16:39 <Byte> Engadget | Are there any disadvantages to using IMAX theaters? Jack Whitcombe · 24m ago · 6 min read For visual quality and sound production, IMAX movie screenings simply can't be beat. However, the availability and cost of tickets can often leave a sour taste. Read full story

16:40 <Murphy> NobelPrize.org | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 7h ago · 1 min read The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” Read full story

16:40 <Murphy> OnlySky | The future of independence is interdependence Angie Dixon · 31 Aug 2026 · 8 min read Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is. Read full story

17:08 <Byte> Engadget | What are the limitations of using a USB-C to HDMI adapter? Alec Hively · 23m ago · 3 min read Before you buy an HDMI to USB-C adapter for your laptop, make sure you'll have a good experience by checking all parts of the connection. Read full story

17:10 <Murphy> Hacker News | Our approach to EU text provenance rules 1h ago Comments Read full story

17:39 <Byte> Ars Technica | F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start Jonathan M. Gitlin · 1h ago · 10 min read A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot. Read full story

17:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms 2h ago Comments Read full story

17:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Linux containers in 500 lines of code Lizzie Dixon · 3h ago · 126 min read Comments Read full story

17:42 <Murphy> Fatih Arslan | The lamps in my house Fatih Arslan · 3h ago · 8 min read I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps Read full story

17:42 <Murphy> Gizmodo | Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once Gayoung Lee · 3d ago · 5 min read When Earth tips over to restore its rotational balance, sea levels shift around the globe—episodes scientists have now traced to the age of dinosaurs. Read full story

17:42 <Murphy> the Guardian | Lab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measures Pjotr Sauer and Luke Harding · 6h ago · 3 min read Precautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova Read full story

18:09 <Byte> Engadget | Hyundai's all-electric hot hatch goes on sale in the UK, starting at around $25,000 Jackson Chen · 24m ago · 1 min read Hyundai has no plans to bring the Ioniq 3 to the US, unfortunately. Read full story

18:09 <Byte> Engadget | Oura Ring 5 vs. Apple Watch Series 12: Which smart health wearable is right for you? Roger Fingas · 9m ago · 4 min read Since Apple Watch works best with iPhone and offers several features for free that Oura charges for, iPhone users should opt for the Apple Watch. Read full story

18:10 <Murphy> Diff | OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects 1h ago · 5 min read Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro… Read full story

18:10 <Murphy> GitHub | rsutcliffe/nightwatch: Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point at. Any telescope. MIT. rsutcliffe · 1d ago · 21 min read Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point at. Any telescope. MIT. - rsutcliffe/nightwatch Read full story

18:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Tech ARP - Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 2d ago · 4 min read Comments Read full story

18:42 <Byte> WIRED | Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever Teruyuki Hayakawa · 27m ago · 3 min read Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed. Read full story

19:09 <Byte> Engadget | What is the purpose of a battery symbol next to a USB Port? Jackson Chen · 39m ago · 2 min read Typically, it means faster charging speeds and bi-directional charging. Read full story

19:09 <Byte> Engadget | OpenAI will add a digital watermark to text and code generated in the EU Lawrence Bonk · 14m ago · 1 min read This move is to comply with the EU's new AI transparency rules. Read full story

19:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses 58m ago Comments Read full story

19:14 <Murphy> Energy Storage | Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland brianpublicover · 10d ago · 5 min read Greenvolt Group has started construction of a 600 MW/2.4 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland, with commercial operations targeted for the end of 2027. Read full story

19:14 <Murphy> Hacker News | 6 questions for believers in AI consciousness! Rebecca Lowe · 16h ago · 19 min read a ‘choose your own adventure’ philosophical resource... Read full story

19:41 <Byte> Engadget | Arc Raiders and The Finals are both getting TV and film adaptations Lawrence Bonk · 34m ago · 1 min read There aren't many details on these upcoming game adaptations just yet. Read full story

19:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps Jeremy Hsu · 2h ago · 4 min read Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy. Read full story

19:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel John Timmer · 1h ago · 6 min read The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae. Read full story

19:42 <Byte> Ars Technica | Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 Scharon Harding · 27m ago · 2 min read The tool can free up over 12GB of storage. Read full story

19:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | One person is now a quorum at the SEC 36m ago Comments Read full story

19:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] 2d ago Comments Read full story

19:42 <Murphy> Dead Parrot BBS | Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have 1d ago · 7 min read Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of... Read full story

19:42 <Murphy> Reflection | Introducing Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model 26m ago · 19 min read Make intelligence open and accessible to all Read full story

20:10 <Byte> WIRED | Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary Miles Klee · 11m ago · 5 min read Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him. Read full story

20:11 <Murphy> Cory Dransfeldt | AI companies are parasites • Cory Dransfeldt 42m ago · 1 min read That's it, right? The whole thing, their entire business model. Read full story

20:12 <Byte> Engadget | Wikimedia links OpenAI agents to an outage and unauthorized activity Kris Holt · 16m ago · 3 min read Wikimedia says it's "deeply concerned about the impact of 'rogue' AI agents on platforms like ours. Read full story

20:12 <Byte> Engadget | Instagram is toying with a read-only mode for Plus subscribers Anna Washenko · 7m ago · 1 min read That’s a nicer name than ‘stalker mode.’ Read full story

20:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi 1h ago Comments Read full story

20:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse 33m ago Comments Read full story

20:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | BeyondTheMedspeak: How to save a life without knowing CPR 3d ago · 1 min read Yes, it's a wonderful thing to know and use CPR in an emergency such that an individual who might have otherwise died survives. But let's face it: few people know what to do and even fewer do it when push (on the chest, hard , 60 times a minute) comes to shove. So here's a tip that might well let you — uninformed, unschooled, and scared — help someone liv... Read full story

20:41 <Murphy> What's new | The Future of Mathematics 1h ago · 10 min read [This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, … Read full story

20:41 <Murphy> Hacker News | Incident with Actions 31m ago · 2 min read GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions. Read full story

21:12 <Murphy> Vals AI | Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates Geby Jaff · 1d ago · 8 min read We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We're sharing the full calculations, the code, and a list of known caveats. Read full story

21:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Holocron: The Backup of Last Resort | SMYCK 2d ago · 6 min read Comments Read full story

21:42 <Murphy> Windows Developer Blog | WSL containers is now generally available Windows Developer Blog · 6d ago · 5 min read WSL is central to our commitment to making Windows the best place to build, run and manage Linux workloads. As AI, cloud-native development, containers, and open-source ecosystems continue to converge on Linux, more developers are choosing to perform Read full story

21:42 <Murphy> HisVirusness | The Third Way of Using Linux : Paul J Mason · 27d ago · 4 min read When you want to use Linux, you do so in two ways. You either use the command-line interface and type out every single command, or you use the graphical user interface, which is much more user-friendly (on average). However, there is a third way, and it's not talked about as much because it never had enough time to pick up steam. Read full story

21:42 <Murphy> Hacker News | Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech 13h ago Comments Read full story

22:24 <Murphy> Flatten SF | Flatten SF 43m ago · 1 min read The flattest walking or cycling route between any two places in San Francisco, and every route between it and the shortest one. Read full story

22:24 <Murphy> Hacker News | Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation 1h ago · 31 min read Comments Read full story

22:24 <Byte> Engadget | Are extended warranties on TVs and laptops ever really worth it? Roger Fingas · 24m ago · 4 min read TV and laptop warranties can keep more money in your pocket if you device fails during the term, but it's more likely that your device will outlast the warranty. Read full story

22:24 <Byte> Ars Technica | Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Ashley Belanger · 1h ago · 5 min read Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells. Read full story

22:24 <Byte> Ars Technica | Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap Jon Brodkin · 1h ago · 6 min read Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress. Read full story

22:54 <Byte> Ars Technica | MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of Dan Goodin · 28m ago · 5 min read Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another. Read full story

22:55 <Murphy> Ars Technica | Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Ashley Belanger · 2h ago · 5 min read Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells. Read full story

22:55 <Murphy> GitHub | dfd-tud/deda dfd-tud · 1d ago · 4 min read Contribute to dfd-tud/deda development by creating an account on GitHub. Read full story

22:55 <Byte> Engadget | How to add and customize your CarPlay widgets Yoni Yardeni · 25m ago · 3 min read CarPlay widgets live alongside apps and let you quickly check information without diving into apps fully. They're also easy to set up. Read full story

23:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | Graphical 1h ago · 2 min read A tool to create visual themes, customize components, and build interfaces with your coding agent. Read full story

23:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | WuweiKnowledge Artist 34m ago The effortless way to control AI Read full story

23:26 <Murphy> Colin Armstrong | Worth building 1h ago · 2 min read What changes when a tool doesn't have to pay for itself. Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it. Read full story

23:26 <Murphy> Hacker News | Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades | DebugBear Conor McCarthy · 3d ago · 7 min read A look at the history of visual changes to example.com. Read full story

23:26 <Byte> Engadget | Mini PC vs. laptop: Which is better for your home office? Husain Parvez · 26m ago · 3 min read A laptop is portable but works on your desktop with one cable. A mini PC has a small footprint, but aren't designed to move. Read full story

23:55 <Byte> Engadget | Can a MacBook handle heavy games? Here's what you should know Filipe Espósito · 25m ago · 3 min read Gaming on a Mac is no longer as restricted as it once was, but you shouldn't jump in without knowing everything it entails. Read full story

23:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] 1h ago Comments Read full story

23:55 <Murphy> Hacker News | Quo Vadis, Mathematics? 12h ago · 9 min read Comments Read full story

23:55 <Murphy> SmartHomeScene | 12 Best-Selling Zigbee Temperature Sensors Tested 04 Aug 2026 · 25 min read I compared 12 Zigbee temperature and humidity sensors under $15 from Aqara, Sonoff, Tuya, Thirdreality, Zemismart, and Moes to find which ones are worth buying. Read full story

23:56 <Murphy> Hacker News | Global Solar Atlas Solargis · 1h ago The Global Solar Atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally. It is provided by the World Bank Group as a free service to governments, developers and the general public, and allows users to quickly obtain data and carry out a simple electricity output calculation for any location covered by the solar resource database. Read full story

23:56 <Murphy> Daniel Lemire's blog | Ephemeral testing 15h ago · 2 min read We have many ways to ensure software quality. Unit testing. Fuzz testing. Integration testing. And so forth. I'd like to propose a method that was unthinkable before: ephemeral testing. (Ephemeral is a fancy word for 'throw away' or 'temporary'.) You write your code. You build your software component. Or the AI agent does … Continue reading Ephemeral testing Read full story

23:56 <Murphy> Nieman Lab | ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons 1h ago · 11 min read OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists. Read full story

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