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This startup wants to turn your water heater into a smart thermal battery (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: reservoir, water heater, smart thermal battery

722.

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by James Crawford | tags: columbia, torsten wiesel, neural imaging

723.

Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Tim De Chant | tags: reservoir, water heaters, asymmetric capital partners

724.

Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: facebook, controversy, creators

725.

Brendan Carr is one firing away from an unchecked FCC (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: fcc, brendan carr, olivia trust

726.

Resourceful gamer shrinks Valve’s Steam Deck into Game Boy, with custom 3D-printed cooling — plans display around 1200x1080, 90Hz AMOLED panel (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mark Tyson | tags: steam deck, valve, game boy

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This design studio spent 10 years perfecting a lampshade made out of bacteria (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: cenit lighting, bacteria lampshade, agro-industrial waste

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Vibe-Coding Startup Lovable Hits $13 Billion Valuation (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-12 | tags: vibe-coding, lovable, europe

729.

You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jason Parham | tags: social media, nfts, clubhouse

730.

The unreleased Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have ended up in an unsuspecting buyer's hands (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mariella Moon | tags: xbox elite controller 3, microsoft, anatel

731.

Dutch Train Map Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mr. Z | tags: re1, rs1, ice

732.

A Candidate Named ‘Count Binface’ Is the Most Normal Part of This Pivotal UK Election (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Isabella Ward | tags: count binface, uk election, nigel farage

733.

Turns Out You Don’t Need The Most Powerful AI Models to Cause a Major Cybersecurity Incident (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai models, cybersecurity, incident

734.

I found the Galaxy Z Fold 8’s biggest weakness, and it’s not the new design (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: samsung galaxy z fold 8, multitasking, foldable phones

735.

Two undersea cables reportedly damaged off the coast of Perth following suspicious vessel activity — company CEO says faults happened ‘straight after each other and in close proximity' (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: submarine cables, indigo-west, indigo-central

736.

What’s a space stock, anyway? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: spacex, rocket lab, ast spacemobile

737.

Farmer Horrified as AI Gives Bad Advice That Kills 25 Acres of Crops (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: ai chatbot, chuzhou, sesame crops

738.

Spotify will start labeling AI-generated artist profiles and stop recommending their music (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: spotify, ai persona, android authority

739.

Honor’s Robot Phone is better than a gimbal in a phone has any right to be (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Dominic Preston | tags: honor, robot phone, dji osmo pocket

740.

Google is now sending out emails with discount codes for the Pixel 11 (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mariella Moon | tags: google, pixel 11, made by google

741.

A humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s treasures (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Wayne Chang | tags: jadeite, national palace museum, taipei

742.

Forbidden City Cabbage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Wayne Chang | tags: jadeite, national palace museum, taipei

743.

American Heart Association to coffee fans: Go ahead and have 5 cups a day (as long as you also do this) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: american heart association, coffee, caffeine

744.

Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: spacexai, grok bot, ai teammates

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Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai agents, enterprise rag, semantic layer

746.

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

747.

Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time — and isolate high-risk agents less than one in five (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: agentic security, enterprise permissions, ai agents

748.

Signal adds new security feature to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: signal, cloudflare, trail of bits

749.

A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nyaa, coda, nhk

750.

Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: glueball, gluons, particle collider