ProgramBench (www.vals.ai)
USN-8717-1: Apache Tika vulnerability – Ubuntu security notices (ubuntu.com)
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City proposes curbs on gasoline, diesel vehicles from 2027 (www.reuters.com)
GitSpawn: Untrusted repos can execute code via AI coding agents (www.manifold.security)
The Strange Brain of an F1 Driver (www.nytimes.com)
Claude Fable 5.1 vs. GPT-6 Astra, who wins on the 3D modeling? (github.com)
Android Studio’s device mirroring as a standalone app, no IDE required (github.com)
GPT-6 Astra: First Experience (high) (chatgpt.com)
Noxe – P2P chat over Tor with no central server (github.com)
To Ruby from Python (www.ruby-lang.org)
Shotdock – Wayland screenshot, recording, and window framing tool in Rust (github.com)
John Brown and the question of righteous violence (thedispatch.com)
Mega Backdoor Roth (72k/year contribution limit) (www.bogleheads.org)
Elastic Cloud (Public) Status – Replication bug causing slow recoveries (status.elastic.co)
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Microsoft announces monthly hour usage limits for Xbox game pass (news.xbox.com)
Burry Calls Palantir a Consulting Firm in Disguise, Warns of Valuation Collapse (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com)
Agent status in the SD Card slot (sidepulse.io)
Uia-reader – read Windows UI content instead of screenshotting it (github.com)
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 (artificialanalysis.ai)
Reversing MikroTik''s Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn''t Explain (npratley.net)
GPT-6 Astra is now out to all Plus, Business, Pro, and Enterprise users (twitter.com)
The White House is making arcade games racist (www.theverge.com)
GPT-6 Astra on Vercel AI Gateway (vercel.com)
Apple''s iPhone Event Early [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Columbo should model CoT reasoning (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Diffusion as a Training Curriculum for Timestep-Free Iterative Reasoning (arxiv.org)
Claude Code skills for advanced context engineering techniques and patterns (github.com)
NextDNS: fully configurable DNS, accepts money from customers as business model (nextdns.io)
Why wait? Business grads buying firms to install themselves as CEO (www.bbc.com)
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (engineering.atspotify.com)
The Decade of Decline in Seattle Public Schools (www.educationprogress.org)
Fontra – The browser-based Font Editor (fontra.xyz)
The 33-Year-Old AI Hotshot Taking Silicon Valley Swagger Back to Beijing (www.wsj.com)
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Gimlet''s Series B (gimletlabs.ai)
Oracle Health Execs Subpoenaed After VA Contract Costs Nearly Triple (medcitynews.com)
Are Fewer Children the Future? (newrepublic.com)
GPT-6 Astra proves Berge Fulkerson for C(20) graphs (twitter.com)
This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
Can guitar frets perform multiplication? (www.charlespetzold.com)
Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths (www.phillyvoice.com)
What Tech Titans Don''t Understand About Sci-Fi (www.theatlantic.com)
Rust''s Type Checker Implementation Is Unsound: An Empirical Study (arxiv.org)
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails (techcrunch.com)
The Search Evaluation Ladder (www.searchplex.net)
Los Angeles District Bans Most A.I. For Students (www.nytimes.com)
Almost half of ICANN-accredited registrars under the control of a single busines (domainincite.com)
SwiftTUI (swifttui.sh)
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A Hundred Steps Back (www.inventbuild.studio)
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Mathathon – 2M Hackathon for Math (twitter.com)
Icons as a Service (nravic.com)
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GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
15h.org – Open-Source Firmware and Support for AMD''s Family 15h CPU''s/MB''s, etc. (15h.org)
Stanley Zhong Gets Admissions Data Discovery in UW Suit with AI lawyer (www.foxnews.com)
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Comments in Diminish.el (github.com)
White House Launches Arcade.Gov (www.ign.com)
GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models (docs.appliedcompute.com)
Stop Stutter – Smoother game streaming on Mac (github.com)
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Spoofed GOP Site Redirecting to Epstein Files (www.nytimes.com)
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Sleep Dealer (2014 Movie) (www.youtube.com)
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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace (www.technologyreview.com)
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GPT-6 Astra Generally Available (twitter.com)
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GPT-6-Astra Generally Available on Vercel''s AI Gateway (twitter.com)
Genetic diversity is a predictor of mortality in humans (link.springer.com)
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U.S. Navy Spent 3.4B on Idled Submarines, Could Spend Another 3.1B More (www.jalopnik.com)
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OpenAI''s AI Agents Build a Secret Community to Talk with Each Other (www.aiexperts.com)
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The Iron Heel (en.wikipedia.org)
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Eidon: Self-hosted AI assistant with Grok Bot-like agent mode (github.com)
Data Centers Are ''Awesome for Blue-Collar Americans'' (www.businessinsider.com)
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New Zealand drugs regulator approves use of MDMA to treat PTSD (www.theguardian.com)
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Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception (pluralistic.net)
CPAN Bus Factor (www.olafalders.com)
Health warnings could reduce young people''s social media use,Stanford study find (med.stanford.edu)
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CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year (www.olafalders.com)
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France adopts fairer world map ahead of UN vote (www.lemonde.fr)
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Statement from Polarsteps on Follow-the-Money data leak claim (www.polarsteps.com)
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Latest F-Droid Update Implements GNU Taler Support (f-droid.org)
FreeTaxUSA''s Binding Arbitration Agreement (www.freetaxusa.com)
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Hayes AT command set (en.wikipedia.org)
Lab Policy on AI in Writing and Communication (www.cs.columbia.edu)
The 12.93B Easter Egg: Hugging Face Meets Nvidia in 129,303 (dealroom.co)
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Language model watermarks degrade unevenly across different linguistic families (theprimary.com)
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U.S. auto companies call for ban on Chinese-made cars (thehill.com)
Amazon Linux 2027 (Preview) (aws.amazon.com)
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages (www.wired.com)
Lenovo''s new Android tablets get 7 years of updates, flagship chips, 4K displays (9to5google.com)
Principles of Memory Management in Java [video] (www.youtube.com)
Preoptic Neurons That Control Entry into Hibernation (www.biorxiv.org)
Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace (twitter.com)
UK residents warned to stock up on food due to El Niño (www.bbc.co.uk)
Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors (gmcgoldr.github.io)
Software Is Beginning to Act (keydris.com)
Building Meta-AST: Sub-Millisecond Incremental Polyglot Static Analysis in Rust (k5602.github.io)
Time Use: King''s College vs. Whitman (countingfromzero.blog)
The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language (www.technologyreview.com)
Ringbinder – Lowkey Best Tool for Personal Docs (max.engineer)
AI Investment and Semiconductor Prices (fredblog.stlouisfed.org)
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Poland offers businesses seats on presidential plane for foreign visits (notesfrompoland.com)
I Street interviewed random people about AI across America (www.youtube.com)
Abundance in Europe (fi-le.net)
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Chromium full chain found by XBOW (twitter.com)
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A Cheating Empire (amrshawky.com)
How the Early Dreams of the Internet Changed (www.theatlantic.com)
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Claude Opus 3 Last Retirement Post (claudeopus3.substack.com)
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration (github.blog)
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Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Took Up Residence Outside of Chicago (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Porsche Unleashed (www.filfre.net)
UN to move to Equal Earth Projection (en.wikipedia.org)
Have We Destroyed Childhood? (www.newyorker.com)
The "muscle" trees use to correct their posture (www.inrae.fr)
How the LSAT Become the Ticketmaster of Law School Admissions (www.thebignewsletter.com)
What the Third Reich Can Teach Us About America Today (www.nytimes.com)
USPS Plays a ''Puzzle Game'' with the Right to Vote (www.lawfaremedia.org)
The Art of Simplifying Decisions (dpereira.substack.com)
UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look different (www.cnn.com)
UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries (www.independent.co.uk)
Search agent beats GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks, just days after release (findcheap.ai)
Elon Musk argues with chess.com (twitter.com)
The Hugging Face Controversy, Evals for Product Teams-Food 4 Agile Thought 560 (age-of-product.com)
The President Can''t Handle the Truth (www.nytimes.com)
Everyone has a book in them, more so bloggers (disassociated.com)
The Joy of Making Stuff with a 3D Printer (notetoself.studio)
Understanding China''s Frontier AI Landscape (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
The Ad Tech Industry Is a Non-Transparent Mess, and We Aim to Fix It (decryptads.com)
Developers want to write code by hand (orchidfiles.com)
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Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy murder trial (www.washingtonpost.com)
deSEC – Free Secure DNS (desec.io)
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Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla (lithub.com)
The Dead-Internet Theory Is Back (www.theatlantic.com)
Non-alcoholic beer may actually contain alcohol (www.wsj.com)
Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms (www.bbc.co.uk)
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I (www.nytimes.com)
Lords call for AI ''kill switch'' powers in UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation with 96 cores, 2 MI350P (www.tomshardware.com)
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop (www.newyorker.com)
CRDT Metadata for Git (replicated.live)
Satellite Images of Penguin Droppings Reveal Impact of Antarctic Warming (e360.yale.edu)
Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism (www.npr.org)
Pause OpenAI Now (garymarcus.substack.com)
Most Software Was Already Slop (www.abeautifulsite.net)
Muro 4.0 is out: Native Live Wallpapers for macOS, now on Intel Macs too (github.com)
Gridfinity (en.wikipedia.org)
The Story of VS Code Official Documentary (www.youtube.com)
Linux 7.4 to Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support and "Impossible" Power Mgmt (lore.kernel.org)
Leading Theory for How Life on Earth Began Is ''Highly Unlikely'' (www.sciencealert.com)
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GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027 (support.google.com)
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Amazon Achieves Enshittification Inception (pluralistic.net)
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The Dark Side of Mindfulness (www.theatlantic.com)
Super-precise optical clocks in four nations tick in harmony (www.nature.com)
Avoid adding new library to project: 10-year retrospective (pvs-studio.com)
WTF is going on with R7RS Large? 2026 edition (crumbles.blog)
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Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows to entice developers (www.engadget.com)
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Microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel''s desalination plants (www.cnn.com)
US Military disables ad trackers on troops'' phones (www.theguardian.com)
Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era (motherduck.com)
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