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BBC

  1. Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK
  2. Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino
  3. Killed a month after his wedding - why PC Andrew Harper's death touched so many
  4. Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites
  5. Australia is the planet's extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hope
  6. More areas of UK likely to move into drought as fifth heatwave builds
  7. Kellie Bright to leave EastEnders after 13 years
  8. Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped - I'm still in shock
  9. How weight-loss medication is changing relationships with alcohol
  10. What it's like to chase solar eclipses around the world
  11. Your university clearing survival guide ahead of results day
  12. Raw images, no filters: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
  13. The Papers: 'Top universities cut entry grades' and 'Uefa set for Infantino inquiry'
  14. Banksy works cost public almost £150,000
  15. Tonnes of rotting food from vast LA warehouse fire creates unbearable stench
  16. Hundreds arrested over French wildfires, but who is to blame?
  17. What do Clacton voters want from their next MP?
  18. Rare turtle to be sent back home in 5,000-mile 'incredibly emotional' trip
  19. Irish government jet travels to UAE for Kinahan extradition
  20. Betty, 97, breaks record for oldest wingwalker
  21. Poo, parking and poor pitching - the Lake District's summer battles
  22. Chernobyl disaster evacuee 'forever grateful' to Welsh family who took him in
  23. What are the 'luteal uglies'? And how they're affecting women
  24. BBC News app
  25. Is The Ukraine War Entering A New Phase Of Aggression?
  26. Which PM punched John Simpson?
  27. With great power comes great responsibility
  28. Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino
  29. Tielemans cameo against PSG hints at Man Utd future
  30. Athletes from bankrupt track league have now been paid - Johnson
  31. Jaissle starts with win but not planning to 'smash locker room'
  32. Simpson avenges only loss in Williamson rematch

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV
  2. How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console
  3. Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use?
  4. Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ
  5. Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do
  6. Mario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy
  7. The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed
  8. Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
  9. Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
  10. X is replacing revenue sharing with a new original content rewards program
  11. Framework customer information was accessed as part of a data breach
  12. One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead
  13. Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones
  14. Static Hour challenges you to be the arbiter of truth and fear
  15. We thought we wouldn't write about Overwatch characters anymore but D.Mon looks too sick not to
  16. Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects
  17. Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon
  18. AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
  19. Are USB flash drives becoming obsolete?
  20. What type of phone case is best for wireless charging?

Pinboard

  1. Mario meets Pareto
  2. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work — During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the actions now underway.
  3. MAKE MY DRIVE FUN
  4. Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick – Semi-Rad.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/nwPldHx
  5. 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | PatronView
  6. Please use AI
  7. ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley | Life and style | The Guardian
  8. Taste Is All That's Left
  9. cloudflare/cloudflare-os: Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company’s context and systems.
  10. firecrawl/anydoc: Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to clean Markdown. Built in Rust, with Node.js and Python bindings.
  11. Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers | The Cloudflare Blog
  12. The valley of webhooks | Weli's blog
  13. Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/nwPldHx
  14. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI - ACM Queue
  15. Reading List — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
  16. Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight — ref https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
  17. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles — A fabulously gay blind author.
  18. PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent: Prime Agent is a self-improving RLM agent that can be used for coding workflows, or even long-running autonomous tasks.
  19. celld: self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
  20. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | The Cloudflare Blog
  21. The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing – Rands in Repose
  22. The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times
  23. anydoc by Firecrawl
  24. Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration
  25. The Listening Museum — 36 mechanical keyboards, sound-mapped. Click any one. Type on your keyboard. Hear it. From IBM Model M to HHKB to modern thocky customs.
  26. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 — Introducing Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, with persistent background agents, repository-scale execution, and built-in verification.
  27. (1) Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - YouTube — The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AIWhen AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed E...
  28. Don't be a meat proxy
  29. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
  30. The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores | The MIT Press Reader
  31. GitHub - openai/codex-security: SDKs and CLI for Codex Security · GitHub
  32. The next chapter of our AI momentum: Demis Hassabis will be taking on a new strategic role as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet (in order to focus on Isomorphic and human health benefits from AGI) — Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams. Editor’s note: Today…
  33. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on Security — This sums up how I tend to use AI. Not for anything I can't check, nor for any skills I want to keep.
  34. nytimes.com — Opinion | These 25 Artifacts Explain America https://ift.tt/rOHCaZi america, culture, history, society, art
  35. Cloudflare OS — Cloudflare OS is the open source AI operating system companies can shape around their own context, tools, and rules.
  36. pi, minimal and performant | earendil
  37. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an if | Serhii Potapov (greyblake) — An example of branchless programming making things faster. Want to extract all items from a list with value > threshold. Instead of "if value > threshold, copy value" write "copy value to [place calculated by value > threshold]". It r…
  38. A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It — Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.
  39. Gadgets · Build in Public
  40. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
  41. show me slowly what I only know the limits of - EveFrancesca - Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] — "That smell, I know that smell." Ilya is visibly confused but his pupils have dilated slightly, his body catching on before his brain can catch up. "Is that—? What are yo…
  42. Taste Is All That's Left | Hacker News
  43. How to Treat Knee Pain, According to Experts - The New York Times
  44. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays (scalex.dev) — Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead. A couple of months ago I published a small browser game: you play the human-in-the-loop for an AI coding agent, a…
  45. The Phone in Your Hand
  46. Software Stewardship Lab — via https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/07/the-software-stewardship-lab.html via @clew@ecoevo.social boost of https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/117053850151600277
  47. Elixir's GenStage Demand (a Visual Explainer) – Andrea Leopardi
  48. Design Engineer Tools
  49. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
  50. A Cartoon from The New Yorker — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  51. (iterate think thoughts): Painting with Gaussians
  52. denoland/celld: self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
  53. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
  54. Offensive Internet Posture - Information Camouflage
  55. 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.
  56. AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
  57. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? — Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
  58. GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance · GitHub
  59. Free Printable Paper Globes — Folding Paper Globes
  60. Simon Willison on Technical Blogging - by Cynthia Dunlop — Simon Willison on Technical Blogging via Instapaper https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging New year, new round of tech blogger interviews. Let’s kick it off with Simon Willison: co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette. Over th…
  61. Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive — Show this article to students; it gets to issues quite well. 100j 100g 189 190
  62. PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
  63. Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Surgery by Almost 20% - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/u19fU7v
  64. DeltaDB — Early Access
  65. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest | Hacker News — Interesting thread on HN about MCP versus skills.
  66. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | Hacker News
  67. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In - Vincent Schmalbach
  68. rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
  69. Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. - The New York Times
  70. Agent Plugins
  71. How Castform + Neon Beats Frontier Models on Price and Efficiency - Neon - Modern alternative to RAG
  72. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | Databricks Blog
  73. Massachusetts prosecutors run on dial-up-era software — Nasser's Blog
  74. nytimes.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vcVRhex
  75. postmortem.io · the library of real postmortems
  76. Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders - Ars Technica — “This is a full-on personal app vibe coding platform, in which the sandbox is so secure that you can pretty much go wild—the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug,” said Kenton Varda, principal engineer at Cloudflare, in a pos…
  77. [2510.01395] Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence — Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolated media reports of severe consequences, …
  78. Alexa+ is a buggy embarrassment - by David Pogue — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vcVRhex
  79. Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
  80. Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
  81. Aristotle’s Top 25 Quotes on Virtue & Joy — Explore Aristotle’s timeless insights on virtue, knowledge, and happiness. These 25 quotes offer wisdom for a thoughtful and fulfilling life.
  82. Understanding is the new bottleneck — Master AI-generated code with explainer docs, quizzes, and micro-worlds. Return to participate creatively and deepen your understanding.
  83. Archaeologists Thought This Was a Roman Temple. It Might Actually Be a 1,700-Year-Old Library
  84. Conduit
  85. Pluralistic: Google is a scammer’s paradise (05 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow — The internet's absentee landlord.
  86. Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
  87. wsj.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  88. Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America - The New York Times
  89. 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
  90. cloudflare/computer: Give your agent a computer 👾
  91. AIで仕事を効率化したら、なぜか僕の仕事だけ増えた話 — こんにちは。 突然ですが、みなさんは仕事を効率化していますか？ 僕はしていました。 めちゃくちゃしていました。 AIが世の中で騒がれ始めた頃から、「これは仕事のやり方が根本から変わるぞ」と思って、画像生成AIや文章生成AIを試し、社内業務に応用できそうな方法を検証し、結果を資料…
  92. Quinn Nelson on X: "This single-step Apple Shortcut is a GAME CHANGER. No more going to Settings -> Apps -> and then finding the app.Just swipe from Control Center, run the shortcut, and you’re automatically redirected! https://t.co/jnsBvff3ye" / — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/nwPldHx
  93. Hell Grind: a 90-minute AI film, fully open-sourced
  94. Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content - ABC News
  95. What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones — Really cool project to analyze skin colors and transform them into a color space, so that you can pick anything from inside a sphere and get a reasonable skin color
  96. OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/VvxsNch
  97. iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine - MacRumors — via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories https://ift.tt/vOI2KmG
  98. On building scalable control planes | All Things Distributed
  99. Joe Fabisevich :verified:: "I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. Th…" - Macaw-Social — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vJ3LGIq
  100. I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

The Next Web

  1. Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.
  2. Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works
  3. NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
  4. Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language
  5. The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie
  6. BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.
  7. Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale
  8. AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value
  9. OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk
  10. Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

Smashing Magazine

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

Wirecutter

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

Sweethome

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

Hacker News

  1. My server is a phone now
  2. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
  3. Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
  4. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
  5. Fastmail offers EU data region
  6. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding
  7. Dithered QR Codes
  8. _for-sale DNS records
  9. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
  10. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
  11. Making difficulty curves in games
  12. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
  13. The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]
  14. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
  15. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
  16. Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband
  17. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
  18. TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics
  19. Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding
  20. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
  21. When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense
  22. DDisasm: Reversible (bi-directional) Disassembler
  23. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
  24. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
  25. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
  26. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
  27. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
  28. Message your other Claude Code sessions
  29. Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
  30. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Ars Technica

  1. The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
  2. DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
  3. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
  4. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
  5. Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
  6. The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
  7. New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
  8. DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
  9. OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
  10. How snails engineer their slime
  11. Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
  12. Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
  13. AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
  14. ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
  15. The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
  16. Trump is losing his war on wind power
  17. Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
  18. Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
  19. Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport
  20. X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge

Digg

New Scientist

Slashdot

  1. Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
  2. Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones
  3. New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human
  4. More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems
  5. America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test
  6. Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees
  7. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year
  8. Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan
  9. Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket's Moon Crash
  10. NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year
  11. Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice
  12. Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects
  13. Virginia Governor To Intervene In Dominion-NextEra Merger
  14. Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center
  15. Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As 'Ghastly'

BoingBoing

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

Core77

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

CNET

Reddit

The Verge

  1. X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’
  2. An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
  3. Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business
  4. Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro
  5. Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?
  6. My favorite feel-good show is back
  7. Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet
  8. The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff
  9. Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore
  10. Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

Wired

  1. Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation
  2. The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon
  3. Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket
  4. The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today
  5. Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Razer, Asus, Dell, and More
  6. Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited
  7. Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
  8. How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs
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  13. Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security Flaw
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TechMeme

  1. Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
  2. A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)
  3. A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
  4. Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
  5. South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (Bloomberg)
  6. How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
  7. A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
  8. Ukrainian attacks on warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries are affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the platform (Reuters)
  9. Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports (Nikkei Asia)
  10. X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access (@xcreators)
  11. Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds (The Information)
  12. Analysis: SpaceX is on track to build ~10 GW of compute capacity by 2027's end, with 6 GW-8 GW in 2027 alone, which could drive $300B in annual revenue run-rate (SemiAnalysis)
  13. Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
  14. Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (Financial Times)
  15. The US OCC denies Dutch fintech Bunq's application for a national bank charter, citing the need for more clarity on its business plan to expand in the US (Bloomberg)