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1801.

Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA (slashdot.org)

2026-08-11 | tags: reddit, gnu backgammon, digital services act

1802.

Red Lobster is redesigning its dining rooms for ‘newstalgia’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: red lobster, nautical, restaurant

1803.

A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Will Knight | tags: openai, anthropic, google

1804.

Modder adds Radeon RX 9070 XT eGPU to Steam Machine, runs Crimson Desert at over 100 FPS on High — moves boot drive to USB-C port, leverages M.2 to OCuLink adaptor and eGPU dock (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mark Tyson | tags: radeon rx 9070 xt, steam machine, oculink

1805.

How my solar company is surviving the war on renewable energy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: solar industry, renewable energy, policy turbulence

1806.

Microsoft raises Windows OEM fees for PC makers by 7% to 10% (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: microsoft, windows, pc makers

1807.

AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: anthropic, ai infrastructure, hedge fund

1808.

‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts (theverge.com)

2026-08-11 | by Emma Roth | tags: attacker, blog, exploit

1809.

Early OnePlus 16 hype suggests firm may have ditched its key markets too soon (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: oneplus 16, snapdragon 8 elite gen 6, pixel 11

1810.

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: code, copilot, requests

1811.

The next great moonshots won’t come from Silicon Valley alone (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: alphabet, moonshot factory, sergey brin

1812.

‘All You Have to Do Is Be Bought’: A SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Be Musk’s $1 Trillion Payout Cheat Code (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: spacex, tesla, musk

1813.

Laser wireless charging could keep drones airborne indefinitely — improved receiver converts at 38.49% efficiency and uses nanocrystalline material for thermals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: laser wireless charging, civil aviation university of china, perovskite laser cell

1814.

This super-white coating was inspired by a beetle’s scales (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: super-white coating, beetle’s scales, cellulose

1815.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jill Lepore | tags: elon musk, sam altman, artificial intelligence

1816.

Panic of 1873 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: deutsche bank, vienna stock exchange, german unification

1817.

Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Daniel Sims | tags: xbox store, game pass, heroic games launcher

1818.

Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon web services, ai data center, pecos county

1819.

Nvidia's Risky Business (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: nvidia, northern pacific railway, jay cooke

1820.

Apple @ Work Podcast: 300 devices later – thoughts on ChromeOS vs macOS (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bradley C | tags: chromeos, macos, mosyle

1821.

Meet 21 Black women who bounced back and are thriving after being pushed out of the workplace (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: black women, job market, unemployment

1822.

I combined my Fitbit Air with an analog watch — it’s the only way I wear the tracker now (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: fitbit air, google, android authority

1823.

Best robot mowers of 2026: Expert tested (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Maria Diaz | tags: robot mowers, zdnet, vendor listings

1824.

The Very Cool New Ad-Skipping Button for Spotify Podcasts Is Not Very Cool for Podcast Businesspeople (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: spotify, podcast, ad-skipping

1825.

Gamer recruitment drive results in ‘supercharged’ hiring campaign for new Air Traffic Controllers — 94% hiring goal hit in record time with $155,000 salary potential; ‘the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mark Tyson | tags: air traffic control, usdot, faa

1826.

You can see both a partial solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower peak on the same day this week. Here’s when to look up (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: solar eclipse, perseid meteor shower, u.s.

1827.

Celebrating the 90th birthday of the Wienermobile, the original marketing stunt (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: wienermobile, oscar mayer, hotdoggers

1828.

Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes Vie to Be the Future of Food (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mike Grunwald | tags: pairwise, crispr, genomics

1829.

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Claire L. Evans | tags: organoids, johns hopkins, biocomputing

1830.

More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Osmond Chia | tags: truth social, trump media, cryptocurrencies