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Chandler drops Flock license plate reader cameras after audit flags potential misuse (+4765)
ktar.com

ICE says it expects to equip every field officer with body cameras by the end of August (+2786)
cnn.com

Woman and baby die after boat capsizes in New York Harbor (+4272)
cnn.com

Glenwood Springs City Council votes to pursue legal action against ICE facility landlord (+742)
rmpbs.org

Spain to introduce temporary border checks on visitors from Italy (+3112)
theguardian.com

Hacker News

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (+551)
blog.terrygodier.com

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (+386)
laurentiugabriel.github.io

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (+350)
www.notebookcheck.net

Everything you do is being recorded (+197)
www.theatlantic.com

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (+179)
www.w3.org

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (+173)
theconversation.com

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (+162)
news.ycombinator.com

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (+124)
kibotronics.net

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (+118)
oskrim.github.io

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (+104)
github.com

Daring Fireball

WorkOS: Connect Your Agents to Your API – My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring DF last week. What’s the best way to connect AI agents to your API? REST is great for human developers; MCP serves the agents . Many teams treat REST and MCP as competing standards, and through choice …
workos.com

★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection – My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and…
daringfireball.net

Corrupt Minds Think Alike – Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. B…
www.nytimes.com

Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan – Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to prese…
www.404media.co

Simon Willison on Blogging – Simon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number one…
writethatblog.substack.com

r/technology

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — Custom 35-turbine gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (+14723)
tomshardware.com

Christopher Nolan Says Your Disc Collection Is Safer Than Streaming / Nolan Cites Streaming Compression & Vanishing Licenses As Reasons Physical Discs Remain The Definitive Home Format (+5480)
gadgetreview.com

Myspace eyes comeback as an 'antidote' to social media fatigue (+3141)
cnbc.com

Littleton claims Flock reactivated its cameras without notifying the town | Town to initiate cancellation of Flock contract (+770)
lowellsun.com

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb" (+1658)
techspot.com