Quentin Tarantino bought and runs a 1920s cinema in East Hollywood, LA. thevintagenews.com #
Vista - Video Archives Cinema Club, Los Angeles - I really like the idea of boutique cinemas. vistatheaterhollywood.com #
Pentagon's 3 million people get their own ChatGPT and Grok. techcrunch.com #
Polymarket raises $300 million from Trump Jr's investment fund. techcrunch.com #
After 15 years as Apple CEO, Tim Cook steps down. semafor.com #
OpenClaw 2.0 released openclaw.ai #
Zara launches Lefties in Liverpool, a low cost clothes store run by robots. theguardian.com #
Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prim and tons of other characters from Predator to Winnie the Pooh dies aged 85. theguardian.com #
Looks like Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face. businessinsider.com #
Open letter from 100 big tech companies waning about looming AI cyber threat problem. axios.com #
Amazon is now a member of the YouTube Shopping affiliate program. Good for content creators. engadget.com #
Big rise in cyberattacks seen on US infrastructure, including 100+ water systems in July. techcrunch.com #
Eric Weinstein on special science corner All-In Podcast episode. World keeps on worlding. podcastindex.org #
walgit — a git server that is one binary in front of an object store github.com #
Uk first customer to Ukraine's military industrial complex AI lemonade stand. implicator.ai #
Microsoft found to be embeding invisible watermark uuids into images created by MS Paint and Photos apps. xusheng.dev #
Always be selling. theguardian.com #
Iranian hackers shutdown UK power plant for 4 days. telegraph.co.uk #
I thought this week‘s All-in Podcast was particularly good. youtube.com #
Material science papers still pulling out the most base abstracts after all these years. nature.com #
Instagram has a new logo theverge.com #
Under 15s social media ban blocked by courts in France theguardian.com #
Bluesky release Bluesky Protocol Services. atproto.com #
As much as I'm not a massive fan of intelligence agencies, I can't help but think Bond was a much better PR act for the UK than Bin Face. theguardian.com #
Scientists are studying agent turf wars. Kind of interesting. If you are into turf wars you will love this, otherwise if you are regular person quite worrying. techcrunch.com #
Solar eclipse above houses of parliament and Big Ben in London. theguardian.com #
Trump‘s board of peace issues first building contract. More US - EU passive aggressive geopolitics than you can shake a stick at. theguardian.com #
Just in case you haven‘t had your recommended dose of doom this week, scientists have discovered that black holes are exploding stars across the Milkyway galaxy. sciencedaily.com #
Another blog with 2 posts with the exact thing I have been researching the last few days, this time about the perils of webhooks weli.dev #
Runar writes about switching from Android to Linux on mobile runarcn.no #
In a presumably unreleated piece, Michael Lopp writes about how incredible the typography is in Blade Runner. randsinrepose.com #
There is an immortal jellyfish that can turn back into a baby and grow all over again. theguardian.com #
Bending Spoons well known for buy-to-renovate deals acquires Airtable. techcrunch.com #
Sebastian Pipping reports the City of Munich has contracted with him to work full time on XML parser library libexpat for up to 6 months. blog.hartwork.org #
Cloudflare release a stablecoin wallet for agents. blog.cloudflare.com #
Raymii got Linux and Windows running on his programmable calculator. raymii.org #
Amazon joins Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple in the $3 trillion dollar company club. cnbc.com #
Texas implements moratorium on approvals for the 1,800 data centre projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts. texastribune.org #
Whitehouse establishes voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. Is very economic with the details. axios.com #
Andros Fenollosa makes the case that modern CSS is better than Tailwinds CSS. en.andros.dev #
Apple Q3 revenue up 16%. businesswire.com #
Amazon Q2 revenue up 20%. businesswire.com #
SK Hynics and Samsung shares skyrocket after a dip. cnbc.com #
Google fixes more bugs in June than previous 2 years thanks to AI blog.google #
Jim Nielsen lists some AI Aesthetics he‘s noticed. blog.jim-nielsen.com #
Chris Coyier from the Shop Talk Show just released CodePen 2.0. chriscoyier.net #
SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon on wednesday. theguardian.com #
Almost every sensitive radiation detector built since 1945 relies on steel salvaged from ships that sank before the first nuclear test. spacedaily.com #
Johanna Larsson makes some interesting personal reflections vis-a-vis accountability and programming with LLMs. jola.dev #
US diplomats stage walk out at France organised UN meeting. theguardian.com #
Apple $5 trillion company amid AI stock sell off. theguardian.com #
Buttons vs Links, and the Button Actions proposal. unplannedobsolescence.com #
FCC bans humanoid robots from China. theguardian.com #
Everyone is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance. thehackernews.com #
ChatGPT refuses to write in the style of a named author. arstechnica.com #
Amazon proposes a 5,105 satellite constallation for direct to device voice and data services, deployment beginning 2028 reuters.com #
AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation - simulate cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. github.com #
Find out where particular fonts are used. fontsinuse.com #
The open vs closed debate in AI heats up. nytimes.com #
What Coding Felt Like in the 80s. comuniq.xyz #
Trump threatens EU with tariffs over fining US tech companies. theguardian.com #
Meshy that generates 3D assets from text and image AI prompts raises $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. techfundingnews.com #
Layoffs at Patreon maybe a sign creator economy is in difficulties. variety.com #
An unbelievably long winded critique of AT proto in uses involving private data. lukekanies.com #
John C. Dvorak OG tech writer and co-host of the No Agenda Podcast has died. RIP. news.ycombinator.com #
X rebuilds their Android app from scratch. techcrunch.com #
Musk says they will open source the entire X codebase with 3rd party verification. thenewstack.io #
Polymarket banned in France. reuters.com #
Andros Fenollosa writeup of his IndieWeb voyage of discovery. en.andros.dev #
Scientists make cells using lab made DNA for the first time. theguardian.com #
Looks like Meta Web Services is on the horizon. techcrunch.com #
The cast of Jackass become true brits. (via the youtube distopian panopticon algorithm) youtube.com #
Apple increases prices, Micron reports non-constructive market dynamics. wsj.com #
Blogger Om Malik has died. Was very popular in tech from the early 2000s. hn thread. om.co #
OpenKnowledge - Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor and LLM Wiki. github.com #
SpaceSail is China's answer to Starlink. theguardian.com #
Doctorow in the Guardian. theguardian.com #
South Korean memory giant SK Hynixs to list in US at $29 billion. taipeitimes.com #
Jim Nielsen and John Gruber on stating the obvious. blog.jim-nielsen.com #
OpenAI and Broadcom have a new inference chip called Jalapeño. Best name for a chip in quite a while imho. openai.com #
Micron and Scandisk apear to be the AI barometer at the minute. Big sell-off just happened. marketwatch.com #
Chinese giant Tencent is grtting out of japanese game studios. thenextweb.com #
Nuclear renaissance in Canada, 10 reactors by 2040. cbc.ca #
John Ternus plans to try and refocus Apple back to it's design roots. thenextweb.com #
Brandur looks at the zone of viability for saleable software in the age of LLMs. brandur.org #
Now everyone is talking about everything being doomy. Which of source is quite doomy. theguardian.com #
Cloudflare release temporary accounts for agents, so they can vibe unbounded. blog.cloudflare.com #
Matt Mullenweg writes about Midjourney's new ultrasonic full body scanner tech. ma.tt #
Norway to ban generative AI schools. thenextweb.com #
Spain attempts to refocus tourism on offbeat locations. theguardian.com #
Will the memory shortage result in devs optimising their code? news.ycombinator.com #
Protocols for agent use in enterpise - Enterprise managed authorisation for MCP. Sound good but also complicated. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io #
Greg Boone has no regrets switching to linux. greg.harmsboone.org #
There are actually 3 levels of gitignore. nelson.cloud #
Tim Cook says Apple prices will need to increase due to soaring memory prices. wsj.com #
Github adds capacity using AWS. runtimewire.com #
SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion. implicator.ai #
Running local models is good now. vickiboykis.com #
Bubbles - Hacker News but for blogs. bubbles.town #
Miniflux 2 - a minimalist and opinionated feed reader. It's simple, fast, lightweight and super easy to install. github.com #
My page on bubbles.town. bubbles.town #
There's a movie about Anthony Bourdain coming out in August. thedailymeal.com #
SpaceX IPO goes well, Elon becomes first trillionaire. theguardian.com #
SpaceX is biggest IPO of all time @ $135 per share, raises $75 billion. nypost.com #
Coinbase launches agent that can trade on behalf of humans, uses the open x402 payment protocol. techcrunch.com #
Teardown of the gold Trump phone. ifixit.com #
DoorDash introduces AI to order food via photos and prompts. cnbc.com #
London is hot again: Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Google, Databricks, Salesforce, Rivian and Palantir announce plans for new offices. cnbc.com #
Xiaomi says it's open source AI agent harness MiMo Code beats Claude in the 200+ multi-step tasks category. venturebeat.com #
Citi Group launches blockchain based tockenized private shares trading platform. cryptonews.com #
The British food scene is going bust. theguardian.com #
Apple settles on 2 local models alongside 3 private cloud models. machinelearning.apple.com #
Apple‘s new AI architecture powered by Gemini models. macrumors.com #
Nvidia announce DGX Station, a windows supercomputers you can put under your desk. interestingengineering.com #
The Pierre Computer Company have some cool looking libraries for file tree rendering and diff rendering. pierre.computer #
Kyle Daigle (COO @ Github) interview on Latent Space Podcast. latent.space #
Pope Leo checks out the new Ferrari. theguardian.com #
SpaceX goes after the AI compute market. datacenterdynamics.com #
April 2025: When X Web services? markjgsmith.com #
Trump to speak with Taiwan. theguardian.com #
Vitalik Buterin says that formal verification tech might be in Etherium's future. decrypt.co #
Amazon Alexa can now create on demand AI generated talking heads podcasts on any topic. variety.com #
More limits to free X accounts. engadget.com #
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes. simonwillison.net #
Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. theverge.com #
British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. youtu.be #
Swatch watches are trending. theguardian.com #
Drum & Bass: The Movement - A D&B Documentary. youtube.com #
The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas interstellar comet at the same time. sci.news #
Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. news.ycombinator.com #
Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.github.io #
Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. ascii.textfiles.com #
Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. theguardian.com #
In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. bbc.com #
40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com #
Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. jorijn.com #
Simon Willison has been using LLM in script shebang lines. til.simonwillison.net #
Mecha robots are here. Probably nothing to worry about. youtube.com #
Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. en.wikipedia.org #
Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". x.ai #
Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #
The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. wsj.com #
Multi-stroke text effects in CSS are kind of trippy. yuanchuan.dev #
Boston Dynamics C-Suite exodus. semafor.com #
Chinese courts are baring companies from laying off employees to replace thyem with AIs. techinasia.com #
Maryland bands surveillance pricing in grocery stores theguardian.com #
People in China, according to the Guardian are Starmermaxxing. theguardian.com #
Jim Nielsen on Little HTML pages losely joined. Very interesting. blog.jim-nielsen.com #
Dave Rupert on small language models (SMLs) in the browser. daverupert.com #
2024: LLMs in the browser - I wonder how long it will take until someone tries to integrate one of these directly into a web browser. markjgsmith.com #
Protests against Japan PM Takaichi changing pacifist constitution. theguardian.com #
The Musk vs Altman trial begins. thenextweb.com #
YouTube Multiview - Watch 4 live streams at once. support.google.com #
The missing US scientists conspiracy has hit the mainstream. Also, aliens. theguardian.com #
Nigel Farage billionaire backer Christopher Harborne is a crypto tycoon. theguardian.com #
I watched Scratch the HipHop DJ Documentary earlier. Really great. youtube.com #
US government stake in Intel has tripled in value in 8 months. thenextweb.com #
TSMC also doing quite well at the minute. techinasia.com #
Brazil bans prediction markets. reuters.com #
Martin Fowler on tech debt in an agentic world and the importance of verification systems. martinfowler.com #
Google release TPU 8t and TPU 8i, their new training and inference focussed powerhouse AI chips. blog.google #
Polymarket launches perps, perpetual futures contract trading. cnbc.com #
John Gruber on Cook standing down as Apple CEO. daringfireball.net #
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an AI frontend client for self-hosted AI infrastructure, aimed at the enterprise market. arstechnica.com #
SpaceX in $60 billion deal with AI focussed code editor company Cursor. nytimes.com #
Robots are beating elite table tennis players now. theguardian.com #
Tim Cake to be replaced as Apple CEO by John Ternus. cnbc.com #
levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #
Popular hosting and serverless provider Vercel gets hacked. bleepingcomputer.com #
Elon: "You can access the X API via OpenClaw" - I use Github Actions :( x.com #
Humanoid robots beat humans in Beijing marathan. theguardian.com #
Tesla robotaxis service opens in Dallas and Houston. techcrunch.com #
MDN‘s new markdown in git repo‘s frontend architecture developer.mozilla.org #
New Post: New blogging CLI tool markjgsmith.com #
New Post: Multi-dimensional intersection markjgsmith.com #
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