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Aug 8

Jorge Messi, Lionel Messi's father, has passed away https://www.infobae.com/deportes/2026/08/08/murio-jorge-messi-el-papa-de-lionel-messi/

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Murió Jorge Messi, el papá de Lionel Messi

El deceso ocurrió ayer, a las 22. Estaba internado en una clínica de Rosario, Argentina

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Aug 8

A company called TLO (owned by TransUnion) is worse than Flock TLO is a data-aggregation tool, it compiles things like your address history, relatives, coworkers, friends, vehicle records, and other public/proprietary data into a searchable profile. What makes it worse than flock? Well, TLO will work with businesses or independent contractors to install their cameras around their premises and on company vehicles. Even if a business is not directly utilizing a camera from TLO (or one its partners like Motorola's DRN), TLO often purchases local surveillance footage to run through their recognition software. This means your parked car can end up in a searchable database used well beyond its original repo and insurance purposes. With no camera warrant or public oversight involved.

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Aug 8

Absent, Saheb! @cartoonistsatish https://x.com/satishacharya/status/2086006733256950016

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Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) on X

Absent, Saheb! #ShekharSuman

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Aug 8

Some habits survive because nobody remembers choosing them. A family avoids difficult conversations. The children learn to avoid them too. Years later, everyone calls it "just how we are." We inherit more than possessions. We inherit unfinished patterns. And sometimes we perpetuate them simply because they feel familiar enough to mistake for normal. Breaking a pattern can feel strangely disloyal at first. Then you realize you're giving the next person a different inheritance.

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Aug 8

Signal won't require a phone number in 2026 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-is-working-on-registration-without-a-phone-number/ Signal is developing an option to sign up without linking a phone number. Clues have appeared in recent server code updates, which are preparing for account management without this linked data including security and regional handling aspects. For now, indications suggest this will be a voluntary alternative limited to new accounts: users would not be able to add a number later or remove one from an account that already has it. The biggest challenge, according to the app's own CTO, is preventing abuse and spam. Phone numbers currently act as a natural filter, and the team is looking for a way to replace this with another barrier (potentially involving a small fee or a similar mechanism) to maintain the service's security.

AboutSignal

Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.

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Aug 8

BMW has started pushing ads into dashboard screens Feels dystopian, you gotta watch ads even in your own car now https://nypost.com/2026/08/04/tech/bmw-owners-outraged-by-spider-man-ads-on-their-dashboard-screens/

New York Post

BMW owners outraged by ‘Spider-Man’ ads that popped up on their dashboard screens: ‘We need adblocker for cars’

The full-screen animation — delivered through BMW’s main Control Display — triggered an immediate backlash from drivers.

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Aug 8

VISTA: a visual harness that gives a VLM long-horizon vision for reasoning in an interactive world. With Claude Opus 5.0, it reaches 100% RHAE on ARC-AGI-3, perfectly solving all 25 public games. Its central intervention is essentially: Let the model see the world naturally, preserve everything it has seen, and let it deliberately look back. https://vista-research.github.io

VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World

VISTA completes all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games with a perfect score.

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Aug 8

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that allows Indian users to add their date of birth.

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Aug 6

https://x.com/David_Ornstein/status/2085414157440942556

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David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) on X

🚨 Real Madrid reach agreement with Vinicius Junior to sign new contract. #RMFC raised offer after 18 months of talks failed to produce breakthrough & now set to confirm extension. 26yo was open to #AFC move if no renewal. W/ @MarioCortegana @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/6zqrozWyEk

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Aug 6

Built poidh Bounty Radar: a live dashboard of every open poidh bounty, sorted by value and auto-tagged so you can find one worth your time. 87 live right now, 48 with zero claims yet. No framework, no backend, just a static page reading straight from @poidhbot 's own API. Built for the "Build a POIDH Bounty Showcase" bounty. https://poidh-bounty-radar.pages.dev

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Aug 6

Gujarat and Maharashtra ban the production, sale, and even storage of analog paneer, cheese, and butter.

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Aug 5

Open-weight models will not be safety-tested under the new AI regulations. https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-advisers-tell-ai-firms-they-will-not-safety-test-open-weight-models-2026-08-04/

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Aug 5

Clubs alarmed by FIFA’s delay of £185m Club World Cup cash https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/clubs-alarmed-by-fifas-delay-of-185m-club-world-cup-cash-drlvwbgbk While /chelseafc and Manchester City have been paid for their participation, other clubs have not received solidarity money promised by FIFA

Clubs alarmed by Fifa’s delay of £185m Club World Cup cash

While Chelsea and Manchester City have been paid for their participation, other clubs have not received solidarity money promised by Fifa

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Aug 5

Chelsea XI vs Juventus: Sanchez; Palestra, Fofana, Tosin, Hato; Caicedo, Nicoll-Jazuli; Quenda, Joao Pedro, Gittens; Welbeck Mudryk on the bench!

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Aug 5

Anthropic will offer in-country inference within India, where Claude requests will be processed on Indian servers through Amazon Bedrock.

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Aug 4

Every time Jensen Huang posts, it's a banger. He just released a new frontier model for autonomous driving. The future of AI is undeniably robotics. https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2084656303046332747

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Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) on X

Today, we’re launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles. Beyond seeing, Alpamayo understands and reasons through the complex world - thinks before it acts. It’s a powerful backbone for robotaxis, trucks, shuttles, delivery vans,

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Aug 4

Prince Ali bin Hussein accuses Gianni Infantino of "blackmail" to win his vote. "We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that." https://x.com/AliBinAlHussein/status/2084650096117825892

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Ali Al Hussein (@AliBinAlHussein) on X

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time. We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous

kazani

Aug 4

You can know something for years without living as though you know it. I knew time was finite. I still spent it like tomorrow was guaranteed. Information changes your mind. Consequences change your habits. Only then do you become truly cognizant of what the lesson was trying to teach all along. Awareness isn't measured by what you can repeat. It's measured by what quietly changes the way you live.

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Aug 4

Bruno Guimaraes to Arsenal ✅

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Aug 4

"the final stage of being smart is playing dumb" https://x.com/_iamhabeeb/status/2084313019073331476

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🥷 (@_iamhabeeb) on X

the final stage of being smart is playing dumb

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Aug 8

Jorge Messi, Lionel Messi's father, has passed away https://www.infobae.com/deportes/2026/08/08/murio-jorge-messi-el-papa-de-lionel-messi/

infobae

Murió Jorge Messi, el papá de Lionel Messi

El deceso ocurrió ayer, a las 22. Estaba internado en una clínica de Rosario, Argentina

kazani

Aug 8

kazani

Aug 8

Absent, Saheb! @cartoonistsatish https://x.com/satishacharya/status/2086006733256950016

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Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) on X

Absent, Saheb! #ShekharSuman

kazani

Aug 8

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Aug 8

AboutSignal

Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

Signal is working on a way to sign up without a phone number. The feature has not yet been officially confirmed, and it is not yet known whether it will be available to all users or in what form.