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Apple Mac Mini (M6) Review: For the AI Curious (wired.com)

2026-09-21 | by Luke Larsen | get Apple Mac Mini M6 → | tags: mac mini m6, apple silicon, thunderbolt 4

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Autonomous NATO strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-20 | by Shane Downing | tags: nvidia jetson orin nano, scaleout systems, bae systems bofors

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Backups Aren't Simple (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get Western Digital My Book external hard drive backup → | tags: data loss, backups, external hard drive

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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-15 | by John Wang | tags: strategic petroleum reserve, crude oil storage, external floating roof tanks

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AI leaders clash over safety fears after Anthropic whistleblower says AI could 'kill us all' by 2030 — OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI figureheads call for external governance, while Jensen Huang says worries are 'made up' (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-15 | by Jon Martindale | tags: anthropic, openai, xai

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Here's what you can use instead of a docking station (engadget.com)

2026-09-13 | by Deven Mcclure | get Anker 555 USB-C hub 8-in-1 → | tags: usb-c hubs, docking station, external ssds

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External HDD vs. SSD: What are the pros and cons of each drive type? (engadget.com)

2026-09-13 | by Ben Stegner | get Samsung T7 portable SSD 1TB → | tags: external ssd, flash storage, hard drive

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SpiderSilk Hunts External Threats With AI-Based Scanner (darkreading.com)

2026-09-11 | by Agam Shah | tags: spidersilk, ai-based scanner, internet-facing threats

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Hands On: Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock with active cooling, 80W passthrough charging, and HDMI 2.1, supporting up to 8TB drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Matt Safford | get Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD → | tags: sharge disk pro 2, hdmi 2.1, m.2 ssd

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Hands On: Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra is a compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock with active cooling, 80W passthrough charging, and HDMI 2.1 that supports up to 8TB drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Matt Safford | get Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD → | tags: sharge disk pro 2, hdmi 2.1, external ssd

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Pro Max is the new Ultra: This Android flagship with a 17x external lens is coming this month (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-09 | get vivo X200 Pro smartphone → | tags: vivo x500 pro max, vivo x300 ultra, android flagship

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Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman book → | tags: anthropic, long-term benefit trust, claude

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Lexar announces ‘world’s thinnest portable SSD’ in celebration of the brand’s 30th anniversary – Lexar Muse drive achieves 0.15-inch thickness with proprietary pogo-pin cable, magnetic sleeve for phone mounting (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-04 | by Matt Safford | get SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD → | tags: lexar muse, portable ssd, snaplink

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Marx, Keynes, and A.I (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | by John Ganz | get General Theory of Employment Interest and Money Keynes book → | tags: marx, ai layoff trap, coasean bargaining

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Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet (techspot.com)

2026-08-28 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Samsung T9 portable SSD 2TB → | tags: samsung, usb4, ces

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What are the downsides of a mini PC? (engadget.com)

2026-08-24 | by Jack Whitcombe | get Beelink SER8 mini PC → | tags: mini pc, soldered components, m.2 ssd

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Microsoft Teams now lets admins block external bots from meetings (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-24 | get Jabra Evolve2 65 Microsoft Teams headset → | tags: microsoft teams, bots, meeting security

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This portable, external CD/DVD drive comes with a 2.5-inch SATA and an SD Card slot for just $26 — Save 10% on a modern essential for keeping physical media alive (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: alronly, sata, usb-c

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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Davide Piffer | tags: von neumann, institute for advanced study, symbolic memory

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Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-14 | by Sarah Perez | tags: app store, epic games, ios devices

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Apple proposes taking a 5-to-15 percent cut from external App Store payments (engadget.com)

2026-08-14 | by Mariella Moon | tags: apple, epic games, app store

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Apple wins temporary Supreme Court pause in Epic Games proceedings (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-12 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, epic games, supreme court

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Court rejects Apple’s attempt to postpone App Store fee proceedings in Epic Games case (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: app store, epic games, yvonne gonzalez rogers

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Can a MacBook run multiple external monitors? It depends (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Will Shanklin | tags: macbook neo, usb-c ports, thunderbolt

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Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing (slashdot.org)

2026-08-06 | tags: adam, adam walinsky, diminishes

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Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: agents, long-running, stateful

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Valve says that Steam Machine reservations won't be fulfilled until ‘the end of this year’ — company also releases CAD files for the PC console’s external shell under Creative Commons (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jowi Morales | tags: steam machine, valve, reservation queue

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Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: minitel, 65c02, acia

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Testing old drives as external storage to avoid price hikes — hard drive, SATA SSD, and NVMe in enclosures up to 80 Gbps, tested (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Matt Safford | tags: hard drive, sata ssd, nvme

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Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: super mario 64, libsm64, sm64 decompilation