Defector
• Billy Haisley
Hull City Drags Red Devils Right Back To Hell
Defector
• Billy Haisley
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
That enormous new logistics facility near I-84 is almost ready. But what's going to move in? Continue reading…
Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails. Oh good more spam. Though the text messages are worse than the email nowadays.
A drone guided entirely by AI killed three Ukranians. By Andrew E. Kramer with visuals by Nicole Tung at The New York Times.
McSweeney’s
• Andrew Patrick Clark
Mayor Mamdani announced Renew Crews to repair New York City playgrounds:
"No longer will New Yorkers have to wait months for city government to fix their parks ... This kind of efficiency is long overdue"
The San Francisco Standard
• Tim Kawakami
There’s no clear way for the 49ers to speak on the owner’s arrest because York has been the personification of how the team does business.
Hans Holbein the Younger, Esther I, II, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger
Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Nick Lucchesi

On August 18, Anthropic replaced its Workbench, the prompt-testing tool in its developer Console, with Playground. Anthropic did more than
The post Anthropic’s Playground vs. OpenAI’s: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent appeared first on The New Stack.
News – The White House
• The White House
America’s vast and wondrous national parks stand at the heart of our story, preserving the lands our ancestors cherished and the unmatched splendor of a continent like no other. During National Park Week, we celebrate the rich cultural heritage, grandeur, and exceptionalism found in the more than 400 national parks and monuments across our land. […]
The post Presidential Message on National Park Week appeared first on The White House.
News – The White House
• The White House
Today, the Trump Administration unleashed Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining economic lifeline sustaining the Islamic Republic of Iran. After President Trump and the overwhelming might of the U.S. military dismantled Iran’s military capabilities and crippled its nuclear program, America is entering the endgame with the single greatest financial offensive ever […]
The post Operation Economic Outcast: Total Isolation of the Iranian Regime appeared first on The White House.
Six Colors
• Philip Michaels
We’ve got a pair of apps that help you get a little reading done, albeit with two different approaches. Still, whether you prefer having someone else read the articles to you or if you just prefer a cleaner feed of articles, there’s something for everyone in this week’s App Report.…
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“U.S. public approval of the war with Iran fell to its lowest level since the conflict’s early days, helping to hold President Donald Trump’s popularity at a record low,” according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. “The four-day poll showed just 31% of Americans support U.S. military action against Iran, down from 37% in a March […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised deficit reduction plan due in the coming days will plow headlong into a stark reality: there is no sign the Republican-controlled Congress is going to make any net budget cuts this year,” Bloomberg reports. “House and Senate Republicans earlier this summer dropped plans to make hundreds of billions of dollars […]
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the GenAI giants “watermarking” their output, which to say inserting data so you can tell that it’s been generated by ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or whatever. The technology for watermarking images is as old as dirt, works as advertised, and doesn’t affect image quality. What’s new and controversial is a claim that they can watermark text output cheaply, simply, and without harming the quality of the text
Ars Technica - All content
• Jennifer Ouellette
"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."
Ars Technica - All content
• Ashley Belanger
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
Ars Technica - All content
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
Formula 1 returned from its summer break with this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix.
Ars Technica - All content
• Martha Muir, Financial Times
Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy.