August 2025 Archive
3091.
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online (themarkup.org)
3092.
Good multipliers for congruential pseudorandom number generators (arxiv.org)
3093.
Building a watch from scratch in a Brooklyn basement (kottke.org)
3094.
A volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks (blog.cloudflare.com)
3095.
'1984' Hasn't Changed, but America Has (nytimes.com)
3096.
NixOS Now Celebrates Pride Month Year Round (lunduke.substack.com)
3097.
Schools are next for Flock Safety's automatic license place reader cameras (therecord.media)
3098.
Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix (tidewave.ai)
3099.
FTC sues LA Fitness for making it exceedingly hard to cancel gym memberships (ftc.gov)
3100.
Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say (nytimes.com)
3101.
Fans loved her new album. The thing was, she hadn't released one (bbc.co.uk)
3102.
Which Programming Language Should I Teach First? (parentheticallyspeaking.org)
3103.
You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit (hollywoodreporter.com)
3104.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, our image model (developers.googleblog.com)
3105.
Ancient Statues Emerge from the Egypt's Coast, Where They'd Been for 1000 Years (smithsonianmag.com)
3106.
Tinyrenderer second edition: software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
3107.
Tim Cook holds company-wide meeting to address Apple's AI woes (9to5mac.com)
3108.
LF AI and Data Hosts Vortex Project for Data Access for AI and Analytics (linuxfoundation.org)
3109.
One-Handed Keyboard (github.com)
3110.
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2018) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
3111.
Ordered Insertion Optimization in OrioleDB (orioledb.com)
3112.
Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis' (bbc.com)
3113.
A Family Project (2022) (bittersoutherner.com)
3114.
Burning Man co-founder on why he hates the festival now (sfgate.com)
3115.
Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California” (arstechnica.com)
3116.
Grok Code Fast 1 (x.ai)
3117.
Anthropic's surprise settlement adds new wrinkle in AI copyright war (reuters.com)
3118.
Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance (arxiv.org)
3119.
Even Happier Eyeballs (daniel.haxx.se)
3120.
The Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos (lithub.com)