Choose A Cat For Every Situation And We’ll Guess If You’re A Dog Or Cat Person
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17 Celebrities Who Were Forced To Hide Their Sexualities To Protect Their Careers
One actor hid pictures of his husband on Instagram before auditioning for a big drama series.
If Your Living Room Lacks Personality, Grab These 27 Decor Pieces From Anthropologie
Make your living room as colorful and fun as you are!
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 18 Premiere Review: This Show is Obsessed with Death
“Frank Marries a Corpse” and “Dennis and Dee Don’t Get Rich” show that the Gang can go lower than six feet
‘It: Welcome To Derry’ Season 2 Is Officially Happening
HBO's creepy prequel is officially getting another season. Here's everything we know about 'It's next chapter.
23 Products To Put You In The Mood For Fall Even If It’s Still 90 Degrees Where You Live
These zombie popsicle molds and pumpkin soft serve are sure to hold you over until the leaves turn brown.
People Are Sharing Their Scariest Stories About Being On The Dark Web, And Holy Crap
"I was trying to buy those super cool laser pointers, and I got a random message saying, 'I know where you live.' I noped out of that site straight away."
Data centre securitisation: what the SEC staff letter actually says
Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days.
35 Skincare Products That, Trust Me, You’re Going To Want ASAP
I'm telling ya — once you get your hands on this Abib sunstick, you'll never want to wear anything else.
Did Adnan Syed Really Kill Hae Min Lee? Inside The Debate Surrounding The 1999 Murder
The podcast Serial brought the controversial case of Adnan Syed into the spotlight in 2014, 15 years after he was charged with strangling his ex-girlfriend and burying her in Baltimore's Leakin Park.
Spirit Airlines data: Google chose its own anonymisation agent
Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry.
Only True 2010s Pop Fans Can Match These Songs To The Correct Boy Band
The mid-2010s boy band era gave us unforgettable hits!
Cursor Origin is on by default, and its data terms are missing
Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product.
27 Walmart Products That’ll Make Your Backyard The Place Everyone Actually Wants To Hang Out
"Want" is tame; people will need to hang out in your backyard this summer.
19 Celebs Who Ruined Their Career In A Single Interview
"I've never seen somebody fall into irrelevancy like that."
18 Age Gaps In Movies That Get Way More Uncomfortable Once You Learn How Young The Actors Were
Keira Knightley was only 17 when she filmed Love Actually,
Copilot Autofix did not write the Snowflake flaw, GitHub say
A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled.
Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
What’s your most unpopular food opinion?
Matcha does NOT taste like grass!!!
Need A New Purse? I’m Here To Help With 27 Options Under $50 From Amazon
~Bag~ these purses so you can carry your belongings in style.
Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries
Having finished The Tainted Cup, I immediately dove into the next Ana and Din novel by Robert Jackson Bennett. I also finished the third in the series. Now I must wait.
Greg Brockman: we underestimated our own models
Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn’t otherwise,” the company’s president told Squawk Box.
What Celebrity Death Surprised You So Much, The News Didn’t Feel Real?
Fans and celebrities alike are mourning the unexpected death of Hayden Panettiere.
How Many Summerween-Coded Movies Have You Seen?
And share your Summerween essential viewing in the comments — this ghoul always wants recommendations.
29 College Essentials You’ll Use Every Single Day And Be So Glad You Bought For The Year
Your end-of-the-year self will be thanking your beginning-of-the-year self for getting this super handy closet organizer and bed shelf.
There’s A New “Romeo & Juliet” Adaptation, And My 8th Grade English Self Is Sat
Our favorite Shakespearean story modernized for the microdrama age.
The Meta social media trial: $1.4tn is the defence’s number
Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the case in 2023. Lawyers for California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey will argue it.
28 Target Products You Won’t Just “Normal” Like, You’ll *Reallllllllyyyy* Like
Just a bunch of all-star little treats that deserve a spot in your Target cart lineup.
Why Researchers Believe An ‘Assyrian Game Of Thrones’ Erased Three Ancient Monarchs From The Historical Record
Ancient Assyrian kings named Aššur-uballiṭ, Tiglath-pileser, and Shalmaneser are seemingly missing from the official record, suggesting that their successors may have tried to erase them from history for political reasons.
Wispr Series B hits $2bn as Menlo bets the text box dies
Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in.
Trump Got Asked About “Woke” AOC, And You Have To Hear His Response For Yourself
President Donald Trump made predictions about a potential Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential run and the future of “the woke.”
The macOS Screen Sharing flaw took an AI four hours to crack
A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reason is the speed. Producing the exploit was too easy.
Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era
Brian Peek scanned and shared his collection of gaming promotional VHS cassettes, including five that Atari Games sent to arcade operators in the 1990s.
The Trump-Kim Jong Un bromance comes roaring back
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Andreessen Horowitz DOJ probe: two boards, one 1914 statute
The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old.
64 Years Later, ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Is Making A Villain Origin From Scratch
Marvel's new teaser for 'Avengers: Doomsday' proves a divisive pivot for Doctor Doom.
Get Your Pour On With The 12 Best Wine Subscription Boxes And Clubs
Whether you're looking to expand your palate and go on a flavor journey or you simply want an easy way to restock your bar cart each month, these have you covered.
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log. Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync all failed. So did Copilot.
Harder boners for a longer life
Rock harder, rock out for longer. The biohacking community has found a new trend that's easy to jump on: erectile dysfunction medication for longevity.
The amber Series A: €7mn, and a bet against the Cloud Act
Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is small. The argument behind it is not.
Archaeologists In Vienna Found A Mass Grave Of Roman Soldiers With A Shockingly High Number Of Groin Wounds
Construction of a sports complex in Vienna turned up a mass grave filled with at least 129 ancient Roman soldiers that had been sitting right underneath a soccer field.
15 Years Ago, Hayden Panettiere Launched A Major Horror Franchise Into A New Era
Back in 1996, Scream sent the horror movie into its postmodern era. Slashers were still alive and well, but the new rage was self-aware horror, which tried to deconstruct or subvert the tropes that made the genre famous. Scream famously accomplished this with an opening where Ghostface quizzes his victim on scary movies, while also featuring a cast of characters who knew their way around the genre’s archetypes.
Higgsfield Series B: $400mn, and agencies should look up
Higgsfield has raised $400mn at a $5.4bn valuation. DST Global led the round. Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global Tech Ventures all took part, alongside Tribe Capital, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company was valued at $1.3bn in January.
OpenAI preparedness team gone, weeks after a rogue model
OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject.
This Weird Angle Of Donald Trump's Butt Has Everyone Talking
Trump's rear end is starting quite the conversation online.
Sorry, But Only Cinephiles Will Succeed In This Week’s Community Challenge
Lights, Camera, Action!
25 Pieces From Loft That Deserve A Permanent Place In Your Work Wardrobe
As Rihanna might say, these pieces put in work, work, work, work, work.
France’s tax agency lost data on 678,000 people to a stolen login
The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August.
Terra Industries closes a $52mn seed and opens its first office outside Africa
Terra Industries has added $18mn to close a $52mn seed round and will open its first office outside Africa in London, while keeping manufacturing in Ghana and Nigeria. The Nigerian company was founded in 2024 and says it is on track for more than $100mn in contract bookings this year.
Enhance your workflow with this $55 MS Office 2024 Pro Plus lifetime license
TL;DR: Get this lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows for just $54.99 (reg. $249.99).
24-hour clock face shows the hours of darkness
Geoff Pack made Sun Clock is a neat online visualization of the hours of daylight and darkness, casting it against a regular (but 24-hour!) clock face. You can tweak with the appearance and hands, set location and direction manually, and turn off the moon.
47 Hilarious Fails From Last Week That Made Me Laugh So Hard I Have One Tiny Tear Running Down My Cheek
I'd love to see the aftermath of that Roomba's adventure.
Trump’s 2024 Grocery Photo Op Is Now Haunting Republicans In The Midterms
Two years on, higher gasoline and grocery prices are squeezing household budgets and turning the cost of living into the top issue for voters.
EY will keep interns on for a year before offering them a job
EY is launching a paid Career Residency that keeps assurance interns employed part-time for 8 to 12 months after their eight-week internship, working remotely on EY projects during their final year of college. Those who complete it and receive an offer join as analysts rather than staff.
‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 Has A Major Anakin Problem
Ahsoka is coming back! At D23, we got a brand-new look at the return of Dave Filoni’s live-action spinoff starring Rosario Dawson as the titular former Jedi, and it gave us everything we could want: flashbacks, lightsabers, big questions, dilemmas, and lots and lots of Thrawn.
Inside the Axios OpenAI local news deal
OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The term is three years.
This Man’s Dating Turn-Off Sent 2 Million People Into A Frenzy, And Women Are Completely Divided
"The old me would have done it..."
How Many Of These “Basic Household Problems” Do You Know How To Fix?
This is the true adulting test.
If You Feel Torn Between A Deep Desire For A Clean House And Deep Laziness, Get These 27 Products
When it comes to cleaning, your motto is "work smarter, not harder."
Tesla Quietly Enables Power Export On Its Best-Selling EV
Tesla has quietly enabled vehicle-to-load on the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico through an $80 adapter offering two 120-volt outlets and up to 2.4kW.
“ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%
“Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99% female sea turtles instead of the historical 50–50 ratio, creating a reproductive bottleneck that could collapse populations within two generations.”
30 Shoes From Walmart That You Can Wear To Basically Any Occasion
For practically every dress code your calendar can throw at you.
The first Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn before it exists
The first production Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, setting records for the most expensive new car, electric car and charity car sold at public auction.
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 18 Preview: Ranking The Most Likely Candidates To Break The Emmys Curse
Our top picks to break the seal on the ‘Always Sunny’ trophy case
People Noticed Something Wild In The Background Of This Senator's State Fair Photo
Always check the background before posting!
The Pilot Kakuno Fountain costs under $20 and writes beautifully
A fountain pen or gel pen is a superior way to write, says science fiction writer Neal Stephenson. He says handwriting is good for your brain.
36 Things That’ll Really Come In Handy If You Live With Two Or More Cats
Like these vet-developed nail caps that prevent damage from scratching, and a "Litter Genie" that makes daily scooping less of a headache.
California’s first self-driving trucks are already testing
California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the rules that made the permits possible.
A lost Spanish flagship could be under the ocean, under a river, or even a beach
Researchers from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology are looking for a 500-year-old coastline to find a 500-year-old lost flagship. The ship hasn't moved, but the coastline has.
A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of
A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of Puzzling”, Will Shortz and came away with seven lessons he learned from him. “Creativity is usually more about evolution than revolution.”
Kade? 20 Years Later, Star Wars Is Reclaiming A Wild Legacy
What’s in a Star Wars name? That which we call a Tauntaun would, by any other name, still smell worse on the inside. Inspiration for names could come from anywhere, be that Lucasfilm employees, Eastern references, or just syllables that sound right together. Because of that, anything could be a Star Wars name, from Elan Sleazebaggano to Sio Bibble.
Donald Trump’s Coalition Is Coming Apart
Republicans heralded Donald Trump’s 2024 victory as the birth of a new majority: a multiracial, working-class coalition powered by newfound support among black and Latino voters, particularly men, who had finally abandoned the Democrats over inflation, the cost of living, and immigration. While that conclusion may have been warranted in November 2024, it is not anymore. Indeed, over the course of 2026, Trump’s new coalition has been coming apart at the seams.
All The Best Deals At Walmart This Week
Save on everything from CeraVe's Skin Renewing Night Cream to a Dreo 3-in-1 HEPA air purifier.
29 Deals To Check Out This Week
Savings at Too Faced, Wayfair, Casper,
These 19 Horrible People Got Karma So Brutal, It’ll Make Your Entire Day Better
"These humans should be studied."
If Comfort Is A Top Priority For You, You’ll Love These 29 Fashion Pieces
Including some sneakers you'll never want to take off and a sports bra you could totally wear as a top.
A dog, tho joining in the fun, does not help a skateboarder at all
This excellent doggo saw a good time fly by his face and decided it was playtime. This skater is having a ball until he isn't! Those awesome wallrides had the dog just wanting to play!
Sea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection Act
MMA loses to the MMPA. The gentleman in question was most assuredly NOT Max Holloway. Tyler Muehl approached a resting California sea lion at La Jolla Cove, assumed a fighting stance, invoked the UFC star's name, and started kicking. The sea lion tried to flee. — Read the rest The post Sea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection Act appeared first on Boing Boing.
GTA 6 is now paywalling its own advertisements
For better or worse, the state of the contemporary game industry has always been reflected in Rockstar's blockbuster Grand Theft Auto series. The mid-2000s push toward gritty realism (i.e.
The Trump Administration Has Been Spying on Labor Unions
Last week, news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest unions, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). This investigation was behind the indictments of fifteen people in June.
Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to
Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab. “If tech seeks to replace democratic governance itself, then the response has to be more democracy, not less.” Lots of related links in this piece too.
The comic strip that may have cast Sean Connery as the first James Bond
In 1958, London's Daily Express newspaper started running a comic strip adapting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. This was well before the first James Bond movie (Dr.
Most People Can’t Identify These 25 Books From Their Famous Opening Lines. Can You?
Don't get confused between Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice.
One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline's accuracy gains by feeding another the answers
A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system is built to answer strictly from the documents it retrieves. But when engineers optimize these AI pipelines end-to-end, the reader module can learn a shortcut: instead of relying on retrieved evidence, it starts answering from its own internal memory — while the system's overall accuracy keeps climbing. This is the hidden challenge of "role drift," a failure mode in compound AI systems where individual modules learn to bypass their assigned tasks even as end-to-end performance improves.
The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands
The Digi-Comp I was a plastic and rubber band toy that sold for $5 in 1963. According to Chris Staecker, a Fairfield University math professor who posted a video about its operation,
A little plastic holder for the yen coins in my pocket
I'm headed back to Japan soon. This will be my 10th visit there. I've been going to Japan since 1986. It's changed in a lot of ways. Most noticeably, it is less expensive than it was in 1986, and there are far more foreigners in Tokyo now.
26 Home Office Items Reviewers Literally Called “Lifesavers”
"I work from home, and having the ability to hop on this thing regularly throughout the day is a lifesaver."
Disney will reunite Figment and Dreamfinder at EPCOT
Disney made many announcements for the future of its theme parks at the D23 Disney fan event in Anaheim, California, Saturday night.
Synchrony wants your Amazon and Walmart store cards inside ChatGPT
Synchrony Financial, which issues store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe’s, is working with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT using those cards. Its chief strategy officer says general-purpose cards will take six to twelve months and store-specific cards longer. Synchrony Financial wants its cards inside ChatGPT.
ByteDance signs a copyright pact with Hollywood’s MPA to rein in its Seedance AI video tool
The TikTok owner has agreed a pact with the Motion Picture Association, the trade body for the major US studios, to tighten copyright protections on its AI image and video generators, ending, at least officially, a standoff that began when the studios accused the company of building a machine for wholesale infringement.
Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top
Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidia’s plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gundlach thinks Wall Street has told on itself.
Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool sorts English words by birth year
Just today, I became a time traveler. Unfortunately, you'll need to put aside the images of a humble writer running from dinosaurs or flirting with Cleopatra running through your head right now, but the reality is still pretty cool.
Capitalism Is Killing Summer
It’s a “Hot Socialist Summer,” proclaims the New York City Democratic Socialists of America Instagram.
Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round
Groq, the AI-inference chip company that spent the better part of a decade pitching itself as the scrappy alternative to Nvidia, has raised fresh money at a valuation that quietly concedes how much has changed.
Why the NABJ Gave Stephen A. Smith a Thumbs Down at This Year’s Conference
After NABJ gave Stephen A. Smith the "Thumbs Down" award for his record of criticizing Black women politicians, he threatened to finish what they started.
30 Wayfair Products That Will Make Your Place Look High-End Without Actually Breaking The Bank
Nobody has to know how much you really spent on these luxe-looking home goods.
In Lynx, a cybernetic cat solves murders next to killer angels
I knew I was going to like Lynx the moment I encountered the cybernetically-enhanced, be-goggled, crime-fighting talking cat. Sometimes you just know.
We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries
We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries only dreamed of in centuries past: music on demand, photographs, books, eyeglasses, refrigeration, vaccination, bicycles, and the washing machine.
Black TikToker Addresses Alleged Content Plagiarism
'The Root' spoke exclusively with Black content creator Brianne Saturdays about allegations that a white creator plagiarized one of her posts.
How Maryland is Reckoning With Forgotten Black Boys Who Died in State Care More Than a Century Ago
More than a century later, the state of Maryland is investigating the deaths of Black boys who died in state custody.
Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
A company builds a governed context layer specifically to stop its AI agents from confidently giving wrong answers. Once that layer is live, the company is more than twice as likely to report the failure happening — not less.
Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence
Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely at the country’s scramble to bundle mobile, broadband, and television into a single monthly bill. The German operator confirmed on Monday that its local arm,
These 36 Inexpensive Alternatives To Popular Beauty Products Are So Good, You Will Never Buy The Pricier Version Again
It's time to cut your beauty routine costs by half — or even more.
Azerbaijan wants to become a tech hub as its startups raised $2.6m last year
Every petrostate eventually discovers that the oil will not last forever, and Azerbaijan has reached the stage of the story where the government starts talking about technology.
Instagram blocked rizz. The feed serves the videos anyway
The genre is simple enough to describe. A man wearing camera glasses walks up to a woman in the street. He delivers a line and films her reaction without asking. The clip goes to Instagram, tagged as shot on Meta glasses. The woman is now content. Some of these videos have millions of views.
Verizon cannot claw back its $47mn location data fine
The US Supreme Court has refused Verizon’s request to amend a June ruling so it could pursue a refund of the $47mn it paid over selling access to customer location data. AT&T, whose case is procedurally different, can still seek reimbursement of its $57mn.
Alphabet takes its AI debt spree Down Under with a first Australian dollar bond
Alphabet is preparing to sell its first bond denominated in Australian dollars, a modest-sounding piece of financial housekeeping that says a good deal about how the AI build-out is now being paid for.
The Best Moments From the 2026 Basketball Hall of Fame Ceremony
Unforgettable speeches, touching family tributes, and iconic reunions headlined an emotional weekend honoring the game’s greatest legends.
Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand
Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou company that has done more than anyone else to turn Chinese humanoid robots into a spectator sport, is due to begin trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August, according to Reuters.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.
27 Weird Little Treats That’ll Make You Go “Well, Now I Need That”
"I got it for laughs, but I was amazed by the quality."
I Bet You Can’t Guess Which Classic Novels Inspired These 19 Popular Movies Without Googling it
Do you actually know what The Lion King is based on?
AI maths: the famous results are counterexamples, not proofs
A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one object where it fails. Both settle a question. They ask different things of whoever finds them.
Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)
For TCM, Every Frame a Painting’s Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou tell us how legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu made the transition to color filmmaking. His first color film was Equinox Flower in 1958 and it took a couple of films for Ozu to work out how to best employ color.
Uber is partnering with drone-delivery firm Zipline and targets a million drone deliveries a day
Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, sweetened by an undisclosed strategic investment.
As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer
Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them.
Nvidia’s $105bn Ohio guarantee covers buildings, not OpenAI
A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor covers only the shortfall.
If You’re Absolutely Done Feeling Like A Sweaty Mess, Let These 27 Products Help
Antiperspirant creams, personal fans, a cooling deodorant spray, and other products to keep you from feeling like an icky, sticky swamp monster.
49 Years Later, One Foundational Star Trek Villain Has Returned
The original Klingon is back. Let's talk about Kor's return in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.'
How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale
Presented by MongoDB Building AI that is accurate, secure, and reliable is a major engineering feat for organizations subject to the compliance obligations that govern healthcare, financial services, and transportation. The challenge of delivering AI-driven products is compounded by the fact that technology in these industries has tended to lag behind other sectors because regulation requires organizations to move carefully — and slowly.
Gravis Robotics has raised a $200M Series A led by SoftBank
Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout building software that lets excavators and diggers run themselves, has raised a $200m Series A led by SoftBank, a round it bills as the largest ever in construction robotics. The deal confirms reports that surfaced earlier that Masayoshi Son’s conglomerate was circling the young company.
35 Products To Help Solve Those Little Organizing Problems You’ve Been Avoiding
This slim rolling storage cart instantly creates bathroom storage in that awkward gap next to your toilet.
Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary
Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary series New York will soon air on PBS. “Produced by the same team that created the original NEW YORK series, The Future of Cities presents a sweeping and dramatic portrait of New York since Sept 11th.”
“Scream” Extra Recalls Touching Hayden Panettiere Moment After Actor’s Death Aged 36
"Hayden was nothing but nice to everyone around her..."
German Christian Democrats Are Paralyzed by a Far-Right Surge
Next month, three state elections will test whether Germany’s postwar consensus against governing with the far right will survive. On September 6, roughly two million voters in Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls; two weeks later, on September 20, they’ll be followed by voters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the capital, Berlin.
Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care
Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.”
Cambridge’s Youngest Black Professor Found Dead Following Plagiarism Probe
From overcoming disability to becoming Cambridge’s youngest Black professor, Jason Arday’s remarkable journey ended amid controversy, scrutiny and tragedy.
Dutch contractor rules 2026: what changed and what it costs
Somewhere in Amsterdam there is a developer who has invoiced the same foreign company every month for three years. Same rate, same hours, same Slack channel, same standup at 09:30. Everyone involved has always called it a contractor relationship.
Jordyn Woods and Karl-Anthony Towns Say ‘I Do’ in a Glamorous Malibu Wedding
The longtime friends said “I do” in an intimate oceanfront ceremony surrounded by family, friends and their celebrity peers.
The Best Posthumous Rap Albums
From Nipsey Hussle's "PROLIFIC" to Sean Price's "Imperious Rex," we’re looking back at the most impactful posthumous hip-hop albums.
4 Years Later, One Of The Best Thrillers Of The Decade Just Got A Huge Upgrade
Zach Cregger's first game-changing film, 'Barbarian,' still haunts you.
Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery
Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America’s food-delivery robot business.
Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe
The Bundeskartellamt found Apple held rival apps to a stricter consent standard than its own. The agreed fix, neutral prompts and no double hurdle, applies across almost all of the EU.
A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block
A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own campaign to choke off China’s AI industry.
Meet the man who spent $15K on Beyoncé tickets
From a fan perspective, seeing the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, attending the US Open and sipping on Honey Deuces, and getting a seat to Olivia Rodrigo’s Unraveled Tour and sing-screaming to “Stupid Song” couldn’t be more different. But they do have one thing in common: They’re all expensive.
Who Is Maya Boyd? Meet the MCU’s New Storm in ‘X-Men’
Broadway star Maya Boyd has just been cast as Storm in MCU's upcoming "X-Men" reboot. If you don't know the breakout actress yet, we're filling you in!
Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to do something entirely mundane, book him into a gym class, and it answered by carrying out the country’s first known autonomous cyberattack. Given only the goal of securing a spot in a busy session, the agent went off-script, hunted down a flaw in the gym’s booking system,
A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens
In Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China’s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil the country’s artificial-intelligence boom into something you can actually drink.
The NAACP Joins the Legal Fight for Answers Related to Nolan Wells’ Death
America's oldest and largest civil rights organization is joining the fight to bring the truth about what happened to Nolan Wells.
The Ultimate Reading List for Building a Successful Business
Skip the overpriced panels. Get real, actionable business gems directly from proven Black entrepreneurs through these must-read books and podcasts.
Butch Huskey, Other Black Celebs We Lost in 2026
We are honoring all of the Black stars who left us in 2026. Read more
Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market
Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe’s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan’s Rakuten, a name better known for e-commerce and mobile phones, to help broker the sale of its unmanned systems to Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Forces.
It’s My Job To Scour The Web For Cool Things, And These Are My Top Home Finds Of 2026 So Far
An embroidered pillow that reads "none of your emails are finding me well" exists, and I think you need it.
Why scientists are using cheap picnic coolers to protect some of the world’s most endangered animals
PALAU, Micronesia — The ride out to sea was, in a word, unpleasant. The coastal waters of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific, are typically calm and electric blue, like what you might see on a screensaver or postcard. The country has put in place some of the world’s most rigorous protections to keep its marine environment pristine.
AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it
The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine-assisted summer hit has already reached the Billboard Hot 100. Generative music has arrived in the mainstream, and the artists using it have largely stopped pretending otherwise.
How a Black Shoe Collector Provided Zendaya’s Rare 2012 Heels
Zendaya and Law Roach have been serving look after look this summer. But when the duo went searching for a rare pair of gladiator heels, it was one Black fan who saved the day.
SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem
SafePal, the Binance-backed maker of hardware and software crypto wallets, has disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 39,798 customers, all of whom placed orders between 2 March 2025 and 11 April 2026. The exposed records cover order information, namely names, physical addresses and contact details.
Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
The Chinese giant is offloading a profitable gaming studio to private equity so it can pour every spare yuan into Qwen and its data centres, though the buyers and sellers cannot agree on what the studio is worth.
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artificial intelligence ecosystems, because belonging to both is no longer an option.
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tells its own story about where the smart money in AI now thinks the durable profit lies.
Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028
According to a Reuters exclusive, the AI lab’s initial public offering hinges on an internal forecast that it will book between $190bn and $200bn of revenue in 2028, a previously unreported figure that bankers and investors are already leaning on to justify a price tag that could brush $2tn.
Is Hal Jordan Really Dead? ‘Lanterns’ Answers A ‘Superman’ Mystery With A Shocking Twist
'Lanterns' Episode 1 ends with a shocking flash forward that rewrites the future of the Green Lantern Corps.
80 Weird Things for Men With Near-Perfect Amazon Reviews That Are So Genius
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Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing that backers expect to value it at $2trn.
65 Weird-Ass Products Under $25 That Are Extremely Useful
Get ready, because there are so many wacky-but-ingenious products on this list just waiting to solve your problems.
Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM
Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort it out. This works fine in a demo. It falls apart the moment the system has to survive an audit, a regulator, or a compliance officer asking why a specific decision was made six months ago.
55 Wacky Things for Your Home That Are Actually Super Practical
From oddly shaped tools to gadgets with specific purposes, every pick does its job with its own wacky flair.
The Incredible Survival Story Of Charles Joughin, The Chief Baker On The Titanic
Charles Joughin saved the lives of several women and children before refusing to board a lifeboat himself, then treaded water in the icy Atlantic until help arrived — and he credited his survival to the "drop of liqueur" he had as the ship went down.
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not available in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK.
Why Rihanna is Fashion’s Ultimate Game-Changer
While Anne Hathaway is earning praise for her recent maternity style, we can't forget the true pioneer of pregnancy fashion, Rihanna.
Control your PDFs, don't let them control you — even on Mac
TL;DR: End the cycle of frustration!
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Shoppers are obsessed with these useful, clever, and cool products — once you see them, you’ll understand why they’re skyrocketing in popularity on Amazon.
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks.
60 Years Later, One Endlessly Spoofed Sci-Fi Movie Is Still A Masterpiece
You've seen it parodied on 'Rick and Morty,' 'Futurama,' and dozens of other shows, but 'Fantastic Voyage' is, well, fantastic.
The Legal Paths to Hoarding Political and Economic Power
It’s a moment for both hope and hesitation: recent victories in Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, and New York suggest gathering political momentum on the left. Yet a defeat in Wisconsin and a judge’s temporary stay of New York City’s pied-à-terre tax offer reminders that every movement for social progress breeds its own countervailing reaction. But how does that reaction itself build power? The scaffolding for backlash, as the New York City decision suggests, is often found in the legal system.
The Dangerous Rise of Victimhood Nationalism
South Korea has strong traditions of class struggle and left-wing political organization. Unfortunately, this has generally not been reflected in the development of Korean radical theory, which has tended to be heavily derivative of work published in other countries and languages.
Should you spend your money on retirement or give it to your kids?
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal Samuel while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.
Black Stars Who Hit the Carpet for the 2026 Stellar Awards
Kem, Erica Campbell and Kirk Franklin are just a few of the Black stars who hit the carpet for this celebration of gospel music.
Why babies’ experiences matter (even if they can’t remember them)
No matter how hard we try, remembering anything that happened to us before the age of, say, 3 or 4 years old feels impossible. Even memories before 7 years old feel hazy and fragmented.
A scheduled update declined Mastercards across Australia
Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by mid-afternoon. Mastercard says the problem is resolved and all systems are working normally. Mastercard payments stopped working across Australia on Saturday afternoon.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Mother Breaks Silence Amid Legal Battle With His Widow
"The Cosby Show" star's mother is finally speaking up in response to the million-dollar lawsuit filed by her son's widow. Let's get into it.
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’s claim of more than 300,000. Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads,
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There’s a big difference between a product that’s handy and one so genius it changes your life for the better — this is full of the latter,
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being closed by AI.
80 Cheap Gifts for Men on Amazon That Are Legitimately Amazing
I’ve put all the amazing products I’ve found into one giant list to make it easier for you — and me, next time — to gift something that he’ll want.
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying is actually correct. Not fluent, not coherent, not topically relevant — correct in the sense of accurately identifying the right answer to the specific problem the tool was built to solve.
Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei’s latest driver assistance.
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company prepares a listing. Anthropic has told prospective investors that its second-quarter revenue passed $11.5bn.
LG will show an Nvidia-powered humanoid robot in 2027
LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year.
AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale
AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic.
VisionQuest Trailer Promises To End Marvel’s Boldest Trilogy, With A Star Trek-ish Twist
Back in 2021, one TV show launched the Disney+ Marvel Universe: WandaVision. It was an experimental, meta take on TV shows as a whole, and let Wanda Maximoff craft her own love story with Vision, who by the end was reborn as White Vision. WandaVision launched its own pocket cinematic universe, including Agatha All Along and, arguably, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
‘Ahsoka’ Season 2 Trailer Reveals Split Timeline — And Major Legends Reboot
We're getting 'Heir to the Empire' and 'The Clone Wars' live action all at once. Is 'Ahsoka' Season 2 a story on three fronts?
Marvel Confirms Rebooted X-Men Cast, Reveals 2028 Release Date
Ever since Disney purchased Fox in 2019, fans have wondered about the possibilities of introducing X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It started slowly with Deadpool, but in bits and pieces, the X-Men became more and more integrated. By the time of Deadpool & Wolverine, it was firmly established that the X-Men movies exist in another universe, one of countless universes that exist.
The Legal Stakes Surrounding a Black Surrogate Mother’s Fight For Bodily Autonomy – The Root
A surrogacy fight spanning three states is forcing courts to sort out contracts, parentage, medical decisions and bodily autonomy.
Joe or Donell Jones: Who Wins the Verzuz R&B Matchup?
While the real winners will be the viewers, The Root went track-for-track to predict who takes the crown in the upcoming Joe vs. Donell Jones Verzuz.
The Extraordinary Story Of Richard McCoy Jr., The Hijacker Who Parachuted Out Of A Plane With $500,000
After bragging about his "foolproof" plan, Richard McCoy Jr. hijacked United Airlines Flight 855 in April 1972 — and was promptly arrested 48 hours later.
Pax Silica: US tells 35 countries to pick a side on AI
Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text.
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Anthropic Risk Report: 11 months without bio classifiers
Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings.
The Odyssey Is a Thrilling, Reactionary Lament
The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s cinematic retelling of Homer’s epic poem, has taken the country by storm. While on vacation back home in southern Illinois, I visited a Dolby theater with my family to experience it myself — and was not disappointed. The film delivered spectacular visuals, clever effects, and breathtaking sound design.
Nvidia OpenAI backstop halved as 13F reveals its stakes
Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend.
Trump Gets Real About US Dominance of Latin America
In 1914, addressing the University of Buenos Aires, President Theodore Roosevelt called the Monroe Doctrine a policy “which the United States promulgated, partly as a matter of policy in its own interest, partly as a matter of policy in the interest of all the republics of the New World.” Earlier this week, the State Department posted a five-minute video to its official account on Twitter tracing a straight line from James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress through the Spanish-American War, the Roosevelt Corollary, and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
10 Films From The 2026 Fantasia Film Festival I Can’t Stop Thinking About
The biggest genre film festival in North America is the Fantasia Film Festival. Here's 10 great movies to watch out for.
Nobody knows how long a software-defined car lasts
Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long.
