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Aug 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 August 2026

Backsplash Edition Top Story Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust and also that water is wet. (Tech Crunch) Well... Yes. Anthropic is planning to water...

Aug 17, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog

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...

Aug 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Read I was inspired to post this after reading “Let’s Just Call It A Musical And Leave It At That…” I’m a college student and help run an animation club on campus. Our main club objective is to wat...

Aug 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988

8/17/1988: Republican party nominates George H.W. Bush for President. He would appoint David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988 appe...

Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday

Printing FDM Filaments that are just Plain Weird

The fun thing about thermopolymers like PLA is that you can blend in additives, some of which are necessary to make it at all usable, while so many other additives …read more

Aug 17, 2026 from Kev Quirk

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...

Aug 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An “Enigmatic Tablet” from the Bronze Age Found at the Lucone Site, the Largest Concentration of These Objects Whose Function Is Unknown

The 2026 summer excavation campaign at the Lucone archaeological site, in the province of Brescia, has yielded a discovery that the project leaders do not hesitate to describe as exceptional. Durin...

Aug 17, 2026 from Jordi Villar

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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% ...

Aug 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

WordPress launches browser extension for Chrome and Safari that can replace the admin bar

Automattic has introduced an official WordPress browser extension, available on Google Chrome, Chromium-based browsers, and Safari for macOS. The extension is fully open source under the MIT licens...

Aug 17, 2026 from It's FOSS

Linux 7.2 Arrives With Cache Aware Scheduling After More Than a Year of Work

AMD's Radeon driver also picks up HDMI 2.1 support, and Apple M3 MacBooks can now boot the kernel.

Aug 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

These Japanese contact lenses let you put anime characters on your eyes [Photos]

Chiikawa contacts are a cute way to add some subtle anime flair to your look. In Japanese, there’s a phrase, “Me ni irete mo itakunai,” which translates literally to “It won’t hurt even if you put ...

Aug 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

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...

Aug 16, 2026 from Hackaday

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

Aug 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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...

Aug 16, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

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...

Aug 16, 2026 from Above the Law

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...

Aug 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie erster Teil

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

Aug 16, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

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, ...

Aug 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

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...

Aug 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony

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...