Tootfinder

@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…

@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…

Texans' Aiden Fisher Faces Familiar Foe in Fernando Mendoza vs. Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/texans/onsi/texans-aiden-fisher-faces-familiar-foe-in-fernando-mendoza-vs-raiders

“The U.S. is planning for a wider war,”
one U.S. official familiar with the matter told The Washington Post Monday.
The official warned that U.S. military operations would be kneecapped by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions,
as well as widespread damage to U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
“We do not have enough to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official added.
A report from th…

Trump Is Ready for All-Out War in Iran. There’s Just One Catch.
Someone’s weapons are depleted, but it’s not Iran.

The Secretary of War Crimes thinks the American Public loves him? But only 23% have a positive opinion, that's lower than potus (YouGov).
Delulu's gonna delulu, monstrously.
"Officials familiar with Hegseth’s thinking believe that he is considering a run for president or some other political office after his time in the Trump administration is over."
Gift article:

Hegseth travels to Iowa in his ‘personal capacity’ amid 2028 speculation
Officials familiar with the defense secretary’s thinking believe he is considering a run for president or some other office after his time in the Trump administration ends.

Yep, sounds familiar. I can remember some genuinely terrifying landings. (it has been too long since I last flew in to Wellington, alas)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/weather-el-nino-nz-wellington-worlds-windiest-city

‘Like a seagull in a stiff breeze’: what it’s like flying into Wellington, the world’s windiest city
Anyone who has frequently landed in New Zealand’s capital has a hair-raising story to tell, and this year’s ‘super’ El Niño could only intensify the winds

Debugging #rust in #gdb is a bit weird. I'm pretty familiar with C so it's easy to place the break and watchpoints. I'm trying to find where a particular Error<> enum is raised (because there are a lot of options for the code) but given the way these things are propagated its not really u…

NO. The only thing that would fit TACO is naming a garbage scow after him.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-black-war-hero-to-trump

Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-prepares…

Anthropic Prepares Supervoting Power for Founders as it Readies for Mega-IPO
Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside shareholder pressure, two people familiar with the matter said. It would be the first time Anthropic’s leaders have extra voting power, which ...

Baker Mayfield says Buccaneers are ready to surprise critics in 2026, why he could be right

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/baker-mayfield-buccaneers-2026-nfl-season/

arctic whites vs the commanders? sounds familiar 🤔| 📺: #WASvsDAL 9/20 on FOX | #DallasCowboys https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8TLu__6YKJE

More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly,
according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.

Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities
— four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database,
known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS.

A sixth official, who like the oth…

More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

{tabpfn} brings a pretrained deep-learning model for tabular data to R, with familiar formula, recipe and predict() interfaces: #rstats

GitHub - tidymodels/tabpfn: Foundation Model for Tabular Data via reticulate
Foundation Model for Tabular Data via reticulate. Contribute to tidymodels/tabpfn development by creating an account on GitHub.

a familiar presidential trap

I ride a bike in Wisconsin but I still own a car... thinking I'll need to get one of these!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2026/07/15/wisconsin-bike-fed-license-plate/90676326007/

A familiar designer helps Wisconsin Bike Fed create new license plate
The Wisconsin Bike Fed made a new license plate, debuting in 2027, with help from the designer of the 1980s standard "America's Dairyland" plate.

I would love to know what this poll looks like specifically in San Francisco.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/712751/americans-cool-toward.aspx

Americans Cool Toward AI
A Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that Americans are more familiar with AI but more cautious about businesses' use of AI and its effect on jobs.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@TheASF/117277070685861233
As a Member of the ASF, I probably should hold my tongue, but I’m no smarter about this tool after reading this than I was before.
The lake formats I am familiar with are artificial, prairie pothole,…

Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-openroute…

Startup OpenRouter Fields Multi-Billion-Dollar Takeover Interest
OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value the startup at billions of dollars, a steep premium to its $1.3 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions reflect a swell ...

Raiders Hope Different Approach To Familiar Issue Equals Better Results https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hope-different-approach-familiar-issue-equals-better-results

Past/Present: Quinn returns with less familiarity https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-quinn-returns-with-less-familiarity

"Middle Eastern mobile networks were repeatedly hit with cyber attacks to track the locations of US personnel and contractors during the Iran war, according to telecoms data and people familiar with the matter."
https://www.ft.com/content/44351c74-03c8-4

"Do The New AI Features in These Familiar Databases Actually Help Researchers?" @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-advisor/2026/new-ai-features-ebsco-proquest-jstor
"EBSCO, …

Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/us/politics/trump-cnn-msnow-press-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260919/p63#a260919p63

William Gibson mentioned this Bowie song in his stream today, and how it had risen up in his mind. I was not familiar with it, but now I see the lyrics I understand why it feels topical.
Five Years, by David Bowie:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Dylan Jones:
🎵 Familiar Disturbance
#DylanJones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7LLs4EIKxImUM9uMyTmg0S

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers on familiar Mike McCarthy offense: 'It's stuff that we used to run' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-aaron-rodgers-on-familiar-mike-mccarthy-offense-it-s-stuff-that-we-used-to-run…

@… Hello, for my #ThePlaylistSuggestion tracks this week on the theme of "skint", I'm unashamedly going back to a couple of 1980s "blue-eyed soul" Top Ten hits.
Of course they're both cover versions so you could also play the originals, but for my money these versions are the best.
#ThePlaylist

Top AI companies have discussed creating their own standards body | CNN Business
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/14/tech/ai-standards-body

Top AI companies have discussed creating their own standards body
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have discussed creating an AI industry standards body, people familiar with the situation told CNN.

Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/politics/pentagon-press…

Exclusive: Inside Hegseth’s push to showcase a dramatic Iran rescue on ‘60 Minutes’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and political appointees in his office pushed for the two crew members of an F-15 who were shot down over Iran in April to participate in Sunday’s highly-publicized “60 Minutes” report about the ensuing rescue operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Past/Present: Quinn returns with less familiarity https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-quinn-returns-with-less-familiarity

So... it turns out that one of the downsides of using good noise-cancelling headsets to do morse code #HamRadio is that they cancel the sound of thunder as well as of heavy rain. When I finally saw the lightning, I decided to give the rest of the Slow-Speed conTest a pass this evening.
For those not familiar, this is a weekly morse code practice session where you go slow …

{duckplyr} is a drop-in replacement for dplyr powered by DuckDB. Keep the familiar dplyr syntax while speeding up work with large datasets: #rstats

A DuckDB-Backed Version of dplyr
A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for performance. Offers convenient utilities for working with in-memory and larger-than-memory data while retaining full dplyr compatibility.

Out of curiosity, is anyone using the "rooM" moo server that is documented here: #moo

Super niche, but those that are familiar with compx on #algorand should be wary of a new scheme the creator is working on. Of course it's related to AI agents, lol.
https://canix402.compx.io/user-agents#

User Agents | CANIX402
Meet autonomous agents powered by Canix402 — starting with Brownie Bot, an Algorand community treasury that researches DeFi with x402-paid tools and executes under local policy.

Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-talks…

Nvidia in Talks to Invest $3 Billion in SB Energy as Part of OpenAI Data Center Deal
Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the Softbank Group-backed developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, according to people familiar with the discussions. The investment is being discussed as part of Nvidia’s negotiations with OpenAI and SB ...

the game Super Hexagon is mentioned in a essay about Leverage Research (an Effective-Altruism-adjacent cult-like), so I installed SH again. it's been years, but it's still familiar; my skill has degraded, but not as much as I expected
the Leveragers apparently believed that their psychological editing techniques helped them with SH. it's a passing mention with no details, but I doubt there was anything like a controlled experiment, just typical confirmation bias.

The colors here in the bottom of the tower column are presumably a nod to the City of London, a nice little detail.
If by any chance you’re not familiar with the subject, CGP Grey made an excellent video 14(!!!) years ago: https://youtu.be/LrObZ_HZZUc?si=mOPEGTmzrLv-aBB1

Steelers break camp at Saint Vincent College a day early, but Mike McCarthy promises they'll be back https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-break-camp-early-mike-mccarthy-latrobe

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moloko:
🎵 Familiar Feelings
#NowPlaying #Moloko
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KVnytFhfPo4nGhULCQtlp

yeah, a familiar feeling...

To anyone familiar with Alzheimer's disease: is it true that AD patients can have phases where they remember everything properly, and then go back to having forgotten those things?
Is there any research done on that aspect? I don't even know how to call it...
Edit: maybe "temporary lucidity"? I found a new york times article on "terminal lucidity" although it seem…

Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die?
As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

Cowboys UDFA fits familiar mold, can he produce where others couldn't? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/09/michael-trigg-same-story-different-day-dallas-cowboy…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The ideal mix of classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy43

Quay Walker reunites with familiar faces to strengthen the Raiders defense https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/02/quay-walker-reunites-with-familiar-faces-to-strengthen-the-raiders-defense/

look at dis - seems familiar, huh? :)

Since subscribing to the @… , for fun I've been reading all the old issues from the first on. This creates frissons when you find a review of a book that seems old and familiar but was then brand new. Here, for instance, is Lighthill on Gödel Escher Bach:

James Lighthill · Strange Loops

Sources: Apple is looking for chip companies to buy to boost its AI server chip efforts as it struggles with the performance of its servers running on M2 Ultra (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-hunts-ai-chip-acquisitions
…

Apple Hunts for AI Chip Acquisitions
Apple is on the lookout for acquisitions of chip companies to boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI, said people familiar with the company’s efforts. In recent months, the iPhone maker has talked with bankers about possible deals. It has also approached semiconductor startups to ...

2026 NFL Week 1 early odds: Cowboys road favorites vs. Giants, while Panthers in familiar position vs. Bears

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nf

Latest post from @… : Two #Israeli soldiers -- from the Most Moral Army in the World -- set out to humiliate a bound prisoner, but succeeded in giving hope to his family.
#Palestine

Destinies Written Beneath the Rubble
The afflicted family, torn by the anxiety of absence and with longing devouring their hearts, gathered around a phone screen, staring at the circulating image 👁️‍🗨️. Amidst the ugliness and cruelty of the scene, the hearts of the father and mother skipped a beat 💓. Their eyes fell upon familiar features.

Shopware 6: "We need the admin's duplicate button, but from code, with a different name and its own SKU" — sound familiar? Delete your hand-rolled cloning code. Shopware has one call that deep-duplicates any entity with overrides, plus an API endpoint doing the same thing for free.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #16: CloneBehavior — entity duplication with overrides, one call - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
You know the admin's "duplicate" button on products. Now the ticket says: "We need that, but from code — duplicate a product per sales channel, with adjusted

The Great Wargaming Survey 2026
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/great-wargaming-survey-blog-wss-magazine/the-great-wargaming-survey-2026 took me 5 minutes to fill. Great easy to win prizes, sharing for…

The Great Wargaming Survey 2026
It's August, so there is another edition of the Great Wargaming Survey. For the thirteenth time (uh-oh) wargamers worldwide are invited to share their opinions and experiences so we can all learn about ourselves. Compared to previous editions, there are some very familiar questions, a few new ones, a few questions that

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The very best of classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030297

Cowboys Bring Back 113-Yard Jets Castoff Before Commanders Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/bring-back-israel-abanikanda-commanders-game/

Elon Musk in recent years instructed Tesla executives to organize the company with a “laser” between its U.S. and China businesses, according to people familiar with the planning.
He wanted to ensure that in the event of geopolitical strife between the two countries, at least the U.S. half of Tesla would survive. 
Now, some Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business ahead of a potential merger with SpaceX, a person familiar with those talks…

Trump's latest declaration of an emergency leaves GOP allies scrambling again (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/trump-save-america-act-fight-puts-republican-allies-familiar-predicament/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p103#a260625p103

"Did the Philistines Speak Greek?"
https://dannybate.com/2026/07/03/did-the-philistines-speak-greek/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The very best of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031l7g

Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-developing-ai-a…

Cursor Is Developing an AI Agent to Compete With Claude Cowork
Cursor is developing a general-purpose AI agent meant to compete with popular tools like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, two people familiar with the project said, part of a broader push by the company to diversify beyond coding-focused tools. Work on the new agent began after Cursor started leasing ...

Familiar faces in new places: Refresher on all the biggest NFL offseason moves in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/familiar-faces-new-places-biggest-nfl-offseason-m…

Cowboys Add Much-Needed RB Depth Familiar With Klayton Adams After Shock Jaydon Blue Cut https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-add-rb-depth-familiar-klayton-adams-shock-jaydon-blue-cut

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Refresh your morning with classical music
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yxkh

Sources: Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise $750M co-led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation; Kalshi was valued at $22B in May (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ex…

Exclusive: Sequoia, Wellington in Talks to Back Kalshi at $40 Billion Valuation
Kalshi, the biggest prediction market, is in advanced talks to raise at least $750 million in a new financing round at a $40 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management are in talks to be co-lead investors, some of the people said. The funding size is not finalized and is subject to change, the people said. Sequoia is an

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Great classical music for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yn67

Seahawks Work Out Former Cowboys Safety Donovan Wilson With Familiar Connection https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/onsi/seahawks-work-out-former-cowboys-safety-donovan-wilson-familiar-connection

Source: Kalshi's annualized revenue topped $4B in July, up from $2B two months earlier, and its operating expenses totaled $300M in June (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kalshi-tops-4-billion…

Kalshi Tops $4 Billion In Annualized Revenue as it Seeks $40 Billion Valuation
World Cup wagers helped double Kalshi’s revenue to a more than $4 billion annualized rate in July, from a pace of over $2 billion two months earlier, a person familiar with the matter said. That growth is set to drive another jump in the prediction market’s valuation. Kalshi is in advanced talks ...

The Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a
stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies,
a policy championed by Vice President JD Vance,
using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children,
one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration t…

Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

Facing Quagmire in Iran, Trump Turns to a Familiar Face: North Korea's Kim Jong-un (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/trump-iran-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p127#a260817p127

Titans' fresh start produces one of their most embarrassing losses yet

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-loss-to-jets-cam-ward-robert-saleh/

Steelers Bring Back Defensive Enforcer Who Once Recorded 101 Tackles in Pittsburgh https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/news/steelers-bring-back-defensive-enforcer-who/fe7ec51460be3ecfcbff498d

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Your perfect classical playlist
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yn23

Will Dallas Cowboys Starters Play vs Seahawks in Week 1 of NFL Preseason? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/will-dallas-cowboys-starters-play-vs-seahawks-week-1-nfl-preseason

Trump’s Board of Peace,
which was set up in January to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza,
has finally issued its first construction contract in the devastated territory:
⭐️a project to build a rudimentary 150-person military outpost to house Moroccan troops,
a source familiar with the matter told the Guardian.
The contract, which has not yet been finalised, was awarded to
Arkel International, a Louisiana-based firm that has previously carried out work wit…

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
Exclusive: Louisiana firm awarded tender to build rudimentary outpost to house Moroccan troops

Will Dallas Cowboys Starters Play vs Seahawks in Week 1 of NFL Preseason? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/will-dallas-cowboys-starters-play-vs-seahawks-week-1-nfl-preseason

Giants vs. Cowboys: NFC East rivals square off on 'Sunday Night Football' in John Harbaugh's debut

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-vs-cowboys-prediction-p…

Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-trying-to-become-a-ba…

Crypto exchange Kraken is trying to become a bank in Europe
The focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ymky

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns
Donald Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week,
where he demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages
that now threaten to limit military options with Iran,
two people familiar with the exchange told The Washington Post.

The encounter took place on the sidelines of his Cab…

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns
At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-inves…

Nvidia to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Blackstone-Backed Power Firm Behind Stargate
Nvidia has agreed to invest $2 billion into Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle AI campus in Texas, and has agreed to commit another $1 billion as the developer secures additional planned power, three people familiar with the transaction said. The deal values ...

As the on-again, off-again war in Iran flares up again,
Donald Trump seems bogged down in a conflict that he cannot control or move past, despite his declarations of total victory.
On Tuesday night, after the latest exchange of fire over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up
— something he did at the outset of the war six months ago, before he acknowledged that his command was easier said than done.
In a social media post, Trum…

Trump Returns to a Familiar Playbook as the War With Iran Flares Up Again
The United States seems increasingly bogged down in Iran after six months of conflict, despite President Trump’s declarations of military dominance.

Sources: Cursor told staff Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-maps-branding-…

Cursor Maps Out Branding, Other Changes as SpaceX Acquisition Nears
Cursor told staff at an all-hands meeting on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup as soon as the end of next week, and flagged that the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out for new products in the coming months, people familiar with the ...

Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how
the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process, come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a wh…

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y6c4

Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai…

A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing
A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest in a string of such incidents at major AI firms. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the systems of a ...

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/05/2026…

Exclusive: Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year
The CEO of Google’s AI unit was increasingly unsatisfied with the role of tech executive, preferring a more scientific position, said two people familiar with his thinking.

U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting
expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms,
but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
The revelations about the discussions, from someone familiar with the rulemaking process,
come as a separate anonymous federal employee filed a whistl…

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A classical soundtrack for your morning
Ian Skelly plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003038f

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Relax into the day with classical
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y6ds

During a white house meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly to President Trump
—a sign of how far tensions between the two Pentagon leaders had escalated,
and of the dysfunction inside the building, four people familiar with the conversation told us.
Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed ov…

Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.

Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/white-house-host-ai-com…

White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework
The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House on Tuesday to review the completed version of an AI oversight framework, according to five people familiar with the matter. The framework will create a voluntary ...

Unfortunately, we have been privy to an abundance of Trump's humiliating public spectacles
(e.g., the Kennedy Center defacement,
the cancel-plagued concert,
The sleazy UFC extravaganza,
the algae sludge debacle).
They follow a familiar script, punctuated by Trumpian grandiosity,
contempt for expertise,
attachment to money-grabbing grift,
refusal to listen to critics or bad news,
dismal personal taste,
and jaw-dropping ignorance…

Words & Phases
‘A Golden Age’ and a ‘Great America State Fair’?!

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The very best of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y68n

Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/freshfields-anthropic-…

Freshfields’ Anthropic Win; A Squeeze of Lime Returns
A British law firm has scored a big win: a role in the Anthropic initial public offering, expected to raise tens of billions at a valuation of more than $1 trillion.Anthropic’s bankers have brought on U.K. law firm Freshfields to work on the IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.The ...

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.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A classical soundtrack for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y6h9

A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US company in the conflict.
Terminal Autonomy makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company.
The phrase “terminal autonomy” refers to the final phase of a kamikaze drone’s attack in which …

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (David Faber/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/leopold-aschenbrenners-hedg…

AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund has sold all of its public stock holdings, according to people familiar with the matter.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Refresh your morning with classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y62h

Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
The Pentagon has secretly installed conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles,
declining to disclose their assignments as they
amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints
and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration,
according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been a…

Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.

US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/open-weight-ai-models/

Thoughts on "Open" Models
The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different...

Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthro…

Anthropic Considers Letting Shareholders Sell In IPO, Departing from SpaceX Playbook
Anthropic has been working on a plan to let existing shareholders sell some stock in its blockbuster initial public offering while also considering longer-than-usual lockup periods for sales after it’s public, people familiar with the process said. Allowing secondary stock sales in the IPO would ...