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My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display…

Since 1982, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has celebrated the opening lines of imagined horrible novels. The winners of the 2024 competition have been announced and there are some real doozies in there, starting with the overall winner: She had a body that reached out ...

Never not gobsmacked by how the massive waves at Teahupo’o create an unnerving cavity in the ocean.

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The different kinds of sounds that carmakers have had to come up with to make EVs audible to pedestrians, bikers, and other drivers are wild: orchestras, pitch-shifted didgeridoos, gas car noises. For over a century, the internal combustion engine powered vehicles with a...

Scientists are puzzled by the presence of “little red dots” found by the JW Space Telescope: tiny galaxies that have left no trace. “Why did they vanish? Or what did they morph into? Their sudden disappearance is a profound enigma.”

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Procreate will not be building any generative AI features into their fantastic iPad app. “We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.”

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For his project The Disciples, photographer James Mollison took photo montages of fans outside of music concerts. See if you can guess which concerts these groups of fans attended: Here’s Mollison on the project: Over three years I photographed fans outside diff...

Homicide: Life on the Street is now streaming on Peacock. Alan Sepinwall shares 10 episodes “if you want to see what all the fuss is about”. I haven’t watched Homicide since it was on TV and the name “Adena Watson” is still burned into my brain.

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Costco in Cancún, a piece about Costco’s travel service and how the company’s warehouse shopping experience (“Everything Is a Good Deal”) relates to the all-inclusive hotel vibe (“Everything Is Paid For”).

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I’ve been enjoying watching these livestreams of watering holes in the arid regions of Namibia. As I’m looking now, there appear to be some zebras and giraffes hanging out — previous sightings include hyenas, ostriches, cheetahs, wildebeest, oryx, and even honey badgers. You can find more cams and archived footage at @NamibiaCam.

Tags: Namibia · video

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A disturbing report from ProPublica on the armed domestic terror cells that have flourished in the US since the Jan 6 assault on Congress. “The next election won’t be decided at a Ballot Box. It’ll be decided at the ammo box.”

James Milner, 38, starts record 23rd season in the Premier League. He’s seven years older than his current manager, Brighton & Hove Albion’s Fabian Hürzeler.

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Gillette CEO in an Onion op-ed 20 years ago: “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades”.

Link: theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221720/huawei-triple-screen…

Mark Scott, reporting for Politico: Thierry Breton, who oversees the bloc’s enforcement of new social media rules, sent Musk a letter posted on X that warned the tech mogul about spreading “harmful content,” ahead of Musk’s livestreamed interview with Donald Trump. The ...

This is a Bonus episode from The Global Story - Is Twitch too big to fail? The world's largest live-streaming platform, Twitch, faces an uncertain future. Media reports suggest that parent company Amazon has become frustrated by its failure to make profit, and rumours are sw...

Alex Cranz, writing for The Verge: But then Gemini Live kept talking. And talking. The Verge team was packed in a glass booth, and as Gemini Live droned on, a friendly Google employee encouraged me to “go ahead and interrupt it.” It felt weird! I don’t mind interrupting...

Joanna Stern, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link): I’m not saying I prefer talking to Google’s Gemini Live over a real human. But I’m not not saying that either. Does it help that the chatty new artificial-intelligence bot says I’m a great interviewer with ...

Epic Games:

Today the Epic Games Store is available for download on iPhones in the European Union and on Android devices worldwide. The store is launching with Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and the all-new Fall Guys for mobile, and we are working to enable all developers to launch their games and apps through the Epic Games Store in the future. We are also bringing our games to independent mobile stores including AltStore PAL today.

No iPad support yet, but it’s coming.

AltStore, on Mastodon:

GOOD NEWS EU 🇪🇺 For innovation in app distribution, Epic Games has granted us a MegaGrant grant that we plan to use to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee going forward — and we won’t take it for granted!

What does this mean? AltStore PAL is now FREE — no subscription necessary 🎉 altstore.io.

Link: epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/the-epic-games-store-launches…

Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: In macOS Sequoia beta 6, however, Apple has adjusted this policy and will now prompt users on a monthly basis instead. macOS Sequoia will also no longer prompt you to approve screen recording permissions every time you reboot your Mac....