The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret (www.wired.com)
SF 192 fine for teaching tennis to his own children (twitter.com)
CrewAI in Python: Coordinating Teams of AI Agents (realpython.com)
After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (www.asiae.co.kr)
NexBoard (nexboard.ca)
AI used new levels of ''autonomy and deception'' (www.bbc.co.uk)
20M in Microsoft bug bounties paid out in last 12 months (www.theregister.com)
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
To Save Japan''s Heritage Homes, People Are Shipping Them Across the World (www.nytimes.com)
So What''s Up with That New CPanel Database Vulnerability? (lowendbox.com)
CFPB supervisor warned staff of unpleasant fallout if they go too hard on firms (www.reuters.com)
A heat spike in March ruined pistachio pollination, decimating crops (www.fresnobee.com)
It looks like ''Big Short'' investor Michael Burry nailed bet against chip stocks (www.businessinsider.com)
Poetry Camera (poetry.camera)
Kilometer-high Saudi tower inches closer to world''s tallest record (newatlas.com)
A Lightweight Open-Source LLM Benchmark Tool – Compare Any Model on OpenRouter (cheikhhseck.medium.com)
Spotted: Mac Studio with M3 Ultra 256GB RAM and M4 Max with 128GB RAM (gpuquicklist.com)
Feynman''s Office; the Last Blackboards [pdf] (aip.brightspotcdn.com)
White House excludes open models from framework to test advanced AI capabilities (www.axios.com)
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)
Bugtraq Is Back (lists.securityfocus.com)
Flowise Is Shutting Down (flowiseai.com)
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)
Zohran Mamdani announced grocery store rationing, ID requirement (thehornnews.com)
Nobody Was Watching: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Open Models (substack.norabble.com)
Pigeons: SSH Anywhere, Built on Iroh (pigeons.computer)
2D Vortex Dynamics (lee-phillips.org)
US yen intervention signals perfect storm rising in FX and bond markets (www.reuters.com)
Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (1988) (en.wikipedia.org)
Appeals Court Agrees with EFF That Building a Web Browser Doesn''t Violate CFAA (www.eff.org)
Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren''t Creepy? (www.wired.com)
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature from Millions. One Died by Suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
Crash experiences of highly automated vehicles and human drivers (www.iihs.org)
Stackoversroll – A social media for code. Designed for you and your angents (stackoverscroll.com)
Turning a Bottle into Filament [video] (www.youtube.com)
World''s First AI Consumer Twin Marketplace for Research (blue-pill.ai)
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), the Modern Version of Whois (en.wikipedia.org)
Lenia - a system of continuous cellular automata (chakazul.github.io)
Path lifting can remember order even when homotopy forgets escape (zenodo.org)
When Does Defending Yourself Become a Crime? (medium.com)
KiroCrew – Amazon''s AI Harness (kiro.dev)
OpenAI pays 3.2M in US probe over hiring foreign workers (www.reuters.com)
Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com)
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)
Tear Here: Condiment Packet Archive (www.condimentpacket.com)
New Bios Update Reportedly Bricking Lenovo Legion Go Devices (steamdeckhq.com)
Inside Kimi K3''s AgentENV: Can It Really Fork in 100 ms? (www.gensee.ai)
Charity cyclist Bob Montgomery,82, dies one day after last heroic ride 3300 mile (www.abc.net.au)
Bending Spoons Is Buying Airtable for 1.3B. It Was Valued at 11B in 2021 (www.inc.com)
Salad Fingers 1: Spoons (original upload) [video] (www.youtube.com)
US diesel prices overtake Biden-era average (www.ft.com)
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits (techcrunch.com)
Settlement with OpenAI for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers (www.justice.gov)
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban (theconversation.com)
Feasibility of Space Data Centers (www.youtube.com)
Texas to slow down data centre construction amid AI boom (www.thenationalnews.com)
Reverse-Engineering the B200''s Tensor Core, One Bit at a Time (sf-tensor.com)
Epstein Survivors Issue Statement Condemning Senate Vote for Todd Blanche (twitter.com)
Asia Hedge Funds Suffer Widespread Losses in July Market Rout (www.bloomberg.com)
Hackers steal over 130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets (techcrunch.com)
Asus releases cheaper ROG NUC 16 gaming mini PC with Core Ultra 7 and 32GB RAM (www.notebookcheck.net)
Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)
Rent the Intelligence, Own the Relationship (sierra.ai)
Claim-Driven Development in Hale (hale-lang.org)
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (www.wired.com)
Body Workouts You Need to Know (ethansmith140833.substack.com)
Solar Water Disinfection (en.wikipedia.org)
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
Big Tech Is Finally Paying for the AI Disaster It Created [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI stock sell-off slams hedge funds as Whale Rock loses 21.7% in July (www.bloomberg.com)
Missouri Is Latest State to Vote on Abolishing Income Tax (www.wsj.com)
BMW''s in-car Spider-Man ad is villain behavior (www.theverge.com)
Nixpkgs has a due-process problem (domenkozar.com)
What are credit default swaps and why are they spooking AI investors? (www.reuters.com)
Credit Braces for Fallen Angels as 100B Trades Like Junk (financialpost.com)
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
I Tried to Make AI Writing Sound Human by Banning AI Words Through Logit_bias (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS (amiga.com)
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL (www.africanews.com)
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military''s Tech to Blame? (www.wired.com)
As of August 3, 2026, T-Mobile''s 2G GSM network will be retired (www.t-mobile.com)
Pi Is Bad; Or, The Positive Effects of Friction in Automated Development (blog.djhaskin.com)
Why a Flock Worker Quit: ''They Lied (www.404media.co)
Monopoly Enshittified Amazon (pluralistic.net)
Fiddler Classic Changes License: Noncommercial Use Only, 45 Days to Comply (www.telerik.com)
Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] (cdn.prod.website-files.com)
AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case (www.nme.com)
Amazon Germany to Accept Wero (www.mobiflip.de)
Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor (www.bbc.co.uk)
Federal loan support cut for degree programs that lead to low wages (www.latimes.com)
Data centers have a politics problem (www.politico.com)
Response to "Why Book Corners won''t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap" (pietervdvn.me)
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything, even a 10 microcontroller (www.theregister.com)
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic (www.theregister.com)
Trump forced to reinstate broadband grants, court lets US scrap race criteria (arstechnica.com)
EA Is Now a Private Company (www.theverge.com)
3D Printing Agentic Automation (praveenvijayan.substack.com)
The ''dean of valuation'' says pain is headed for more AI companies soon (www.businessinsider.com)
Could You Still Be "You" Without a Single Memory? (comuniq.xyz)
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (openai.com)
Where the Automation Has to Stop (yusufaytas.com)
Success of New Federal Housing Law Rests on States and Localities (ifp.org)
Count Binface: Britain''s ''joke'' election candidates should be taken seriously (theconversation.com)
Resistance grows nationwide against AI data center boom (www.cbsnews.com)
An AI voice agent running locally on a 50 Arduino uno Q (projecthub.arduino.cc)
How the Sony Walkman Failed to Destroy Civilization (www.tokyoweekender.com)
Tokenpolitik: The new geopolitics of artificial intelligence (decode39.com)
Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (www.aisi.gov.uk)
Japan''s superior alternative to Paxlovid called Xocova, finally available in US (www.shionogi.com)
Typing Tests for Programmers (software-typing.vercel.app)
Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly (en.wikipedia.org)
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (www.troyhunt.com)
The Founder''s North Face (arsenkk.substack.com)
Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (www.chiply.dev)
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it (www.theregister.com)
The Buffett Indicator Keeps Flashing Red. Is It Broken? (www.wsj.com)
Pulumi Speaks Now HCL (www.pulumi.com)
Seattle contractor settles death lawsuit over 911 ambulance wait (www.seattletimes.com)
DuckDuckGo Paso Robles (knockaround.com)
DuckDuckGo: "No Camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses." (twitter.com)
What we know about ongoing Coldcard hack that''s stolen over 100M in Bitcoin (www.cbc.ca)
35 DuckDuckGo Glasses never need to be charged and designed to protect privacy (www.notebookcheck.net)
Lua 5.5.1 Released (www.lua.org)
Hudson Valley Fisheries closes operations citing high costs, lack of water (www.salmonbusiness.com)
Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc (twitter.com)
Texas blocks data centers from connecting to grid unless they reveal impacts (arstechnica.com)
Stop micromanaging Fable/Claude 5 (shumer.dev)
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM (blog.fogus.me)
One Man''s Cure for Loneliness Started a Movement (www.wsj.com)
Nearest Pint (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)
ScrollBots Blog (scrollbots.com)
Pixtrava / How It Works?:) (pixtrava.com)
SpaceX Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results [pdf] (s21.q4cdn.com)
Diffflow, Monitor Name Filter, Find Your Dashboard Monitors in Seconds (diffflow.com)
Should You Use AI for a Task? Here''s a Simple Way to Decide (www.schneier.com)
Signal – More linked devices are on the table (signal.org)
Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop (www.macrumors.com)
Oxide Computer raises 445M (SEC Form D) (www.sec.gov)
X-62A Used Its AI ''Brain'' to Autonomously Intercept an ''Enemy'' T-38 (www.twz.com)
Waymo Waymo CEO explains why Tesla''s camera-only self-driving falls short (electrek.co)
Siamese Occupation of Germany (en.wikipedia.org)
Trump''s D.C. troop deployment will continue through 2029 (apnews.com)
SpaceX – Q2 2026 Earnings [pdf] (d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net)
Sektron: A MIDI step sequencer in the terminal (github.com)
Wasps as an effective pest control for agriculture (www.ucl.ac.uk)
Chaldeans Cultural Competency (news.jrn.msu.edu)
Signls: A non-linear, generative MIDI sequencer (empr.cl)
Breaking Locks in Gothic 1 Remake (erfur.dev)
Introducing Kiro Crew (kiro.dev)
German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules (www.reuters.com)
AI makes weak engineers less harmful (www.seangoedecke.com)
Mixture-of-Kittens: An MoE training megakernel for NVL72 (twitter.com)
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Hedonic Treadmill (Hedonic Adaptation) (en.wikipedia.org)
The Lua community needs to learn to move on (hisham.hm)
The CPU Cost of Protobuf Varints in Go (kmcd.dev)
How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk? (craigmod.com)
Pokee-Isaac 28B (console.pokee.ai)
How dementia is being defeated (economist.com)
New Node.js API Documentation (nodejs.org)
Flock cameras violate highway safety standards (www.jalopnik.com)
Netflix Seems to Be Down (twitter.com)
The daring mission to smuggle a V2 rocket out of Nazi-occupied Poland (www.bbc.com)
AI Escape Room – Docker CTF Recreating the 2026 HF Intrusion (github.com)
The Screen Act Is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare (www.404media.co)
Big Tech''s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents (www.techpolicy.press)
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (www.economist.com)
F*Ex: Frams'' Fast File EXchange (fex.belwue.de)
White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps (www.axios.com)
The Nodebook (www.thenodebook.com)
Nuclear Safety Authority supports spent nuclear fuel final disposal facility (stuk.fi)
People are mysteriously disappearing off WhatsApp (www.the-independent.com)
The session that synced itself (github.com)
Design by Contract and Effects for LLMs (gavinray97.github.io)
AI demand to keep near-term inflation high, says investment strategist (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. Air Force F-16 realtime autonomous intercepts (news.lockheedmartin.com)
Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021) (www.theguardian.com)
New unlimited use coding agent (Standard Code) (standardcode.ai)
Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam? (www.theverge.com)
Stephen Wolfram''s Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
Our M365 tenant has been "deauthenticated" for 20 days (old.reddit.com)
LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
Uber''s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ''What Were You Wearing?'' (www.nytimes.com)
The Catherine Project (catherineproject.org)
EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
Six months prior to the September 11 attacks, The Lone Gunmen (en.wikipedia.org)
LLM Arena (arena.ai)
Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for 1.25B (www.businesswire.com)
I Became the Honest Broker (www.honest-broker.com)
Creating, Copying, and Remixing in the Age of AI (molochinations.substack.com)
AI data-centre race builds 1T lease burden for Big Tech (www.reuters.com)
Pachube – a detailed history of the early years (pachube.haque.co.uk)
Drug Discovery Has No Magic Wands (deepphenotype.substack.com)
The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (www.vittlesmagazine.com)
Choose by Probability, Not by Expectation (win-vector.com)
Unpacking ChatGPT Work (www.latent.space)
Establishing a Career Framework (www.jw.pe)
Cloud computing giant Oracle Corp is on the cusp of a junk-grade credit rating (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video] (www.youtube.com)
iMessage-Exporter: Reverse Engineering Apple''s Typedstream Format (chrissardegna.com)
Artificial Analysis Endpoint Accuracy Index (twitter.com)
The Sound of Inevitability (www.panoptica.com)
Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
Find Your Erdős Number (www.underleaf.ai)
Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
Security Is Hard, Y''all (textslashplain.com)
Why coding agents belong in remote sandboxes (www.superconductor.com)
PgColumnar: A Columnar database extension for Postgres 15 (commandprompt.github.io)
Gaza''s Deadly Soil (www.nybooks.com)
Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally (www.nature.com)
Driverless subways collide during a shunting maneuver (www.welt.de)
Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
The Judgment Reservoir (shannph.com)
Haters (www.paulgraham.com)
Deputy: Better signal and control for software supply chains (temporal.io)
Audit Ready AI (auditready.space)
HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dymaxion Car (en.wikipedia.org)
Why Palantir stock is surging (finance.yahoo.com)
Mux Chooses a CDN in 9.9ms (www.mux.com)
Your AI Sounds Certain. Look at Where It Learned That (medium.com)
Soppo: Golang with the Features It''s Missing (soppolang.dev)
Evolution in the Social Brain (2007) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
AI News for Vibe Coders – Daily Brief (August 4, 2026) (ddsboston.com)
Kiro Crew (github.com)
If money doesn''t make you happy, then you probably aren''t spending it right (www.sciencedirect.com)
Effects of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking (2024) (arxiv.org)
What''s Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (www.stlouisfed.org)
TackNote, stick a Mac note to the task instead of to your desktop (tacknote.app)
Macrocyclic peptides: a new goldilocks drug class? (www.empirical.health)
Long-Tail Inferential Knowledge via Logical Rule Guided Search (2024) (aclanthology.org)
Fraud Squad'' at Caltech Will Catch You If You Lie on Your Application (www.wsj.com)
They tried to private equity the World Cup (www.rogue.site)
What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon? (www.bbc.co.uk)
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (www.gadgetreview.com)
Momito – local hold-to-talk dictation for macOS, free and offline (github.com)
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
Color Night Vision Device (www.science.org)
Silico: a platform for AI research (www.goodfire.com)
Mea Culpa: Apple Confesses It Can''t Keep Up with AI Bug Reports (securityboulevard.com)
BirdingPal: ChatGPT-enabled partner for identifying birds (github.com)
The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert (en.wikipedia.org)
The New Shape of Search: How Conversational AI Recomposes Information Seeking (arxiv.org)
Data Centers Broke American Politics (www.wired.com)
AI''s seven decade boom/bust cycle and the human origin of the term (caseorganic.substack.com)
Could the world survive biological war? (observer.co.uk)
''This is insider trading by definition'': Trump sells 100k monthly subscription (www.msn.com)
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (www.vlt.io)
This Month in Ladybird: July 2026 (buttondown.com)
Ceuta Spain Was Invaded Spain Falls to Moroccan Migrants [video] (www.youtube.com)
America''s ''weird'' and ''unwise'' intervention in the Japanese yen (www.msn.com)
SoftBank''s AI funding plans to face reckoning at earnings (finance.yahoo.com)
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
Road Trains Roam the Backroads of Australia (hackaday.com)
Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks (gettably.tech)
Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, says governor (www.texastribune.org)
Aladinoulli: Predicting Your Health Arc (erictopol.substack.com)
How to Get More Customers Without Paying for Ads – Playistry (playistry.com)
Maybe software stops being the default (sgnt.ai)
History of Artificial Intelligence (en.wikipedia.org)
SpaceX''s staggered lock-up release prolongs the pain (www.ft.com)
Marmots got money troubles: Cuts to UCLA research lead scientists to OnlyFans (www.latimes.com)
Cloudflare Wallet (cloudflare.pay)
GPIO Announcer (excamera.substack.com)
The Loch Ness Monster Was Real (kylesaunders.substack.com)
The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
Please add min-release-age to your .npmrc (www.endorlabs.com)
Zillow Lays Off 500 (www.zillow.com)
RWX raises 12M as the eng bottleneck moves from writing code to validating it (www.rwx.com)
A Data-Driven Explanation: Why Do AI Agents Still Fail (jeremytian.substack.com)
Minutes Ended Story About Epstein''s Shady Bank Transactions (newrepublic.com)
First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires (www.outdoorlife.com)
The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE''s DNA grab (www.technologyreview.com)
All of Winona Police Department''s Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
Average IQ by Country 2026 (worldpopulationreview.com)
Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo''s company has analyzed 3,500 blood vials with AI (fortune.com)
Microsoft Tells Engineers ''Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For (www.404media.co)
The Geoid (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
The Indo-European Family Tree (djbinder.com)
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
ChatGPT Dreaming: Reverse-engineering how its new memory system works (husain-zaidi.com)
Anti-Zionism gains protection by UK law (twitter.com)
A Mass Shooter''s Harrowing History with ChatGPT (www.motherjones.com)
The Backrooms, and Parallels to Our "Almost-Things" (shannadige.com)
US used ''virtually all'' long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.militarytimes.com)
A unified API for AI model routing (developers.googleblog.com)
AI coding agents pass tests. Can they write idiomatic Laravel? (laravel.com)
Tests for a PDF (blog.lvmbdv.dev)
Mistral''s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
A game made only with sine waves [video] (www.youtube.com)
Minnow – open-source AI development Workspace (github.com)
Building HomeScope with Floot and Perfai Security (github.com)
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune''s moons (www.reuters.com)
Overclocking SM T225N''s PowerVR Rogue GE8320 [video] (www.youtube.com)
How the Amish Let Technology in Without Letting It Take Over (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)