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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valleyhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html

Interesting paper : Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception , employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, our findings reveal that entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception through a process of faΓ§ading : Entrepreneurs construct, perform, and protect illusory appearances (faΓ§ades) that externally project high-growth performance to audiences while masking ventures’ actual underperformance. We iden…

Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Usefulhttps://www.wired.com/story/all-work-and-some-play-in-a-virtual-display

Tethered display glasses are truly practical face computers. They trade bulky spatial computing for simplicity: Plug in, recline, and get a massive screen right in front of your nose.

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London Zoo animals hop on scales for weigh-inhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gld7dj6ljo

Kiwi the Capybara is among animals getting their annual health check while data is gathered and shared.

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Esports World Cup ends with surprise win for China-based teamhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew9lxpjjq2o

AG.AL claim the overall title and $7m (Β£5.1m) top prize at the third Esports World Cup in Paris.

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The Best Multiuse Air Purifier for Home in 2026: BlueAir, Rabbit Air, Dreamehttps://www.wired.com/story/best-multi-use-air-purifiers

These WIRED-tested dual-purpose air purifiers also function as heaters, fans, art pieces, and more, offering the best of both worlds.

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Race Across the World star Jo Gardiner dies aged 61 one year after son's deathhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3r1nwrxpwo

Former TV contestant, Jo Gardiner, dies of cancer one year after her son and co-star's death in a crash.

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UK minister urges social media firms to remove dangerous driving videoshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce308l1w5q5o

Defence minister Luke Pollard says "there's no place" for social media trend showing people driving the wrong way down roads.

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'Half my business will be gone' - Firms in Canada and US fear trade warhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0j0zz8l83o

Business owners in both countries are navigating uncertainty and worry as the tit-for-tat import taxes ratchet up.

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What are you doing this week?https://lobste.rs/s/lo28ad/what_are_you_doing_this_week

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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Washington, D.C.'s first IndyCar race packed the National Mallhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5939827/washington-d-c-s-first-indycar-race-packed-the-national-mall

IndyCar drivers zoomed past some of the nation's most famous landmarks this weekend. They faced novel challenges on an unconventional route.

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They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Startedhttps://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated contentβ€”and how difficult it was to find accountability.

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Auth System Problems with JWT & OAuth 2.0 at Scale β€” How GNAP Solves Themhttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vwxo6d/auth_system_problems_with_jwt_oauth_20_at_scale

Most modern auth systems eventually hit the same two failure modes. Problem 1 – JWT-based auth systems JWT looks perfect on paper: stateless, self-contained, fast verification. In real production auth systems, the moment you need instant revocation, logout, permission changes, or response to token theft, the model breaks. You are forced to introduce a denylist (Redis or database). That destroys the original β€œstateless” benefit and adds a lookup on every request. Signature malleability and JWKS cache-miss flooding create additional operational and security risks. This is one of the most…

Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter recordhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/983688/world-humanoid-robot-games-sprint-record-2026

The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation ​Center, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning at 9.47 […]

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NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universehttps://www.wired.com/story/nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-hidden-facets-of-universe

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy.

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'It embarrasses me to be involved': Inside the National Guard D.C. deploymenthttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5939973/national-guard-members-washington-dc-deployment

As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

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Kids outlearn AIβ€”and we still don’t know whyhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1141740/kids-machines-language-learning

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.Β  Now there are two.Β  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…

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Sean Grayson, former deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer sayshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/g-s1-139734/sonya-massey-convicted-deputy

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.

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Morning news briefhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5939834/morning-news-brief

Treasury secretary to detail new round of economic pressure on Iran, Iran warns of 'seismic' retaliation if U.S. follow through with economic threat, Canada vows to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S.

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King of Norway's health has worsened, palace sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36lnekj659o

Norway's King Harald remains in hospital receiving antibiotics for a bloodstream bacterial infection.

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UK's rarest bird of prey rears new chicks in secret locationhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vgvvyr78eo

The Montagu Harrier successfully nested for the second year running in the same secret location.

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UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkithttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/uat-10147-uses-ai-to-scale-server.html

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came to light following the discovery of an open

Mateta's contract claim leaves Palace with transfer decisionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cz6465pj4njo

Following a dispute over the length of his contract, will Jean-Philippe Mateta stay at Crystal Palace beyond the transfer window?

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My Arms Are Longer Now – comedy stealth game sends lawlessness into new territoryhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/24/my-arms-are-longer-now-comedy-stealth-game-preview

Developers who met through Australia’s improv scene and publishers of comedic party games have united for this slithering challenge in which you play as one extended limb Most stealth games cast you as a spy, an assassin or a master thief. My Arms Are Longer Now dispenses with most of the criminal person, to send in just one spectacularly badly behaved limb. It slithers across floors, winds around furniture, steals things and slaps anyone within reach – finally answering the question nobody asked: what if your own arm turned to crime? As Toot Games co-founder Matthew Jackson puts it: β€œY…

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DOUBLECUP's PNG Payload, (Mon, Aug 24th)https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33274

New malware that uses steganography always gets my attention, but I was disappointed when I looked at the latest DOUBLECUP write-up. It doesn&#;x26;#;39;t use real steganography:

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The right to health in Gaza is now a privilegehttps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/8/24/the-right-to-health-in-gaza-is-now-a-privilege

The devastated healthcare system cannot reach Gaza’s most vulnerable – those who live in displacement camps

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Canada-US trade war: Who wins? Who loses?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/24/canada-us-trade-war-who-wins-who-loses

Canada suspends US trade talks as Trump imposes 50% tariffs, with Ottawa vowing dollar-for-dollar retaliation.

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Maradona's 'Hand of God' ball sells for Β£2.5mhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqxvj8j7gy8o

The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous 'hand of God' goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final victory over England is sold at auction.

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China probes use of formaldehyde to keep cabbages freshhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9ze48l2yeo

Using the carcinogen to preserve food is prohibited in China, the world's largest producer of cabbages.

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'It's not Alton Towers' - rows break out over queuing at Wales' highest mountainhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1714xg2vr9o

There has been disagreement between queuers and others skipping the line to reach the top of Yr Wyddfa.

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Divorce, smartphones and control - BBC sees how Taliban run Afghanistanhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgvk9p2n7ko

Five years after the Taliban’s return, the BBC follows senior figures as the group reshapes the country.

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Weekly Update 518: IoT Doorlock Nirvana with UniFihttps://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-518

I genuinely think I've nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I've worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There are a few basic tenets: Main power (never have to rely on

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Maradona’s β€˜Hand of God’ ball from Mexico sells for $3.35mhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/24/08-24-26-mardona-ball-sold-clip

Maradona’s 1986 World Cup ball sold for $3.35m. He used his hand to score against England, dubbing it the β€˜Hand of God’.

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Ex-cricket captains urge 'proper medical care' for Imran Khanhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2z889l0dxo

The former skippers say it is "basic decency" for Pakistan to comply with a court-ordered medical assessment.

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Thousands forced to evacuate parts of Reno, Nevada, as new wildfire rageshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/23/g-s1-139729/thousands-forced-to-evacuate-parts-of-reno-nevada-as-new-wildfire-rages

Officials say the fire, which has now burned more than 15,000 acres and is zero percent contained, was human caused. Nearly 90,000 people have been told to evacuate or prepare to leave.

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Where are arrow functions (=>) widely used in JavaScript?https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vwr2ve/where_are_arrow_functions_widely_used_in

I'm learning JavaScript and I'm trying to understand the practical use of arrow functions. I understand the syntax difference between: const add = function(a, b) { return a + b; }; and: const add = (a, b) => a + b; But I'm wondering: are arrow functions basically a modern replacement for normal function expressions, or do they have particular use cases where they are preferred? Where do you commonly use arrow functions in real-world JavaScript? And are there situations where you would specifically choose a normal function expression instead? I'm looking for the reasoning behind when to use ea…

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