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2026.33: The CapEx Train Keeps Rolling

The best Stratechery content from the week of August 10, 2026, including the capital constraint, AI writing, and a tale of two cities.

#2540 - Travis Barker

Travis Barker is a musician, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, and drummer for Blink-182. He is the subject of the documentary "Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear," which premieres August 13 on Hulu

The Audit Drops! | Bitcoin News

Bitcoin news and bitcoin regulation update. Today I cover Tether completing its first full financial audit with KPMG, JPMorgan cutting banking ties with Polymarket, Ireland tightening checks around

Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.

There Is No Objective You. Just an Evolving One.

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file

"There's No Magic to Understanding"

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: • I’m speaking, signing books, and participating in panel discussions at LAcon V (https://www.lacon.org/) in Anaheim,

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN

Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for domains managed by Vercel DNS. ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake, the last part of an HTTPS connection that

How Vipers Got Their Venom

Although it serves as a defense, it’s really all about securing a meal The post [How Vipers Got Their Venom](https://nautil.us/how-vipers-got-their-venom-1283792/) appeared first on

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked

Adding to the barrel of finance fallacies

“I should note also that many (most? almost all?) of the bad scenarios have intermediate points of great worry and catastrophe” Not on my model. By the time any humans start worrying about a

Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies)

Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly about the wrinkles that financing navies poses with regards to our worldbuilding

Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series

With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by

Edinburgh Fringe: Stand-up Philosophy ★★★⯪☆

For a pay-what-you-want show this was decent. Three comedians doing sets on the theme of philosophy - followed by a Q&A where the audience poses philosophical conundrums to them. It more-or-less

Best remote collaboration tools for teams in 2026

Compare the best remote collaboration tools for messaging, meetings, and project management.

Qwen3.8-27B

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The Extraterrestrial Rings of Bronze Age Greece

Meteorites were hot fashion accessories back then The post [The Extraterrestrial Rings of Bronze Age Greece](https://nautil.us/the-extraterrestrial-rings-of-bronze-age-greece-1283789/) appeared

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

Every Fucking Website

Article URL: [https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/](https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/) Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222)

In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half

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Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

Extreme Space Weather Could Delay Your Next Flight

Researchers say surges in solar activity can wreak havoc on aircraft The post [Extreme Space Weather Could Delay Your Next

Defender ARRESTED For OC Use! -Funk

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with self defender Funk and discuss the night he was attempting to break up a large fight at the restaurant where he worked when he