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The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Boltβ€”but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Masteryhttps://www.wired.com/story/i-could-watch-the-robot-games-forever-ai-lab

Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn.

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Being a mom is hard β€” the heat is making it harder.https://www.theverge.com/news/985225/heat-stress-children-climate-change-study

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of […]

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Immigration arrests soar, hitting 50,000 in Julyhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5945127/immigration-arrests-record

Since taking over in March, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pivoted from the confrontational style of immigration enforcement of his predecessor, Kristi Noem. The latest data is reflective of a strategy that is working

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The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next weekhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/984331/switch-2-price-increase-psa

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The company gave plenty of notice, but the time has finally come. The base 256GB model that ships without a game will go from $449.99 to $499.99. Nintendo recently announced two bundles […]

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Minimus is shutting down after raising $51M, Twistlock founders returning cash to investorshttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1vz4fym/minimus_is_shutting_down_after_raising_51m

Twistlock founders Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel and John Morello are shutting down their newest startup Minimus. They raised 51 million in seed funding from YL Ventures and Mayfield and had around 60 employees a few months ago. The pitch was stripped down container images that cut out most CVEs before they ever shipped but commercial traction never caught up to the technical story. Customers get a 60 day window before the registry goes fully offline on October 22 and remaining cash is going back to investors. Founder pedigree and funding clearly do not guarantee product market fit. Anyone else…

Show HN: Chroncal – A TUI for Calendarhttps://github.com/DouglasdeMoura/chroncal

I've been working on Chroncal for the past weeks, an open source TUI/CLI with iCalendar (RFC 5545) support and CalDAV sync, using SQLite to store the data. My main goal is to make it easy for LLMs to auto-discover the CLI commands and access the database, while providing a nice TUI for the user (and I also found it paired very well with Omarchy, so, I also made a plugin to integrate in on Quickshell: https://github.com/DouglasdeMoura/chroncal-bar ). I'd love some feeback, specially to find bugs and missing features you find important. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4945317…

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Show HN: Railo – Deterministic security patch bot using AST and Z3 (no LLMs)https://www.railo.dev

Article URL: https://www.railo.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453098 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Meta's $18bn settlement a landmark victory for US stateshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo

The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.

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Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale)https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

Article URL: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violationhttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452980 Points: 17 # Comments: 2

Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countrieshttps://foresightplanner.com

Article URL: https://foresightplanner.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452974 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: I made a retirement simulator: 125 years of data, 25 countrieshttps://foresightplanner.com

Article URL: https://foresightplanner.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452974 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Greetings from Karbala, Iraq, where millions gathered for a Shia pilgrimagehttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/g-s1-138982/karbala-iraq-arbaeen-shia-muslims

Pilgrims came to Iraq from all over the world in August. Many Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims walked hundreds of miles in extreme heat to mark the event. Outside the shrines, the atmosphere is almost festive.

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Apple Maps has ads nowhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985249/apple-maps-iphone-ads

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the […]

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US designates Palestine Action a terrorist grouphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4kzd7k2nvo

Supporting Palestine Action became illegal in the UK in 2025 after the government banned it under anti-terror legislation.

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CDs vs. NIMBYhttps://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby

Article URL: https://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452822 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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States try new tactics to bring down high hospital priceshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5939965/medical-price-hospital-healthcare-indiana

Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.

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Show HN: Timber (iOS) and Timber Tabs (Mac) – best offline read-aloud LLMshttps://timberreader.com

Article URL: https://timberreader.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452794 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

YouTube Format IDshttps://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452789 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Itauma 'million times better' than Fury and Joshua - Hamedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/c07ln5v0my3o

British boxing legend Prince Naseem Hamed has described Moses Itauma as "a million times better" than Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.

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Graze Joins Flipboardhttps://graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p

Article URL: https://graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452740 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuelahttps://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response

Article URL: https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452671 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Caniuse for spreadsheet functions, every LibreOffice result executedhttps://canispreadsheet.com

Article URL: https://canispreadsheet.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452645 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Judge clears the way for Postal Service work on Trump's mail-in voting order for nowhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5945260/trump-mail-in-voting-ballots

A federal judge in Boston canceled a nationwide ruling that blocked U.S. Postal Service work on President Trump's order to limit mail-in voting for the midterm election. But a new block may come soon.

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Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safetyhttps://www.wired.com/story/candidates-are-signing-a-pact-promising-action-on-data-centers-and-ai-safety

More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. β€œWe’ve got to get this right,” says Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn.

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What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floodshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd948kn02e5o

Hundreds are feared to have died in flooding and landslides on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

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Show HN: Rudder – Red-Green TDD Workflow for Verifiably Comprehensive Specshttps://github.com/RudderCode/Rudder

Rudder is a local Codex/Claude Code plugin that captures your specs and your coding agent session history to force your agent to rewrite unit tests exclusively from your expressed intent. This turns unit test coverage into a proxy for what percent of the code actually comes from decisions you've made and lets you see how much of your agent's generated code is uncovered by your spec. After showing you an initial coverage percentage, Rudder prompts you with targeted questions to increase coverage to your goal target and runs a red-green test driven development flow to get you up to your goal. H…

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Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the β€˜female economy’https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/capital-f-closes-17m-debut-fund-with-goal-to-back-the-future-of-the-female-economy

Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the β€œfemale economy” β€” or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblentz, the firm’s co-founder, told TechCrunch β€” women’s health, […]

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Google’s new AI transcription edits out your β€˜ums’ and β€˜ahs’https://www.theverge.com/tech/985186/google-gemini-3-5-transcribe-audio-ai

Google has updated Gemini Audio with some new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe are designed to provide better precision for Google's voice-controlled AI features, without struggling with background noise or when your speech is […]

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After Meta Settlement, Here’s What Is Changing For Teens on Instagram and Facebook

Meta said that it would change how teenagers use Instagram and Facebook as part of a landmark settlement with 47 states.

Funeral held for renowned Palestinian artist Sliman Mansourhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xker87k7do

The 79-year-old was best known for paintings depicting the Palestinian landscape and cultural scenes featuring Palestinian symbols of identity.

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What Does $17.1 Billion Mean for Meta?

Meta’s entire stock value stands at $1.45 trillion. The $17.1 billion penalty is about 1 percent of that.

Show HN: SSH Session Monitor – read-only Windows OpenSSH monitoringhttps://github.com/issacnitin/SshSessionMonitor

Article URL: https://github.com/issacnitin/SshSessionMonitor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452281 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/apple-is-holding-its-iphone-launch-event-on-september-9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.

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FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizationshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/fbi-disrupts-china-linked-qtfy.html

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (ε—δΊ¬ι‘«ηŽ–η»΄η½‘η»œη§‘ζŠ€ζœ‰ι™ε…¬εΈ).&

Portrait of Ann Widdecombe put up in Parliament for MPs' returnhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdz1r1z17zo

The framed photograph forms part of work by MPs to install a permament memorial for the former minister.

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Show HN: Yelp for AI Models/Productshttps://thevibes.dev

Benchmarks are great but in addition to benchmarks, I thought it would be great to hear first hand reviews from vibe coders (engineers) who use AI models and subscriptions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452051 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Build your own theme parkhttps://www.magicpatterns.com/theme-park

I built an agent that helps you build Rollercoaster Tycoon-influenced theme parks. You can prompt something like β€œBuild me a cool theme park” and it’ll build a cohesive theme park with multiple worlds and connected with paths and rides. The weird part is that I built it using the same ideas we use to make AI-generated websites follow a company’s design system. I work as an engineer at Magic Patterns, focused on building our Design System Agent, aimed to use your existing brand, components, and conventions instead of producing something that looks like generic AI-generated UI. By defau…

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Show HN: Family sync with no server – Apple-signed entitlements on iOShttps://receiptiq.me/blog-family-sync-architecture

Article URL: https://receiptiq.me/blog-family-sync-architecture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451927 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: airtxt – iPhone dictation with on-device STT and an AI cleanup passhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/airtxt/id6785986350

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airtxt/id6785986350 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451904 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Root shows off-field leadership - now for on-fieldhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cly4632zw0lo

Joe Root has shown himself to be the off-field leader England need - now comes a chance to show his credentials as captain on-field.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Land In The UKhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p64vdw

What will Prince Harry and Meghan’s new life in the Cotswolds look like?

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Fundraiser for A66 crash police officers tops Β£1mhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7wgj51gko

Cleveland Police Federation says it will split the money between the two officers' families.

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Show HN: Have You Heard? Curated products via browser notificationshttps://haveyouheardof.app

Article URL: https://haveyouheardof.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451789 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Olympic champion Liu announces break from competitionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c2e0kp7r19no

Women's Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu confirms that she will not compete during the 2026-27 season.

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Show HN: Llmcanvas.chat Tree-based LLM chat on an infinite canvashttps://llmcanvas.chat

No one thinks linearly, yet current LLM interfaces still force you to, and it sucks. So I built llmcanvas.chat. The name says it all; you can branch, regenerate across models and compare: all in one infinite canvas. Every prompt and response is a node in the canvas and it brings ultimate flexibility on how you interact with the LLM, while keeping the old-school way of chatting linearly. Bring your own keys, 4 providers supported: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and OpenRouter. Try it: llmcanvas.chat. I'd love to hear your feedback. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451733 Points…

'0% chance' - Atletico hit back at Barca over Alvarez transfer rowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c87v0y2x8wro

Barcelona have again restated their desire to sign Julian Alvarez, prompting another angry response from Atletico Madrid.

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Show HN: Flex your website DR in $1https://www.outdr.lol

Article URL: https://www.outdr.lol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451702 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancerhttps://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer

Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451675 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companieshttps://www.risklytics.ai

Hi HN, we're Sam and Alex, founders of Risklytics ( https://risklytics.ai ). We're both on leave from Harvard, and we run an insurance brokerage for companies building robots, drones, autonomous systems and satellites. You describe your machine, we find the insurance companies willing to cover it, and we read everything before you sign. Buying insurance for any frontier tech goes like this: - your first customer or pilot requires coverage before your machine can work on their site - a broker hands you an application written for ordinary businesses, and often will deny you on baseless "risks"…

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Show HN: Collections, a Chrome side panel to save links, text and imageshttps://collections.r44j.dev

Collections, a Chrome side panel for keeping what you find while researching: drag a link, a selected passage or an image from the page into a named collection, save the current tab with one click, copy the collection out as Markdown. Local-first (chrome.storage), no account; optional Google sync is in the works. Built because Edge removed its Collections feature in June and Pocket shut down last year. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451455 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Apple announces September iPhone launch eventhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/983407/apple-iphone-launch-event-2026-date

Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream. September's show could be a big […]

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Tim Curry, Star of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King's It, Dies Aged 80https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451448 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

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What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legorahttps://techcrunch.com/video/whats-driving-swedens-startup-boom-from-lovable-to-legora

Vibe-coding darlingΒ Lovable just raised $400 million at aΒ $13.3 billionΒ valuation,Β roughly doublingΒ its worth in eight months. But LovableΒ isn’tΒ the only Stockholm startup putting upΒ huge numbersΒ lately β€” legal AI companyΒ LegoraΒ and health tech startupΒ Neko HealthΒ are right there with it.Β  On this episode of TechCrunch’sΒ EquityΒ podcast,Β Dominic-Madori Davis is joined byΒ Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup […]

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Show HN: UseCOS – Free, client-side Canadian tax,mortgage, and legal calculatorshttps://usecos.app

Article URL: https://usecos.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451367 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?, (Wed, Aug 26th)https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33284

A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"&#;x26;#;x3f;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Who can delete or change key things, or modify them in ways that might not be obvious (accidentally or on purpose).&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Yes, we trust our people, but if they&#;x26;#;39;ve moved on to other roles or to other organizations, they change from "our people" to "used to be our people".&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;

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Tim Curry Has Diedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451354 Points: 32 # Comments: 5

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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry dies at 80https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd92gkk7vo

Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKKhttps://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616

Article URL: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343 Points: 34 # Comments: 2

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The turbulent AI era is herehttps://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

GitHub confirms Actions outage caused by database issuehttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vz0z6b/github_confirms_actions_outage_caused_by_database

If your GitHub Actions jobs are stuck in "Queued" or waiting for a runner, GitHub has now confirmed there is an incident. GitHub says they identified an issue with a database primary and are failing over to a replica. Actions is affected, and GitHub Pages is also experiencing degraded performance. So if you have been checking your workflow, runner settings, permissions or billing, it might not be your configuration. Status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/y1t7p9fzrlj2 Hopefully this saves someone else from spending an hour debugging their YAML. submitted by /u/Codeblix_Ltd [link]…

LIVE: Real Madrid vs Real Sociedad – La Ligahttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/liveblog/2026/8/26/live-real-madrid-vs-sociedad-la-liga

Live coverage and text updates from our commentary stream as Mbappe and Bellingham lead the line for Mourinho's side.

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'The record will fall' - Werro takes aim at 43-year-old 800m markhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/crerjxyrnp9o

European 800m champion Audrey Werro backs herself to overhaul one of athletics' oldest and most controversial world records.

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Radar makes podcasts searchable β€” and usable by AI agentshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/radar-makes-podcasts-searchable-and-usable-by-ai-agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

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Show HN: Radian UI a copy-paste React components with a synced Figma kithttps://radianui.com

Article URL: https://radianui.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451135 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Another season, another failure - where did it all go wrong for Celtic?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdj4exv1xgwo

Celtic have now faltered in Champions League qualifying on six occasions in eight years. What are the ramifications this time?

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Trump officials threaten Kennedy Center demolition if court blocks renovationshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62mr97n936o

The justice department has also asked for Trump's name to be put back on the building after it was removed in June following a court order.

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Liverpool turn attention to Sarr after Brighton reject Minteh bidshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr7d5m4d928o

Liverpool are exploring a move for Crystal Palace's Ismaila Sarr after Brighton reject their two bids for Yankuba Minteh.

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We saw signs of domestic abuse, but we didn't know how to protect Stacyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjdwryq5wo

Stacy Hunter was killed by her estranged husband weeks after he was released on bail - her family wish the authorities had intervened further.

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