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Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Dan Vanderkam | tags: mapsnap, sanborn maps, georeferencing

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An update on Wayback Machine access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Mark Graham | tags: wayback machine, internet archive, 429 error

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An Update on Wayback Machine Access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by Mark Graham | tags: wayback machine, internet archive, http 429 error

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LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet (futurism.com)

2026-09-10 | by Frank Landymore | get Apple TV 4K → | tags: lg smart tv, gamers nexus, automated content recognition

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Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | get Princeton Companion to Mathematics → | tags: terence tao, math problems, open problems

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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-07 | get Apple TV 4K → | tags: lg smart tvs, gamers nexus, automated content recognition

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OpenAI says it reached its goal of creating an automated research intern (engadget.com)

2026-09-06 | by Jackson Chen | get The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman book → | tags: openai, sam altman, ai research assistant

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Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks (darkreading.com)

2026-09-04 | get YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: frontier ai, automated attacks, end-to-end compromises

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Companies Have Six Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks (darkreading.com)

2026-09-04 | get YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: frontier ai, automated attacks, end-to-end compromises

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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-01 | by Wusf | get Vantrue N4 3 channel dash cam → | tags: florida department of transportation, license plate recognition, flock cameras

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These automated vending machines are moving into NYC’s subway newsstands (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-31 | get Anker PowerCore 10000 portable charger → | tags: nyc, vending machines, subway

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As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support (slashdot.org)

2026-08-29 | by Posted | tags: flock, license plate readers, police surveillance

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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-28 | by Russell Brandom | get Human Compatible Stuart Russell book → | tags: anthropic, self-improving ai, alignment benchmarks

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Automated prototyping of genetic codes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-26 | by Radford | get Eppendorf Research plus single channel pipette → | tags: t7 rna polymerase, idt oligo pools, ecoli trnas

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Can AI discover new biology? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-25 | get Deep Medicine Eric Topol book → | tags: drug discovery, zhangjiang, non-opioid

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Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-23 | by Anthony Ha | get iOttie Easy One Touch 5 car phone mount → | tags: uber, dutch data protection authority, general data protection regulation

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DDR5 scalper bots now outnumber shoppers 10 to 1 — automated scraping hits listings every 6.5 seconds as 32GB kits surge from $72 to $392, DataDome researcher says (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Luke James | tags: ddr5, micron, apacer

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85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: enterprise, automated evaluation, large language models

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How I Over-Engineered My Book (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Ben Balter | tags: git, pandoc, markdown

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Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: agentic reliability, enterprise automation, venturebeat pulse research

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The Biggest Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight. Here’s How to Watch It Live (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Hindy | tags: perseid, nasa, marshall space flight center

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NASA Is Hosting a Livestream for Perseids: How to Watch the Meteor Shower (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Hindy | tags: nasa, perseids, automated lunar and meteor observatory

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The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Kate Taylor | tags: automated video interviews, job search, tim millard

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Security Bite Podcast: Why scammers love FaceTime now (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Arin Waichulis | tags: apple, apple devices, apple unified

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15 TP-Link Bugs Expose Risks in Zero-Trust Provisioning (darkreading.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: attention, attention risks, automated

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AI Sends Global Crime Syndicates Into Fraud Nirvana (darkreading.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: ai enabled, automated, automated translation

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: ai stage, disrupt, founder

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Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: flock cameras, license plates, california

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AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI (theverge.com)

2026-07-28 | by Hayden Field | tags: openai, anthropic, google

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AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI (theverge.com)

2026-07-28 | by Hayden Field | tags: openai, anthropic, google