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Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Al Shaw | tags: foia, office of personnel management, federal agencies

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The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: money laundering, us-mexico border, trump administration

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: windows 10, microsoft update, secure boot

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Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: microsoft, patch tuesday, zero-day

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Mark Zuckerberg Just Published a 6,500-Word Essay on AI — Here Are the Crib Notes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jonathan Small | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, openai

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Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Nathan Yau | tags: flock, nexar, uber

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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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The FCC approved "space mirrors" that experts say could blind stargazers and disrupt wildlife (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: fcc, reflect orbital, space mirrors

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iOS 27 beta 5 adds option to upgrade iCloud+ subscription for more AI (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: icloud+, apple intelligence, ios 27

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AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Molly Taft | tags: microsoft, artificial intelligence, fossil fuels

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Waymo Has Nearly 4,000 Cars on the Road. One Just Drove Over an Exploding Firework. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jonathan Small | tags: waymo, autonomous vehicles, firework incident

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Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: windows 11, microsoft update catalog, patch tuesday

583.

New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: license plate reader, leonardo, signaltrace

584.

I tried Opera's new vertical tabs - and it might be the best implementation yet (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jack Wallen | tags: opera, vertical tabs, vivaldi

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It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: amazon, rules, video

586.

Zap Rocks. Add Water. Get Clean Hydrogen (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-11 | by Ariel Bleicher | tags: hydrogen, eden geopower, borehole

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This New Open-Weight AI Model Is Built for Video and Robots (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Katelyn Chedraoui | tags: ltx-2.5, nvidia rtx, open-weight ai

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Spotify’s AI Persona Label to Pluck AI Artists From Your Algorithm (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kourtnee Jackson | tags: spotify, ai persona, ai artists

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Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Sarah Perez | tags: spotify, ai persona, artificial intelligence

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How to help Colombia earthquake victims: 4 things you can do right now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: colombia, earthquake, relief groups

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Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta say AI is making their jobs harder, not easier (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: openai, anthropic, meta

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What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: amazon, panos panay, surface devices

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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: openai, ethics, leadership

594.

OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: openai, ethicist, artificial intelligence

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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: anthropic, claude, eu ai act

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AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-11 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ai agent, openai, anthropic

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AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-11 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ai agent, openai, meta

598.

FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jon Martindale | tags: fcc, optical transceivers, china

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You can now order this Android phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: minimal phone 2, mediatek dimensity 8300, unihertz

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Apple faces class action lawsuit for ‘fraud’ over iCloud Private Relay flaw (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: icloud private relay, apple, passkeys