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DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, government, receipts

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Weak Passwords Just Exposed Our Water Supply to Iranian Hackers (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Supan | tags: agency, attack, attacks

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Employee happiness is climbing back from all-time lows, survey suggests (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: according bamboohr, bamboohr, bamboohr recent

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How snails engineer their slime (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: anti, garden, mucus

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Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agents, single

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Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by The Canadian Press | tags: canada, cent, jobs

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The First Details on Garmin’s Fenix 9 Smartwatch Have Leaked (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: arriving, arriving end, end year

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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agent memory, agents

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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sarah Perez | tags: agents, browser, build

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Trevor Noah Will Host Google’s Pixel 11 Event Next Week (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: devices, event, expect

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Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: clips, comment, didn

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Crypto’s infrastructure era arrives, with AI agents poised to reshape demand (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tanaya Macheel | tags: agents, ai agents, crypto

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‘Ramps’ Near Egypt’s Red Pyramid Might Actually Be Ancient Dams (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ancient, ancient egyptians, better

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Your phone doesn't block SIM swapping attacks by default: Turn on these carrier settings now (zdnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Lance Whitney | tags: account, lock, mobile

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Free Virtual Event | September 15: How to Raise Capital in 2026: Best Fundraising Strategies for Entrepreneurs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Entrepreneur Staff | tags: capital, event, fund

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Meta Officially Ruled a ‘Public Nuisance,’ Judge Orders It to Pay $567 Million (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: adopt, adopt new, giant

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Gen Z Cares About This One Factor More Than Salary and Work-Life Balance (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: entry, kpmg, level

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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: natural, natural gas, plants

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OpenAI’s Rumored Smart Speaker Sounds More Like a… Squirming AI Robot? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai hardware, anthropomorphized, anthropomorphized hockey

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AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: broido, broido intermetrics, established

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Software is about people, not code (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by View All Posts Mooreds | tags: built, code, development

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Software is about people, not code (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by View All Posts Mooreds | tags: built, code, development

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Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: comments

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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: challenge, chrome, chrome http

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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: challenge, chrome, chrome http

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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jay Peters | tags: agentic, astra, critical

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‘They Are Thieves’: FTC Complaints About Hims & Hers Detail Surprise Charges (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: charges, complaints, complaints hims

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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: center, data center, hardware

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Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: best, community, disrupt

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The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-07 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai designed, censorship, censorship industrial