GoKawiil - Tech News

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: byte, gateway, page

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

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

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ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: bytedance, chinese, model

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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: advanced, anthropic, bytedance

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$200 slashed off Gigabyte's 4th-Gen WOLED gaming monitor — 280Hz beast also packs a KVM and tactical gaming switch for just $399 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: features, gaming, gaming monitor

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Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: bits, bits bits, byte

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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PC Prices Are So Bad Now, Companies Are Selling You Old Components Like New (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: gigabyte, pc components, upgrade

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More GPU price hikes loom for Asia as Japanese distributor warns of new increases — CFD Sales signals 20% to 40% higher prices on Gigabyte graphics card orders starting this month (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: gigabyte graphics cards, cfd sales inc., gpu price hikes

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Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Marika Lehmann | tags: iceoryx2, byteatomic, rust

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Malwarebytes Offers US College Students 2 Years of Free Antivirus Protection (cnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Antuan Goodwin | tags: malwarebytes, antivirus, ransomware

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Lexar lists 32GB DDR5 memory with homegrown Chinese chips — 3,999 Yuan ($592) price undercuts hopes for cheaper CXMT-powered RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: lexar, ddr5, cxmt

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Gigabyte's new 27-inch QD-OLED monitor drops to $299 (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Our Editors Hand-Pick Related Products Using A Variety Of Criteria | tags: gigabyte, qd-oled, 27-inch monitor

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Grab this 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor at just $300 — Gigabyte's 27-inch GO27Q24A is now $150 off at Newegg (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: qd-oled, gigabyte, newegg

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When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Dusty Daemon | tags: core-lightning, coldcard, bitcoin

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Score the ultimate AMD AM4 starter pack with a six-core CPU and 16GB RAM for only $280 — kickstart your next PC build with $138 in savings (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, b550m motherboard

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A Couple Was Sent Cockroaches and a Bloody Pig Mask by eBay Employees. They Just Won a $48 Million Settlement. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | by Jonathan Small | tags: ebay, devin wenig, ecommercebytes

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Grab a great-value gaming laptop with a generous amount of memory for only $1,199 — save $100 on Gigabyte's Aero X16 gaming laptop with 32GB of DDR5 and RTX 5060 graphics (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, aero x16, rtx 5060

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eBay and its former execs settle cyberstalking case brought by journalist couple (engadget.com)

2026-07-28 | by Anna Washenko | tags: ebay, devin wenig, ecommercebytes

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eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: ebay, ecommercebytes, devin wenig

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eBay, former execs pay $56M to settle “bloody pig mask” harassment case (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: ebay, ecommercebytes, devin wenig

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eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019 (slashdot.org)

2026-07-28 | tags: ebay, ecommercebytes, ina steiner

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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign (wired.com)

2026-07-28 | by Lauren Goode | tags: ebay, ecommercebytes, devin wenig

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eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019 (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: ebay, ecommercebytes, devin wenig

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eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement (theverge.com)

2026-07-28 | by Emma Roth | tags: ebay, devin wenig, ecommercebytes

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EBay, former execs to pay $56 million in blogger harassment and stalking case (cnbc.com)

2026-07-28 | by Annie Palmer | tags: ebay, devin wenig, ecommercebytes

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Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: bytecode, jlox, jvm

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Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: show hn, byte, minimio

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TikTok is violating EU regulations on kids’ privacy rights, according to an investigation (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: tiktok, european commission, digital services act

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Gigabyte announces support for Chinese-made CXMT memory — pushes it to 8200 MT/s on Socket AM5 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-24 | by Zak Killian | tags: cxmt, gigabyte, socket am5