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ZA/UM announces layoffs two months after the launch of Zero Parades (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jackson Chen | tags: za/um, disco elysium, zero parades

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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Etiido Uko | tags: gta iii, vice city, san andreas

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AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D plummets to $279 days after launch — the X3D chip rules the mid-range at its discounted price (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 7 7700x3d, newegg

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Strapping 11 fans and a 360mm AIO to an RTX 3080 sounds crazy until you see the 30°C temp drop — modded GPU delivered less than 5 FPS uplift at turbojet noise levels (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: rtx 3080, asus rog, arctic case fans

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Jurassic Park packed $4 million of legit 1993 computer hardware — a software engineer detailed every single piece of hardware in the film (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: silicon graphics, apple powerbook, jurassic park

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Lego Strikes Back Against Screens—With Chips in Bricks (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-18 | tags: lego, smart play, motion sensors

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X and music publishers quietly settle opposing lawsuits (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jackson Chen | tags: music publishers, nmpa, copyright infringement

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OpenEvidence is bribing spouses of CMI and Genentech leadership (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: openevidence, cmi, genentech

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Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | by Posted | tags: new horizons, pluto, kuiper belt

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Heresy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: heresy, trinity college, newton

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Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: millennials, private equity, lawn-care business

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Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by Isomorphic Labs | tags: google deepmind, isomorphic labs, alphafold

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Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-18 | by Anthony Ha | tags: tiktok, oracle, bytedance

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The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by James Davis Nicoll | tags: fermi paradox, percolation theory, enrico fermi

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Union Fights Microsoft Over Layoffs at Game Studios (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | by Posted | tags: microsoft, xbox, bethesda game studios

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Elixir-lang.org has a new design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by The Elixir Team | tags: elixir, immutability, elixir-lang.org

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How does the Apple Watch water lock feature actually work? (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Christine Persaud | tags: apple watch, water lock, swimming

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Everybody’s Suing Paramount This Week (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: paramount, warner bros discovery, writers

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If You're a YouTube TV and DirecTV Subscriber, You Could Be Eligible for a Disney Settlement Payout (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: youtube tv, directv, disney

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Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: nvidia, gddr7, rtx 50 super

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s trademark leather jacket raises nearly $1 Million at charity auction — bidding makes $60,000 valuation look like pocket change (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, foxconn

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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: gpt-5.6, convex optimization, lean

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Chinese solar company says its new cell has an efficiency of 35.5 percent (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: longi, crystalline silicon-perovskite, solar cell

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Apple @ Work: New macOS ClickFix malware brings a new potential backdoor to your enterprise fleet (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-18 | by Bradley C | tags: macos, applescript, mosyle

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YouTube TV Review: Even at This Price, Still the Best Channel Selection You'll Find (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: youtube tv, google, cnet

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I let an AI take over my Google TV for a week — and it solved streaming’s biggest problem (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: google tv, lumio, project neo

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AGI AI828 SSD Review: A near-last resort for those on a budget (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Shane Downing | tags: agi, ai828, ps5

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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Your Smart Home Is Raising Your Electric Bill. Here’s How to Stop It (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: google nest, amazon echo, phantom load

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My Top College Dorm Device Picks I've Tried Out at Home (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: lepro ai lamp, google home speaker, security sensor