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China says it will prevent excess competition in the AI sector, echoing Xi Jinping's caution against excessive local government investment in AI last month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/chin…

Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public (Matthew Lapierre/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/public-prayer-ban-quebec-1.7619985
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p12#a250829p12

What do you call a 9-sided banana?
A banonagon!
(Credit to my 4-year-old.)

Why America refuses to fix anything:
#uspol

The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.

I think this is it for me with D.K. Bananza! ❤️
All I’m missing is one skill
upgrade but it’s just a chore to exchange 24 bananas!
777/777 Bananas 🍌
696/696 Fossils 🦴
110/110 Music Discs 💿
Perfect game, no notes!

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Binhang Qi, Yun Lin, Xinyi Weng, Yuhuan Huang, Chenyan Liu, Hailong Sun, Jin Song Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20619

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Test cases are valuable assets for maintaining software quality. While numerous automated techniques have been proposed for generating tests (either by maximizing code coverage or by translating focal code into test code), practical tests are seldom driven by coverage alone. In real projects, each test reflects a developer's validation intention for a specific behaviour and embodies rich, project-specific knowledge: which specific APIs to call and what assertions truly matter. Without consideri…

There’s a significant downside to the booming Dutch beaver population.
Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and
– even more worryingly – in dykes.
For a country where a quarter of the land sits below sea level,
this is not a minor problem
– especially as beavers are not exactly holding back when digging.

Google says it is behind the viral "nano-banana" image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-m…

Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch
Google says that it's behind the anonymous AI image editor "nano-banana" that's been making waves on social media.

I’ll be playing Gnat Attack nonstop when I’m done with DK Bananza!
https://youtu.be/Ok8hd9D6ImM

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.