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Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets (theverge.com)

2026-06-21 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: polymarket, prediction markets, fake videos

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That viral clip you saw of someone winning big on Polymarket was probably fake (theverge.com)

2026-06-21 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Polymarket Betting Platform → | tags: polymarket, prediction markets, wall street journal

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Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: polymarket, social media, paid creators

844.

Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get VPN Router for UK → | tags: uk government, online safety policy, vpn

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How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Social Media Privacy Guide → | tags: big tech, internet regulation, social media ban

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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Digital Privacy and Security Kit → | tags: big tech, social media, internet regulation

847.

Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Charles P. Pierce | tags: dialog, peter thiel, nato

848.

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Russell Poole | get SMPTE Standards Digital Library → | tags: smpte, media technology, standards

849.

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Media Player Codec Pack → | tags: windows 11, media player, hevc

850.

The best UK Amazon Prime Day tech deals 2026 — epic savings on premium gaming PCs and laptops, peripherals, 3D printers at Currys, Argos, Scan and CCL, too (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Ben Stockton | get Gaming Laptop RGB Keyboard → | tags: amazon prime day, acer nitro v16, amd ryzen

851.

Big Tech is borrowing like never before (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Ron Patel | get Amazon Business Loan Kit → | tags: nvidia, big tech, bond market

852.

What Fox and Roku aren’t telling us yet (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-20 | get Roku Streaming Stick → | tags: fox, roku, merger

853.

Nothing's budget brand CMF won't be releasing a new phone this year (engadget.com)

2026-06-20 | by Mariella Moon | get Nothing Ear (2) Wireless Earbuds → | tags: nothing, cmf, phone pro 2

854.

Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Hassam Nasir | get RTX 5070 Graphics Card → | tags: nvidia rtx 5070, amazon, kenwood av receiver

855.

Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG (theverge.com)

2026-06-20 | by Adi Robertson | get Dice of Destiny Board Game → | tags: dice-based rpg, moves of the diamond hand, cosmo d

856.

Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Sunshine | get Raspberry Pi 400 Kit → | tags: cyberdecks, analog technology, luddites

857.

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots. (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-20 | by Anna Heim | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: vlc media player, kyber, jean-baptiste kempf

858.

Another US state may require age verification to access social media (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-19 | get Social Media Age Verification Tool → | tags: social media, ohio law, parental consent

859.

Canada Missed Chances To Inspect OceanGate's Titan Before Fatal Implosion (slashdot.org)

2026-06-19 | get Underwater Inspection Camera → | tags: oceangate, titan submersible, canadian transportation safety board

860.

Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards with plastic GPU dies and missing memory (techspot.com)

2026-06-19 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get RTX 4090 Fake Detection Kit → | tags: rtx 4090, nvidia, gpu counterfeit

861.

Amazon won't release Sam Altman biopic focused on OpenAI's 2023 leadership crisis (engadget.com)

2026-06-19 | by Mariella Moon | tags: openai, sam altman, amazon web services

862.

From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Kids' Parental Control Tablet → | tags: australia, europe, social media

863.

Memory crisis hits such extremes that 'even Apple can't be safe' (cnbc.com)

2026-06-19 | by Kif Leswing | get Apple Memory Upgrade Kit → | tags: apple, ai chips, memory shortage

864.

RFK Jr.’s New Lyme Plan Is More Conspiracy Than Science (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-19 | get Lyme Disease Test Kit → | tags: rfk jr, lyme disease, conspiracy

865.

Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids (techspot.com)

2026-06-19 | by Skye Jacobs | get Parental Control Smartphone App → | tags: meta, kids online safety act, facebook

866.

At least one UK government department is reportedly done with X (engadget.com)

2026-06-19 | by Mariella Moon | get Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 → | tags: uk government, social media, european court of human rights

867.

This Is the First FDA-Approved OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor for Children (cnet.com)

2026-06-19 | by See Full Bio | get Freestyle Libre 3 → | tags: dexcom, stelo glucose biosensor, fda

868.

Save a massive $1,390 on this RTX 5080 Alienware gaming PC, now just $3,159 — enormous discount delivers top specs for 4K gameplay, including a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-19 | by Ben Stockton | get Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition → | tags: nvidia geforce rtx 5080, alienware, dell

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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon — marked with 2030 production dates, the card didn't even have working VRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-19 | by Hassam Nasir | get RTX 4090 Fake GPU → | tags: rtx 4090, nvidia, plastic gpu die

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This all-new OnePlus phone could deliver three days of battery life (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-19 | get OnePlus 11 Smartphone → | tags: oneplus n6, 000mah battery, oneplus