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NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-19 | get Spacecraft → | tags: agency, flight, isaacman

32.

Famous Signatures Through History (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get Famous Signature → | tags: autograph, bold, documents

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Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, cops say (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-16 | get MacBook → | tags: allegedly, best, best buy

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Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI (engadget.com)

2026-02-14 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: bytedance, cease desist, copyrighted

35.

Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-12 | get News Algorithm → | tags: apple, apple news, ferguson

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Applied Materials to pay $252 million penalty for selling chipmaking tools to banned Chinese firm — settles over alleged 56 tool exports to chipmaker SMIC following Entity List designation (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Luke James | get Chipmaker → | tags: applied, applied materials, commerce

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Texas Lawmakers Sound Alarm on 'Torture, Killing, and Inhumane Treatment' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-12 | by Stephen Prager | tags: detainees, detention, facility

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AI Researchers Are Quitting OpenAI and Anthropic, Warning 'The World Is in Peril' (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-12 | by Jonathan Small | get Neural Network → | tags: anthropic, executives, leaving

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Aloha, AI Moana: Google's AI Will No Longer Accept Disney Character Prompts (cnet.com)

2026-02-11 | by See Full Bio | get Google Assistant → | tags: disney, google, image

40.

Who Smeared Feynman (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | get Quantum Computing → | tags: author, feynman, file

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Salesforce employees call on CEO Benioff to cancel ICE 'opportunities' (cnbc.com)

2026-02-11 | by Jordan Novet | get Salesforce CRM → | tags: benioff, cnbc, employees

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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE (wired.com)

2026-02-10 | by Lauren Goode | get Salesforce → | tags: agents, benioff, employees

43.

Google Has a Major Problem With ICE (futurism.com)

2026-02-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: contracts, google, government

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Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP (cnbc.com)

2026-02-07 | by Laya Neelakandan | get Cloud Computing → | tags: employees, google, letter

45.

NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-06 | by Jeff Fong | get Modular Housing → | tags: california, city, complaint

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NIMBYs Aren't Just Shutting Down Housing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-06 | by Jeff Fong | get Neighborhood Impact Model → | tags: california, city, complaint

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Infineon allegedly hikes prices of power switches and ICs amid AI boom — knock-on pricing could impact virtually all electronic devices (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Anton Shilov | get Power Switches → | tags: april, infineon, letter

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Senators ask Meta why it waited so long to make teen accounts private by default (theverge.com)

2026-02-05 | by Emma Roth | get Instagram → | tags: court, court document, delayed

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"Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-04 | get Smartphone → | tags: database, domestic, going

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Sen. Warren, others urge FTC, DOJ to scrutinize tech AI 'acquihire' deals for antitrust violations (cnbc.com)

2026-02-04 | by Jonathan Vanian | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: deals, letter, senators

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Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-02 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: administration, branch, grok

52.

How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-02 | by Lenharo | get Handwriting → | tags: brain, children, cursive

53.

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | get Wordle → | tags: letter, letter words, list

54.

50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | by David Cassel | get Microsoft Office → | tags: basic, computer, gates

55.

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities (wired.com)

2026-01-30 | by Katie Drummond | get Smartphone → | tags: iceout, iceout tech, industry

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Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | get Email → | tags: application, applications, cost

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Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers (wired.com)

2026-01-29 | by Vittoria Elliott | get Smartphone → | tags: administration, board, building

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Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: investment, letter, musk

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Tesla invested $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Kirsten Korosec | get XAI → | tags: investment, letter, physical

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Tim Cook addresses Minneapolis shootings in internal memo: ‘time for deescalation’ (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-28 | by Marcus Mendes | get Smartphone → | tags: apple, cook, letter