Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel (blog.hofstede.it)
FalkorDB is rewriting its graph database engine in Rust (www.falkordb.com)
New Sony Patent Detects When You''re Alone, Then Serves You Content (patentlyze.com)
An open-source solar vehicle (www.reddit.com)
Jerry and Marge Go Large (highline.huffingtonpost.com)
Mechanical License (en.wikipedia.org)
Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons? (www.theatlantic.com)
Token Arbitrage: Use Sol for coding, Luna for compaction, save 84% (dirac.run)
Valetudo Camera Streaming (FOSS for Vacuum Robots) (github.com)
GLM-5.3 Soon (github.com)
ERP and MES Integration for US Pharma Manufacturers (geekyants.com)
You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML (hivekit.io)
The AI bubble is popping; we just don''t know it yet (www.theregister.com)
North Korea NullReceiver Hides Malware in NPM (opensourcemalware.com)
Reality cannot be turned into mathematics (iai.tv)
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI''s dystopian impact on their craft (www.theregister.com)
Ollee Watch: giving a 30-year-old Casio A158W a new life (www.kulman.sk)
Wolfpack – Private control room for coding agents (github.com)
Scientists find method to convert factory CO2 emissions directly into fuel (adelaide.edu.au)
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability (research.jfrog.com)
Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (xkcd.com)
Steam Deck LCD battery returns to iFixit at 130, price increased by 63% (videocardz.com)
Machine Unlearning with Minimal Gradient Dependence for High Unlearning Ratios (dl.acm.org)
Australia Ups Demands on Big Tech Firms to Pay for News Stories (www.bloomberg.com)
I build it a domain security scanner (domainscored.com)
There Are Files Stored in This Video (www.youtube.com)
9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)
ICE Collected Nearly 1M People''s DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (www.wired.com)
Hiroshima atomic bombing created a new material. Scientists just discovered it (www.scientificamerican.com)
What''s happening in Hungary''s power grid? (holadelej.hu)
Chaos of border crossing gives way to limbo for Moroccans on Ceuta''s streets (www.theguardian.com)
Why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals (www.technologyreview.com)
The fading American Dream: Visa uncertainty drives Indian tech workers back home (thefederal.com)
Microdrama is no more a China thing (www.bloomberg.com)
Hollywood fights AI in public while building it into movies (www.msn.com)
Data centres vs. housing: how London became a central battleground (www.ft.com)
JSON Is Lying to You (blog.gaborkoos.com)
Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust (github.com)
Claude gen-5 models show significant regression in BullshitBench (github.com)
GDP growth shows no evidence of AI productivity boom (cepr.net)
Kakonomics: Or, the preference for Low quality outcomes (2011) (gloriaoriggi.blogspot.com)
Nvidia releases Cosmos 3 Edge for robotics (huggingface.co)
Romania explodes rock to get more water flow to nuclear reactor (www.theguardian.com)
Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell (outdata.net)
EU enforces labeling AI generated content (www.euronews.com)
Street View Live Earth Map (play.google.com)
Zephyr 4.4 a proven RTOS ecosystem, by developers, for developers (www.zephyrproject.org)
Apply for Small Open Source Sponsorships – Uruky (uruky.com)
True Cost of Cross-Border Payments: Correspondent Banking Myths vs. Reality (paybitz.io)
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
Every Rendering Strategy Moves Complexity Somewhere Else [video] (www.youtube.com)
I built a Digital Human you can talk to (gokulakrishna.co)
An eBPF-Based Prometheus Exporter for Lustre Client (github.com)
Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human values (arxiv.org)
The Semantic Web, syllogism, and worldview. (2003) (shirky.com)
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
Implementing and Backtesting a Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy for Crypto (medium.com)
MPs demand answers on Fujitsu''s inclusion in lucrative frameworks (www.computerweekly.com)
UK Graduate Job Openings Fall to Lowest Level Since Pandemic (www.ft.com)
Less Coffee, Better Sleep (www.marginalia.nu)
The true power of regular expressions (2012) (www.npopov.com)
PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (github.com)
Steam Hardware and Software Survey: July 2026 (store.steampowered.com)
How to Switch from Windows to Linux (sprune.com)
Pipe – A runtime where AI operations are language primitives (pipe-lang.com)
A C toolchain from 357 bytes, in Bazel (fzakaria.com)
Napoleon (1926) (gutenberg.org)
Giggity – Conference Schedule Viewer (wilmer.gaa.st)
Language Models Agree with Each Other, Not with Readers (arxiv.org)
Practical Memory Safety (ohadravid.github.io)
A 3-line HTML drop-in that replaces passwords with FaceID (nxspulse.com)
What Makes an Intelligence Product? (luntta.fi)
A Black woman enhanced the audio in Nolan Wells'' case. People listening closely (thegrio.com)
I created a playground for 110 database systems (clickhouse.com)
Implementing a Funding Rate Arbitrage Strategy with Minute-Level Backtesting (medium.com)
When the Future Doesn''t Need Us (borretti.me)
Weighing the Business Case for Quality (allenpike.com)
Free Press Release Sites List (galaxyonknowledge.substack.com)
Bonsai: Janestreet''s UI Library (github.com)
Team America: Yen Police (www.ft.com)
AI Is a Race Car, Not Autopilot (ryansouthgate.com)
AI slop blocked a real 200K macOS flaw (the-decoder.com)
The Java Story – The Official Documentary [video] (www.youtube.com)
Most Australian teens on social media three months after under-16 ban began (www.japantimes.co.jp)
GLP-1s and their unknown impacts on human creativity (hereisyourbrain.substack.com)
Faster floating point math with Rust''s new API (pythonspeed.com)
Can Animals Be Right- or Left-Pawed? (www.discovermagazine.com)
Travel (www.google.com)
CodeBot: Full details on our New AI for Delphi (blogs.remobjects.com)
1 in 4 people in Japan believes AI could replace friends and family: poll (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Octane – React''s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal from 2005 (en.wikipedia.org)
Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
The AI Productivity Gap (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
What the Bliss Taught Us (daniel.haxx.se)
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (www.makeuseof.com)
Spain''s plan for the first octopus farm has been abandoned (www.bbc.com)
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone [3TW] (www.bloomberg.com)
Trust Is Gone: AI Safety Needs Individuals (www.lesswrong.com)
The Framebuffer People: I Cloned Every OS on r/osdev and Found Five Real Ones (www.seuros.com)
The silent handoff of the new MCP release [video] (www.youtube.com)
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
Discover What Your Potential Users Are Talking About (agenmatic.ai)
A Wild Netflix Lawsuit Shows Why Drugs and Alcohol Don''t Mix with Work (www.wsj.com)
Lists for Devs Who Just Shipped and Now Need Users (dev.to)
Mob – A personal CRM as an MCP server (mobcrm.au)
Don''t Be a Meat Proxy (gruhn.me)
Britain''s Hikikomori (dispatch-media.com)
Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
Dijkstra: The End of Computing Science (2000) [pdf] (www.cs.utexas.edu)
Five Takeaways from the Times Investigation into Larry Ellison''s A.I. Gamble (www.nytimes.com)
How Cursor sets up their cloud agent environment (cursor.com)
Return-to-office mandates are killing workplace trust (thehill.com)
Only 1/8 turbines in Hungarian Paks NPP still operational, shutdown imminent (index.hu)
The VP is not ignoring you (ganzefolge.substack.com)
Spain to put containment fence round Ceuta after deadly border rush from Morocco (www.cbsnews.com)
Netflix sued for 105M after unreleased Nicolas Cage movie is stolen (www.nbcnews.com)
How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI (www.lesswrong.com)
AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
Don''t Pave the Cow Path (alearningaday.blog)
Firstmate: Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew (github.com)
Email compromise that wiped half a billion (ravenmail.io)
Servitor (Simple way to run local dev containers) (github.com)
AI Mentions in Job Descriptions – August 2026 (corvi.careers)
An AI meeting recorder that sees and hears everything (github.com)
Print Your Speakers (printyourspeakers.com)
Spokane wildfires force thousands to evacuate, blazes 0% contained [video] (www.youtube.com)
Trump offering early access to online posts (www.theguardian.com)
The Shooter Didn''t Expect This [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Case for Colonising Titan (spacedaily.com)
Psychiatric adverse events following Covid-19 vaccination (www.nature.com)
Be the best in the world, for a few real people (herbertlui.net)
South Korea records its highest (www.theguardian.com)
I''m (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence (martinalderson.com)
Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000) (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
Alexander Graham Bell''s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) (publicdomainreview.org)
MiniMax-H3 weights are up (huggingface.co)
Southern California radio station lays off staff switches to all-music format (ktla.com)
Linux 7.2-Rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge" (www.phoronix.com)
Qwen 3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B are going open weight (twitter.com)
US Water Systems Hit by Suspected Iranian Cyber Attacks (www.opforjournal.com)
OpenAI''s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (www.modelrepublic.org)
Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now (www.qwencloud.com)
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
Yen leaps after intervention, leaving the dollar bruised (www.reuters.com)
Amazon completes 50B investment in OpenAI (www.ft.com)
Qwen3.8-Max (twitter.com)
Melatonin vs. magnesium: Which is better for your sleep? (www.washingtonpost.com)
A mystery virus started killing horses. Then humans (www.theguardian.com)
Qwen UI Agent (tongyi-mai.github.io)
Your Coding Agent Is Playing Tetris Badly (zhenyi.gibber.blog)
Decrease in Runway Friction Associated with Increasing Rainfall Intensity [pdf] (www.ntsb.gov)
Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14) Azimuth Over-Rotation Mishap [pdf] (www.nasa.gov)
OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations (itsfoss.com)
Egpu for Mac (docs.tinygrad.org)
Deeby Adventures – a storage engine comic (adventures.fredyang.com)
A YC Startup That Wants to Kill Tokenmaxxing Just Raised 13.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
How to Group and Organize Notebooks in NotebookLM (Collections) (www.nlmtools.com)
Boardwalk Hotel and Casino (1966–2006) · a Las Vegas Strip Memorial (lvboardwalk.com)
Hotspots and Nine Slices (what''s new in Easel) (easel.games)
Descubrimientos de Graphlab (github.com)
Pg_savior: A Postgres extension to avoid accidental mistakes (github.com)
Frontis-MA1: Open 35B model toward recursive self-improvement (frontisai.github.io)
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (2012) (archive.org)
NF humanoid disarm protocol: Fire-alarm protocol to stop humanoid robots (github.com)
Hey everyone, wanted to share something I built in case it helps someone here (foliumcv.com)
RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze (www.rfc-editor.org)
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts (www.npr.org)
Europe makes trillion-euro bet to revive its battered industry (www.reuters.com)
Logic and Ontology (plato.stanford.edu)
Living Underwater in 2026: DEEP''s New Subsea Habitat; Vanguard (www.cnet.com)
An Integrative Appraisal Model of Epistemic Curiosity (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com)
I Built and Battle Tested My OSAI Agent (medium.com)
The Crisis in Mathematics and the Prospect of AIcademia (www.ryansimonelli.com)
Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App (daringfireball.net)
5.3 Earthquake in Suez, Egypt (earthquake.usgs.gov)
I made an interactive map for the Adelaide Rally (interactive-adelaide-rally.vercel.app)
Why Book Corners won''t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (www.andreagrandi.it)
What if I can just do it faster than talking to you? (sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com)
Connes'' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI''s Counterexample and Proof (philarchive.org)
''The language of Pokémon is universal'': fans are still catching after 30 years (www.theguardian.com)
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak (www.theguardian.com)
The Challenge of Recovering SpaceX''s Starship at Sea [video] (www.youtube.com)
Attio – Next Gen CRM (attio.com)
Cooked: A DIY Manifesto (2013) [pdf] (foodwriting.ua.edu)
The diabolical world of convincing AI thirst traps (www.vox.com)
Why Were the Dabaos Late? (www.crowdsupply.com)
Crypto miners are stealing power in Southeast Asia (www.dw.com)
Study of 2M newborns shows refusing vitamin K shot led to higher bleeding risk (medicalxpress.com)
Reaping Without Sowing (tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com)
A causal history can exist locally everywhere and globally nowhere (zenodo.org)
Wireless Transec Taxonomy (transec-taxonomy.pages.dev)
Wham! 10 Days in China [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mention of Synon, the real inventors of Rapid Application Development, in 1986 [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)
Abundant empirical evidence of multilevel selection (www.frontiersin.org)
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (www.nature.com)
A Baby Bust Is Not yet a Growth Boom (www.labormarketmatters.com)
Teaching an AI to know itself: Building a local LLM agent in D (blog.dlang.org)
Reviewing the Arch User Repository with AI (cretezy.com)
Gauge – see where your Claude Code subscription goes (github.com)
30% of certificate credentials reported on LinkedIn are now AI-related (www.morningstar.com)
Radiation in Paduach (magazine.atavist.com)
NASA Lessons Learned System (llis.nasa.gov)
Europe Is a Country (www.noelmaurer.com)
New spinning drone hides in plain sight (news.northwestern.edu)
What Else Do We Lose When People Give Up Booze? (www.nytimes.com)
Made an anime guessing game to play with friends (otakuguessr.com)
Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near 89M (www.coindesk.com)
AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest (www.ohiostatefair.com)
Negative social ties as risks for faster aging, inflammation, and multimorbidity (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Computational Theory of Mind (2015) (plato.stanford.edu)
Coldcard wallet RNG flaw likely linked to 88M Bitcoin theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
T cells targeting SARS-CoV-2, EBV, and CMV stay in attack mode in Long Covid (www.cell.com)
Let kids be kids: When collectibles lose their playfulness (quarters.captaintouch.com)
Trump Crypto Tie-Up Fueled Family Windfall, Investor Losses (www.bloomberg.com)
Arm''s Cortex A55 (chipsandcheese.com)
Californians'' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 (www.nbcsandiego.com)
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra (garymarcus.substack.com)
QM: We read Y Combinator''s company-wide agent runtime (runtimewire.com)
Infrared goggles that show colours (arstechnica.com)
General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy (en.wikipedia.org)
How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity? (www.jvt.me)
How AI is expanding what people do at work (openai.com)
Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island''s Emerging Open-Air Prison (www.11971.com)
Do not trust the marketing IOPS on Consumer SSD (bsid.io)
NY files 36B lawsuit against Kalshi, alleging illegal gambling operation (www.nbcsports.com)
Should You Use AI for a Task? (elezea.com)
Google Removes New Earth AI Tool a Day After Users Create Fake Disasters (deltiasgaming.com)
WireguardTCP: WireGuard over TCP (wireguardtcp.net)
Eating less protein could slow aging, major review finds (www.sciencedaily.com)
Bubble Memory (en.wikipedia.org)
AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens (seanhelvey.com)
EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation (linuxiac.com)
Special Relativity Boot Camp: A Geometry-First Introduction to Special Relativit (www.acsu.buffalo.edu)
The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power – Yuval Noah Harari [video] (www.youtube.com)
GestãO de Carteiras E Ativos (Brazilian Project) (zeca.app.br)
Python-based backtesting for Polymarket, with h5i-db (medium.com)
Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
Plotlines: Every place and journey in every literature classic, on one map (peter-guillam123.github.io)
I gave local AI eyes (github.com)
Adding Go''s Defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
Doxy – a browser Markdown and HTML editor (like Overleaf but no LaTeX) (trydoxy.com)
Bill Watterson: A Cartoonist''s Advice (www.zenpencils.com)
Engineering behind the xPal private messaging app cross-device message deletion (xpalapp.substack.com)
TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console (blog.lon.tv)
I built a non-physical GPU that does 194,396 yottaflops on one CPU core (github.com)
Mission High leads California in UC Berkeley admissions. But many don''t graduate (sfstandard.com)
I abused PostHog''s wizard to get free Claude tokens (techstackups.com)
Agentic Mermaid (agentic-mermaid.dev)
Write for Goto 10 – By Paul Lefebvre (www.goto10retro.com)
Estimating Fable and Sol model sizes (twitter.com)
Anthropic''s Fever Dream: Claude''s package that stole real keys (www.aikido.dev)
Healthy Criticism (karim.cloud)
SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn''t solve AI disinformation (arstechnica.com)
Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild (dobrowolski.dev)
Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan''s Network School (techcrunch.com)
How ''salmon'' raised in landlocked Xinjiang is netting fans in China (www.scmp.com)
Let the Machines In (blog.semenzin.com)
Shed Blog (www.shedblog.co.uk)
Why Curiosity May Be the Most Underrated Career Skill (www.forbes.com)
A teen was killed at a Seattle protest. New video evidence shows what happened (www.npr.org)
How Cosmos put Carl Sagan in Miniature sets [video] (www.youtube.com)
Effective HTML (www.effectivehtml.com)
My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw." (frogs.vaguespac.es)
EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What''s going to change? (www.euronews.com)
Saying ''Google It'' Makes You Sound Old (www.nytimes.com)
Design for Stress (idiallo.com)
NBC News – Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World (www.nbcnews.com)
Baltram/seednaut: Inspect, verify and extract files from Seedvault backups (github.com)
You Can''t Audit Entropy After the Fact (808bits.com)
German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe (www.ft.com)
A Tome of Forbidden Technologies and Retrovation (ecosophia.net)
Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share (cleantechnica.com)
A fresh look at CPU silent data corruption in modern data centers (cacm.acm.org)
''Crush this lady'': how eBay harassment campaign led to 56M payout (www.ft.com)
The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (www.lrb.co.uk)
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies (arstechnica.com)
Is Gen Z Saving Hollywood? (www.theatlantic.com)
How many people are you competing with? (arsenkk.substack.com)
IBM: Three Demonstrations Prove Quantum Advantage Has Been Reached (www.nextplatform.com)
What is a data centre and why is everyone freaking out now? (www.rnz.co.nz)
SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity (ykvm.com)
Bacteria and the Inverse Association Between Farm Exposure and Childhood Asthma (evidence.nejm.org)
The ''internet radical'' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online (www.theregister.com)
Metropolis 1998 (yesbox.itch.io)
Amylin: A Novel Obesity Therapy (www.medscape.com)
Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43% (www.theverge.com)
Cancelling Cursor (www.jitbit.com)
KotlinLLM (github.com)
How syntactic degradation became the ultimate proof of human identity on Reddit (www.reddit.com)
Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to 88M as Attackers Keep Draining Wallets (decrypt.co)
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Necropolitics (en.wikipedia.org)
Nanocodex: Building blocks for frontier OpenAI agents in Rust (github.com)