7.31.26 | UEFA and national associations exclude FIFA, advice for TV streaming stick purchase, stacked PRs launched on GitHub

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
• (01:42) - Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
• (02:56) - Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
• (04:17) - Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
• (05:36) - Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
• (07:06) - The AI Aesthetic
• (08:21) - GCC steering committee announces AI policy
• (09:56) - The session you cannot take with you
• (11:15) - The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
• (12:35) - Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
• (13:50) - Outro

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237

The AI Aesthetic
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099

GCC steering committee announces AI policy
https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108685

The session you cannot take with you
https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111305