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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Jowi Morales | tags: university of michigan, los alamos national laboratory, hyperscale data center

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SK hynix will pay staff $50,000 apiece according to a tentative agreement with disgruntled workers — $1.79 billion potential profit pool will be split between cash and stock grants (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Anton Shilov | tags: sk hynix, memory prices, profit sharing

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81,000 warning letters sent to crypto holders in HMRC tax crackdown (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-19 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: hmrc, cryptocurrency, capital gains tax

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips (engadget.com)

2026-08-19 | by Mariella Moon | tags: bytedance, tencent, nvidia h200

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This Dad Lost His Job and Started Making a Breakfast Staple at Home. It Was So Good He Sold $85,000 Worth From His Kitchen. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | by Shawn P. Walchef | tags: bagel, bagels, danielle

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GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: broken, broken consoles, consoles

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Every product in this supermarket is made from felt. All 20,000 of them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: lucy sparrow, felt art, supermarket installation

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If I’m spending $2,000 on a foldable, I’m skipping the Pixel 11 Pro Fold for Samsung (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: pixel 11 pro fold, samsung galaxy z fold 8, google tensor g6

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Over 10,000 readers told us that the Pixel 11 series missed the mark (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: pixel 11, google, tensor chip

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Matt Kristoffersen | tags: medicare, yale, healthcare costs

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This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: gasolini, robert ely, jonny smith

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Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: intel arc pro b70, battlemage, asrock creator

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GoldenEye 007 for N64 has been '100% decompiled' — success of half-decade project opens up possibilities for complex mods and ports (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Mark Tyson | tags: goldeneye 007, nintendo 64, rare

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The hidden chip compromise lurking in today’s $1,000 smartphones (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: smartphone processors, google tensor g6, flagship chips

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French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: dgfip, french tax authority, zerobytes

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Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 flying-wing drones a year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Luke James | tags: mich 2000, tu-95, ztk-150

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3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Jowi Morales | tags: epfl, microbiorobotics, ultrasonic frequencies

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Modern OLEDs are just as vulnerable to burn-in as 2017 panels in 10,000-hour test — twice the brightness and 27% efficiency gains offer crucial headroom (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: oled, rtings, burn-in

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Thieves swap RTX 5080 GPUs for RTX 3060s in Chinese gaming hotels — rogue 'downgrades' go unnoticed until sudden blackout exposes $12,000 heist (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5080, gaming hotels, chinese police

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Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: copernicus, danube, nuclear power

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: backblaze, hgst, toshiba

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Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Jowi Morales | tags: photon matrix, indiegogo, lidar

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Riffs on GoldenEye 007, Star Fox and Kingdom Hearts, and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Kris Holt | tags: goldeneye 007, star fox, rare

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US Navy 3D prints combat-ready drones and 1,000+ parts aboard aircraft carrier during exercise — containerized factory fabricated 80-mph FPVs and critical spares despite rough seas and 12-foot waves (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Mark Tyson | tags: firestorm labs, xcell platform, 3d printing

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This 1 high school class is worth $100,000—and most students still don’t take it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: baylor college of medicine, kalshi, polymarket

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Kia's EV3 will start under $31,000 in the US (engadget.com)

2026-08-14 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: kia, ev3, ev9

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First-time homebuyers could soon get a new way to find $35,000 for a down payment (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: 529 college savings, first-time homebuyers, trump

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Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-14 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: pony.ai, uber, robotaxis

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Functioning version of 'the first arcade video game ever created' heads to auction with $200,000 estimate — green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space hails from 1973 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Mark Tyson | tags: computer space, syzygy engineering, atari