August 2025 Archive
1111.
End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs (theregister.com)
1112.
Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use
1113.
Forklifts require training (zacsweers.dev)
1114.
CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years (ft.com)
1115.
Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database (wired.com)
1116.
Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
1117.
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? (newyorker.com)
1118.
A robust, open-source framework for Spiking Neural Networks on low-end FPGAs (arxiv.org)
1119.
OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good (simonwillison.net)
1120.
Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS (arstechnica.com)
1121.
Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World (heritagedaily.com)
1122.
The Disappearance of Saturday Morning (2003) (awn.com)
1123.
We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem (denodell.com)
1124.
Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army (washingtonpost.com)
1125.
Belgium's Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment (jacobin.com)
1126.
Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords (theregister.com)
1127.
Giving people money helped less than I thought it would (theargumentmag.com)
1128.
The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)
1129.
The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video] (youtube.com)
1130.
Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021) (asawicki.info)
1131.
How to free up and automatically manage disk space for WSL (freecodecamp.org)
1132.
RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft (arstechnica.com)
1133.
The Sunlight Budget of Earth (asimov.press)
1134.
Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024) (thedriftmag.com)
1135.
Events (developer.mozilla.org)
1136.
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think (twitter.com)
1137.
Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years (cnbc.com)
1138.
Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
1139.
The Crisis of Professional Skepticism (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)
1140.
About AI (priver.dev)