Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune
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Ars Technica
• Samuel Axon
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
Ars Technica
• Jon Brodkin
DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
One Trump Renovation Project Draws Praise
“In contrast to some of President Donald Trump’s previous construction projects around the nation’s capital, his plan to renovate Washington Dulles International Airport received widespread praise here, along with sighs of relief,” NBC News reports. “The airport became less known for its design awards than for its mode of transporting passengers to the concourses and […]
App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions
Joe Fabisevich, on Mastodon:
I submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software this way.
He’s not an outlier; I see comments like this from App Store developers everywhere I look.
(Plinky, by the way, is an intriguing link-bookmarking app that syncs across iOS and MacOS. It’s not for me, but the nature of my work is such that I have very unusual bookmarking needs. Plinky offers a bunch of convenient ways to stash new bookmarks with low friction. It’s a labor of love — it’s totally obvious that Fabisevich himself is the number one user of Plinky, and that’s almost always true of the very best apps.)
In the context of the EchoFeed shutdown, I noticed this post on Numeric Citizen about depending on single-person services, including Micro.blog:
What is the future of Micro.blog if something bad happens to its founder? What is the continuity plan? Micro.blog has done everything it can to enable data portability and ownership, but moving things around, even if you own most parts, is not as easy as it sounds.
This is worth answering publicly. A few years ago, I started forming an organization to more openly manage the aspects of Micro.blog that I control, but it stalled. I will get back to it.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Here are the top 10 most affordable EVs and hybrids to insure

Insurance costs likely aren’t the first thing that comes to mind when shopping for a new electric or hybrid vehicle, but it is something you should consider. Here are the top 10 most affordable EVs and hybrids to insure for 2026.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Billy Dukes
Miranda Lambert - Country's New Disco Queen?
It's clear Lambert's 'Crisco' isn't going to be album with one or two groovy beats, a disco ball on the cover and 11 pretty vanilla attempts. Continue reading…
Defector
• Drew Magary
Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Dallas Cowboys
Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.
Your team: Hit ‘em with the griddy, you little fucker. When else am I gonna get to use this clip to puff my chest? I gotta take my fun where I can get it.
Your 2025 record: 7-9-1. You and I can normally count on the Dallas Cowboys to sabotage their own chances during the course of any given season, but in 2025 team owner and latent segregationist Jerry Jones decided to sabotage everything in advance by trading away All-Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons to Green Bay mere days before the season began. May as well cut your brakes before hopping into your car.
Ars Technica
• Scharon Harding
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Ars Technica
• Jennifer Ouellette
How snails engineer their slime
Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
Appeals court rules Trump can’t build White House ballroom without congressional approval (nydailynews.com)
New York City Homeowners Sue Over Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Rollout (wsj.com)
Garbage-Truck Margin Boost Shows the AI Profit Boom Has Begun (bloomberg.com)
China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here (wsj.com)
Opinion | U.S. customs officers want your password? It’s an insidious trap. (wapo.st)
3 Jobs, 1 Phone, 0 Rest: What Coding All Day and Doomscrolling All Night Did to My Eyes, Brain and… (medium.com)
Here Are the Key Takeaways From US Jobs Report for July (bloomberg.com)
Leadership Shake-Up at Google DeepMind
blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
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