Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/
https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/
XDA
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/
https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/
Philip K. Dick
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb from Weirdo #17 | Philip K. Dick
I have added a link to a .cbr file (Comic Book Archive) to download and read on your electronic device if that would be easier for your enjoyment of the story. The Religious Experience of Philip K.
We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
encore.dev
We rebuilt the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
Remap
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates!
A Pirates fan looks at 40.
Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY
GitHub
emacs/etc/HISTORY at 062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5 · emacs-mirror/emacs
Mirror of GNU Emacs. Contribute to emacs-mirror/emacs development by creating an account on GitHub.
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
annas-archive.pk
AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload…
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
Nytimes
U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk
Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
Straight Arrow
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
The grand jury's decision not to charge Cody Morelock comes amid a growing backlash against Flock and its cameras.
Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark
https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231
https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231
X (formerly Twitter)
NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) on X
Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark.
NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with no instructions, explicit rules, or stated goals.
NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with no instructions, explicit rules, or stated goals.
Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73487839/jenny-simpson-running-cardiac-event-update/
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73487839/jenny-simpson-running-cardiac-event-update/
Runner's World
‘That Chapter Has Ended’: Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest
Simpson revealed she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition after her heart stopped during a community mile race. She says recovery is going well.
A self hosted AI software factory
https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-factory/
https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-factory/
Unfinished Side Projects
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
I built an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory.
Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift
https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
Circleback
How we rebuilt our Electron recording engine in Swift - Circleback
How we moved our Electron app's recording engine from the render process to native Swift, bridging ScreenCaptureKit and libobs to React with a Combine-to-Jotai tool.