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GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, rtx 2080 ti, gpu repair

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Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-29 | by Aaron Mok | tags: ai literacy, north carolina central university, iaier

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Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure (futurism.com)

2026-07-29 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon, nova, openai

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X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law (wired.com)

2026-07-29 | by Isabella Ward | tags: australia, social media, elon musk

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X Says Australia’s Under-16s Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law (wired.com)

2026-07-29 | by Isabella Ward | tags: australia, spacex, elon musk

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Are remote car starters still worth it in 2026? (engadget.com)

2026-07-29 | by Gabriela Vătu | tags: remote car starters, ford, rivian

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92% of wealthy Americans are changing their financial plans because of this trend—and it’s reshaping how founders exit (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: wealthy americans, financial plans, business owners

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Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposition at an AI data center meeting — gigawatt-scale project gets approved anyway despite community resistance (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Jowi Morales | tags: ai data center, emporia kansas, lux claridge

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Beef Experts Explain Why You Shouldn’t Default to the Grill When Cooking Steak (cnet.com)

2026-07-29 | by Pamela Vachon | tags: grill, steak, queen miami beach

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Serena Williams wants to find the next trillion-dollar company (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: starfire ventures, unicorns, nike

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Telegram literally gives Russia the middle finger after founder Pavel Durov is charged with aiding terrorism (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Rob Thubron | tags: telegram, pavel durov, fsb

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Tim Cook’s last earnings call comes at momentous time for Apple with stock at record (cnbc.com)

2026-07-29 | by Kif Leswing | tags: apple, iphone, nvidia

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The US just banned Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters over security fears (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: humanoid robots, power inverters, federal communications commission

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The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-29 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: openai, hugging face, nvidia

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The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Was a Bold, Beautiful Failure (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Allison Marsh | tags: transatlantic cable, samuel morse, cyrus w. field

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Jessica Lange on Her Return to ‘American Horror Story’: Oh Sh*t, Now I Have to Do It (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: jessica lange, american horror story, michael giacchino

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French musician Kavinsky found dead (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: kavinsky, french musician, music industry

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Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with pepper spray to neutralize school shooters — ‘Campus Guardian Angel’ drones can also smash windows and ram attackers (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mark Tyson | tags: mithril defense, campus guardian angel, drone defense

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Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-29 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ofgem, data centres, electricity grid

620.

Mercury Has a Radiation Belt After All—But It’s Super Wonky (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: mercury, radiation belt, magnetic field

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Chip stocks shed more than $1 trillion as selloff hits companies powering AI boom (cnbc.com)

2026-07-29 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz Lee Ying Shan | tags: nvidia, samsung electronics, taiwan semiconductor

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Prototype smart ring cracks the holy grail of non-invasive blood sugar measurement (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-29 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: smart ring, university of california, apple watch

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Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop SKU to require 65W of separate power delivery for its iGPU, leaker claims — beefy integrated graphics could require two VCCGT phases for 12 Xe3P cores (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nova lake, xe3p cores, coyote cove

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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: google synthid, ai-generated media, openai

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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: synthid, google, ai-generated media

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AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-29 | by Danica Radovanović | tags: digital inequality, ai strategies, south africa

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AI Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-29 | by Danica Radovanović | tags: digital inequality, ai strategies, south africa

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The powerful branding trick Guinness, Corona, and Spotify all share (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: guinness, spotify, branding

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State of play: SSD pricing one year into the AI component crisis — 220% price increases are crippling the DIY market (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: ssd, micron, crucial

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China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nvidia blackwell, moonshot ai, kimi k3