2026-08-19 刊号

Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny ↗

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’ ↗

Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust ↗

The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector ↗

Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?

HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand's latest trick might be its riskiest: it's attempting to sneak a drone past the FCC. In December 2025, the US government banned future foreign […]

Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities ↗

How China Saved the Global Oil Market ↗

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections ↗

Collaborative Human Agent Protocol (CHAP) ↗

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup ↗

Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’ ↗

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md ↗

Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a ↗

OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun ↗

U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade ↗

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel ↗

U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues ↗

Copper Shortage Threatens the Green Transition ↗

Pressed Penny Machine Map ↗

Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth ↗

Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman ↗

Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1 ↗

Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far ↗

Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching

In order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use more information gathered from its partners' wearable devices. Today, Nielsen announced "a number of key enhancements" that are being added to its data capturing process ahead of the upcoming fall […]

Digital Immortality ↗

Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era ↗

You Probably Don't Get Why Stripe Bought OpenRouter ↗

From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations (2025) ↗

Router by Ramp ↗

X's algorithm feeds off ragebait and impacts Democrats more, study finds ↗

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t ↗

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker ↗

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools ↗

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates […]

Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times ↗

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program ↗

Picot（Pi agent GUI） ↗

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs ↗

Rules of good social skills (2025) ↗

Go 1.27 ↗

The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful ↗

Introducing MicroLighter ↗

Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were "quickly pulled after that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X. The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that can stream games […]

The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past week, I've been testing the Google Pixel Watch 5. In many ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. […]

Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the June increase

Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no exception, so we’re glad to see that Amazon and Best Buy have the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 chip on sale for $649. That’s $100 lower than the new retail price that went into effect (alongside […]

Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman ↗

Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code ↗

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers ↗

Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere ↗

People Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras En Masse ↗

OpenRouter is joining Stripe ↗

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute ↗

T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network ↗

Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal ↗

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause […]

Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents ↗

GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere

Clips of what appears to be Grand Theft Auto VI have hit the internet, possibly spoiling aspects of the game ahead of Rockstar Games' deep dive debuting on Netflix next week and its long-awaited launch in November. I've seen three clips seemingly showing off the game, though two have been pulled from the site I […]

Blood Boy for All – Young blood is a human right ↗

Meta AI is getting a Mac app

Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps. The […]