Several people told me they couldn't figure out how to reply to a NodeBB conversation if they just had a link to the post, and yeah it is kind of non-obvious. So I decided to write something up on that as well as a few other quirks. Here's what I've got so far ... feedback welcome!

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Vincent Miller and his father, 45-year-old Marcus Miller, died in Atwood Lake during family visit

Boy, 4, drowns after Amish mom threw him in lake ‘to give him to God’ – as his dad drowned testing his own faith

^{Isabel Keane (The Independent)}

Users of X3D CPUs in ASRock motherboards seem to be at particularly high risk.

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

^{Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)}

President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible for implementing the bloc's landmark Digital Services Act, two sources familiar with the matter said, over U.S. complaints that the law censors Americans and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies.

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Representative James Comer said the subpoena 'may further the Committee’s investigation and legislative goals'

House Committee issues subpoena seeking ‘all entries’ from Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book

^{Rachel Dobkin (The Independent)}

Law change, professional training and awareness campaign part of Labour’s pledge to halve violence against women and girls

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UK to clarify definition of ‘honour’-based abuse in drive to cut violence against women and girls

^{Rachel Hall (The Guardian)}

BBC investigation finds US victim's images are traded globally by an operator based in Indonesia.

Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images

^{Angus Crawford and Tony Smith (BBC News)}

Instead, a jury awarded plaintiffs $242.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

Tesla could have avoided that $242.5M Autopilot verdict, filings show | TechCrunch

^{Kirsten Korosec (TechCrunch)}

• Within a week of launch, American Eagle’s 2025 ad campaign suffered a 4,000% increase in negative sentiment, fuelled by 2.7 million engagements and 881 million potential views.
• 15% of the profiles commenting on TikTok were fake profiles, that strategically spread harmful narratives and boycott calls
• Content by fake profiles received over 77,000 engagements, significantly amplifying the controversy

American Eagle Sydney Sweeney Backlash Amplified by Fake TikTok Profiles

Research reveals 15% of American Eagle's TikTok campaign critics were fake accounts that generated 77,000+ engagements, turning a normal ad into a PR crisis. Learn how brands can detect and counter inauthentic activity.

^{Rotem Baruchin (Cyabra)}

The Letter.

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The letter, sent to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Open AI, xAI, Anthropic, Character Technologies, Perplexity AI, Apple, Chai AI, Luka Inc., Nomi AI, and Replika addresses alarming reports of AI chatbots engaging in sexually inappropriate conversations with kids.

“As these companies race toward an AI-powered future, they cannot adopt policies that subject kids to sexualized content and conversations,” said Attorney General Skrmetti. “It’s one thing for an algorithm to go astray— that can be fixed— but it’s another for people running a company to adopt guidelines that affirmatively authorize grooming.”

The attorneys general urge AI developers to act with integrity and caution when young users may engage with their products. They demand that company policies for AI products incorporate guardrails against sexualizing children. AI companies must “see children through the eyes of a parent, not the eyes of a predator.”

From its roots of being 'just a hobby, [which] won’t be big and professional like GNU' it has come a long way.

Linux is 34 years old today — Linus Torvalds meekly announced this free new OS in the comp.os.minix newsgroup on this day in 1991

^{Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)}

Government takes a page out of Iraq WMD

Trump’s “Weapons of Mass Migration” Explains Targeting of DC, LA, Mexico, Venezuela

^{Ken Klippenstein}

World's top chipmaker shifts 2-nm tool sourcing as American investment accelerates

TSMC cuts Chinese tools from cutting-edge chip production to avoid US ire

^{Staff Writer (Nikkei Asia)}

Operation Sindoor: Dy PM Dar admitted that Pakistan itself had asked for a ceasefire after suffering losses during the Indian offensive.

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Germany has pledged to provide Ukraine with €9 billion annually over the next few years.

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Germany pledges to provide Ukraine with €9bn annually

^{Iryna Kutielieva (Ukrainska Pravda)}

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has announced that his country plans to allocate US$8.5 billion to support Ukraine next year.

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Norway to allocate about US$8.5 billion to support Ukraine in 2026

^{Iryna Kutielieva (Ukrainska Pravda)}

'Pride is not for sale,' says Queers for Palestine in statement

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Zelenskyy said Ukraine hadn't been discussing long-range attacks with the US, after a new report said the Pentagon had blocked some ATACMS strikes.

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Ukraine can now strike deep into Russia without the US: Zelenskyy

^{Matthew Loh (Business Insider)}

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that China has to give the United States magnets or "we have to charge them 200% tariff or something" amid a trade dispute between the two nations.

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2025-08-25 21:10:56

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks | GamersNexus

CPUs AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks August 25, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-08-25 We compare the 9980X vs previous Threadripper CPUs (like the 7980X) and against desktop-class CPUs (like the Intel 285K and AMD Ryzen 9950X) The High…

^{gamersnexus.net}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36319472

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

Pro

2025-08-25 21:10:56

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks | GamersNexus

CPUs AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks August 25, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-08-25 We compare the 9980X vs previous Threadripper CPUs (like the 7980X) and against desktop-class CPUs (like the Intel 285K and AMD Ryzen 9950X) The High…

^{gamersnexus.net}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36319472

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

Pro

2025-08-25 21:10:56

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks | GamersNexus

CPUs AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks August 25, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-08-25 We compare the 9980X vs previous Threadripper CPUs (like the 7980X) and against desktop-class CPUs (like the Intel 285K and AMD Ryzen 9950X) The High…

^{gamersnexus.net}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36319472

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

Pro

2025-08-25 21:10:56

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks

• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks | GamersNexus

CPUs AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks August 25, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-08-25 We compare the 9980X vs previous Threadripper CPUs (like the 7980X) and against desktop-class CPUs (like the Intel 285K and AMD Ryzen 9950X) The High…

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Source.

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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.

Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.

Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system,[^1]^ and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.[^2]^
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• AMD’s new 9980X Threadripper moves to the Zen5 architecture
• On the gaming side, there are sometimes issues with consistency
• The 9980X is anywhere from 2% to 58% improved upon the 7980X in our benchmarks

AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks | GamersNexus

CPUs AMD Threadripper 9980X 64-Core CPU Review & Benchmarks August 25, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-08-25 We compare the 9980X vs previous Threadripper CPUs (like the 7980X) and against desktop-class CPUs (like the Intel 285K and AMD Ryzen 9950X) The High…

^{gamersnexus.net}

Retro Games come in many forms, and when you think about how things have evolved, we shouldn't be surprised by their comeback!

Retro Games Making a Comeback in the Digital Era - Gameranx

^{Todd Black (Gameranx)}

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/farmers-insurance-data-breach-impacts-11m-people-after-salesforce-attack/

French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/auchan-retailer-data-breach-impacts-hundreds-of-thousands-of-customers/

The launch of Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict will include the long awaited asynchronous trade system, which will also include a completely in-game market! In today's news post we've answered some of the most frequently asked questions about how this new system will work.

Video: Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict Official In-Game Market Browser

When will I be able to convert my existing Premium Stash Tabs into Merchant's Tab?

Once 0.3.0 releases this Friday, you will be able to convert your Premium Stash Tabs purchased before the launch into Merchant's Tabs from your account settings on the website.

Just to clarify, the option to convert your Premium Stash Tab to a Merchant's Tab will be made available on the Path of Exile 2 website when the 0.3.0 patch is deployed on August 29th (PST).

August 29th is not a deadline to convert your stash tabs by.

When will the Merchant's Tab be available in the store?

Merchant's Tabs will be available for purchase in the Path of Exile 2 shop once The Third Edict releases this Friday. You will also have the option to convert Premium Stash Tabs purchased prior to the 0.3.0 release. Premium Stash Tabs purchased after 0.3.0 release cannot be converted.

How much does the Merchant's Tab cost to buy?

A single Merchant's Tab costs 40 points, and a bundle of six Merchant's Tabs will be available for 200 points. It will join the rest of the stash tabs on the stash tab sale rotation a month after release.

Is there a limit to how many Merchant's Tabs I can have?

No.

Can I use my Merchant's Tabs in Path of Exile 1?

The asynchronous trade system won't be immediately available in Path of Exile 1, so you won't be able to use your Merchant's Tabs there when Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict Launches. When this system is added to Path of Exile 1, any Merchant's Tabs you have purchased will also be available to use there.

What happens to my Premium Stash Tabs in Path of Exile 1 when I convert them to Merchant's Tabs in Path of Exile 2?

Once upgraded, a tab will no longer be accessible in Path of Exile 1 until Merchant's Tabs are supported there. Items stored in an upgraded tab will remain in a remove-only version of the original Premium Stash Tab.

Will a free Merchant's Tab be provided to players?

No. However, the existing methods of trading will still be available.

Who pays the Gold cost when buying or selling items through a Merchant's Tab?

The buyer pays a Gold cost when buying an item from a Merchant's Tab. There is no Gold cost for the seller to list or sell an item in a Merchant's Tab.

How do I collect my earnings when an item is sold through a Merchant's Tab?

To collect your earnings, talk to Ange in your hideout, select the Manage Shop option, and navigate to the "Earnings Tab", where you can withdraw the currency you have received from other players buying your items. The Earnings Tab is remove-only, so you cannot place items back into it after withdrawing them.

If multiple players try to buy the same item at the same time, who gets it?

The first player to complete the trade will get the item.

Can Premium Quad Stash Tabs be converted to Merchant's Tabs?

No.

Can you set a buyout price for a whole Merchant's Tab of items, like you can with Premium Stash Tabs?

No, you have to individually price each item. The interface does auto-fill with your last price however.

Is it possible to essentially buy Gold using this system?

No. Due to the Gold cost of buying items through this system, buying an item from a Merchant's Tab and selling it to a vendor for gold will not result in a net positive Gold outcome.

Can you buy and sell currency items through a Merchant's Tab?

No. A Merchant's Tab can only be used to buy and sell items that aren't available on the Currency Exchange.

Can I change the price of an item or remove an item from the Merchant's Tab after listing it?

Yes. But there is a cooldown on removing or changing the price to prevent abuse.

There is a short grace period after initially adding the item before it will be listed in the trade index, and you are able to change your mind and delist the item during this time.

Is this new system available on consoles?

Yes.

If I convert Premium Stash Tabs to Merchant's Tabs, will they still be available to use as Premium Stash Tabs in SSF leagues?

No. Stash tabs are not league specific. Converting a tab converts it everywhere, and Merchant's Tabs are not available to be used in SSF leagues.

We hope you enjoy trading with this new system! We're aware that the initial implementation of this system won't be perfect, so please be sure to let us know your feedback so we can look into making improvements.

Nvidia's Jetson AGX Thor robotics chips are now on sale for $3,499 as a developer kit.

Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 as company targets robotics for growth

^{Kif Leswing (CNBC)}

Intel's CEO is concerned that the US government's stake in the company could discourage international customers and hurt investors.

https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-ceo-says-the-company-doesnt-need-us-government-grants/

The government reshuffle was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas.

Lithuania gets new ruling coalition 

^{Giedrė Peseckytė (POLITICO)}

“They call me the president of Europe," the US president said. "Which is an honour. I like Europe. And I like those people. They’re good people. They’re great leaders.”

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