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Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by Jim Waterson | get London City Map Puzzle → | tags: london, tiktok, met police

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Utah Is Giving Dr. AI the Power to Renew Drug Prescriptions (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-03 | tags: utah, dr. ai, drug prescriptions

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Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | by Luke James | get H.264 Licensing Fee Guide → | tags: via licensing, h.264, streaming license

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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Luke James | get H.264 Codec Licensing Kit → | tags: h.264, via licensing alliance, streaming license fees

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H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get H.264 Codec Licensing Guide → | tags: via licensing alliance, h.264, streaming fees

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Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' By Guides In Insurance Fraud Scheme (slashdot.org)

2026-04-02 | get Climbing Safety Gear Kit → | tags: mount everest, nepal police, insurance fraud

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Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-02 | by Zack Whittaker | get Identity Theft Protection Kit → | tags: duc app, duales, amazon web services

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Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | by Julie Bort | get Open Source Forking Guide → | tags: delve, sim.ai, simstudio

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The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-01 | by Julie Bort | tags: delve, sim.ai, simstudio

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OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by David Uzondu | get Nextcloud Enterprise Subscription → | tags: onlyoffice, nextcloud, euro-office

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Pincer movement: fossil pushes origins of chelicerate arthropods back to the Cambrian period (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Lamsdell | get Chelicerate Arthropod Model Kit → | tags: chelicerates, horseshoe crabs, spiders

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A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Lerosey-Aubril | get Chelicerate Fossil Model → | tags: chelicerates, cambrian, pycnogonida

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Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-31 | get Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit → | tags: cell phone, radio, hydrocodone

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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones (technologyreview.com)

2026-03-30 | by Antonio Regalado | get Cloning Technology Kit → | tags: cloning, surrogates, schloendorn

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Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | by Zoe Sottile | get AI Facial Recognition Software → | tags: ai facial recognition, fargo police, cass county

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Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America (futurism.com)

2026-03-28 | by Joe Wilkins | get Smart Security Camera System → | tags: cows, flock safety, ecam

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Hong Kong border agents and police can demand device passwords, including from US citizens, under penalty of imprisonment — border controls become more invasive worldwide (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-28 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Portable Password Lockbox → | tags: hong kong, border control, device encryption

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Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-27 | by Al Landes | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: hong kong police, encryption, iphone

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Dutch Police discloses security breach after phishing attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-03-27 | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: politie, phishing attack, security breach

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Apple TV has acclaimed crime drama returning this summer (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-26 | by Ryan Christoffel | get Apple TV Subscription → | tags: apple tv, women in blue, bárbara mori

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Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | get OpenAI GPT-4 Model → | tags: openai, sora, disney

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The end of Sora also means the end of Disney's $1 billion OpenAI investment (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | get OpenAI GPT-4 Model → | tags: openai, sora, disney

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Hong Kong Police Can Demand Passwords Under New National Security Rules (slashdot.org)

2026-03-25 | get Password Keeper Security → | tags: hong kong police, national security law, john lee

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A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-25 | by Lucas Ropek | get DJI Matrice 300 RTK → | tags: brinc, drone, police helicopters

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US senators want to suspend Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and its intermediaries — bipartisan letter to Commerce Dept says that Huang’s claims of no chip diversion ‘were contradicted by reporting available’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-24 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, ai chips

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British fintech Revolut reports record annual profit as it gears up for U.S. push (cnbc.com)

2026-03-24 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Revolut Premium Metal Card → | tags: revolut, fintech, uk banking license

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Operation Alice: The dark web isn't as hidden as it seems, as global crackdown shows (techspot.com)

2026-03-23 | get Dark Web Monitoring Tool → | tags: europol, operation alice, dark web

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Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-23 | get Aviation Safety Headset → | tags: laguardia, firefighting vehicle, plane

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Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI (futurism.com)

2026-03-21 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Therapy Chatbot → | tags: ai chatbots, kaiser permanente, mental health care

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Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada (wired.com)

2026-03-20 | by Kate Knibbs | get Kalshi Event Contract Platform → | tags: kalshi, prediction markets, nevada