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SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

• Pikachu and other Pokémon evolve into hydration types with Thermos drinkware collaboration [Pics] Aug 25, 2026

  A very cute, super effective way to keep your drinks as cold/hot as you want them. Every Pokémon species has a “type”...

• Turn octopus, spaghetti, and more of your favorite foods into crackers with Senbei Maker 2 Aug 25, 2026

  You haven’t truly eaten a food until you’ve made it into a cracker. Who doesn’t love a good cracker? They’re dry, por...

• Data suggests increased bear sightings have led to a decrease in mountain climbers across Japan Aug 24, 2026

  In one region, the number of climbers has even decreased by an unbearable 34 percent since 2024. As bears have been i...

The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

• How Long Did Justice Jackson's "Kafkaesque Nightmare" Dissent Hold Up Trump v. California? Aug 25, 2026

  In a future writing, I propose a mechanism whereby six Justices can force the release of any pending case.

• No Preliminary Injunction Against Applying Birth Sex Policy to Intersex Plaintiff's Global Entry Card … Aug 24, 2026

  when plaintiff has passport that won't expire until 2032.

• AI Hallucinations in State Farm Insurance Outside Lawyers' Filings Aug 24, 2026

  From L.A. Times (Rebecca Ellis) Wednesday: As part of an insurance dispute over a fire-damaged Carson home, attorneys...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• 3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch Aug 25, 2026

  Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us human...

• A 1990s Homebrew OS With GUI And Web Browser, In AM29000 Machine Code Aug 24, 2026

  The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 19...

• An Electronic Explanation Of 1960s Fuzz Boxes Aug 24, 2026

  It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an elect...

Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

• When You’ve Had A Few Too Many Miami Vice’s Aug 25, 2026

  Read When You’ve Had A Few Too Many Miami Vice’s Me: "Is there anything else I can get you?" Customer: "Yeah, we were...

• Watt A Load Of Crap Aug 25, 2026

  Read Watt A Load Of Crap Electricity is kind of weird (especially when you’re not a very good electrician) and electr...

• FB-Eh Aug 24, 2026

  Read FB-Eh Customer: "I bought this laptop from here, and it just stopped working. Can I get it replaced?" Me: "Sir, ...

Above the Law

A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

• The Abrego Garcia Appeal Is A Trojan Horse — See Also Aug 24, 2026

  The DOJ Is Using One Vindictive Prosecution To Help Kill The Doctrine Altogether: Funny timing, given how the vindict...

• Nine Wins Out Of Ten At The Supreme Court, Before Heading To The Federal Judiciary Aug 24, 2026

  Few advocates ever posted a record like hers. Fewer became judges. The post Nine Wins Out Of Ten At The Supreme Court...

• AI Contracts Are Quietly Becoming The Best Product Documentation Aug 24, 2026

  Increasingly, the clearest answers aren't found in marketing materials or product manuals. The post AI Contracts Are ...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-24-26 Aug 24, 2026

  We’re back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experie...

• Burger King Surpasses Wendy’s Aug 24, 2026

  Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy’s as the (distant) second largest burger ch...

• Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas” Aug 22, 2026

  I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts w...

Ambient Irony

Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...

• Daily News Stuff 24 August 2026 Aug 24, 2026

  Goof News Everyone Edition Top Story The that guy who thought it would be a fine jape to hand Border Patrol a "duress...

• Daily News Stuff 23 August 2026 Aug 23, 2026

  A Zelda In Time Edition Top Story Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swif...

• Daily News Stuff 22 August 2026 Aug 22, 2026

  Diseneuropification Edition Top Story All the news is stupid. AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and t...

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Linux 7.3 is Shaping Up to Be One of The Most Performance-Focused Kernel Releases in Years Aug 24, 2026

  The merge window is still open, but faster filesystems, a smarter scheduler, and real-time latency fixes are already in.

• Omarchy Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names Aug 24, 2026

  A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.

• TeamSpeak Will Let You Call Your Friends Directly Aug 24, 2026

  The feature is in alpha testing now and is set to bring 4K screensharing and picture-in-picture support.

The Jamestown Foundation

Jamestown provides primary-source analysis on global developments of strategic importance to the United States and its allies. We primarily cover Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

• Minesweeping Exercise Highlights Intelligent Warfare Efforts Aug 24, 2026

  Joaquin Camarena

• Purges, Aging Set Stage for 21st Party Congress Turnover Aug 24, 2026

  Willy Wo-Lap Lam

• Beijing Ships Harmful Products It Restricts at Home Aug 21, 2026

  Christopher Nye & Charles Sun

LBV Magazine English Edition

History & Culture

• Samnites, the fierce warriors who humiliated the Roman legions at the Caudine Forks Aug 24, 2026

  One of the greatest affronts suffered by the Roman legions took place in 321 BC, after the Battle of the Caudine Fork...

• 12 Neolithic Arrowheads Found in Anatolia Bear Rare Geometric Marks Whose Purpose Remains Unknown Aug 24, 2026

  A team of French and Turkish researchers has published an exhaustive analysis of twelve obsidian arrowheads with inte...

• 7,000 Years Ago the Last Hunter-Gatherers Met the First Farmers at a Lake in Germany: This Is What Happened Aug 24, 2026

  The more than 50,000 pottery fragments found at the Hüde I site, on Lake Dümmer (Lower Saxony, Germany), are providin...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Waterfox 6.7 brings full redesign, native tree tabs, improved ad blocking, and much more Aug 24, 2026

  Waterfox 6.7 “Supernova” is now available as the latest release of this privacy-focused, Firefox-based browser. This ...

• Mac utility PopClip 2026.8 adds a function key shortcut, a source viewer window, and more Aug 24, 2026

  PopClip 2026.8 for macOS introduces several usability upgrades, starting with the ability to assign a function key as...

• Rust 1.98 adds algebraic floating-point methods, buffered integer formatting, and more Aug 24, 2026

  Rust 1.98 has been released as the latest version of this general-purpose programming language known for its performa...

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

• AI Wanted to Give Up. The Human Didn’t. - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #150 Aug 24, 2026

  Recently, while debugging an issue in the Intel Xe GPU driver, Linus Torvalds went through what he himself called a “...

• From Using AI to Delegating Work to AI: Some Thoughts Aug 19, 2026

  From Q&A, code generation, to letting Agent take on more complete work,不知不觉间，我已经使用 AI 好几年了。这些年里，变化的不只是模型能力，人与 AI 的协作方...

• Who Is the Slower App Review Process Actually Stopping? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #149 Aug 17, 2026

  Slower App Store reviews have become something more and more developers can clearly feel. In the age of vibe coding, ...

Daily Medieval

A daily post on the Middle Ages by Tim Shaw.

• Saint Guntram Aug 24, 2026

  Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy. The Frankish ...

• The Lombards Convert Aug 23, 2026

  There was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Lombardy when they had no king. Two kings in a row had been murde...

• The Lombards Aug 22, 2026

  The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according...

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

• St. Paul Union Depot: What a restored Downtown rail station could be Aug 24, 2026

  Once one of the busiest passenger rail stations in the Midwest, St. Paul Union Depot sat without passenger trains for...

• The South Will Not Be Silenced Aug 20, 2026

  Artists Are Essential to Building a Just Future -

• The woman who built Jacksonville's beauty empire Aug 13, 2026

  Long before entrepreneurship became a buzzword, Sophia Nickerson Starks built one of Jacksonville's most influential ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• 2026-08-24 11:01: A friend asked for help setting up a blog, so I went with #Pureblog (obviously).... Aug 24, 2026

  A friend asked for help setting up a blog, so I went with #Pureblog (obviously). We went from nothing to fully workin...

• Dungeon Crawler Carl Aug 23, 2026

  Dungeon Crawler CarlAuthor: Matt DinnimanGenre: Fantast, Sci-fiReleased: 2020Rating: ★★★★★You know what’s worse than ...

• Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker Aug 19, 2026

  So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As ...

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

• 2026W33 Aug 24, 2026

  Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever — The welding analogy is the part I keep coming back to, he l...

• 2026W32 Aug 17, 2026

  Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck wi...

• Write it down Aug 14, 2026

  I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It...

Noahie's Blog

Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.

• Son of Believers Aug 24, 2026

  I've been having to remind myself why I write, especially after dealing with the bout of shame from grappling with it...

• Outbursts Aug 19, 2026

  Man, the page really does feel like it's on fire today, so I better write fast. I felt myself getting manic again, wh...

• None Aug 18, 2026

  I've been struggling with feelings of shame. With this project, confessing all the things I have—all under my governm...

xkcd.com

• Highway Signs Aug 24, 2026
• Archery Feat Aug 21, 2026
• xkcd store reopening Aug 21, 2026

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Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #373 Aug 23, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters ...

• Weekly Robotics #372 Aug 16, 2026

  If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s i...

• Weekly Robotics #371 Aug 02, 2026

  Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to bui...

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte Aug 23, 2026

  Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?

• Hörnchen oder Waffel? Aug 22, 2026

  Ich muss hier unbedingt den Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache vorstellen. Ich dachte, ich hätte das schon längst getan.

• Thimbleweed Park 2 Aug 21, 2026

  Thimbleweed Park 2 ist in der Entwicklung und es gibt ein Dev-Blog