2026-08-10
Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
Microsoft is the first among major games platforms to implement stricter age verification.
In One Line, 'House of the Dragon' Just Quietly Retconned the Entire Plot of 'Game of Thrones'
House of the Dragon's season 3 finale finally reveals when The Prince That Was Promised goes from Targaryen family secret to Westeros legend.
'House of the Dragon' Season 3 Ending Explained: I Finally Understand Why George R.R. Martin Hates This Show
After the explosive 'House of the Dragon' season 3 finale, George R.R Martin's criticisms of the TV adaptation finally make sense.
Quoting OpenClaw
The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've...
Retrotechtacular: A View of the Moon from 1964
If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by...
Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves is the new craze sweeping PC gaming
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 9.
How to get answers to questions that confuse you (maybe)
I try to think about topics like desire, causation, and evidence and often find myself in puddles of confusion. I’ve recently wondered how, when someone can see various perspectives on...
The Agentic Clusterfuck
Epistemic status: I consider the following future quite plausible in the next few years (~35% chance that something vaguely like this occurs), perhaps as soon as a year from now.Imagine...
Free-to-play Division game launches on Steam to mixed reviews: 'Calling it slop disrespects actual slop'
The Division Resurgence was made for mobile and it shows.
US Army Quote of the Day by General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “The Sergeant Is the Army”
Dwight D. Eisenhower became a five-star general, led the Allied invasion of Europe and served two terms as president. Yet the line most closely associated with his military leadership placed...
The Ukraine War Has Become the Ultimate Drone War That Will Change Everything
Ukraine's Defense AI Center says over 200 domestic companies are developing AI-enabled drones and more than 70 AI and computer vision systems are in front-line use.
Advanced AI sycophancy
Everyone knows that AI sycophancy is when the model tells you how smart you are. Wow, you’re absolutely right. That’s not just a new idea — it’s genuinely groundbreaking. You’re...
The Moon Is Not a Detour From Mars: It Is the Only Place a Mars Program Can Afford to Fail
A crew on the Moon is roughly three days from Earth and can abort home. A crew bound for Mars is seven to nine months out, with no rescue, no...
The Royal Navy Had 990 Major Combat Units at the End of WWII — Today It Has 11 Destroyers and Frigates
In August 1945 the Royal Navy counted 990 major combat units — frigates and larger, including submarines. In August 2026 the surface escort force is six Type 45 destroyers and...
The US Navy’s 57,000 Ton Iowa-Class Battleships Cost $1,700,000,000 To Bring Back to Life — They Fired 1,083 16-Inch Shells At Saddam Hussein
GAO put the cost of reactivating and modernizing all four Iowa-class battleships at about $1.7 billion. Only two reached the Persian Gulf. USS Missouri opened fire with her main battery...
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of...
Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026
Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and...
GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable...
AI-amplified democratic backsliding: an exploration
What we did, in a sentence: we built an index that attempts to score countries by their current vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding. It’s an early pilot with several points...
Official ‘Fallout’ s2 video showcases Death Claw VFX
Go behind the scenes of the puppetry and CG work. The post Official ‘Fallout’ s2 video showcases Death Claw VFX appeared first on befores & afters.
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