OpenChamber — Agentic Development Environment for AI Coding — OpenChamber is an agentic development environment for AI coding across desktop, browser, phone, and VS Code. Watch agents work, review diffs, branch sessions, and keep the whole board visible.
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A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life. — At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets to ever publish. She wrote dozens of collections, and several highly quotable bangers that a rea…
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel — I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Today marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of Raymond Chandler, patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction…
Netanyahu rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Plan, demands Hamas disarm first — Netanyahu's comments come just over a week after President Trump said his Board of Peace had reached a "historic" agreement with Hamas to give up its weapons.
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Lit Hub Daily: August 3, 2026 — Carly Mattox considers Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age and reckons with the long literary history of age gap relationships. | Lit Hub Criticism What should your kids read this August? Try one…
The BBC Tetris Companion — Overview and history of the BBC Bridge Companion home game console, and a brief overview of a composite video mod, repairs, the design of a game cartridge PCB, and the development of a new puzzle game for the obscure system.
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music — “Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week — Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.
'PS5 Has Put a Dampener on Gaming': 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC — Big ooft
Many Canadians are boycotting the US, so this is where they're travelling instead — From exploring their own backyard to travelling abroad, many Canadians are spending their money elsewhere to send a message to the US president.
Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95 — proves 2007 phones can just about match 1998 PCs — The 1998 shooter now runs on Symbian hardware, with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support added.
Did You Know FDR Was Present For the Most Famous At-Bat in Baseball History? — Franklin Roosevelt and Anton Cermak had achieved a certain fusion in the public imagination four and a half months earlier, on October 1, 1932, when they sat together in a box at Wrigley Field, whe…
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HowLongToBeat.com | Game Lengths, Backlogs and more! — How long are your favorite video games? HowLongToBeat has the answer. Create a backlog, submit your game times and compete with your friends!
What to Do When Your Activism Leads to Threats From the Powerful — Claire Atkin had just touched down on the tarmac in her hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, when her phone buzzed. On the screen flashed a series of texts from her neighbor: There was a man ou…
What Happens When We Die — “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
PetaPixel Members Now Get 20% Off Capture One — Members now get 20% off an annual Capture One subscription.
Netflix may have finally figured out games — The new TV-based games feel right.
Friday's best Android app deals and freebies: Seoul Exorcist, WindWings, Farm Invasion, more — Your afternoon lineup of the best Android game and app deals is now ready to roll, including titles like Seoul...
Backloggd - A Video Game Collection Tracker — Keep a virtual backlog of your video game collection, then rate and review the ones you've played to share with your friends!
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The case for MUDs in modern times | Andrew Zigler — In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or Dungeons,
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Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
Orna Guralnik on LIstening for the Unconscious — Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
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Chess engine analyzed 50 million positions to find the worst move that still wins — the pawn structure decisions that don't matter until they do.
Mutual defence: The alliances that preceded Turkiye-Pakistan-Saudi pact — The pact says an armed attack on any one of the three countries would be regarded as an attack against them all.
Lit Hub Daily: July 17, 2026 — Henry Power tackles an age old question: How many Homers were there, actually? | Lit Hub History “The Odyssey is as relevant as ever it was. And I, for one, cannot wait for the next rendition…
Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love — I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded.…
Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level? — The following is from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. _______________________________ Excerpted from Poking the Squid: What We Can Lea…
Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock Cover DJ Snake and Justin Bieber’s “Let Me Love You” — For a new anti-ICE benefit compilation that also features Tom Morello, Jello Biafra, and Fred Armisen
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World — A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name — “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
Why brand-new wiper blades can leave worse streaks than the ones you just replaced — Following a few steps can prevent you having to go out and buy another set of new wipers.
MacBook Air Experiencing 'Major' Shortage Despite $200 Price Increase — Despite receiving a price increase in June, the MacBook Air is currently experiencing a "major" shortage, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "Retail store sources say Apple is struggling to keep the…
Tabletop RPG News & Resources - D&D - Tribality.com — Tribality.com provides D&D and tabletop RPG reviews, news, homebrews, tools, research, and other stuff for Gamemasters and Players.
Lit Hub Daily: June 18, 2026 — Through layers of loss and sorrow, Fatemeh Shams remembers Marjane Satrapi: “Marjane reminded me, as her work often does, that in the bleakest times, art, writing, and human connection are ra…
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update — To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
Collections: Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? — At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
Tracy Borman Recommends Books To Make You Fall In Love With the Tudors — It’s been a joy imagining the world of Anne Boleyn and her family for my new novel, The House of Boleyn. I loved immersing myself in their beautiful home, Hever Castle—the place where they retreate…
Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost | TechCrunch — Discord's Nitro Rewards program will give Nitro subscribers access to Xbox Game Pass, and discounts from Logitech, SteelSeries, and other gaming brands.
P.C. Verrone Recommends Essential Texts of Afro-Surrealism — I was introduced to the term “Afro-Surrealism” through an interview in which Phillip B. Williams called it his preferred way to describe his novel Ours. The phrase was coined by Amiri Baraka in 197…
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …
Tennessee S Farooq suffers season-ending torn patellar tendon — Tennessee starting safety Edrees Farooq will miss the upcoming season after suffering a torn patellar tendon in his right knee in practice.
Crissy Zhang creates Melbourne home shaped by "modern Parisian sensibility" — <p>Local interior studio Crissy Zhang Design has transformed the interior of the Parkhill residence in Melbourne, Australia, using arched forms and tactile materials to create a soft, calming space.…
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Guinea-Bissau Tidal Waters - NASA — Twice each day, tides ebb and flow through a maze of sandy channels, mudflats, and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of
RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game? — What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide — During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where…
Why did Ceuta migrant mayhem chill already frosty Israel-Spain relations? — What caused more than 50,000 migrants to storm a Spanish enclave in Africa, and did Israel have anything to do with it?
When, where, and how Spain won the World Cup final against Argentina — Spain are world champions for the second time after Ferran Torres scored the winner against Argentina in extra time.
Source: Former MLB executive Tim Brosnan to head Big East — The Big East is expected to hire former MLB executive Tim Brosnan as the league's next commissioner, sources told ESPN.