Terrence O’Brien / The Verge:
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango
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Tech News for August 29, 2026
33 stories clustered from across the web on August 29, 2026.
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps
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David Nield / Wired:
How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer
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Jorge Garay / Wired:
Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment
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Terrence O’Brien / The Verge:
Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions
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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy
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Harry Rabinowitz / Wired:
Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Review: Master of Phone Calls
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Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge:
Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
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Terrence O’Brien / The Verge:
Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale
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Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
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Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg Technology:
Chinese Chipmaker CXMT Sues Pentagon to Get Off US Blacklist
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Bloomberg Technology:
Dangote's Daughters Shape the Future of an Empire (Video)
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Bloomberg Technology:
Meta Child Safety Deal Puts Rivals on Notice
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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
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Reece Rodgers, wired.com / Ars Technica:
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
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Terrence O’Brien / The Verge:
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported
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Terrence O’Brien / The Verge:
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
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Bloomberg Technology:
Bloomberg This Weekend 8/29/2026: cybersecurity risks of driverless cars
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Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company accelerates every AI model in the world
More: Bloomberg Technology · 2 sources
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Debian gives the green light to AI code after a two-week vote, but submitters are responsible for it
More: XDA Developers · 2 sources
Robert Booth, UK technology editor / The Guardian Tech:
Highlights from China's humanoid robot Olympics show robots competing in sports and real-world challenges
More: CNET, Mashable Tech · 3 sources
Grace Huckins / MIT Technology Review:
How groupthink, altruism, and peer pressure led OpenAI models to hack Hugging Face
More: Gizmodo · 2 sources
Maddy Varner / Wired:
OpenAI and AI giants warn sophisticated AI swarm attacks are months away
More: ZDNET · 2 sources
Yi Wei Wong / Bloomberg Technology:
OpenAI to End Partnership With Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition
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Bloomberg News / Bloomberg Technology:
China's car regulators tell automakers to fix quality, not add features, as breakneck development speed worries officials
More: The Next Web · 2 sources
Daniel Sims / TechSpot:
Micron workers in Taiwan move toward strike as 80% surveyed back walkout over bonus caps
More: The Next Web, Wccftech · 3 sources
AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo:
ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without a competitive bidding process
More: TechSpot, The Next Web · 3 sources
Dan Milmo Global technology editor / The Guardian Tech:
Claude's system prompt updated to avoid reproducing song lyrics amid Anthropic's copyright lawsuit
More: Simon Willison, Slashdot · 3 sources
Nic Reuben / The Guardian Tech:
Star Wars Zero Company reviewed as a great but busted game that may never be fixed
Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware:
Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters overwhelm maintainers
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