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August 19, 2026

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OpenRouter is joining Stripe

OpenRouter has officially announced it is joining Stripe, confirming earlier reports that the AI API aggregation platform will be acquired by the payments giant for over $7 billion. The move positions...

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Packing Malware in Rosetta 2

The article demonstrates how attackers can exploit Rosetta 2's translation layer on Apple Silicon to inject and execute malicious x86_64 code. It covers techniques including AOT/JIT manipulation, libr...

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Go 1.27

Go 1.27 is released as the latest stable version of the Go programming language, delivering expected language and runtime improvements. The release continues Go's biannual update cadence and includes ...

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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

An article detailing how a seemingly trivial domain purchase related to SondeHub escalated into a geopolitical issue. The high engagement (667 points, 94 comments on Hacker News) reflects significant ...

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Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries

SoLo is a GitHub project that enables fully static musl-linked Linux binaries to dynamically load glibc-linked GPU drivers at runtime via a custom ELF loader and ABI bridge. It ships a single portable...

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Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation

Mastodon 5.0 introduces a redesigned composer that opens as an overlay instead of the long-used sidebar, giving users more space and clarity while composing posts. The update also simplifies the confu...

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Go 1.27 Release Notes

Go 1.27, released in August 2026, introduces several notable features including generic methods, expanded struct literal key support, and generalized function type inference for generics. The release ...

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Fargate Is Not Firecracker (2024)

Former AWS EKS engineer Justin Garrison reveals that AWS Fargate does not actually use Firecracker microVMs for container isolation, despite marketing materials suggesting otherwise. The article argue...

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Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 US cities

Amazon is significantly expanding its Prime Air drone delivery service, with plans to reach nearly 500 U.S. cities by the end of 2026. The expansion marks a major scaling effort for Amazon's autonomou...

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Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole

Researchers published in Nature describe a newly discovered star on an extremely eccentric orbit that passes closer to Sgr A* than any previously identified object, potentially enabling the first meas...

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The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket

China's rapid progress in reusable rocket technology continues as another launch operator successfully recovered an orbital-class rocket booster, joining earlier successes by CASC's Long March 10B. Th...

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OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

OpenAI announced it is slowing the pace of some AI development to tighten security and safeguards, including a two-week pause on reinforcement learning training for its latest models and a delay to it...

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Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

Meta ran ads for Kromix, an AI app that generates nonconsensual deepfake pornography of female US politicians, despite Meta's own policies against sexually explicit ads. The incident highlights Meta's...

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Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

An OSINT practitioner geolocates an unknown island by combining geometric analysis of terrain features with CUDA-accelerated computation to match against known geographic data. The technique demonstra...

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Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

Ornith-1.5 is a new iteration of an AI system that progresses from self-scaffolding to self-improvement, marking a significant step in autonomous AI capability. The release highlights advances in how ...

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PostgreSQL for Everything

The article argues that PostgreSQL has evolved into a versatile database capable of handling a wide range of workloads beyond traditional relational use cases. It likely covers PostgreSQL's JSON/JSONB...

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HTML Can Do That

Chris Burnell's article catalogs dynamic UI features now achievable with pure HTML — no JavaScript required. It covers the <dialog>, <popover>, and grouped <details> elements, each controlling behavio...

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a filename when none exists

curl 8.10.0 improves the -O/--remote-name option by automatically generating a local filename when the URL contains no filename part. It first tries extracting the last directory from the path, and fa...

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Ploopy A+ (external trackball)

Ploopy has released the A+ trackball, an updated version of their open-source Adept design with eight buttons, two programmable knobs, and a detachable wrist rest. Preorders begin August 19, 2026, wit...

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Rivian spinout Also raises another $150M

Rivian spinout Also has raised an additional $150M in funding led by Prysm Capital. The funds will support the company's expansion from pedal-assist electric bikes and commercial cargo quads into auto...

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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus

Calendly is launching a meeting note-taking product that records, transcribes, and generates summaries, action items, and follow-up emails, along with a testing mode that transcribes system audio. The...

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Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA

President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, a conservative policy aide and current deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as the next FDA commissioner. Overton holds a ...

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Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos

Valve accidentally leaked several videos on the ARM Steam client showing the Steam Frame VR headset's unboxing, setup process, and accessories before quickly pulling them. The headset features dual 21...

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Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

Google is launching a dedicated student hub in Gemini ahead of back-to-school season, featuring study notebooks with graph and image support, flashcard generation, practice quizzes, and automatic cale...

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GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere

New leaked clips of Grand Theft Auto VI have surfaced online, potentially spoiling elements before Rockstar's official gameplay deep dive on Netflix and its November launch. The leaks include scenes f...

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Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

Unsloth released Dynamic 3.0 GGUF format, enabling dynamic quantization of large language models with improved efficiency and performance. The update brings enhancements to their open-source model opt...

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Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

A University of Colorado study of 7,700 employees found that remote workers reported the highest well-being compared to hybrid and in-office workers. The findings reinforce growing evidence that flexi...

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Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

GrapheneOS announced that devices officially supported by their privacy-focused Android OS should be available in 2027. The timeline reflects the extensive hardware compatibility and security validati...

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Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

Air Theremin is a web-based musical instrument that lets users play a theremin by waving their hands in front of a webcam, using computer vision to detect hand position and translate it into sound. Th...

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Why I still hand write my commit messages

Software engineer Jamie Tanna argues for continuing to hand-write Git commit messages despite the availability of LLMs. He emphasizes that commit messages should explain the 'why' behind changes rathe...

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Introducing Microlighter

Dave Rupert introduces Microlighter, a tiny (~2KB) client-side syntax highlighter leveraging the CSS Custom Highlights API to avoid DOM mutation by using ::highlight() pseudo-elements instead of injec...

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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good

Bun creator Jarred Sumner has faced community frustration over repeated delays of the v1.4 release, now pushed back three months past its original July target due to the Rust rewrite. Users express gr...

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Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

Sing-song is an experimental reversible encoding that converts arbitrary byte strings into pronounceable CV (consonant-vowel) syllables using a 64-syllable alphabet where each syllable maps to exactly...

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Things I want in a modern relational query language

The author revisits an old draft advocating for improvements to SQL as a modern relational query language, citing clumsy implementations as a root cause of the NoSQL movement. Key desires include more...

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Reclaim the terminal

The author explores how interactive CLI tools like less and fzf can receive piped stdin while still reading keyboard input, revealing the Unix file descriptor mechanics behind pipelines. Through a mul...

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AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

Despite AI becoming increasingly ubiquitous in daily life, consumer trust and enthusiasm are not following the expected trajectory. Silicon Valley is learning that making technology unavoidable does n...

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Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

OpenAI has reportedly revoked access for researchers in its Trusted Access for Cyber program, which was designed to give trusted defenders better AI models for responsibly reporting bugs and vulnerabi...

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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

Google has launched new AI-powered study tools integrated across its Search and Gemini platforms, targeting students as a core use case. The move reinforces Google's strategy to position Gemini as a g...

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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

Silicon Data is a startup enabling Wall Street to price and hedge AI compute costs, addressing a growing market gap as billions pour into data centers and GPUs. With compute now the single biggest exp...

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Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here’s why.

Tesla and Base Power are competing in the booming home battery market, driven by a breakthrough technology that has significantly lowered costs and increased availability. The surge in affordability i...

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Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?

Ars Technica reviews the Google Pixel 11 series, noting that while the phones are polished and competitive, they suffer from incremental hardware changes and a stagnant design language that's been unc...

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AI Companies are buying hardcover books and destroying them

AI companies are purchasing rare hardcover books and destroying them to extract text for training datasets, raising concerns among book preservation advocates. The practice highlights growing tensions...

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Meta AI is getting a Mac app

Meta is launching a dedicated Mac app for its AI chatbot, allowing users to share their screen with the AI for suggestions, content creation, and question-answering. The app also supports dictation ac...

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We reviewed the new Pixel lineup, ask us anything

The Verge has published four reviews of Google's newly announced Pixel 11 series and Pixel Watch 5 after the embargo lifted. The publication is hosting an AMA for subscribers at 3PM ET where reviewers...

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Amazon Kindle Oasis now has new book encryption system

Amazon Kindle Oasis firmware 5.18.2.1.1 introduces an updated and hardened DRM (digital rights management) protection system for books. The change enhances encryption to prevent unauthorized copying o...