#August

Remote August rendezvous highlights remarkable ties between the US president’s son and a Russian close to Vladimir Putin

According to data published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the country recorded 63 per cent fewer new student and worker arrivals combined during the first eight months of 2026.

I asked Grok to bring Phoenix back. It replied with an image. My recovered X archive helps me check what happened and what I can actually prove.

In late August one of our crepe myrtles rather suddenly began to look like the picture. There is another one of the same variety behind it that did not do this, and many others in the neighborhood that also did not. As of now, it has not recovered.…

On August 1, 2025 Stella Huh called Gio and threatened to override Apple face ID and hack her HK HSBC account. The call was on speakerphone and I heard it as well.…

Zeabur is shutting down after unrotated administrator credentials from a prior breach let attackers steal 3.2 million environment variable records.

Tax rises are “virtually inevitable” after official figures showed the Treasury has borrowed £8bn more than expected so far this year.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $105.6 billion in August, up $12.7 billion from $92.8 billion in July, revised.

After going private in August, Electronic Arts (EA) is cutting about 3% of its staff and shutting down video game developer BioWare. On Wednesday, EA reportedly notified employees in an email that the company would be laying off around 400 people,…

Justin's daughter has no time for Goofy, Winnie the Pooh shows the boys a deeply unfortunate angle, and Brian and Justin return from Vegas blessed by the favor of the Yeti.…

Brian and Justin realize they met in Bush’s America and they’re approaching the point where they’ve spent more of their lives doing this show than not.…

Brian pitches the only time-loop movie Hollywood is too cowardly to make: a man trapped inside a Weimaraner who has to stop 9/11. Justin goes AI psychotic over music nobody else knows, Brian accidentally shaves off his face and gets his magic show back…

GLM 5.2, Z​.ai's open-weights coding model with a 1M-token context window, is free for eve agents through August 27, served by Blackbox AI on Vercel AI Gateway.

The September 2026 AI Gateway production index covering data from August 2026: Open-weight models took the majority of token volume for the first time ever; Fable loses two-thirds of its spend share and Opus 5 tripled its share

How Vercel and Hacktron coordinated a fix for a remote code execution vulnerability that reached Next.js image optimization through sharp, libvips, and libheif.

you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments, but also behind groups.…

Linux users, this one’s for you! 🐧 ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now available in preview, bringing ChatGPT, Work, and Codex together in one native desktop experience.…

The US military’s cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer, according to government officials and other people familiar with the matter.

As the new Season 4 teaser trailer drops, we take a look at some of the London spots seen in the Apple TV+ show.