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Sports Betting Site Boasts That It’s Letting Users Bet on Little League Players (futurism.com)

2026-08-19 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: little league, offshore sportsbooks, betonline

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HomePad code suggests it’ll act like a giant Apple Watch (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-19 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: homepod mini, apple watch, tvos

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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: beijing, deepseek, nvidia

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Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: intermediate tokens, reasoning traces, anthropomorphizing

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Flock’s Network Is Losing Value to Cops as More and More of Its Cameras Go Offline (futurism.com)

2026-08-19 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, dane county

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We lab-tested 7 TVs for color accuracy - and the winners weren't Sony or Samsung (zdnet.com)

2026-08-19 | by Allison Murray | tags: hisense, calman, samsung

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‘Lanterns’ Won’t Go on Too Long Like ‘Lost’ Did, According to Damon Lindelof (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: damon lindelof, lost, the leftovers

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AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country's AI windfall 'can be shared by all,' 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: ai servers, taiwan, foxconn

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Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk (slashdot.org)

2026-08-19 | tags: sugar rationing, cancer risk, joe martin

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We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Luxury Watch. Nobody Could Spot the Difference (wired.com)

2026-08-19 | by Alistair Charlton | tags: rolex, swiss watch, counterfeit

4181.

Chinese Humanoid Robot Leader Soars in Market Debut Despite U.S. Ban (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-19 | tags: unitree robotics, humanoid robot, china

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First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can't power them (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: nvidia h200, bytedance, tencent

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The U.S. banned Nvidia's best chips from going to China. Now it's trying to close a crucial loophole (cnbc.com)

2026-08-19 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: nvidia, gb300, moonshot ai

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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There’s a Very Simple Reason Why You Love the Slate Truck (wired.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jeremy White | tags: slate, jeff bezos, tisha johnson

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Password spraying attacks surge 155x as hackers exploit MFA gaps (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: microsoft azure, enstra, password spraying

4187.

Dev uses Claude AI to create native macOS driver for 'obscure' Windows-only printer — Linux container hack enables system-wide Cmd-P printing, driver now available on Github (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Mark Tyson | tags: claude ai, hp laser 1008a, linux container

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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces (wired.com)

2026-08-19 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: people-finder, amazon s3, face recognition

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GameNative now lets you adjust CPU, GPU clock speeds on Galaxy devices (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: gamenative, samsung galaxy, retroid pocket g2

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Galaxy S26 FE leak points to longer battery life, but with a notable trade-off (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: galaxy s26 fe, eprel, samsung

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Framework's new Pro modular laptop is everything I wanted (minus the cost of memory) (zdnet.com)

2026-08-19 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: framework, laptop 13 pro, intel series 3

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I thought this Motorola app was bloatware — now I can’t live without it (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: motorola, smart connect, lenovo

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Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: minecraft, command blocks, objz

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Amazon to bring 30-minute drone delivery to 500 US locations by the end of 2026 (techspot.com)

2026-08-19 | by Rob Thubron | tags: amazon, prime air, drone delivery

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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: critical infrastructure, post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics

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People From 50- to 61-Years-Old Are Reportedly the Least Freaked Out by AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: pew survey, age groups, public opinion

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GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: canon eos 550d, magic lantern, doom

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Why so many workers are turning down promotions (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: promotions, american workers, work-life balance

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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-19 | by Kelly Clancy | tags: apple, google, openai

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Google Photos could soon let you keep your phone awake all night for a good reason (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: google photos, android doze mode, cloud backup