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Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo as AI crunch drives sophisticated counterfeit market — free open-source software can flag clones by checking firmware, PCI Vendor ID (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Zhiye Liu | get SSD Firmware Checker Tool → | tags: samsung, crystaldiskinfo, firmware

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The Iran war is exposing weak spots in the AI supply chain (cnbc.com)

2026-05-19 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get AI Supply Chain Security Kit → | tags: nvidia, tsmc, infineon

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Tech investors loved this earnings season — but the Iran war is piling pressure on the companies powering the AI boom (cnbc.com)

2026-05-19 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get AI Investment Strategy Book → | tags: nvidia, tsmc, infineon

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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | by Simon Willison | get GPT-4 Model Overview → | tags: openai, anthropic, codex

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An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-19 | by Aygün | get AI Writing Assistant Software → | tags: empirical research assistance, large language model, tree search

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Influencers are peddling ‘the library hack’ as a way to score cheaper flights. Whether it works is beside the point (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-18 | get Travel hacking books → | tags: library hack, airlines, browser histories

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Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get NVIDIA A100 GPU → | tags: fuse, cuda-checkpoint, modal

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Spotify’s recent sudden downtime may have been political payback, not just a routine outage (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-18 | get Spotify Premium Gift Card → | tags: spotify, ddos attack, 313 team

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Fuel Tank Breaches Expand Scope of Iran's Cyber Offensive (darkreading.com)

2026-05-18 | by Elizabeth Montalbano | get Cybersecurity USB Defense Kit → | tags: attacks, critical, critical infrastructure

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Dell makes its strongest case yet for keeping AI out of the cloud (techspot.com)

2026-05-18 | get Dell PowerEdge Server → | tags: dell technologies, ai workloads, cloud infrastructure

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Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay (futurism.com)

2026-05-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Essay Grading Software Tool → | tags: ai chatbots, grade inflation, uc berkeley

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The Backward Logic of Chickenpox Parties (wired.com)

2026-05-18 | by Lindsay Dodgson | get Chickenpox Vaccine → | tags: chickenpox, varicella-zoster virus, vaccine

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Ebola outbreak is a global health emergency: what happens next (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-18 | by Fieldhouse | get Ebola Virus Survival Kit → | tags: ebola, world health organization, democratic republic of the congo

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Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU Cooler → | tags: amd sev-snp, infinity fabric, confidential computing

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KV Cache Is Becoming the Memory Hierarchy of Inference (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get AI Model Memory Expansion Kit → | tags: kv cache, memory hierarchy, inference

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The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-16 | get AI Expert Learning Kit → | tags: alphazero, reinforcement learning, human evaluators

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AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-16 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Data Center Power Supply → | tags: pjm interconnection, data centers, electricity prices

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Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies (futurism.com)

2026-05-16 | by Krystle Vermes | get EMF Radiation Protection Blanket → | tags: data centers, infrasound, tom’s hardware

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Android Auto runs faster and smoother now thanks to my 4 easy tweaks (zdnet.com)

2026-05-15 | by Artie Beaty | get Android Auto Wireless Adapter → | tags: android auto, google, youtube

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Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up (wired.com)

2026-05-15 | by Maxwell Zeff | get OpenAI Logo Mug → | tags: openai, greg brockman, chatgpt

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Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shakeup (wired.com)

2026-05-15 | by Maxwell Zeff | get OpenAI Official Merchandise → | tags: openai, chatgpt, codex

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She Turned a ‘Devastating’ Business Blow Into a ‘Content Engine’ — Making $30K In a Day With a Product Sold Every 70 Seconds (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | by Amanda Breen | get Content Creation Studio Kit → | tags: tiktok, coastal caviar, alix earle

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I’ve Scaled Tech Companies Past $100 Million for 25 Years. Here Are 3 Things Leaders Miss Before Implementing AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | by Greg Davis | get AI Leadership Strategy Book → | tags: cloud, saas, entrepreneur

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At Harvard, over 60% of grades given last year were A’s. Now the university is weighing a grade inflation crackdown (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-15 | get Grade Inflation Awareness Book → | tags: harvard university, grade inflation, undergraduate

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ASCII by Jason Scott (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-15 | get ASCII Art Book → | tags: living computer museum, mainframe, slashdot

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My 4 favorite Android Auto settings are seriously useful - but hidden by default (zdnet.com)

2026-05-15 | by Artie Beaty | get Android Auto Wireless Adapter → | tags: android auto, developer mode, infotainment system

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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness" (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get OpenAI GPT-4 Official Hoodie → | tags: claude, reinforcement learning, ars technica

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UK sovereign LLM inference (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-15 | get UK Sovereign LLM Toolkit → | tags: sovereign, llm, inference

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Exclusive: NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-15 | by Kozlov | get COVID-19 Scientific Journal → | tags: niaid, fauci, covid-19

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Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-14 | get Cerebras Wafer-Scale AI Chip → | tags: cerebras, ai processor, nasdaq