right Now (Plus a $100 Amazon Gift Card)
  57. Samsung’s New Galaxy Watch 9 Is Already $50 Off (and Comes With a $50 Amazon Gift Card)
  58. Here’s What to Do Now That Microsoft Edge Is Phasing Out Ad Blockers
  59. Six New Features Coming to the Pixel Watch 5
  60. You Can Still Get a Samsung Galaxy Z Phone With a $350 Amazon Gift Card
  61. Four Features Coming to Every New Pixel 11 Device
  62. Here's How the Cameras on Google's New Pixel 11 Phones Compare to the iPhone
  63. The Best Preorder Deals for the New Google Pixel Lineup
  64. Five Hacks Every Garmin Cirqa User Should Know
  65. This Acer Gaming Laptop Is $600 Off Right Now
  66. Everything Already Announced Ahead of Made by Google 2026
  67. This Lightweight Google Pixelsnap Wireless Charger Is 50% Off Right Now
  68. If You Loved 'Widow’s Bay,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  69. Why Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates Suddenly Have So Many More Fixes
  70. These TP-Link Roam 6 Travel Routers Are at Their Lowest Prices Ever Right Now
  71. This Solar-Powered Security Camera Kit Is 33% Off Right Now
  72. Five New Changes in iOS 27 Beta 5
  73. The Best Way to Get Past an Article's Paywall
  74. The First Five Things You Should Do With Your Garmin Cirqa Smart Band
  75. Seven Surprisingly Useful Mac Apps You've Never Heard Of
  76. This Entry-Level Acer Nitro V16 Gaming Laptop Is $200 Off Right Now
  77. 10 Hacks Every In-Flight Wifi User Should Know
  78. 10 Shows Like 'Black Mirror' You Should Watch Next
  79. Vibe-Coded Apps Are a Security Nightmare, but They Don't Have to Be
  80. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is the Matcha Filter?
  81. You Can Get These Nothing Over-Ear Headphones for 27% Off Right Now
  82. This Anker 3-in-1 MagSafe Charger Is $90 Off Right Now
  83. Watch Out for These Fake Fraud Alerts From Apple and Amazon
  84. You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer
  85. This Portable Vlogging Camera Is $130 Off Right Now
  86. My Favorite Bose ANC Earbuds Are $50 Off
  87. This Solar-Powered Garmin Smartwatch Is 50% Off Right Now
  88. Garmin's Basic GPS Running Watch Is $70 Off Right Now
  89. 10 Shows Like 'Sugar' You Should Watch Next
  90. The Best Apps to Use After Gmail's 'Send As' Feature Goes Away
  91. This Is Google Play's First Third-Party App Store
  92. You Can Get the Samsung Galaxy S26+ for Over $250 Off Right Now
  93. The Feature-Packed Pixel Buds 2a Are $30 Off Right Now
  94. 10 Screenshot Hacks Every Mac User Should Know
  95. Apple Just Added These New Android Devices to Its Trade-In List
  96. Five Ways to Make Gemini Behave More Like Google Assistant
  97. DuckDuckGo Just Made It Easier to Share Links Without Getting Tracked
  98. This Loud and Rugged JBL Speaker Is $65 Off Right Now
  99. If You Loved 'Futurama,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
  100. Free ChatGPT Users Will Get a Huge Upgrade Next Week

The Onion

The Register

TechMeme

  1. Stripe's OpenRouter deal, its largest-ever acquisition, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and gives it a foothold in the token market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
  2. Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$40B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.6B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
  3. Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
  4. South Korea media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal on a 6.3% wage hike and paying out 60% of profit-sharing bonuses in shares and 40% in cash (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
  5. Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
  6. London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (Bloomberg)
  7. Virginia's Loudoun County hosts 250+ data centers, generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
  8. A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
  9. China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (William Langley/Financial Times)
  10. Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing (Nikkei Asia)
  11. How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (Michael Martina/Reuters)
  12. Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
  13. The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data (Jacob Parry/Politico)
  14. President Trump says CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore, lifting shares of HYPE-holder Hyperliquid Strategies ~30% (Bloomberg)
  15. The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a "back-to-basics" approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)