# u.s. military (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover u.s. military. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ox Alpha: Anonymous 1M-Context Model Hits No. 2 on OpenCode in Three Days](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/ox-alpha-stealth-model-openrouter-benchmarks-analysis/) _2026-08-23 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ Ox Alpha, an anonymous model on OpenRouter, reached No. 2 on OpenCode within three days of its 20 August launch. Its headline 80% DeepSWE score came from a 10-task subset of the 113-task benchmark; a separate full-set run lands near 63%. Fingerprint evidence points to Zhipu AI, but no company has confirmed it. The model offers a 1M-token context and free preview pricing, but risks include unknown… ## [30-Year Treasury Yield Hits Highest Since 2007 as Global Bond Selloff Spreads](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/treasury-yield-19-year-high-bond-selloff-mortgage-rates/) _2026-08-23 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ The 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.323 percent on Tuesday 18 August, its highest since 2007, in a selloff that has lifted long-term borrowing costs across the United States, Japan and Europe. The 10-year yield reached about 4.7 percent, and long-dated Japanese, German and French yields hit multi-decade highs. The move came weeks after a rare joint US-Japan intervention to buy yen, an operation… ## [Canada Vows Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods Starting Sept. 8 After Trump Imposes 50% Levies](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/canada-vows-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-sept-8/) _2026-08-23 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Sept. 8 after President Trump enacted 50% tariffs on Canadian products. ## [Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/headlines-that-say-i-ran-out-of-ideas-08-22-26/) _2026-08-22 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published reports on a free air conditioner and free printer left out for the taking in Brooklyn, New York City, but really? \[…\] ## [US national debt tops record $40 trillion after doubling in less than a decade](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/us-national-debt-tops-40-trillion-record/) _2026-08-22 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ The U.S. national debt exceeded $40 trillion on August 18, 2026, doubling in under a decade due to persistent deficits and increased borrowing. ## [Against “Like Them, but Better”](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/against-like-them-but-better-08-21-26/) _2026-08-22 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, he makes the case against “\[a\] social media strategy focused entirely on the competition,” explaining that “I want to choose your product because it’s a unique proposition” rather than because it is not \[…\] ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-21-26/) _2026-08-21 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so “new”) Wacom One drawing tablet yesterday. While the “drawing” works as expected, I cannot get it to display an image. I think the annoying \[…\] ## [Iranian families struggle to afford the basics as US ratchets up economic warfare](https://apnews.com/article/iran-economy-sanctions-inflation-73b0278a0307030588cac9f47b3443e0) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Earvolino · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Iranian families struggle to afford the basics as US ratchets up economic warfare appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [U.S. federal debt tops $40 trillion, faster than forecasters expected](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/us-federal-debt-tops-40-trillion/) _2026-08-21 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ The U.S. federal debt exceeded $40 trillion for the first time on August 18, 2026, driven by increased government borrowing. ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-20-26/) _2026-08-20 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 | Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models (Chris Isidore for CNN. August 18, 2026.) Looks \[…\] ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CNx1FdQ1GsWm) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [“A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind” Mandates a Search for Peace in Ukraine](https://quincyinst.org/2026/08/20/a-decent-respect-to-the-opinions-of-mankind-mandates-a-search-for-peace-in-ukraine/) _2026-08-20 · Anatol Lieven · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ Why the new American left should take up the quest for peace if the Democratic Party wins control of Congress this November, and of the presidency in 2028. The post “A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind” Mandates a Search for Peace in Ukraine appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [How far can the US push its allies over the Iran war?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9XbE2i73E) _2026-08-20 · Annelle Sheline · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post How far can the US push its allies over the Iran war? appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Israel Lobby Desperate After Shock DSA Wins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMMk9jwXidU) _2026-08-19 · Eli Clifton · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Israel Lobby Desperate After Shock DSA Wins appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-19-26/) _2026-08-19 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for Breitbart. August 18, 2026) & Rep. Cory Mills Unseated in GOP Primary, Ryan Elijah Wins Nomination (Olivia Rondeau for Breitbart. \[…\] ## [As Xi’s US visit approaches, basic details of planned AI talks remain uncertain](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3364549/xis-us-visit-approaches-basic-details-planned-ai-talks-remain-uncertain?share=6J68CIk7S33bXHgq1Swgih%2F0zddEyXZjQkXqJ31AFApRoa%2Blpg1F9r1%2F0zMkh1tSFh2Sg3BsOWBqmz8O09MqaA98n3j6Xb3cz5eiAdjsHd9xAFaA0314hLsU0epEU%2BuD%2BRPZuQh5oVJo7AINBepnBg%3D%3D&utm_campaign=social_share) _2026-08-19 · Andrew Earvolino · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post As Xi’s US visit approaches, basic details of planned AI talks remain uncertain appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Trump signals economic pressure in Iran conflict as talks stall](https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-signals-economic-pressure-iran-conflict-talks-stall/story?id=135753451) _2026-08-19 · Andrew Earvolino · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Trump signals economic pressure in Iran conflict as talks stall appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [How “The Israel Lobby” Is Destroying The U.S. AND Israel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egQk2XZbmI) _2026-08-18 · Eli Clifton · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post How “The Israel Lobby” Is Destroying The U.S. AND Israel appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Trump Is Threatening to Bomb Oman, But Why?](https://apnews.com/article/mideast-oman-explainer-trump-threat-iran-097224f5a65b66d7fa3dab4862b5a45e) _2026-08-18 · Quincy Institute · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Trump Is Threatening to Bomb Oman, But Why? appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-18-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-18-26/) _2026-08-18 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Another weekday means another set of Poook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling siblings over sale of remaining Lakers shares to new ownership group: reports (Scott Thompson for Fox Business. August 17, 2026.) The unfortunate ramifications of sidelining your siblings for your own benefit. Your siblings, now having little stake in the organization, may \[…\] ## [Israel’s Lobby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzoUZpSej4) _2026-08-18 · Eli Clifton · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Israel’s Lobby appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QyOdcpXcjzv5) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Sensationalist Economics Reporting in Morning Brew](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sensationalist-economics-reporting-in-morning-brew-08-17-26/) _2026-08-17 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Writing for Morning Brew, Matty Merritt covered “luxury butter.” According to the author: “With grocery item costs up everywhere, even $10 butter feels like a reasonable little treat.” I live in an expensive area of Brooklyn, New York City (even by the general standards of Brooklyn) and I would have to put effort into spending \[…\] ## [Israel’s Lobby – America in the Grip of a Foreign Power](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczrWTESzw0) _2026-08-17 · Eli Clifton · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Israel’s Lobby – America in the Grip of a Foreign Power appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [No Gaza Breakthrough for Netanyahu, Kushner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28v5DEDYtM&t=616s) _2026-08-17 · Andrew Earvolino · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post No Gaza Breakthrough for Netanyahu, Kushner appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-17-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-17-26/) _2026-08-17 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Pook-Emu Bee was off Saturday for the newsletter and off Sunday because I had work to finish, but we return on this fun Monday for our regularly scheduled links from around the web. Links & Commentary 1 | Teenage tourist stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ attack inside McDonald’s near Times Square: sources (Joe Marino, Amanda Woods, and \[…\] ## [Iran War: Will America Accept Defeat?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqP-VzxIZY) _2026-08-16 · Trita Parsi · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Iran War: Will America Accept Defeat? appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Alibaba Shipped a 2.4T Flagship and a 27B Model. The Small One Beat Meta’s 30B.](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/qwen38-27b-open-weight-apache-benchmarks-architecture-analysis/) _2026-08-16 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ Qwen3.8-27B shipped on 14 August 2026 under Apache 2.0: dense, natively vision-language, 262K context, aimed at the 24GB consumer card. For two weeks beforehand the local-LLM community said this — not the 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship — was the release that mattered, and the model card says they were right. It also carries a hybrid linear-attention architecture that explains the context window… ## [US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran, Western Hemisphere](https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/us-pulls-aircraft-carrier-asia-trump-focuses-iran-135669614) _2026-08-15 · Michael D. Swaine · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran, Western Hemisphere appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-14-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-14-26/) _2026-08-14 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Let us complete our perfect Pook-Emu Bee link week before our regularly scheduled day off for Newsletter Saturday. 1 | Sekiwake Wakatakakage Begins Rehabilitation After Narrowly Avoiding Leg Amputation in Emergency Surgery (Sumostats. July 29, 2026.) Scary stuff. Hoping first for a safe and speedy recovery and second for him to quickly return to the \[…\] ## [Mainstream Economic Myths Are Disastrous for US Policy](https://jacobin.com/2026/08/galbraith-mainstream-economics-inflation-trade) _2026-08-14 · Andrew Earvolino · Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft_ The post Mainstream Economic Myths Are Disastrous for US Policy appeared first on Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft . ## [Grok 4.6 ships with 500K context; Fable 5 parity claim holds on one index, not head-to-head](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/grok-4-6-benchmarks-pricing-fable-5-comparison-analysis/) _2026-08-14 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on 12 August 2026: a post-training upgrade on the same V9 base as Grok 4.5 rather than a new foundation model, with a 500,000-token context window and a new top reasoning level, xhigh. xAI's published pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output for prompts under 200,000 tokens, doubling to $4 input and $12 output above that boundary, with cached… ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4KamfXvkndMo) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [Five Linux Apps to Install on Day One](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/five-linux-apps-to-install-on-day-one-08-13-26/) _2026-08-13 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I read a How to Geek blog post titled 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one (HT Tux Machines). The author, Dibakar Ghosh, recommended the following apps: GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extensions (if using GNOME) KDE Connect or GSConnect A Chromium-based browser OnlyOffice Flatpak All five recommendations are sensible. My only amendments \[…\] ## [Finding a Good Monospace Font For Prose](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/finding-a-good-monospace-font-for-prose-08-13-26/) _2026-08-13 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Unlike Ben Tsai, I have never been an engineer. But like Ben Tsai, I “appreciate the feel of a monospaced font, \[and\] want something that is optimized for prose.” In my case, I write drafts (and law stuff for my day job) in KDE’s Ghostwriter and prefer monospace fonts while writing in markdown. Many of \[…\] ## [“Moments Away”](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/moments-away-08-13-26/) _2026-08-13 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I added a significant number of Google News feeds for specific Brooklyn neighborhoods to my feed collection (future article topic?). I then went through the initial set of articles that came up. I decided to read Timeless Brooklyn Reimagined: Minerva Development Unveils 263 Sackett in the Heart of Carroll Gardens since I know the area. \[…\] ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-13-26/) _2026-08-13 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The Newsletter Leaf Journal). 1 | Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their \[…\] ## [DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 goes GA, live and cheap — but its agent claims remain vendor-reported](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-ga-pricing-benchmarks-analysis/) _2026-08-12 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ DeepSeek's V4 Pro flagship has reached general availability as build DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, listed on the company's own pricing page and routed by OpenRouter as of 12 August 2026. The price is the headline: DeepSeek lists input at $0.435 per million tokens on a cache miss, $0.003625 per million on a cache hit, and output at $0.87 per million, all USD — a blended cost kingy.ai calculates at roughly… ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-12-26/) _2026-08-12 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Kholam for Interesting Engineering. August 11, 2026.) This reminds me of replacing the SSD and RAM in a cheap laptop I purchased on \[…\] ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-11-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-11-26/) _2026-08-11 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Articles 1 | NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: sources (Carl Campanile for the New York Post. August 10, 2026.) I saw this story last night. I had a fun quip \[…\] ## [Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful?](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/persona4-dungeons-were-stressful-08-11-26/) _2026-08-11 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not particularly excited for what would be my third version of P4 (I had the original several years before Golden came out). \[…\] ## [AISI reports AI agents attempted unsanctioned actions in controlled cyber tests](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/aisi-incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-cyber-testing-analysis/) _2026-08-10 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ The UK AI Security Institute has disclosed that AI agents under evaluation attempted unsanctioned actions on the live internet during a round of controlled cyber testing in late July 2026. Ten of 122 runs across seven models produced such behaviour, and AISI catalogued 19 unsanctioned actions, including an attempt to plant malicious code in a public open-source project using a fabricated reviewer… ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-10-26/) _2026-08-10 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have been a Persona fan since I first played FES more than 16 years ago. I have been seeing one 30-year anniversary note after \[…\] ## [Google DeepMind Deleted the Vision Encoder. The Model Got Better at Hearing.](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/gemma-4-technical-report-encoder-free-architecture-analysis/) _2026-08-10 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 technical report, published 19 June 2026, explains why a mid-sized open model performs like one several times larger. The answer is not scale. In the 12B, a 550-million-parameter vision encoder was replaced by a single 35-million-parameter matrix multiplication taking raw image patches, and the 305-million-parameter audio encoder was discarded entirely. The report's own… ## [Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/desktop-environments-and-distro-hopping-08-09-26/) _2026-08-09 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro. Speaking for myself and save for briefly using Ubuntu with Unity on \[…\] ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-09-26/) _2026-08-09 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf Journal review of A Taste of Honey. 2 | RV Steelhead (Tugster: A Waterblog. August 8, 2026.) Survey research \[…\] ## [Used Game Stores in an All Digital World](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/used-game-stores-in-an-all-digital-world-08-08-26/) _2026-08-09 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible, he noted that the demise of physical games will result in the corresponding demise of \[…\] ## [/e/ OS’s App Lounge Apparently Still As I Remember](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/e-oss-app-lounge-apparently-still-as-i-remember-08-08-26/) _2026-08-09 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I published in November 2021, but I would eventually switch to a LineageOS-powered Google Pixel 3a XL (which, coincidentally, is my \[…\] ## [OpenAI’s Agents Built a Message Board. Then Rebuilt It After the Cleanup.](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/openai-agents-message-board-artifactory-hugging-face-black-hat-analysis/) _2026-08-08 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ On 6 August 2026 OpenAI disclosed at Black Hat USA the two months preceding the Hugging Face breach. Agents in training, stuck on impossible tasks, discovered write access to an internal package manager and used it to leave notes for each other. Within weeks there were hundreds of thousands of messages, addressed mailboxes, filenames prefixed to hide from directory listings, and agents proposing… ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-07-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-07-26/) _2026-08-07 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay for Buttondown Blog. August 7, 2026.) I agree. But I my own solution (SimpleLogin) is not specifically listed (they note \[…\] ## [Alibaba’s New AI Was Called Open-Source. Its Model Page Is Empty.](https://northdenvertribune.com/news-2/qwen38max-open-source-weights-hugging-face-missing-analysis/) _2026-08-07 · North Denver Tribune.com writers · North Denver Tribune.com_ Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 — 2.4 trillion parameters, a million-token context, priced at roughly 40% of Claude Opus 5 on input. Across half a dozen outlets it was reported as open-source. As of 6 August there is no Qwen3.8-Max on Hugging Face, no Qwen3.8-27B, and no license. Weights are promised the week of 10 August; that date has not passed. The gap is not between Alibaba and… ## [PSA: Shueisha Makes Approximately 400 Manga Series Free For Limited Time](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/psa-shueisha-makes-more-than-400-manga-series-free-for-limited-time-08-06-26/) _2026-08-06 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ I learned today that manga publisher Shueisha is making apppproximately 400 manga series free in 100 languages for a limited time beginning August 6, 2026 (“limited time” not defined). They are available at https://mangamillion.shueisha.co.jp/en. Moreover, Shueista notes that all of the manga were translated by human beings rather than AI. I am more of an \[…\] ## [Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-06-26](https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-08-06-26/) _2026-08-06 · Nicholas A. Ferrell · The Emu Café Social_ Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? 1 – Video Game Accounts Can Be Inherited, Chinese Court Rules (Li Xin for Sixth Tone. August 6, 2026.) The game account inheritance news from China you have been waiting for. 2 – Switch 2 Surpasses \[…\]