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Flock's biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: camera, cameras, flock

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Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: backup, entire, rm rf

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Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: admin, backend, badge

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I Use This Hidden iPhone Feature to Get My Baby to Sleep Every Night (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: accessibility, apple, background

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Google is bringing back native app lock for Android, but not for everyone yet (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: android, app lock, apps

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Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Megan Janetsky | tags: ayala, cartel, cartels

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ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Brian Barrett | tags: going, just, really

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Maybe the FCC was onto something: These routers are phoning home to China with a secret backdoor (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: devices, just, routers

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OpenAI Tried to Hire Influencers to Spread Love for Its Products, But It Backfired Horrendously (futurism.com)

2026-08-06 | by Frank Landymore | tags: creators, influencers, openai

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Biggest backdoor yet found in Chinese routers sold under multiple brand names (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-06 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: command, control, dsim

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SoftBank gets $8.2 billion boost from Intel as OpenAI takes a backseat (cnbc.com)

2026-08-06 | by Arjun Kharpal | tags: billion, gain, intel

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Python string literals are kinda funny (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: backslash, content resulting, literals

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Alibaba-Backed AI Startup Vast Seeks Fresh Capital, Eyes IPO (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-06 | tags: alibaba, alibaba baidu, artificial

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Hidden Backdoor Found in Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers (cnet.com)

2026-08-05 | by Joe Supan | tags: baines, china, chinese

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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: bmcs, firmware, remotely

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‘They’ve Had Their Fair Share of Issues’: Uber Wants to Avoid Tech Backlash While Building Its Giant Robotaxi Fleet (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: ai avoid, avoid, avoid pushback

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I'll be stepping back from leading product for X (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: available ve, browser, center

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Vets Traced a Lemur’s Fatal Herpes Infection Back to a Yoga Class (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: causes, causes cold, cold

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Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: code, coding, meta

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Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: autonomous, delano, financing

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Airtable Acquisition Is ‘Kick in the Gut’ for Software Unicorns and Their Backers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-05 | tags: airtable, airtable fraction, bending

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Is Spotify down for you? Here’s what’s going on (Update: Back up) (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: affected, august, august pm

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Jeff Dean Leaving Google (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: background, created, created pitch

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Sunbird's iMessage app for Android is back after a major privacy snafu (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: android, apple, iphone

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The Viral ‘Antizuck’ App Makes Spotting Smart Glasses Easy (and Potentially Pointless) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: antizuck, antizuck app, app claims

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The Viral Smart Glasses-Sniffing App Is Informative, but Anticlimactic (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: antizuck, antizuck app, app claims

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Ted Lasso is back, and two more hit Apple shows are coming soon (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple, apple tv, lasso

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Is Claude down for you? Here’s what’s going on (Update: Back up) (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: according claude, ai models, august

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Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Julie Bort | tags: robinhood, y combinator, rvii

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Sunbird is back, bringing iMessage to Android (again) (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: android, apple, device