
theguardian.com
A democratic socialist win and losses for Trump allies: takeaways from primaries in three key stateshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/key-takeaways-primaries-florida-alaska-wyomingElections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming provide a sense of how voters are feeling ahead of November’s midtermsPrimaries in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming held on Tuesday provided the latest view into how voters are feeling ahead of November’s US midterm elections.One candidate aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) netted an extraordinary win while another was defeated handily. Dona...Aug 19, 2026 3:14 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Kentucky to have zoom meeting with huge transfer portal optionhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/kentucky-zoom-meeting-huge-transfer-151415084.htmlKentucky basketball coach Mark Pope is looking to fill the final roster spot, and has a Zoom meeting scheduled with a major option.Aug 19, 2026 3:14 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Lampard on team news, transfers and starting against the championshttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lampard-team-news-transfers-starting-151319471.htmlCoventry boss Frank Lampard has been speaking to the media before Friday's opening Premier League game against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium (kick-off 20:00 BST). Ephron Mason-Clark and Jack Rudoni are "in contention" for the season opener but striker Haji Wright could be sidelined for "up to 12 weeks" with a quad muscle injury. Lampard said the season "couldn't start at a harder place" but Covent...Aug 19, 2026 3:13 PM
bing.com
Why tech companies are buying up tons of rare old books to train their AI modelshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f4243ec14fefa3e9cacf430af7ff&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2026%2F08%2F19%2Fnx-s1-5936438%2Fwhy-tech-companies-are-buying-up-tons-of-rare-old-books-to-train-their-ai-models&c=9600321863441563445&mkt=en-usNPR's Juana Summers speaks with 404 Media cofounder and reporter Emanuel Maiberg about his investigation into a shipment of rare books which ended up at an Amazon AI training warehouse.Aug 19, 2026 3:13 PM
bing.com
Why tech companies are buying up tons of rare old books to train their AI modelshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c53062954897954399f7724c1bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2026%2F08%2F19%2Fnx-s1-5936438%2Fwhy-tech-companies-are-buying-up-tons-of-rare-old-books-to-train-their-ai-models&c=9600321863441563445&mkt=en-usNPR's Juana Summers speaks with 404 Media cofounder and reporter Emanuel Maiberg about his investigation into a shipment of rare books which ended up at an Amazon AI training warehouse.Aug 19, 2026 3:13 PM

spacenews.com
Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missionshttps://spacenews.com/moog-inc-expands-meteorite-satellite-bus-capacity-for-high-maneuverability-missions/East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems integrator of high-performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems announces a new, […] The post Moog Inc. Expands METEORITE Satellite Bus Capacity for High-Maneuverability Missions appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 19, 2026 3:11 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Real Madrid consider the signing of teenage midfield prodigy a ‘done deal’ – reporthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/real-madrid-consider-signing-teenage-151000596.htmlAs reported previously, Real Madrid have intensified their efforts to secure the signing of Racing Santander’s highly-rated midfielder Sergio Martinez, with the Spanish giants eager to wrap up a dea...Aug 19, 2026 3:10 PM
github.com
Show HN: Minna – On-device semantic search across your own documents (macOS)https://github.com/impel-intelligence/MinnaHi HN! Minna is a new tool geared towards people who have a knowledge base so big they forget where things are.- Chat answers are constrained to retrieved results. The model has to search your knowledge base first and cite the document it pulled from. It won't answer from outside your knowledge base which means you can trust the LLM instead of having to be weary about what it outputs. - Hybrid retrieval — BM25 over an inverted index for exact and keyword matches, plus a vector index for semantic matches, results are fused using Reciprocal Ranked Fusion. - Embeddings and inference both run on-device. Search uses bge-small-en and run on the neural engine. Chat uses Qwen3 4B running on MLX. - Search latency is ~12 ms across 250 documents split into 30,000 chunks on Apple Silicon.What’s not done; OCR scanning on PDFs is limited, the app is currently Apple Silicon only, and there are some rough edges in the UI.It’s a TestFlight beta (apologies, but it is the cleanest distribution path rightAug 19, 2026 3:09 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Bills' Kani Walker makes 'high-level,' historic play at Highmark Stadiumhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bills-kani-walker-makes-high-150508779.htmlUDFA rookie Kani Walker speaks about first INT in new stadiumAug 19, 2026 3:05 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Enshitification Comes for Cursorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362593Sometimes I feel like the last person on HN that's still using Cursor for development work. But if anyone is curious - its getting a lot shittier, quickly.The entire application seems to exist to steer you towards using Grok and whatever new product Cursor's team has pumped out this week. You're constantly prompted to switch to using a Cloud agent, including the UI seemingly changing as you're working which caused me to accidentally select a cloud agent instead of my local system a few times. There are daily pop-ups in the app to check out this and that new thing, these are at least pretty easy to close and ignore. This morning Cursor decided to select a new Grok model by default without prompting, which I didn't notice until it had spent 10 minutes burning tokens on a simple bug investigation that Opus resolved in 30 seconds.I finally bit the bullet and setup Pi with Open Router the other day. I still prefer the UI of Cursor but this is like death by a thousand cuts.Aug 19, 2026 3:04 PM

variety.com
Odyssey Entertainment Group Launches Original Content Division to Collaborate With Creatorshttps://variety.com/2026/digital/news/odyssey-entertainment-originals-creators-kosinski-kasper-1236838207/Nashville-based Odyssey Entertainment Group has launched a division designed to partner with creators to develop content under a model designed to allow them to own the underlying intellectual property. Odyssey Entertainment was formed in 2021 by Nicole Kasper and Paige Kosinski as a management and brand partnership firm to support creators and other artists working […]Aug 19, 2026 3:02 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Yaxel Lendeborg voted as one of the biggest steals from 2026 NBA Drafthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/yaxel-lendeborg-voted-one-biggest-150109862.htmlGolden State Warriors forward Yaxel Lendeborg was recently recognized by ESPN insiders as one of the biggest steals of the 2026 NBA Draft.Aug 19, 2026 3:01 PM
github.com
Show HN: A design skill that turn your feelings into UI and remembers ithttps://github.com/MonkeyUI-dev/vibe-to-uiShare a skill that I built for myself and friends. I don't have any design background as a PM and engineer. When I vibe coding, I said: "I want to make it feel like Stripe". My friend said: "More elegant, more Apple." LLM doesn't undserstand them well, for we don't know how to speak design words. I also found that I don't want to repeat or write lines of prompts to LLM. So here it is. tbh, I'm not sure if it is solving someone's urgent situation. UI usually would be P3/P4 compared to features, bugs, etc. Wish it could help someone. If so, pls leave comments, and I would be really happy and reward myself a bubble tea:)Aug 19, 2026 3:01 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Miami Central jumps to No. 1 in Florida football Super 10 poll for Week 1https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/miami-central-jumps-no-1-150102496.htmlVenice and Chaminade-Madonna cling to narrow leads for No. 1 in their respective classes; four teams pick up first-place votes in Class 1A.Aug 19, 2026 3:01 PM

nytimes.com
‘It’s Bonkers’: Jennifer Hegseth’s Hands-On Role in Her Husband’s Pentagonhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/style/jennifer-hegseth.htmlAfter an 18-year career at Fox News, she is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job like no Pentagon spouse has before.Aug 19, 2026 3:00 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal remains in talks to sign their Alvarez plan Bhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arsenal-remains-talks-sign-alvarez-150000829.htmlVictor Osimhen is Arsenal’s main alternative to Julian Alvarez in this transfer window, and the Gunners continue to speak to the Galatasaray striker about a potential move.They began the summer keen...Aug 19, 2026 3:00 PM

esa.int
Replay: MTG-I2 pre-launch media briefinghttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/08/Replay_MTG-I2_pre-launch_media_briefingOn Wednesday 19 August, media representatives were invited to a media briefing ahead of the launch of the next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2). The satellite is set to be launched on an Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 27 August.Aug 19, 2026 3:00 PM

variety.com
‘Scary Movie’ Sets Paramount+ Release Datehttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/scary-movie-paramount-plus-release-date-streaming-1236799459/“Scary Movie,” also known as “Scary Movie 6,” survived its theatrical run and will hit Paramount+ on Sept. 3. Directed by Michael Tiddes, the sixth installment in the series marks the first film since “Scary Movie 2” to involve the Wayans family, who parted ways from the project amid disputes with the series’ executive producer, […]Aug 19, 2026 3:00 PM

foxnews.com
Iran loses key economic lifeline in Middle East that Trump's sanctions couldn't reach as deadlock persistshttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/iran-loses-key-economic-lifeline-in-middle-east-that-trumps-sanctions-couldnt-reach-as-deadlock-persistsThe United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran after accusing Tehran of firing ballistic missiles toward maritime traffic in the region.Aug 19, 2026 2:55 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Liverpool told to avoid major transfer mistake by former starhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/liverpool-told-avoid-major-transfer-145500499.htmlLiverpool Transfer News: Why Cody Gakpo Should Not Be Sold This SummerAs the summer window moves into its final stretch, Liverpool transfer news has settled on a familiar theme, noise, speculation and...Aug 19, 2026 2:55 PM