The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data - https://www.confiant.com/news/the-yandex-leak-how-a-russian-search-giant-uses-consumer-data

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source - https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns - https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/workplace_monitoring_select_committee/

Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level - https://vpncentral.com/russia-starts-blocking-vpn-protocols/

After 118 days, GPT Unicorn has produced a unicorn - https://gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk/

Speed Test - https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Fancy Parking - http://www.fancyparking.com

Transformative AGI by 2043 is <1% likely - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02519

'Unbelievable': Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down - https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3jwb/unbelievable-astronomer-claims-direct-evidence-of-gravity-breaking-down

Has Google Translate been fixed yet? - https://isgooglefixed.tw/

Strangest Research Vessel Heads for Scrapyard After 60 Years - https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

A redesigned Slack, built for focus - https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built-for-focus

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

What Will the World Look Like with Less Babies? - https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/will-world-look-like-less-babies

Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3469465

Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark - https://wiki.makerdiary.com/nrf52840-mdk-usb-dongle/guides/ble-sniffer/

Autogenerating Rust-JS Bindings with UniFFI - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/08/autogenerating-rust-js-bindings-with-uniffi/

Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers - https://thewalrus.ca/medical-tiktok/

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to End of the World - https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

What Is Happening with ChatGPT? - https://chat.openai.com/share/ca5e0c33-7a19-41a1-8f8a-b146b68e2d1a