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3031.

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Anthony Ha | tags: artificial state, just, really

3032.

AI’s Scariest Week Yet (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai data, center, center wires

3033.

Opinion | Banning Chinese AI Models Is Complicated (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ban likely, blanket, blanket ban

3034.

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: comments

3035.

Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: case, cooler, larger

3036.

A new ceramic Apple Watch could go on sale soon (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, apple watch, ceramic

3037.

GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

3038.

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: change, document, file

3039.

Michael Mando Says ‘Brand New Day’ Isn’t the End of Scorpion’s Story (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: brand, brand new, day mac

3040.

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: areas, backward, country

3041.

The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: android, apple, better

3042.

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: evaluations, models, techcrunch

3043.

8 Snacks and Guilty-Pleasure Foods Chefs Can’t Live Without (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by David Watsky | tags: chef, executive, fruit

3044.

Apple considers round screens and more radical designs for future Apple Watch revamp (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, apple watch, concept

3045.

This scrapped Apple Upgrade feature would’ve made setup much more seamless (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, backup, feature

3046.

Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cooling, hardware, tom hardware

3047.

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terence Tao | tags: argument, conjecture, function

3048.

Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: genes, lettuce, myoglobin

3049.

Roborock RockNeo Q110H Review: A Quiet and Capable Robot Lawn Mower (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: apparently, company make, good

3050.

Hands-on: This modular controller slides open to transform your iPhone into a mobile game console [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Fernando Silva | tags: controller, experience, magsafe

3051.

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: camera, cameras, detection

3052.

Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: chip, million, million sq

3053.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: earth, machines, planet

3054.

A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: emergency, human, opcd

3055.

x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, github, microsoft

3056.

Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: linux kernel, bpf, inlined functions

3057.

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

3058.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

3059.

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: alaska, coast, coast guard

3060.

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi