Octopus Energy is urging customers to avoid using electricity during the solar eclipse – what you need to know
Latest from Ideal Home in Newsby Kezia Reynolds·11 Aug 2026
Customers of Octopus Energy will be rewarded with free electricity if they cut down their energy usage during the upcoming solar eclipse.
The Rise and Fall of Napoleon III
Everything Everywhereby Gary Arndt·11 Aug 2026
Podcast Transcript For most of history, the name Napoleon has been associated with conquest, ambition, and empire.
Flight paths and fridge magnets: how a fireball hunter tracked down New Zealand’s newest meteorite
Space | The Guardianby Natasha May·11 Aug 2026
Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month, Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black stone on the bare ground.
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Space | The Guardianby Adam Kirsch·11 Aug 2026
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to...
On the hunt for dark matter
MIT Newsby Sydney Campbell | Division of Graduate and Undergraduate Education·11 Aug 2026
Physicists across the globe are on a quest for a particle that makes up nearly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet no one has ever directly detected it.
How Caring For Mental Illness In The Family Consumes Women’s Lives
Behanboxby Nithya Pandian·11 Aug 2026
How Caring For Mental Illness In The Family Consumes Women’s Lives Despite chronic stress, fatigue and loss of livelihood women have no choice but live up to the expectations of caring for family...
1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin·11 Aug 2026
Commoncog will be increasing membership prices from $250 a year to $360 a year on the 1st of September, which is next month. This rounds to $30 a month.
Why We Like Things
Asterisk Magazineby Celine Nguyen·11 Aug 2026
When I was 22, I met, and later fell in love with, a woman who had impeccable taste. She dressed well; that was the first thing I noticed.
Introducing Automatic Key Verification
Signal Blog·11 Aug 2026
Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system.
Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
Google Developers Blogby Cameron Balahan; Richard Seroter·11 Aug 2026
For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large...
Mastering Edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma
Google Developers Blogby Lu Wang; Terry Heo; Naushir Patuck; José María Casanova·11 Aug 2026
Imagine building a fully autonomous robot that can see, hear, and react to its environment in real time, completely offline on a single compact device like Raspberry Pi.
One line of Python, and a 3× drop in p99
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·11 Aug 2026
We removed one log statement from a service’s hot path this week. Its 99th-percentile response latency fell from a steady ~48ms to ~18ms, and CPU usage dropped by about the same factor.
Alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan charged in Ireland following high security extradition - ICIJ
ICIJby Fergus Shiel·10 Aug 2026
Boxing promoter Daniel Kinahan has been charged with directing the activities of a criminal organization after being extradited from Dubai to his native Ireland amid a huge security operation.
Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color
Singularity Hubby Edd Gent·10 Aug 2026
Monochrome No More: New Night-Vision Glasses Show Color The system combines quantum dots and an OLED display, translating infrared light into a range of visible colors.
Ownwell Review - Fight Your Property Tax Bill Without Paying Upfront
Money Crashersby Andrew Schrage·10 Aug 2026
Ownwell - Best for: Homeowners and other property owners, where fees start at 25% and Ownwell outperformed traditional firms in 10 of 11 published Texas counties; owners of modest homes, where its...
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hair and Makeup of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”
POPSUGAR Beautyby Audrey Noble·10 Aug 2026
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hair and Makeup of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” This story contains spoilers. Every incredible artist has their method.
MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 5 Update Now Available to Download for Beta Testers - OS X Daily
OS X Dailyby Paul Horowitz·10 Aug 2026
MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 5 Update Now Available to Download for Beta Testers Apple has released MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta 5 for Mac users who are currently running the beta operating system.
You Can Download iOS 27 Beta 5 Update for iPhone & iPad Now - OS X Daily
OS X Dailyby Paul Horowitz·10 Aug 2026
You Can Download iOS 27 Beta 5 Update for iPhone & iPad Now Apple has released iOS 27 beta 5 for iPhone, along with iPadOS 27 beta 5 for iPad.
AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips
Amazon Science Homepageby Louise Ping; John Gray; Emily Webber; Josh Longenecker·10 Aug 2026
Modern LLM architectures have co-evolved within a single hardware family. The shapes of our attention mechanisms, the structure of our multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), the choice of numerical...
Dark Hours Rejected From the App Store
Daring Fireballby John Gruber·10 Aug 2026
[Update: See the retraction below.] On the web, if I build something that works within the standards, it works. Whether people use it is up to them.
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