August 2025 Archive
6571.
AI is entering an 'unprecedented regime.' Should we stop it - and can we? (livescience.com)
6572.
Trailblazing SF coffee chain about to be sold to private equity firm for $145M (sfgate.com)
6573.
U.S. hiring was weak in July, with 73,000 jobs added (wsj.com)
6574.
Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way (proton.me)
6575.
MiniHDL: A Python Hardware Description Language DSL (nicholas.carlini.com)
6576.
Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application (bitchat.free)
6577.
The NNCPNET email network (lwn.net)
6578.
The Great Crime Paradox (ft.com)
6579.
Replacing Lua's math.random module with the Xorshift algorithm (nullonerror.org)
6580.
Officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks (twitter.com)
6581.
Celebrity Private Jet Leaderboard (celebrityprivatejettracker.com)
6582.
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329M verdict (arstechnica.com)
6583.
Jack Dorsey's Goose and Secret Model Is Wild [video] (youtube.com)
6584.
Blood taken from Danish babies ended up in huge genetic study–without consent (science.org)
6585.
As AI Gets Smarter, It Acts More Evil (honest-broker.com)
6586.
Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia's Internet (nytimes.com)
6587.
Starting scripts with ' /usr/bin/env <whatever>' is rarely useful (utcc.utoronto.ca)
6588.
China's Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights [video] (youtube.com)
6589.
Banana Production in Iceland (en.wikipedia.org)
6590.
Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator (livescience.com)
6591.
Plastics a 'grave' danger to health, scientists warn before UN talks (ft.com)
6592.
EU could earn €1T by taxing aviation, private jets included (euractiv.com)
6593.
Qwen-Image – a 20B MMDiT model for next-gen text-to-image generation (twitter.com)
6594.
An Open Letter to OpenAI (openai-transparency.org)
6595.
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China (propublica.org)
6596.
Extreme black hole system OJ 287 just got more interesting (bigthink.com)
6597.
Adtech company OpenX sues Google (businessinsider.com)
6598.
Denmark zoo asks people to donate their small pets as food for captive predators (pbs.org)
6599.
Tesla awards boss Elon Musk $29B in shares (bbc.com)
6600.
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