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Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: evaluation process, selection of winners, inconsistencies

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Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: deepmind, kaggle, grand prize

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Score $1,100 off this OLED gaming laptop with RTX 5070 Ti, the ultimate Back to School powerhouse — also features a 24-core Ultra 9 290HX, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-17 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: hp omen, rtx 5070 ti, intel core ultra 9 290hx

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Get AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D with 16GB of RAM and a motherboard for just $450 — save 31% on a B650M Micro ATX and G.Skill DDR5 for an epic small build (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-17 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: amd, ryzen 7 7700x3d, asrock b650m

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Tesla's selling a $225 balance bike for toddlers (engadget.com)

2026-07-17 | by Steve Dent | tags: tesla, autopilot, radio flyer

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FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: paramount, skydance media, brendan carr

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Forget AI training data. This startup learned from slime mold (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: slime mold, mireta, urban planning

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Over a Year Later, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Still Going Strong (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: kpop, demon hunters, netflix

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2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2 (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: lucid gravity, lucid air, dream drive 2.0

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Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account After Nuking It Due to Hacker (slashdot.org)

2026-07-17 | tags: microsoft, xbox, onedrive

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Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console (wired.com)

2026-07-17 | by Matt Kamen | tags: steam machine, valve, amd fidelityfx

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Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: ernst & young, data breach, support ticket system

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SpaceX’s Shares Tank After Starship Fails to Launch (futurism.com)

2026-07-17 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: spacex, starship, elon musk

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Japan's first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks (techspot.com)

2026-07-17 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nvidia, vera rubin, frontia

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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: aws, amazon, billing

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Signal is testing the ability to add an Android phone or tablet as a secondary device (engadget.com)

2026-07-17 | by Mariella Moon | tags: signal, android, google play

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Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: aws, billing, amazon

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23 Best Gifts for Cooks (2026): Vitamix, Frying Pans, Air Fryers (wired.com)

2026-07-17 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: vitamix, frying pans, air fryers

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Have a OnePlus phone? Here are 5 other Android phones you should buy right now (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: oneplus, samsung galaxy s26 ultra, google pixel 10

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Apple's OLED iPad mini could arrive this October, kicking off a major iPad overhaul (techspot.com)

2026-07-17 | by Daniel Sims | tags: apple, ipad mini, oled display

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Over half a million power tool batteries have been recalled due to a USB-C charging fire risk (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Andrew Liszewski | tags: kobalt, greenworks tools, usb-c

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Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Andrew Webster | tags: bethesda, fallout 5, xbox

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Mario Kart Wii recompiled for PC using AI, with 4K potential and uncapped frame rates — 'first static recompilation of a Wii game' supports over 200 tracks thanks to Retro Rewind compatibility (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-17 | by Mark Tyson | tags: mario kart wii, static recompilation, retro rewind

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I’ve used every Pixel since day one. The Pixel 11 needs to fix these 6 things (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: pixel 11, google, samsung exynos

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Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: residential proxies, carding, device fingerprints

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Robot vacuum flaw lets one stolen certificate run root commands on other Shark robovacs in the same AWS region — unpatched flaw exposes live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-17 | by Luke James | tags: shark iq robot vacuum, aws iot policy, sharkninja

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The manosphere’s testosterone fever is coming for the troops (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Victoria Song | tags: testosterone therapy, pete hegseth, verge

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The real winners and losers of the 2026 World Cup (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: world cup, argentina, spain

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San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores (wired.com)

2026-07-17 | by Matt Burgess | tags: apple, google, nudify apps

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I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | by Sung J. Woo | tags: commodore 64, compute magazine, apple ii