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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Elie Dolgin | tags: stanford university, ai-designed phages, bacteriophages

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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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What is analog TV and how is it different from digital TV? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Alec Hively | tags: analog tv, digital tv, atsc 3.0

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Dude Reportedly Hides Prompt Injections in Legal Filing, Just in Case Judge Is Really That Lazy (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: prompt injections, legal filing, dude

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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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Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | tags: macos, apple, cve-2026-65400

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Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter (cnbc.com)

2026-08-15 | by Annika Kim Constantino | tags: anthropic, claude, openai

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A spectre is haunting Unicode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: unicode, jis x 0208, ghost characters

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A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: jis x 0208, unicode, ghost characters

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‘Kingdom Hearts’ Is Making the Leap to Television (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: kingdom hearts, television, action-rpg

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What's the USB trident symbol for? How to know what kind of port you have (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Ben Stegner | tags: usb, trident symbol, usb ports

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France's court just blocked Macron's plan to ban kids from social media (techspot.com)

2026-08-15 | by Daniel Sims | tags: facebook, france, macron

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Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5070 ti, predator orion 6000

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Inflation moderated as Intel and Nvidia fueled the AI trade in last week's market (cnbc.com)

2026-08-15 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: intel, nvidia, wall street

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Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: printytron, stl, prusa

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Nvidia turns $5B Intel stock bet into $30B windfall — filing reveals new $21B SpaceX stake and complete exit from Arm stock (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anton Shilov | tags: nvidia, intel, spacex

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Apple @ Work: Understanding Apple Business Manager roles and permissions (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Bradley C | tags: apple business manager, mosyle, apple api

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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Kristen A. Schmitt | tags: lyme disease, cdc, blacklegged ticks

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The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Kristen A. Schmitt | tags: lyme disease, cdc, blacklegged ticks

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These are my favorite ultra-slim iPhone accessories for 2026 [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Fernando Silva | tags: iphone, magsafe, popsocket

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Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: quasicrystals, webxr, show hn

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Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Stephen Cresswell | tags: yadda, javascript, cucumber

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Devs blame Windows for VLC media player bug that causes 33-second delay when playing MP3 files — creators allege Microsoft Defender blocking plugin cache is to blame (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: vlc media player, microsoft defender, windows 11

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What happens when a hybrid battery dies and what to do about it (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Novak Božović | tags: hybrid battery, traction pack, 12-volt battery

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Could a computer scientist build a brain? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Stan Kerstjens | tags: brain wiring, genome, neural development

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D faceoff — seeing double with Zen 4 X3D (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 7 7700x3d, ryzen 7 7800x3d

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Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Who'S Behind This Story | tags: brain, eeg, sleep

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Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws (futurism.com)

2026-08-15 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: ai chatbots, openai, congress

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White House authorizes private companies to launch 'hack-back' cyberattacks that destroy data and systems, targeting foreign cybercrime organizations — vetted organizations can now conduct offensive cyber operations (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: white house, cyberattacks, department of justice

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Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: elektron, digitakt, synth