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Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: sheeppox, medieval manuscripts, dna sequencing

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Home Depot Labor Day Sale (2026): BOGO on Best Grills and Tools (wired.com)

2026-09-04 | by Matthew Korfhage | tags: weber, home depot, milwaukee

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Mullvad – Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: mullvad, dns, doh

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This ‘Super’ El Niño Has Whipped Up a Never-Before-Seen Cyclone Trio in the Pacific (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: el niño, nasa, cyclone

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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: fermats last theorem, lean proof assistant, imperial college london

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Casio ‘CasioNaut’ G-Shock GMC-2500 GAC-2500 Series: Price, Specs, Availability (wired.com)

2026-09-04 | by Jeremy White | tags: g-shock, casio, nautilus

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HomeKit Weekly: ULTRALOQ’s Bolt Fingerprint has everything you’d want except Home Key (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-04 | by Bradley C | tags: ultraloq, homekit, home key

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SpaceXAI expands Grok Bot to iPad as access expands to cheaper plans (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-04 | by Zac Hall | tags: spacexai, grok bot, cursor

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US Military Discovers Just How Dangerous Ad Trackers Can Be (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: ad trackers, dangerous, dangerous ad

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Federal ‘Bureal’ of Investigation: Kash Patel Posts Embarrassing Slop Video About How Much the FBI Loves AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: fbi, kash patel, federal bureau of investigation

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Hayes AT command set (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: hayes, usrobotics, suprafaxmodem

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Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-04 | by Sarah Perez | tags: twitter, trademark, tweet

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The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Andrew Patton | tags: rust, react, vite

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CNBC Accidentally Admits Why Employers Love AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: cnbc, employers, accident

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Silo season 4 just got its release date on Apple TV and first trailer (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-04 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple tv, silo season 4, hugh howey

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“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: vmware, broadcom, vcf

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This Hiking Exoskeleton May Actually Help Your Bad Knees, Finally (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: hypershell halo, exoskeleton, hiking

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I Watched a Floor Washing Robot Mothership Deploy a Roomba Using a Mechnical Arm (cnet.com)

2026-09-04 | by Ajay Kumar | tags: irobot, roomba, ifa berlin

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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: openai, anthropic, spacex

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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: ascii smuggling, prompt injections, microsoft defender

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Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: eink bike computer, open-source, device

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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like? (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-04 | by Theresa Loconsolo | tags: apple, john ternus, iphone

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The Big Questions Before Apple’s Big iPhone Event (cnet.com)

2026-09-04 | by Bridget Carey | tags: apple, iphone, apple park

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Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: nvidia, hugging face, llama.cpp

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Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Garrin Mcgoldrick | tags: llm, transformer, autoregressive

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Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: pentagon, testosterone, pete hegseth

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Pentagon releases, then quickly removes, testosterone screening policy (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: pentagon, testosterone, pete hegseth

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No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-04 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, cybercab, elon musk

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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: meta, reality labs, bittorrent

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Pixel Watch 5 gets its first update, and Gemini is stealing the show (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-04 | tags: pixel watch, google, gemini