Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck (www.washingtonpost.com)
OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns (www.theguardian.com)
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
Apple''s war on OpenAI is about who owns the Attachment Economy (www.machinesociety.ai)
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A beginner''s guide to improving your digital security (hashman.ca)
SNET offline internet Cuba [pdf] (michaelannethomas.com)
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Dirge – The Batteries-Included Rust Coding Agent (dirge-code.github.io)
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New Zealand''s first free internet service provider (zfree.co.nz)
One Casualty of Taiwan''s War Drills: A Slower Internet (www.wsj.com)
Most Expensive Historical Items Ever Sold at Auction (thehistoricalinsights.page)
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Spec Driven Development with markdown-den (www.markdown-den.com)
Odi – A note app where notes can be apps, and apps can be plugins (www.odinotes.com)
Mini Cities – Cato Institute (www.cato.org)
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What Is Spiralism? The AI Chatbot Religion (www.techrepublic.com)
Mycelium AI Policy (github.com)
OpenAI acquires NextSlide as ChatGPT expands into PowerPoint (runtimewire.com)
1mongpt: A large language model, except it''s one guy (iwanttochee.se)
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students'' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
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Attorney General seeks to block Discord in Brazil (valorinternational.globo.com)
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
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OpenAI Astra: A Paradigm Shift from Answers to Assignments (medium.com)
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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
Jolt: Running Clojure on Chez Scheme (yogthos.net)
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Prompt Privacy from LLMs (snwagh.com)
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AI alignment is a red herring (interconnected.org)
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Japanese Police Arrest NYAA ''First Uploader,'' but Not by Watching the Swarm (torrentfreak.com)
A Chinese AI model stopped OpenAI''s ''unprecedented'' cyber attack (www.cnbc.com)
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I built AI at Amazon, then got laid off (www.youtube.com)
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The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon''s shadow (arstechnica.com)
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The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
SIMD at Insomniac Games (2015) [pdf] (deplinenoise.wordpress.com)
Hardware-Rooted Control for Alternative App Stores (zenodo.org)
Massachusetts prosecutors run their offices on software from the dial-up era (nasser.blog)
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices (www.nytimes.com)
Europe''s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (www.theverge.com)
Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie (ailucius.com)
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
AgentBlog – open-source, AI-native SEO blog (agentblog.dev)
Environmentalists Targeted Exxon Mobil. Then Hackers Targeted Them (www.nytimes.com)
Rcarmo/wrdp: Experimental xrdp/sesman-like setup for Wayland-backed desktops (github.com)
Coca-Cola''s personalized cans inconsistently enforcing controversial phrases (www.foxbusiness.com)
Finance Jobs Just Hit a 4-Year Low (www.inc.com)
OpenAI provides more details on the Hugging Face incident (www.heise.de)
What''s new in Swift: July 2026 Edition (swift.org)
American oil company prepares to drill in Greenland (www.theguardian.com)
Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed for Linux 7.3 (www.phoronix.com)
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Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers (ai-updates.net)
Partmode – SolidWorks open source alternative – Live browser demo (github.com)
Blockstor: A LINSTOR-compatible storage system for Kubernetes (cozystack.io)
Roku now has a 24/7 AI slop channel (www.theverge.com)
Europe''s wildfires have raised the danger posed by unexploded WWII bombs (theconversation.com)
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Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
Italian Bank Stores 400K Wheels of Cheese as Collateral for Farmer Loans (travelandtannins.com)
Google is in clear violation of the GPLv2 (twitter.com)
Cable management in node-based UI (twitter.com)
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)
Stack Overflow new questions are down 98.5% since ChatGPT ( 5 other platforms) (www.harperflow.io)
A Markdown curriculum for engineers moving into AI engineering (github.com)
AI bots started a religion – humans followed (www.theverge.com)
DIY SLorq Speaker (ccrma.stanford.edu)
Intel just matched Apple Silicon [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cross platform, portable and CPU accelerated AI inference with Go 1.27 (blog.devgenius.io)
Lemire: RAM on a per unit basis is about as expensive as it was in 2007 (xcancel.com)
RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels (www.tomshardware.com)
Lybrary,a persistent AST-aware code memory for AI agents(MCP server pip install) (github.com)
Germany''s gas gamble puts Europe''s winter at risk (www.politico.eu)
Auction Expert Breaks Down the 20 Rarest Historical Treasures Sold in History (www.boredpanda.com)
Does Silicon Valley Dream of Philip K Dick? (www.ft.com)
I''m Sorry, Dave (world.hey.com)
Universality and diversity in human song (2019) (www.science.org)
Samsung debuts three new memory technologies – zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND (www.tomshardware.com)
Facing 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers (www.utilitydive.com)
He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway (www.nytimes.com)
WebDuck – DuckDB as a Service (webduck.autumo.ch)
Etherpad – the editor for documents that matter (etherpad.org)
Looking down on London''s straw-coloured parks (www.bbc.com)
Simon Claims Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithm for Lattice Problems (postquantum.com)
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The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
Cuban government open to the idea of an Arab investor to develop ''Trump Island'' (english.elpais.com)
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (web.archive.org)
Traditions are habits somebody else paid for (pilgrima.ge)
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Trump administration has spent nearly 4B to cancel offshore wind farms (techcrunch.com)
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Privacy experts warn of gaps in NZ law, as camera glasses hit Kmart shelves (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Nature of Technology (sites.santafe.edu)
Troxler''s Fading (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou (www.theparisreview.org)
An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth''s size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core (phys.org)
Robust AI Security and Alignment: A Sisyphean Endeavor? (arxiv.org)
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision (www.theregister.com)
Creative Slack (herbertlui.net)
Skip the Punishment (nik.art)
NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (www.space.com)
This Filesystem Is Born to Fail (hackaday.com)
Mushroom behind ''tiny people'' hallucinations identified (phys.org)
Mitsubishi joins the humanoid robot race, at a 1k unit per month pace (electrek.co)
When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz (agentsofinfluence.substack.com)
First JDK 28 Early-Access Build Including JEP 401: Value Objects (jdk.java.net)
Kona EBMS – energy based models (logicalintelligence.com)
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New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Building Glimt (glimt.online)
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Stanford CS Student Veers Off Beaten Path to Pursue Stanford Degree (www.instagram.com)
SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It''s Real, Will Drive 300B ARR for SpaceX (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
Go core team: a more robust proposal process (github.com)
Ginear – A Linear-like UI using GitHub Issues and Projects as the back end (github.com)
Spytrap – Who''s Watching You? (play.google.com)
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Atlas of Surveillance (www.atlasofsurveillance.org)
The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String (hakaimagazine.com)
Autonomous Buying of Experiment Equipment (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Cpdlc over ATN-B1 Vulnerabilities (www.cisa.gov)
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents (techcrunch.com)
Classifying Capabilities (Extended Version) (arxiv.org)
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Energy-Based Models Explained: The AI Beyond Next-Token [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Not-So-Kosher Slaughterhouse (rumble.com)
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How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (www.newyorker.com)
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