Futureseek Daily Link Review; 30 August 2026

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* Nepal floods: Death toll and number of missing grows in Nepal and China | CNN >>
* Tim Cook wasn’t a ‘product guy’ — so he re-engineered Apple instead – MarketWatch >>
* The renter generation: Young Americans, shut out of homeownership, brace to rent forever – MarketWatch >>
* Have We Really Learnt The Lessons Of The GFC? | ZeroHedge >>
* Trump Establishes Space Academy, Awards Medals Of Honor To Artemis II Astronauts | ZeroHedge >>
* China’s hypercompetition goes global as Beijing frets over backlash – Nikkei Asia >>
* Australia’s Pacific rivalry with China heats up after Beijing’s ICBM test – Nikkei Asia >>
* When are Americans supposed to retire? The answer isn’t clear >>
* How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together – The New York Times >>
* When Older Adults Choose Life Among the Young – The New York Times >>
* Does Your Cat Deserve a Fresh Bowl for Each Feeding? – The New York Times >>
* One NZ and 2degrees propose combining radio access networks | BusinessDesk >>
* OpenAI ends relationship with Cursor following the SpaceX acquisition; makes it clear Elon Musk is the ‘big reason’; says: Starting November 12… – The Times of India >>
* Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid | Art theft | The Guardian >>
* What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm? | Meta | The Guardian >>
* Cyborg cockroaches with tiny syringes designed to join search and rescue teams in major disasters | Robots | The Guardian >>
* OpenAI Ending Deal With Cursor Because XAI Violated Terms of Service – Business Insider >>
* How AI Data Centers Are Making Everything More Expensive – Business Insider >>
* What You Can Do About OpenAI’s Cyber Defense Warning – Business Insider >>
* America’s Eldercare Costs Are Soaring. Families Are Filling the Gap. – Business Insider >>
* The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now >>
* Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX | OpenAI >>
* How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together – The New York Times >>
* Introducing Dolly Parton International Airport – Salon.com >>
* Catastrophic Flood Exposes the Risks of Nepal’s Hydropower Bet – The New York Times >>
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* The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn | WIRED >>
* Men are skipping showers before dates for a reason that may surprise women >>
* After 15 Years, the Tim Cook Era at Apple Ends This Week >>
* Bro had a good take : r/videogames >>
* ACT promises tax-free crypto gains after a year : r/NZBitcoin >>
* “iT LoOkS jUsT LiKe gTa 5” : r/grandtheftauto >>
* Robot Sports Day Full Compilation : r/BGMStock >>
* Digital Foundry just confirmed that GTA 6 runs at native 1440p at 30 FPS with no upscaling on a base PS5 : r/GameBoostOfficial >>
* How some people see the GTA VI map : r/GTA >>
* 30 minutes of new raw combat gameplay for Fable just dropped after Gamescom, and I’m kind of digging it. : r/rpg_gamers >>
* GTA V with DLSS 5 on : r/GTA >>
* I don’t think Gta VI will ever have the realism of IV’s driving : r/GTAIV >>
* The closest thing we have to GTA6 currently is probably watch dogs 2 (2016) : r/GTA6unmoderated >>
* GTA VI for console! : r/GTA6_News >>
* Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look : r/PS5pro >>
* Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck proves robotics is entering its ridiculously accessible era : r/SearchAPIs >>
* Time AI 100 List Draws Engineer Criticism · Digg >>
* RunwayML Shares AI Skateboarding Bear Video · Digg >>
* DOJ turns to ancient body of law to capture Iranian oil tankers — ‘we’d have to conduct a séance’ | Fortune >>
* How buying the first Ferrari Luce for $40 million saved a billionaire $13 million in taxes | Fortune >>
* Donald Trump is delivering the deportations he promised >>
* AI is changing religion and religions are trying to change AI >>
* America’s murky deal to secure a fifth of Venezuela’s oil >>
* China is training up thousands of humanoid robots >>
* Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag | VentureBeat >>
* Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page. | VentureBeat >>
* Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU | TechCrunch >>
* Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine | TechCrunch >>
* Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters | The Verge >>
* How I sorted 22,000 digital photos without getting overwhelmed: 4 easy tricks | ZDNET >>
* The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse | The Verge >>
* Not a token effort: beer meets artificial intelligence at bar in China’s capital | South China Morning Post >>
* China’s chip supply chain ‘safer’ as self-sufficiency push gains traction, says top planner | South China Morning Post >>
* China could sharply narrow advanced chip supply gap by 2035: Report >>
* 3D Systems and SRNL advance 3D printing for nuclear energy and defense >>
* A 10-mile subway scan finds sinking ground hidden beneath the streets >>
* A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young | MIT Technology Review >>
* OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systems – SecurityWeek >>
* Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information – SecurityWeek >>
* ATF Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware Group Claims Attack – SecurityWeek >>
* OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systems – SecurityWeek >>
* Tech, Cybersecurity Giants Unite Behind OpenAI-Led Cyber Defense Pledge – SecurityWeek >>
* Why Zohran Mamdani is being accused of Hinduphobia | Vox >>
* Why are El Niños getting stronger? 1,000-year-coral record points to climate change | Nature >>
* ‘Robot Olympics’ reveal humanoids’ rapid progress — and flaws | Nature >>
* $700,000 lost to online boyfriend – Komando.com >>
* The Machine Age Fund | Andreessen Horowitz >>
* Danielle Roberts: The pursuit of happiness requires free time | TED Talk >>
* Stephen Nobles: Why you need the growth mindset of a weed | TED Talk >>
* Paper page – Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models >>
* Paper page – PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling? >>
* Google prepares Interactive Reports for Gemini Notebook >>
* First outputs from GPT-6 “Astra” model from OpenAI >>
* IDC – AI Agent Cost Governance – Closing the Enterprise Gap >>
* Shadow AI Is an Enablement Failure, Not a Security Failure. | Forward Future >>
* World’s first solar ambulance is energy independent while delivering health care in Kenya >>
* Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life >>
* GTA 6 has an unexpected new challenge: Maintaining a relationship | Mashable >>
* Scientists investigate if a herpes virus is behind the mass deaths of sardines off South Africa >>
* The Wildest Video Game Budgets Can’t Hold A Candle To GTA 6 >>
* All Blacks fall short as desperate Springboks tie series >>
* ‘Use it or lose it’: Retirement home resident on running a business, keeping fit >>
* Why eight hours sleep doesn’t work for everyone >>
* More than 1200 support workers face losing their jobs >>
* Trump’s untested new tariffs on Canada raise big legal questions >>
* Air NZ boss responds to Luxon’s ‘very poor’ verdict on $336m loss >>
* Clinical Springboks muscle up to defeat All Blacks and level series in Cape Town | Stuff >>