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US chip fabs face massive 157,000 worker shortfall, mere 3% of US engineering grads enter chipmaking — despite six-figure salaries, US chip manufacturers are in dire need of engineers and technicians (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: semiconductor workforce, chip fabs, tsmc arizona

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ASML snubs Elon Musk-backed particle accelerator chipmaking tech — firm doubles down on 1,000W laser-produced plasma systems for chipmaking tools (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: euv lithography, asml, laser-produced plasma

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Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy (theverge.com)

2026-09-18 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X Snapdragon laptop → | tags: lenovo yoga slim 7x, snapdragon x2 elite, best buy deal

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Hacker turns 25 cents into 46 billion fake Bitcoins to steal $770,000 — Symbiosis DeFi exchange bit by lack of basic bounds checking in smart contract (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: symbiosis, defi, smart contract exploit

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America’s AI chip talent crisis — why The U.S. needs 157,000 more workers (cnbc.com)

2026-09-17 | by Katie Tarasov | tags: semiconductor workforce, mckinsey report, samsung

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Lucid and Bolt plan to deploy at least 25,000 robotaxis across Europe (engadget.com)

2026-09-17 | by Kris Holt | tags: lucid, bolt, robotaxis

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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Jowi Morales | tags: flock safety, license plate cameras, data encryption

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Nine-year-old spends $118,000 on dad's corporate credit card promoting his YouTube channel (techspot.com)

2026-09-17 | by Rob Thubron | get Gryphon parental control router → | tags: youtube channel, corporate credit card, roblox

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High School Students Are Betting That Paying $40,000 a Semester to Do Farm Work Will Help Them Get Into College (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: mountain school, vermont, college admissions

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The Average Manager Salary at This Fast Food Chain Is $200,000 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | by Jonathan Small | tags: in-n-out, fast food industry, manager salary

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A Woman Ruled Ancient Egypt as King 5,000 Years Ago, Research Claims (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: ancient egypt, first dynasty, neithhotep

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Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-16 | by Tim De Chant | tags: fluxnium, uranium extraction, seawater uranium

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Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years worth of nuclear fuel (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-16 | by Tim De Chant | tags: fluxnium, nuclear fuel, uranium extraction

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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Shane Downing | get Amazon Fire Kids tablet parental controls → | tags: youtube ads, minecraft, roblox

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Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-16 | by Shane Downing | get Amazon Fire Kids Tablet parental controls → | tags: mighty mike plays, youtube ads, minecraft

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A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Vinay Patel | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, electronic frontier foundation

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His Sweet Side Hustle Started As a Bet. Now It Brings in Up to $70,000 a Month: ‘Never Supposed to Get This Far’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-14 | by Sherin Shibu | get Lodge Cast Iron Skillet → | tags: good baklava, nyc, social media

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Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive? (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-14 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Valve Steam Deck → | tags: steam frame, valve, vr headset

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Japan's Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: japan, digital agency, vpn

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No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage (slashdot.org)

2026-09-14 | by Posted | tags: california, battery storage, solar energy

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There’s one week this fall when homebuyers could save $14,000. It’s almost here (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: realtor.com, homebuyers, fall

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1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: shoes, shoe review, cut in half

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Redditor finds RTX 3070 graphics cards worth $5,000 in abandoned crypto mining rigs (techspot.com)

2026-09-14 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get NZXT Kraken Elite liquid CPU cooler → | tags: rtx 3070, crypto mining, zotac

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World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4 with a new race, over 1,000 new quests, and 9 dungeons (techspot.com)

2026-09-14 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get Razer Kishi V2 Mobile Game Controller → | tags: world of warcraft, blizzard, azeroth

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AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts (sciencedaily.com)

2026-09-13 | tags: ozempic, semaglutide, reddit

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Transparent wall-mounted CD player raises over $540,000 on Kickstarter — $109 Syitren RM1's visible disc and mechanisms channel 90s B&O nostalgia with Bluetooth and battery power (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-13 | by Bruno Ferreira | get KECAG wall mountable CD player bluetooth → | tags: syitren rm1, kickstarter, cd player

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Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches (futurism.com)

2026-09-13 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, albany county

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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-12 | get Unitree Go2 robot dog → | tags: unitree, robot dog, quadruped robot

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AI Governance Can't Wait (darkreading.com)

2026-09-11 | by Tony Anscombe | get ESET Internet Security antivirus → | tags: eset labs, guardbreaker, uac-0099

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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