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For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek readers believed the new Cybercab would be a transformative new technology, or – not. After nearly 2,700 responses, here’s what you told us.

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Taylor Swift had one very important person hear her 'Toy Story 5' song before she could feel completely satisfied with it: Randy Newman. Continue reading…

Jackson Pollock, Plate for Untitled (5) and Untitled (6), c. 1944–45 #jacksonpollock #museumofmodernart

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, using an AppKit and SwiftUI shell with W...

Created. This is a script I will use to help test the rootUpdates mechanism. At first it will just be a Hello World dialog from Frontier.

On OpenAI’s same-day pairing of a warning and a dashboard.

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Host Christina Stathopoulos, founder of Dare to Data and a former data scientist at Google and Waze, returned to This Week in AI with developments that stretched from Claude testing ways to improve model safety to Chinese open weight models gaining developer traffic and new systems learning to model physics. She also examined what Anthropic […]

As a software engineer with more than seven years of experience before the coding-agent era, I never liked the idea of vibe coding. But I knew there was a clear line between it and using coding agents to generate clean, maintainable code. That line, where good software principles meet coding agents, is defined by software […]

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The concept of A Cop On The Edge was once a disreputable film genre unto itself. This was not really a good thing in terms of what it indicated about where the culture was on the issue of vigilante violence, among other things. But its passing is also unworthy of much mourni...

Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) said he “might” mount a primary challenge to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in 2028, NewsNation reports. Said Deluzio: “I might, I haven’t decided that. And to be really blunt, I’m doing everything I can right now to help Democrats in Pennsylvania flip congressional seats to give Josh Shapiro a governing majority […]

Beautiful watercolor illustration to this comic novel.

“The White House on Sunday amplified President Donald Trump’s call to rebrand New Mexico as ‘New America,’ reposting an image from the president’s Truth Social account showing the state’s name crossed out and replaced with ‘America,'” Fox News reports.

House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) said while she hopes abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) are “not true,” she is supporting his reelection bid for a third term because “I will support anyone with an R behind their name,” CBS News reports. Said McClain: “At the end of the day, he’s our […]

Paul Klee, The Bright Side postcard for "Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar 1923" (Die heitere Seite Postkarte zur "Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923"), 1923 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969 #museumarchive #markrothko

Apparently the renaming shenanigans isn’t over. Trump is now floating the idea of changing New Mexico to “New America.”

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video This $10 filter cost me the photo of the year.