A Photo of the Sun Through the Earth (www.stevestewartwilliams.com)
UEFA members vote to boycott FIFA if Infantino''s World Cup plans pursued (www.aljazeera.com)
Signal is working on registration without a phone number (aboutsignal.com)
Formality Considered Harmful (2022) (joshmpollock.com)
Updates to Radar Pricing (support.stripe.com)
Citadel buys Situational Awareness after steep AI losses (www.ft.com)
2M Cars with KARR Anti-Theft Systems Are at Higher Risk of Theft (today.ucsd.edu)
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Postgres on NVMe Benchmarks (clickhouse.com)
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A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada''s Fastest Fiber Networks (spectrum.ieee.org)
Postgres rewritten in Rust v0.2, now faster than Postgres and ClickHouse (github.com)
Every Paul Graham essay, narrated in his voice (www.youtube.com)
Citadel Buys Situational Awareness''s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (www.wsj.com)
A data center wanted to buy a farm to use water legally reserved for irrigation (www.techradar.com)
Uefa agrees to boycott FIFA competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed (www.theguardian.com)
Towards End-to-End Automation of AI Research [pdf] (arxiv.org)
Innocent man spends 18 months in prison after Skyrim username mixup (www.dexerto.com)
Stripe Radar no longer free, migrates free tier to paid plan (support.stripe.com)
Scaling Laws: The Law Behind Every LLM (aidoses.substack.com)
Situational Awareness Liquidates Public Positions (www.cnbc.com)
Pgtestdb''s template cloning approach to testing is fast (brandur.org)
Nub 0.5.0 (nubjs.com)
Selling to Carol (longform.asmartbear.com)
Introducing ctx.traits · Agent Traits & Workflows typed, versioned & in-sync. (ctx.company)
Cambridge Algorithms Course (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
Designing Docs for AI Agents (www.jamdesk.com)
Macrocyclic peptides: a new "Goldilocks" drug class? (www.empirical.health)
Sigstore, the Swiss army knife of signing and attestation (kernwerk.org)
We don''t need no stinkin'' tensor library: solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels (phulin.me)
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The Four Loops, Clearly Explained (iii.dev)
Prompt turns Microsoft Copilot into an AI worm (www.malwarebytes.com)
The Session You Cannot Take with You (earendil.com)
Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against FIFA sell-off (www.thetimes.com)
Gemini Robotics ER 2 (blog.google)
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European Technology Network (etnshow.co)
Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse (en.wikipedia.org)
Betting on Things That Never Change (2017) (collabfund.com)
DanceNitra/inspeximus: Zero-dependency agent memory (github.com)
Why don''t we just make the stack out of guard pages? – The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)
VibeMathed – Math problems solved by AI (vibemathed.com)
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A Button That Links to a Random Post in HTML and CSS Only (master.dev)
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My Early Lesson in Constraints (gregtidanian.substack.com)
Death on the Dance Floor (2022) (timharford.com)
More than 18,200 cyclosporiasis cases now suspected in US (thehill.com)
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
Google Rolls Out Nano Banana AI in Earth (digg.com)
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The New Science of Inflammation (www.nytimes.com)
Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis (www.wevolver.com)
Liquid Encoder Model for CPUs (twitter.com)
San Jose Plans 13B BART Subway Extension. How About 1B? (www.forbes.com)
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
Why self-hosted inference is essential (www.redhat.com)
HN: I ran a 56M parameter LLM across three ESP32-S3 boards via ESP-NOW (github.com)
Incremental Codebase Indexing with Merkle Trees and Tree-sitter (monkeyscode.com)
Treetable (web.archive.org)
10 Year Old''s Research Shocks Scientists Around the World [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid (www.tomshardware.com)
You and Your Research (1986) (paulgraham.com)
The 60 Laptop (ringmast4r.substack.com)
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Decentralized self-repair for modular robotic structures (arxiv.org)
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Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for (uxdesign.cc)
98.js – Windows 98 Online (98.js.org)
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What broke when I let an AI agent modify its own Python code for 144 cycles (github.com)
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PostgreSQL and the Linux OOM Killer: A Better Default (clickhouse.com)
Google Won''t Fix the Android Camera, So I Did (www.youtube.com)
Bingebuster – Walkable 3D video store, stocked streamable movies (bingebuster.vercel.app)
Volkswagen''s flying-car dream crashed in China (www.reuters.com)
Origin of CAR and CDR – IBM 704 and PDP-6 Lisp (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft''s 3-day patching directive comes with added operational risk (www.csoonline.com)
Dart 3.12 (dart.dev)
Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis (www.theverge.com)
FTC Acts Against Hims & Hers for Deceptive and Unlawful Privacy Practices (www.ftc.gov)
What if AI removes the friction that makes good engineers? (leonardthiele.substack.com)
Poolside Desktop Assistant, for macOS (poolside.ai)
My AI Wishlist (diverging.run)
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The Challenges of Connecting Slack and Teams (conv.ly)
LinkedIn Introduces a ''Seems Like AI Slop'' Button (www.404media.co)
SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (github.com)
Post-quantum authentication to origins is now supported (blog.cloudflare.com)
Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures (blog.certisfy.com)
Leopold Aschenbrenner unwinds all public stock positions after steep losses (www.cnbc.com)
Stripe more than tripled the price of Stripe Radar (stripe.com)
Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
Time Tracking – Software, Methodologies and Practices (github.com)
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Cheapest International Business Payments: Beyond Correspondent Banking (paybitz.io)
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AI-generated, Lean-verified proof of Collatz conjecture exploits Lean kernel bug (infosec.exchange)
Try sending "see the below –" to Opus 5 (twitter.com)
List of 6502 based computers and 6502 history (www.machineideas.com)
Formal Verification of Cryptographic Protocol Implementations in Rust (dl.acm.org)
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Amblie – a daily feed to be like the good parts of social media (www.amblie.com)
State of CSS 2026 (2026.stateofcss.com)
Anyscale signs definitive agreement to join Nscale (www.anyscale.com)
The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (pluralistic.net)
Adform compromised to serve crypto stealer via supply chain attack (doublepulsar.com)
Programming as Theory Building, Part II: When Institutions Crumble (cekrem.github.io)
Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents (fletch.sh)
Manual Reification on the JVM (farnoy.dev)
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others (www.cam.ac.uk)
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Kaspar Hauser (en.wikipedia.org)
The Dress Rehearsal of AI Killing Us All (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
To Know What Your Customers Think, Just Ask Their A.I. Twins (www.nytimes.com)
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Private Credit Gets Cheaper in Europe as Redemptions Pressure US (www.bloomberg.com)
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China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power (www.bloomberg.com)
A new inference engine to run Kimi K3 2.78T parameter with 29GB of RAM (marcobambini.substack.com)
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Europe''s fires are just the start (economist.com)
The Remarkable Proliferation of Cancer Immunotherapies (erictopol.substack.com)
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Claude Can Access Your Other Devices (braw.dev)
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Japan to keep interest rates steady (japantoday.com)
Smart contracts for AI agents: Centralized platforms-distributed control planes (medium.com)
Adversarial Code Obfuscation for Defending Against LLM-Based Analysis (arxiv.org)
Refusal as Instruction: Equipping Patrons to Resist AI, Data Brokers, Big Tech (ital.corejournals.org)
Percent of Leaders Regret AI Layoffs–and a Major Hiring Reversal Has Begun (www.inc.com)
First Contact: The most important question in AI (evolutionairy.ai)
Back from China: Two Cosmologies, Two AIs, and One Social Soil (ottoscharmer.substack.com)
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans (www.wired.com)
Great Barrier Reef at risk of ''collapse'', scientists warn (japantoday.com)
Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine (www.theregister.com)
UK police to arrest people for showing support for Palestine Action (twitter.com)
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (www.projectpluto.com)
Experimental Drone Hits 699 Km/H in Push Toward High-Speed Interceptors (thedefensepost.com)
Amazon''s Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxis with no human controls (www.reuters.com)
Czechia, Iceland and Spain among Europe''s top trending destinations for 2026 (www.euronews.com)
What will more intelligence actually do for us? (www.noahpinion.blog)
RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
Finland to Cut Cable Lines Carrying Up to 70% of Russia''s Foreign Web Traffic (united24media.com)
Kimi k3 run on RTX 5090 (github.com)
PEP 836 – JIT Go Brrr: The Path to a Supported JIT Compiler for CPython (peps.python.org)
''VPNs are lawful technical tools,'' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)
CLIs are more token-efficient than MCP. Or are they? (www.checklyhq.com)
Anthropic''s new MCP spec, Kimi K3 open weights on Ollama, GPT Transcribe, plus (ddsboston.com)
Of all 18,849 servers in the MCP registry 1 in 6 is dead (mcpqueen.com)
Tripplet AI (www.tripplet.lol)
FitForge – Solo-built fitness tracker that adapts to your training age (fitforgehq.com)
The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography (www.feistyduck.com)
Rabble – Native Matrix Client with Push-to-Talk (rabble.talk)
Map Shows Flock Camera Locations in Every State Amid Growing Backlash (www.newsweek.com)
After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO 38M (www.pcgamer.com)
alp-data: A shared data layer for animal language processing (earthspecies.org)
Going beneath NTFS: USN Journal, dfir_NTFS, and artefact-driven investigations (andreafortuna.org)
Super Amplify – governed AI agents for real company workflows (superamplify.com)
Sit Down and Shut Up (market-ticker.org)
Introducing: Control Drift – An Open-Source Gap Analysis Platform (www.controldrift.org)
PRoctr – doctor/triage for your renovate/dependabot PRs (github.com)
Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? (www.construction-physics.com)
OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI (openjdk.org)
Offside Chess: Playable variant inspired by Xkcd 3268 (offside-chess.pages.dev)
AGI Singer: The Song of AGI Constitution Chapter 2 – The Path Must Remain (medium.com)
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Digging Up the Past: Windows Registry Forensics Revisited (2019) (cloud.google.com)
Building an LSTM-Based Trading Model for Cryptocurrency Markets (medium.com)
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Claude Opus 5 became ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine (techcrunch.com)
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EU now fears US interference in European elections (www.eunews.it)
The Computer and the Brain: John von Neumann (en.wikipedia.org)
Subsurface Confinement: Evidence from Submariners of the Benefits of Mindfulness (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Yoga in the Military: A Comprehensive Overview (erickimphotography.com)
Apprenticeships: You Can Get into Tech in the UK and USA for Free and Get Paid (reprodev.com)
First Proof (1stproof.org)
Through the Agentic Looking Glass (www.alexself.dev)
Claude is down for 2nd consecutive day (status.claude.com)
Elon Musk''s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ''nudification'' technology (www.theguardian.com)
AI or Not? (tracydurnell.com)
Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial (developer.chrome.com)
''Vibe coding'' is fun and easy, but there''s a major catch (theconversation.com)
EU AI Act compliance, scan your repo and get automatic results (scanara.io)
1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)
Hugging Face Storage Buckets (huggingface.co)
Extreme IPTV Player APK: Sideload Notes for Android TV and Firestick (extremeiptv.io)
Star Trek the Next Generation Series Bible (Season One) (1987) (archive.org)
How the UK''s extreme heat is shifting the conversation about air-con (www.bbc.co.uk)
A curated list of tools and resources for lead generation (github.com)
US awards GlobalFoundries 300M to bolster silicon photonics for AI chip (www.reuters.com)
DoorDash Air (twitter.com)
South Korea''s AI Bubble Just Popped [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cursed Knowledge (www.jmduke.com)
Surviving Dreams (www.survivingdreams.com)
OpenAI cyberattack caused by rogue AI agent worse than initially reported (www.tag24.com)
The U.S. economy in 2026: What to watch for (siepr.stanford.edu)
Why the future is local app (getapps.cafe)
The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee (www.wsj.com)
The cost of memory: How organisms balance thinking and sensing (phys.org)
South Korea''s AI Bubble Just Popped – Now What? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Leopold Aschenbrenner''s Situational Awareness seeks capital raise after AI rout (www.ft.com)
Finding a job as a WordPress dev has become impossible (twitter.com)
"Gravity is worth asking about." (unsung.aresluna.org)
Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood (www.statsignificant.com)
''Odyssey'' translator Emily Wilson: Nolan shouldn''t have written movie himself (www.npr.org)
Kirin XE90 and X90 Plus mark Huawei''s first PC processors despite sanctions (www.notebookcheck.net)
We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros (nintendowire.com)
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres (www.theregister.com)
APFS is case-insensitive by default (swild.dev)
US Considers Creating Finra-Like Watchdog to Vet Top AI Models (www.bloomberg.com)
Musk''s X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law (www.reuters.com)
Cocoa prices are easing. So why is chocolate still so expensive? (www.cnbc.com)
Scientists find a simple way to stop cavities without drilling (www.sciencedaily.com)
Nvidia''s chips may be novel, but its ''circular financing'' isn''t (www.ft.com)
Can you make a Wii U gamepad from a Raspberry Pi? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Higher Airfares Are Looming on Busy Routes as AI Squeezes Out Bargains (www.bloomberg.com)
xAI sues Minnesota over its law banning ''nudification'' technology (apnews.com)
The Programming Tourist (amrshawky.com)
Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropics sandboxes in training (www.lesswrong.com)
The Art of Life [video] (www.youtube.com)
Study uncovers lost ''golden age'' of languages (news.yale.edu)
What Silicon Valley gets wrong about AI (sfstandard.com)
Before the theorem prover: verification is older than the alphabet (amangoel.ai)
Google AI Studio "Delete" doesn''t delete – server chat persists (3 videos) (www.youtube.com)
ACR Stealer: ClickFix, Etherhiding, and Stego, Oh My (discourse.ifin.network)
Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient" (www.schneier.com)
OpenAI ARR in July topped all of Q2 (www.cnbc.com)
IronClaw 1.0 – one secure agent on CLI, Slack and Telegram, one memory (near.ai)
Encryption in the 1790s (hackaday.com)
A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency (vtdigger.org)
Face Recognition Blocking Glasses Tested (ipvm.com)
Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good (waveformsecurity.com)
Three Journeys: Anton Chekhov on the Road (2001) (www.newyorker.com)
Overengineered Calculator: Zig and QBE (tomekw.com)
A 22-Hour Nonstop Flight Between London and Sydney Is Coming (www.nytimes.com)
Why Enterprise Software Is So Hard to Get Right [video] (www.youtube.com)
Manual: •.,:;?· (type.today)
Starter Homes Are Piling Up While Luxury Homes Fly Off the Market (www.zillow.com)
Join my robot revolution [video] (www.youtube.com)
Persistent State Machines for LLM Attention (Vivado Estimated 0.0267 PJ/Op) (zenodo.org)
The AI Bubble Is About to Explode? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Babe32 – Barely Adequate Browser ESP32 (github.com)
Do Language Models Flatten Your Business? We Tested Four Real Ones to Find Out (industrycontents.com)
Logic for Programmers by Hillel Wayne (logicforprogrammers.com)
Fauci pleads 5th to what colour of tie he''s wearing (www.skynews.com.au)
OpenURL (en.wikipedia.org)
A GPU-Hour Isn''t a Commodity If You Need Four of Them (davefriedman.substack.com)
Locust – Simple Open-Source Load Testing (locust.io)
OpenMetaHarness (github.com)
Milvus 3.0: Lake-Native Vector Search, S3-Based Storage, Offline/Batch Workflows (milvus.io)
Bonsaikitten.com (en.wikipedia.org)
All Soda Yearns to Be Red (haterade.substack.com)
There''s never been a better time to commit financial fraud (www.economist.com)
Indie Web Directories (paultibbetts.uk)
A future where software self-improves and interacts with the physical world (3reate.com)
If you need plausible deniability, avoid devices that use wear-leveling (twitter.com)
If Claude/Codex can connect via, what do we need a context layer for? (getunblocked.com)
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission (arstechnica.com)
Pokémon is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers (www.pcgamer.com)
Creator of Test That OpenAI Models Tried to Cheat Sounds Alarm (www.bloomberg.com)
The Vocabulary Bottleneck (moekhalil.substack.com)
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don''t Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
Sell Your AI Skills? (capabase.ai)
Kimi K3''s Design Secret May Be in Its Thinking Traces (notes.designarena.ai)
Largest battery storage in Germany set for partial commissioning (www.heise.de)
Meta shares drop on falling profits and weak sales forecast (www.ft.com)
The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
The bond market to Kevin Warsh: What are you doing about inflation? (www.cnn.com)
Create multi-model coding workflows with Maestro (maestro-build.vercel.app)
US DOE to Convert Uranium Enrichment Facility into Data Center Campus (www.energy.gov)
C float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
My Brain-Breaking Trick to Quit Using Facebook (tedium.co)
TrophyLab – Shared space for enemy weapons research (trophylab.mod.gov.ua)
LLMs and Xfwl4 (www.spurint.org)
FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums (www.pcmag.com)
Remove watermarks and free pdf tools (www.removewatermarks.net)
Engineering a plant-derived nanofoundry to power mammalian cells (www.cell.com)
From Academic Research to a Frontier LLM: A Case Study in DPO [video] (www.youtube.com)