August 2025 Archive
5191.
Xi Unleashes China's Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao (bloomberg.com)
5192.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich (wsj.com)
5193.
Show HN: ThisTouristDoesNotExist (virtual tourists at real landmarks) (thistouristdoesnotexist.com)
5194.
Intel Is Laying Off Workers While Raking in Public Largesse (jacobin.com)
5195.
GenAI to automate federal worker tasks predicted to cut 300k jobs by end of year (gizmodo.com)
5196.
AMD Prepares EPYC "Venice" Platform to Break the 1k W Power Barrier (techpowerup.com)
5197.
Show HN: IsAgent – Detect agents like ChatGPT Agent on your website (isagent.dev)
5198.
Show HN: InsForge – Open-source agent-native alternative to Supabase (github.com)
5199.
The zone zero secret: how ultra-low-stress exercise can change your life (theguardian.com)
5200.
Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life (nytimes.com)
5201.
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve (theatlantic.com)
5202.
Samsung smart TV outage prevents access to third party apps (downdetector.com)
5203.
When the majority disagrees on the shadow docket (scotusblog.com)
5204.
systemd-homed (wiki.archlinux.org)
5205.
US-based company developed a modified wood it claims is stronger than steel (bbc.com)
5206.
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were 'Rigged,' Fires Labor Official (nytimes.com)
5207.
Why "vibe physics" is the ultimate example of AI slop (bigthink.com)
5208.
Tesla partly liable in Florida Autopilot trial, jury awards $200M in damages (techcrunch.com)
5209.
Shroud of Turin image matches low-relief statue–not human body, study finds (phys.org)
5210.
Black goo was oozing from a ship on the Great Lakes – and teeming with life (cnn.com)
5211.
Individuals with lower incomes show greater physiological tuning (psypost.org)
5212.
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality. (poynter.org)
5213.
$250M top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and Space Race (arstechnica.com)
5214.
Ask HN: Whats Your Observability Setup?
5215.
Israel's Winning One War While It Loses Another (thefp.com)
5216.
Tencent's Hunyuan Instruct 7B/4B/1.8B/0.5B new models have been released (huggingface.co)
5217.
Language Models Improve When Pretraining Data Matches Target Tasks (arxiv.org)
5218.
Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election (brennancenter.org)
5219.
Cordoomceps – replacing an Amiga's brain with Doom (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
5220.
Earth's Core Appears to Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface (quantamagazine.org)