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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: lumentum, indium phosphide, silicon photonics

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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qr codes, browser-based transfer, decimen optical transfer

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Sub-$400 Thunderbolt 5 dock roundup — Keychron and Plugable offer dual HDMI, but UGREEN takes top spot with an M.2 NVMe slot (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Brandon Hill | tags: thunderbolt 5, keychron, plugable

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Tim Cook's last dance, oil majors earnings, IPO avoidance and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke Fountain | tags: apple, microsoft, openai

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The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: generative ai, record charts, music industry

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61-Year-Old Japanese Man Arrested After Decade of Rocking Too Hard (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: japanese man, rock music, police arrest

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Slate Truck first drive: A minimalist's delight (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Stevens | tags: slate truck, software experience, utility truck

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5 leaked codenames reveal Samsung’s ambitious multi-device foldable and rollable strategy (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: samsung, galaxy z flip, galaxy z fold

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Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: valve, linux, radv

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Setting up OpenClaw isn’t as straightforward as the internet wants you to think – running local AI on humble hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: openclaw, peter steinberger, qwen-3.5

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Nothing’s next big bet reportedly puts smartphones on the back burner (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: nothing, earbuds, smartwatches

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The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-31 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: anthropic, openai, hugging face

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A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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TGI Fridays store closures: See a list of locations that have lost the most restaurants since its bankruptcy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tgi fridays, bankruptcy, chapter 11

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Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by André Arko | tags: ruby central, rubygems, bundler

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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tasklet, ai platform, customer success engineer

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The ‘Boorman and the Devil’ Trailer Peeks Behind the Scenes of the Notorious ‘Exorcist’ Sequel (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: exorcist, boorman, hollywood

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New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: sovol, 3d printer, orca slicer

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The employee benefits paradox (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: kaiser family foundation, employee benefits, organizational productivity

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Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: food packaging, sustainability, carbon emissions

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Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: ellis ai, private credit, ai agents

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The End of an Era (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Howey | tags: amazon kindle, kasparov, jeopardy

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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware

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Your motherboard's M.2 SSD heatsink might be slowing down your SSD — Only 6 of 20 tested boards made full contact (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Joe Shields | tags: motherboard, m.2 ssd, heatsink

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PS5 emulation hits new milestone in record time, multiple 3D games now playable in Kyty — Performance and support steadily improving with 30 FPS gameplay possible today (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: ps5 emulation, kytyps5, sharpemu

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The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: maxwell conjecture, gpt 5.6, artificial intelligence

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Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: lightbulb, tungsten filament, lifespan

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Florida Saw 36 Leprosy Cases Last Year. The Source May Surprise You (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: florida, leprosy, infectious disease

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New York sues Kalshi for allegedly running an ‘illegal gambling operation’ (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Emma Roth | tags: kalshi, prediction markets, new york