2026-08-11
The Economist: ‘How to Spot AI Writing’
The Economist (‘twas a gift link, but alas, I guess gift views have been used up — here’s an archive link in case the gift link is vexing you): You...
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm
Recruiting top talent isn't one pitch
Recruiting top talent isn't one pitch. It's a continual touchpoint approach that can take days, weeks, months, or years. Adam Ward (Head of Talent at Cursor) on how he builds...
Overwatch Season 4’s Battle Pass Changes Make You Grind Even More for Free Currency
Overwatch's season 4 battle pass rework locks free currency at the end of the pass, so it's harder for you to obtain unless you pay
Iran Has No Way to Stop the Mach 1.25 US Air Force B-1B Lancer and Its 125,000 Pounds of Bombs and Missiles
The US Air Force's B-1B Lancer has evolved from a 1980s supersonic nuclear-penetration bomber into a premier conventional, long-range precision-strike platform. Iran has no way to stop it.
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
ICE Age
No Mercy / No Malice NewsletterAmerica’s Secret PoliceI often make predictions that turn out to be incorrect. While the narrative around AI disrupting the labor market has shifted since last...
Go behind the scenes in this ‘Backrooms’ VFX breakdown
See how the built sets were extended and how the mind-bending no-clipping was achieved. The post Go behind the scenes in this ‘Backrooms’ VFX breakdown appeared first on befores &...
Your AI-Generated Website Is Failing at SEO: Here's Why
Find out why AI-generated React websites struggle to rank on Google, and how SSR frameworks like Next.js and Astro solve the SEO problem.
Hardcore FPS immediately becomes Steam top seller as devs list '10 reasons not to buy' it
"If you don't enjoy the beta, just refund it."
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that...
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that...
Nintendo Officially Confirms Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026, giving fans of the 1998 a new way to play the Zelda classic.
Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots
"Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be." The post Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains...
'Lord of the Rings: War in the North' Just Shadow Dropped, and More Remasters Have Been Teased
A 2011 Lord of the Rings video game shadow dropped on Tuesday. Developer Aspyr has teased it could release more LOTR remasters in the future.
I Cut a Startup's AWS Bill by 40%: Here's How
A technical teardown of how poorly designed AWS architectures bleed money, and how a freelance Cloud Architect optimizes them.
Claude Opus 5 Just Beat My Text-Based Adventure Game Benchmark
Cross-posted from my Substack. Basically, I created a text-based adventure game benchmark in April, and this morning my agent harness using Claude Opus 5 solved it for the first time....
'Overwatch’ Season 4 Makes a Controversial Change to Lifeweaver’s Life Grip
Lifeweaver’s signature ability works differently in Season 4, and some mains fear the change could undermine its lifesaving potential.
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