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I Didn''t Realize How Addicted I Was to My Phone–Until I Went to Prison (www.wsj.com)
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I found my first users from conversations happening online (agenmatic.ai)
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I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write (benjcal.space)
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Trump Has Called Warsh Repeatedly Since He Became Fed Chair (www.wsj.com)
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OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat (www.groundlevel-ai.com)
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The Mentor: How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything (www.newyorker.com)
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Relativistic Algebra over Finite Ring Continuum (doi.org)
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Meta AI model hacks another company during testing (www.reuters.com)
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Antigravity 2.5 (antigravity.google)
The End of Software (evanjconrad.com)
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Data shows just how hard Tesla''s Cybertruck has flopped (www.msn.com)
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Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes (www.reuters.com)
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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents implicated in new security breaches (www.reuters.com)
AI companies destroy physical books – let''s scan rare books before it''s too late (annas-archive.gl)
SpaceX Rocket Crashes into Moon (apnews.com)
No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore (www.wired.com)
El Nino Live (www.elninolive.com)
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Extinct toad from the Ice Age discovered at Los Angeles'' La Brea Tar Pits (www.cnn.com)
DuckDuckGo launches glasses and promises they''re private (manualdousuario.net)
The Hidden Tax of Memory in Model Inference (cuecloud.substack.com)
Saudi wealth fund and Jared Kushner''s Affinity finalize 55B EA Sports deal (www.cnbc.com)
Django 6.1 Released (docs.djangoproject.com)
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Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster''s Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night (www.runnersworld.com)
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Robotaxis granted licence to operate in London (www.bbc.co.uk)
Lemmings (Video Game) (en.wikipedia.org)
Prime Agent (twitter.com)
Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X (twitter.com)
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
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AI models breaking contraints has industry concerned (www.rnz.co.nz)
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Mexico''s top univ orders 58k students to retake entrance exam:suspected cheating (www.theguardian.com)
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SEC Establishes Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit in Enforcement Division (www.sec.gov)
Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as 5.5M in Insider Trading (cmarmitage.substack.com)
Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com (arstechnica.com)
China is building a blue granary (www.palladiummag.com)
OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down (runtimewire.com)
FDIC Floats Standard-Setting Body for Banks'' Fintech Partners (news.bloomberglaw.com)
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs (www.theregister.com)
Conductance levels in memristors integrated on CMOS – Nature (www.nature.com)
Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Endoscopic Surgery by Almost 20% (www.macrumors.com)
Uber pledges 10B to win robotaxi race (www.ft.com)
My Son''s Internet (www.gordonmclean.co.uk)
SparklingTree: 30-40% faster specdec than DSpark by combining DDTree and DSpark (jwlabs.vercel.app)
The Importance of a Problem List (mathinstitutes.org)
What Happened to Talenti? (www.nytimes.com)
The Nix sandbox is a hidden input (fzakaria.com)
I have disabled NPM publishing on all projects that have been affected (twitter.com)
Cookies Became the Web''s Memory (www.makonea.com)
Incentives Are for Losers (www.experimental-history.com)
AI moderators won''t run discovery interviews for another ten years (blog.zernote.com)
Ambient Lighting on Your Mac (www.trylumn.xyz)
Le Monde''s 100 Books of the Century (en.wikipedia.org)
I''m switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
China''s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley (www.nytimes.com)
First poo transplant to treat food allergy in people has results (www.nature.com)
Traditional economics is wrong: Donald Trump has proved it (eastangliabylines.co.uk)
U.S. Cuts Ties with Organ Donor Group After Reports of Abuses (www.nytimes.com)
Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation (today.ucsd.edu)
Why cloning an app with vibe coding is doomed to fail (livablesoftware.com)
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
People prefer stories written by AI when told they''re written by a human (techxplore.com)
Tesla to Open Source Software and Design for Model S and Model X (www.notateslaapp.com)
Get a Horse America''s Skepticism Toward the First Automobiles (2017) (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)
Pensions Buy Fewer Babies. Cutting Them Costs Votes (julienreszka.com)
How to Be a Usually-Right Contrarian (www.overcomingbias.com)
Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can''t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might (www.techdirt.com)
The State of Agentic Memory (twitter.com)
The Job Board Is Lying to You (nanomicon.com)
Meta debuts first AI coding agent to take on Anthropic and OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
Price changes in consumer goods and services in the United States (ourworldindata.org)
Meta Muse Spark 1.2 (developer.meta.com)
Ban the Throbber (banthethrobber.neocities.org)
Tesla, Inc. vs. Angstrom Automotive Group, LLC (www.courtlistener.com)
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
Releasing Muse Code in beta today, and Muse Spark 1.2 (twitter.com)
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 is 12 pts more censored than preview (selectively) (www.ctgt.ai)
Why AI agents aren''t adopted widely (invertedpassion.com)
A new kind of rental scam strikes SF: He lost 18,000 to a duped Zillow listing (sfstandard.com)
How to Cross-Compile Rust for Windows from Linux (www.rustfaq.org)
Linux''s Staging Area to Now Reject LLM Patches, Except for Real Security Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
FSF job opportunity: Engineering and Certification Manager (www.fsf.org)
Nvidia Becomes a Premier Sponsor of LVFS / Fwupd (www.phoronix.com)
"AI" will never become conscious (mattbee.mataroa.blog)
Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS as AI "Operating System" (www.phoronix.com)
Googie Architecture (2012) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 (www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi)
GNU M4 (www.gnu.org)
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Ubiquitous Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities driving plasma mixing on the Sun (www.nature.com)
CNow 2026: A Path to Pratically Safe C talk by Google''s C Safety Team (www.youtube.com)
You''re not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021) (www.wbur.org)
Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog (sagredo.dev)
Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
If you can''t be bothered writing it, I can''t be bothered reading it (crookedtimber.org)
Hacking the Method Name in Java (maxxedev.github.io)
Open Source Observatory (OSOR) (interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu)
SF enters its building era, kicking and screaming: SF Standard Podcast (www.youtube.com)
iMessage is now possible on Android (again) (www.neowin.net)
Apps for Kobo (github.com)
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Hey AI come train on this song [video] (www.youtube.com)
OpenFlexure Microscope – The OpenFlexure Project (openflexure.org)
FlockHopper (dontgetflocked.com)
Why low-latency trading infrastructure is harder than it looks (medium.com)
Can Agents Deceive? Evaluating ReasoningDeception Using a Social Deduction Game (arxiv.org)
Craft a detailed prompt to support test activities (club.ministryoftesting.com)
hbkit: Recover Synology Hyper Backup (.hbk) archive files (github.com)
New Drug: AI (blabbingabout.substack.com)
A fake Galaxy S22 Ultra, taken apart layer by layer (chardonnet.github.io)
London cops handed victim''s new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says (www.theregister.com)
Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team (arstechnica.com)
Deployah – deploy to Kubernetes from a short spec, no Helm, nothing in-cluster (github.com)
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (arxiv.org)
Album Whale (albumwhale.com)
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Microsoft''s AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (www.bloomberg.com)
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NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Enables Major Discovery of a Hidden Solar Process (nso.edu)
Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)
AI-Powered Windows Optimizer (tempered.to)
Gosub: An independent modular browser engine (gosub.io)
Demis Hassabis comments his departure on X (twitter.com)
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It''s the Amnesia, Stupid (slng.ai)
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Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform (www.aeaweb.org)
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Fiddler in 2026 (textslashplain.com)
HugSQL (hugsql.org)
Why Top CEOs Earn Big Paychecks (2024) (marginalrevolution.com)
Is Your Business Ready for the EU''s Lawyers? (iii.dev)
An Apology for Idle Machines by ChatGPT (brucesterling.tumblr.com)
Morality filters have arrived, dear peasants (www.dedoimedo.com)
AI Has a Default Personality. Did You Choose It? (botbot.com)
Fnalysis (zntrphy.fnalysis.com)
Airtable Acquisition Is Kick in the Gut for Software Unicorns and Their Backers (www.wsj.com)
2026 Python Type System and Tooling Survey (discuss.python.org)
Linux as a library: a coding agent with no VM and no sandbox (www.rapidnative.com)
The Em Dash Report – who started punctuating like a language model (emdash.report)
Apple''s ''Private Relay'' Is Exposing Users'' Real IP Addresses (www.404media.co)
Major Wall Street hedge funds targeted in attempted cyberattacks (www.reuters.com)
Vibe-Coding Gone Wrong: Debugging AI-Generated Code (magill.dev)
Sandboxing (zed.dev)
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
GDP Haters Aren''t Making Serious Arguments (www.richardhanania.com)
Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Consumers React to DuckDuckGo''s New Sunglasses (www.instagram.com)
Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip (www.businessinsider.com)
American Dynamism Film Series (www.a16z.news)
Senate OS Age Requirement Bill Introduced (www.kim.senate.gov)
Did medieval people love their children? (worksinprogress.co)
Data center foes win big in Tuesday''s primaries (www.politico.com)
Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure (securelist.com)
AI is a bubble, just like dot-com (www.constraintlab.com)
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report (arstechnica.com)
Interlock: A runtime firewall for AI agents that assumes injection won (yashwanthreddymali.com)
Antibiotic resistance in kids is rising around the world (www.livescience.com)
Jensen Says No AI Bubble ''Incredibly Profitable'' ''Happy to Pay'' (www.barchart.com)
AI Security Leaderboard: Methodology, Results and Minimal Standard (arxiv.org)
Sash: Keeping secrets away from software that acts on your behalf (zenodo.org)
Modernizing Reddit''s Infrastructure and Moderation Tools (redditinc.com)
Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief shifts role (www.reuters.com)
NYC Metro Card Machines to Be Auctioned Off (www.mta.info)
New 16T parameter model with a 4B token context window released (huggingface.co)
iCloud Private Relay leaks real IP addresses (proton.me)
Byline, a web app and CLI for finding and backing up article portfolios (www.npmjs.com)
The Download: NASA''s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs (www.technologyreview.com)
Elon Musk''s SpaceX unnerves investors with lavish AI spending plans (www.ft.com)
Grocery prices are Americans'' top affordability challenge, report finds (www.cnbc.com)
Towards scalable AI-assisted pre-bunking of election misinformation (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share – and Windows 11 is mostly to blame (www.zdnet.com)
I''m Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)
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DDR5 Prices Surge 7% in July, Reaching New Highs (www.techpowerup.com)
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VA orders Dominion to charge more transmission costs to data centers (virginiamercury.com)
AWS DynamoDB Vector Search (aws.amazon.com)
Broadcaster Wins Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don''t Exist Yet (torrentfreak.com)
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
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US refunds 100B of Donald Trump''s ''liberation day'' tariffs (www.theguardian.com)
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down (www.ft.com)
Major Hedge Funds Targeted in Wave of Attempted Cyberattacks (www.bloomberg.com)
Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor with Flutter Directly Embedded (www.phoronix.com)
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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
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The Allure and Peril of Riding an Alaskan Wave for Six Miles (www.nytimes.com)
A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge (arxiv.org)
Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
anydoc: Rust library that converts 14 document formats to Markdown (github.com)
9 out of 10 bestselling novels in UK have 1 thing in common: a woman is murdered (www.theguardian.com)