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Xi Bids for Global Leadership at 2026 World AI Conference

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Remains of a Denisovan “Giant” Found Over 60 Meters Beneath the Seafloor in Taiwan Challenge the Rules of Human Evolution

An international team of researchers has identified two leg bones found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, as belonging to Denisovans, an extinct group of hominids related to Neanderthals. The fossils,...

Who Is the Slower App Review Process Actually Stopping? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #149

Slower App Store reviews have become something more and more developers can clearly feel. In the age of vibe coding, the cost of building and iterating on apps has dropped dramatically, so it is no...

How Do You Learn With AI? 9 Ways to Use AI Tools for Studying Anything Faster

Learn with AI and you get something students have wanted since the invention of homework, a tutor that is available at 2 a.m., never sighs at the same question asked five times, and adjusts its exp...

2026-08-17 11:29: I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license...

I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license for our tool" or "can we put a link to our service in a post?" At least back then they were slightly human. Now al...

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Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck with me is that people classified as normal weight by BMI still carried 15 to 50% ...

Pepin's Rebellion

There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in...

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On finding vulnerabilities and shipping fixes

Over the last year, I’ve watched AI models and tools that find vulnerabilities in code take a central role in security industry communications. Every few weeks, a new product announcement promises ...

L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots

L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques entreprises centralisées qui cherchent à nous exploiter en pourrissant nos cerveaux...

The U.S. rare-earth magnet buildout.

Much of the disclosed plant capacity remains a future project. Qualification, product mix, inputs, and yield determine how much becomes usable supply.

Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026

We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what …read more

Far From Pitcher Perfect Math

Read Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Customer: "Does the half pitcher have more alcohol than the full pitcher?" Me: "I mean, it would be the same alcohol percentage, but in terms of volume it would b...

Weekly Robotics #372

If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s issue makes up for it! I’m in SF all week starting today; if you would like to me...

Vances Learn That If You’re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You — See Generally

Yale Law Cool Kids' Chat: JD and Usha Vance's law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple's improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty...

Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie erster Teil

Wir haben ausgekundschaftet, wo man die Sonnenfinsternis am besten betrachten kann.

Doctor Who: Bessie’s Tape Deck – The Third Doctor Audios, Part 2

Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era when Big Finish were reluctant to recast characters whose actors had died (or, ...

A Particle Composed Only of Force: Scientists Confirm the Existence of a Previously Unknown State of Matter

For more than half a century, particle physics has pursued one of the most elusive and fascinating predictions of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory that describes the strong nuclear force. I...

Daily News Stuff 16 August 2026

Ananaisotropic Edition Top Story Every fusion power startup that has raised over $100 million. (Tech Crunch) Your weekly reminder that it is the 21st century, and not everything is poop-flavoured i...

Embedding Workouts using Web Component

I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I thought it must be easy with SVG images. It wasn’t as easy. First, I had to get an ...