Tootfinder

Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/08/26/nvidia-agentrys-agentic-chip-design…

Exclusive: Agentrys raises $24.5M for agentic chip design
An IBM and Nvidia alum founded the company.

Microsofts eingestellter Metaverse-Pionier „AltspaceVR“ kehrt zurück
Die einst von Microsoft eingestellte Social-VR-Plattform „AltspaceVR“ wird unter neuer Führung wiederbelebt und modernisiert.
https://…

Microsofts eingestellter Metaverse-Pionier „AltspaceVR“ kehrt zurück
Die einst von Microsoft eingestellte Social-VR-Plattform „AltspaceVR“ wird unter neuer Führung wiederbelebt und modernisiert.

How about they fuck right off instead?
#ireland

Backlash to data centres stateside means US may 'prefer to see them built in Ireland'
Former White House adviser Brad Setser said data centres are increasingly viewed by Americans as facilities “with a bunch of computers inside and not many jobs”.

The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond
—effectively, the rate of interest on U.S. government debt
—peaked last week at 5.33 percent,
its highest level in 19 years.
This may be the product of the normal laws of supply and demand.
But the fluctuations in the vast market for U.S. debt have effects that are profound for both the U.S. and global economies
—and, in this case, for U.S. politics,
as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has now assumed respons…

Why Are Yields on U.S. Treasury Bonds Rising?
The fluctuations could have huge impacts on the U.S. and global economy.

intimate & heavy archival look at joanna russ & the circle of sci-fi writers around her, including samuel delany & alice sheldon. https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/08/18/the-robber-time/

The Robber Time: Joanna Russ in the Archives
Cameron Kunzelman In my life as a critic and academic, I am often fortunate enough to go places, read things, and generally have experiences with no expectations around them. I just want to learn w…

ウチは5年前に導入したゲーミングPCのRTX 3070の8GBだけど、だいぶ戦えるので助かっている。

Sources: Google approached Disney, Universal, and other studios to license characters and films for its AI tools, but legal and union concerns stalled deals (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

How Google is courting Hollywood to use its AI tools
Tech giant Google has been quietly making overtures to major studios as it tries to find ways to get Hollywood to use its AI technology.

Over het dorp Engelen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/…

Bekladde huizen, twee aparte appgroepen en een ‘klauwhamerincident’: hoe de plannen voor een azc een Brabants dorp in tweeën splijten
Intimidatie: Sinds bekend werd dat er plannen zijn voor de opvang van zo’n vijftig minderjarige asielzoekers, is het onrustig in het Brabantse dorp Engelen. Tegenstanders hangen anti-asielzoekersborden op; andere bewoners plaatsen ‘Samen leven’-posters achter de ramen.

Stopping leaks can be quick and cheap and, because methane breaks down in the atmosphere far quicker than CO2, this has a rapid impact, with some experts calling it the climate “emergency brake”.
‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

20 years of running "alpha quality" browser as my main web browser
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2026/08/20-years-of-running-alpha-quality.html?m=1

20+ years of running "alpha quality" browser as my main web browser

When are states going to start inspecting food*, since we no longer have an FDA?
* food _supplies_, not restaurants or food services.

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell

I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
👉 “Point”
🕒 3 minutes, 15 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 69 moves used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-08-30

Tiled Words
A daily word puzzle with a twist

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117182620400937697
Insightful thread about the complicated voting mechanism used for the Debian LLM vote, and about the choice to ban LLM contribs requiring a 3:1 supermajority vs other options only needing a simple one...

@… i recall you playing with suspended substrate filters on oshpark flex a while ago, how did that turn out? What kind of connector launches did you use?

Here we go again. Trump still can't find a way out of his self-created swamp.
Reported US attack on Larak Island ‘a definite escalation’
https://aje.news/xxqr90?update=4900834

Iran war live: US bombed Iran’s Larak Island, US official says
Iranian media says residents on Iran’s Larak Island have reported hearing an explosion, the cause of which is unknown.

#til Here’s #DollyParton covering Stairway to Heaven. Didn’t she’d done this. https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw?is=CmoBVG

Shopware 6: "Log the old and new value when this field changes" sounds simple until you write it — a second query, race conditions, deleted rows with no old value left to fetch. Shopware computes the diff inside the write transaction itself. One footnote in the docs, and that's it.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #15: ChangeSet — before/after values for every write, no second query - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
The requirement sounds harmless every time: "Log when a product price changes, with old and new value." Or: "When an order's email changes, notify the old

RE: https://mastodon.social/@asymco/117009875197873702
Lol Barclays

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Leute, die #Plastikmüll in die Natur werfen, verursachen die

Die größten Mythen über Plastikmüll - oft nur Ausreden
Was ist dran an den Mythen rund um Plastikmüll? Erfahre, warum viele Aussagen zum Thema Plastik täuschen.

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Shein raised $1.7B in its Hong Kong IPO, giving it a $26B market cap, far below its ~$100B valuation in 2022, as growth slows amid tariffs and competition (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-…

Recht auf Reparatur greift ab Ende Juli
Ab dem 31. Juli 2026 haben Verbraucher mehr Rechte in Bezug auf erworbene Elektrogeräte, deren Reparatur und Ersatzteile.
https://www.heise.de/news/Recht-auf-Rep…

Recht auf Reparatur greift ab Ende Juli
Ab dem 31. Juli 2026 haben Verbraucher mehr Rechte in Bezug auf erworbene Elektrogeräte, deren Reparatur und Ersatzteile.

Antenna: ~31% of traditional cord-cutters in Q1 signed up for a new streaming service within a month of canceling, led by Paramount Premium and Netflix Premium (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busi

Cord-Cutters Flocked to Paramount+, Netflix and Peacock's Ad-Free Plans in Q1
Around 31% of cord-cutters signed up for a new streaming service within a month of canceling pay TV, per Antenna.

As Fire Season Takes Hold,
California Is Managing Fuels and Fire on Federal Lands.
Does California Have the Money to Keep This Up❓
California’s last working nuclear power plant sits cradled in a landscape that would worry any firefighter when the wind picks up. 
The Pacific Ocean and its perpetual fog lick the western edge of the coastal bluffs holding the 🔸Diablo Canyon Power Plant.
But the Irish Hills rise steeply to its east — their slopes rugged, dark with s…

European Commission: Sovereignty is copying what the US does.
Muster some fucking imagination and maybe an ounce or two of integrity too while you’re at it, you muppets.
CC @…

@… @…

They are right on this.
Some of those awful Academy Trusts appear to be harassing experienced teachers to encourage them to leave. It's a result of the underfunded pay award & a broken model that's meant these privatised entities with top heavy management are no longer providing education as a public good.
Inexperienced Newly Qualified Teachers end up ill supported to teach needy children.
Urgent action needed to stop teachers quitting, says Liberal Democrats - BB…

Urgent action needed to stop teachers quitting, says Liberal Democrats
A survey by the party suggested almost half of teachers reported considering quitting the classroom in the next five years.

The large remaining gap to an 80% filling level of EU gas storages by the start of the heating season is starting to get noticed in the media. They note that the situation 'differs by country'.
True, of course, but the situation is actually quite clear: Germany and the Netherlands are the big laggards. Together, they have 1/3 of EU gas storage capacity, but 2/3 of the remaining gap to close.
Situation 28/29 August, data from

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/117187741502102077
I feel very seen.

Tales From The Loop (Silent Listening series, 2026)
(This scene and the clash of high tech & rural landscape reminded me of this great sci-fi series...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

For all my international followers, Europe is not "stormed by refugees", you could think that after the terrible events in Cueta, a spanish enclave on the african continent. This expert explains what/why this is happening.
#Europe #refugees

Is anybody using, or considering using, ngscopeclient on an ARM64 platform?
Would Debian aarch64 be a platform worth adding to CI and officially supporting? I think I can probably run it as a VM on the mac mini.
But I'm not sure what's out there that actually has the GPU horsepower to perform well. Like, I think somebody tried to build it on a raspberry pi and it *worked* but I'm not sure how useful it would be on something so limited.

Analysis: popular chatbots debunked false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran most of the time; search engine AI summaries did too, but at a lower rate (Huo Jingnan/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5876436/chatbots-search-propaganda

Nine years ago this month,
America was introduced to what was then called the “alt-right”
-- and is now pretty much just “the right.”
On Aug. 11, 2017, we witnessed what had been advertised as a
“Unite the Right” rally in which a large group of young white men marched in Charlottesville, Virginia,
carrying tiki torches and chanting,
💥“Jews will not replace us” and
💥“Blood and soil!”
The next day, a young counterprotester named
Heather H…

Nine years after Charlottesville, GOP pushes blood and soil
The nativist doctrine lives on in JD Vance's vision for the US

California State Assembly passes a bill to create tax credits for local news organizations based on journalist headcount; the bill awaits Senate approval (Suhauna Hussain/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2

California's new attempt to help struggling newsrooms faces key test
The bill will require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature in the coming days in order to make it to Gov. Newsom's desk.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403
What the fuck is wrong with you?

Logitech baut Wechselakkus in seine Mäuse ein, aber nur für Europa und nur, weil es sein muss. Die Begeisterung des Herstellers hält sich dabei ziemlich in Grenzen. 🙃
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11381233?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastod…

@… スレイヤーズ？

Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20% in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/sk-hynix-samsung-ai-rally-chipmakers.html

SK Hynix and Samsung shares surge over 20% as AI rally roars back
South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics soared more than 20% on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks.

Unaccountable military:
5.5% of global carbon emissions. 2.7 gigatonnes p.a.
More than civil aviation and shipping together.
And then there are fires, land contamination, rubble, and incredible resource use.
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​La huella ecológica oculta de la guerra
https://…

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​La huella ecológica oculta de la guerra
Exento de rendir cuentas, el oligopolio armamentístico multiplica su riqueza mientras acelera el colapso ecosistémico global y condenando la salud de próximas generaciones.

Peter Thiel in a 2014 email to a fellow anti-democracy activist:
"One reassuring thought: one of our hidden advantages is that these people ... wouldn't believe in a conspiracy if it hit them over the head (perhaps the best measure of the decline of the Left)"
In Gil Duran's The Nerd Reich

That's fun. "Secure" dns in browsers (at least, firefox and chrome/chromium) relies on doing an initial dns lookup of mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com or chrome.cloudflare-dns.com (or whichever DoH provider you've chosen).
If I control the router/wifi, I can blacklist the DoH provider domains. Depending on how your browser's configured, it may just fall back to normal dns (at which point the router/wifi sees & answers your dns queries).
Relevant errors give no…

Zullen we een invasie van een spaanse enclave op het afrikaanse continent geen "invasie van europa" gaan noemen, ik zie de Telegraaf koppen al. Terwijl in Nederland de asielinstroom daalt.
#Cueta #spanje #asiel

So far, the president’s plot to subvert the integrity of the midterm elections looks like this:
Issue a rule requiring states to give lists of mail-in voters to the Postal Service if their citizens hope to receive mail-in ballots.
Knowing that this is a blatantly unconstitutional seizure of the states’ prerogative to run their own elections,
count on a federal court to block the rule.
Then challenge the injunction, arguing
— under the Supreme Court’s “Purcell …

Opinion | Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution
The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.

:nakayosi_natuko:
ナツコさんです

A look at Pangram, the AI detector at the center of disputed accusations against writers, including a pulled novel and a Commonwealth Prize-winning short story (Elaine Moore/Financial Times)

lmao the reporter asked, "how do you DEFEND something like this?", and the guy went on to explain the sniper posts on top or whatever. But I initially thought the reporter meant how does he MORALLY DEFEND building something like this for the shittiest humans on earth?
https://bsky.ap…

Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg.com)
This is where the 1% will go to restart civilization after a nuclear attack. But it for me thinking: what if the uber wealthy built these bunkers for more people — and not for nuclear attacks but for the climate crisis that will get us all — instead of trying to leave the planet?

“Los buscamos porque los amamos”, gritan las familias buscadoras en la capital mexicana
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/mexico/buscamos-amamos-gritan-familias-buscadoras-capital-mexicana?utm_source=feed

“Los buscamos porque los amamos”, gritan las familias buscadoras en la capital mexicana
En el marco del Día Internacional de las Víctimas de Desapariciones Forzadas, cientos de familiares, activistas y organizaciones civiles se movilizaron en la capital mexicana.

More than 20 may be missing after Grand Canyon flash flood
The National Park Service is asking for the public’s help finding as many as 20 people
who may be missing following a significant flash flood in the Grand Canyon on Saturday.
“If you know of hikers or backpackers who were in the Bright Angel Creek corridor on August 29,
or if you had a campground reservation in the affected area,
please contact the NPS Investigative Services Branch,”
the agency wr…

Grand Canyon flash flood leaves one dead, 15 missing
The flash flood happened around 2:30 p.m. Saturday and resulted in 'significant impacts' to infrastructure throughout Bright Angel Canyon.

:nakayosi_mako:
マコさんです

#AltText: a picture of mitch mcconnell, with the caption "Blocks maternity leave." "Goes on eternity leave." https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/117186620997797017

Nando161 (@nando161@partyon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image Pff #mitchmcconell #maga #magats #antidonaldtrump

IPO documents: SoftBank's SB Energy plans to file for an IPO as soon as this week, aiming to raise $5B to $7B, and has awarded OpenAI warrants worth ~$5.5B (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-5-5-billio

U.S. forces strike Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks
U.S. forces hit Iranian rocket launchers
after troops were seen preparing to fire sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, official says.
The rocket assault ends a monthlong pause in direct strikes by the U.S. and Iran.
An Iranian general said that Sunday’s attack was a ‘fatal mistake by the Trump regime during the economic war.’

U.S. forces strike Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks
A U.S. officials says U.S. forces have struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in the first military action in a month.

The wrong decision.
Manslaughter is not murder. They'll be out quite soon anyway but it piles more pressure on a creaking prison system.
Burnham gets the early prison release changes he wanted - but at what cost? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx5zw4e2x9o

Burnham gets the early prison release changes he wanted - but at what cost?
The prime minister says he will keep hundreds more criminals behind bars but doing so requires complex changes.

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Taiwanese authorities raided the office of PCB maker Unimicron, an Nvidia and Intel supplier, alleging it illegally labeled China-made parts as made in Taiwan (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supp

Nvidia supplier Unimicron probed over allegedly relabeling China-made parts
Shares fall 10% as Taiwan prosecutors investigate top PCB maker

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117186728064022507
Hard not to watch this and once again think about how truly stupid cars are. About how much more effective evacuations would be if only by motorcycle, bus, bike, and micromobility devices.
the next …

Southern California’s great beer heist was almost completely ignored
Perhaps you can forgive the media and general public for not taking seriously
one of the largest beer heists in California history.
For more than a week, there wasn’t much news or fanfare that thieves
stole more than 40,000 pounds of Milwaukee-founded Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBR, beer from a Montclair distribution center.
Police from Montclair, a city about 35 miles east of Los Angeles in San Be…

Southern California's great beer heist was almost completely ignored
Your morning catch-up: Someone really loves Pabst Blue Ribbon, Gov. Newsom drops most of a plan to limit utility wildfire liability, and other big stories.

Google updates Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, citing the US GNIS' name change (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/lake-trump-ontario-america-7c5c9776d72cb8e8d782…

Google Maps changes Lake Ontario's name to 'Lake America' for US users
Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States. The global technology giant says the move reflects a recent order by President Donald Trump that changed the name of the lake amid an escalating trade war with Canada. The company says that the decision was based on its practice of using the name assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System. The White House as well as the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark…

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that
prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable
and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere,
-- including the U.S. homeland,
according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.

The warnings
— detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the A…

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.

Railsの脆弱性 CVE-2026-66066 は基本的にMastodonに影響ないはずです。
・今回の脆弱性の前提であるActiveStorageを使っていない（PaperClip系です）
・脆弱性対策のRailsアップデートと同様の内容が既に本体コードに入っている（libvipsの信頼できないファイル処理操作の無効化フラグ）
・安全と判断した画像以外のデータ添付・処理を許可しておらず、基本的に許可した以外のメタデータを削除する
また、何か問題に気付いたら、公開の場で発言するのではなく、こちらから開発チームへお知らせください。
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/…

The US-led AI boom is offsetting the global growth squeeze from the energy crunch; ING says the boom accounts for about a third of recent US economic growth (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/e…

Costco sold 157.4million rotisserie chickens worldwide last year,
almost double the number of a decade ago. 
“It’s $4.99 and for Costco members, that’s one fantastic deal.
I don’t think you can produce it for that,”
said Walt Shafer, who oversaw the construction and management of the Nebraska site before he retired from Costco this year.
Roasted in ovens in the rear of the retail giant’s hundreds of cavernous stores,
the birds have cost only $4.99 since 2…

Costco facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Costco sold 157.4mn rotisserie chickens worldwide last year, almost double the number of a decade ago.  “It’s $4.99 and for Costco members, that’s one fantastic deal. I don’t think you can produce it for that,” said Walt Shafer, who oversaw the construction and management of the Nebraska site before he retired from Costco this year. […]

Big Tech reported Q2 "other income" rose significantly to $160B , driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a5a0081f-e998-4c80-b967-cc535cbc4933

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump
The Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
has provoked outrage in her country
https://www.theg…

Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez defends ‘endless’ benefits of her oil deal with Trump
Deal that will reportedly see US take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil has provoked outrage in her country

Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-starts-letting-customers-pay-ai-wo…

OpenAI Starts Letting Some Customers Pay Only When the AI Works
OpenAI in recent months has started giving some major customers the option of paying only when its AI completes tasks like handling customer support interactions, The Information reported Sunday . The move comes as Salesforce and a host of other AI providers are beginning to try to charge customers only when the AI works, otherwise known as outcome-based pricing, to help customers justify

The United States isn't in the throes of a socialist revolution that will decimate the moderates.
What I see is a lot of voter enthusiasm for Democratic candidates
(even as the party as an institution continues to have a public image problem)
and some eye-popping turnout numbers.
A wide variety of voters seem ready to give a wide variety of candidates a chance in November.
As TNR editor Michael Tomasky recently wrote,
Democrats will have to follow t…

Democrats: Make Peace With Becoming a Little Radical
If the party wants to win elections and defeat Trumpism for good, they’ll all have to get out of their comfort zone.

OpenClaw releases OpenClaw 2.0, its largest update to date built by 933 contributors, with a simplified installation process, a rebuilt browser app, and more (Hannes Rudolph/OpenClaw Blog)
https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally/

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally - OpenClaw Blog
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.

“I don’t know what things are coming to,”
Babe Ruth sighed during spring training in 1931.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball,”
he elaborated to reporters.
“Of course, they will never make good.
Why?
Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball everyday.”
👉 The next day, Ruth and Lou Gehrig were struck out back-to-back by a 17-year-old girl.
Making their way home from preseason in Florid…

‘Utterly baffled’: the 17-year-old girl who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
In a 1931 exhibition, Jackie Mitchell silenced the greats back-to-back. It sparked still-ongoing debates over legitimacy and opportunities for women in baseball

Chip stocks rallied Thursday after strong Microsoft and Lam Research earnings: Lam Research closed up 18%, Micron 18%, Sandisk 26%, Arm 7%, AMD 13%, Intel 11% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/chip-stock-rally-lam-research-micron-amd.html

AMD and Micron surge, Lam Research climbs 17% as chip stocks rip higher
Strong earnings from Lam Research, Microsoft and Arm boosted hard-hit semiconductor stocks.

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/apple-says-gaming-sl…

Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth | TechCrunch
Apple said a slowdown in mobile gaming and changes to the App Store’s business model — including court-ordered payment rule changes in the U.S. — weighed on its services business, even as the company topped 1.5 billion paid subscriptions.

It takes a truly exceptional affordability crisis to put Bill Ackman and Zohran Mamdanion the same side of the barricade.
Yet this month the billionaire hedge fund manager and New York’s democratic socialist mayor found common cause over an unlikely grievance:
the cost of getting into the US Open.
Ackman took objection to the cost of a grounds pass listed for $363.
Mamdani responded to the broader uproar by securing 1,000 tickets for New York residents at $100 apiec…

Hospitality boom and $100 chicken nuggets: how the US Open became obscenely expensive
Record crowds, premium seats and an unchecked resale market are transforming the self-styled people’s slam – and leaving ordinary fans fighting to get through the gates

Tim Cook says Apple expects "the impact from the supply constraints to increase significantly sequentially" and the market pricing for memory to keep rising (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/30/apple-iphone-mac-ipad-supply-cons…

Apple Warns of Growing Supply Constraints for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Apple is expecting supply constraints to have a much bigger impact on revenue during the September quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during...

As a heatwave continues to bake the western and central US,
officials are urging swimmers to be cautious when seeking respite from the summer heat,
especially amid a score of recent deadly water-related incidents.
Each year, from April to September, drowning deaths rise nationwide,
according to 2018-24 data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In June, two college students died
after being swept away to sea by turbulent waves on a beach …

US officials urge swimmers to be cautious amid surge in drowning deaths
Recent deadly water-related incidents amid heatwave leads National Park Service to issue water-safety reminders

The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Do Republicans actually think #veganism disqualifies a person for political responsibilities?
Apparently, when you look at how these candidates reacted.
A Talarico spokesperson issued an official response to
“vegan accusations”
(“accusations” – the word you’d use for say, corruption or sexual assault):
a picture of him wrapping his face around a giant hunk of meat.

Why is ‘vegan’ suddenly being used as a slur?
US republicans are tarnishing their plant-eating opponents at every opportunity. Yet vegans are perfectly suited to hold power – let me count the ways, writes Emma Beddington

On July 31, President Volodymyr Zelensky disclosed estimates revealing that Russian forces had suffered around 1.6 million military casualties since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, including approximately 700,000 killed.
https://kyivindependent.com/general…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,480,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,450 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

A look at the race to build quantum computers, as the tech becomes a geopolitical battleground with potential to transform cybersecurity, finance, and more (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

U.S. Open Day 1 — Latest
The 2026 U.S. Open singles competitions are underway from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
A physically ill Novak Djokovic suffered his first defeat in the first round of a Slam since 2006.
Mariano Navone pulled off a stunning first-round upset of Novak Djokovic (4) in five sets.
Navone won the first set in a tiebreak, but Djokovic responded by winning next two sets before Navone roared back to take the final two set…

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Asked about Trump’s "Lake America"
ploy during a press conference on Thursday,
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, was withering in his assessment.
“You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago?
I think that’s the part of Donald Trump’s presidency we’re at now,” Kinew said.
“He thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie with the Gulf of Mexico,
and he’s trying to bring …

Trump the renamer-in-chief keen to leave his mark – or his stain – on world
As Americans face an affordability crisis and war with Iran, the president is focused on … changing the names of things

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

he UK proposal to use “solar bonds”
to make rooftop solar more affordable
is a smart solution to a fundamental problem:
the rising cost of capital
A household that can pay for solar upfront saves money from day one.
For everyone else, high-interest financing can consume much of those savings
and ultimately deter people from installing the technology.
A solar bond structure changes that equation:
investors receive a modest, guaranteed return,

Cut cost of loans for solar panels on UK homes, ministers urged
Report says ‘solar bonds’ could fund wider access to clean energy, reducing household bills

Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on their PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/n…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117188946658249970
America’s former role is gone.
And I think that Americans themselves are having the hardest time of all coming to terms with what that might actually mean in the long run.

Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

The Halifax International Security Forum is an annual gathering
of senior military officers, defence and intelligence officials from across the free world,
and representatives from the media, think tanks, large companies and civil society organizations
whose work relates to defence and security issues or in some way seeks to promote and preserve a healthy democratic world.
Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors,
the event is a major…

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-mythos-security-testing

Anthropic's models compromised real-world systems during testing
This is the second frontier lab that has seen its models break into real companies while testing

Sources: Zelenskyy asked Trump to secure Elon Musk's permission for the use of Starlink to guide drone strikes inside Russia, but Trump was noncommittal (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/07/zele…

Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk
Ukraine wants to start using Musk’s Starlink to target ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia.

We’re starting today with Trump quietly bowing out of this year’s 25th anniversary 9/11 ceremony at ground zero,
largely because the memorial bars political speeches
and he doesn't say anything else
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trumps…

DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores "far surpassing" V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07…

Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2.92B, raises FY profit forecast by 8% to ~$10.56B, and says it secured enough memory chip supply for the FY (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sony-posts-40-ri…

New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an "overreach" (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-york-sues…

The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (Inti Landauro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/granola-chris-pedregal-interview/

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them

Sources: Tesla execs were told to prepare for a separation of its China unit ahead of a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busines…

Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ant…

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situ