GoKawiil - Tech News

1.

Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Sandy Ong | tags: balls, balls fidget, benign

2.

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

3.

America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

4.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: amazon, cash, expected

5.

How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Will Shanklin | tags: aa aa, aa game, batteries

6.

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Hafiz Rashid | tags: arms, certainly, cuba

7.

Is football AI-proof? Why tech investors wanted a slice of the World Cup (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-08 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: fifa, football, sport

8.

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add memory, add numbers, assembly

9.

Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

10.

We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles — we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a faster NVMe SSD would have an impact (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dan Mateescu | tags: average, bandwidth, mb mb

11.

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: band, browser, burned

12.

Don’t wait for the Pixel 11: Why you should buy the Pixel 10 right now (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, base, camera

13.

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

14.

Windows 11 26H2 is a small update with big quality-of-life improvements, expected around October 2026 (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: cloud, copilot, microsoft

15.

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mira Holt | tags: applied, batch, line

16.

Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Thomas Ricker | tags: bank, battery, lights

17.

Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Stealth Chip Startup After Crash (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai battered, aiming, aiming reinvent

18.

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: band, browser, burned

19.

He Started a Business at 26 and Was Rejected by Every Bank and Investor. Now It’s Passed $1 Billion in Sales: ‘People Thought I Was Crazy’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: brands, franchise, unleashed

20.

Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: breach, email, framework

21.

Framework customer information was accessed as part of a data breach (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: access, breach, email

22.

Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bang, bang power, big bang

23.

Static Hour challenges you to be the arbiter of truth and fear (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: barkbyte, game, hour

24.

Employee happiness is climbing back from all-time lows, survey suggests (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: according bamboohr, bamboohr, bamboohr recent

25.

Why Gen Z is suddenly carrying ‘analog bags’ everywhere—and what they put inside them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: analog, analog bags, bags

26.

Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: attacks, email, metabase

27.

Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: breach, email, framework

28.

33 Students Treated for Deadly Bacteria Exposure When Classroom Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: bacteria, bacterium, exposure

29.

Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Fernanda González | tags: bacteria, bacterial, capable

30.

iPhone 18 Pro is getting even more ‘Pro’ this year in three ways (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: battery, iphone, iphone pro