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A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: emergency, human, opcd

1592.

x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, github, microsoft

1593.

Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: linux kernel, bpf, inlined functions

1594.

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

1595.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

1596.

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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Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: billion, claimed, contracts

1598.

FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: drones, grade, lidar

1599.

‘What About Garmin?’ I Tested the Company’s Answer to Whoop (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: band, band offers, cirqa

1600.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: book, build, compiler

1601.

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

1602.

Myspace eyes comeback as an 'antidote' to social media fatigue — but it may be a long shot (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | tags: media, myspace, platforms

1603.

This wearable patch could get you into REM sleep 43 minutes faster (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: brain, patch, rem sleep

1604.

Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: city, council, emporia

1605.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: core, gaming, intel

1606.

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: newspaper, palantir, publisher

1607.

Everyone thinks the iPhone Ultra will crush Samsung. They’re wrong (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: android, apple, fold

1608.

Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: clearly, clearly getting, getting

1609.

The Fitness and Recovery Tech I Swear By as a Wellness Expert (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: apple, peloton, plus

1610.

If You’re Hoping to Collect on Apple’s $250M AI iPhone Settlement, You’ll Have to Wait a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, features, intelligence

1611.

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

1612.

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: autopilot, autopilot eyes, autopilot years

1613.

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, endoh, image

1614.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Oskari Mantere | tags: cloud, conf, sync

1615.

Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

1616.

How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: anthropic, irregular, meta

1617.

Everything you do is being recorded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ross Andersen | tags: algorithms, noise, recorded

1618.

The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jill Duffy | tags: assets, digital, digital assets

1619.

Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: micron, crucial, ddr5

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Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: crucial, memory, memory kit