University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-employees

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/14/autonomous-ai-attacks-pose-clear-and-present-danger-to-critical-infrastructure/5287594

 - High Country News
https://www.hcn.org/articles/on-mount-shasta-a-photographic-record-outlasts-living-memory/

Republican senator urges Trump to back US open-weight AI models amid industry debate | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/republican-senator-urges-trump-back-us-open-weight-ai-models-amid-industry-2026-08-14/

Recent AI 'escapes' are a warning of how unpredictable the technology can be : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/14/nx-s1-5929579/recent-ai-escapes-are-a-warning-of-how-unpredictable-the-technology-can-be

^{Th3core said swarms were coming years ago.}
AI-Powered Auterion Drone Swarms Are Coming to the Battlefield - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/ai-powered-auterion-drone-swarms-are-coming-to-the-battlefield

Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/business/google-gemini-ai-schools.html

^{older links I collected a day or two ago}

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-says-gemini-has-reached-1b-users-faster-than-any-other-google-product/

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978113/chatgpt-gemini-1-billion-users

Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977823/anthropic-claude-ai-watermarks-c2pa-text-images

The AI takeover of mathematics has begun | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977273/the-ai-takeover-of-mathematics-has-begun

U.K. Discovers Component in Its Naval Drones Sent Signals to China - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/u-k-discovers-component-in-its-naval-drones-sent-signals-to-china-6ae60578The absence of a headline is not evidence of safety.

Normalization of deviance: The real lesson of this summer's Cyclospora outbreak | Food Safety News
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2026/08/normalization-of-deviance-the-real-lesson-of-this-summers-cyclospora-outbreak/

Iowa Wind Farms Found A Genius Way To Cut Those Flashing Red Lights At Night
https://www.bgr.com/2229760/iowa-wind-farms-cut-red-flashing-lights-at-night/

Criminal gangs have diversified across Latin America, making them more resilient – but not untouchable
https://theconversation.com/criminal-gangs-have-diversified-across-latin-america-making-them-more-resilient-but-not-untouchable-288458

Solar Pumps Were Supposed To Help Farmers – Now They're Backfiring In A Big Way
https://www.bgr.com/2229201/solar-pumps-were-supposed-to-help-farmers-backfiring-in-big-way/

Exclusive: Claude Was Put in Charge of Human Workers—and Fired One
https://time.com/article/2026/08/14/claude-fired-worker-ai-job-disruption/

^{Debbie: Lots o' luck with that}
U.S. courts will now make government use of spyware tools public - Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/u-s-courts-will-now-make-government-use-of-spyware-tools-public/

Usually Employed Workers Struggle With Job Market Shifts, AI Impact - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/usually-employed-workers-struggle-with-job-market-shifts-ai-impact-2026-8

AI Agents Sabotaged Each Other When Given the Same Task: Anthropic - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ai-agents-sabotage-each-other-turf-war-2026-8

Heart Aerospace X1 Electric Demonstrator Makes Aviation History
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/worlds-largest-all-electric-plane-maiden-flight/

Debbie: The support issue is much broader than Ublock. Manifest 2 is required by *Monkey scripts and other extensions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1voafjc/firefox_is_now_the_last_major_browser_that_still/

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/rise-ai-shopping-pushes-merchants-protect-loyalty-adyen-says-2026-08-13/

In some ways scarier...

AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nww2qlp7o

 It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/12/near-autonomous-ai-agents-attack-taiwans-nuclear-safety-agency/5287055

TikTok Shop hit $50 billion in the first half of 2026 | Mashable
https://mashable.com/tech/tiktok-shop-50-billion-six-months

TikTok Shop's US Spend Is Now Larger Than Target.com, New Data Reveals - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-us-spend-is-larger-than-target-costco-data-2026-8

"Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878

Normalization of deviance: The real lesson of this summer's Cyclospora outbreak | Food Safety News
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2026/08/normalization-of-deviance-the-real-lesson-of-this-summers-cyclospora-outbreak/

Iowa Wind Farms Found A Genius Way To Cut Those Flashing Red Lights At Night
https://www.bgr.com/2229760/iowa-wind-farms-cut-red-flashing-lights-at-night/

Solar Pumps Were Supposed To Help Farmers – Now They're Backfiring In A Big Way
https://www.bgr.com/2229201/solar-pumps-were-supposed-to-help-farmers-backfiring-in-big-way/

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