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3211.

Show HN: PIrateRF – Turn a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero into a 12-mode RF transmitter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | get Raspberry Pi Zero → | tags: default, frequency, mhz mhz

3212.

How Much Can a New Fridge Actually Save You? The Surprising Truth About Energy (cnet.com)

2026-02-17 | by See Full Bio | get Energy Monitor → | tags: average, efficiency, energy

3213.

It’s Probably a Bit Much to Say This AI Agent Cyberbullied a Developer By Blogging About Him (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-17 | get AI Assistant → | tags: agency, agency thing, agents

3214.

Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display' (slashdot.org)

2026-02-17 | by Posted | get Display → | tags: ai samsung, display, feature

3215.

MSI's RTX 5060-equipped Cyborg 15 gaming laptop is down to just $899 on Walmart — Featuring an Intel Core 7 240H CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 144Hz display (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Hassam Nasir | get Cyborg 15 → | tags: core, cyborg, deals

3216.

Apple’s new Face ID smart doorbell could be a hit for one reason (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-16 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Smart Doorbell → | tags: apple, apple home, doorbell

3217.

I’ve Been Testing VPNs for Over a Decade. These Are the 9 VPN Settings I Enable for Optimal Privacy (cnet.com)

2026-02-16 | by See Full Bio | get VPN settings → | tags: obfuscation, privacy, protection

3218.

Future MacBooks may borrow a Samsung feature to solve an ironic privacy problem (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-16 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Smartphone → | tags: angles, display, macbooks

3219.

Samsung shows off Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy display in new teaser video (techspot.com)

2026-02-16 | get Display → | tags: august, august read, built

3220.

Verizon is making it even harder to unlock your paid-off phone (Update) (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-16 | get Verizon SIM → | tags: carrier, device, payment

3221.

Verizon is making it even harder to unlock your paid-off phone (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-16 | get Verizon SIM → | tags: changes, device, payment

3222.

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’ (theverge.com)

2026-02-16 | by Dominic Preston | get Display → | tags: display, pixel, privacy

3223.

New Galaxy S26 series teaser shows how Privacy Display fights shoulder surfers (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-16 | get Display → | tags: display, galaxy, galaxy series

3224.

Why we don’t really know what the public thinks about science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-16 | by Gauchat | get Science → | tags: literacy, public, public understanding

3225.

You'll Be Able to Disable the New AI Features Coming to Firefox (cnet.com)

2026-02-15 | by See Full Bio | get Browser → | tags: ai features, features, firefox

3226.

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | by Glenn Greenwald | get Smart Doorbell → | tags: amazon, google, guthrie

3227.

Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | by Glenn Greenwald | get Smartphone → | tags: amazon, google, guthrie

3228.

Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS (engadget.com)

2026-02-14 | get SpaceX Crew-12 → | tags: agency, crew, february

3229.

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Has an App to Replace Hollywood (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-02-14 | get ByteDance → | tags: ai video, backlash, backlash privacy

3230.

How to disable privacy indicators on external displays connected to your Mac [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jeff Benjamin | get DisplayLink → | tags: apple macos sonoma, external display privacy, apple polishing cloth

3231.

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-14 | get Satellite → | tags: kuiper belt, neptune, legacy survey of space and time

3232.

Indian pharmacy chain giant exposed customer data and internal systems (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Pharmacy management system → | tags: davaindia, india, pharmacy

3233.

Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-13 | get Smartwatch → | tags: amazon, cameras, markey

3234.

FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI (slashdot.org)

2026-02-13 | by Posted | get Cloud → | tags: agency, civil, cloud

3235.

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-13 | by Amanda Silberling | get GPT-4 → | tags: gpt gpt, gpt model, legacy

3236.

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-13 | by Author.Fullname | get Molecular AI → | tags: agency, behaviour, grns

3237.

Apple's bad week: FTC pressure, delayed Siri AI, and a stock sell-off (techspot.com)

2026-02-13 | get Siri → | tags: according agency, agency, agency alleged

3238.

Bill Introduced To Replace West Virginia's New CS Course Graduation Requirement With Computer Literacy Proficiency (slashdot.org)

2026-02-13 | by Posted | get Computer Literacy → | tags: code, computer, literacy

3239.

One of the best privacy upgrades you can give to your laptop costs less than you think (zdnet.com)

2026-02-13 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Cloud → | tags: filter, macbook, macbook pro

3240.

I ignored Apple's battery tips and charged my iPhone in all the wrong ways - here's how it's fared (zdnet.com)

2026-02-13 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Battery Case → | tags: battery, capacity, charge