August 2025 Archive
8011.
One in ten UK businesses see staff quit over office working demands (thetimes.com)
8012.
The wall confronting large language models (arxiv.org)
8013.
Gemini Hijacked with a Poisoned Calendar Invite; Takes over a Smart Devices (wired.com)
8014.
Car Reinforcement Learning Training (github.com)
8015.
Quick Read: What Happens If Every Light in the World Is Switched on at Once? (sciencealert.com)
8016.
Former Intel board members call for independent US based foundry (fortune.com)
8017.
Source Control: What to Make of 'Source Code'? (thechipletter.substack.com)
8018.
Florida Sues Adult Sites for Ignoring Age Verification Digital ID Law [pdf] (docs.reclaimthenet.org)
8019.
The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth (theatlantic.com)
8020.
Ask HN: Who do you trust for product reviews?
8021.
Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh (mill-build.org)
8022.
The Pain of Perfectionism (newyorker.com)
8023.
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google (old.reddit.com)
8024.
A New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs (techcrunch.com)
8025.
A First Time for Everything: Theories about the Origin of the Universe (nybooks.com)
8026.
The Pain of Perfectionism (newyorker.com)
8027.
The 24-year-old Canadian software engineer who runs MAGA bots (ottawacitizen.com)
8028.
Truth Social's new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News (theverge.com)
8029.
Students Find Hidden Fibonacci Sequence in Classic Probability Puzzle (scientificamerican.com)
8030.
Cligen: A Native API-Inferred Command-Line Interface Generator for Nim (github.com)
8031.
Low standards have devalued non-STEM study (slowboring.com)
8032.
Warranty That Was Never Meant to Protect You
8033.
We open-sourced a 'Semantic Clinic' for LLM bugs – 16 root causes (github.com)
8034.
I Built a Free Alternative to ElevenLabs, Now over 10k People Are Using It (amuletvoice.com)
8035.
Swimming and Audiobooks (tomups.com)
8036.
Got a non-emergency request for Toronto police? You can now call *877 (cbc.ca)
8037.
GPT-5 Review: Welcome to the Stone Age (latent.space)
8038.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (newyorker.com)
8039.
Covid-19 vaccine and settler colonialism (2022) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
8040.
Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri's startup leverages RISC-V and targets CUDA (tomshardware.com)