Amazon, Synopsys to cut more than 275 Bay Area tech jobs (www.sfchronicle.com)
The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
FixMonorepo – Fix a monorepo by splitting it into single-file repos (github.com)
Command and Conquer Series Retrospective (4.5 Hours) [video] (www.youtube.com)
New Jersey eases restrictions on residential solar panels (gothamist.com)
M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years (en.wikipedia.org)
"Enshittification" Isn''t Real (www.a16z.news)
Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Serious Confession to Make (substack.com)
The first signs of dark matter particles may have been spotted (www.newscientist.com)
WebFPGA (webfpga.io)
Testing Grok 4.6''s Enhanced Biology Safeguards (blog.latch.bio)
Games look real now. We''re in the future (twitter.com)
Yume – A game launcher for PC and emulators (komorebidesigns.dev)
XGBoost from Scratch (randomrealizations.com)
High-performance lossless floating-point compression in pure Rust (crates.io)
B.C. boaters warned to avoid mysterious floating island (cheknews.ca)
RollerCoaster Tycoon Needs Early Access Users (store.steampowered.com)
Aviation Herald sued; editor forced to sell home of 40y and move into his office (avherald.com)
One in three AI scribe notes carries a verified clinical error (arxiv.org)
Another Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: Report (gizmodo.com)
AI Made Writing Code Free. It Made Reading Code Expensive (medium.com)
Russian Sanctions Are Fueling a Canadian Car Theft Epidemic (www.nytimes.com)
life hacks in devil daggers and general yap about homing timings [video] (www.youtube.com)
Open Source X Algorithm Integrates First Public Contribution (github.com)
TrackerControl for Android (trackercontrol.org)
Dropbox says about 5k accounts compromised in August hack (www.reuters.com)
A Hedge-Fund Titan''s Divorce Is Putting Wall Street''s Staggering Wealth on Publi (www.wsj.com)
AI wealth is creating a ''mansion shortage'' upending San Francisco housing market (text.npr.org)
Poop-maxxing: How a 30-year-old chart became a hot gut health trend (www.nbcnews.com)
Fine, I''ll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
What''s the Right Balance in Regulating AI? (weightythoughts.com)
Martine Rothblatt (en.wikipedia.org)
Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax (donmoynihan.substack.com)
The Anatomy of a Robbing Event (beeculture.com)
Mini-Hyper-Golf (gfody.substack.com)
Rooting a fire hd 10 because apparently I have problems (voidnullvalue.github.io)
Slopmancer (slopmancer.com)
Firefox''s new native iOS ad blocker won''t block all ads (www.neowin.net)
True Rate of Unemployment (www.lisep.org)
From poop to plants, how wolves help blueberries grow and spread in northern Min (www.mprnews.org)
Consider that alignment may not be possible (12gramsofcarbon.com)
''Idiocracy'' Predicted All of This (www.texasmonthly.com)
Underground – Fly Through What''s Beneath America in 3D (drillerdb.com)
Workflows for standard APU/consumer hardware: The Flow sDAG Architecture(paper) (zenodo.org)
US may ask parents to prove citizenship to get passports for their children (www.reuters.com)
New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first (www.cbc.ca)
What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?(2010) (mathoverflow.net)
JetBrains says Cadence was breached after a critical TeamCity patch was missed (blog.jetbrains.com)
To bot or not to bot: My personal rules of engagement with AI (code2yugen.substack.com)
Apple''s official X account has unfollowed Tim Cook (twitter.com)
Bazel''s UX is really, really, really bad (blog.appliedcomputing.io)
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Archeologists in Denmark Discover Rare Fragments of 1300 Year Old Clothing (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 tightens restrictions on reusing thinking blocks (platform.claude.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models (openai.com)
Compilers 2.0: AI as stochastic optimizer (twitter.com)
Apple Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America After Trump Order (www.bbc.com)
Intel replaces Intel Fellow title after nearly 50 years (www.oregonlive.com)
Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals" (kix.codes)
Important Security Update for Plex Media Server v1.43.2 and Earlier (forums.plex.tv)
State of Local AI Report (www.basecompute.co)
64B of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid opposition (www.datacenterwatch.org)
Remove background noise from audio/video in the browser, free preview (removebackgroundnoise.app)
Teltonika RUTM: industrial cellular and Ethernet routers (wiki.teltonika-networks.com)
The ZX Spectrum sound chip hidden in a 1992 DOS game''s Tandy driver (utopia.platesteel.net)
California lawmakers pass bill governing lawyers'' use of AI (www.reuters.com)
Giving Feedback After a Mistake Is Worse Than Waiting a Day (www.reddit.com)
Smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds (news.fiu.edu)
Mac App Store Apps Can Now Drop Support for Intel Macs (www.macrumors.com)
Life Changing Reading Program (twitter.com)
AI and the Practical Scientist (scholarlyfutures.substack.com)
ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of the LibreOffice (twitter.com)
The efficient frontier of LLM inference (www.baseten.co)
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made 20B by rigging billions of ad auctions (arstechnica.com)
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
Library of ODE Solvers (solvers.milanrother.com)
Perplexity launches privacy-minded ''hybrid compute'' AI feature for Mac (9to5mac.com)
Nvidia''s Anthropic Deal: Just Don''t Call It ''Circular Financing'' (www.barrons.com)
The ColorChecker, photography''s most important 24 squares, turns 50 (www.dpreview.com)
Slotstream: Swift, SSD Expert Streaming, and Breaking the LLM Memory Wall (singularitymoments.com)
OpenAI delayed its new model''s development after the Hugging Face hack (www.theverge.com)
World''s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (www.science.org)
Claude Preserved thinking – Modifying a conversation now results in an error (platform.claude.com)
AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers (github.com)
Moe expert offloading on a 2-core Celeron with 2.7GB RAM (github.com)
I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] (www.sevanoland.com)
Don''t allow Gemini AI access to your Gmail (tuta.com)
What''s within a 10-minute walk in 50 European cities (strado.info)
TikTok CEO says over two dozen Jewish organizations are telling them who to ban (twitter.com)
Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)
My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini (lws.io)
Beneath the Bottleneck: An R&D and Technology Review of Lithium and Rare Earths (dukespace.lib.duke.edu)
MapQuest is No. 1 on the App Store after refusing to change Lake Ontario''s name (www.cnn.com)
Welcome to the Old Internet Again (theoldnet.com)
Attacker stole METR API key, used 600K of credits, no one noticed for weeks (www.theregister.com)
Endonym and Exonym (en.wikipedia.org)
Much Ado About Adenoids (www.damninteresting.com)
Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk (www.sciencedaily.com)
Dropbox Security Breach: Hackers Access Accounts Through Authentication Flaw (decrypt.co)
Steve Jobs, Closed Macs, and Me: A Guest Post (Del Yocum) (pogueman.substack.com)
Nature Deficit Disorder (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Adam Sandler (a.k.a. Evil Elmo) (en.wikipedia.org)
High Agency Is High Variance (www.betonit.ai)
Kubernetes3d built with Ambient CSS (kubernetes3d.com)
I found 5 fake DOIs for a famous ML paper while building a citation checker (strictcite.com)
Dark matter hunt takes unexpected turn after signal spotted in LZ detector (www.imperial.ac.uk)
Welcome to the ''You Can''t Trust Your Own Eyes'' Election (www.bloomberg.com)
Chess Variant Feedback? (transitionchess.com)
Honor Robot Phone (www.honor.com)
AI is making back-office work extinct (www.whitecollardream.com)
AI trolley users rack up higher basket values and spend longer in store (www.citystgeorges.ac.uk)
In-memory security gate for autonomous AI agent tools (bartholomew.info)
One job ad, 1000 applicants: How do you stand out in a world of AI job hunters? (www.rnz.co.nz)
A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1982) (www.bkent.net)
Racial Views of Winston Churchill (en.wikipedia.org)
Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ''Lake America'' (www.macrumors.com)
Fluorescent lamps (don''t) have ears (blog.coredump.cx)
OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It ''Critical'' Cyber Risk (www.wsj.com)
Why your agent is better than mine (yakko.dev)
failfs (docs.kernel.org)
Small Is Beautiful (blog.dshr.org)
Surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service (www.nps.gov)
Meta''s 17B Settlement Is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users (www.eff.org)
Modernist Tiles with CSS Grid (www.carmenansio.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 results on ARC-AGI (arcprize.org)
Aurem – ships real commits to your website from plain English, no coder needed (auremcto.com)
A docs page is a long and complex search query to find AI agents (blog.val.town)
UnitedHealthcare to drop prior authorization for range of conditions (www.reuters.com)
A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it (www.kevin.md)
Organisation-specific Git authentication and commit signing (jamesmead.org)
Cerebras''s Next Generation CS-4: Fast Just Got Faster (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
I don''t use a Computer [pdf] (classes.matthewjbrown.net)
The Nerd Reich wants to destroy democracy, and its mask has slipped (www.abc.net.au)
Meta''s Addictive Design (www.bitsoffreedom.nl)
Russia helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles (www.ft.com)
Mold linker will be rewritten in Rust (twitter.com)
It''s simple to buy Canadian with O SCANada (www.oscanadaapp.ca)
10 AI Lessons from Driving 200M Fully Autonomous Miles (waymo.com)
Cryptocurrency Sucks – In excruciating detail [pdf] (redacted.moe)
California ban on ''addictive'' social media for teens heads to Newsom (www.politico.com)
Cutting an AI agent''s network access mid-run, measured at 127 ms (medium.com)
Kleinanzeigen''s category tree, reverse-engineered (no official API exists) (github.com)
Dyson Launches Toothbrush (www.dyson.com)
Freedom vs. Control (blog.lewman.com)
Crab: A serverless Git remote for large files, backed by your object store (github.com)
DaemonCore Academy – 127 free cybersecurity lessons and disposable Docker ranges (academy.daemoncore.app)
Hang on to Your Firefox (www.newsonaut.com)
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich (www.vals.ai)
Zero of 773 FIPS 140-3 certificates are validated at Level 4 (808bits.com)
Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot (engineering.zalando.com)
Introducing Muse Voice Transcribe (research.meta.ai)
A Crash Course in Predicate Logic (www.hillelwayne.com)
Atlas Brain Wearable Pre-Order (atlasmankind.com)
Explore real AI risks through the lens of pop culture (cultural-alignment.com)
The Harness, the Horse, or the Hay (queener.substack.com)
Topologist''s Map of the World (www.futilitycloset.com)
OpenAI: Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards (openai.com)
Dev-sandbox – One bash script to isolate AI coding agents with Podman (github.com)
Moon Trees (www.nasa.gov)
Mine sweeper game with a map of 100M tiles (worldsweeper.hasthiya.dev)
Fable 5.1 is the new frontier on artificialanalysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
The Systematic Removal of Security in Consumer Operating Systems (sk500.online)
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
How AI Detection Works (www.complexsystemspodcast.com)
The Space Review: The Soviet space program as seen from Washington, 1964–1968 (www.thespacereview.com)
Kdenlive 26.08 Released (kdenlive.org)
The EU''s repair policies are changing the way tech is designed (theconversation.com)
Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope (tomverbeure.github.io)
17-year-old wins 250k after algorithm solves decades-old geometry puzzle (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
M68K Emulation for ARM (github.com)
DeepSeek-V3: From Roofline to Reality (deepseek-v3.ezyang.com)
Dyson has launched the CameraJet, its first electric toothbrush (discover.dyson.com)
Legibility of Effort (eieio.games)
Neovim adds support for multiple cursors (github.com)
Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows the limits of AI (www.nature.com)
When the Small Web Gets an AI Door (sava.rocks)
Manim but with Julia – Preview [video] (www.youtube.com)
John Deere''s unexpected AI-era boom? Moving dirt for data centers (www.groundlevel-ai.com)
Modern Java: An In-Depth Guide from Java 8 to Java 21 (medium.com)
ClickHouse Welcomes RunReveal (clickhouse.com)
Morning cancer treatment could boost chances of survival (www.thetimes.com)
Apple contacts management madness: losing and duplicating contacts at scale (keydiscussions.com)
Bootleggers and Baptists (en.wikipedia.org)
A prompt is a probability, a gate is a guarantee (www.songbrain.ai)
Industry Standard Tools (industrystandard.tools)
100% local chat with a model in the browser using WebAssembly written in TinyGo (hybridgroup.github.io)
The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew [video] (www.youtube.com)
X suspended 6 of our 7 openly-labeled AI accounts for "inauthentic behaviors" (areyto.media)
The longer version is sometimes easier to read (www.plainfinance.net)
James Dyson Sold Us on a 400 Hair Dryer. Now He''s Trying a 499 Toothbrush (www.wsj.com)
Is this the simplest/ most surprising sorting algorithm ever (2021) (arxiv.org)
Natel (en.wikipedia.org)
GitSpawn: A Single Flaw Lets Untrusted Repos Run Code in Claude Code, and Others (www.manifold.security)
API Delta Manifest: Structured API Changelog for AI Agents and Devs (github.com)
Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange (www.nytimes.com)
Gemini Agentic Video Understanding (ai.google.dev)
Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents (zed.dev)
The point of a system is fewer decisions (www.antonsten.com)
What''s the Scam? (www.schneier.com)
I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost 400 (iurii.net)
Ventoy: Create drag-and-drop bootable usbs (www.ventoy.net)
How accurate have Ed Zitron''s AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
Map: England in 1086 (opendomesday.org)
Fal.live – AI television directed by everyone (fal.live)
Fleet: GPU Benchmarking in the Browser (webgpu-kernels-fleet.hf.space)
Adds X402 Payments Access for AI Agents with Coinbase (massive.com)
How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet (www.newyorker.com)
The Secret Agents Behind Russia''s Olympic Doping Machine [video] (www.youtube.com)
SOTA Apple Silicon Inference (August 15, 2026) (www.reddit.com)
Dyson''s Next Act Is an Electric Toothbrush with a Camera (www.wired.com)
Craziest discoveries from OpenAI''s Hugging Face investigation (www.axios.com)
Re: S&P 500 index funds, there may be a smarter way to invest (www.marketwatch.com)
TaxisDB – Trying to Put Data in Order (taxisdb.com)
CleanShot 5.0 adds screen recording with automatic zooms (cleanshot.com)
Tim Cook: The Most Underestimated Man in Tech [video] (www.youtube.com)
The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace (labs.ripe.net)
Text editor written in C and Lua (lite-xl.com)
Anthropic launches Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 (www.bloomberg.com)
Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways (www.nbcnews.com)
Modern error messages in Rust Coreutils (uutils.org)
Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data (electrek.co)
There Is No AI (wadler.blogspot.com)
Faiss vs. Turbovec vs. Infino: Comparing 4-bit vector quantization (infino.ai)
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers (www.anthropic.com)
Israel''s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions (www.cnn.com)
When no one is watching, will an AI kill an innocent? (paradise.glyphai.co)
Fable 5.1 (twitter.com)
Fable 5.1 Announcement [video] (www.youtube.com)
DLSS 5: 3D-Guided Neural Rendering (www.nvidia.com)
A good way to present AI videos (idiallo.com)
New Zero-Cal Sugar Is 3,500 Times Sweeter Than Sucrose,but Doesn''t Spike Insulin (www.sciencealert.com)
Fable 5.1 System Card (www.anthropic.com)
HuggingFace/Kernels: 200 WebGPU Kernels for Local AI (huggingface.co)
Hyperscale Normalization (www.wheresyoured.at)
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (www.anthropic.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 (platform.claude.com)
UEFA''s Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it (sariyuce.com)
What''s new in Claude Fable 5.1 (platform.claude.com)
Morrow, a social network where you build your own feed (morrow.fyi)
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC (ersc.io)
Once Globally Preeminent, U.S. Universities Are Sliding into Decline (washingtonmonthly.com)
China''s installed solar power capacity surpasses coal power for the first time (www.globaltimes.cn)
Designing the Perfect Modular iOS Architecture (blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
SpeakType – Open-source hold-to-talk voice typing for Windows, offline (github.com)
Can you explain these anomalous human–LLM observations? (zenodo.org)
finit: Fast, simple alternative to SysV init and systemd (finit-project.github.io)
What Warsh Withheld (eightateeight.substack.com)
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence (www.worldlabs.ai)
Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development (www.norirobotics.com)
John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook as Apple CEO (www.nytimes.com)
Leaked Files Reveal How Russia Trains Hackers for Military Cyber Operations (gbhackers.com)
Agentic Video in Gemini (blog.google)
AI token prices are hitting new record lows (www.cnbc.com)
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1972) (www.jofreeman.com)
Built a GitHub Runners Benchmarking Website (runnerbench.com)
The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols (www.autodidacts.io)
US Plan Advances for 50-Ship Nuclear-Powered Merchant Fleet (maritime-executive.com)
IKEA Liljebagge – Smart radiator thermostat with Matter for around 18 euro (www.ikea.com)
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions" (arstechnica.com)
An Apocalyptic End: Bio-Cup 2025 Final Results and Winner (bricknerd.com)
Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems (www.cbsnews.com)
Just Bury Your Trash (worksinprogress.co)
Sennett (2016) Programming as Craftsmanship or Why Win10 was so bad (www.youtube.com)
OVH dedicated server price increase (us.ovhcloud.com)
The war with Iran will not be won through airstrikes, so what''s left? (www.jpost.com)
US lawmakers demand investigation into admin''s secret surveillance of Americans (www.theguardian.com)
An iOS engineer’s job search in 2026: moving from India to Estonia (relocateme.substack.com)
Tax breaks for charity donations should be scrapped (www.economist.com)
Neovim Merges Multicursor Support (github.com)
Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer (twitter.com)
The Case for UFOs Is Weaker (www.richardhanania.com)
Dark matter hunters may have spotted a hint of the particles (www.sciencenews.org)
OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor''s Model Access After SpaceX Acquisition (devops.com)
Y Combinator Summer 2026 Batch (www.neweconomies.co)
The Three Types of State Housing Laws (inpractice.yimbyaction.org)
METR and Redwood Offer Holy % Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (thezvi.substack.com)
AI Feels Like the Pandemic All over Again (bejofo.com)
Hybrid Compute on Mac – Perplexity (www.perplexity.ai)
RAM makers reportedly sold out all through 2027 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
The Harness Doesn''t Matter (www.omnara.com)
NASA''s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista as Clear as Day (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
LZ sees surprising result in the search for dark matter at SURF (sanfordlab.org)
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga (moviescenemap.com)
Is this the first glimpse of dark matter? Data point excites physicists (www.nature.com)
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face (www.dwarkesh.com)
From 3:00 Am Panic to Confidence: How I Use AI During On-Call Incidents (qainsights.com)
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions (thezvi.substack.com)
''Humongous'' marmot crowned winner in inaugural Fat Marmot Week contest (www.theguardian.com)
A Million Kakapos (blog.mempko.com)
Thinking about Software Freedom (blog.liw.fi)
A Bicycle for the Mind (pulkomandy.tk)
Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good (martnquesada.github.io)
Job Loss Fears in the First Years of Generative Artificial Intelligence (papers.ssrn.com)
The Parent Uprising Against Screen Time at School (www.wsj.com)
Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again (www.washingtonpost.com)
A new DARPA Lift Challenge just got announced (www.electronicdesign.com)
Anthropic admits AI ''not perfectly aligned'' with human values (www.theguardian.com)
Nepal seeks compensation from China, US, India, other large polluters for floods (theprint.in)
Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack (www.bbc.com)