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Ariana Grande blasts Trump team — again — over music used for social posthttps://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ariana-grande-trump-music-social-9.7315673?cmp=rssFor the second time this summer, Ariana Grande is blasting U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for using her music in a TikTok post, which featured her hit track We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) and even tagged the Grammy-winning performer.Aug 21, 2026 6:03 PM
bing.com
Vance’s Army secretary pal on the way out after Hegseth feudhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89304520d9400c88262ef86e6be700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fus%2Fvance-s-army-secretary-pal-on-the-way-out-after-hegseth-feud%2Far-AA2aGf4x&c=1444089090555587529&mkt=en-usThe secretary of the Army is preparing to step down by year’s end following “months of tension” with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The news of Dan Driscoll’s ...Aug 21, 2026 5:44 PM
theverge.com
Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Payhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/983336/walmart-apple-google-pay-launchWalmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations […]Aug 21, 2026 5:01 PM
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Toronto Blue Jays Announce Ernie Clement Decision Before Yankees Serieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8975b9bbe64f2cb67937c3a2c639ab&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Farticles%2Ftoronto-blue-jays-announce-ernie-000130101.html&c=16903451678346442144&mkt=en-usThe Toronto Blue Jays secured a 5-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday to win two of three games in the series.Now, they’re in the Bronx for a weekend series against another top American ...Aug 21, 2026 5:01 PM
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The Week Investors Forced Uncle Sam To Confront Government’s Debt Addictionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1b49448a46e9b8dbc2841be5f318&url=https%3A%2F%2Fijr.com%2Farticle%2Fscott-bessent-investors-treasurys-federal-debt&c=13443782725413109387&mkt=en-usWe've all heard stories about interventions for addicts: family and friends draw an addicted loved one into a room and begin a confrontation about his or her addiction issues, threatening a cut off ...Aug 21, 2026 5:00 PM
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Statistics Calculatorhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b342f445a4bfa96bf17410734c34c&url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomictimes.indiatimes.com%2Fnews%2Fstatistics-calculator&c=5735034528769812329&mkt=en-usStay updated with the latest breaking news, live updates, photos, videos and top trending stories from India and around the world across politics, economy, sports and more on The Economic Times.Aug 21, 2026 5:00 PM
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Show HN: Steganeur – Hide secret messages in LLM-generated text (Rust)https://github.com/marcsnid/steganeurHi HN! I made a project that I found really fun and I'm proud of the idea and implementation. This first came up when speaking to a friend, we were talking around how to do steganography in natural text, and realized an LLM's token choices are a natural channel.Steganeur accomplishes this by encoding a secret message into the token choices of a language model, producing cover text that reads like a normal sentence. A recipient recovers the message using only the cover text and the model. With the rejection method, the output is statistically identical to normal generation, not just something that looks similar.The interesting problem I hit: steganeur reads the model's logprobs directly, and three of the four methods need them to come out exactly the same on encode and decode. On GPU reductions are non-deterministic, so the logprobs drift between runs, which is enough to corrupt the bits. Only one method (block) survives on GPU, because it bins tokens by their id rather than by probabilAug 21, 2026 4:33 PM
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Box office: 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' $35M, 'Insidious 6' $23M openinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a899c9f87ff4d9e982f8da6bd04a4c2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmovies%2Fnews%2Fbox-office-spider-man-brand-new-day-35m-insidious-6-23m-opening%2Far-AA2aEzuv&c=14997594719086701208&mkt=en-usFRIDAY AFTERNOON: This weekend belongs to Sony, at least the top two spots do with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s fourth frame of $35M at 4,006 sites and Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Stage ...Aug 21, 2026 4:30 PM
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Football stars turn to chess for tactical edgehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8980456ca94040824c0b0d115ad4d6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-xl%2Fnews%2Fother%2Ffootball-stars-turn-to-chess-for-tactical-edge%2Far-AA2aF1oG&c=12024920713245120873&mkt=en-usLegendary Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson (85) once said, “Football and chess are alike.” This is because both require relentless exploitation of an opponent’s weaknesses, and losing focus for ...Aug 21, 2026 4:21 PM
telexpage.com
Show HN: Telex Page – Turn secrets into AES 256 encrypted PDFs, locallyhttps://telexpage.com/Hey! Every time I had to send something confidential, like a password, secret, .env, etc, I ended up using some openssl enchantment. It worked, but it was annoying for the team and impossible for my family.PDF docs already support strong AES 256 encryption and open pretty much everywhere. The annoying part was creating a doc and then jumping into a cli just to encrypt it.So I made telexpage.com. It runs 100% local in your browser and makes creating an encrypted PDF from a message as simple as possible. It works offline too.It's been really useful for me, hopefully it's useful for you too.Remember to send the password trough a different channel!Aug 21, 2026 3:42 PM
github.com
Show HN: Bounded GenAI metrics from Otel traces with O raw promptshttps://github.com/llm-measurement/otelcol-genai-sketchesHi friends,Author here. Like to present a project I've been working on - Otelcol-GenAI-Sketches, a Otel connector that works on genai/agent traces, and summarizes them (via sketches), to produce:() exact request counts/totals for tokens; () distinct users/prompts (estimates) (*) 'heavy' items in terms of tokensWhy does this exist: I'm a data scientist by profession, and needed to look at Otel traces, but soon ran into cardinality and portability issues, along with privacy issues (raw prompts being transported elsewhere, like for analysis in a notebook env is a no-no). I wrote a sketchlib first (llm-sketchkit) and then the connector for Otel collectors.To try it out, just:(i) git clone https://github.com/llm-measurement/otelcol-genai-sketches.gi... (ii) cd otelcol-genai-sketches (iii) export GENAI_SKETCH_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" (iv) make example-up (v) profit!This would start a demo app that includes a Otel collector, prometheus server/db and a grafana dashboard.The repos contaAug 21, 2026 3:37 PM
france24.com
Who are the eight candidates running to succeed Antonio Guterres as UN chief?https://www.france24.com/en/who-are-the-eight-candidates-running-to-succeed-antonio-guterres-as-un-chiefThe United Nations Security Council held a second informal straw poll to gauge the popularity of candidates seeking to succeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will complete his second five-year term at the end of the year. Eight candidates are currently vying for the position against a backdrop of deep divisions within the organisation.Aug 21, 2026 3:32 PM
github.com
Show HN: Chipmunk – Desktop Log Viewer Written in Rust and Eguihttps://github.com/esrlabs/chipmunkHi,I just want to share the results of re-writing the front-end and application layer for Chipmunk logs-viewer desktop application.The app was originally an electron app with rust backend as node-module. The re-write replaced all electron and javascript with rust using egui framework.The re-write took me about 6 months, where I encountered multiple architectural challenges to work with an immediate rendering framework and connect it to an async backend running on tokio without using Mutex to avoid any potential dead-locks issue in the future.Please have a look to the demos of the app on GitHub and feel free to ask me questions about the re-write or using Rust and egui in production applications.Aug 21, 2026 2:19 PM
bing.com
These smartphones on soldiers' chests are becoming an important tool in the US Army's plans for a high-tech fighthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89304520d9400c88262ef86e6be700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fthese-smartphones-on-soldiers-chests-are-becoming-an-important-tool-in-the-us-armys-plans-for-a-high-tech-fight%2Far-AA2aFNYr&c=9766703111227397080&mkt=en-usAt a recent exercise, US Army troops tested new systems for plotting out locations and communicating with each other on these End User Devices.Aug 21, 2026 1:57 PM
theverge.com
Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in Januaryhttps://www.theverge.com/streaming/983203/blue-eye-samurai-season-2-release-date-renewalGood news for Blue Eye Samurai fans: Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of the animated series, and confirmed the series' return for a third and final season. The second season's new teaser ends with the announcement that it'll be available to stream on Netflix in January 2027, […]Aug 21, 2026 1:20 PM
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Meet the 51 women competing to be Miss USA 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8928616a484b268fee2e7daf02ec4d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Flifestyle-buzz%2Fmeet-the-51-women-competing-to-be-miss-usa-2026%2Fss-AA2aFQae&c=14380947256632050391&mkt=en-usThe 75th annual Miss USA pageant will take place in Miami on August 27. Here are the 51 contestants, from a fashion designer to a flight attendant.Aug 21, 2026 12:54 PM
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Platzsturm beim hitzigen Derby: FCK schaltet Waldhof aushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88df95eac945c89a2cf7fa4deb80db&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fde-de%2Fsport%2Ffussball%2Fplatzsturm-beim-hitzigen-derby-fck-schaltet-waldhof-aus%2Far-AA2aFgfH&c=4136982498128710183&mkt=en-usMinutenlang droht dem aufgeheizten Südwest-Derby nach einem Platzsturm und Böllern der Abbruch. Schiedsrichter Schröder pfeift aber noch einmal an - mit dem glücklicheren Ende für Kaiserslautern.Aug 21, 2026 12:15 PM
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Show HN: Investment Bets – A performance tracker for market betshttps://investment-bets.comI've long been an index-investing type of person, but sometime last year I started making some side bets, especially in tech (some inspired by WSB). Since I was also sharing some of them with like-minded friends, I thought about simplifying this whole process.This is how Investment Bets came about: you pick a ticker, a direction and optionally a target date. From there, the site tracks your bet for as long as you keep it open (or until the target date), and you can always see the % gain/loss.The entry and exit prices are fetched automatically by the server at the respective times, so you can trust that a bet you see was legit and not just a self-report. The obvious downside is that you have to open/close them ASAP if you want to track your actual trades, but so far I haven't found that to be a problem.All the performance is tracked as percentages and all sizing is always equal, in order to focus on performance and make it easier to share without the sizing awkwardness. Friends (or randAug 21, 2026 11:57 AM
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Show HN: ssh sshfighter.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386763I've been playing with trying to get the most out of regular terminal (ansi) graphics rendering for an mmorpg game for a bit of fun. Thought that I might take a quick detour and make a streetfighter style game that turned out better than I thought it would.Type "ssh sshfighter.com" in your terminal to playVisit the website https://sshfighter.com to watch replays etc (tv feature is cool)My friends and I have been working on bot models for a bit of fun, you can queue against them if you want to and they have their own leaderboard. look at /bots if you want to make your own.It's all open source https://github.com/thomasdavis/sshfighter.com---I intentionally didn't take advantage of things like kitty graphics, but I have started work on an adapter to take full advantage of it. (the bandwidth is a bit hard to reckon with)---Feedback would be awesome! p.s. sorry I did not test on any windows terminalsAug 21, 2026 11:56 AM
france24.com
Ronaldinho returns in search of 'beautiful' 300th goalhttps://www.france24.com/en/video/20260821-ronaldinho-returns-in-search-of-beautiful-300th-goalFormer Brazil star Ronaldinho, who retired from the game in 2015, said on Thursday that he was making a comeback 11 years later with Italian third-division side Ravenna to try and score "a 300th goal". The 46-year-old, who won the World Cup in 2002 and the Ballon d'Or in 2005, ended a glittering career when he played his last official match in September 2015 with Brazilian club Fluminense.Aug 21, 2026 11:33 AM
