It looks like 2007's surprisingly alright The Sims spin-off MySims is heading to Switch (www.eurogamer.net)
Morphing spray-on gel gives buildings long-lasting wildfire protection (newatlas.com)
The researchers also say that current fire-resisting gels dry out and become useless about 45 minutes after being applied. With their new material however, because the silica aerogel stays behind until it is washed away, the coating could be applied well in advance of an approaching wildfire while still providing protection when...
Trump blasts Harris plan to ban price gouging as communism. But GOP states already block some price hikes. (www.politico.com)
Former President Donald Trump is attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan for a federal ban on price gouging by grocery stores and food suppliers as “Soviet-style” controls....
TIL that the American Revolutionary War extended to the modern-day Bahamas where Continental Marines conducted the Marine Corps’ first ever amphibious landing in Nassau to seize gunpowder. (www.usni.org)
Philippines accuses China of ramming supply vessel (www.dw.com)
The Philippines says Chinese vessels undertook “aggressive” maneuvers against a ship transporting supplies to fishermen. The incident is the latest in a series of confrontations near a disputed South China Sea shoal.
What trendy saying have you been tired of hearing by now? (kbin.melroy.org)
For me, it's about people having to always point how something makes them so old that was popular in their childhood. And they never ever stop to point out to everyone and announce how old they are....
Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks independence anniversary (apnews.com)
Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war each on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion....
Hurray For The Riff Raff - "Precious Cargo" (2022) (hftrr.bandcamp.com)
Ukraine's Kursk gambit upends some old assumptions about Russia and the war (www.cbc.ca)
Yemen weapons dealers selling machine guns on X (www.bbc.com)
Weapons dealers in Yemen are openly using the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to sell Kalashnikovs, pistols, grenades and grenade-launchers....
The Sound Of Failure At Sonos (www.forbes.com)
Sonos’s botched app rollout is a significant leadership failure, resulting in widespread customer dissatisfaction and technical issues that undermine its brand....
Adaptive Touch quietly launches on the Google Pixel 9, works really well (www.androidauthority.com)
The Google Pixel 9 has a new Adaptive Touch feature that automatically adjusts its touch sensitivity based on various factors.
Reuters staff hit in strike on hotel in Ukraine's Kramatorsk (www.reuters.com)
t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/11456...
Georgia goes ‘North Korea’ with bombshell plan to ban main opposition parties (www.politico.eu)
JD Vance dodges on whether Trump's immigration policy would lead to family separations (www.nbcnews.com)
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, on Saturday evaded multiple questions about whether Trump’s proposed “zero tolerance” policy on immigration would lead to family separation.
They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They’re Fighting to Learn Why. (www.nytimes.com)
Investigation into Canada's New Brunswick brain syndrome is being blocked by the province, whose claims that the syndrome is various existing diseases have been debunked by federal experts, who suggest that the provincial government controlled by its forestry industry is blocking the investigation to retain tourism and industry.
US is unlikely to stop giving military aid to Israel − because it benefits from it (theconversation.com)
TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation. (worldpopulationreview.com)
North Korea says it strongly condemns US nuclear strategic plan (www.reuters.com)
Hezbollah's attempts cybersecurity intimidation campaign on Telegram before foiled attack (www.ynetnews.com)
How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election (www.cnbc.com)
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LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve (news.mit.edu)
“An intriguing open question is whether the LLM is actually using its internal model of reality to reason about that reality as it solves the robot navigation problem,” says Rinard. “While our results are consistent with the LLM using the model in this way, our experiments are not designed to answer this next question.”...
Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud, rivals to access US chips, AI (www.voanews.com)
Cho Aniki Collection Release Date Set for December 12 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
The Cho Aniki Collection is making a comeback. This collection, featuring ports of the classic shoot ’em up titles Cho Aniki and Ai Cho Aniki, is set for release on December 12th in Japan for the Nintendo Switch. The base version will be priced at 7,480 yen. For those who want to take their retro gaming adventure one step...
Starbucks to Charbucks: Taos chafes at coffee chain (www.reuters.com)
TAOS, New Mexico, Aug 24 (Reuters) - After two arson attacks at a Starbucks (SBUX.O) construction site in Taos, New Mexico, a developer is trying again to build the chain’s first drive-through cafe in the mountain town with a history of revolts and opposition by some to national chains....