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Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Adam Pond | tags: openai, chatgpt, ethics

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Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | tags: linux, cloudflare, statcounter

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Archaeologists Thought a Mass Grave of 79 Shackled Men Held Foreign Invaders. They Were Wrong (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: athens, archaeology, mass grave

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$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jowi Morales | tags: greenlink connector, undersea cable, harry potter

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Your AI agent may be ready. Your sales motion probably isn’t. (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: salesforce, agent exchange, gutenburg

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This $50 power bank is safer than my lithium-ion battery - and it's coming on my next flight (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: power bank, lithium-ion batteries, reelcharge

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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: zoom, screen sharing, ai vulnerabilities

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It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: noaa, el niño, dust bowl

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Nikki From ‘Obsession’ Will Freak You Out at Universal’s Horror Nights (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: universal horror nights, nikki, obsession

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Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: chatgpt, claude, gemini

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Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: wesco, exfilsquad, cloud crm

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$580 million undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf — company caves to fan demands to safeguard Harry Potter filming location, will instead pass by Bronze Age burial site (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jowi Morales | tags: greenlink connector, undersea cable, dobby grave

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Jackie’s legacy: How a bald eagle influencer inspired millions and helped save an endangered habitat (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: bald eagle, big bear valley, california

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Ranking the Best Red-Light Therapy Masks and LED Devices of 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: red-light therapy, shark cryoglow, led face mask

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Target names its first chief AI officer in a bid to remake the shopping experience (exclusive) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: target, chandhu nair, ai officer

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This $30 Hoto 25-piece electric screwdriver set is a must-buy option for PC builders and hobbyists —40% saving on portable driver with long-life 1,500 mAh battery and 25 ultra-hard bits for your next project (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Ben Stockton | tags: hoto, usb-c, pc builder

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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nyaa, coda, bittorrent

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The next great moonshots won’t come from Silicon Valley alone (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: alphabet, moonshot factory, sergey brin

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Laser wireless charging could keep drones airborne indefinitely — improved receiver converts at 38.49% efficiency and uses nanocrystalline material for thermals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: laser wireless charging, civil aviation university of china, perovskite laser cell

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Panic of 1873 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: deutsche bank, vienna stock exchange, german unification

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Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Growth and Restoration (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: red-light therapy, hair loss, lllt

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6 things I regularly do on my Pixel that are unimaginable on an iPhone (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: pixel 9a, android authority, google

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DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong — 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: stirling engine, pickentcode, tom's hardware

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The design world is already obsessed with this recommendation app. Now, you will be too (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: rec league, recommendation app, word-of-mouth

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Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: chatgpt, homeschooling, large language models

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DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: cloudflare, ddos, kimwolf

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CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: sharepoint, cve-2026-45659, microsoft

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Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Marc B. Reynolds | tags: integer division, floating-point, fma

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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: openai, employee tender offer, sam altman

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A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-11 | by Septer | tags: el niño, amazon rainforest, climate change