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811.

I gave my Samsung phone superpowers with a $6 pack of NFC tags — here’s how (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, apps, phone

812.

Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it' (cnbc.com)

2026-08-08 | by Samantha Subin | tags: agents, cybersecurity, face

813.

Nancy Guthrie: A Case of Bad Calls and Bad Luck (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-08 | tags: airfares, benefits, benefits small

814.

Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: centers, earth, ground

815.

The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Luke Larsen | tags: display, inch, macbook

816.

Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

817.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: hurricane, jamaica, model

818.

Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

819.

NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | tags: answer, answer phone, computers

820.

‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: acquisition, acquisition led, alphonzo

821.

Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Nena Farrell | tags: books, read, readers

822.

I’m finally streaming Netflix in 4K on Chrome — here’s how you can too (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: browser, chrome, getting

823.

Apple's rumored "Ultra" lineup would include a foldable iPhone, camera AirPods, and a touchscreen MacBook (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: airpods, apple, cameras

824.

Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: client, head, head mare

825.

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

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

826.

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: cluster, cluster deaths, command

827.

US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: cluster, cluster deaths, command

828.

Modder turns Steam Controller trackpad haptics into stereo speakers with custom HID tool — Wired connection transmits 16-bit audio that sounds surprisingly full (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: audio, controller, hardware

829.

States with the least—and most—housing market inventory heading into the fall (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: active, active housing, crawl

830.

SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: capacity, hynix, memory

831.

Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Kat Merck | tags: follicles, hair, hair follicles

832.

Before you buy another USB-C charger, make sure it has this critical (and hidden) spec (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: charger, charging, support

833.

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Weathernext Team | tags: cyclones, forecasters, hurricane

834.

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Frank Landymore | tags: engagement, facebook, meta

835.

Turn your handwriting into a font for Android, Windows, or MacOS (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: bit differently, differently, form

836.

WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Megan Tomos | tags: chat, group, group chat

837.

Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey | tags: burned, center, red cross

838.

Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Rob Thubron | tags: bots, human, human traffic

839.

Why Aren’t Any AI Companies Watching Their Frontier Models to Make Sure They Don’t Go on Hacking Sprees? (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: agents, hack, models

840.

My favorite feel-good show is back (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by David Pierce | tags: apps, good, headphones