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The Facebook Files

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
1•root-parent•21m ago

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root-parent•20m ago
"Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management...

Time and again, the documents show, Facebook’s researchers have identified the platform’s ill effects. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media exposés, the company didn’t fix them. The documents offer perhaps the clearest picture thus far of how broadly Facebook’s problems are known inside the company, up to the chief executive himself..."

Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-im...
1•leanderjanssen•58s ago•0 comments

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1141686/support-networks-help-kids-polycrisis/
1•joozio•2m ago•0 comments

A GTA VI leaker seemingly has a playable build

https://www.theverge.com/games/982623/gta-vi-leaker-playable-build
2•leumon•3m ago•0 comments

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods See Them in Action

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
1•jacquesm•4m ago•0 comments

Reddit: The Dead Heart of the Internet

1•DenisDolya•6m ago•0 comments

The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-united-states-is-about-to-wake-up-to-the-threat-from-ch...
2•ironyman•7m ago•0 comments

Issues in the Repo

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/20/issues-in-the-repo.html
1•jamietanna•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Protobuf.com, a visual, interactive guide to Protocol Buffers

https://protobuf.com/
2•sudorandom•10m ago•0 comments

Satellite proliferation imperils astronomical observations, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/satellite-proliferation-imperils-astronomical-obse...
1•comebhack•11m ago•0 comments

Computers Compared

https://fly.io/computers-compared/
1•jacobwg•11m ago•0 comments

Apple Accidentally Leaked More Than 10 New Products in macOS Update

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/19/apple-leak-macos-26-7/
3•dotmanish•11m ago•0 comments

ShieldFont

https://shieldfont.org/encoder/
1•bookofjoe•12m ago•0 comments

How to Outsmart AI When It's Tracking Your Workday

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/how-to-outsmart-ai-when-its-tracking-your-workday-3ad6907e
1•cebert•14m ago•2 comments

Supply Chain Attack on Arrayref

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on-arrayref/
1•praseodym•17m ago•0 comments

How Many Fundamental Constants Are There? (2011) John Baez

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/constants.html
2•lioeters•18m ago•0 comments

Rust arrayref 0.3.10 crate installs malware

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/issues/3161
1•jedisct1•19m ago•0 comments

The Facebook Files

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
1•root-parent•21m ago•1 comments

Has Stock Market Participation Changed How Interest Rates Affect the Economy?

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/08/has-broader-stock-market-participation-chan...
1•root-parent•24m ago•0 comments

AI fired an S.F. store employee. Will California crack down on 'robobosses'?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/andon-market-robobosses-bill-22393579.php
3•OutOfHere•25m ago•1 comments

An approach to vulnerability observability of Go services leveraging Prometheus

https://github.com/el10savio/vulnemetry/tree/main
1•ugabuga•26m ago•0 comments

If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast

https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/if-this-is-true-the-hyperscalers
5•root-parent•26m ago•2 comments

Dutch data protection authority advises Twitch users to opt out from Amazon AI

https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/ap-advises-twitch-users-opt-out-from-sharing...
5•HelloUsername•28m ago•0 comments

India's Battle for Free Internet

https://web.archive.org/web/20260820103426/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/indias-battle-free-inte...
1•5d41402abc4b•28m ago•0 comments

Don't paste the AI, please (angry way)

https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/
1•krehwell•29m ago•0 comments

The "Nana Benz" of Togo

https://www.togoarchives.com/the-nana-benz-of-togo/
2•prmph•29m ago•0 comments

Living near dry cleaners linked to higher Parkinson's odds in older adults

https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/living-near-dry-cleaners-may-raise-parkinsons-odds-older-adu...
2•downbad_•30m ago•0 comments

Some prostate cancers can be diagnosed without invasive biopsy,new study reveals

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-prostate-cancer-uc...
2•teleforce•30m ago•0 comments

US Government debt hits $40T as borrowing rises at historic rate

https://www.ft.com/content/673f8c35-1433-479f-803f-0597cbe7ef74
3•tcp_handshaker•31m ago•1 comments

Susan Kare: Designing Icons and Graphics for the Original Mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvLKzsEwMw
1•ksec•34m ago•0 comments

Pine AI getting 75.4% (SoTA) on τ³-Voice Leaderboard

http://taubench.com/leaderboard/
7•danielglh•40m ago•0 comments