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Google Photos won’t let you search for your weed pictures, even if cannabis is legal (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ask photos, classic, gemini

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Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Fernanda González | tags: bacteria, bacterial, capable

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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Eileen Guo | tags: benz, censorship, media

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A Judge Just Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million and Change How It Treats Teen Accounts (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jonathan Small | tags: accounts, judge, meta

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Act fast: OnePlus is gifting users a free wireless charger for its transition (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: airvooc, charger, free

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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: allegedly, chatbots, chatgpt

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: advance, advance directed, affected

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by Aaron Horwath | tags: experience, knowledge, spectacle

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DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, doge overstated, government

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July jobs report, Airbnb earnings, fuel prices and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Alex Harring | tags: getty images, higher, images

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The 5 Best Laptop Power Banks I've Personally Tested (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Simon Hill | tags: bank, best, charge

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AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Frank Landymore | tags: bacteria, create, model

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Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: agents, frontier, kimi

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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: browser, chromium, kitesurf

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Flagship phones are a better deal than mid-rangers in 2026, and here’s the proof (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: counterpoint, flagship, price

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Werewolf transformed my old gadgets into USB-C powered ones (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sean Hollister | tags: charger, monitor, plug

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Man Sues Bank for Being Stupid Enough to Give Him a Mortgage Even When Experts Were Warning Him It Was About to Fall Into the Ocean (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: bonomi, chase, mortgage

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The $10 trillion reason to rethink your RTO strategy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: according gallup, advisory, employee

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Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: address, browser, gen threat

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OpenAI wants to be the underdog against Apple. That won’t be easy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apple, apple goliath, artificial

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Google Messages makes one-handed use much easier with new rollout (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: copying, floating, menu

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How humanitarian organizations are using AI to reach people faster (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai generated, ai making, ai tools

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Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: admin, backend, badge

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Better Hope You Don’t Need an Ambulance in New Orleans, Because the City’s 911 Operators Are Now AI (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: calls, dispatchers, emergency

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Enterprise AI doesn’t need another app: it needs its language (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai application, application, application build

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Nobody knows what it means to ‘be more strategic.’ Here’s why (and how) to explain it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: absolutely, absolutely idea, actually

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Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500 (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Daniel Sims | tags: cards, memory, price

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Google built a portable AI translator that works offline, and you can build one too (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: gemma, gemma model, google

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Google just extended Gemini Omni’s surprisingly generous free offer (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: gemini, gemini omni, google

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Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Gear Team | tags: gemini, google, plan