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Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune

Navee UT5 Ultra X superscooter $1,955 low, EGO Nexus power station bundle $799 low, Aventon $1,299 flash sale e-bike lows, more

We’re closing out this week with plenty of low prices, starting with the premium golden Navee UT5 Ultra X Electric SuperScooter down at its $1,955 low for the first time since launching, alongside two other new low prices on high-performance e-scooters. The EGO Power+ Nexus...

Ars Technica
• Samuel Axon

New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics

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 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 […]

Daring Fireball Valid
John Gruber

App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions

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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.)

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Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid

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

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”

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

How snails engineer their slime

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.

Gift Articles

Appeals court rules Trump can’t build White House ballroom without congressional approval (nydailynews.com)

nydailynews.com/2026/08/07/appeals-court-trump-ballroom-congressional-approval/?share=llpntwslans0ulia2tao

Gift Articles

New York City Homeowners Sue Over Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Rollout (wsj.com)

wsj.com/us-news/new-york-city-homeowners-sue-over-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-rollout-1795d9a5?st=WknJZo&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Gift Articles

Garbage-Truck Margin Boost Shows the AI Profit Boom Has Begun (bloomberg.com)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-07/garbage-truck-margin-boost-shows-the-ai-profit-boom-has-begun?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjEyMTQ5NCwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NzI2Mjk0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSkI0V05LSVAzTFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQ0NGODY3Qzk2ODk0MzJDQjRBMEMwM0FENDNGNTJENyJ9.vjLiZcK7PePGbFBN0f6ckesEfcK4Cdagq8VYgRqSA0U

Gift Articles

China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here (wsj.com)

wsj.com/business/energy-oil/china-free-batteries-made-from-salt-are-finally-here-cc1cd766?st=k6ia25&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Gift Articles

Opinion | U.S. customs officers want your password? It’s an insidious trap. (wapo.st)

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Gift Articles

3 Jobs, 1 Phone, 0 Rest: What Coding All Day and Doomscrolling All Night Did to My Eyes, Brain and… (medium.com)

medium.com/@garoono/3-jobs-1-phone-0-rest-what-coding-all-day-and-doomscrolling-all-night-did-to-my-eyes-brain-and-7f689396dc0f?sk=2c519c73866032dea55a8bdf4d57e808

Gift Articles

Here Are the Key Takeaways From US Jobs Report for July (bloomberg.com)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-07/us-jobs-report-july-2026-key-takeaways-on-employment-payrolls?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjEyMTk2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NzI2NzY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSkQ1Vk5SS1YyVVQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwMThENjU4NjQzNDM0RjZFODI0RUJFNkIzM0I3QkE0MyJ9.wigh-_2mAqPrwPfxQpJ7jVAjtpC6rYXCzVgvPpjg8EM

Daring Fireball Valid
John Gruber

Leadership Shake-Up at Google DeepMind

blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence research lab: We have arrived at a pivotal moment in human history. I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand. It’s critical that we coll...

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Trick Play

I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.