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Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' in 1999, 'for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon' — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Apple Power Mac G4 → | tags: power mac g4, apple, steve jobs

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Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scare (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Vintage Computer Museum Model → | tags: computer history museum, castrop-rauxel, wwii bomb

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Apple made marketing gold from the Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' export ban in 1999 — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched and became the first PC to be classed as a weapon (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Apple Power Mac G4 → | tags: power mac g4, apple, geopolitics

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The new Sonos Play has become my go-to desk and kitchen speaker (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-14 | by Ivan Mehta | get Sonos Play:1 Wireless Speaker → | tags: sonos, play, airpods

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Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Caddy Web Server → | tags: zeroserve, caddy, ebpf

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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Smartphone Recycling Kit → | tags: google pixel, smartphone recycling, data center

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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Smartphone Processor Upgrade Kit → | tags: google pixel, nvidia h200, amd epyc

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Grab this MSI Codex Z2 16-thread gaming Ryzen PC with a 2TB SSD at a $400 discount — system packs a Ryzen 8700F, 16GB DDR5, and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB for $1,499 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Kunal Khullar | get MSI Codex Z2 Gaming PC → | tags: msi, codex z2, ryzen 8700f

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Apple TV's New Camboy Crime Thriller Is the Perfect Summer Binge (cnet.com)

2026-06-14 | by See Full Bio | get Apple TV Subscription Card → | tags: apple tv, camboy, tatiana maslany

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3 telltale signs someone is stealing your Wi-Fi - and how to stop them (zdnet.com)

2026-06-14 | by Charlie Osborne | get Wi-Fi Security Camera → | tags: wifi, zyxel, surveillance cameras

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Most drivers overlook these 6 Android Auto apps - but off-roaders definitely shouldn't (zdnet.com)

2026-06-14 | by Artie Beaty | get Android Auto Off-Road Kit → | tags: android auto, onx offroad, off-road vehicles

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'There's a Lot of Restraint': How 'Toy Story 5' Balances New Technology With Nostalgia (cnet.com)

2026-06-14 | by See Full Bio | get Toy Story 5 Collectible Toy → | tags: pixar, toy story 5, lilypad tablet

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NASA Loads Moon Rocket onto Giant Trump-Branded Train (futurism.com)

2026-06-14 | by Victor Tangermann | get NASA Moon Rocket Model → | tags: nasa, artemis 3, blue origin

1694.

How to earn a billion dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: y combinator, startup founders, billionaires

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How to Earn a Billion Dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | tags: ycombinator, startup founders, billionaires

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Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months (slashdot.org)

2026-06-14 | by Posted | get Bitcoin Hardware Wallet → | tags: bitcoin, unix, cpu

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Elon Musk drifted from Larry Page over a decade ago, but their companies are closer than ever (cnbc.com)

2026-06-14 | by Lora Kolodny Jennifer Elias | get Tesla Model 3 → | tags: spacex, elon musk, google

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AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’ — GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Etiido Uko | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 → | tags: pearl, proof-of-useful-work, rtx 3090

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Razer Kiyo V2 X Review: Auto-focus for life (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Razer Kiyo V2 X Webcam → | tags: razer, kiyo v2 x, 1440p

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Hardcore SpongeBob speedrunners smudged Xbox optical disks with sweat and grease to exploit 'lag clip' trick — filthy smeared disks cut gameplay times in ultimate pursuit of speed (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Xbox Cleaning Kit → | tags: spongebob squarepants, xbox, lag clip

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Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems (futurism.com)

2026-06-14 | by Frank Landymore | get Mycorrhizal Fungi Kit → | tags: fungal networks, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, science journal science

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I found the most effortless way to clean your Android phone storage - and it's free to use (zdnet.com)

2026-06-14 | by Jack Wallen | get Android Storage Cleaner App → | tags: sponge, google photos, pixel 9 pro

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5 hidden features I didn’t know my Samsung phone had (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-14 | get Samsung Galaxy Phone Tips → | tags: samsung galaxy, one ui, samsung dex

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The Strait of Hormuz Has Been Closed for 100 Days. Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher? (wired.com)

2026-06-14 | by Carla Sertin | get Oil Price Tracking Chart → | tags: strait of hormuz, murban crude, upper zakum

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I turned my 7-year-old Android tablet into the ultimate Kindle killer, and you can too (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-14 | get Amazon Fire HD Tablet → | tags: android, samsung galaxy tab, kindle

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Crypto Platforms Sold Users on SpaceX IPO Access. The Tokenized Stocks Never Arrived (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-14 | get Tokenized Stock Investment Kit → | tags: spacex, crypto platforms, tokenized stocks

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Don't trust large context windows (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get AI Model Context Extension → | tags: large language models, context windows, attention mechanism

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Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Illumos Retro Computing Kit → | tags: illumos, tribblix, sparc

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Your global strategy is broken if it starts with English (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-14 | get Language Learning Tech Kit → | tags: english language, consumer preferences, product specifications

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Phoenix LiveView 1.2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Phoenix LiveView Book → | tags: phoenix liveview, colocated css, phoenix.liveview.colocatedjs