August 2026 Archive
2851.
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra
(garymarcus.substack.com)
2852.
Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal from 2005
(en.wikipedia.org)
2853.
The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)
(archive.org)
2854.
2855.
TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]
(youtube.com)
2856.
GitHub Actions Is Down
(githubstatus.com)
2857.
2858.
Curlese, Five Years Later
(hypertesto.me)
2859.
The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here
(svelte.dev)
2860.
DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live
(xcancel.com)
2861.
Firefox Intent to Ship: JPEG XL
(hacks.mozilla.org)
2862.
What happens when the AI bubble pops?
(thehustle.co)
2863.
Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix
(fzakaria.com)
2864.
Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now
(qwencloud.com)
2865.
2866.
Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain
(dl.acm.org)
2867.
Scientists find clearing cholesterol from blood also removes forever chemicals
(independent.co.uk)
2868.
Firefox and Exa Partnership
(blog.mozilla.org)
2869.
Chinese Implants in the Supply Chain
(vulncheck.com)
2870.
From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)
(practicallyefficient.com)
2871.
DHS Wants Protesters' Signal Group Chats
(wired.com)
2872.
OpenAI pauses frontier model training
(twitter.com)
2873.
Mac OS X on Xbox 360
(github.com)
2874.
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
(theregister.com)
2875.
Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs
(independent.co.uk)
2876.
Police departments weren’t looking for Flock abuse. We did it for them.
(washingtonpost.com)
2879.