The Verge
Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individu… more…
The Verge
Over the last few years, I've gradually shifted away from ebooks. It's been part of a general return to physical media, an attempt to create a deeper sense of ownership over the art I love and collect. A Kindle is obviously more convenient than a paperback: I… more…
Seths.blog
When new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better. Desktop publishing made every local garage sale sign a lot more legible, but can’t quite replace the hand-kerned and tweaked typography of the era before. A sma… more…
Entrepreneur
Most outreach asks for value and offers none in return. The businesses that earn links and citations publish proof first. more…
While US manufacturers welcome the robot restrictions, startups fear they will lose access to affordable hardware. more…
Xbox is testing a way for users to stream the games for free by watching ads. Ad execs say the move hints at a bigger advertising play. more…
Kotaku
Portal: Alive & Kicking kicking had Valve’s blessing and even access to Portal 2’s source code, but that same arrangement now has the team sitting on their hands more…
Kotaku
Microsoft's gaming division had a very bad quarter more…
Kotaku
The executive said Xbox is working on the issue to prevent outages like this in the future more…
Boing Boing
Fun fact: over 60% of all workshop injuries are the result of using a table saw without really knowing how to use a table saw. We're talking somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 cuts, slices and amputations, every year — and that's just in North America. — Rea… more…
The Next Web
Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. Users had s… more…
Hackaday
Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief years, there we… more…
Hackaday
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot called TongDou. As [so… more…
What exactly has happened to work in the Emerald City? more…
They spent more to cover the ginger prince over five years than any other internationally protected person over the same period. more…
Scott Galloway thinks it’s “modern-day steel dumping.” Here’s a look at what he means. more…
The oldest Boomers are starting to turn 80, but the Great Wealth Transfer isn't materializing as promised. more…
They'll wait in line for TikTok's hype, but they want the receipts from Yelp before they commit. more…
Boing Boing
An author's debut novel scored $2.4m in licensing deals after Minotaur/Macmillan acquired it, but they unraveled after "questions were raised" over exactly who, or what, wrote it. Deadline reports "there are apparently fingerprints, or something that raised t… more…
Themarginalian.org
In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend Andrea gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father’s used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it in a day. Born in England in the final year of the nineteenth… more…
Abcnews.com
D4vd -- whose legal name is David Burke -- pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, sexual abuse of a child and unlawful mutilation of human remains. more…
Abcnews.com
Following James Comey's indictment in April, prosecutors sought the aid of gangster Sammy "The Bull" Gravano to build their case, Comey's lawyers claim in a court filing. more…
Fox News
The DeFlock map displays about 119,000 license plate readers across the U.S., with Flock Safety cameras accounting for 83% of the mapped total. more…
The New Yorker
Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Sheila Heti about “Earthly Delights,” her story from the August 03, 2026, issue of The New Yorker. more…
Gizmodo.com
If Xbox discs require “entitlements,” do you actually own them? more…
The Atlantic
Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot. more…
BBC News
Storms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media. more…
Hacker News
About Loops Loops (YC W22) is the email platform for modern software companies. We help product and growth teams send better lifecycle email without fighting legacy tools. The role We’re hiring a US-based Product Educator and technical content creator on a… more…
Hughhowey.com
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificia… more…
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Elizabethtai.com
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you … more…
Hatchet.run
Discovering what we've all copied from Xerox. more…
Blinry.org
I've been fascinated by the idea of attaching multiple mice to one computer, and then having multiple mouse cursors inside of one desktop environment! more…
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems … more…
Cabinetmagazine.org
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Andros.dev
I am sorry, but you do not know what a RESTful API is. I know you are a seasoned developer who has integrated APIs of all kinds, and you may even have more…
Eth.limo
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Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB. Full numbers and methodology inside. more…
Anthropic researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms with Claude Mythos Preview more…
Juliahub.com
We tested the latest frontier models in the Dyad agent on five modeling and simulation problems, comparing accuracy, cost, time, and work style. more…
heise online
Amazon baut seinen Cloud-Gaming-Dienst Luna in Prime Video ein. Den neuen Games-Bereich sehen vorerst nur Fire-TV-Nutzer in den USA und Großbritannien. more…
Android Police
Some of those bands don't really exist more…
Thekitchn.com
I'll never ditch a cheap bottle of red again. READ MORE... more…
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Thekitchn.com
Frozen dumplings to the rescue. READ MORE... more…
Macworld
Macworld Apple has officially ended new enrollments in the iPhone Upgrade Program, bringing to a close one of the company’s most consumer-friendly ways to buy an iPhone. The change comes alongside the debut of Apple Upgrade, a leasing option powered b… more…
Windows Central
Months after Warhammer Skulls 2026, we have our first look at Helldivers 2's upcoming Legendary Warbond crossover with Warhammer 40,000, which has been confirmed to drop on August 12, 2026. As a Warhammer 40,000 fan, it's seriously making me consider finally … more…
Science Daily
Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus. The breakthrough could improve models of how stars, supernovae, and neutron star mergers create heavy elements. more…
Google News
Earlier this month, we announced platform properties for Search Console, allowing you to track how your social and video posts on Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube perform on Google Search, Discover, and Google News. Today, platform properties are globally … more…
MakeUseOf
There are already complaints that changes to the paid subscription are ruining writing for some users. more…
Search Engine Journal
Treat Europe as one Google market, and you'll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a door overnight. The post European Search Strategy Goes Beyond Google & Bing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
Nature.com
Researchers say that transparent publishing practices could be associated with research quality, but more evidence is needed. more…
Tympanus.net
FLOT NOIR reimagines MERSI’s digital presence as a quiet, immersive space between architectural print and interactive web, combining a tailored Webflow build with precise motion and editorial storytelling. more…
Nature.com
Tiny bird figurines hint at the sophistication of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens. Plus, open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted and a mission to fly over dangerous ‘fire clouds’. more…
XDA Developers
Google’s overlooked tool for serious productivity. more…
Ritholtz.com
At The Money: Living a Life of Purpose, Dr. Jordan Grumet (July 29, 2026) Worried about purpose, legacy, and what all this wealth might be good for? You are not alone. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Dr. Jordan Grumet is a physician who wo… more…
Search Engine Journal
Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10. The post Heavily AI-Flagged Pages Still Rank Across Google’s Top 10 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. more…
Suganthan.com
Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here's what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video, and local. The post How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Stream, Not The Answers) appeared first on Search Engine Journ… more…
Krebs on Security
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreakin… more…
BGR
Going into outer space is dangerous for lots of reasons, but being able to take an X-ray while in orbit opens the door to longer-term missions. more…
Cupofjo.com
Christine Pride, left; Mara Brock Akil, right When I was six years old, I asked my parents why there weren’t people who looked like us on TV.… Read more The post Race Matters: A Conversation With TV Producer Mara Brock Akil appeared first on Cup of Jo. more…
Internet
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into a… more…
Techdirt
On Friday this week the FTC’s open comment period regarding its “Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy” will close, which means that a bunch of very smart, very busy people are wasting a ton of time this week writing up comments that will mostly be ignored … more…
ArchDaily
Claying Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin presents a curated collection of essays, interviews, and projects from leading architects, designers, and researchers who are analyzing the role of clay 3D printing in contemporary architecture. The book b… more…
Internet
GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, thoug… more…
Rolling Stone
The lyricist also reveals that Gary Oldman is making a documentary about his life, and says he and Elton have no plans to sell their publishing more…
Rolling Stone
Bebe Rexha appeared on 'The Tonight Show' to perform a medley of her songs "New Religion" and "Sad Girls." more…
Rolling Stone
On her album Pink Pocket Pistol, the Georgia native disposes of bad men and celebrates powerful women: "I’m obsessed with really strong, sassy, Southern women" more…
Rolling Stone
The Covid-19 origin controversy is more complicated than Rand Paul and Republicans or Anthony Fauci have been willing to admit. more…
MIT Technology Review
Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known a… more…
Oreilly.com
This week, data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos looked at three developments shaping AI’s next phase: agents that can act across systems, infrastructure built for specific models, and world models that help AI understand physical environments. Model … more…
Oreilly.com
I hadn’t heard of Dan Guido until a few months ago, when I came across the video of a talk he gave at [un]prompted, an AI security practitioners’ conference. Dan is the CEO and cofounder of Trail of Bits, a software security research and development firm that… more…
BBC News
Gianni Infantino has clashed with unions and European football, but after 10 years as Fifa president he remains in a powerful position. more…
The New York Review of Books
Fairfield Porter was an insider among the East Coast elite, but his own portraits of life in Southampton and Maine give the charming impression of an outsider looking in. more…
Itsnicethat.com
We catch up with co-founder Neal Whittington as the fan favourite print ephemera and stationery brand makes its first foray into the publishing world with a debut title from P&C Additions and uncover some of the stories behind the shop’s legendary stock. more…
Eurogamer.net
On Monday, Xbox suffered a major server outage that affected players worldwide. The outage took down several key functions of Xbox, including the ability to buy and download games, play them offline, and even extended to disc-based games. Services have since … more…
Eurogamer.net
007 First Light's first major post-launch update, Patch 1.1.0, is here, introducing "fixes and improvements for over 200 issues reported by the community and our internal playtesters". Read more more…
Hootsuite.com
Filter Planner by approver, compare performance across every network in one table, and meet Social OS: Here's everything we shipped in June. The post What are the latest Hootsuite product features? [June 2026] appeared first on Social Media Marketing & Manage… more…
Eurogamer.net
Despite having over five million players since its launch last year and an okay enough reception, soulslike game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers quickly faced behind-the-scenes drama after its lead producer and director Xia Siyuan departed developer Leenzee, which c… more…
The Intercept
The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party. The post Abdul El-Sayed Answers: Can the Left Win in the Midwest? Yes. appeared first on The Intercept. more…
Neilpatel.com
If you just logged into the new AnswerThePublic for the first time, there’s a lot more going on than the tool you might remember. The version most people know was a keyword visualization tool. Type in a topic, get a wheel of questions people are searching. Th… more…
Deadline
Jared Leto has strongly denied allegations of unlawful sexual conduct made by four women in a BBC documentary. In a statement issued through his publicist, the Oscar-winning actor said: “I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims a… more…
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Curiosity Entertainment has named former CBS exec Laurie Seidman as its TV and film chief, as the production house and its publishing subsidiary, Storyteller Media, unveiled a debut page-to-screen slate. Seideman is named Head of Film & Television,… more…
Deadline
A federal judge will allow Donald Trump to again amend his defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, as the publication has moved to dismiss the litigation. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday gave Trump until August 27 to file the new complaint. Trump s… more…
Digiday
Bold Call: Google's AI era is fueling fresh calls for publishers to cut off access to their content, but dependence on search still holds most back. more…
Github.blog
Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact. The post Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog. more…
New Atlas
RedMagic has made its intentions very clear: It wants to dominate portable gaming. And the Astra 2 tablet sets the bar high, sitting in the Goldilocks zone between phone screen and full-sized tablet – and performing as good as it feels in hand.Continue Readin… more…
Marketingdirecto.com
El crecimiento supera la evolución prevista del mercado publicitario gracias al impulso de Digital Media Trading (+27%) La entrada ISPD aumenta un 23% su cifra de negocios proforma en el primer semestre se publicó primero en Marketing Directo. more…
Gothamist
The city sent 17,000 letters to property owners who might be eligible for the pied-a-terre tax. “Why are we being targeted?” one Staten Island resident asked. [ more › ] more…
Yoast.com
Most AI website builders promise you can create a website in minutes, but what does that timeline actually include? While AI can generate a professional-looking website surprisingly quickly, you’ll still need time to choose a domain, review the generated cont… more…
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: That screeching sound you heard Wednesday from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body. The novel by Jerry Falade sol… more…
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK has won the rights to adapt Fruit Fly, the debut adult novel from HappyHead author Josh Silver. Silver will be an EP on the TV series, which comes following what we understand was a competitive bidding process. Fruit Fly follows Mallory, a l… more…
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The appetite for Agatha Christie appears to be at an all-time high after the iconic crime author’s estate locked up record sales last year. Agatha Christie Limited posted revenue of nearly £33 million ($43.9M) in 2025, which was the highest level o… more…
The New Republic
A new batch of documents published by The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals widespread censorship of course content at Texas A&M, one of many public universities where MAGA politicians—not faculty and department heads—now determine what can and can’t be t… more…
The New Republic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 31 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.It’s been a w… more…
Grist
Last summer brought Europe's most destructive wildfire season on record. This season is on track to break it. more…