The Ladybird browser project shipped a major August update that adds video streaming support for Twitch and more YouTube formats through expanded Media Source Extensions codec support, plus CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging tools in DevTools, pausable downloads, and session restore. The team also shifted focus toward performance, introducing a new style engine, layout caching, off-main-thread CSS animations, and moving CSS parsing and painting pipelines to Rust for safety.
German American Marketing, which runs the Christmas Village and Made in Philadelphia markets at Dilworth and LOVE parks, told vendors shoppers will no longer be allowed inside booths this holiday season. Instead, most booths will get sales counters or barriers, with staff retrieving merchandise for customers, a shift the organizer says is needed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act after 32 months of review with legal experts and disability advocates.
A new Gallup survey finds 89% of U.S. adults believe government corruption is widespread, a jump of 10 points from last year and the highest share recorded in two decades. The rise is driven largely by Democrats, whose corruption perceptions climbed from 57% in Biden's final year to 91% now, while independents rose to 90%. Republicans have stayed relatively steady at around 80% over the same period.
A model named GPT-6 Astra has appeared on OpenRouter, the multi-provider inference marketplace that routes requests across different hosts using modes like Balanced, Nitro, and Exacto. OpenRouter's listing tracks pricing, throughput, latency, uptime, and app usage for the model rather than confirming details about its origin or capabilities.
Applied Compute has introduced Agent Cloud (AC2), a platform designed to give researchers a unified environment for training, running inference on, and continually updating open-weight AI models. The system includes a CLI, SDK, and MCP server, letting developers set it up through coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, or manually via a quickstart guide.
British AI infrastructure startup Nscale, founded two years ago, is reportedly pursuing $3.5 billion in financing ahead of a possible IPO as soon as this month. That total reportedly includes $1.5 billion in convertible notes sold to investors and an additional $2 billion from Nvidia, which also backed Nscale's $1.1 billion Series B round in March.
reMarkable has released a software update for its E-Ink tablets that lets users circle any part of the screen to capture and copy it as an image, which can then be repositioned or moved between notebooks. The update also adds green, yellow, cyan, and magenta pen colors, improves grayscale differentiation, and enables importing JPG and PNG files directly from Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive.
Tesla opened its Cybercab robotaxi service to paying customers in Austin via its Robotaxi app, with 45 vehicles now running commercially. Shortly after, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the vehicle, which lacks a steering wheel, pedals and mirrors, since Tesla self-certified the design.
A batch of epinephrine allergy injections has been recalled after being found to contain particulate matter, including glass fragments. The recall notice warns that this contamination can cause blockage and clotting in blood vessels if injected.
While formalizing Dummit and Foote's algebra textbook in the Rocq proof assistant, a Recurse Center participant found that the book's first proof exercise—claiming a function is injective if and only if it has a left inverse—fails when the domain is empty and the codomain is not. In that case the empty function is vacuously injective but has no left inverse, since no function can map from a nonempty codomain to an empty domain. The author later confirmed the issue is already listed in the book's published errata.
Florida's Department of Transportation issued a memo revoking permits for automatic license plate readers, including Flock Safety cameras, on state-controlled roads. Law enforcement agencies have 30 days from August 31 to remove the devices, and the agency says it will stop approving new permit requests going forward.
Researchers report that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, shows potential to protect cancer patients from developing long-term chronic pain. The finding points to a new therapeutic application for the psychedelic beyond its studied uses in mental health treatment.
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