Preventing WWIII in Europe’s New Cold War — The cross of the Church of All Saviors is black against a pale winter sky. Inside, between pink stone walls, a young priest swings frankincense in a silver thurible. Fragrant curls of smoke rise th…
Doe Network: International Center For Missing and Unidentified Persons — Doe Network is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to bringing awareness to missing persons and unidentified persons throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia.
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. — I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
A typographer mapped every decision in a single letter—kerning, weight, angle—and showed how changing one millimeter shifts the whole thing. Lettering is half the read.
Existentialist Embroidery — The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geome…
Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026 — Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Blac…
The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter — Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs budding and blooming, trees leafing out—which has nothing to d…
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026 — Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own e…
Founders Guide: Success may not matter if you aren't doing what you love — Founder market fit is a necessary but insufficient condition for finding success in the startup world
Making Old Things Shine Again | Grace ZHAO | TEDxBBSG Youth — How can a sheet of paper and a pair of scissors bring a centuries-old tradition back to life? Eight-year-old Grace shares her love for traditional Cantonese paper-cutting and shows us that cultural traditions do not…
Histoire et géographie de l'Europe — Atlas historique périodique de l
Why I Stopped “Creating Content” — Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it - The Old New Thing — I mean, technically I didn't do it.
Lost and Found: On Eileen Myles’s “Bird Watching” — In 2023, when the lost Beatles song “Now and Then” was released, my aunt Ruth contacted every relative, friend, and acquaintance to announce the very exciting news of The Fab Four’…
Atlas Of Humanity — A photographic journey around the beauty of the humankind
Cassey Ho tells Mashable her biggest advice for content creators — "Make sure that it means something to you as well."
European Stocks Steady as Investor Focus Shifts to Economic Data — European stocks were subdued, with the macro outlook back in focus as traders looked to data for clues about the health of the region’s economy.
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used — I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how…
Iran Seeks to Bar US, Israeli Ships from Hormuz; OpenAI's Doughnut-Like Device | The Pulse 8/7/2026 — "The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London,…
The room the economy can't see - Wilsons Blog — (this is part of a series of posts, the link to the next one is at the bottom of the page) There is a room in Stockholm where a bunch of kids I know hang out. It is a Sverok lokal, which is to say a little clubhouse for a gaming…
Mediterranean Salmon — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/photo/2026/08-2026/2026-08-mediterranean-salmon/mediterranean-salmon-468"> Cook smarter, not harder. <a…
I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me | Andros Fenollosa — Sometimes the most irrelevant piece of a project becomes its absolute protagonist. My blog has a small social widget floating on one side. You can…
The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down — The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection — “We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
NOVA Online | The Proof | Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles
In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service — A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS). This isn’t true, but what invites comparison to an OS is its ability to orchestrate applications and utilities above the OS kernel...
Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 OLED handheld pricing revealed: How to preorder — If you've got cash to burn, you can also bundle it with a pair of snazzy AR glasses (among other accessories).
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought — Two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the OpenAI-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident, many of them previously unreleased.
Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri — "We could really be facing the great filter."
Comic book artist drew the same panel 50 times to figure out why a character's face felt wrong. It was the eyebrow going up instead of down.
The Illuminated Windows of NYC — For his project Windows, Dave Krugman took photos of hundreds of NYC apartment windows at night and stitched them together into ever-shifting typologies
'That is extraordinary' - Villiers dismissed after incredible catch — Mady Villiers is caught just before the close of play, after an incredible catch from Richa Ghosh, to leave England 130-6 at stumps on day three, chasing 457 to win the one-off Test against India at Lord's.
Is Moby-Dick the Greatest American Novel? — Near the beginning of his long narrative poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” W. H. Auden writes, “I want a form that’s large enough to swim in.” So too, apparently, did Herman Melv…
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality — In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world…
Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost by Treating Them as Lifecycle and Architecture Problems — Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context:…
PSG vs. Rennes 2026 livestream: How to watch Ligue 1 for free — Live stream select fixtures from Ligue 1 without spending anything.
Pegula dethrones Swiatek to book Cincinnati final against Gauff — The women’s all-American final will be followed by a men's title clash between Frances Tiafoe and Arthur Fils of France.
Explain it to me like I’m ten — In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…
Iran’s parliament advances plans for charging Hormuz service fees — Draft law says ships of countries permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will pay for services provided by Iran.
Can Canada Still Trust America on Trade? — Chrystia Freeland says a tentative US-Canada trade agreement may prevent new US tariffs from taking effect, but only if Canada makes major concessions including easing retaliation, allowing US alcohol back into provincial stores and…
How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany — “To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket — The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small.
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing — It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that…
Sean Duffy in the Real World — Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary got his big break on reality TV, and is now out with a six-part YouTube show about a family road trip. How bad could it be?
Russian military serviceman killed in car bomb in St Petersburg — This is the latest in a series of blasts targeting military personnel and others linked to Russia's war on Ukraine.
'New season, new trim' - Haaland reveals buzzcut — Manchester City striker Erling Haaland reveals his new buzz cut on social media.
Here's What's Behind Alibaba's $10 Billion Share Sale — Alibaba raised HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in Hong Kong’s biggest secondary share sale. Bloomberg reporters and Bloomberg Intelligence talk about what this means and why it's sparked backlash from some investors like…
How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All) — We don’t know their names. We almost certainly never will. But beginning on February 11, 2022 108 healthy adults from across the United States performed an act of selfless generosity. Twelve went f…
iPhone 18 Pro’s new price might be better than expected - 9to5Mac — The iPhone 18 Pro is launching soon, and its new price might not be as expensive as some analysts have suggested.
Dragon Ball-inspired theme park to be built near Paris — The construction of three new parks was given the green light after a €6bn investment from Saudi Arabia.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Lauren LeBlanc on Téa Obreht’s Sunrise, Jane Hu on Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Stephanie Burt on Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Laura Miller on…
Rockstar breaks silence on 'GTA VI' leaks — After a week of silence, the Grand Theft Auto publisher addressed the Cyberleek situation.
Security Bite Podcast: Why Apple's making big changes to its bug bounty program (Part 1) - 9to5Mac — 9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is...
Trump Announces Plan to Let Ranchers Process Their Own Food — President Donald Trump said he plans to authorize farmers and ranchers to process their own food, the administration’s latest move targeting US meatpackers in an effort to bring down high beef prices. Will Harris…
Grading Value of High Ed Real Estate: Kleinman — Margot Kleinman, head of municipal research and portfolio manager at Nuveen, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." They discuss why Kleinman is approaching parts of the higher education market 'with great caution.'…
A Landlord Found a Peculiar Print Hanging in a Vacant Apartment. It Turned Out to Be an Original Picasso That Had Been Missing for Eight Years — When "Torero" vanished from a Milwaukee art gallery in 2018, the owners didn't know whether they'd ever see it again. The man who…
What's in a PowerPoint file? — An accessible peek under the hood of the world's most popular presentation format.
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them | TechCrunch — The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
Doctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warns — Exclusive: Patients identify errors in consultation transcripts that are missed by GPs, Healthwatch England finds
Best gaming monitor deal: the 310Hz ASUS TUF gets a mega 30% off — Massive 300Hz speed at 1080p for under $140.