GoKawiil - Tech News

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Microsoft AI exec tells developers to default to OpenAI's top model as part of efficiency push (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jordan Novet | tags: group, microsoft, model

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Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: ai sales, come, come openai

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A Mystery Object in the Milky Way Is Blasting Out Particles 100 Times More Powerful Than the LHC (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: accelerator, accelerator push, cosmic

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Xbox's devastating July was inevitable (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jessica Conditt | tags: financial, july, layoffs

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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by About The Author | tags: camera, flock, michigan

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Senators Demand Crackdown On Wildfire 'Prediction Markets' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-05 | tags: blew, blew planet, bros

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Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: hardware, helix, memo

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Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, memory, microsoft

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Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame (zdnet.com)

2026-08-05 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | tags: linux, microsoft, share

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The Stoxx 600 just hit a record high – here's what's driving the pan-European index (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Joseph Wilkins | tags: stoxx 600, euronext nv, semiconductors

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Chip Maker Infineon Forecasts Strong Revenue Growth on Booming AI Demand (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-05 | tags: infineon, semiconductor, revenue

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SpaceX's AI spending unnerves Wall Street despite promises of quick payoff (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ari Levy Lora Kolodny | tags: spacex, openai, anthropic

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Amygdala astrocyte primary cilium mechanisms contribute to stress behaviours (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Pelaz | tags: anti, mice, performed

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ZFP36L2 orchestrates stress-adaptive plasticity in regeneration and cancer (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jiang | tags: cell, cells, gene

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Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: microsoft, github copilot, openai gpt-5.6

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Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes) (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: ms paint, doom, mark russinovich

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Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: phishing-as-a-service, ringcentral, microsoft 365

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What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: labor force, participation, economic indicators

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Windows 11 Home Vs Pro: What's the difference, and is it worth the upgrade? (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Dave Meikleham | tags: windows 11, microsoft, bitlocker

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The Next Xbox Could Be Every Xbox Ever Rolled Into One (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: xbox, microsoft, gaming

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Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Tim De Chant | tags: data centers, ercot, texas

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exFAT vs NTFS: What's the difference between these formats? (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Gabriela Vătu | tags: exfat, ntfs, microsoft

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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

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

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

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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

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You can now bug your WhatsApp group chats with an @all ping (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anna Washenko | tags: whatsapp, @all, discord

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Microsoft finally realized Windows 11 is too annoying. Can it be fixed? (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ed Bott | tags: windows 11, microsoft, file explorer

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Chinese chipmaking tool roadmaps examined — Beijing's nascent lithography tools target DUV production at five machines a year, and an EUV prototype with no chips (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Luke James | tags: china, lithography, asml

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Lego's latest Hubble set lets you look inside one of history's greatest space telescopes (techspot.com)

2026-08-04 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: lego, hubble space telescope, space instruments

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: xbox, microsoft, playstation