AI News

Corpus Christi, still in need of long-term water sources, again rejects desalination plant (wtop.com)

13 things you can do to help out during an Arizona drought (coppercourier.com)

Music Theory for Programmers (runjs.app)

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more (www.theverge.com)

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf] (images.gatesnotes.com)

Lessons from a summer of nuclear shutdowns - POLITICO (www.politico.com)

OpenAI's Altman Says the Use of AI is 'Non-Negotiable' (slashdot.org)

H3 Max by fal (www.producthunt.com)

FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking (arstechnica.com)

I wanna live an NPC life (signalundefied.bearblog.dev)

AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens (www.rosenfeld.page)

Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com)

AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage (www.darkreading.com)

CodeLook (www.producthunt.com)

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great (www.jordangoodman.xyz)

Oklahoma data center leak spilled 3 million gallons, disrupting water service amid drought (www.facebook.com)

Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design (arstechnica.com)

Muse Spark 1.3 (developer.meta.com)

WordPress backup plugin flaw exposes millions of sites to takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

sidebranch (www.producthunt.com)

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3 (research.meta.ai)

Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP (thephp.foundation)

Your Illinois News Radar » Roundup: Data centers face growing local resistance - Capitol Fax.com (capitolfax.com)

Unified Arabic (worksthatwork.com)

Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident (ariadne.space)

NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School (news.slashdot.org)

Here are some of REI’s best Labor Day sale deals (www.theverge.com)

TapCraft (www.producthunt.com)

1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project (www.theverge.com)

Black Hole of Los Alamos Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (www.atlasobscura.com)

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified (www.marginallycompelling.com)

Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form (nooshu.com)

The Qantas A380 engine disintegration in 2010 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit (www.wired.com)

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS (tweedegolf.nl)

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database (www.wired.com)

Readr (www.producthunt.com)

Firefox's AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn't (marius.blog)

Kubernetes v1.37: Scale Workloads to Zero with HorizontalPodAutoscaler (kubernetes.io)

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns (www.schneier.com)

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs (thehackernews.com)

Why do so many tools have JSON config files? (textlog.cc)

These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words (www.wired.com)

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (www.nationalgeographic.com)

UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows (www.theguardian.com)

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks (arstechnica.com)

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure (news.wsu.edu)

Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs (www.marktechpost.com)

Oxford residents urged to conserve water amid heat and drought conditions, officials say (www.actionnews5.com)

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality (github.blog)