2026-08-14
Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down
Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education
Why did Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 feature a booby trap banned by the UN?
In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, the park editor included a spike trap called a "Pungee Pit." Brian David Gilbert gets to the bottom of why Neversoft included a UN-banned...
Frontier agents don't comply with standards, even when instructed to
TLDR: Our open testbed LARA examines the behavior of frontier LLMs in realistic agentic deployment contexts. Previous results showed all models routinely take actions that would violate EU law. This...
Is Cyberpunk 2077 wet enough?
All of the cyberpunk media that Cyberpunk 2077 is based on features wet and wild weather. But where does that come from? We examine the wetness of cyberpunk as a...
Asus ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 review
The most luxurious gaming mouse I've managed to get grubby.
‘We Clearly Went Too Far’: 19 American Frigates Are at Sea Right Now. None of Them Are in the US Navy
Nineteen former US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are in service under foreign flags — eight in Turkey, four in Egypt, two each in Poland, Bahrain and Taiwan, and one...
The 5 Most Intense Thrillers on Netflix
These brilliant thrillers exceed expectations by refusing to play by the rules.
What's up with Voldo from Soulcalibur?
Voldo. He's been in every Soulcalibur game, wiggling and gyrating his way into our hearts. But what's his deal? Voldo stands out next to the grim, stoic guys of fighting...
TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown
‘Real Power’: The US Military May Not Need an F-35 Fighter Kill Switch at All — It Controls the Engines, the Coatings and the Spare Parts
Canberra's original plan called for a hundred jets. It settled at seventy-two, extended the life of its Super Hornets and moved the money into long-range missiles — a decision taken...
Food for Agile Thought 557: AI Watermarks, A New Product Role, Skill Loss and GenAI, Do We Prioritize Value?
TL; DR: AI Watermarks — Food for Agile Thought #557 Welcome to the 557th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,378 peers. This week, Anthropic details...
The Hidden Storage Crisis Behind AI: Why HDD and SSD Prices Keep Rising
AI is quietly driving HDD and SSD prices to record highs. Here's why storage not just GPUs is becoming AI infrastructure's biggest bottleneck in 2026.
‘Supersonic Mistake’: The US Air Force’s Mach 3.08 XB-70 Valkyrie Cost $2,000,000,000 to Build Just 2 Bombers to Replace the B-52 But Were Obsolete Before They Flew
The US Air Force XB-70 bomber cost up to $2 billion, reached Mach 3.08 and was built for a 50,000-pound payload before missiles erased its mission.
Don’t forget why learning is important
This is a timed post. Every 5 minutes while writing this post, I had to stop to do 13 push-ups, and when I could no longer complete my required number,...
When Breaking a Rule Feels Earned, You're in Trouble
Winning streaks can make traders overconfident, increase position sizes, and break their own rules. Learn how to avoid the cautious-success trap.
$2,200,000,000 Military Package: Iran Tried to Buy What Seems Like an Army in 1,000 T-72 Tanks from Russia
Iran's T-72S tanks reportedly come with the Rakhsh modernization package, which includes features such as a variant of Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor (ERA) based on the Chinese FY-II series.
Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform
See you later, Mico. We literally hardly knew you.
MCP Made AI Tools Connectable, It Did Not Make Them Understandable
MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to tools, but not how they understand or safely use them. Learn the five layers of a reliable MCP tool contract.
ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers that Disrespect Robots.txt
In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar...
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