A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
Nature
A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’
Nature - Scientists have been predicting the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
Catcrafts
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! — Catcrafts
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress…
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
openrouter.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol - API Pricing & Benchmarks
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 3 providers. Includes independent benchmarks…
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
Responsible Statecraft
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv
Cursor
GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, Codebase
Cursor's Status Page - GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, Codebase.
I don't enjoy the Internet any more https://btao.org/posts/2026-08-17-i-dont-enjoy-the-internet/
btao.org
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
The pale is growing
Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet
Science
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
pixelcluster.dev
VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM | pixelcluster's GPU blog
Rethinking Database Programming https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962
theregister
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Cell Reports Medicine
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with cardiometabolic health outcomes in humans
Sprint-interval exercise (SIE) is a time-efficient exercise prescription. However,
how short bursts of physical activity promote metabolic health remains unclear. Olsen
et al. show that SIE stimulates greater remodeling of plasma, skeletal muscle, and
adipose…
how short bursts of physical activity promote metabolic health remains unclear. Olsen
et al. show that SIE stimulates greater remodeling of plasma, skeletal muscle, and
adipose…
IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
YouTube
IBM Simon Retro Advertisement and Tutorial
IBM Simon from Bellsouth. Learn all about the features this smartphone has to offer!
Finger: Social network that never died https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
en.andros.dev
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | Andros Fenollosa
It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your…