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1921.

The UK is mulling an Australia-like social media ban for users under 16 (engadget.com)

2026-01-20 | get Social media → | tags: children, limit, media

1922.

Grab $420 off this prebuilt gaming PC with an RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 2TB storage — Ryzen-equipped MSI machine costs $1,549 and is perfect for 1440p gaming (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Ben Stockton | get MSI → | tags: deals, gaming, gaming pc

1923.

Nvidia's Arm-based N1X-equipped gaming laptops are reportedly set to debut this quarter, with N2 series chips planned for 2027 — new roadmap leak finally hints at consumer release Windows-on-ARM machines (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: digitimes, nvidia, quarter

1924.

This new 'DockFrame' expansion card can transform a PC's USB-C port into swathe of features and functions — Multimeter, Microcontrollers and Mini SSDs among new hot-swappable expansion card ecosystem (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Mark Tyson | get DockFrame → | tags: card, cards, dockframe

1925.

Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page: He ‘Makes Me Insane’ (wired.com)

2026-01-20 | by Katie Drummond | get Wikipedia → | tags: read, really, reddit

1926.

Elon Musk restarts Dojo3 'space' supercomputer project as AI5 chip design gets in 'good shape' — will be first Tesla-built supercomputer to feature all-in-house hardware, with no help from Nvidia (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Aaron Klotz | get AI5 → | tags: chip, chips, dojo

1927.

UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-20 | get Social Media Monitor → | tags: children, consultation, government

1928.

America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | by Saahil Desai | get Blockchain → | tags: kalshi, markets, media

1929.

Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall (futurism.com)

2026-01-20 | by Frank Landymore | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: going, guardian, industry

1930.

UK to consult on social media ban for under 16s (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-19 | get Social Media Monitor → | tags: children, consultation, government

1931.

Use Social Media Mindfully (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | by Danielle Heberling | get Social Media Management Tool → | tags: media, social, social media

1932.

OpenAI to focus on 'practical adoption' in 2026, says finance chief Sarah Friar (cnbc.com)

2026-01-19 | by Salvador Rodriguez | get Cloud AI → | tags: compute, friar, nvidia

1933.

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | get Research tools → | tags: industry, media, media research

1934.

Eric Demers leaves for Intel after 14 years at Qualcomm — father of Radeon and Adreno GPUs now sits at Lip-Bu Tan's table (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | get GPU → | tags: demers, intel, nvidia

1935.

How to Watch Indiana vs. Miami in the CFP National Championship Game for Free (cnet.com)

2026-01-19 | by See Full Bio | get Streaming Service → | tags: championship, espn, game

1936.

Floppy disk drive converted into smart TV remote for kids — dev’s toddler inserts vividly labeled floppies to watch his favorite shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Floppy disk drive → | tags: disk, floppy, floppy disk

1937.

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-18 | get Topological Transformer → | tags: energy, laplacian, loss

1938.

Who will be next to implement an Australia-style under-16s social media ban? (cnbc.com)

2026-01-18 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | get Facebook → | tags: australian, children, governments

1939.

Congress Wants to Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Joe Mullin | get Parental Control → | tags: account, family, kids

1940.

To Pressure Security Professionals, Mandiant Releases Database That Cracks Weak NTLM Passwords in 12 Hours (slashdot.org)

2026-01-17 | by Posted | get NTLM password crackers → | tags: allow, hash, mandiant

1941.

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Radiance’ is a fantastic, free wallpaper app for iPhone users (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-17 | by Michael Burkhardt | get App Store → | tags: completely, free, just

1942.

Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-17 | by Mark Tyson | get Wikipedia → | tags: edit, hardware, knowledge

1943.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Frank Landymore | get Microplastics → | tags: guardian, microplastics, paper

1944.

Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | get Electric Vehicles → | tags: canada, canadian, canola

1945.

Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | get Password Cracker → | tags: hash, mandiant, passwords

1946.

OpenAI has committed billions to recent chip deals. Some big names have been left out (cnbc.com)

2026-01-16 | by Ashley Capoot | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: broadcom, chips, nvidia

1947.

How Reddit, TikTok, and AI are changing the game for substance use researchers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-16 | get Substance use research tools → | tags: addiction, advances, media

1948.

Canada cuts tariffs on Chinese EVs as part of new deal (engadget.com)

2026-01-16 | get Electric Vehicles → | tags: advertisement, canada, canadian

1949.

Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | by Fred Lambert | get Electric Vehicles → | tags: canada, canadian, china

1950.

Nvidia China market share to drastically decrease from 66% to 8%, analysts claim — export curbs and homegrown success to blame (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: china, domestic, gpus