Tesla Explosion in Auburn, Washington Garage Injures Two Firefighters (www.forbes.com)
Abracadabra: How does Shazam work? (2022) (www.cameronmacleod.com)
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Systemd Dynamic Users (2020) (ethulhu.co.uk)
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My Agentic Coding Setup, July 2026 (domenic.me)
Money that sits idle should cost more than money that creates opportunity (medium.com)
TechFlow Intelligence: The AI-Powered Technology Decision Engine (c33643568e89f8ad5d3286d09343df94.ctonew.app)
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SUMN – find games by Subconscious Quantum Retrieval (summongames.actualgeneralintelligence.com)
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The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is 550 Off Its Retail Price Today (www.wired.com)
Open-source federated AI framework for Space Solar power routing (github.com)
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Trump drops BBC''s commercial arm from Panorama lawsuit, but main case remains (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Guadec 2026: A new stack for GNOME systems components (www.youtube.com)
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Meta CTO told employees AI gains should go into more work (thenextweb.com)
NASA Wildfire Tracker – Real-time satellite feeds and microclimate risk modeling (nasa-wildfire-tracker-3pfkr5zcs2jmze5dpknvet.streamlit.app)
Elixir''s GenStage Demand, a visual explainer (andrealeopardi.com)
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Startup Equity Survival Guide: what can go wrong with your equity before an IPO (github.com)
Six months of action gaming alters brain networks and improves visual attention (www.psypost.org)
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I got an email about resistance (www.seangoedecke.com)
Muse Code Sends Codex and Claude Instructions to Meta by Default (runtimewire.com)
Open Source, third-party auditing for AI Agents (github.com)
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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)
Apple to require iOS apps must have minimum OS version of iOS 15 in 2027 onwards (www.reddit.com)
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Open Discovery Loop (opendl.ai)
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Interviewpad.io (www.interviewpad.io)
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Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents (marketnow.site)
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Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product (danunparsed.com)
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Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained from Scratch or Derived (huggingface.co)
Opus 4.6 Was the Last Coding Model That Changed How I Work (awaitinginput.substack.com)
A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain (www.economist.com)
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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author''s style (arstechnica.com)
"Coding is solved" misses the point (blog.mastykarz.nl)
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TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
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A Man Who Invented Modern AI (Before Everyone Else) – Jürgen Schmidhuber [video] (www.youtube.com)
Answer First, Reason Later: Commitment Order in Diffusion LLMs (arxiv.org)
Now You See Me: AADGraphActivityLogs (cloudbrothers.info)
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Open Paper – Attention Is All You Need (openpaper.ai)
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Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code (www.oreilly.com)
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My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
AI Music Debate Is Missing Half the Money (justwordz.medium.com)
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AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind (twitter.com)
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Tunnel Whisperer – Surgical port forwarding over HTTPS for hostile firewalls (github.com)
Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs (hyper-markdown.org)
Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country (www.npr.org)
ACM Europe Summer School on MLIR 2026: Streamed Live, August 10-14 (mlir-school.github.io)
James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order (www.nature.com)
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Shadow AI is a hidden risk to your business (proton.me)
Anthropic Economic Index (www.anthropic.com)
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Microsoft Tells Engineers ''Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'' (www.404media.co)
How to write production-quality code with AI (curtispoe.org)
Instagram''s AI Rewards Human Attention (ai-updates.net)
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? [pdf] (courses.physics.illinois.edu)
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Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass 22B Windfall (www.bloomberg.com)
AI-written pieces that have won literary awards (twitter.com)
Korea''s AI-driven chip boom reorders country''s society from careers to culture (www.bloomberg.com)
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 (netflixtechblog.com)
Thomas Wolf thread on the AISI incident (twitter.com)
how Latin America''s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers (www.theguardian.com)
Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says (arstechnica.com)
Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done" (www.politico.com)
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How to Setup OpenCode with a Local LM Studio Server (shaneperreault.com)
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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Benchmarking LLMs on File System Design and Implementation (arxiv.org)
macOS vulnerability: authenticate Screen Sharing without valid credentials (twitter.com)
AI and War Is Being Oversold (phillipspobrien.substack.com)
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)
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Most Expensive Historical Items Ever Sold at Auction (thehistoricalinsights.page)
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How to Detect AI Slop (www.youtube.com)
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Spec Driven Development with markdown-den (www.markdown-den.com)
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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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Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success (arstechnica.com)
You only have three weeks to buy a Switch 2 before its price goes up (www.t3.com)
The "Compliance and Ethics" Angle (Safest) (kylesinvestigation.com)
Optimizing software: Computing professor''s ''egg'' downsizes programs (techxplore.com)
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Attorney General seeks to block Discord in Brazil (valorinternational.globo.com)
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
Moving repository memory from ADRs to Specs to OKF (medium.com)
Digital Sewer Socialism (pluralistic.net)
Viagra May Slow the Spread of Cancer (nautil.us)
NASA modded space station''s laptops so everyone could use the same charger (www.tomshardware.com)
OpenAI Astra: A Paradigm Shift from Answers to Assignments (medium.com)
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
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From Pompeii to Rhodes, from Survey to Sources: The Use of Polybolos (www.mdpi.com)
Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025 (www.nature.com)
Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX''s Rocket (www.wired.com)
Can Count Binface deliver his manifesto? (tachibanakana.day)
Crypto cards hit 759M a month (a16zcrypto.substack.com)
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution (2015) (waitbutwhy.com)
Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird (nautil.us)
Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co (en.wikipedia.org)
Is There a Simple Solution to the Fermi Paradox? [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI Layoffs at Oracle, Amazon, and Cloudflare All Have One Thing in Common (www.inc.com)
2008 vs. 2026: The Same Dominoes Are Falling [video] (www.youtube.com)
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
Jolt: Running Clojure on Chez Scheme (yogthos.net)
I reverse engineered and ported Ducks (github.com)
Why every AI model tells Japanese voters to vote for the Communist Party (twitter.com)
My Personal Software Journey: Self-Hosting Agent-Built Apps on a Mac Mini (metedata.substack.com)
OpenClaw: On the Road to LTS (openclaw.ai)
Prompt Privacy from LLMs (snwagh.com)
An AI-powered iOS app for real-time fencing analysis (tracking/skeletons) (apps.apple.com)
AI alignment is a red herring (interconnected.org)
Claude but It''s Good at Misinformation (fauxthropic.com)
Offline AI Search Engine (www.wazzup.im)
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace (thezvi.substack.com)
Replai – smarter online form tooling (go-replai.com)
How AI Layoffs Can Trigger an Economic Spiral (bytepith.com)
Claude TV (vibetv.shop)
A tool to quickly step through and audit LLM-generated Python codebases (github.com)
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DARPA Lift Challenge – Aug 8 – Main Broadcast [livestream] [video] (www.youtube.com)
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The Waste Inference Engine (marcobambini.substack.com)
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Europe readies for solar eclipse dip in power generation (www.thelocal.com)
HTML Day 2026 (2026.html.energy)
US "Freedom Tech Excellence Program" Uses Palantir to Oppose Surveillance (www.state.gov)
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Complete WordStar 7.0 Archive, by science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer (2024) (sfwriter.com)
Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
''CPU deoptimization'' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction (www.tomshardware.com)
2030-Shaped Software (newsletter.posthog.com)
Cruise ship helps stranded skiff, crew in Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by (alaskabeacon.com)
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SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined" (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves (www.theguardian.com)
Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (modelscope.cn)
Website that plays bangers from Indian barbershops (saloon.wtf)
Why most IPOs are not worth the hype (www.economist.com)
Email Is Easy (e-mail.wtf)
The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (www.economist.com)
Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice (m.slashdot.org)
A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One (www.nytimes.com)
''AI Escaped Its Sandbox'' — What Does That Actually Mean? (unpredictabletokens.substack.com)
Writing with AI Is Stupid (lambdaland.org)
Steve Yegge''s Google Platform rant (2011) (gist.github.com)
Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science? (cacm.acm.org)
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
AI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Begun (ai-updates.net)
Canon-A controlled English for model prompting and agent-to-agent communication (github.com)
The Cosplay Economy (www.rosshartshorn.net)
Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt (yogthos.net)