TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses/
TechCrunch
TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch
The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs.
The U.S. military prepares to deploy National Guard troops in Washington, D.C
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news
Nytimes
Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
D.C.’s mayor acknowledged local officials could do little to block what was expected to be a 30-day takeover of the capital’s policing. President Trump suggested his action might be expanded to other cities.
Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta, the Greatest Global Mass Censorship Campaign
https://archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_1
https://archive.org/details/meta_leaks_part_1
Internet Archive
meta_leaks_part_1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
CPS Investigated Her 4 Times Because She Let Her Kids Play Outside
https://reason.com/2025/08/09/child-protective-services-investigated-her-4-times-because-she-let-her-kids-play-outside/
https://reason.com/2025/08/09/child-protective-services-investigated-her-4-times-because-she-let-her-kids-play-outside/
Reason
Child Protective Services Investigated Her 4 Times Because She Let Her Kids Play Outside
"I was told that children could never be left alone, inside or outside the home—EVEN IN THEIR OWN BEDROOMS—until they were 13 years old."
Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j97xegz5no
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j97xegz5no
Bbc
Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60
The world's best-selling van has been in production since 1965.
Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html
Google Open Source Blog
What's new in Apache Iceberg v3?
The Apache Iceberg project is taking on the challenge of how to bring database-like agility to petabyte-scale datasets stored in open cloud storage.
Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/22ib5scviwwa7bqeln22w2xm3dlywc4yuactrddhmsntixnghr@wjmmbpxjvipv/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/22ib5scviwwa7bqeln22w2xm3dlywc4yuactrddhmsntixnghr@wjmmbpxjvipv/T/#u
I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI
https://twitter.com/KeithSakata/status/1954884361695719474
https://twitter.com/KeithSakata/status/1954884361695719474
X (formerly Twitter)
Keith Sakata, MD (@KeithSakata) on X
I’m a psychiatrist.
In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern.
Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵
In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern.
Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵
Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python
https://github.com/danterolle/tilf
https://github.com/danterolle/tilf
GitHub
GitHub - danterolle/tilf: Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating…
Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential drawing tools, live preview, undo/redo, a...
Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-largest-newspaper-yomiuri-shimbun-sues-perplexity-for-copyright-violations/
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-largest-newspaper-yomiuri-shimbun-sues-perplexity-for-copyright-violations/
Nieman Lab
Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher…
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (Arc) Foundation Models [pdf]
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06471
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302
ABC News
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.
LLMs' "simulated reasoning" abilities are a brittle mirage
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
Ars Technica
LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.