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DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, government, receipts

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DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, government, receipts

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I was loyal to T-Mobile for 10 years, but switching to Mint slashed my bill - by a lot (zdnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Kerry Wan | tags: customer, device, line

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Some adults use AI for financial advice, but trust is still low, Gallup poll finds (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: according new, adults, adults using

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

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

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Don’t eat this pistachio nut butter sold at Walmart. It could make you very sick (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: according notice, aware, bettergoods

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Nest smart home devices are getting an upgrade that will make pairing easier (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: device, devices, google

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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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Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by The Canadian Press | tags: canada, cent, jobs

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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Trevor Noah Will Host Google’s Pixel 11 Event Next Week (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: devices, event, expect

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7 Things That Happen After Someone Clicks Your Ad (and Why the Real Story Starts There) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tonia Ryan | tags: google, presence, reviews

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Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: commerce, factories, order

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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: open source, schematics, publishing

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Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: open source, schematics, publishing

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Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bureau, census, children

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, cpus, demand

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The highly rated Nothing Phone 4a Pro is down to its best price yet (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: amazon, android, phone

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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | tags: fairground, produced, programming

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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: center, data center, hardware

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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai designed, censorship, censorship industrial

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Will Trump risk being a ‘loser’ to make a deal on the Strait of Hormuz? Experts weigh in (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: administration, concession, iran

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Public Offers Implausible Number of Alibis for Man Accused of Destroying Flock Cameras (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: comments, community, flock

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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Eileen Guo | tags: benz, censorship, media

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Warner Bros. Confirms ‘Jetsons’ Movie Starring Jim Carrey (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: disney, earth, earth series

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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

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: advance, advance directed, affected

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Four Top Google Scientists Are Leaving to Start Their Own AI Company. It Might Discover Things No Human Ever Could. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jonathan Small | tags: alphabet, alphabet ceo, dean

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What type of phone case is best for wireless charging? (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Max Miller | tags: case, cases, charging