π€ Waymo clears 18 counties in California
Waymo has run commercial robotaxis in San Francisco and Los Angeles for years, expanding zone by zone as regulators approve each step. The California Public Utilities Commission just granted its largest clearance yet: 18 counties statewide, bringing Sacramento and San Diego into the fold for the first time.
The January 2026 application hit some regulatory friction before getting through. Rides will operate on
Both new cities had been in the pipeline since late 2025, with fully driverless test rides already underway. The commercial approval, per Engadget, is the next step in that same sequence.
Waymo has run commercial robotaxis in San Francisco and Los Angeles for years, expanding zone by zone as regulators approve each step. The California Public Utilities Commission just granted its largest clearance yet: 18 counties statewide, bringing Sacramento and San Diego into the fold for the first time.
The January 2026 application hit some regulatory friction before getting through. Rides will operate on
Jaguar I-Pace vehicles and the new Ojai minivan built by Chinese manufacturer Zeekr, with a gradual rollout tied to Waymo's safety framework.Both new cities had been in the pipeline since late 2025, with fully driverless test rides already underway. The commercial approval, per Engadget, is the next step in that same sequence.
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πΈ Stripe in talks to acquire PayPal
Per the Wall Street Journal, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International are negotiating a buyout of PayPal β a July offer of $60.50 per share ($53 billion total) was rejected, and the parties are now discussing a higher price, with a potential announcement in the coming weeks.
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Per the Wall Street Journal, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International are negotiating a buyout of PayPal β a July offer of $60.50 per share ($53 billion total) was rejected, and the parties are now discussing a higher price, with a potential announcement in the coming weeks.
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β½ Cincinnati showed no mercy
Novak Djokovic β 24 Grand Slam titles, one of the longest-running forces in tennis β returned to the tour after his Wimbledon exit against Sinner. First match back: Thiago Tirante, Argentina, ranked 50th in the world.
Djokovic took the first set. Then the Ohio heat took over. A gruelling 18-minute game in the second set seemed to break something β he dropped to his hands and knees, called for a physio, then a doctor, and appeared to vomit twice on court. Both players retreated to the locker room. When they came back, Tirante closed it out: 2-6 6-4 6-4. Djokovic's first second-round exit in Cincinnati since he debuted there in 2005.
He earned every word of that. Still β 39 years old, August in Ohio, and humidity that doesn't care about your trophy cabinet.
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Novak Djokovic β 24 Grand Slam titles, one of the longest-running forces in tennis β returned to the tour after his Wimbledon exit against Sinner. First match back: Thiago Tirante, Argentina, ranked 50th in the world.
Djokovic took the first set. Then the Ohio heat took over. A gruelling 18-minute game in the second set seemed to break something β he dropped to his hands and knees, called for a physio, then a doctor, and appeared to vomit twice on court. Both players retreated to the locker room. When they came back, Tirante closed it out: 2-6 6-4 6-4. Djokovic's first second-round exit in Cincinnati since he debuted there in 2005.
"This is the best win of my career. I managed the nerves of playing a legend like Novak."
He earned every word of that. Still β 39 years old, August in Ohio, and humidity that doesn't care about your trophy cabinet.
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π Daily Recap Β· Aug 18
π Burnley's mystery shirt sponsor vanished in 42 days
π Kia EV3 undercuts its own target at $30,945
π€ Waymo just unlocked 18 California counties at once
πΈ Stripe is eyeing a $53 billion PayPal takeover
πΎ Djokovic lost in Ohio heat to a 50th-ranked Argentine
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π Burnley's mystery shirt sponsor vanished in 42 days
π Kia EV3 undercuts its own target at $30,945
π€ Waymo just unlocked 18 California counties at once
πΈ Stripe is eyeing a $53 billion PayPal takeover
πΎ Djokovic lost in Ohio heat to a 50th-ranked Argentine
That one person in your group chat who missed everything today β this is for them
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π Bangladesh beat top-ranked Australia by nine wickets in Darwin β the country's first-ever Test win on Australian soil. Hasan Mahmud took 6-55 in the first innings; Mehidy Hasan Miraz wrapped up the second with 5-66. BBC Sport calls it one of the most embarrassing defeats Australia have ever suffered in Test cricket.
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β½ The record that waited 13 years
Islam Makhachev β former lightweight champion who moved up a division and immediately claimed the welterweight belt β has just rewritten UFC history. At UFC 330 in Philadelphia, he defended his title against Ireland's Ian Machado Garry with his 17th straight UFC win, breaking Anderson Silva's record that had stood since 2012.
The numbers are blunt: 12 minutes of control time to Garry's 34 seconds, seven unanswered takedowns. Machado Garry survived, scrapped, and bloodied Makhachev's face β and still lost by unanimous decision. The record now reads 29β1, and as BBC Sport notes, the debate over the greatest UFC fighter ever is no longer a hypothetical.
Silva's record waited 13 years for a new owner. It found one β not the loudest guy at the press conference.
Islam Makhachev β former lightweight champion who moved up a division and immediately claimed the welterweight belt β has just rewritten UFC history. At UFC 330 in Philadelphia, he defended his title against Ireland's Ian Machado Garry with his 17th straight UFC win, breaking Anderson Silva's record that had stood since 2012.
The numbers are blunt: 12 minutes of control time to Garry's 34 seconds, seven unanswered takedowns. Machado Garry survived, scrapped, and bloodied Makhachev's face β and still lost by unanimous decision. The record now reads 29β1, and as BBC Sport notes, the debate over the greatest UFC fighter ever is no longer a hypothetical.
Silva's record waited 13 years for a new owner. It found one β not the loudest guy at the press conference.
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β½ Ronaldo is probably done
Well, here we are. Ronaldo sat down with Vogue β it was actually a wedding interview, he and Georgina Rodriguez officially got married on Tuesday β and somewhere in the middle of it he just said: "This is probably my last year of football."
He's 41. Five Ballon d'Ors, five Champions League titles, goals in England, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia. He's 24 goals short of 1,000 for his career and says he wants to "leave a spectacular legacy." His Al-Nassr contract runs one more year. It all kind of lines up.
On life after football he's vague β padel, travel, family, enjoying what they've built together. "25 years with a lot of sacrifice" is how he put it.
Messi, for what it's worth, has also been saying lately he doesn't know how much longer he'll keep going. So yeah, that whole era is just sort of winding down, per BBC Sport.
Well, here we are. Ronaldo sat down with Vogue β it was actually a wedding interview, he and Georgina Rodriguez officially got married on Tuesday β and somewhere in the middle of it he just said: "This is probably my last year of football."
He's 41. Five Ballon d'Ors, five Champions League titles, goals in England, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia. He's 24 goals short of 1,000 for his career and says he wants to "leave a spectacular legacy." His Al-Nassr contract runs one more year. It all kind of lines up.
On life after football he's vague β padel, travel, family, enjoying what they've built together. "25 years with a lot of sacrifice" is how he put it.
Messi, for what it's worth, has also been saying lately he doesn't know how much longer he'll keep going. So yeah, that whole era is just sort of winding down, per BBC Sport.
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π€ AI on the right side of the heist
A "red team" is the group that attacks its own infrastructure on purpose β finding holes before someone less friendly does. Bitcoin just got one, powered by frontier AI.
A volunteer initiative ran Claude, GPT, Kimi K3, and GLM 5.2 across 150 repositories and found over a dozen vulnerabilities in wallets, cryptographic libraries, and core infrastructure. Developer Calle posted the pace on X: "one critical exploit per hour per person" β burning
The backdrop makes it sharper: earlier this year Claude found a four-year-old Zcash flaw that would've allowed unlimited counterfeit
The AI is scanning either way β the only question is who files the report first.
A "red team" is the group that attacks its own infrastructure on purpose β finding holes before someone less friendly does. Bitcoin just got one, powered by frontier AI.
A volunteer initiative ran Claude, GPT, Kimi K3, and GLM 5.2 across 150 repositories and found over a dozen vulnerabilities in wallets, cryptographic libraries, and core infrastructure. Developer Calle posted the pace on X: "one critical exploit per hour per person" β burning
$10,000 a day, per Decrypt.The backdrop makes it sharper: earlier this year Claude found a four-year-old Zcash flaw that would've allowed unlimited counterfeit
ZEC. The Boltz bridge suspended operations after attackers started finding bugs faster than the team could patch them.π4β€1
π Daily Recap Β· Aug 19
π Bangladesh stun Australia with historic first Test win
π₯ Makhachev rewrites UFC history with 17th straight win
β½ Ronaldo drops retirement hint mid-wedding interview at 41
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π Bangladesh stun Australia with historic first Test win
π₯ Makhachev rewrites UFC history with 17th straight win
β½ Ronaldo drops retirement hint mid-wedding interview at 41
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π§ ChatGPT now watches what you do β and remembers
OpenAI has added Computer History to its macOS desktop app: the assistant tracks your clicks and keystrokes, builds a timeline, and makes it available to both ChatGPT and Codex.
In a demo, OpenAI's Dominic Kundel showed the app locating a recent document, checking whether it was sent in Slack, and summarising the morning β minus the small talk.
The Windows Recall comparison is inevitable β Microsoft's feature once caused an outcry for silently grabbing screenshots. OpenAI says this captures only "events," no images or video. What counts as an "event" remains helpfully vague.
The feature is opt-in; you can exclude apps and delete entries manually. The company building AGI kindly asks you to tick a box so it doesn't accidentally surveil you.
OpenAI has added Computer History to its macOS desktop app: the assistant tracks your clicks and keystrokes, builds a timeline, and makes it available to both ChatGPT and Codex.
In a demo, OpenAI's Dominic Kundel showed the app locating a recent document, checking whether it was sent in Slack, and summarising the morning β minus the small talk.
The Windows Recall comparison is inevitable β Microsoft's feature once caused an outcry for silently grabbing screenshots. OpenAI says this captures only "events," no images or video. What counts as an "event" remains helpfully vague.
The feature is opt-in; you can exclude apps and delete entries manually. The company building AGI kindly asks you to tick a box so it doesn't accidentally surveil you.
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π Amazon's drone delivery is about to be everywhere
So I genuinely thought Prime Air was still this small pilot thing β like, a handful of towns, nothing serious. Turns out no. Amazon just announced that Prime Air is expanding to nearly 500 US cities by end of 2026. That's a sixfold jump from where they are right now.
Currently running in 11 spots across Texas, Florida, Michigan, Louisiana and a couple others. Next up: Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse, and Boise metro areas.
Thirty-minute delivery, millions of items β groceries, meds, electronics. Free for Prime members on orders $50+, otherwise $2.99, or $4.99 without a subscription.
So yeah, drones buzzing overhead just becoming a normal Tuesday β 9to5Mac has the full list of where it's landing next.
So I genuinely thought Prime Air was still this small pilot thing β like, a handful of towns, nothing serious. Turns out no. Amazon just announced that Prime Air is expanding to nearly 500 US cities by end of 2026. That's a sixfold jump from where they are right now.
Currently running in 11 spots across Texas, Florida, Michigan, Louisiana and a couple others. Next up: Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse, and Boise metro areas.
Thirty-minute delivery, millions of items β groceries, meds, electronics. Free for Prime members on orders $50+, otherwise $2.99, or $4.99 without a subscription.
So yeah, drones buzzing overhead just becoming a normal Tuesday β 9to5Mac has the full list of where it's landing next.