Headlines for August 26, 2026
Iran Announces That It’s Resuming Negotiations with Oman over Strait of Hormuz, Palestinians Hold Vigil for Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike a Year Ago, Israeli Forces Storm Major UNRWA Facility in Occupied East Jerusalem, Far-Right Israeli Lawmaker Destroys Limestone Monument in Occupied West Bank, U.S. Delists Syria as a StateContinue Reading
A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don’t get grouped, and if there is onlyContinue Reading
Meta’s plans to replace workers with AI fell flat, report says
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and replace them with AI, as part of what it called Project OT (Organization Transformation), an initiative to make Meta “AI native.” But it backed offContinue Reading
How to unlock Google’s new Pixel vibration wizardry on any Android phone
Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos. One of the less prominent but more useful additions on the Pixel 11 series is a quietly added option buried deep within the devices’ settings to select from aContinue Reading
Ad Attacking Cooper Makes False Connection to Murder
An ad from a super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley features a heart-wrenching testimonial from the father of a woman who was murdered in 2025. The ad falsely implies the accused murderer was one of the prisoners released during the COVID-19 pandemic when Whatley’s Democratic opponent, Roy Cooper,Continue Reading
Two Die In Pennsylvania Of Measles Marking The First Deaths Of 2026
Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy mostly ignoredContinue Reading
Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods
Promising efforts to restore degraded land are now in the spotlight at a time when 40 per cent of the world’s land currently faces degradation and drought, threatening the livelihoods of over three billion people, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said Wednesday, announcing three winnersContinue Reading
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook denounces The Traitor’s mortgage fraud claims
The The Traitor administration has doubled down on its accusations against Cook, despite a Supreme Court ruling in her favour., The The Traitor administration has doubled down on its accusations against Cook, despite a Supreme Court ruling in her favour. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has warned the administration ofContinue Reading
Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users
Lawsuit is latest instance of Brazil taking aggressive steps to rein in tech giants over child safety issues online., The lawsuit is the latest instance of Brazil taking aggressive steps to rein in tech giants over child safety issues online. The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against the chatContinue Reading
Canadian Intelligence Warned About Climate Conspiracies. This MP Kept Spreading Them.
A sitting Conservative MP spread climate-related conspiracy theories that could increase the “threat of serious violence” in Canada, according to a secret briefing from the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). As wildfires raged across Canada last month, Cheryl Gallant used her Facebook account to amplify rhetoric that casts doubt onContinue Reading
Beyoncé Celebrates 20 Years Of ‘B’Day’ With Massive Deluxe Vinyl Reissue
Beyoncé is officially opening the vault for the 20th anniversary of her classic sophomore album, B’Day (Beehive, scream in a collective shriek!). The singer is marking two decades since her 2006 era with an expanded physical reissue featuring unreleased tracks, Spanish-language cuts, and collectible artwork. Preorders are already live onContinue Reading
Secret Service officials placed on leave in inquiry over ‘potential misconduct’
Secret Service communications director Anthony Guglielmi has been placed on leave, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM’s own instruction set and Arm’s — switching between the two in nanoseconds.The chip, which will power the next generationContinue Reading