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Where Vandals Can’t Reach? Flock Safety’s Future Is Full of Spying Drones (cnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by Omar Gallaga | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, law enforcement

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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Sarah Perez | tags: google, google search, preferred sources

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Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Julie Bort | tags: runlayer, rippling, khosla ventures

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JBL Xtreme 5 drops back to its best price with $100 off at Amazon (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: jbl xtreme 5, amazon, auracast

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Sony WF-C710N deal drops these wireless ANC earbuds to just $88 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: sony, wf-c710n, active noise canceling

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Nearly 40,000 bottles of eye drops recalled nationwide. FDA warns of ‘heightened risk of harm’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: fda, clear eyes, prestige brands

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Amazon drops the TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro below $280 in this best-price deal (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: tcl, nxtpaper, android

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Tesla's Robotaxi fleet might finally be driving around Austin unsupervised (engadget.com)

2026-08-20 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: tesla, robotaxi, elon musk

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Linux 7.2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Authored | tags: linux, kernel, igalia

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Linux 7.2 Released (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Authored | tags: linux 7.2, igalia, drm scheduler

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CXMT planned to use stolen Samsung IP to develop its DRAM, court hears — former Samsung engineer who jumped to Chinese memory maker now behind bars (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Anton Shilov | tags: samsung, cxmt, dram

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He Was Driving a $40k Car But Didn’t Have $5 for McDonald’s. Now He Runs a Multi-Million-Dollar Business. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: range rover, bmw, ford explorer

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Don’t Call This Flying Camera a Drone Unless You Want It to Get Banned (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: flying camera, drone maker, loophole

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A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Satish Jeyachandran | tags: waymo, autonomous driving, custom silicon

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California Draws More Startup Investment Than All Other 49 States Combined (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-20 | tags: california, startup investment, venture capital

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California Draws More Investment Than All Other 49 States Combined (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-20 | tags: california, artificial intelligence, investment

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Alibaba shares fall 5% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: rust crate, arrayref, droundy

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Back in 1996, Quake's shareware CD locked id Software's entire catalog behind flawed encryption that made it a free-for-all (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: xorg-server, xwayland, meson

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Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: xorg-server, xwayland, meson

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Alibaba shares fall 3% as AI spending drives 75% drop in net income (cnbc.com)

2026-08-20 | by April Roach | tags: alibaba, ai spending, cpu-compute

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Physical media nostalgia sees fundraisers flock to Blu-Ray Kickstarter — drive with 9-in-1 dock achieves 160x funding goal halfway through campaign (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Mark Tyson | tags: blu-ray, kickstarter, bluhub

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Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds (theverge.com)

2026-08-20 | by Emma Roth | tags: amazon prime air, drone deliveries, mk30 drones

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Pine64 halts all Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 due to shortages — memory crunch forces open-source maker to freeze SBCs, tablets, and phones (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Luke James | tags: pine64, linux devices, pinephone

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Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis (theverge.com)

2026-08-20 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: waymo, robotaxis, chip architecture

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Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool — viral video surfaces the same week the company announces 500-city Prime Air expansion (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: prime air, amazon drone, texas woman

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Waymo’s self-driving cars get Gemini integration, so you have someone to talk to (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: waymo, gemini, ojai

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FDA approves robot that can find your vein, insert a needle, and draw blood without human help (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Rob Thubron | tags: aletta, fda, vein finder

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Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: drobo, macos driver, drobo 5d