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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

mold: A Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

https://isgithubcooked.com/

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

YouTube Format IDs

https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa

Dallas startup enriches Uranium

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-to-produce-haleu

Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist/

FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/

The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

https://thetariffcost.com/

U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23

Study Reveals UnitedHealth's Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf]

https://insurancewatchdogcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/UHG-Profits-Study_August-2026.pdf

Tailcat

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/

US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/

You could have invented PageRank

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/

Tim Curry Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry

Tim Curry, Star of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King's It, Dies Aged 80

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-is-a-harsh-mistress-on-anima-machina-herd-acceptance-and-the-politics-of-conscious-machines/

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/

Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda

X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-source-project/5292548

Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/

AWS Acquires DuckDB

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws