CEO who fired 900 employees on Zoom is sued by own company (www.independent.co.uk)
OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets (www.adweek.com)
Inside Big Tech’s Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI (www.wsj.com)
Censorship Industry: The European Firms Monetizing the DSA (foundationforfreedomonline.com)
Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (theconversation.com)
IOmap Improvement for Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 and XFS Performance Further (www.phoronix.com)
Cerebras Overclocks WSE-3 Waferscale Engine to Boost Inference in "Nexus" CS-4 (www.nextplatform.com)
A live browser fingerprinting and bot detection playground (fingerprint-scan.com)
Rune – persistent context for AI coding tools (github.com)
Pander Score: How much do AI models mirror what users believe? (sophronresearch.org)
Eberto Streaming Companion (eberto.net)
A multi-tenant SaaS built in a 92-hour AI-augmented engineering sprint (fast-and-flow-production.onrender.com)
Greenhouse gas emissions of all world countries – 2025 report (edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu)
Nitrogen pollution from the sky is a likely driver of global vegetative greening (nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Taking photos or screenshots makes you more likely to forget information (www.binghamton.edu)
Cloning takes a weekend, finding the 38% took months (dev.profullstack.com)
OpenAI makes ChatGPT less ''human'' for teens in new safety update (www.bbc.com)
The Equations of Reasoning – Pathway AI (pathway.com)
US Military funding propelled China''s robot dogs (www.reuters.com)
BeneFITs: Bypassing Signature Verification in U-Boot SPL (www.binarly.io)
The Myth of Jewish High IQ (forbiddentexts.substack.com)
Yoshua Bengio, the godfather of AI, explains the risks of AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
Thoughts about Scaling Law (from Z.ai Cofounder) (xcancel.com)
Cropping Images with CSS While Keeping a Focal Point in the Center (2023) (odland.dev)
US sanctions International Criminal Court president and trial lawyer (www.aljazeera.com)
Elite Deformation (thecritic.co.uk)
How to Solve a Grid-Based Logic Puzzle (logic.puzzlebaron.com)
A Thermodynamic Failure of the Soul (sightlessscribbles.com)
2004 Harvard–Yale Prank (en.wikipedia.org)
The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source (www.modular.com)
Made an open source budgeting application (Coinvane) (github.com)
GitLab CVE-2026-19478: GraphQL authorization bypass (techupdate24.com)
Parengyodontium Album (en.wikipedia.org)
Where Human Sleep Went Wrong (nautil.us)
"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research (arstechnica.com)
Harvard, MIT among 30 US universities ordered to audit China research ties (www.scmp.com)
Moby Dick has 26 em dashes per 1000 words. Pride and Prejudice has none (claudewatermark.xyz)
The Untapped Potential of the Amazon''s Plastic-Eating Mushroom(2022) (earth.org)
How I Browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode) (untrusem.party)
New images reveal before/after when a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon (www.cnn.com)
Japan''s farmers go nocturnal as deadly heat intensifies (www.reuters.com)
Humble Bundle: Embedded Firmware Books on ARM, RTOS, RISC-V and Linux (www.humblebundle.com)
Young adults in the US are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs (www.pewresearch.org)
Without journalists, there is no journalism (arxiv.org)
Susan Kare:Designing Icons and Graphics for the Original Mac [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI is accelerating elder fraud. Their kids are reckoning with the fallout (www.usatoday.com)
Building Shared Memory for AI Agents in Notion (www.notion.com)
FR LandSpace Zhuque-3 Y2 launch and landing, August 18th/19th 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Fuck My Cofounder (fuckmycofounder.com)
Parents Should Monitor Their Kids'' Technology and Internet Usage (medium.com)
StateM: Reaching 95.3% on Terminal Bench 2.1 (huggingface.co)
Mathematics in the Age of AI (arxiv.org)
Pandemic lockdowns never ended for some people (www.ft.com)
An LLM wiki changed how I work (www.platformer.news)
Jason Arday''s rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says (www.npr.org)
200B case against Facebook and Instagram begins (www.theguardian.com)
National security question trips up Sen. Darline Graham (apnews.com)
Does AI stop children from learning? (www.economist.com)
Checkpoint-run: resume long shell jobs after your connection drops (github.com)
λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (dl.acm.org)
Teen Culture Has Always Been Co-Opted. In 2026, It''s Reached New Heights (www.teenvogue.com)
Smartphone-Free Childhood (www.smartphonefreechildhood.org)
Thoughts About Scaling Law (twitter.com)
Time Travel on Professional Profiles (www.nber.org)
Data inaccessible on Microsoft 365 for nonprofits (www.reddit.com)
ZEON – A token-efficient data format for LLMs (zeon-eight.vercel.app)
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good (tipiirai.com)
China orders state agencies to uninstall Windows as it cuts dependence on US (www.indiatoday.in)
More screen time since childhood associated with better cognitive processing (www.jyu.fi)
Penn State cocaine trafficking ring involved 2 fraternities, authorities say (abcnews.com)
AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records to find hidden wrecks, lost cargo (www.tomshardware.com)
The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB (www.percona.com)
Google Drive outage – at what point is slow, down? (www.google.com)
Neuroscience is in big trouble [video] (www.youtube.com)
BloxStack: The professional network for Roblox creators (bloxstack.app)
Running Anachronistic Demakes on Vintage Atari VCS Hardware (deater.net)
Millions of Ukrainian Men Are Fleeing a Cruel Conscription System (www.thenation.com)
There''s No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore (www.theatlantic.com)
Mystery of ''space activity'' forcing plane''s Antarctic U-turn solved (www.stuff.co.nz)
Anti-corruption site bribes.fyi shuts down forever (theprint.in)
BSDun – FreeBSD ELF support for the Linux kernel (gitlab.com)
The Recursive Economy: AI Self-Improvement and Scarcity (recursive-economy.pages.dev)
US moves to open tracts of pristine forests to logging (www.france24.com)
Progress in Modernizing Kernel Cryptography (lwn.net)
Kim Jong-Un Is Not Our Friend (www.nationalreview.com)
Types of Neural Networks You Should Know (ischool.syracuse.edu)
Private Chinese rocket aces landing on 2nd-ever flight (www.space.com)
Explaining AI agents is like explaining 3D printers (www.jitbit.com)
Loimulohi (en.wikipedia.org)
Generalized Audio-Driven Synthesis of Precise Drummer Motion (studios.disneyresearch.com)
UC Berkeley Admissions vs. Math Competency (tools.encona.com)
Brandolini''s law, a.k.a. the bullshit asymmetry principle (en.wikipedia.org)
Customize a lunar calendar generator. Try FREE (lunacal-sable.vercel.app)
Japan''s Gen X workers are struggling (www.economist.com)
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Cosmological natural selection: evolution beyond biology (www.smithsonianmag.com)
How Claude is accelerating protein design and analytical chemistry (www.anthropic.com)
The Ordinary Miracle of Existing (www.theatlantic.com)
Space nuclear programs face near- and long-term challenges (spacenews.com)
Careless People (2025) (en.wikipedia.org)
Vasovagal: Markdown-Based 2nd Brain (vasovagal.github.io)
A Multiplayer Survival Pong (antics.gg)
Harvard Agrees to 53M Settlement in Body Part Theft Scandal (www.nytimes.com)
TinyRetroPad is 130 times smaller than Windows Notepad (www.xda-developers.com)
Reasons to Avoid Seed Oils [video] (www.youtube.com)
"the mandate" a short fiction by Grok 4.6 on technological singularity (www.echohive.ai)
SniffCat – A free API for checking and reporting abusive IPs (sniffcat.com)
In a Heat Wave, Schizophrenia Is Much Deadlier Than Any Other Medical Condition (www.wired.com)
Spinifex: Open-Source Amazon Web Services Alternative – OpenAlternative (openalternative.co)
Proof-Carrying Pipelines: attest local gate runs so CI can skip re-execution (github.com)
The Machines Are Getting Cheap. The Toolpaths Are Not (sliptonic.com)
Puzzle nights are up 151% and my team works alone (dev.profullstack.com)
Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Tech Transparency Project – Holding Big Tech Accountable (www.techtransparencyproject.org)
Sutton and Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again [video] (www.youtube.com)
She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI (www.npr.org)
Meta''s blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (www.economist.com)
Universal Dive Data Format (wrobell.dcmod.org)
RF Cafe (www.rfcafe.com)
OpenLogi (openlogi.org)
SpaceX tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea (arstechnica.com)
Xerox invented the modern PC, then priced the Star at 16,595 (1981) (www.youtube.com)
Language-like structure arises in learned signaling: evidence from birdsong (www.science.org)
Qwen3.8-27B make medium the default effort level instead of xhigh (github.com)
The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck (www.koh-antique.com)
Tonnes of nuclear material found at Syria site, UN atomic watchdog says (www.rte.ie)
Amazon scans and destroys books to comply with copyright law (bsky.app)
How to build an eval set you can maintain (langfuse.com)
Do All Your Agents Need Models Like Claude 5 or GPT-5.6? (aimoway-lab.github.io)
The Integer (gist.github.com)
That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis (lithub.com)
Netstate – US Business Data from Primary Sources (netstate.co)
OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent (www.theguardian.com)
Study Finds Outdated Ideas About Antibiotics Are Common (healthcare.utah.edu)
Personetta – One YAML Persona for Cursor, Copilot, Claude, and Cline (github.com)
The Economics and Engineering of On-Premises LLMs (cacm.acm.org)
Are there space filling curves for the Hilbert Cube? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)
Calling Python from Matlab (www.mathworks.com)
Fideliya Pass: Loyalty Program and More (www.fideliyapass.com)
Bonds Are Getting Hammered, and Wall Street Says the Rout Won''t End Anytime Soon (www.wsj.com)
The quest to find the best Calvin and Hobbes panel (www.polygon.com)
Kithly – a family social network with no ads and no algorithm (kithly.social)
The Defender''s Window (openai.com)
SecIT Bench A frontier benchmark for AI agents in IT and security workflows (secitbench.cribl.io)
Testing Claude-designed proteins in the wet lab (www.adaptyvbio.com)
Artificial intelligence boosts automated biolabs (knowablemagazine.org)
China''s LandSpace beats SpaceX with steel-booster recovery after orbital launch (www.scmp.com)
Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield (www.cam.ac.uk)
Scientists stunned by children''s lung recovery in ultra low emission zone (www.bbc.com)
New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf] (bfi.uchicago.edu)
The Secret Killer of Startups: Low Ambition [video] (www.youtube.com)
Trump''s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts (www.nytimes.com)
Rent''s Rule (en.wikipedia.org)
Cerebras CS4 (www.cerebras.ai)
The Official History of Arm (newsroom.arm.com)
Nutritional benefits of sourdoughs: A systematic review (2022) (www.sciencedirect.com)
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
Have an Agent Babysit Your Deployments (blog.exe.dev)
DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel (inco.ai)
Arizona city sues over fire truck prices (www.themesatribune.com)
Could End the RAM Crisis [video] (www.youtube.com)
OpenAI''s overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security (www.theregister.com)
Who''s in charge? The fraught union of automation and human behavior (knowablemagazine.org)
How to tame AI''s voracious appetite for energy (knowablemagazine.org)
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance (www.theregister.com)
Progress happens between practice sessions (herbertlui.net)
Why crypto''s best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto? (konstantintkachuk.com)
MAGA loyalists who collectively lost billions buying Trump stocks and crypto (www.msn.com)
OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face (www.theverge.com)
The Art of Prototyping (www.proofofconcept.pub)
Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay (www.late-review.com)
Whistleblower alleges political pressure,lack of evidence in antisemitism probes (apnews.com)
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries (github.com)
Sci-Fi Author Jeffrey A Carver Passed Away (sfwa.org)
Made a Lightweight Markdown Reader (www.thesis.do)
Soaring Diesel Prices Rip Across US Economy (www.ft.com)
The 400-Ton Linchpin of American Electrical Power (www.nytimes.com)
Unitree Robotics IPO: "Embodied AI" Valuation Bubble? (www.cnn.com)
Selective Applicative Functors (blog.veritates.love)
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform (techcrunch.com)
Stanford''s deterministic CUDA kernel verifier (2026.splashcon.org)
Software Engineering Humble Book Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)
Lying in Therapy (proud2bme.substack.com)
My AI Agents Ship Code While I Sleep. Nobody Reviews It (goatsquadstudios.com)
Building in the Cloud with Codex, Safely (www.ivan.codes)
Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West (www.economist.com)
Threepp: Cross-platform C20 3D library with the high-level API of Three.js (github.com)
AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws (gizmodo.com)
Which universities pay their faculty the most? (insurancedimes.com)
The Book of Bots (whatever.scalzi.com)
To Build a Data Center – Intro to Diesel Generation (power2026.ai)
Memory Allocation for Constant-Bounded Programs (arxiv.org)
Apple: DOJ''s latest challenge in antitrust case ''fails at every level'' (9to5mac.com)
Building apps using TanStack Start (lovable.dev)
Cork Oak Forest in Spain (explorelatierra.com)
Google wins 10M bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines 100M emails, 500M chats (247wallst.com)
An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve (www.sciencealert.com)
Nomadic Agent: multi-model with Git integration (nomadic-agent.vercel.app)
Mapping art styles onto Scott McCloud''s Big Triangle with multimodal models (www.alexxg.com)
Why packaging is moving from 1D to 2D barcodes (www.packaging-gateway.com)
OpenAI''s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared with Anthropic (www.wsj.com)
Simple Systemd Hermes Service Management for Linux and WSL2 (github.com)
Google ''gradually'' rolling out Android''s ''advanced'' sideloading (9to5google.com)
Building Without Predicting (sive.rs)
Terry A. Davis Quotes (en.wikiquote.org)
Popcorn: Democratized Fast Kernel Dispatching (blog.tilderesearch.com)
Programmable Property-Based Testing (dl.acm.org)
The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks (www.dpreview.com)
Fx, a tiny, open, native coding agent (twitter.com)
Fx: Unix Like Coding Agent (github.com)
The Microsoft Rebrand Registry (www.msrebrandregistry.com)
Israeli Soldiers Write ID Numbers on Palestinians in Dehumanising West Bank Raid (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Comcast Is Turning Its Routers into Motion Detectors (www.theverge.com)
Fake polls on Wisconsin and California elections (www.nytimes.com)
Who owns the code? AI code no author no copyright (whoownsthecode.com)
The Hugging Face Hack (Hoog Video) (www.youtube.com)
VoxWork: Anonymous employer reviews before accepting a job offer (voxwork.nanocorp.app)
GTA 6 hackers say leak is meant to punish Rockstar for the game''s lack of discs (cyberleek.vilenarios.com)
China Is Building a Blue Granary (www.palladiummag.com)
Unclaimed Boat Strikes in Ecuador (www.cfr.org)
Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism''s 200T Cost? (www.cato.org)
GPT-5.6 Sol: 70% off in Devin (devin.ai)
Tail: A 0–5 scale for how much AI wrote this (beaucronin.com)
GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks (artificialanalysis.ai)
Scientists support 150yo Darwinian theory with a carnivorous plant in China (www.livescience.com)
Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded (restofworld.org)
fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
Running Nam A2-Lite Natively on an ESP32-S3 (playtaurus.com)
Two lines of Python that segfault the interpreter – Timofei Ivankov (deadlovelll.github.io)
Actual Budget (actualbudget.org)
Silicon Valley''s AI boom is remaking American charity (www.economist.com)
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com)
Google Moves A2A Under Agentic AI Foundation (techstrong.ai)
Putting Ideas into Words (2022) (paulgraham.com)
Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations (xcancel.com)
FOIA Documents Show Epstein Files Had Flag List Which Included the Term ''POTUS'' (www.techdirt.com)
OVHCloud dedicated servers: price change in the second half of 2026 (blog.ovhcloud.com)
Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration (www.windriver.com)
Infra Lang – DSL That Compiles to Kubernetes, Helm, Compose, Terraform, and CI (github.com)
OpenAI pauses frontier model training (twitter.com)
The most influential economist is oddly unconvincing (www.economist.com)
Companies promote incompetent employees to management tolimit damage they can do (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
Find Chicago Parking Cops (www.secondcitycitation.com)
Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Node.js Is Doomed (and Back End Developers Are Panicking) (medium.com)
Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a (cdn.kuber.studio)
ASCII-art bake-off – 7 models 3 prompts (bloop.monster)
Framework Laptop 12, now with Core Series 3 (frame.work)
Unemployment Benefits Boost Growth (www.nominalnews.com)
DeckSpace – presentations that are web pages, not slide files (deckspace.org)
Mythic''s analog compute-in-memory architecture (www.mythic.ai)
Flipping the kill switch: I survived 72 hours without US tech (www.politico.eu)
New Science Says Scrapping a Working Gas Car for an EV Is Usually Greener (cleantechnica.com)
Snow-eater heat waves of the western United States (www.science.org)
Claude Code 2.1.234 continues your session automatically once usage limit resets (code.claude.com)
Department of War Orders Research Security Audits at 30 Academic Institutions (twitter.com)
Starship arrives at Christmas Island after 24-day ocean ordeal (www.space.com)
The safety robot that comes with instructions on how to kill it (dangerousminds.net)
Vim wants you to control, VSCode wants you to consume (buttondown.com)
Systemic security risks in the managed PostgreSQL services (mehmetince.net)
Berd from Block: A Better Way to Build (berd.xyz)
Fact check: How do I spot AI-generated images? (www.dw.com)
Buildcorp (buildcorp.build)
Anatomy of a Sex Scandal (www.newyorker.com)
Framework Refreshes 12" Laptop (frame.work)
Has any one ever used Strands – the AI Agent SDK by AWS (strandsagents.com)
Traces Know What Broke. Your Agent Doesn''t (memanto.ai)
Postgres 19: How Our Advice Has Changed Since We Wrote It (www.crunchydata.com)
Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children (scholarship.law.duke.edu)
OpenAI built a safer ChatGPT, just not for you (www.machinesociety.ai)
Association of Spicy Chilli Food Consumption with All-Cause Mortality (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Oracle Security Advisory for August 2026 contains 943 new security patches (www.oracle.com)
Blind Egyptian entrepreneur''s AI app helps others ''see'' the world (www.reuters.com)
What 22 big platforms report about their own moderation (www.rtfp.io)
AirPods with Cameras Leak: Used for Visual Intelligence (www.androidauthority.com)
Anthropic extending the 50% increase to weekly Claude Code limits till August 31 (twitter.com)
3M accused of withholding toxicity of PFAS firefighting foam for decades (www.abc.net.au)
''They knew their platforms could harm young people'' (english.elpais.com)
My coding agent invented its own vision (nickbusey.com)
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked (arstechnica.com)
Ubuntu on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not according to Canonical (www.zdnet.com)
Hister – private, self hosted search engine (hister.org)
What Parents Need to Know About OpenAI''s New ChatGPT for Teens (www.wsj.com)
Trying to Fit a Logistic Curve (www.johndcook.com)
Truck Parking Club (truckparkingclub.com)
OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training (time.com)
Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware (www.wired.com)
A Government of Multimillionaires (english.elpais.com)
Top album releases linked to rise in fatal crashes (www.theguardian.com)
Viral Halloween ''De-Flock'' campaign gains momentum (www.dexerto.com)
AI;dr – AI wrote it, you shouldn''t have to read it (ronreiter.github.io)
Meta lawsuits: Is social media facing a global legal reckoning? (www.aljazeera.com)
Iran is losing control of the Strait of Hormuz (www.cnn.com)
Beware Management Consultants (about.iceland.co.uk)
US states accuse Meta of covering up research on teen social media addiction (www.theguardian.com)
Norway Should Buy OpenAI (www.onethousandmeans.com)
Solution to Apple Siri Europe DMA Conflict (huggingface.co)
200B Tokens Later: A Month of Letting AI Agents Decompile MW2 (momo5502.com)
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself (www.theregister.com)
Box Scores (boxscore.email)
From Prompt to Hardware (www.axiometa.io)