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Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibabas-small-device-model…

Alibaba’s Small, On-Device Model Gains Traction
Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded more than 1 million times in just a few days since its release, making it one of the company’s fastest-growing models. Alibaba’s new Qwen3.8-27B, a 27 billion-parameter open-source model that understands text, image and video prompts, can be downloaded for free, and users

Klimawandel lässt sich jetzt auch regional dem Menschen zuordnen
Hamburger Forschende belegen den menschengemachten Temperaturanstieg erstmals direkt aus Messdaten, ganz ohne globale Klimamodelle.
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Klimawandel lässt sich jetzt auch regional dem Menschen zuordnen
Hamburger Forschende belegen den menschengemachten Temperaturanstieg erstmals direkt aus Messdaten, ganz ohne globale Klimamodelle.

UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy urges a deal to put some Rugby League World Cup games on free-to-air TV after Premier Sports acquired exclusive streaming rights (Aaron Bower/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/18…

Lisa Nandy urges deal to keep Rugby League World Cup on free-to-air TV
The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has spoken out after it emerged that this year’s Rugby League World Cup will not be shown on the BBC

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,”
says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist
Rhiannon Giddens.
“That’s what music is for. …
We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career,
including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band,
and her work as a musical c…

“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.” Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler’s…

He's got it wrong on drilling for oil and gas, but it looks like the former minister for ID cards has got it right on scrapping Starmer's digital ID plans.
«Now, by dropping the plans entirely Burnham's spokesperson said, the "time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, such as helping with the cost of living".»

Andy Burnham to scrap digital ID to focus on 'helping with cost of living'
A spokesperson for the incoming prime minister says his Government would “put its focus where people need it right now”.

In my experience, the larger the corp the worse they are at paying small invoices. I am inclined to believe Geoff Graham over Digital Ocean.
Geoff’s pattern has been to try, twice, to resurrect CSS-Tricks on the cheap.
DO’s pattern has been to kill it, twice, and also pour money into a DHH joint.
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Kevin Powell (@kevinpowell.co)
I hadn't posted over on the second channel in a while now, but I felt that it was important to talk about what's going on with @digitalocean.com and @css-tricks.bsky.social as the site has now gone quiet for a second time. youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM https://youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM

Analysis finds 60 "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/investigation-re…

Investigation reveals dozens of disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil - 9to5Mac
An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities. Here are the details.

Google threat intelligence group details how one of its researchers infiltrated hacker group TeamPCP and helped disrupt its software supply chain hacking spree (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/an-undercover-google-…

An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group has revealed it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.

Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO (Alexandra Lindsay/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/18/ai-s-…

AI’s new political donor class is already outspending Big Tech’s last one
Campaign filings show AI employees donating faster, more heavily, and more in sync than three prior tech-IPO donor classes. Here’s where the money is going.

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proto…

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?