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Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion

Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The move will put Nvidia in charge of a strategic asset in the race among open-source model developers to ...

Reach reports H1 revenue down 9% YoY to £232.9M, pre-tax profit down 5% to £40.3M, and says it will move "away from volume" to focus on original content (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-mo…

Reach moves away from 'volume' as traffic, revenue and share price plunge
Piers North reveals change of approach after disappointing H1 2026 results.

One Grade Away: 5 NFL Teams That Could Jump Tiers https://profootballmania.com/2026/08/19/one-grade-away-5-nfl-teams-that-could-jump-tiers/

A NASA research mission to study the Earth's magnetic tail - a #HamSCI 2026 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SlVnbRKSKg (CINEMA is a NASA mission of 9 spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit, recently approved - https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-two-heliophysics-missions-for-continued-development/ - to move into development, to study the Earth's magnetic tail by detecting particles that are accelerated to the poles. MOVIE is its conjugate Citizen Science initiative, part of which includes building out ground instruments to compliment the main mission, expected to include All-Sky Cameras, Magnetometers, and various Radio Receivers to probe the coinciding ionospheric conditions). Also a talk about the SoFIE CubeSat Mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imB7_NXQeHQ

Cowboys Get Concerning Week 2 Bold Prediction After ‘Alarmingly Bad’ Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-concerning-prediction-after-loss/

Donald Trump has decreed that Republicans will stage their first ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections
-- a move aimed at energizing voters as the party fights to hold its narrow congressional majorities in November.
The two-day gathering will take place in Dallas on 9 and 10 September,
marking a break from the longstanding tradition of holding national conventions only during presidential election years.
Trump confirmed the plans on Tuesday in a Tru…

‘Historic Event’: Trump announces Republican midterm convention
President unveils plans for Dallas summit, in break with tradition of conventions only in presidential election years

Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: Rashan Gary is Complete EDGE Dallas Needed https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-2026-rashan-gary-complete-edge-needed

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told reporters on Tuesday that there’s a chance the confirmation vote to move Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination out of committee may be postponed
— or it may not.
Cornyn said a delay in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s scheduled vote
(set, for now, for 9:00 a.m. ET Thursday)
is “being discussed but hopefully … won’t be necessary,” Politico reported.
That delay is being discussed because Cornyn, it appears, has not reached an agr…

Now Cornyn’s Talking About a Potential Delay in Blanche Vote
This is your TPM evening briefing.

Cowboys’ George Pickens Could Face Brutal $32.8 Million Reality in 2027 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-george-pickens-face-brutal-reality/

Cowboys-Chiefs trade? How 2026 draft would've looked if KC didn't switch up https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/05/how-draft-may-have-looked-if-kc-didnt-back-…

Post copied from Robin Evans @… but without the AI-generated image:
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LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎
After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.
A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.
So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.
STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.
Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.
TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.
If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.
Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.
Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.
Fine.
The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.
THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.
Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.
Just start opening the door.
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