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Engineers redesigned the recipe to make it easier to follow (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google, recipe, croquembouche

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OpenAI Surpasses One Billion Users After Cutting Prices (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-31 | tags: openai, one billion users, pricing

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Can Republicans Actually Send Anthony Fauci to Jail? (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by David Gilbert | tags: fauci, covid-19, republicans

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92 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in August (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: sci-fi, fantasy, horror

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The Art of Decision-Making (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Joshua Rothman | tags: decision theory, edna ullmann-margalit, abbottabad

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Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kris Holt | tags: social media ban, esafety commissioner, threads app

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Apple’s new AirTags are back down to their best price (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Sheena Vasani | tags: airtags, apple, find my

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Where .env Went Wrong (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: dotenv, environment variables, secret management

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Graphics Cards Could Get Even More Expensive, and It’s Not Just Nvidia (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: nvidia, graphics cards, pc gaming

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is fighting 'a hundred-year flood' on memory pricing — expects to pay even more for memory in September following recent price hikes (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: apple, tim cook, memory pricing

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This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jason Parham | tags: orchid, weaponized incompetence, ai assistant

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How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Son | tags: openai, situational awareness, sk hynix

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This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: shieldfont, opentype, seneda & abruccio

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Fiber-Optic Internet Cables Measure Earthquakes More Accurately Than the Government’s Alert System, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, government alert system

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The Government’s Earthquake Warning System Has a 30% Accuracy Rate. Scientists Found Something Better (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake warning system, government

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Here’s Where Samsung Makes and Tests Its Galaxy Phones Before Shipping Them to You (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Abrar Al-Heeti | tags: samsung, galaxy s26, gumi smart city

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USA Fencing Lunges Into the Hidden Identity Challenge in Amateur Sports (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: usa fencing, identity verification, olympic fencing

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CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cisa, water utilities, programmable logic controllers

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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

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Tim Cook's last dance, oil majors earnings, IPO avoidance and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke Fountain | tags: apple, microsoft, openai

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A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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The ‘Boorman and the Devil’ Trailer Peeks Behind the Scenes of the Notorious ‘Exorcist’ Sequel (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: exorcist, boorman, hollywood

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Your motherboard's M.2 SSD heatsink might be slowing down your SSD — Only 6 of 20 tested boards made full contact (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Joe Shields | tags: motherboard, m.2 ssd, heatsink

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The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: maxwell conjecture, gpt 5.6, artificial intelligence

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MSI promises an EXPO ULL-like boost for your existing DDR5 memory — High-Efficiency Mode brings low-latency tuning to older RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: msi, expo ull, amd

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Samsung's fastest SSD is back to Prime Day pricing — only $30 difference between the much faster Gen 5 9100 Pro and Gen 4 990 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: samsung, ssds, pcie gen 5

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Amazon spent $1.8 million on a failed AI project, and didn't notice the overrun for five months (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: amazon, anthropic, claude sonnet

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PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: pwc, ai hallucinations, gptzero

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Fauci Faces a Test to His Legacy (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-31 | tags: fauci, ai startup, tattooed job interviews