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A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Chris Baraniuk | tags: heat pumps, vayu, volthub

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OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jackson Chen | tags: openai, astra, hugging face

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LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: lexisnexis, diligenc, metabase api

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The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: android, apple, better

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Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

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Verizon mobile service restored after outage for thousands of customers in the U.S. (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terri Cullen | tags: affected, afternoon, downdetector

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Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Kat Merck | tags: follicles, hair, hair follicles

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Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: cost, frontier, harness

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, capacity, cpus

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, cpus, demand

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The highly rated Nothing Phone 4a Pro is down to its best price yet (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: amazon, android, phone

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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai designed, censorship, censorship industrial

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Lawmakers want this new betting trend shut down before it’s too late (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: activity, activity poses, arson

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Maryland Officials Shut Down State Park After 2 Beaver Attacks (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: affecting, affecting local, beaver

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Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Sarah Perez | tags: bumble, dating, plans

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Best Ring Floodlight Cam deal yet brings it down to $149.99 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: cam wired, check, floodlight

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The M5 MacBook Air is down to the lowest price we've seen since Apple's price hike (zdnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: affect, does, does affect

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The M5 Macbook Air is down to the lowest price we've seen since Apple's price hike (zdnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: affect, does, does affect

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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: means, memory, products

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Want to Buy Nvidia’s Graphics Cards at MSRP? Head On Down to Grapevine, Texas (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: close, close rtx, need spend

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: announced, downloads, shulman

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PC gamer vibe-codes a safeguard against RTX 5090 power connector failures — monitors per-pin power draw, shuts down system if it exceeds 9.5A for more than 15 seconds (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Zak Killian | tags: asus, cards, connector

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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-06 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: mit technology, openai, review

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Nothing is literally doubling down on its smartphone ambitions, contrary to previous report (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: devices, evangelidis, launch

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I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Samsung phone and found 3 useful system diagnostics (zdnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Kerry Wan | tags: battery, download, dumpstate

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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: bier, bier wrote, head

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Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: available ve, browser, center

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Google DeepMind Boss Demis Hassabis Steps Down From CEO Role (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: ai strategy, alphabet, alphabet shaking

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Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO, plus more Google leadership changes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: alphabet, alphabet chief, announced