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Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: aberrant labs, pathogenic game, steam

1652.

Super Mario Sunshine is the Switch 2's next GameCube addition (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Matt Tate | tags: super mario sunshine, switch 2, gamecube

1653.

USA Fencing Lunges Into the Hidden Identity Challenge in Amateur Sports (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: usa fencing, identity verification, olympic fencing

1654.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, data centers

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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: lumentum, indium phosphide, silicon photonics

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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qr codes, browser-based transfer, decimen optical transfer

1657.

Blueberry recall expands to more products sold at Publix as E. coli outbreak hospitalizes 4 people (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: blueberry, publix, e. coli

1658.

Sub-$400 Thunderbolt 5 dock roundup — Keychron and Plugable offer dual HDMI, but UGREEN takes top spot with an M.2 NVMe slot (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Brandon Hill | tags: thunderbolt 5, keychron, plugable

1659.

Tim Cook's last dance, oil majors earnings, IPO avoidance and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke Fountain | tags: apple, microsoft, openai

1660.

The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: generative ai, record charts, music industry

1661.

Slate Truck first drive: A minimalist's delight (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Stevens | tags: slate truck, software experience, utility truck

1662.

Setting up OpenClaw isn’t as straightforward as the internet wants you to think – running local AI on humble hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: openclaw, peter steinberger, qwen-3.5

1663.

The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-31 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: anthropic, openai, hugging face

1664.

A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

1666.

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by André Arko | tags: ruby central, rubygems, bundler

1667.

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tasklet, ai platform, customer success engineer

1668.

The ‘Boorman and the Devil’ Trailer Peeks Behind the Scenes of the Notorious ‘Exorcist’ Sequel (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: exorcist, boorman, hollywood

1669.

The employee benefits paradox (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: kaiser family foundation, employee benefits, organizational productivity

1670.

Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: food packaging, sustainability, carbon emissions

1671.

Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: ellis ai, private credit, ai agents

1672.

Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware

1673.

The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: maxwell conjecture, gpt 5.6, artificial intelligence

1674.

Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: lightbulb, tungsten filament, lifespan

1675.

AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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Android phones can now back up documents automatically to Google Drive, here’s how (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google drive, android phones, google play services

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Files by Google could finally become a better document scanner (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: files by google, google drive, document scanner

1678.

MSI promises an EXPO ULL-like boost for your existing DDR5 memory — High-Efficiency Mode brings low-latency tuning to older RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: msi, expo ull, amd

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First impressions of smart glasses with a display: the Even Realities G2 (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, smart glasses, apple glasses

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The Tech Download: Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf talks AI in warfare and manufacturing push (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Arjun Kharpal Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: anduril, autonomous weapons, defense industry