BBC News

  1. Reeves warned taxes must rise to cover £41bn spending gap
  2. Trump's envoy Witkoff meets Putin as Ukraine ceasefire deadline looms
  3. Zara ads banned for 'unhealthily thin' models
  4. Carol Kirkwood: Why weather forecasters (like me) often appear to get it wrong
  5. 'All sides' to blame in Prince Harry charity row, watchdog finds
  6. Sacked hosts star in MasterChef's return, but with less banter
  7. Union and government to restart talks on ending doctor dispute
  8. One dead as France wildfire burns area larger than Paris
  9. Hiroshima's warning to the world as it marks 80 years since atomic bomb
  10. Violent Channel smuggling gang's French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation
  11. Oceangate's Titan whistleblower tells BBC 'people were sold a lie'
  12. Russian attacks on Ukraine double since Trump inauguration
  13. Watch: Ceremony marks 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
  14. 'Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'
  15. Debt, delays and desperation: How Sheffield Wednesday's financial crisis hits fans

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  2. I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
  3. Open models by OpenAI
  4. About the BLOBs in Ventoy
  5. LLM Inflation
  6. Slopsquatting
  7. Python performance myths and fairy tales
  8. Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
  9. I'm Archiving Picocrypt
  10. Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display
  11. Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
  12. NautilusTrader: Open-Source, High-Performance Algorithmic Trading Platform
  13. Ollama Turbo
  14. UR5 with Robotiq 85 Gripper: Object Grasping and Placement Simulation
  15. Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. TIL a man was confined to an abandoned container ship with no power for 4 years, after it was detained in Egypt and its owners went bankrupt
  2. JK Rowling calls for Marks & Spencer boycott amid media hysteria over ‘trans’ employee
  3. Moldova Just Jailed Its Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did
  4. ▶Third WNBA game stopped as adult toy hits WNBA star Sophie Cunningham in latest incident. Fans and officials alike were left stunned as the strange streak of mi…
  5. [OC] I cleaned up this vital pathway so people can safely get to school or the recreation center.
  6. RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
  7. Global study found that willingness to consider someone as a long-term partner dropped sharply as past partner numbers increased. The effect was strongest betwe…
  8. Cream, my Adorable Ferret with an Attitude 🥰
  9. My bag of crisps tells me how long I'd need to run for to burn off one portion's worth of calories
  10. Raffaella Carrà, the first woman to show her belly button on Italian television in 1970
  11. White House orders NASA to deliberately destroy two important satellites monitoring climate change
  12. LPT: Reducing screen time isn’t about quitting your phone, it’s about getting your brain back.
  13. Homophobic attitudes have fallen in Western Europe and the United States
  14. Peak developers would rather you pirate its game than play Roblox "microtransaction-riddled ripoff slop"
  15. New song targets Trump over Epstein files, claims they won't disappear

Lobsters

  1. Gleam v1.12.0 released
  2. TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
  3. Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  4. Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding
  5. Quickshell, building blocks for your desktop
  6. Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  7. Markdown Monster
  8. No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
  9. The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
  10. A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  11. What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  12. Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2?
  13. cosmopolitan: build-once run-anywhere c library
  14. Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  15. Omarchy is on the move

Slashdot

  1. Meta Eavesdropped On Period-Tracker App's Users, Jury Rules
  2. NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose
  3. RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025
  4. Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting
  5. Perplexity Says Cloudflare's Accusations of 'Stealth' AI Scraping Are Based On Embarrassing Errors
  6. Swedish PM Under Fire For Using AI In Role
  7. OpenAI Offers 20 Million User Chats In ChatGPT Lawsuit. NYT Wants 120 Million.
  8. Roku Launches Cheap, Ad-Free Streaming Service 'Howdy'
  9. Intel Struggles With Key Manufacturing Process For Next PC Chip
  10. Google's New Genie 3 AI Model Creates Video Game Worlds In Real Time
  11. DRAM Prices Soar as China Eyes Self-Reliance For High-End Chips
  12. US Proposes New Drone Rules That Could Lead To Starbucks, Amazon Deliveries
  13. Retraction-Prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
  14. OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
  15. Three US Agencies Get Failing Grades For Not Following IT Best Practices

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

  1. Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started
  2. UX Job Interview Helpers
  3. Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  4. The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution
  5. Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
  6. Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
  7. Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters
  8. Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX
  9. Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones
  10. Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
  11. Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research
  12. Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
  13. Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
  14. CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
  15. Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change

The Onion

  1. Pregnant Women Turned Away From ERs Despite Federal Law
  2. Coworker Asks If Woman Interested In Reliving Childhood Trauma On Work Volleyball Team
  3. Hormel Introduces New Chili Formula For Mothers Who Can’t Produce Own Chili
  4. Study Finds Repeatedly Patting Thighs Still Remains Best Way To Get Sat On
  5. Trump Campaign Hacked By Iran
  6. J.D. Vance Accuses Tim Walz Of Stolen Valor For Wearing ‘Grill Master’ Apron
  7. Newly Sober God Admits He Has No Recollection Of Creating Universe
  8. Crush Not Texting You Because His Feelings So Strong That They Scare Him, Finds Imaginary Study
  9. Tim Walz: ‘I Have Killed, And I Will Kill Again’
  10. R. Kelly Petitions Supreme Court To Watch Him Pee
  11. Third Person Dies In Boar’s Head Deli Meat Listeria Outbreak
  12. Sofa So Good
  13. Tim Walz: A Career Timeline
  14. Study: Gen Z Having Less Sex Due To Allure Of Leftovers At Home
  15. Dr. Scholl’s Recalls All Products After Announcing Only Way To Fix Flat Feet Is With Eugenics

WIRED

  1. See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August
  2. Totem Compass Review: Find Your Friends, No Reception Required
  3. 16 Best Electric Bikes of 2025, Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking
  4. Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs
  5. Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable
  6. Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors
  7. The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
  8. Police Report: Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking
  9. US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
  10. The 48 Best Shows on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)
  11. OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
  12. Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
  13. TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
  14. The Best Samsung Galaxy S25 Cases (2025): S25, S25+, S25 Ultra, and S25 Edge
  15. 11 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Core77

  1. The Petersen Museum's Exhibition on Wedge-Shaped Cars
  2. Better UX Than Roadside Flares: LED-Equipped Lizard Flares
  3. Shadow Tool Staging Systems: More Efficient Than Drawers
  4. A Beautiful, Bizarrely Tiny EDC Folding Knife
  5. How You Can Make Even a Pencil Sharpener Go Viral
  6. Horl's Scissors Have an Unusual Feature Designed to Make Sharpening Simple
  7. Yamazaki Home's Magnetic Tape Dispenser
  8. A 2x4-Sized Smartphone
  9. Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-28-25 to 8-1-25)
  10. A Torpedo Level That Changes Color When It's Level or Plumb
  11. Heller Figures Out How to Make Plastic Furniture That Doesn't Shed Microplastics
  12. A Game-Changing Tool Design: Powered Fence Post Drivers
  13. New Book: "How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity"
  14. Why Industrial Facility Designed the Humble-Looking Hiroi Chair
  15. ARES' Brilliant, Low-Tech Energy Storage System Uses Recycled Materials, Gravity and Rocks

MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories

  1. Steam Client to Require macOS 12+ Starting October 15
  2. iOS 26: Get a Callback Reminder for a Missed Call
  3. Apple Stops Signing iOS 18.5
  4. Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 5
  5. Apple Seeds macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers
  6. Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta
  7. Apple Releases Updated MagSafe Charger Firmware
  8. iOS 26 Beta Reveals Apple Watch Ultra 3 Display Size
  9. Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
  10. Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers
  11. Apple Launches Early Preview of ChatGPT-Like Support Assistant
  12. Apple Seeds Fifth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas
  13. Employees Arrested Over Alleged Theft of Chip Tech for Apple A20 Chip
  14. iOS 26: Extend iPhone Battery Life With Adaptive Power Mode
  15. Apple Watch SE Available for $169 Record Low Price on Amazon

Ars Technica - All content

  1. In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food
  2. RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025
  3. Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices
  4. Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”
  5. Murena’s Pixel Tablet is helping to wean me off Google
  6. Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action
  7. Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked
  8. Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service
  9. Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco
  10. Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds
  11. OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
  12. OpenAI announces two “gpt-oss” open AI models, and you can download them today
  13. Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects
  14. 2025 Morgan Plus Four review: Apparently, they do still make them like this
  15. Invasion S3 trailer hints the series is finally finding its stride

Boing Boing

  1. War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube, debuts at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
  2. Jim Acosta interviews grotesque caricature of Parkland shooting victim resurrected through AI
  3. This portable power station is basically a giant battery on wheels
  4. Why other language-learning apps may not work as well as Qlango
  5. You are prohibited from removing old litter from this California beach
  6. White House now wants NASA's woke satellite destroyed
  7. Rising incidences of tick bite-induced "red meat allergy"
  8. Beleaguered co-owner of "Trump Burger" faces deportation
  9. Convicted rapist still a lawmaker in New South Wales' parliament
  10. US Park Service to restore statue of traitor
  11. Ice Cream trucks: "A clear and present danger to children" (video)
  12. Live action Fortnite and Power Rangers trailer features Voltron
  13. Giant settlements backfiring on universities as Trump comes back for more
  14. Bizarre: Trump seen "taking a little walk" on top of the White House roof (video)
  15. PvP wizard simulator requires you to cast spells with your actual voice

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics

  1. HORI's Piranha Plant camera for the Nintendo Switch 2 drops to $40
  2. Dell Premium 14 review: New name, same great laptop
  3. The best Apple Watch accessories for 2025
  4. The best power banks and portable chargers for every device in 2025
  5. Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
  6. Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title
  7. A 'very low' number of original Sonos Roam speakers are overheating
  8. Florida is suing several porn companies over age verification
  9. Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling
  10. ElevenLabs launches its own royalty-free AI music service
  11. Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr
  12. This Anker 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank is on sale for $60 right now
  13. Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks
  14. Surprising no one, Grok's image and video generator now has an NSFW 'spicy' mode
  15. OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

The Register

  1. Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky
  2. To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?
  3. Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot
  4. Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor
  5. Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court
  6. Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs
  7. AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code
  8. Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven
  9. Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough
  10. Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions
  11. That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
  12. Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes
  13. Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo
  14. Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights
  15. Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support

The Next Web

  1. Why civilian-first innovation will drive better dual-use technologies
  2. In recruitment, an AI-on-AI war is rewriting the hiring playbook
  3. Why Europe could quietly win the humanoid race
  4. Can Europe’s AI rules turn worker protections into a competitive edge?
  5. Why traditional VC is failing deep tech — and what can fix it
  6. Browzwear snaps up Dutch AI fashion model startup Lalaland
  7. Cleo launches new ‘AI money coach’ to help fix your spending habits
  8. Proton VPN rises to top UK app charts as porn age checks kick in
  9. A satellite just used AI to make its own decisions in space — and NASA’s stoked
  10. Swiss startup says its AI weather forecaster beats Microsoft, Google

Lifehacker

  1. This Waterproof Sony Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for Just $65 Right Now
  2. I Traded My Garmin for a Coros Fitness Watch, and Here’s What I Loved (and Hated)
  3. The Best Ad Blocker Now Works on Safari Too
  4. Apple Has Relegated Its First AI Chatbot to Customer Support
  5. What I Learned From Downloading My Poshmark Data (and Where to Find Yours)
  6. Why Your Fitbit Sleep Score Just Got Worse
  7. This Sony Karaoke Speaker Is on Sale for $400 on Woot! Right Now
  8. Google Is Killing Most of Its Shortlinks
  9. I’m a Marathon Runner, and This Is My Favorite Stair Stepper Workout
  10. The 10 Best Shows Like 'Stranger Things' You Should Watch Next
  11. Here's Why ChatGPT Is Now Reminding You to Take a Break
  12. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Google Pixel 9a
  13. You Can Get Microsoft Office Pro 2021 on Sale for Just $50 Right Now
  14. iOS 26's New Phone App Will Remind You to Return Missed Calls
  15. How to Use the New ChatGPT Agent, If You Trust It

NYT > World News

  1. For Some Wounded in Ukraine War, Surgery Helps Rebuild a Sense of Self
  2. With Sanctions Looming, Trump’s Envoy to Russia Meets With Putin
  3. Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers
  4. Bolsonaro House Arrest Casts Shadow Over Brazil-U.S. Trade Talks
  5. Video Forces Pakistan to Confront ‘Honor Killings’ and Gender Violence
  6. Truce Quiets Syrian City Torn by Sectarian Clashes
  7. Sudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan
  8. Statue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown
  9. Jeju Air Plane Crash Highlights Decades of Blunders and Deadly Runway Wall
  10. UN Security Council Meets to Discuss Israel-Gaza War and Hostages
  11. China Wages War on Chikungunya Virus With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes’
  12. Flash Floods in Indian Himalayas Kill 4, and Dozens Are Missing
  13. Rwanda Agrees to Accept 250 Migrants as Part of Trump Deportation Plan
  14. Stella Rimington, First Woman to Lead U.K.’s MI5, Dies at 90
  15. Alec Luhn, Missing American Hiker, Is Found Alive in Norway

The Verge

  1. The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide
  2. Disney will stop reporting its streaming subscriber numbers
  3. ESPN’s live sports streaming service arrives this month
  4. Nvidia rejects US demand for backdoors in AI chips
  5. Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows
  6. Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw
  7. Google is rolling out a fix for Pixel back button issues
  8. The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now
  9. The best iPad deals you can get in August
  10. Apple is suing Apple Cinemas

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Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera

  1. Video: Israel bombs Gaza clinic as blood banks run dry
  2. Bodies seen at Gaza aid sites as more than 50 killed looking for food
  3. Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Dodik removed from office
  4. Russia eyes Ukraine’s ‘fortress belt’ after fall of Chasiv Yar
  5. Accepted but trapped: Why won’t the UK evacuate its students from Gaza?
  6. Fact check: Did Democrats take action over Epstein case transparency?
  7. What is Trump’s $15,000 visa bonds programme – and who does it affect?
  8. Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel
  9. Why are people in Sudan’s el-Fasher starving?
  10. Tech giants turning blind eye to child sex abuse, Australian watchdog says
  11. At least 20 Palestinians killed after aid truck overturns in central Gaza
  12. Trump’s transshipment crackdown spells danger for Southeast Asian economies
  13. US envoy Witkoff meets Russia’s Putin for Ukraine war talks
  14. Japan’s Hiroshima marks 80 years since US atomic bombing
  15. Son Heung-min completes Los Angeles transfer from Tottenham

The Guardian

  1. My travels in Trump’s Florida: Maga superstars, gen Z Republicans – and the shame of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  2. We’re being deafened by digital noise. Pause it and you hear the sound of democracy in crisis | Rafael Behr
  3. As influencers spread ‘toxic’ claims, what is the truth about sunscreen?
  4. ‘We dressed an actress as Elsa from Frozen’: the inner workings of a transfer deal
  5. Sense and Sensibility review – blue-chip cast decorates Emma Thompson’s pleasurable Austen adaptation
  6. The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet
  7. ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
  8. Amazon customer says delivery driver she found masturbating in her bedroom returned to her home
  9. Starmer declines to rule out election pledge-breaking tax rises in budget after claim Treasury must fill £40bn deficit – UK politics live
  10. US special envoy Steve Witkoff meets Putin in Moscow as Russia strikes Ukrainian gas facility – Europe live
  11. Villarreal fans decry Thomas Partey’s proposed signing as club’s ‘darkest day’
  12. Journalist missing in Norwegian wilderness found in good health
  13. Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’
  14. RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
  15. Sales of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drugs including Ozempic slow sharply