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Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon's injunction on its AI shopping bot (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: amazon, perplexity, comet browser

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Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: digital equity act, broadband grants, trump administration

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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: android, location sharing, advertising sdks

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Silicon Valley’s most absurd meme is taking on the worst corporate jargon in AI and tech (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: silicon valley, palantir, venture capitalist

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OpenAI explains what will happen when ChatGPT Atlas shuts down this weekend (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zac Hall | tags: openai, chatgpt atlas, mac

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You have no reason not to watch Babylon 5 now that it's free on YouTube (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Daniel Cooper | tags: babylon 5, warner bros, pten

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The Brown Bag AI Lunches Are Over (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-04 | tags: brown bag, lunches, over

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Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Molly Higgins | tags: instacart, grocery delivery, instacart+

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‘Television’? The word will never catch on! (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: nature.com, internet explorer, css support

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How scientists can tackle the paradox of political polarization (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Calow | tags: nature.com, css, internet explorer

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Lab leaders should follow football’s lead and have coaching qualifications (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Casey | tags: nature.com, coaching qualifications, lab leaders

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Scientists don’t need more trust, they need public allies (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sabherwal | tags: nature.com, internet explorer, css

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Put health systems at the centre of European heatwave plans (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Chatterjee | tags: health systems, european heatwave, nature.com

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An AI-Supervised Remote Exam Went So Badly That 58,000 Students Must Retake It (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: unam, ai proctoring, lockdown browser

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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai proctoring, lockdown browser, unam

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Hollywood Sets Its Sights On an ‘Action Man’ Movie (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: hasbro, action man, marvel

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PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: pisiguard, personal data, browser extension

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Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Sergio Flores | tags: california data brokers, drop platform, digital footprint

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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: meshdiff, stl, browser

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RTX 5060 Ti survives car crash after being bent in half — short PCB saves the day, single memory chip resolder restore full performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5060 ti, brother zhang, short pcb

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Time Is Running Out For ‘Barbie 2’ to Happen (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: barbie, warner bros, sequel

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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: google, rss feeds, chromium

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97 untouched Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. cartridges worth thousands discovered in retro shop storage room — never-before-seen version of popular NES games include five perfect 10 PSA items (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Jowi Morales | tags: duck hunt, super mario bros, nintendo wire

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Peacock Promo Codes: 40% Off August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-01 | by Molly Higgins | tags: peacock, nbc universal, wwe

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Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cwbrowser, zig, acid3

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Fintech broker Clear Street offers investors pre-IPO access to $188 billion AI giant Databricks (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Son | tags: clear street, databricks, ai software

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A Rare and Deadly Tick Virus With No Cure Has Taken Hold in New York (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: bourbon virus, stony brook, new york

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Broadband Cables Are Surprisingly Good at Detecting Earthquakes (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, broadband cables

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Slow downloads? These tweaks could speed up your router (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: speedtest, wifi router, 5ghz band

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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