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They were told to park outside.
Then their cars burst into flames.

An estimated 3.2 million vehicles nationwide currently have an outstanding “park outside” recall,
according to vehicle history provider Carfax,
which described the surging numbers as “concerning.”

The recalls also create new headaches for drivers, who suddenly wonder where it is safe to park their vehicles.

“Was it inconvenient? Sure.
Ludicrous? Absolutely.
It was a huge hassl…

They were told to park outside. Then their cars burst into flames.
Modern vehicles don’t need to be moving — or even turned on — to catch fire. That’s fueling lots of safety recalls and tough choices.

Cloudflare plans a shift from a "pay-per-crawl" to a "pay-per-use" model, and blocking AI bots creates "reliable scarcity" that is fuelling publisher AI deals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/c

Cloudflare says bot blocking is fuelling publisher AI deals
Chief strategy officer on scarcity leading to licensing deals, and move to "pay-per-use".

"3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer
London, UK. New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 31st July – 4th August 2026, reveals a significant shift in public concern following a summer of elevated temperatures.

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-pause-astra-preparedness-framework

OpenAI to rewrite its safety rules post-Hugging Face
The changes follow the Hugging Face incident and increased cybersecurity risk of new Astra model

Gutierrez: Joint practices are the sweet spot – controlled chaos fueling real improvement https://www.raiders.com/news/joint-practices-raiders-texans-controlled-chaos-fueling-real-improvement-preseason-training-camp

from my link log —
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

Gutierrez: Joint practices are the sweet spot – controlled chaos fueling real improvement https://www.raiders.com/news/joint-practices-raiders-texans-controlled-chaos-fueling-real-improvement-preseason-training-camp

Data from German vehicle insurer HUK-COBURG (which holds a quarter of the market) shows that Germans have been choosing EVs almost twice as often since the latest oil price crisis in March: 12 per cent of car insurance policy switches in Q2 2026 were to an EV
Second-hand EVs are also becoming increasingly popular amongst frequent drivers, for whom the cost savings are even greater. Volkswagen EVs are popular as second-hand cars, whilst new German EVs are less so.

2 snaps from roughly the same spot in a stream. (britain) spring and summer.
a) 27th March 2026
b) 18th August 2026
#nature #climate

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan,
has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats
“shut their mouths.”
Following the
back-to-back fatal shootings of a Colombian native in Maine
and a Mexican man in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
👉the Trump administration has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating immigrants on their rights.
“I'm scared to death because assaults with vehicles …

Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’
Tom Homan’s comments come after two men were fatally shot this week at the hands of ICE agents in separate incidents