BBC News

  1. Reeves warned taxes must rise to cover £41bn spending gap
  2. Carol Kirkwood: Why weather forecasters (like me) often appear to get it wrong
  3. Hiroshima falls silent for prayers 80 years on from atomic bombing
  4. 'All sides' to blame in Prince Harry charity row, watchdog finds
  5. Violent Channel smuggling gang's French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation
  6. Zara ads banned for 'unhealthily thin' models
  7. Despite Trump's peace calls, Russian attacks on Ukraine double since inauguration
  8. MasterChef returns with sacked hosts Wallace and Torode
  9. RFK Jr cancels $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines that counter viruses like Covid
  10. Families in England struggling with school uniform costs need grants, government told
  11. Gorillas seek out old female friends even after years apart
  12. Oceangate's Titan whistleblower tells BBC 'people were sold a lie'
  13. Debt, delays and desperation: How Sheffield Wednesday's financial crisis hits fans
  14. Watch: Secret filming shows Channel gang associates take payment at UK station
  15. Propaganda or fair warning? Taiwanese TV show imagines Chinese invasion

Hacker News

  1. Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
  2. Open models by OpenAI
  3. Anthropic rejects the main developer of the library they use
  4. HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML
  5. Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
  6. I'm Archiving Picocrypt
  7. The Amaranth hardware description language
  8. Why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in the US
  9. Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs. NP problem
  10. Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data
  11. Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
  12. Ollama Turbo
  13. Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
  14. Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
  15. Software Rot

r/Reddit Frontpage

  1. I held the door open for a lady today and her husband reached into his pocket and handed me this.
  2. ▶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…
  3. RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
  4. TIL Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse in 212BC, after he had devised multiple war machines to defend the city walls. Before being killed by a Roman s…
  5. "I don't know anything about it": Trump on US imports of Russian chemicals and fertilizers.
  6. Escobar once offered to pay off Colombia’s entire $10 billion national debt
  7. Cream, my Adorable Ferret with an Attitude 🥰
  8. White House orders NASA to deliberately destroy two important satellites monitoring climate change
  9. Raffaella Carrà, the first woman to show her belly button on Italian television in 1970
  10. Peak developers would rather you pirate its game than play Roblox "microtransaction-riddled ripoff slop"
  11. Maryland musician praised for song, 'It ain't gonna go away,' about Trump and Epstein scandal
  12. LPT: Wait 30 minutes after waking up before drinking coffee
  13. Girls reaction to the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show
  14. This Gradient of Tomatoes from My Garden
  15. ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’: Matt Smith Lands Villain Role In New Lucasfilm Pic Starring Ryan Gosling

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. Markdown Monster
  6. Quickshell, building blocks for your desktop
  7. What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  8. No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
  9. A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  10. Every reason why I hate AI
  11. Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  12. cosmopolitan: build-once run-anywhere c library
  13. Lisp interpreter with GC in 662 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)
  14. Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  15. Digital hygiene: Emails

Slashdot

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

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

  1. UX Job Interview Helpers
  2. Stories Of August (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  3. The Core Model: Start FROM The Answer, Not WITH The Solution
  4. Web Components: Working With Shadow DOM
  5. Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
  6. Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters
  7. Why Non-Native Content Designers Improve Global UX
  8. Tiny Screens, Big Impact: The Forgotten Art Of Developing Web Apps For Feature Phones
  9. Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
  10. Unmasking The Magic: The Wizard Of Oz Method For UX Research
  11. Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed
  12. Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
  13. CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
  14. Turning User Research Into Real Organizational Change
  15. Never Stop Exploring (July 2025 Wallpapers Edition)

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. Police Report: Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking
  2. US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
  3. The 48 Best Shows on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)
  4. OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
  5. Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
  6. TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
  7. The Best Samsung Galaxy S25 Cases (2025): S25, S25+, S25 Ultra, and S25 Edge
  8. 11 Best Chromebooks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed
  9. The 9 Best Chef’s Knives (2025), Tested and Reviewed
  10. 14 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested for Months (2025)
  11. How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra
  12. Samsung Promo Codes: 30% Off | August 2025
  13. HP Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off | August 2025
  14. LegalZoom Promo Code: Exclusive 10% Off LLC Formations
  15. HelloFresh Coupon Codes: 55% Off + Free Meals - August 2025

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. Apple Stops Signing iOS 18.5
  2. Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 5
  3. Apple Seeds macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers
  4. Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta
  5. Apple Releases Updated MagSafe Charger Firmware
  6. iOS 26 Beta Reveals Apple Watch Ultra 3 Display Size
  7. Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
  8. Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers
  9. Apple Launches Early Preview of ChatGPT-Like Support Assistant
  10. Apple Seeds Fifth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas
  11. Employees Arrested Over Alleged Theft of Chip Tech for Apple A20 Chip
  12. iOS 26: Extend iPhone Battery Life With Adaptive Power Mode
  13. Apple Watch SE Available for $169 Record Low Price on Amazon
  14. Apple Support App to Offer New ChatGPT-Like Feature [Updated]
  15. Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud Pro for Your First Year

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. The best power banks and portable chargers for every device in 2025
  2. Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor
  3. Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title
  4. A 'very low' number of original Sonos Roam speakers are overheating
  5. Florida is suing several porn companies over age verification
  6. Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling
  7. ElevenLabs launches its own royalty-free AI music service
  8. Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr
  9. This Anker 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank is on sale for $60 right now
  10. Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks
  11. Surprising no one, Grok's image and video generator now has an NSFW 'spicy' mode
  12. OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here
  13. Google's Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a are rumored to launch later than the rest of its new gear
  14. Fox One streaming service launches August 21
  15. Google's NotebookLM is now available for younger users

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

Lifehacker

  1. I Traded My Garmin for a Coros Fitness Watch, and Here’s What I Loved (and Hated)
  2. The Best Ad Blocker Now Works on Safari Too
  3. Apple Has Relegated Its First AI Chatbot to Customer Support
  4. What I Learned From Downloading My Poshmark Data (and Where to Find Yours)
  5. Why Your Fitbit Sleep Score Just Got Worse
  6. This Sony Karaoke Speaker Is on Sale for $400 on Woot! Right Now
  7. Google Is Killing Most of Its Shortlinks
  8. I’m a Marathon Runner, and This Is My Favorite Stair Stepper Workout
  9. The 10 Best Shows Like 'Stranger Things' You Should Watch Next
  10. Here's Why ChatGPT Is Now Reminding You to Take a Break
  11. My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Google Pixel 9a
  12. You Can Get Microsoft Office Pro 2021 on Sale for Just $50 Right Now
  13. iOS 26's New Phone App Will Remind You to Return Missed Calls
  14. How to Use the New ChatGPT Agent, If You Trust It
  15. You Can Get This Budget-Friendly iPad Air on Sale for $170 Right Now

NYT > World News

  1. Jeju Air Plane Crash Highlights Decades of Blunders and Deadly Runway Wall
  2. UN Security Council Meets to Discuss Israel-Gaza War and Hostages
  3. China Wages War on Chikungunya Virus With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes’
  4. Bite Club: The Fraternity That Awaits You After a Shark Attack
  5. Flash Floods in Indian Himalayas Kill 4, and Dozens Are Missing
  6. Rwanda Agrees to Accept 250 Migrants as Part of Trump Deportation Plan
  7. On Gaza, Germany’s Government Faces Pressure From All Sides
  8. Torrential Rain Batters Hong Kong, Flooding the Waterlogged City
  9. Tommy Robinson, Far-Right UK Activist, Is Arrested Over Train Station Assault
  10. Photos: What Atomic Bombs Did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  11. Norway’s Hedged Bet on Europe’s Energy Future: A Garbage Disposal for Emissions
  12. Stella Rimington, First Woman to Lead U.K.’s MI5, Dies at 90
  13. A Weakened Hezbollah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons
  14. El Salvador’s Leader Is Autocrat to Some, Godsend to Others
  15. Trump Sends His Envoy to Russia With Sanctions Deadline Looming

The Verge

  1. Google is rolling out a fix for Pixel back button issues
  2. The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now
  3. The best iPad deals you can get in August
  4. Apple is suing Apple Cinemas
  5. TP-Link’s new travel router delivers Wi-Fi 7 speeds
  6. The best laptop deals you can get right now
  7. Here are the best streaming service deals available right now
  8. Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories
  9. OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run on your laptop
  10. Sony’s noise-canceling WH-1000XM6 are discounted to their Prime Day low

DEV Community

  1. Build a To-Do App with Vanilla JavaScript
  2. Why Digital Twin Technology Is the Cornerstone of New Innovation
  3. How to build ai agents
  4. Cybersecurity Trends 2025–2026: Navigating the Next Wave of Digital Resilience
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  6. What are the key components of a project documentation schedule?
  7. Building Resilience through Online Learning: A New Era of Student Development
  8. Petoron Quantum Standard (PQS)
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  10. You Shouldn't Be A Developer If ...
  11. What is AI Design Thinking? Your Guide to Human-Centered AI
  12. Mastering Custom Cache Strategy in Next.js

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

  1. US envoy Witkoff in Russia as Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire deadline looms
  2. Japan’s Hiroshima marks 80 years since US atomic bombing
  3. Son Heung-min completes Los Angeles transfer from Tottenham
  4. US President Donald Trump says Gaza occupation is ‘up to Israel’
  5. ‘The memory comes back’: Abducted children return traumatised in Mozambique
  6. US-India relations hit new low despite Trump-Modi bromance: What’s next?
  7. Russia, China naval forces to carry out joint Asia Pacific patrol: Report
  8. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef hit by record bleaching as oceans warm
  9. Trump says four candidates in running for Fed chair, rules out Bessent
  10. Russia protests Israeli settler attack on diplomatic vehicle in West Bank
  11. What is the chikungunya virus, how are countries such as China battling it?
  12. Armenia, Azerbaijan and US leaders to meet for peace talks
  13. US charges Chinese nationals with illegally shipping Nvidia chips to China
  14. US crime rates dropped in 2024, new FBI report shows
  15. Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,259

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. The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet
  4. Platonic season two review: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne stop at nothing to make you laugh – and it’s joyful TV
  5. Lost luggage, every traveller’s worst nightmare
  6. Burn notice: Gen Z and the terrifying rise of extreme tanning
  7. A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
  8. Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit, thinktank says
  9. Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn
  10. Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’
  11. UK to bear transport costs of ‘one in, one out’ asylum seeker deal with France
  12. ‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
  13. RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
  14. Gary Lineker expected to host new Saturday night gameshow on ITV
  15. Two ‘misleading’ heat pump adverts banned by UK watchdog