Russian strikes kill 6 people in Ukraine, day after shopping complex attack
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone hits home in southern Russia, killing two children and injuring their parents, officials say.
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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398904 Points: 192 # Comments: 153
Abusers coercing or duping women to post explicit OnlyFans content, UK court cases reveal
Separate criminal convictions come as domestic violence charities warn of tech-facilitated abuse and coercion Two men have been convicted this week in separate criminal cases that revealed they had posted explicit content on OnlyFans without the full consent of the women whose images were uploaded. In the first case, Alexander Tang, 37, took and uploaded 47 intimate images and four videos of a woman to OnlyFans without her consent, and was paid money for the material he posted to the website. Continue reading...
Two great new repairable gadgets
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm newish here too, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been getting back into the Installer groove, trying out some ergonomic Switch […]
Opinion: Mr. Rogers keeps finding a new neighborhood
MLB catcher Jake Rogers probably didn't know if he was coming or going the last several weeks: he's been a Detroit Tiger, a Baltimore Oriole, a Boston Red Sox, and now he's a Chicago White Sox.
Hundreds of children take part in swimming class on Gaza’s shore
On Gaza’s shore, 1,300 Palestinian children joined a swimming class to cope with the trauma of Israel’s genocidal war.
Myanmar military airstrike kills 14 at Buddhist monastery: reports
Around 100 people were attending a meditation retreat in central Myanmar when the building was targeted by military planes, witnesses said.
As Flock battles public scrutiny, other police surveillance companies see an opening
Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock.
Social robotics expert Naomi Fitter on why humanoid robots are reaching a tipping point
Robots that resemble human beings – known as humanoids – are on the rise. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Naomi Fitter from Oregon State University about what's driving the advances in the technology.
Usain Bolt’s 100m record broken at World Humanoid Robot Games
Chinese robot reaches peak speed of 14.5 metres per second to beat Bolt's 100m record in Beijing, says state media.
Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
Ebola continues to spread in the DRC as 16,000 vaccine doses arrive
Health authorities are warning that ‘approximately one person has been dying from Ebola every thirty minutes’.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.
US kindergarten vaccination rates dip as exemptions hit record high
New CDC data shows MMR vaccination among kindergarteners declining slightly as non-medical exemptions climb to 4.2% A week after Donald Trump made a series of misleading claims about vaccines – including that some injections look “like the size of a soda bottle” – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the latest data on national kindergarten vaccination rates. CDC communications downplayed the changes – a three-sentence announcement said, “overall vaccination rates among kindergarteners remained high” – but medical experts immediately saw cause for concern in the trends. Continue reading...
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations
Article URL: https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398304 Points: 665 # Comments: 1
More than 16,000 doses of Ervebo vaccine arrive in Ebola-hit DR Congo
The doses are the first of 70,000 allocated for Kinshasa as experts warn of the virus's exponential spread.
Pakistan’s PTI seeks contempt action over jailed Imran Khan’s hospital move
Party launches legal action after authorities take ex-PM to state hospital for check-up before returning him to jail.
Small German airplane crashes in Croatia, killing 2
The two-seater motor glider went down in the Velebit mountains, near Zadar, killing both passengers.
Former world champion boxer Zolani Tete shot and killed in South Africa
Zolani Tete, who held WBF flyweight and WBO bantamweight world titles, killed at his home in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
Article URL: https://munderdiffl.in/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398152 Points: 219 # Comments: 88
Iran says new US sanctions violate sovereignty of other states
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei slams Trump's latest threat as a return to 'full-scale classic colonialism'.
Don’t eat if you’re not hungry
That’s not only good dieting advice. It works in just about every endeavor we sign up for. The system would like us to be insatiable on its behalf, but that’s not an invitation we’re required to accept.
World models that ignore human beliefs predict the wrong actions, new research shows
Current world models like Sora or Genie only simulate physics and ignore what people think, want, or feel. The new "Mental World Modeling" framework adds mental variables like beliefs and intentions. Even weaker language models using this approach outperform stronger models without mental modeling. The biggest bottleneck: predicting how physical and mental states change together. The article World models that ignore human beliefs predict the wrong actions, new research shows appeared first on The Decoder .