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1801.

Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Noah Shachtman | tags: laser weapons, us army, enduring high energy laser

1802.

iPhone 18 Pro will have three upgrades that have been rumored for years (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: iphone 18 pro, variable aperture, dynamic island

1803.

This Android launcher made my home screen fun again - and I'm using the free version (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jack Wallen | tags: android, mango launcher, google

1804.

Building community out of strangers (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View Archive | tags: blogging, blogroll, blogs

1805.

Building Community Out of Strangers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by View Archive | tags: blogging, blogroll, blogs

1806.

T-Mobile’s last outage may net you some compensation (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: t-mobile, outage, bill credits

1807.

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, elons musk, optimus robot

1808.

I bought cheap smoke detectors and soon regretted it - here's what I recommend now (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Maria Diaz | tags: smoke detectors, x-sense, amazon

1809.

New Jersey sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging it unlawfully wielded its power over delivery contractors (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Annie Palmer | tags: amazon, delivery contractors, antitrust

1810.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra drops 25% to its best non-Prime-Day price (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: samsung galaxy s26, android authority, prime day

1811.

Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Emma Roth | tags: telegram, app store, csam

1812.

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: microsoft, smartphone, internet

1813.

This New Field of Study Is Giving College Students an ‘Edge’ in the Job Market (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: ai degrees, computer science, virginia commonwealth university

1814.

Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cyclospora, foodborne parasite, taylor farms

1815.

I switched to this SSD enclosure - and immediately saw faster rendering speeds (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jack Wallen | tags: terramaster, nvme ssd, mac studio

1816.

Google Is Teasing Some Kind of Notification Light on the Pixel 11’s Camera Bar (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: google, pixel 11, camera bar

1817.

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: adform, ad blockers, kevin beaumont

1818.

New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: xcsset, macos, xcode

1819.

Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: sandisk, sk hynix, high bandwidth flash

1820.

2026 Lexus ES 500e first drive: A classy sedan with a slow charge (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Tim Stevens | tags: lexus, es 500e, ev charging

1821.

3 overlooked CarPlay features you'll wish you tried sooner - and why (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jada Jones | tags: carplay, apple, nissan

1822.

Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai adoption, patsnap, ieee spectrum

1823.

77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: open vsx, manifold security, evil twin

1824.

Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: geophysical research letters, global warming, climate change

1825.

This highly rated Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is just $279 until midnight! (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: lenovo, ideapad, chromebook

1826.

New HBF spec outlines tech that can give GPUs terabytes of extra memory — Sandisk and SK hynix unveil spec with up to 16-Hi NAND stacks, 3 TB/s bandwidth, UCIe (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anton Shilov | tags: hbf spec, sandisk, sk hynix

1827.

Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: claude code, codex, openai

1828.

New Samsung TVs will support HDR10+ Advanced streaming on Prime Video starting this month (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kris Holt | tags: hdr10+ advanced, samsung, prime video

1829.

What Is AI Model Distillation? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai model distillation, model compression, deep learning

1830.

You have no reason not to watch Babylon 5 now that it's free on YouTube (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Daniel Cooper | tags: babylon 5, warner bros, pten