npr.org
Morning news briefhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5931262/morning-news-briefTrump threatens economic pressure campaign against Iran, SCOTUS to weigh in on whether Trump's ballroom project, investors dump stocks and bonds despite government's efforts to calm market.Aug 21, 2026 8:46 AM

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Quebec autistic student denied disability-based French exemption, removed from collegehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-autistic-student-denied-french-exemption-9.7314902?cmp=rssQuebec's Charter of the French language grants children with serious learning issues a waiver allowing them to be educated in English. But education specialists say the process is too difficult and rejection rates are high, effectively preventing some students with disabilities from pursuing higher education.Aug 21, 2026 8:00 AM
bing.com
Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb8f2c0c942c99baf3d9eb72a3bdf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2Fscience%2F983241%2Ffood-recalls-bigger-out-of-control&c=2928328809855860011&mkt=en-usJust weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that ...Aug 21, 2026 7:45 AM
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IWTO Says Carbon Accounting Is Failing Wool. Scientists Question Its Fixhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb4ade371494baeca2b2a42b78049&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwd.com%2Fsourcing-journal%2Fsustainability%2Fiwto-green-book-wool-carbon-accounting-1239146207%2F&c=3928973995219235721&mkt=en-usIts model cuts calculated farm-gate emissions below zero under one scenario, but researchers dispute what it counts as a removal.Aug 21, 2026 7:44 AM

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The Single English County Saying No to Palantirhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-single-english-county-saying-no-to-palantir/The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself.Aug 21, 2026 6:00 AM
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Rosie O’Donnell Ends Late Night Stint With a Ditty to ‘Donny Boy’https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/arts/television/rosie-odonnell-jimmy-kimmel-trump.html“It’s kind of weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania,” O’Donnell said of President Trump on her last night guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”Aug 21, 2026 5:44 AM
bing.com
Your Cravings Aren’t an Accident—Here’s Who Designed Themhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8caf05764748c7930a8190bca4e430&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Farticles%2Fcravings-aren-t-accident-designed-123200667.html&c=5510120652941009363&mkt=en-usThere Are Barely A Thousand Of Them In The World Despite touching nearly every packaged product on a grocery shelf, the profession itself remains tiny. Industry estimates put the total number of ...Aug 21, 2026 5:32 AM
bing.com
How New Client Expectations Are Reshaping Agency Workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c4fda2884799b70695892f7fc906&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbesagencycouncil%2F2026%2F08%2F21%2Fhow-new-client-expectations-are-reshaping-agency-work%2F&c=4741428732106431505&mkt=en-usFor agencies, the challenge is to keep up without letting new technologies or speed metrics crowd out sound judgment and creative thinking.Aug 21, 2026 5:15 AM
bing.com
How New Client Expectations Are Reshaping Agency Workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d19021224458b550fc7728c5b648&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbesagencycouncil%2F2026%2F08%2F21%2Fhow-new-client-expectations-are-reshaping-agency-work%2F&c=4741428732106431505&mkt=en-usFor agencies, the challenge is to keep up without letting new technologies or speed metrics crowd out sound judgment and creative thinking.Aug 21, 2026 5:15 AM
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Ask HN: Has Microsoft forgotten how to test software?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383954This is a serious question.I've an older Mac with some critical apps that runs a slightly obsolete macOS. This OS version is no longer supported by Edge and Chrome 151+.This did not stop Edge from auto-updating to a known incompatible version and bricking itself.One minute I had the browser open; the next, the icon was overlayed with the Ghostbusters symbol and could do nothing but display a dialog explaining that my OS is unsupported.A fluke once perhaps, but this is the third time this has happened to me with various MS apps bricking themselves.I'm officially done with Microsoft products. This isn't some annoying bug; this is suddenly and abruptly locking me out of my own computer.Aug 21, 2026 4:55 AM
bing.com
Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 of the Season’s Top Readshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f4243ec14fefa3e9cacf430af7ff&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarp.org%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2Ffall-books-preview-2026%2F&c=8884752807650753628&mkt=en-usMiss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny (October 20): In Penny’s 21st Inspector Gamache novel, the Quebec homicide detective is aroused from sleep in the (murder-prone) village of Three Pines with news ...Aug 21, 2026 3:42 AM
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Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 of the Season’s Top Readshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c53062954897954399f7724c1bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarp.org%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2Ffall-books-preview-2026%2F&c=8884752807650753628&mkt=en-usMiss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny (October 20): In Penny’s 21st Inspector Gamache novel, the Quebec homicide detective is aroused from sleep in the (murder-prone) village of Three Pines with news ...Aug 21, 2026 3:42 AM
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Receive calls only from saved contactshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383219Hello folks, I built an app to block calls from non saved contacts, it works for Android.I live in Brazil, and at least here the situation with spam and bot calls is pretty bad, some days you can get calls from unknown numbers constantly.If someone wants to talk to me, they can usually reach me asynchronously (email or whatsapp) and I answer when I can/want. If it’s urgent, the people I care about enough to receive an immediate phone call from are generally already saved in my contacts.So Fone1 does one thing: when enabled, it blocks calls from numbers that aren’t saved in your contacts.I know this usage pattern definitely isn’t for everyone, but if you feel similarly, I’d love for you to try it and share feedback.It’s free and has no ads.If you are an Android user and wants to test, just send me your email so I can add you to list of testers.Aug 21, 2026 3:01 AM
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HGTV’s Keith Bynum Shares Sweet Birthday Tribute for Evan Thomas: ‘Love You So Much’http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cae9b40f24a19a4e8d201c85b6546&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvinsider.com%2F1282808%2Fkeith-bynum-birthday-tribute-for-evan-thomas-hgtv%2F&c=12569345439861546932&mkt=en-usKeith Bynum and Evan Thomas‘ summer has been full of more than one special occasion. Following the couple’s relationship anniversary last month, Bynum took to Instagram on Thu ...Aug 21, 2026 2:52 AM
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McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on one customer predicting what he’ll order nexthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a56e670cb4695b00ce46fdf23b015&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexerto.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-one-customer-predicting-what-hell-order-next-3400940%2F&c=938863910738386647&mkt=en-usA McDonald’s customer received a 515-page dossier revealing years of purchase data and predictions about what he would order and spend next.Aug 21, 2026 1:29 AM
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Show HN: Chat Threadshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382293The reason I wrote Chat Threads was because I started cursing at the AI in the middle of a long conversation. Then I continued with the conversation.Later, I wanted to pull that part out. I didn't want to start a new branch somewhere before it happened. I just wanted to take that part out of the middle and keep everything before and after it.That was the original idea behind Chat Threads.Chat Threads lets you work with a copy of a ChatGPT or Claude conversation. You can remove turns from the middle of a conversation without changing the original, and then continue with everything before and after them intact.It also lets you split a long conversation into separate topics. You can do that manually or optionally have an AI propose the topics and assignments for you to review.The project is open source:https://github.com/onyourmark/chat-threadsAug 21, 2026 12:48 AM

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WATCH: Fishermen rescued after 5 days at sea inside coolerhttps://abcnews.com/video/135822103/The Mexican navy rescued the men after an aircraft spotted them drifting in the Pacific.Aug 21, 2026 12:09 AM
github.com
Show HN: Icebug-format: immutable, interoperable graph standardhttps://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug-formatMost graph analytics packages have a mutable graph implementation that uses a heap allocated vector to store the graph. It works for toy graphs. But if you're loading a billion edge graph using G.add_edge() it's going to take a while.We don't need to invent new standards. Such interoperable, immutable memory standards already exist: Apache Arrow and Compressed Sparse Rows (CSR). CSR is widely used in scipy, cugraph and columnar graph databases among others. Both on CPUs and GPUs.icebug-format combines both into a on-disk standard based on Apache Parquet and an in-memory format based on Apache Arrow.Bindings available in many popular languages including python, typescript and rust.The package ships with convenience scripts to convert flat tables such as vertex.parquet and edges.parquet to this format in RAM/disk constrained environments.Sample graphs: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ladybugdb/ldbc-csr/tree/mainConverted from: https://ldbcouncil.org/benchmarks/graphalytics/datasets/LargeAug 20, 2026 11:57 PM
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Where Deshaun Watson vs. Shedeur Sanders stands after the Browns’ joint practice with the Bills: Mary Kay Cab - Cleveland.comhttps://news.google.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?oc=5Where Deshaun Watson vs. Shedeur Sanders stands after the Browns’ joint practice with the Bills: Mary Kay Cab Cleveland.comBills-Browns roundtable: Which players stood out during joint practice? The New York Times5 Non-Quarterback Browns Players to Watch vs. Bills Yahoo SportsAug 20, 2026 11:52 PM

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Golden Dome chief touts progress as funding questions loomhttps://spacenews.com/golden-dome-chief-touts-progress-as-funding-questions-loom/Guetlein joins North Dakota senators in making the case for the missile defense program The post Golden Dome chief touts progress as funding questions loom appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 20, 2026 11:02 PM