AI Agent Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware (socket.dev)
The Underground Economy Behind Children''s Smartwatches in China (www.sixthtone.com)
Kalshi and Polymarket have begun taking bets on Phase III drug trials (www.science.org)
Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone (onekey.so)
Organ donation group trying to take living man''s organs faces shutdown (arstechnica.com)
Framework Data Breach (www.reddit.com)
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Guillotine Brought to Oppose New Data Center Left Company Reps Feeling "Unsafe" (www.gadgetreview.com)
Xcode''s Clever Minimap (unsung.aresluna.org)
Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
What are Looped Transformers? Explained clearly (twitter.com)
OpenCode was able to reproduce the current price of DeepSeek (twitter.com)
OpenConnector, an open source alternative to Pipedream/Composio (github.com)
I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11 (trevmex.com)
"It''s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (unsung.aresluna.org)
ColorSpace: A framework for building text-based crypto-stegosystems (github.com)
Tasteslop (nemesisglobal.substack.com)
MatrAIx: Simulating the world with 8.3B persona agents (arxiv.org)
Improving Fable 5 Safeguards (www.anthropic.com)
America''s Cyber Forces Grapple with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
EU AI Act Content Labelling: Fake Around and Find Out (reprodev.com)
No Space Like J-Space (twitter.com)
SpaceX rocket hit the moon: Before and after pics (KASA) (earthsky.org)
Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment (2023) (arxiv.org)
How Goldman Sachs Is Using Agentic AI for Software Engineering at Scale (www.forbes.com)
Kellogg says it''s removing artificial dyes from cereals by the end of this year (apnews.com)
One of China''s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment (www.wired.com)
Outlook for the U.S. and Alaskan Economies (www.federalreserve.gov)
Microsoft Redesigns the Windows Webpage (www.microsoft.com)
A glimpse from China of AI''s future (www.economist.com)
Airtable Acquisition Is ''Kick in the Gut'' for Unicorns and Their Backers (www.wsj.com)
TV''s 25 best true-crime shows (www.theguardian.com)
Dictionary Compression in Materialize (materialize.com)
Curating Crime and Punishment: What 10 Images Reveal About American Justice (www.themarshallproject.org)
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven''t made an escape plan (www.theregister.com)
The old world is dying (jasmi.news)
Chinese Model Kimi K3 Breaks UK AI Safety Institute Benchmark Evaluations (blog.frontier.security)
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor (www.theguardian.com)
Disney Cracks Open the Door to TikTok Creator Videos (www.nytimes.com)
The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock (2021) (www.lesswrong.com)
OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages (github.com)
I built fingerprint unlock for Mac (no Magic Keyboard) [video] (www.youtube.com)
What it takes to build agent infrastructure yourself (twitter.com)
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)
The following is a valid DOS COM executable (oldbytes.space)
Hardware Devices That Support GNU/Linux (www.fsf.org)
How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage (www.theatlantic.com)
PLS Try My OS (sites.google.com)
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money (www.nationalreview.com)
All Agent Skills (allagentskills.com)
Tracely – Turn AI agent production failures into CI regression tests (tracely-studio.xyz)
Official: Ford''s 29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom (www.motortrend.com)
The Three Types of Creative Thought (twitter.com)
OpenAI Response to Apple [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
Meta fined 567M in largest child safety ruling against social media giant (www.bbc.com)
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay 567M over harms to children''s mental health (www.theguardian.com)
Automating Godel''s Ontological Proof of God''s Existence [pdf] (christoph-benzmueller.de)
Quake 4: The Awakening has been released (github.com)
Diana Pfeil: Building Confidence in Probabilistic Systems [audio] (maintainable.fm)
Zig''s Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)
Gnome Shell Design Dreams – Tobias Bernard and Jakub Steiner Guadec 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
The energy use of agentic AI (www.theclimatebrink.com)
The Code Shackle (codeshackle.com)
Trump''s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won''t Show You What''s in It (www.techdirt.com)
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One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot (www.wired.com)
Meta Ordered to Pay 942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (www.wsj.com)
See inside your agents to fix them (lexifina.com)
What an Improv Stage Can Teach You About Leading Cross-Cultural Teams in Tokyo (www.tokyodev.com)
A path tracer through the translation stack (ark.marianposaceanu.com)
Google Shakes Up A.I. Leadership (www.nytimes.com)
Objects That Explain America (www.nytimes.com)
Google Shifts AI Power Back to Brin as DeepMind''s Hassabis Steps Aside (www.ft.com)
Arbitrage Exists Between Kalshi and Polymarket but You Can''t Exploit It (www.zhinit.dev)
What I''m Watching So You Don''t Have To (roninsana.substack.com)
Draupnir (en.wikipedia.org)
Louisiana AG Liz Murrill Keeps Opposing Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted (www.propublica.org)
Invisible Problems (idiallo.com)
The Monkey Supply Chain (www.chinatalk.media)
Reasons I [Gary Marcus] wouldn''t count Google out (garymarcus.substack.com)
Fediverse Sovereignty and Patentable Experiences (future-secured.com)
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To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization (2021) (evjang.com)
List of Edible Salts (en.wikipedia.org)
Intuitize – The Thoughtful AI (intuitize.pages.dev)
Attacks your login screen should be terrified of (fusionauth.io)
The Pentagram Map (e-infinity.space)
From Memory to Agency (arkalabs.app)
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Slopaganda Countermeasures: Part 1 (docsgoblin.com)
Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders (www.bbc.com)
Airlines Push Back Against ICE Enforcement at Airports (www.wsj.com)
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids (www.wired.com)
US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners (www.reuters.com)
Node Banana (github.com)
Prompt Injection Vulnerability in Ollama, Gemma4 and HuggingFace''s Transformers (www.reddit.com)
New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Someone Stole 15,000 And Nobody Cared (michelesteelenow.substack.com)
The Challenger Launch Decision (press.uchicago.edu)
California Man Is Kidnapped Then Executed in Front of Police (www.nytimes.com)
Google repository now has 90 skills (github.com)
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters (zenodo.org)
Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (www.twz.com)
The Race to Come Up with the Next Big Sleep Drug (www.wsj.com)
An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself (www.sawyerhood.com)
0-day security update available for Metabase (www.metabase.com)
"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been" [video] (www.youtube.com)
OpenAI''s ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between 300 and 400 (www.engadget.com)
Snapline – menu-bar screenshot app that searches shots by their text (snap-line.app)
OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents (thenextweb.com)
Rise of the 100 Hot Dog (www.wsj.com)
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With software alone, one B200 beats the LPU and gets close to Cerebras (runinfra.ai)
Why AI is a risk to Communist China (www.economist.com)
Metabase: Unauthenticated SQL injection in password reset (CVSS 10.0) (github.com)
GitHub Actions suffers second-longest major outage in its history (www.githubstatus.com)
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
In Menlo Park housing fight, Bonta sends potential warning to California cities (www.sfchronicle.com)
China built its ''Manhattan Project'' to rival the West in AI chips [video] (www.youtube.com)
Owner of bike maker Raleigh files for insolvency (www.bbc.co.uk)
OpenAI''s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say (www.scientificamerican.com)
ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (atproto.com)
All Gods Must Die: Adversarially Verified Transformation (drive.google.com)
European regulators keep ''Full Self-Driving'' safety data secret (www.reuters.com)
We Lost Reading (www.pelayoarbues.com)
Wayland will be fully supported in the next version of Cinnamon (blog.linuxmint.com)
Texas commissioner: GOP will lose elections from data center backlash (www.texastribune.org)
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (www.aleksagordic.com)
How the World Views China vs. the U.S. in 2026 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
"not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model." (twitter.com)
A Visual Guide to Quantization (2024) (newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com)
Gesamtkunstwerk (en.wikipedia.org)
Google''s 15B India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns (www.reuters.com)
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers (www.sciencedaily.com)
Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD (bozo.httpd.rocks)
DOJ Says Duke Law School Discriminated in Admissions (www.bloomberg.com)
Agent Substrate: The Core System (github.com)
SpaceX, Tesla to initially spend 16.8B on Terafab chip plant in Texas (www.reuters.com)
The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up (www.newyorker.com)
Hedge funds forced out of tech stocks leave market to mercy of retail traders (www.marketwatch.com)
Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org)
Why So Many C.E.O.s Are Getting a Chief of Staff (www.nytimes.com)
Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators'' Way (www.30pin.com)
The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI Creates Bacteria-Killing Viruses: ''Extreme Caution'' Warns Genome Pioneer (www.newsweek.com)
DeepSeek''s price hike is about more than GPU costs (blog.chuanxilu.net)
AMD acquires startup Taalas to boost inference perf by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)
OpenAI''s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over 300 (www.bloomberg.com)
The Era of (Good) Personal Software Has Arrived (hec.works)
From Matmul to Meaning (www.evis.dev)
The Post-Literate Engineer (joereis.substack.com)
Remote login is a lot like astral projection (doughnut.neocities.org)
AMD Acquires Taalas. Startup that demoed Llama 3.1 8B at 17k tok/s (ir.amd.com)
Platform Was Built for a Different Era, and AI Just Exposed It (www.nextplatform.com)
BMW Owners Angry ''Spider-Man: New Day'' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Your Child''s privacy is worth more than likes (2022) (www.luizasnewsletter.com)
Open-source, agent-friendly accounting platform (github.com)
Stop Feeding the Machine: Time to Go Closed Source (medium.com)
Cashing in on SpaceX: ''Every chance I get, I''ll sell a little more'' (www.bbc.com)
Putin signs landmark crypto law allowing regulated retail trading in Russia (www.theblock.co)
State-Oriented Consistency: Why We Stopped Looking for One Right Answer (keel-iot.eu)
Why police raided Starbucks Korea''s headquarters (www.cnn.com)
The Wind at Your Back (yusufaytas.com)
Unconscious Inference (en.wikipedia.org)
Depot CI Compatibility with GitHub Actions (depot.dev)
AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either (www.theregister.com)
The DISTINCT in Your COUNT (boringsql.com)
Large genome models used to design new viruses (arstechnica.com)
xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)
Emacs project adds official AGENTS.md (lists.gnu.org)
Why ARM Disassembly Looks "Too Simple" (comuniq.xyz)
AI designs a novel E. coli killer (first publicly announced AI-designed virus) (news.stanford.edu)
Anhedonia (en.wikipedia.org)
Amazon to Offer GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs to Medicare Part D Patients (www.wsj.com)
Horse-Drawn Railway (en.wikipedia.org)
The age of "no code" has passed (blog.exe.dev)
AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow [video] (www.youtube.com)
Demise of the monoculture: many have never heard UK''s record-breaking No 1 song (www.theguardian.com)
Qwen3.8-Max reproduce a research paper (github.com)
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)
After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel (e360.yale.edu)
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
FAA orders inspection of 737 MAX jets for cracks (www.cnn.com)
Once More in Triple Time (theamericanscholar.org)
Siglent enshittifies their frequency analyzers (siglent.tawk.help)
Deported to the Taliban: the Afghan refugees Europe is sending back (voxeurop.eu)
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (www.nbcnews.com)
Claude Fable now requires usage credits (twitter.com)
Smithery Is Now Part of Arcade.dev (www.arcade.dev)
AI creates first synthetic viruses (www.ft.com)
AI Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (www.nytimes.com)
Quality (www.worseonpurpose.com)
Bank of America Spends 250M a Year on GLP-1 Drugs for Their Employees (www.ibtimes.com)
GPT-5.6 – August Updates [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
GitHub Outage (Aug 2026) (www.githubstatus.com)
Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale (www.independent.co.uk)
Cloudflare Launches AEO Visibility Dashboard (www.cloudflare.com)
Who will buy baby boomers'' houses? The question that could shape the 2030s (www.msn.com)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be best tool yet to spot killer asteroids (www.technologyreview.com)
Axioms for a new operating system for AI agents (fixpoint.co)
Drone captures ''magical moment'' of whale birth off Kingscliff on NSW coast (www.abc.net.au)
Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of (en.akinator.com)
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions (krebsonsecurity.com)
Re-Defining the IndieWeb (vhbelvadi.com)
OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 Luna the default for free ChatGPT users (runtimewire.com)
What happens to our blogs when we die? (michaelharley.net)
Why Open-Source Models Haven''t Killed the Big Dogs (cuecloud.substack.com)
What I found when I went looking for edge in prediction markets (github.com)
Met Police Boss Admits Mistake over Plagiarism Row (www.bbc.com)
AI Coding Prep – Practice AI-assisted coding interviews (aicodingprep.com)
How Golden Is Silence, Actually? (www.newyorker.com)
Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall? (www.lpi.org)
AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones – Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress (arstechnica.com)
WeatherNext 2: AI model predictions for tropical cyclones (blog.google)
Measuring Scientific Progress (diffuse.one)
Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users (openai.com)
Taste Is All That''s Left (notashelf.dev)
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Replacing It with Axon License Plate Readers (www.404media.co)
Retire the Abstractions (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved 220 years ago today (en.wikipedia.org)
Wyden proposes new taxes on data centers (www.politico.com)
The third wave of American philanthropy (nanransohoff.substack.com)
Agent Plugins Specification (agent-plugins.org)
ZZ Top Cancel Hollywood Bowl Concert Due to ''Insurmountable Obstacles'' (www.rollingstone.com)
What fs-verity proves–and what it does not (bomfather.dev)
US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing (www.theguardian.com)
GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (www.githubstatus.com)
How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons? (howtomakeanrpg.com)
California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time (www.techdirt.com)
List of Trading Losses (en.wikipedia.org)
Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (www.dezeen.com)
API Is Not Your MCP Tool (ro14nd.de)
Agent Plugins (twitter.com)
What''s My Local AI? (whatsmylocal.ai)
JWT decoder with connect-src ''none'', so it can''t upload your token (jwt.jamuny.com)
Introducing: Cloudflare Agents (blog.cloudflare.com)
Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is on OpenAI (www.windowscentral.com)
The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org)
Five Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of (brennan.day)
Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561) (github.com)
India''s IT sector is surviving artificial intelligence (www.economist.com)
How I became the villain of El Cerrito''s Nextdoor (www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org)
Maybe we just shouldn''t build software with so many people (blog.nicoleta.cc)
A Pronoun for LLMs (blog.david.connol.ly)
Watch Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look – Netflix (www.netflix.com)
Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (www.nytimes.com)
An Agentic Development Platform (infrastream.io)
Same Shoe, Different Factory: Who Makes Your Running Shoes (www.worseonpurpose.com)
Terafab: SpaceX & Tesla Chip Fab (terafab.ai)
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (www.abc.net.au)
The new science of brain workouts (www.washingtonpost.com)
In AI-native firms, tech automates 75% of the work. What about the other 25%? (readonpaper.substack.com)
A Mystery Avenger Escalates a War Against Scotland''s Parking Police (www.wsj.com)
Can you disable Gatekeeper and XProtect? (eclecticlight.co)
Snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge (www.popsci.com)
Oxide Joins Anthropic''s Project Glasswing (oxide.computer)
LudumDare Database (ldj.am)
A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)
Make Every Agent a Data Agent (tower.dev)
US Military GPS jamming exercise suspected of contributing to plane crash (www.tomshardware.com)
Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built (www.cnn.com)
Qwen3.8 Max Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak triples in size (efoodalert.com)
Need monetization help on my app (www.what2do.me)
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google (techcrunch.com)
Opinion: Demis Hassabis'' new role exposes Google''s AI balancing act (www.cnbc.com)
Building a Dashcam iPhone App (www.thomasmcgee.co)
The LuaJIT NYI That Silently Poisoned an Unrelated Hot Loop (streamhpc.com)
Is Europe having a bad wildfire year? (hannahritchie.substack.com)
Continual Learning in Token Space (2025) (www.letta.com)
A revised Haskell 2010 language report (blog.haskell.org)
Recommendation engine knows what to show you, without knowing anything about you (belfortlabs.com)
Hackers vs. the EU: the backdoor that opens the door to everyone (ownyourdatamp.substack.com)
OpenAI hacking incident exposes mounting risks in AI arms race (www.ft.com)
AI isn''t enough to protect social media communities from AI (arstechnica.com)
Twenty Three Years of Books (www.cannonade.net)
After fierce backlash, Georgia freezes new data center projects through year (www.yahoo.com)
Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement? (www.techpolicy.press)
Moderate Democrats Prepare for ''War'' Against an Ascendant Left (www.nytimes.com)
Japanese eels have two types of sperm (www.economist.com)
Fountain Codes and Covert Channels (2022) [pdf] (www.fernuni-hagen.de)
Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language (memelang.net)
Everything you learned about SSL is deprecated – Todd Gardner – NDC Toronto 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
There''s a bug in the Economy, and Fable found it (wilsoniumite.com)
Reinventing Entropy – Compression is Intelligence Part 1 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Berlin''s Telli Raises 15M to Expand Enterprise AI Agents (www.konsulteer.com)
Yukon mayor faces recall after data center backlash (www.kgou.org)
Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges (abovethelaw.com)
Degrees of Wealth (jaapgrolleman.com)
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EA to pay 1.8B in interest annually on buy-out debt (www.pcgamer.com)
Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI Generated Slop Patches (www.phoronix.com)
DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (platform.deepseek.com)
Println Debugging Done Right (blog.jetbrains.com)
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers (www.theverge.com)