First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
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Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim
A lot of automakers talk about wanting to minimize or eliminate driver distractions so as to make the experience of driving more rewarding and safer overall. Lamborghini has a different strategy; it wants the driver to become one with their vehicle. This helps explain the storied super car maker's tagline for the new Revuelto SV: […]
The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie
The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen with a grisly story about faith and the supernatural. But executives at 20th Century Fox felt […]
Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 series
Arguably the coolest new photo feature for the Pixel 11 lineup is Google's new Camera Looks, which process image data differently at the sensor level to produce photos that don't have that "smartphone" look. The result is new styles like "Digi," which mimics the style of photos taken by older digital cameras. But to use […]
In Germany, record heat meets climate action fatigue
Climate action does not seem to be a priority for the German government — despite record temperatures, heat-related deaths and drought. Why aren't more people taking to the streets in protest?
Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers
Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days.
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license appeared first on The Decoder .
2026.33: The CapEx Train Keeps Rolling
The best Stratechery content from the week of August 10, 2026, including the capital constraint, AI writing, and a tale of two cities.
Liverpool to sell minority stake to consortium including Jeff Bezos
The 1892 Holdings consortium, led by former QPR chairman Amit Bhatia, also includes Bezos’s K5 Sports Fund.
As speed cameras spread to more states, so does the backlash from drivers
Millions of drivers across the country are encountering speed cameras for the first time, or will soon. Some don't like it, but advocates say there's clear evidence that cameras make roads safer.
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of […]
Analysis: Israel’s government can’t disown West Bank settler violence
Rights groups warn settler and state-led violence aim to displace Palestinians and annex land in the occupied West Bank.
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301260 Points: 433 # Comments: 346
OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencrypted Markdown files. OpenAI says it's not used for AI training, but memories that feed into chats may still end up as training data. The article OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline appeared first on The Decoder .
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of […]
Is there a summer COVID-19 surge this year? Yep, it's ramping up again
Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.
v16.3.1-canary.17
Misc Changes Turbopack: add imports_wildcard NFT unit test: #97373 Turbopack: improve chunk_item_content docs: #97370 Turbopack: don't trace embedded WASM loader helpers: #97353 test: Reenable i18n-api-support deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #96898 Trace instrumentation startup: #97296 Trace route module preparation: #97295 Trace route module loading: #97318 fix(deps): bump satori and @vercel/og : #97276 Scope app-entry export validation to files inside the app directory: #97350 Emit whole-app server NFTs when output: 'standalone' is used with an adapter: #97287 [test] Cover 'use cache: private' in route handlers: #97349 Fix missing Pages runtime in adapter Pages API outputs: #96819 docs: align SPA guide reducer example with React conventions: #97341 Update blob version.: #97342 Credits Huge thanks to @mischnic , @DavidIlie , @styfle , @unstubbable , @bryan-ferry , @timneutkens , @aurorascharff , and @gdborton for helping!
What’s next for far-right Reform UK after Farage’s by-election win?
What’s next for far-right Reform UK after Farage’s by-election win?
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
The Constitutional Council says it infringes upon freedom of expression - but President Macron vows to prepare a new draft.
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed… The post Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.
Philippines drug war victims seek justice through truth commission
Families of drug war victims testify before the Truth Commission, seeking answers and closure after years of silence.
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall short on research judgment, creative problem-solving, and the ability to abandon failed approaches. The article Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach appeared first on The Decoder .