McSweeney’s
• Eli Grober
New David Frum show video just posted: Ukraine won't surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1b_TPgODKg&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Heather Joslyn
Confronting AI’s Next Big Challenge: Inference Compute
The computing demands of training AI models may get a lot of the attention from the tech industry — just
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How to Write for Busy Readers: Why Less Is More with Todd Rogers
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
How Much Protein You Really Need, According to the Experts (2025)
Protein is having a moment—but most of us were never short on it to begin with.
I talk in this
@thehubcanada.bsky.social dialogue about the enduring power of the ancient myth: a sinless sufferer tormented by demonic Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDIfRRHzvI
Platformer
• Casey Newton
OpenAI returns to open weights
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
WIRED
• Louryn Strampe
Totem Compass Review: Find Your Friends, No Reception Required
Stuck at a festival with no reception? To find your group, just look down.
WIRED
• Gretchen Rundorff
See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August
This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10, but will be best viewed later in the month. Here's everything you need to know to see it at its best.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson
Stack Overflow on Snowflake Cortex: Answers Without Attitude

For years, developers would go to Stack Overflow to ask and answer technical questions, and the site built up a
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WIRED
• Adrienne So
16 Best Electric Bikes of 2025, Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking
We tested the best electric bikes in every category, from commuters and mountain bikes to foldables and cruisers.
WIRED
• Joel Khalili
Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs
When US president Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes in April, he set in motion a seven-day rush to bring goods into the country. Bitcoin miners elbowed their way to the front of the queue.
WIRED
• Elizabeth Chappell
Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors
Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations.
WIRED
• Matthew Gault
Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable
Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.
WIRED
• Luca Nardi
The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The Daily
• The New York Times
More Money Was Supposed to Help Poor Kids. So Why Didn’t It?
Nick Heer blogging about the Ghost 6.0 release:
If Ghost added MarsEdit support, I would be awful tempted to switch from WordPress.
Probably not going to happen. People have asked for it. Ghost has oddly never cared about open APIs until recently, with ActivityPub, and even that was years after everyone else added support for it.
If you want the most support for lots of APIs and publishing from different apps, there are only two suitable platforms: WordPress and Micro.blog.
Ukraine Won’t Surrender
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins, Makena Kelly
Police Report: Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Assaulted in Alleged Carjacking
President Donald Trump shared a photo of the DOGE staffer after the alleged attack and threatened to "federalize" Washington, DC. WIRED obtained the police report.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Google’s Gemini CLI Agent Comes to GitHub

Gemini CLI, ‘s open source AI agent that developers access from the terminal and that competes with the likes of
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