Exit 8 Sets Shudder Streaming Release Date for 93% RT Horror Movie
The Japanese mystery-psychological horror movie Exit 8 has set its streaming release date on Shudder. The movie premiered at Cannes on May 19, 2025, before its release in Japan on August 29, 2025. Subsequently, it came out in US theaters on April 10, 2026. When is Exit 8 releasing on Shudder? The critically acclaimed horror […]

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Creepshow Trailer Teases Video Game Take on Horror Classic
A Creepshow trailer has been released and teases that a video game is officially on the horizon. The new game has a trailer as well as a release date for the upcoming horror adaptation. When does the Creepshow video game come out? The game, simply titled Creepshow, is set to release sometime in August on […]

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The Shards Release Date Set for Ryan Murphy’s Seductive New TV Show
The Shards, a new seductive TV show from creator Ryan Murphy, has found its release date. It’s based on Bret Easton Ellis’ popular 2021 thriller novel of the same name. When is the release date for The Shards? The Shards TV show is set to premiere on August 5, 2026, on FX and Hulu. The series comes […]

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Kopenhagen: „Noma“-Neustart für August angekündigt ⌘ Read more

Heads up (literally): There’s going to be a solar eclipse in August: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_2026 Mostly partial, unless you happen to live in Greenland/Iceland/Spain.

Aaron Pierre’s Green Lantern Could Look Very Different in Man of Tomorrow
Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart might have a very different look in Man of Tomorrow. The actor is set to make his DCU debut in the Lanterns premiere in August. Pierre will presumably wield the power ring in the Superman sequel following that. Why might Aaron Pierre’s Green Lantern look different in Man of Tomorrow? Pierre […]

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Mckenna Grace’s Dinosaur Movie Gets Action-Packed Trailer
Mckenna Grace‘s upcoming dinosaur movie has received its official trailer. Paramount Pictures‘ PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie trailer also features the newest single of the Backstreet Boys, titled “Bottle Up.” The third installment of the popular animated franchise is now scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 14, 2026. “After their ship gets caught in […]

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Marci – Butterfly Sticker
Marci’s new album Mask Lady and Late Night Girl is coming in August on Arbutus. Video directed + animated by Geoffrey Scott… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

The Dog Stars Trailer Previews Ridley Scott’s Apocalyptic Thriller Movie With Jacob Elordi
A new trailer for The Dog Stars has been released. The movie, which is directed by Ridley Scott, stars Frankenstein and Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi. It arrives in United States theaters this August. The Dog Stars comes from 20th Century Studios. In addition to Elordi, the post-apocalyptic thriller movie also stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margare … ⌘ Read more

Netflix Adds Beloved Sci-Fi TV Show’s Last Season Today
The fourth and final season of one of Syfy’s popular TV shows has officially been added to Netflix‘s library. After wrapping up its 10-episode run last August 2025, the last installment received a perfect Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes. What hit sci-fi TV show’s final season is now on Netflix? As of today, all ten […]

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All Seasons of Beloved Zombie Series Will Leave Netflix in 2026
All eight seasons of a popular zombie series are scheduled to leave Netflix soon. It is the spin-off of the AMC network’s global phenomenon that popularized the genre in mainstream media. This leaves fans of the franchise with a limited time to stream the eight-season spin-off. Fear the Walking Dead will leave Netflix in August […]

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Eli Roth’s Slasher Movie Ice Cream Man Gets a Chilling Trailer
The Horror Section has released the full trailer for Ice Cream Man. The upcoming horror thriller movie from The Green Inferno and Hostel director Eli Roth is scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 7, 2026. “The film follows an idyllic summer town descending into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights […]

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Spritpreisbremse wird verlängert
Kurz vor Auslaufen der Spritpreisbremse haben sich die Regierungsparteien ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS auf eine Verlängerung geeinigt. Ab Juni wird allerdings nur noch die Mineralölsteuer (MÖSt) um 1,7 Cent pro Liter gesenkt. Die Begrenzung der Margen wie bisher fällt weg, wie es am Samstag hieß. Bis Ende August müssen Tankstellen zudem Preissenkungen bei den internationalen Preisnotierungen verpflichtend weitergeben. ⌘ Read more

Du Val statutory management costs $4.12m
The statutory management of failed property group Du Val has cost the Government $4.12 million to date, Budget documents show.

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Yearslong Fight Over Users’ Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could rever … ⌘ Read more

Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
USA Today reports:

Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden gadget’s release was later delayed to October before being pushed back again to … ⌘ Read more

Distributions quote of the week

2,442 days is a fair amount of time, and that’s how long I had been
on the openSUSE Board as its chair when I started this note.

That journey began on August 19th, 2019, and it ends today as I am
stepping down as chair of the openSUSE Board.

It’s been an intense time for most of it — just a bit calm the last
year and a half. A time of joy and frustration, anger occasionally
and rewarding more often than that.

During those years we have seen SUSE and openSUSE carve out from Micro
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Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion
A father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, alleging Gemini reinforced his son Jonathan Gavalas’ escalating delusions until he died by suicide in October 2025. “Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google’s Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip planning,” reports TechCrunch. “On … ⌘ Read more

The AI Case Against Indian IT Ignores What Indian IT Actually Does
A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading session on February 24 and sent the Nifty IT index down as much as 5.3% – its worst single-day fall since August 2023 – on the argument that AI coding agents have collapsed the cost advantage of Indian … ⌘ Read more

HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Expand Globally in 2026
HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. From a report: The streamer first started cracking down on password sharing in the United States late last August. Subscribers are now able to add an additional out-of-household account for $7.99 a month. Before that August change, Warner Bros. Discovery had been testin … ⌘ Read more

Is AI Impacting Which Programming Language Projects Use?
“In August 2025, TypeScript surpassed both Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language on GitHub for the first time ever…” writes GitHub’s senior developer advocate.

They point to this as proof that “AI isn’t just speeding up coding. It’s reshaping which languages, frameworks, and tools developers choose in the first place.”

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When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
Marcel Bucher, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany, lost two years of carefully structured academic work in an instant when he temporarily disabled ChatGPT’s “data consent” option in August to test whether the AI tool’s functions would still work without providing OpenAI his data. All his chats were permanently delete … ⌘ Read more

Apple is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage
Apple, which spent years as TSMC’s undisputed top customer and helped the Taiwanese foundry become the semiconductor industry’s most important manufacturer, is now fighting for production capacity as Nvidia’s AI chip orders consume an ever-larger share of the company’s leading-edge wafer supply.

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5 star reads of 2025 worth mentioning

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Someone has asked recently on a toot for others to share their ‘list of 2025 books’. Instead of pointing out to the list of what I’ve read, I’ll instead mention a few ‘5 star’ books I’ve read in 2025 that I think is worth pointing out towards.

By no particular order (well, the order in the photo, really…)

• AJ Pearce’s “Yours Cheerfully” and “Mrs Porter Calling”, books 2 and 3 of The Emmy Lake Chronicles. I’d already read the first book in the series and considered it a five stars read, and I plan to eventually read the fourth and last book in the series - the paperback edition is out next August. This isn’t a deep or profound book series - and doesn’t need to be in order to be a good one. It’s a series depicting the life of a young woman in war-time London. Each of these books made me cry and made me laugh, and I have found some comfort reading them in a time where, in many aspects, it feels like we’re living in a pre-war era…

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Trump Organization’s $499 Smartphone Delayed Again, Now Until the End of January
Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 “T1” smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed back again, now until the end of January, “ … ⌘ Read more

Ghana Tries To Regulate Online Prophecies
Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers along with six others.

After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disast … ⌘ Read more

Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election
“Super PAC aims to drown out AI critics in midterms,” the Washington Post reported in August, noting its intial funding over $100 million from “some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors and executives” including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, his wife, and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The group’s goal was “to quash a philosophical debate … ⌘ Read more

Are Data Centers Raising America’s Electricity Prices?
Residential utility bills in America “rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year,” reports CNBC, citing statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration:

The reasons for price increases are often complex and vary by region. But in at least three states with high concentrations of data centers, electric bills cl … ⌘ Read more

Google To Allow ‘Experienced Users’ To Install Unverified Android Apps
Google says it will build a new “advanced flow” to allow experienced users to install Android apps from unverified developers, easing up on restrictions it proposed in late August. The company said earlier that Android would block such installations starting next year. The new flow will include clear warnings about security risks but wil … ⌘ Read more

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 31. ⌘ Read more

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 31. ⌘ Read more

NSN leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
Sewell, 32, is facing more than 20 charges over his alleged involvement in a violent attack at Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain, on August 29. ⌘ Read more

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks
Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware. ⌘ Read more

RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR
Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension. The open-source Radeon Vulkan “RADV” driver has now merged support for this extension that is being used now by Steam Link VR… ⌘ Read more

Alan Jones’ hearing to last up to four months and include more than 100 witnesses
The former broadcaster’s indecent assault and sexual touching hearing has been slated for August next year. ⌘ Read more

Dataset reveals the factors affecting retail and charitable food supplies after Hurricane Harvey
Texas and Louisiana withstood the worst of Hurricane Harvey, which unleashed cataclysmic rain in August of 2017 that killed over 100 people from flooding. After the flood, grocery stores and pantries struggled not only to remain open but to keep fresh food on the shelves. ⌘ Read more

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary “VK_KHR_pipeline_binary”
Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel “ANV” open-source Vulkan driver has enabled this extension… ⌘ Read more

Not so proud to be American — ‘fed up’ expats renounce citizenship
Steve Hendrix,    -  msn

_Stephan: Today, I got the third email I have received since August from an SR reader living overseas telling me they are giving up their American citizenship.  I have known many Americans living overseas, but until recently, I couldn’t remember any of them telling me they were giving up their American citizenship. However, as this article describes, renouncing American c … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of August 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these proj … ⌘ Read more

San Francisco Billboards - August 2025
Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I’ve decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time. ⌘ Read more

Nourished By Time – Baby Baby
The Passionate Ones is coming August 22nd on XL. Vid filmed by Caroline Waxse… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change
We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository.
If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you
need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates
smoothly.

The ‘apt’ utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package
repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list
file, [that method is changing](ht … ⌘ Read more

Laura Groves – Deep Blue
One of our all-time favorites, London’s Laura Groves returns with a gorgeously hazy late-night gem from her new YES EP, coming on August 1st… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

TOPS – Falling on My Sword
Video directed by JJ Stratford. Bury the Key is out August 22nd… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Nourished By Time – 9 2 5
Nourished By Time follows up the song of the year with another rousing, timeless anthem from his forthcoming LP The Passionate Ones, coming in August on XL… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

More Mozilla Services Shutting Down as Loss of Funding Looms
Both Mozilla Pocket and Orbit are shutting down with the potential loss of more than 80% of the Firefox makers funding coming in August. ⌘ Read more

10 Fascinating Facts About Life in Hawaii Before the U.S. Arrived
Hawaii joined the Union on August 21, 1959. Its history immediately before and after joining the United States is well known. Americans have long learned about the attack on Honolulu’s Pearl Harbor in 1941. Many recognize Hawaii’s role as a Pacific hub for logistics, trade, and transportation. The islands offer economic opportunities in commercial fishing […]

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Nourished By Time – Max Potential
We’ve been waiting for this one and it’s everything we hoped and more. The Passionate Ones is out on August 22 on XL. Vid directed by Marcus Brown… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Smerz – A thousand lies
” A thousand lies” is out now on escho. Video filmed + edited by Benjamin Barron, Bror August Vestbø, Henriette Motzfeldt + Catharina Stoltenberg… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Zuzana Chalupová
Bolo to pred storočím, keď sa narodila Zuzana Chalupová (*5. február 1925, Kovačica - †1. august 2001, Belehrad) a na budúci rok bude tomu už štvrťstoročie, ako nás táto „mama sveta” navždy opustila. S ňou sa akoby pominula aj prostoduchá doba šťastia a nastala nová éra, doba uponáhľaná a netolerantná. Obrazy Zuzany Chalupovej, najznámejšej kovačickej insitnej maliarky, zachytili fragmenty z tej predchádzajúcej doby a zobrazujú šťastných, veselých ľudí a rozihrané deti. Dospelých … ⌘ Read more