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Software engineer Michael Chu designed a column-based recipe format for cookingforengineers.com, visually laying out ingredients and steps to streamline the cooking process.

Peacock is raising its streaming plan prices by up to $3, with the ad-supported Select tier increasing to $8.99 per month for new subscribers.
A new study suggests that people exposed to less sugar during their first 1,000 days of life, due to postwar rationing, had a lower risk of several cancers and slower biological aging decades later.

Anthro Energy is building a factory in Kentucky to produce electrolytes for electric vehicles, aiming to establish a domestic supply chain for solid-state batteries and reduce reliance on Chinese materials.

Warp Factories offers an out-of-the-box system for companies to implement AI software factories, providing an infrastructure layer for deploying and managing AI agents in software development workflows.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a new version of its AI chatbot with enhanced safety features and a "Study Mode" designed to encourage learning over cheating, years after teens began using the original platform.

Perplexity's free AI subscription offer with Indian telecom Airtel significantly increased its user base, with monthly active users peaking at 22 million and then stabilizing at 14 million after the promotion ended.
This cheatsheet offers a quick reference guide for Python Polars, detailing its DataFrame API for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data, including its eager and lazy execution models.

The drama surrounding Warner Bros. Discovery's attempt to shelve the film *Coyote vs. Acme* inadvertently enhanced its comedic impact and drew attention to the studio's tax write-off practices.

Fairphone officially launched its repairable Android phone, the Fairphone Gen 6+, in the United States for $649, featuring user-replaceable components like the battery, display, and USB-C port.

Comcast is enabling free Wi-Fi motion sensing on millions of Xfinity gateways, transforming existing routers into activity monitors that detect movement through signal disruptions.

Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion by the end of July, increasing from $9 billion at the end of last year, with investors expecting continued growth.

Reddit is experimenting with AI to transform text posts and comments into short videos and podcasts, featuring AI-generated voices reading the content aloud.

Android's August 2026 Google System Updates introduce new features like Quick Start for device setup, Tap to Share for content exchange, and enhanced Google Location Sharing on Wear OS.
Bluesky's iOS app uses a privacy-sensitive text field to hide its logo, which only appears when users take a screenshot, a technique also employed by other messaging apps.

US kindergarten vaccination rates for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) fell to 92.4 percent in 2025–2026, while nonmedical exemptions rose to 4 percent.
Id Software's 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM, which included encrypted full versions of their games, failed when hackers quickly developed a tool to unlock the content for free.
Google claims the Pixel 11's new MediaTek modem is faster, more power efficient, and more reliable than previous models, based on pre-production lab testing.

Nvidia disclosed a nearly $21 billion stake in SpaceX, revealing the chipmaker's entangled financial relationships with major customers and its strategy to forge complex links across the AI industry.
An AI-powered security research tool identified a critical GitHub Actions vulnerability in Snowflake's repository, introduced by an AI coding assistant's "autofix" that removed a safe input pattern.
Germany's Bundeskartellamt found Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework treated its own apps more favorably than rivals, prompting Apple to revise its consent requests.
This guide provides specific instructions for disabling or avoiding intrusive AI features across various platforms and applications, including Adobe, Android, Apple, and web browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

ChatGPT's new Computer History feature for its macOS desktop app tracks user clicks and keystrokes to create a timeline, enabling the AI to learn work patterns and suggest automations.
Tasklet, an AI platform for business agents, is hiring a Head of Design Engineering to invent and implement the interaction model for human-AI collaboration.