news, !paper 2026-07-30

1226 UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions / uefa.com / 672

808 Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick / krebsonsecurity.com / 545

776 Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub / github.blog / 295

616 Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots / deepmind.google / 539

603 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 / openai.com / 399

433 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling / remysharp.com / 176

422 Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year / android-developers.googleblog.com / 525

404 We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 / bottlenecklabs.com / 234

376 The AI Aesthetic / blog.jim-nielsen.com / 176

352 GCC steering committee announces AI policy / lwn.net / 428

334 Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English / github.com/AminBlg / 119

308 The Religion of Speed / graybeard.ing / 157

283 The Economic Benefit of Refactoring / martinfowler.com / 122

273 I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals / geospatialml.com / 157

263 Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 / grumpygamer.com / 118

259 Software for One / ajwaxman.com / 269

247 Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations / anthropic.com / 196

235 Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up / quantamagazine.org / 177

230 Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? / construction-physics.com / 304

225 The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view / ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com / 65

218 Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 / projectpluto.com / 81

209 The lost civic life of movie rental stores / thereader.mitpress.mit.edu / 272

191 CodePen 2.0 / chriscoyier.net / 52

190 Azulejo / en.wikipedia.org / 64

187 Europe's fires are just the start / economist.com / 342

172 Hacker Public Radio / hackerpublicradio.org / 30

171 Holocloth / holocloth.vercel.app / 33

166 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed / noyb.eu / 102

166 Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it / ctgt.ai / 73

155 Bad Apple but It's Traceroute / jssfr.de / 49

154 Are We Stuck with Lean? / mathoverflow.net / 66

130 RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) / mnot.net / 42

128 Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) / hillelwayne.com / 117

126 Making Postgres queues scale / dbos.dev / 33

123 So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ / dynomight.net / 108

123 Gpiozero Flow / bennuttall.com / 37

120 Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others / cam.ac.uk / 114

117 3D Pinball for Windows (1995) / 98.js.org / 48

107 China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines / reuters.com / 109

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