7/10
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook denounces Trump’s mortgage fraud claims
The Trump administration has doubled down on its accusations against Cook, despite a Supreme Court ruling in her favour.
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World leads today's radar with 7 stories; Developers & Open Source follows with 2; top story: Ukraine war briefing: Reboot of ‘fortress belt’ defences as Zelenskyy visits frontline
- World and Developers & Open Source are the strongest signals in today's feed.
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- Highest scored story: Ukraine war briefing: Reboot of ‘fortress belt’ defences as Zelenskyy visits frontline (9/10).
7/10
Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users
Lawsuit is latest instance of Brazil taking aggressive steps to rein in tech giants over child safety issues online.
8/10
Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces
You can now opt individual plugin marketplaces into automatic updates by setting autoUpdate: true on an extraKnownMarketplaces entry in enterprise managed settings. Supported clients automatically check the marketplace and update… The post Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
9/10
Ukraine war briefing: Reboot of ‘fortress belt’ defences as Zelenskyy visits frontline
Two modern commanders appointed on Donetsk front after dismissal of ‘Soviet-era’ Oleksandr Syrskyi as head of military. What we know on day 1,645 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed two of Ukraine’s most prominent commanders to oversee and strengthen defences of the “fortress belt” of industrialised cities in the Donetsk region . Visiting the frontline, Zelenskyy said Third Army Corps leader Andrii Biletskyi and Denys Prokopenko, commander of the First Corps Azov, would head new groupings. Both units are known for embracing Nato-style doctrine and new technology. Russian forces are putting pressure on the cities of Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk – all critical strongholds for Ukraine. According to open-source mapping group Deep State, Moscow’s troops have been infiltrating deeper into Kostiantynivka, with the Ukrainians weeding them out from houses, basements and ruins. Russia was also stepping up its air and artillery attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk to prepare for a targeted offensive on those cities, Deep State said. Ukrainian military analyst Mykola Bielieskov told Reuters the appointments were “the right move” in giving Ukraine’s new commander in chief, Mykhailo Drapatyi, greater scope for strategic planning . His predecessor, the “Soviet-era” general Oleksandr Syrskyi, was criticised for micromanagement. Ukrainian drone forces commander Robert Brovdi, a leader of Kyiv’s mid and long-range strike campaigns, praised the appointments as an important step towards “network-centric warfare … This is exactly what ‘Smart War’ is,” he posted. Ukraine hit 16 sites in Russia over the past day including oil facilities and logistics , Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The targets also included airfields, a missile unit, a military enterprise and infrastructure that Moscow uses to launch attacks against Ukraine. Ukraine’s military general staff said its forces struck a Lukoil refinery overnight in Kstovo, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, setting it on fire. The refinery can process 125m barrels annually. Long-range Ukrainian drones burned a Wildberries warehouse to the ground in the Tambov region south-east of Moscow, Russian authorities said on Wednesday. A Russian guided aerial bomb attack seriously damaged a combined heat and power plant in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson , the plant’s owner, Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, said on Wednesday. The extent of the damage would be assessed as soon as the security situation allowed, Naftogaz said. There were explosions in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Thursday, a Reuters witness said. Around the same time, Russia attacked an industrial facility in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles, injuring two people, said Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city’s defence council. It came after Bloomberg reported that Russia was considering stepping up its ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv , including targets in the city centre, and on critical infrastructure elsewhere in Ukraine after concluding that efforts to negotiate a peace deal had reached a dead end. While Ukraine has repeatedly offered ceasefires and negotiations, the Kremlin has not altered its demands – chief among which is total control of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded Ukraine’s Order of Freedom to Elon Musk , whose SpaceX has provided Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine’s military. Musk has restricted its use over Russian territory – a policy Zelenskyy hopes to change so that Ukrainian weapons can use Starlink to navigate to their targets. Ukraine freed 10 Russian prisoners of war , Russia’s human rights commissioner said on Wednesday. On Monday, Russia released 10 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were previously thought to be missing. A pro-Russian hacker group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a cyber-attack on Digdir, the Norwegian government’s digital services agency. The denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks tried to overwhelm the agency’s computers to block services, including one that enables citizens to use one login across multiple public services. A Digdir spokesperson said the agency still managed to keep the services running “practically all the time”. The pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers said it attacked because Norway renewed its security cooperation with Ukraine on 23 August. Continue reading...
7/10
Jensen Huang defends Nvidia's growing financial support for AI ecosystem, says 'the risk is low'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the chipmaker’s growing role in financing AI companies, calling its investments a “once in a generation” opportunity.
7/10
v16.4.0-canary.9
Misc Changes fix: don't drop client references when the concatenated module id is 0: #97936 Replace resumed render bailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96844 Replace useSearchParams bailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96843 Replace CSRBailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96826 fix(next/image): reject non-2xx internal image responses: #97957 [test] Pin Vercel CLI to Node 20.9 compatible version: #97960 Re-enable AVIF image optimization: #97931 Don't report a client-aborted RSC stream as a render error: #96715 [PPF] Only track runtime accesses when the promise is used: #97165 Fix Turbopack re-export cycle deadlock: #97933 Port React's @gate test directive to the e2e harness: #96228 Migrate from box_patterns to deref_patterns: #97924 Turbopack: expose list of non-inlined env vars: #95310 feat(turbo-tasks-fetch): stub HTTP on wasm targets: #97585 fix(turbo-rcstr): make TaggedValue usable on wasm: #97577 docs: explain origin matching for allowedOrigins and allowedDevOrigins: #97805 Turbopack: improve Pat::Assign modelling in analyzer: #97867 Upgrade rustc to nightly-2026-08-20: #97665 Upgrade React from bd6ea412-20260824 to f789f203-20260825 : #97887 [test] Fix flaky build CLI output capture: #97900 turbo-tasks-backend: parent_count reference counting: #95976 Credits Huge thanks to @jgruica , @devjiwonchoi , @zeeshan56656 , @eps1lon , @lazerg , @lubieowoce , @sokra , @acdlite , @mischnic , @icyJoseph , and @lukesandberg for helping!
7/10
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
8/10
Iran war live: Qatar PM to visit Tehran; Trump ‘not in a hurry’ over talks
Qatar's PM will meet Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions in the region, foreign ministry says.
7/10
Spain’s tomato food fight leaves thousands covered in pulp
Thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes as Spain’s famous ‘La Tomatina’ festival gets underway.
8/10
Barcelona vs Athletic Club: La Liga – prediction, teams, lineups
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha will seek to add to Barcelona's five-star La Liga opener when Athletic arrive from Bilbao.
9/10
US judge declines Minnesota’s effort to force Texas to extradite ICE agent
ICE agent Christian Castro faces criminal charges for shooting a Minnesota man in the leg during an immigration raid.