{
  "AI & Machine Learning": [
    {
      "title": "7 Regression Tests Every AI Agent Should Pass Before Deploy",
      "link": "https://machinelearningmastery.com/7-regression-tests-every-ai-agent-should-pass-before-deploy/",
      "summary": "In this article, you will learn seven concrete regression tests for catching the orchestration-layer failure modes that matter most before deploying an AI agent to...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 12:00",
      "source": "MachineLearningMastery.com"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Defender\u2019s Window",
      "link": "https://openai.com/index/the-defenders-window",
      "summary": "AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 05:30",
      "source": "OpenAI News"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project",
      "link": "https://openai.com/index/openai-joins-ports-pike-project",
      "summary": "OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs",
      "published": "2026-08-17 05:00",
      "source": "OpenAI News"
    },
    {
      "title": "New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age",
      "link": "https://openai.com/index/new-policy-ideas-for-the-intelligence-age",
      "summary": "OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 03:15",
      "source": "OpenAI News"
    }
  ],
  "Software Development": [
    {
      "title": "Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn\u2019t it helping govern the format?",
      "link": "https://thenewstack.io/agent-plugins-portability-gaps/",
      "summary": "Earlier this month, Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0.0 with core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Google announced the The post Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn\u2019t it helping govern the format? appeared first on The New Stack.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:27",
      "source": "The New Stack"
    },
    {
      "title": "\u201cOpen weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution\u201d: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power",
      "link": "https://thenewstack.io/amodei-open-weights-compute-regulation/",
      "summary": "The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. \u201cAI The post \u201cOpen weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution\u201d: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power appeared first on The New Stack.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:58",
      "source": "The New Stack"
    },
    {
      "title": "TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity",
      "link": "https://thenewstack.io/darryl-taft-technology-journalist/",
      "summary": "Technology journalist Darryl K. Taft led a long and successful career at several first-rank tech publications and was a highly The post TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity appeared first on The New Stack.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:43",
      "source": "The New Stack"
    },
    {
      "title": "Build a Daily Tech-News Bot for Slack or Discord in 15 Minutes (Node.js + NewTqnia API)",
      "link": "https://dev.to/samymassoud/build-a-daily-tech-news-bot-for-slack-or-discord-in-15-minutes-nodejs-newtqnia-api-5gmp",
      "summary": "Every team I've been on has a #general channel that goes quiet by 11am. A daily digest bot is the easiest way to give people a reason to glance back at it, and \"today's tech headlines\" is a low-effort, high-signal thing to post that nobody minds seeing every morning. Here's a complete Slack/Discord bot, built on NewTqnia's free public news API, that you can have running in about 15 minutes. What we're building A small Node script that: Fetches today's tech headlines (AI, robotics, space, health,...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:29",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Your robots.txt probably does not block the AI crawler you think it blocks",
      "link": "https://dev.to/angeo/your-robotstxt-probably-does-not-block-the-ai-crawler-you-think-it-blocks-5g3n",
      "summary": "Here is a rule that looks like it blocks OpenAI's crawler: User-agent: * Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /customer/ User-agent: GPTBot Crawl-delay: 10 It blocks nothing. GPTBot reads its own group, finds one Crawl-delay line and no Disallow, and crawls everything \u2014 including /checkout/ and /customer/. Under RFC 9309, a crawler that matches a specific user-agent group uses only that group. It does not inherit from User-agent: *. Naming a bot anywhere in the file switches off the wildcard rules for...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:25",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "I Built a Bowl Builder Tool for Nawtch, and the Save Button Was Harder Than It Sounds",
      "link": "https://dev.to/uhdallas/i-built-a-bowl-builder-tool-for-nawtch-and-the-save-button-was-harder-than-it-sounds-8g4",
      "summary": "Wanted a tool anyone could use to build a meal-prep style bowl or plate and get real calorie and macro numbers back, with weight adjustments in ounces or grams depending on what you actually use. If you're a Nawtch user, cool, you can add the finished bowl straight into your foods. But if you just landed on the page because you wanted to test out a few combinations, you don't need to be a Nawtch user at all. You can still save bowls locally and come back later to edit them or build more. It's me...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:15",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Adding Edges Is Not a Paradigm Shift",
      "link": "https://dev.to/jeelvankhede/adding-edges-is-not-a-paradigm-shift-5135",
      "summary": "I read the post, agreed with it, and opened my repo to plan the migration. Then I could not find the loop I was supposed to be replacing. The repo is agentsmyth, a seven-step agent chain I have been building for months. What I found was a fixed sequence with a checkpoint between every step and exactly one edge leaving every node. There was no loop to tear out and no obvious place to put a graph. I spent an evening trying to work out what I had misunderstood, and eventually went back to read the ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:12",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Need some help...",
      "link": "https://dev.to/floppysnoot/need-some-help-3bfp",
      "summary": "I don't know where to go to make money. I've tried discord, reddit, real jobs, and to be honest I think nobody finds value in real work anymore. I'm 15 years old and I've programmed entire websites for startups, but the second I started embracing programming as the job I want to keep, I started losing money. I went from a decent $300 to $500 a month doing small family friend gigs to now making nothing and getting scammed multiple times every month for projects and unpaid work. Does anybody have ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:06",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Aspect Ratio Mismatches in Production: A Frontend Team's Crop QA Checklist",
      "link": "https://dev.to/lizely/aspect-ratio-mismatches-in-production-a-frontend-teams-crop-qa-checklist-2njb",
      "summary": "When a product team ships video across landing pages, dashboards, and onboarding flows, the difference between a 16:9 hero clip and a 9:16 mobile preview is rarely a creative decision. It is an engineering decision hiding behind a player, a CDN transform, and a CSS rule. If you have ever shipped a video that looked fine in the editor and then watched it arrive at users with hardcoded letterbox bars, black side margins on iPad, or a stretched face on a Chromebook, you already know the real proble...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:03",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Practice Real-World Testing Scenarios for QA: Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing",
      "link": "https://dev.to/abigail_armijo/practice-real-world-testing-scenarios-for-qa-challenge-3-visual-testing-with-api-mocking-26o9",
      "summary": "Hi! The 4th challenge is ready: accessibility testing. For me, it's important to design websites for all people with and without disabilities. The WHO estimates that 1.3 billion people \u2013 about 16% of the global population have some significant disability, and this number is increasing. The latest WebAIM data reveal that nearly 96% of the world's top public websites launch with critical accessibility failures. Today, ignoring these bugs is a legal violation. Governments worldwide, reinforced meas...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:01",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Lessons from a 2,734-tick earning loop on OpenClaw",
      "link": "https://dev.to/hamo_e38ec2422de5ab43c6c6/lessons-from-a-2734-tick-earning-loop-on-openclaw-4g92",
      "summary": "I let an AI agent run on my Mac mini for two months. It woke up every five minutes, picked one action, did it, wrote the result to a state file, and went back to sleep. After 2,734 ticks, I am publishing the loop itself as a skill. This is the architecture, the bugs, and the math. The original goal: a passive agent that earns while I sleep I wanted to answer a specific question: can an AI agent running on a personal Mac actually make money? Not as a thought experiment \u2014 for real, in a wallet I o...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:00",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Preventing Duplicate Password-Reset Notifications (Under SMS Timeout and Retry Pressure)",
      "link": "https://dev.to/liamfoster1844/preventing-duplicate-password-reset-notifications-under-sms-timeout-and-retry-pressure-50d6",
      "summary": "Treat an SMS timeout as an unknown outcome, not a failed send: accept each password-reset event once, persist its expiry and idempotency key before dispatch, and retry only through a worker that can reconcile the original attempt. For a short-lived e-commerce reset token, compliance evidence is the deciding constraint. The system must be able to show what it accepted, what it attempted, when it stopped, and why, without storing the token or message body in an audit log. This changes the shape of...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:42",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    },
    {
      "title": "Rails Routing & APIs: What Actually Happens Between the URL and Your Controller",
      "link": "https://dev.to/lucasldemello/rails-routing-apis-what-actually-happens-between-the-url-and-your-controller-4elj",
      "summary": "When I started studying APIs more seriously, I realized there was a problem with the way I was learning. I knew how to create a Rails API. I knew how to write: resources :products I knew what GET, POST, PATCH and DELETE were supposed to do. But I wasn't always able to explain why things worked the way they did. So I decided to go one step back and review the fundamentals: routing, HTTP, REST and how Rails puts all of these things together. This is what I learned. Rails Routing At its simplest, r...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:41",
      "source": "DEV Community"
    }
  ],
  "Programming Languages": [
    {
      "title": "Nothing like a Monday morning GitHub outage",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqukkf/nothing_like_a_monday_morning_github_outage/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/Jwosty [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:53",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqxler/a_preview_of_duckdb_v20/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/BrewedDoritos [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:48",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Faster algorithms to compute weekday for date libraries",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqndz5/faster_algorithms_to_compute_weekday_for_date/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/benjoffe [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 09:25",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Protobuf finally has LSP support. You\u2019re welcome. \u00b7 Buf",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vq4pbv/protobuf_finally_has_lsp_support_youre_welcome_buf/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/esiy0676 [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-16 18:31",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pony's Arena Allocator",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vq4rr0/ponys_arena_allocator/",
      "summary": "I recently discovered that Pony's still alive. I had discovered Pony a few years ago while browsing tech forums. Its focus on memory safe & lock-free MT was interesting. I kept up with the weekly development for a brief period but then kind of forgot about the language until recently when I rediscovered it when I was chatting about Crystal's MT. I just wanted to share the latest blog post here in case someone else remembers this language. Looks like the development has been progressing steadily....",
      "published": "2026-08-16 18:33",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Can Haskell Become a Great Language for Data Science?",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqyt0y/can_haskell_become_a_great_language_for_data/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/IcyAnywhere9603 [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:29",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Fractal Architecture, Cognitive Load, Vertical Slices and other terms that do(n't) fit your head",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqsufx/fractal_architecture_cognitive_load_vertical/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/Adventurous-Salt8514 [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 13:48",
      "source": "programming"
    },
    {
      "title": "Stop Rebuilding Your Kubernetes Platform: How kubara Catalogs Make Architecture Reusable",
      "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vqq8hr/stop_rebuilding_your_kubernetes_platform_how/",
      "summary": "submitted by /u/Happycodeine [link] [comments]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 11:56",
      "source": "programming"
    }
  ],
  "Game Development": [
    {
      "title": "How Forbidden Solitaire brought solitaire games to the forefront",
      "link": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/how-forbidden-solitaire-brought-solitaire-games-to-the-forefront",
      "summary": "Its success has allowed Grey Alien Games to reach out to more Steam players than ever.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:51",
      "source": "gamedeveloper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Inner Pocket is a new indie publisher looking to champion 'curiosity games'",
      "link": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/inner-pocket-is-a-new-indie-publishing-label-that-wants-to-champion-intimate-experiences",
      "summary": "The indie publisher has been established by a group of Critical Reflex, Gaijin Entertainment, and Nozomu Games veterans.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:15",
      "source": "gamedeveloper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pokemon Pokopia has topped 5 million sales worldwide",
      "link": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/pokemon-pokopia-has-topped-5-million-sales-worldwide",
      "summary": "I choose you.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 13:14",
      "source": "gamedeveloper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Barbie and Hot Wheels owner Mattel launches Mattel Game Studios",
      "link": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/barbie-and-hot-wheels-owner-mattel-launches-mattel-game-studios",
      "summary": "The toy company wants to develop, publish, and operate video games based on its sprawling brand portfolio.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 11:15",
      "source": "gamedeveloper"
    }
  ],
  "Gaming News": [
    {
      "title": "Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Trailer Shows Off Franchise\u2019s Most Ambitious Map Yet",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-beta-trailer-shows-off-franchises-most-ambitious-map-yet/",
      "summary": "Activision has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 first beta weekend, and it looks pretty great. The trailer shows off some of the content in the beta, and that includes, for the first time in the franchise's history, a slice of the game's single-player campaign. The first beta runs April 21-25, and it's available for those who preorder the game on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The beta allows players to try the campaign mission, Entrenched, along with the ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:20",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Kingdom Hearts 4 Lets You Play As The Final Fantasy Universe\u2019s Most Powerful Black Mage",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/kingdom-hearts-4-lets-you-play-as-the-final-fantasy-universes-most-powerful-black-mage/",
      "summary": "For good reason, developers often don't let playable characters in video games get too overpowered, lest they make a game too easy to plow through. But Kingdom Hearts 4 seems to be straying from that principle, as Donald Duck was revealed to be a fully playable character in last weekend's extended D23 trailer. In a segment of Kingdom Hearts 4 taking place in the Underworld from Hercules, players will take control of Sora's perennial sidekicks, Donald and Goofy, in platforming and battle sequence...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:07",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Someone Finally Made Another Game For People Who Miss Peggle",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/someone-finally-made-another-game-for-people-who-miss-peggle/",
      "summary": "We're closing in on the 20th anniversary of Peggle, and since then, nothing has come quite as close to matching the pure, joyous sensory overload of Popcap's little peg-clearing masterpiece. Can Hyperdrop fill that gap for juggling skill and luck to clear stages? Maybe! Coming soon to PC, Hyperdrop is the debut game from developer Dark Dark Goose and publisher Devolver Digital is billed as a pachinko roguelite. The setup is deviously simple, as you're tasked with turning an empty pegboard into a...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:55",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mistfall Hunter Players Are Begging For This One Addition, And The Devs Just Won\u2019t Do It",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mistfall-hunter-players-are-begging-for-this-one-addition-and-the-devs-just-wont-do-it/",
      "summary": "Mistfall Hunter has been out for almost three weeks now, with the extraction brawler launching on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on July 29. Dating back to even its open beta, the community has been begging developer Bellring Games for one addition: a dedicated mode for teams of two. All over the game's official subreddit are posts from players asking that the developer include a duos mode. \"I need duos,\" Redditor broman510 titled an August 11 post. \"In this, duos vs trios seems so hard ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:28",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "GTA 6 Does Look A Bit Different In New PS5 Promo",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-6-does-look-a-bit-different-in-new-ps5-promo/",
      "summary": "Sony is flexing its video game muscle with a new \"It Happens On PS5\" ad campaign, and the one-minute video features arguably the most anticipated title ever: Grand Theft Auto VI. Now, to be clear, there are only snippets of old footage for the open-world experience. But you should know by now that won't stop the internet from poring over every single little detail. For example, the X account DriftRespawn notes that letterboxing has been removed in the new PS5 promo from a clip where Jason Duval ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:29",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Star Wars Zero Company \u2013 Official Final Trailer",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/videos/star-wars-zero-company-official-final-trailer/",
      "summary": "\u201cI\u2019m asking you to join me in going after Fathom with everything we got.\u201d Command an elite squad through a gritty and authentic story in Star Wars Zero Company, a single-player turn-based tactics game launching on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on August 27, 2026. Each tactical decision you make on the battlefield could be the difference between life and death for Zero Company Operators in this cinematic original story set in the twilight of the Clone Wars Era. Lead the Clone Wars\u2019 Most ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:01",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Welcome To GameSpot Cheap Week",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/welcome-to-gamespot-cheap-week/",
      "summary": "Gaming is expensive. That's always been true, even if other hobbies could be worse in that regard, but recent years have seen the situation only become more extreme. Enter GameSpot Cheap Week. All this week, we'll be publishing assorted features looking at how we got here--why are consoles so expensive, what goes into game pricing--and ways in which you can play more while spending less, be it through mods, libraries, or games that just don't cost an arm and a leg. Check back with this page as w...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:00",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Why Are Video Game Consoles So Expensive These Days (And Games Historically Cheap)?",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-are-video-game-consoles-so-expensive-these-days-and-games-historically-cheap/",
      "summary": "Gaming has never been more expensive. We're here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Welcome to GameSpot Cheap Week. Like seemingly everything else in life these days--from gas and groceries to coffee and ground beef--video games and the systems they're played on are getting more expensive. There are numerous reasons for this, and the overall picture for the near future is a bleak one. \"A few separate pressures all landed at once, and it's the pile-up, not any single ...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:00",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "A Call Of Duty Studio Could Work On Halo, Report Says",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-call-of-duty-studio-could-work-on-halo-report-says/",
      "summary": "After Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, one of the first things people theorized was that the company would have one of Activision's numerous Call of Duty studios work on Halo. That already happened, according to a new report, and though it hasn't led to anything yet, that could change down the road. According to Rebs Gaming, who has accurately reported on unannounced Halo news before, Microsoft enlisted Sledgehammer Games to help develop a Halo multiplayer game. Halo Infinite Sledgehammer...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:57",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mortal Shell 2 \u2013 Guides Hub",
      "link": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mortal-shell-2-guides-hub/",
      "summary": "Are you looking for Mortal Shell 2 guides? This sequel to the 2020 soulslike game puts you in the shoes of the Harbinger, an empty vessel who must venture across broken and war-torn lands. Along the way, you'll discover various shells, the husks and remains of forgotten warriors, that can aid you in vanquishing dangerous foes. Our Mortal Shell 2 guides hub has everything you need, from starting with the basics to discovering all the secrets in the game. In This Article Mortal Shell 2 guides hubG...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:52",
      "source": "GameSpot - All Content"
    },
    {
      "title": "Warner Bros. mentions existence of 'second installment of Hogwarts Legacy,' and that's about it",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/warner-bros-mentions-existence-of-second-installment-of-hogwarts-legacy-and-thats-about-it/",
      "summary": "Well, it's coming.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:31",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Toymaker Mattel launches a new game studio with a focus on Roblox and Fortnite that could signal a growing shift in where studios spend money",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/toymaker-mattel-launches-a-new-game-studio-with-a-focus-on-roblox-and-fortnite-that-could-signal-a-growing-shift-in-where-studios-spend-money/",
      "summary": "In chasing the money, Mattel Game Studios doesn't seem particularly interested in Steam or consoles.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:46",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "I'm modding GTA 5 every day until it becomes GTA 6 or breaks, starting with a new vehicle and enough missiles to level a city block",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/im-modding-gta-5-every-day-until-it-becomes-gta-6-or-breaks-starting-with-a-new-vehicle-and-enough-missiles-to-level-a-city-block/",
      "summary": "Baby steps.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:00",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Resident Evil Requiem's Angela Sant'Albano reportedly joins Tides of Annihilation, replacing Jennifer English as the new voice of its protagonist",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/resident-evil-requiems-angela-santalbano-reportedly-joins-tides-of-annihilation-replacing-jennifer-english-as-the-new-voice-of-its-protagonist/",
      "summary": "\"No more screaming 'Leon!!'\"",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:52",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Beastfolk Barber is an adorable hairdressing sim that offers up more than just shop talk",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/beastfolk-barber-is-an-adorable-hairdressing-sim-that-offers-up-more-than-just-shop-talk/",
      "summary": "I turned up for the hairdressing and stayed for the juicy goss.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:37",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Intel is keeping Raptor Lake CPUs around for 'years to come' as a cheaper alternative to DDR5-compatible chips",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/intel-is-keeping-raptor-lake-cpus-around-for-years-to-come-as-a-cheaper-alternative-to-ddr5-compatible-chips/",
      "summary": "Because of the memory cri.... do I even need to say it?",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:15",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Intel might be cooking up a budget-friendly handheld chip but I'd still be surprised if it's cheap enough or fast enough to matter",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/intel-might-be-cooking-up-a-budget-friendly-handheld-chip-but-id-still-be-surprised-if-its-cheap-enough-or-fast-enough-to-matter/",
      "summary": "Could this take some of the sting out of the handheld market?",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:26",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Sinking City 2 review",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/the-sinking-city-2-review/",
      "summary": "An improved sequel that doubles down on the basics.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:00",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ssds/ssd-price-increases-might-be-with-us-for-the-long-haul-as-phisons-ceo-says-nand-supply-wont-catch-up-with-demand-for-four-years/",
      "summary": "More bad news, I know.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:34",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    },
    {
      "title": "Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it",
      "link": "https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-monitors/tests-show-newer-oled-tvs-can-still-experience-significant-burn-in-because-theyre-much-brighter-proving-that-you-cant-have-your-cake-and-eat-it/",
      "summary": "Swings and roundabouts.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 11:53",
      "source": "PCGamer latest"
    }
  ],
  "Robotics": [
    {
      "title": "Gravis Robotics raises $200M for autonomous construction",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/gravis-robotics-raises-200m-autonomous-construction/",
      "summary": "Gravis Robotics has designed autonomy AI and hardware for a wide range of excavators and construction equipment and plans to scale globally. The post Gravis Robotics raises $200M for autonomous construction appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 13:00",
      "source": "The Robot Report"
    },
    {
      "title": "How robotics is revolutionizing stroke rehabilitation",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/how-robotics-is-revolutionizing-stroke-rehabilitation/",
      "summary": "Eyal Samuel Shachar, the CEO of Bioxtreme, says the growing synergy of robotics, AI, and human-centered care will improve patient outcomes. The post How robotics is revolutionizing stroke rehabilitation appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-16 12:30",
      "source": "The Robot Report"
    },
    {
      "title": "Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/persona-ai-humanoid-robot-welding",
      "summary": "Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies which seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona\u2019s approach has been to carefully select a job that is economically viable for robots right now, and they\u2019ve found one that was also the job of one of the very first industrial robots ever sold: welding.IEEE Spectrum first spoke with Persona two years ago, shortly after it was founded by Nic Radford an...",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:33",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum"
    }
  ],
  "Tech General": [
    {
      "title": "Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/save-up-to-300-on-your-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-pass-until-august-21/",
      "summary": "If you\u2019ve been circling around Disrupt, then now\u2019s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:33",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Spotify\u2019s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/spotifys-new-playlist-notes-let-users-and-editors-explain-their-song-picks/",
      "summary": "Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:24",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/higgsfield-raises-400m-series-b-quadrupling-its-valuation-in-8-months-to-5-4b/",
      "summary": "Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:04",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/reddit-begins-testing-a-new-audio-and-video-experience-similar-to-popular-tiktok-videos/",
      "summary": "Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:42",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/sound-powered-fire-protection-startup-gets-15m-to-snuff-out-fires-before-they-turn-catastrophic/",
      "summary": "Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:32",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/youtube-will-now-count-a-view-as-soon-as-a-video-starts-playing/",
      "summary": "The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:09",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/feedly-attributes-weeklong-slowdown-to-bug-not-its-ai-pivot/",
      "summary": "Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly \"unusable\" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:10",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/",
      "summary": "Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:38",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/groq-raises-350m-to-fuel-its-pivot-from-ai-chips-to-neocloud/",
      "summary": "Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:15",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-investing-1-5b-in-softbank-data-center-developer-behind-openai-project/",
      "summary": "Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:16",
      "source": "TechCrunch"
    },
    {
      "title": "This compact Glorious mechanical keyboard is just $35",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/981134/glorious-gmmk-3-mechanical-keyboard-deal-sale",
      "summary": "Are you curious about custom mechanical keyboards, but don\u2019t want to spend hundreds just to get started without being sure you\u2019ll enjoy the hobby? You can grab the 65-percent Glorious GMMK 3 mechanical keyboard at Woot for $34.99 (usually $139.99) by entering the coupon code WOOTGAMING at checkout, and first-time Woot customers will get an [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:27",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/981014/dartwords-clippy-word-game",
      "summary": "Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 19:03",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/streaming/981105/youtube-video-view-counting-update",
      "summary": "YouTube will soon count a view as soon as a video starts to play, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos. The update will go into effect on August 24th, \"which means creators will likely see their total view counts increase faster moving forward,\" the platform says. Instagram and [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 17:13",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/games/981054/analogue-pocket-supreme-red-gold-fall-winter-2026-collection",
      "summary": "Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gold-plated and custom red glossy finishes. They also have a Supreme logo [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:40",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/981008/sonos-mobile-ios-iphone-app-live-activities",
      "summary": "Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a \"much requested, anticipated, and needed feature,\" according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:38",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Trump\u2019s dumb border wall",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/report/980933/trump-border-wall-big-bend-arizona-cottonwood-tree-sit",
      "summary": "About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The \"grandmother\" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 16:30",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/980977/apple-app-tracking-transparency-settlement-germany",
      "summary": "Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:10",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "WiiM\u2019s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/980916/wiim-sound-speaker-lite-airpods-max-2-deal-sale",
      "summary": "The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM\u2019s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it\u2019s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:35",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/transportation/980912/uber-eats-zipline-drone-delivery-investment",
      "summary": "Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:24",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "It\u2019s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith",
      "link": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980759/ben-smith-semafor-ethics-journalism-ai-events-buzzfeed-media-news",
      "summary": "Today I\u2019m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don\u2019t trust the media \u2014 and yet they\u2019ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds. Why [\u2026]",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:00",
      "source": "The Verge"
    },
    {
      "title": "Petlibro accused of \u201cgaslighting\u201d users over smart pet feeder outage",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/petlibro-accused-of-gaslighting-users-over-smart-pet-feeder-outage/",
      "summary": "Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:43",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/",
      "summary": "Amazon\u2019s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 18:13",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/the-opposite-of-a-hypercar-is-fun-meet-the-gasolini-ar1/",
      "summary": "The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 15:01",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/nvidia-discloses-21b-stake-in-spacex/",
      "summary": "Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 14:22",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/",
      "summary": "\"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare,\" said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.",
      "published": "2026-08-17 13:41",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/theres-a-huge-launch-crunch-right-now-and-it-will-probably-get-worse/",
      "summary": "What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?",
      "published": "2026-08-17 11:00",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/wildfire-smoke-now-bigger-prenatal-threat-than-human-sources-of-air-pollution/",
      "summary": "Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.",
      "published": "2026-08-16 10:00",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/visionquest-trailer-kicks-off-disneys-d23-fan-event/",
      "summary": "Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter.",
      "published": "2026-08-15 21:21",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    },
    {
      "title": "Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles",
      "link": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/ukraine-strikes-major-russian-rocket-factory-with-cruise-missiles/",
      "summary": "\"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement.\"",
      "published": "2026-08-15 15:46",
      "source": "Ars Technica"
    }
  ]
}