August 2025 Archive
8971.
We empower communities and nations around the world to map the electrical grid (MapYourGrid.org)
8972.
Windows 11 24H2 updates failing again with 0x80240069 errors (bleepingcomputer.com)
8973.
Practical Diff Testing of Stateful Applications (VLDB'25) (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
8974.
Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
8975.
US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China sources say (reuters.com)
8976.
The World's top AI researchers (metislist.com)
8977.
Swarm of jellyfish shuts nuclear power plant in France (theguardian.com)
8978.
Attorney General James Sues Company Behind Zelle for Enabling Widespread Fraud (ag.ny.gov)
8979.
NY sues Zelle, says security lapses led to $1B consumer fraud losses (reuters.com)
8980.
Everything I Know about Self-Publishing (kk.org)
8981.
Step Away from Share Button (stepawayfromthesharebutton.com)
8982.
Pyx: A Python-native package registry, now in Beta (simonwillison.net)
8983.
Answering the BfDI's questions on personal data in LLMs (desfontain.es)
8984.
Volkswagen wants you to pay monthly to unlock more horsepower (neowin.net)
8985.
The Unsought Evidence (pretty.direct)
8986.
Gov't HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors (theregister.com)
8987.
Remote sensing reveals underestimated methane emissions from global landfills (phys.org)
8988.
LinkedIn joins Meta and YouTube in abandoning policies to combat anti-trans hate (techpolicy.press)
8989.
Many Colorado teachers must spend more than 40% of their income on rent (coloradosun.com)
8990.
Toronto film fest nixes Oct 7 doc screening, cites Hamas ownership of clips (timesofisrael.com)
8991.
Chatbots aren't telling you their secrets (theverge.com)
8992.
Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art–pelicans don't ride bikes " (simonwillison.net)
8993.
Baby Shark did not plagiarise – South Korean top court (bbc.com)
8994.
Tech Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth (cnbc.com)
8995.
Program the BBC Micro in C with VBCC for 6502 on macOS Using Docker (retrogamecoders.com)
8996.
Every AI Support I Tried Cost Me Customers – Here's Why 2025 Still Hates Bots (synthicai.com)
8997.
Why Read Assembly (codestyleandtaste.com)
8998.
Consensus Algorithms at Scale (2020) (planetscale.com)
8999.
Voynich Manuscript (en.wikipedia.org)
9000.
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials (maxread.substack.com)