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9to5Mac Overtime 082: Origins of the Apple Store w/ special guest Ron Johnson (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-17 | by Jeff Benjamin | get Whoosh Screen Shine Cleaning Kit Apple → | tags: ron johnson, apple store, steve jobs

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Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Mark Tyson | get PlayStation 2 console → | tags: playstation 2, mechacon chip, security chip

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Forget the iPhone Duo — the First iPhone Had More Hype and a More Shocking Price (cnet.com)

2026-09-16 | by Patrick Holland | get Apple iPhone 17 Pro → | tags: iphone duo, original iphone, iphone 18 pro

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Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years — chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering unlocks MechaCon secrets (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: playstation 2, mechacon chip, reverse engineering

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These bizarre, much-coveted microbes are revealing the origins of complex life (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Quill | tags: asgard archaea, eukaryote origins, microbiology

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Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA's decision on a Mars spacecraft (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: rocket lab, nasa, mars telecommunications network

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Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: cloudflare, tls 1.3, hello retry requests

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China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000 — 3x more VRAM at 65% the cost of the original (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Zhiye Liu | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card → | tags: rtx 5090, nvidia, alibaba

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Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell? (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-11 | get LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System 10341 → | tags: united launch alliance, spacex, rocket lab

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You Can Now Buy the Trump Phone for $250 More Than Originally Priced (cnet.com)

2026-09-11 | by Aaron Pruner | tags: trump mobile, t1 phone, iphone duo

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OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-10 | by Anton Shilov | get The Alignment Problem Brian Christian book → | tags: openai, ai agents, dsewiki

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Mario Kart World is getting a bunch of courses from the SNES original (engadget.com)

2026-09-09 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 → | tags: mario kart world, super mario kart, knockout tour

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How Much Should You Trust AI Detection Tools? (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-09 | tags: ai detection tools, pangram, originality.ai

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The origins of Partner’s computer case (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | by Marko Štamcar | get Fractal Design North ATX case → | tags: dec pdp-11, iskra delta, minicomputers

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The UK origins of the Slovenian "Partner" 80s microcomputer's case (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | by Marko Štamcar | get Raspberry Pi 400 kit → | tags: iskra delta, microcomputers, slovenia

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Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | get Wallace and Gromit complete collection blu-ray → | tags: aardman, wallace and gromit, movie puppets

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Aardman Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets This Month (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-06 | get Wallace and Gromit complete collection blu-ray → | tags: aardman, wallace and gromit, stop-motion puppets

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Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-05 | by Drew Mackie | get Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Dark Horse hardcover → | tags: legend of zelda, ganon, gerudo

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Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: spacex, blue origin, french space summit

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Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System → | tags: blue origin, artemis iii, long march 6c

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Rocket Report: China debuts yet another new rocket; NASA considers bulk buys (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket set → | tags: blue origin, new glenn, cape canaveral

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Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-02 | get LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System 10341 → | tags: artemis program, nasa, spacex

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X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-02 | by Sarah Perez | get Blue Yeti USB microphone → | tags: x money, stripe, elon musk

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Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars (engadget.com)

2026-09-01 | by Anna Washenko | get Celestron NexStar 130SLT telescope → | tags: blue origin, nasa, mars telecommunications network

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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | get CanaKit Raspberry Pi 5 starter kit → | tags: chrome web store, manifest v2, ublock origin

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How long can you expect your original Nintendo Switch to last? (engadget.com)

2026-08-31 | by Novak Božović | get Nintendo Switch OLED model console → | tags: nintendo switch, switch oled, european rules

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Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | get GL.iNet Flint 2 GL-MT6000 router → | tags: nat, ftp server, ipv4

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Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins (wired.com)

2026-08-30 | by Jorge Garay | get The Particle at the End of the Universe Sean Carroll book → | tags: cern, quark-gluon plasma, particle colliders

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Chrome’s ad-blocking champion gets one last update before the curtain falls (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-26 | tags: ublock origin, chrome web store, manifest v2

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Why movie tie-in games are rarely sold anymore (engadget.com)

2026-08-25 | by Deven Mcclure | get Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 → | tags: movie tie-in games, lego adaptations, spider-man 2