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YouTube is auto-launching Shorts, and users aren’t happy (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: youtube shorts, google, android authority

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Google One has quietly turned your Android phone into another subscription (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: google one, android, google photos

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Chinese farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice — farmer trusted pesticide recipe after months of successful advice (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jowi Morales | tags: pesticide, flupyrimethalin, sesame

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Why Each Octopus Arm Has a Mind of Its Own (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Cara Giaimo | tags: octopus, cephalopods, neurons

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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Eric Schmidt | tags: alphafold, protein data bank, deepmind

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Member of The Com sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: the com, snapchat, telegram

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Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops (techspot.com)

2026-08-10 | by Rob Thubron | tags: flusulfasulfaether, chuzhou, chatbot

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This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Nathan Edwards | tags: novelkeys, realforce 86u, mechanical keyboards

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'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Matt O'Sullivan | tags: barangaroo, tunnel boring machine, sydney harbour

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What Happened to HackerOne? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Joel Margolis | tags: hackerone, bug bounty, jobert abma

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Where are you ticklish? Researchers map the sensation across cultures (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Ainsworth | tags: tickling, radboud university, nature human behaviour

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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Freelance Contributor | tags: purity bakery, hard tack, newfoundland

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The Hacker's Renaissance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: hacker, inside, manifesto

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Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: alphabet, alphabet soup, buy coffee

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OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra (slashdot.org)

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

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How to use ChatGPT's new, more natural Voice Mode for conversations (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: chatgpt, conversations, gpt live

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Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine (slashdot.org)

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

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A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Iago Leal De Freitas | tags: dynamic programming, richard bellman, stochastic dual

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Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: gaussian splatting, julia, cuda.jl

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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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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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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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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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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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After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zak Killian | tags: castle, game, german

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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: alpha, cache, chip

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The AI Therapist: A WSJ Podcast Series (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai mental, bring, chatbots

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RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: capacity, digitimes, growing