August 2026 Archive
1.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
(businessinsider.com)
2.
Don't be a meat proxy
(gruhn.me)
4.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
(blog.curiousquail.com)
5.
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
(lectronz.com)
6.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
7.
OpenLogi
(openlogi.org)
8.
Dolly Parton has died
(theguardian.com)
9.
Everything I own, owned
(schlarp.com)
10.
Qwen 3.8 27B
(huggingface.co)
11.
LLMs reward expertise
(seangoedecke.com)
12.
The Amazon tax
(seths.blog)
13.
Creepy Crawlies
(people.kernel.org)
14.
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
(apple.com)
16.
“I just chose words carefully”
(unsung.aresluna.org)
17.
Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
(tailscale.com)
18.
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
(github.com)
19.
20.
Mario Meets Pareto
(mayerowitz.io)
22.
GLM-5.3-Flash
(z.ai)
23.
24.
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
(rickmanelius.com)
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26.
27.
AWS Acquires DuckLabs
(ducklabs.com)
28.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
(responsiblestatecraft.org)
29.
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
(lemonde.fr)
30.
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
(blog.laserphile.com)