Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
Daring Fireball
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration…
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/
It's FOSS
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)
https://longbets.org/601/
https://longbets.org/601/
Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-lake-mead-record-low-fa402842e76ed624f71360f467b2579d
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-lake-mead-record-low-fa402842e76ed624f71360f467b2579d
AP News
Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles
The largest reservoir in the United States has plummeted to its lowest water level since it was created some 90 years ago.
Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
404 Media
Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost
SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space
https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model
https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model
AI Research
Latent Reasoning
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning. A self-contained model that does thinking in latent space, NVFP4-quantized, with a production vllm form for serving runtime.
https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/De
https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/De
Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window
Tom's Hardware
Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center
Residents of Gilroy, California, were caught by surprise when an Amazon data center started construction in their city. Negotiations for the project started in 2020, with public comments open until 2024, but it flew under the radar.
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/professor-israel-gaza-university-of-minnesota
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/professor-israel-gaza-university-of-minnesota
the Guardian
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
Kibotronics
Lilly's message | Kibotronics
From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978
In the isolation tank with K, John received a new message as follows:
What is the …
In the isolation tank with K, John received a new message as follows:
What is the …
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/
TechEBlog
A Falling Weight Just Broke the Sound Barrier with Tom Stanton's Supersonic Trebuchet
Tom Stanton has spent years chasing a number that gravity itself seemed to forbid. On a quiet field somewhere in the UK, a 40-kilogram mass dropped a short distance, spun a carbon-fiber arm past 2,300 revolutions per minute, and sent a 4-gram projectile into…
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650
https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650
The Conversation
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/
https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/
alexanderwanyoike.github.io
vibez: Perform, Arrange, Mix
vibez is an open source DAW for electronic music, written in Rust. Perform a track from a pad grid, arrange what you played on a timeline, and mix it on a real console.
Every fast write moves work somewhere else
https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/
Shayon Mukherjee
Every fast write moves work somewhere else
A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the work left for later.
Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ
YouTube
Google Accidentally Proved AI is Just "Paint-by-Numbers"
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https://www.brenda…
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