Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/
TechCrunch
Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.
pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026
https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026
ClickHouse
What's new in pg_clickhouse v0.10.0: Subqueries, TPC-H Speedups, C Driver, and Aggregates | ClickHouse
Discover what's new in pg_clickhouse v0.10.0: 16 of 22 TPC-H queries now push down in full, plus a rebuilt C driver and broader aggregate support.
WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
WorldClaw
WorldClaw: Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale
From one open-ended prompt to an explicit, explorable, and editable 3D world.
US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/
CBS NEWS
Play video games? You, too, could become an air traffic controller.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is touting the success of a campaign targeting video gamers to train as air traffic controllers.
CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26
CFTC
CFTC Exercises Emergency Authority to Ensure Market Stability
The CFTC exercised its emergency authority in response to KalshiEX, LLC’s notification of a market emergency and ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles.
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/
Ars Technica
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-ex-romantic-partner/
https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-ex-romantic-partner/
The New Bedford Light
New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track and follow ex-romantic partner
Officer Emily Pacheco faces an internal affairs investigation. She was served an abuse prevention order Monday after a judge’s ruling.
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/
https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/
Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab’s blue blood—and the race to protect the species - Boston News, Weather, Sports…
CHATHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A familiar sea creature that has helped save lives for decades may now need saving itself. Early each summer, horseshoe crabs crawl<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe…
Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/
https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/
404 Media
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
Dropbox, loved by the masses, a shareholder dead end
https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/
https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/
s-1.vercel.app
Why Dropbox is a obvious PE Target — S-1
I have been doing research on companies, reading 10-Ks, etc.
Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html
Phys.org
Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration
For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's ...
Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials
https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
Discovered Materials
Research — Material Discovery Bench
Measuring frontier model ability to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry — candidates verified by DFT and attempted in a real lab.
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696
www.abc.net.au
Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.