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Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: able, ai chatbot, chatbot

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Opinion | Banning Chinese AI Models Is Complicated (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ban likely, blanket, blanket ban

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A new ceramic Apple Watch could go on sale soon (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, apple watch, ceramic

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GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship (slashdot.org)

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

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: change, document, file

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The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: android, apple, better

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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: evaluations, models, techcrunch

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8 Snacks and Guilty-Pleasure Foods Chefs Can’t Live Without (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by David Watsky | tags: chef, executive, fruit

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Apple considers round screens and more radical designs for future Apple Watch revamp (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, apple watch, concept

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Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cooling, hardware, tom hardware

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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terence Tao | tags: argument, conjecture, function

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Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: chip, million, million sq

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: earth, machines, planet

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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

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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

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

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

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

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

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Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: alaska, coast, coast guard

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: flash, increases, industry

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Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: artifact, film, intel