GoKawiil - Tech News

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NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: laptops, modem, nasa

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Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dell Cameron | tags: nexar, openai, security

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: band, browser, burned

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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: ai labs, cybersecurity, labs

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Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: cyber, def franklin, fewer people

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: band, browser, burned

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PSA: Claude Code enabling auto mode as default next week, Anthropic says (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Zac Hall | tags: anthropic, auto, auto mode

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Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Will Shanklin | tags: color, color options, hours

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Before You Open a Second Location, Answer These 7 Questions — Or Risk Turning One Strong Business Into Two Weak Ones (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Dr. Sterling L. Carter | tags: expansion, founder, growth

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Details Leak on OpenAI’s Doughnut-Shaped Speaker (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tyler Lacoma | tags: apple, devices, home

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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive” (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apple, bloomberg, openai

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How snails engineer their slime (arstechnica.com)

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

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AI-Generated Patches Fail Half the Time (darkreading.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: break, break open, bugs

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OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai hardware, allegedly, details

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This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: major, major wars, opening

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Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai slop, petrie, petrie norris

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Google’s AI Search seemingly leaked unreleased game content and no one knows how (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: character, developer, game

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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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One of these Googlebook leaks is not like the other (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: asus, asus googlebook, googlebook

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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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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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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: allegedly, chatbots, chatgpt

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 7, 2026 — Inside China's lithography efforts, co-packaged optics get a spotlight, and Samsung debuts next-gen memory tech (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: hardware, openai, premium

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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: advanced, anthropic, bytedance

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Trump is losing his war on wind power (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: administration, development, government

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Europe finalizes plans for its 'sovereign' Starlink competitor (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: constellation, european, past

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3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): Lenovo, MSI, Alienware (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Luke Larsen | tags: fps fps, gaming, gaming laptops

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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: conversations, follow, hashtags

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Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: agents, frontier, kimi