AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/Mario Meets Pareto
https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-paretoWelcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/Taste Is All That's Left
https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-leftI stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htmHerdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllmLaunch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
https://provenmetal.comAlmost no skill required to cook a steak
https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/07/26/the-sylvester-gallai-theorem/Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-each-summerMy phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST
https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-updateCan you reverse engineer an ASIC?
https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)
https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdkThe simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/Pareto Front
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_frontQwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-indexSpin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
https://zenodo.org/records/21359923Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25373Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
https://github.com/mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350
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