Weekly news | 2026-08-05
· 11 min read
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- Superlogical
- KOReader
- The coolest use for the Vision Pro
- Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
- Kimi K3-256k
- A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
- UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
- Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
- AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
- The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
- GCC steering committee announces AI policy
- Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
- Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
- Elevators
- Big Food vs. the People
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
- The most official water costs $120k a gallon
- The session you cannot take with you
- Diátaxis
- How to Exist
- Software for One
- Seedance 2.5
- Karpathy’s Pelican
- Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
- F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language
- MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
- When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
- LLMs reward expertise
- SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
- In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
- There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
- Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
- AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
- AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog