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The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today — 128x128 grayscale feed predated the World Wide Web to monitor a Cambridge coffee pot (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cambridge university, trojan room coffee pot, acorn archimedes

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Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say (slashdot.org)

2026-08-22 | by Posted | tags: chatgpt, ziprecruiter, federal reserve bank of new york

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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Luke James | tags: gta 6, take-two interactive, discord

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I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | by Bruno Van Branden | tags: shelving, oxford, mahogany

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GTA 6 Leaks Prompt Take-Two to Seek Subpoenas for Microsoft, Discord Data (cnet.com)

2026-08-21 | by Oscar Gonzalez | tags: take-two interactive, gta 6, microsoft

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American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges (slashdot.org)

2026-08-21 | tags: grapheneos, pixel, border search

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Take-Two subpoenas Discord and Microsoft in hunt for GTA VI leaker (engadget.com)

2026-08-21 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: take-two, discord, microsoft

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This ‘Little Planet’ Is a Surreal Record of How We’ve Changed Nature—and It’s a Science Photo Contest Winner (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: little planet, science photo contest, nature photography

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Why are ‘Woke 1’ and ‘Woke 2’ suddenly going viral? AOC ‘crazy’ comment sparks internet debate (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: aoc, woke 1.0, abc news

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Rare deal drops the Plaud Note Pro to just $159.99 for a limited time (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: plaud note pro, android authority, amazon

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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: photoshop, raspberry pi, apple mac

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Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks (theverge.com)

2026-08-21 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: gta vi, take-two interactive, discord

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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: us border, phone data, felony charges

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The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | by Written By | tags: cassandra, acid transactions, accord

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Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras — SMS-triggered shell access and passwordless live feeds found in EU-funded rollout (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-21 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nero r-one, semicon, cordon pro

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The best PS3 emulator on Android just got online play (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: ps3 emulator, armsx3, rpcn framework

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SickKids data breach exposes employee and job applicant info (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: sickkids, cybersecurity, third-party software

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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Composer Explains the Show’s Two Big Needle Drops (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: game of thrones, house of the dragon, tennessee ernie ford

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Project Cybersyn (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: cybersyn, stafford beer, allende chile

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Project Cybersyn (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: cybersyn, stafford beer, allende chile

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N-able Bug Exposes Password Vault Master Keys (darkreading.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: n-able, passportal, password manager

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He Was Driving a $40k Car But Didn’t Have $5 for McDonald’s. Now He Runs a Multi-Million-Dollar Business. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: range rover, bmw, ford explorer

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Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: mlc, unclaimed royalties, spotify

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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Teases Sauron’s Obsession (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: lord of the rings, the rings of power, sauron

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For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Anna Heim | tags: a16z, andreessen horowitz, ai apps

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You can earn your Google Al Professional Certificate for free - and I highly recommend it (zdnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by David Gewirtz | tags: google ai, coursera, gemini

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Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: elementor pro, wordpress, cve-2026-32475

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If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Joachim Klement | tags: hyperscalers, small language models, nvidia

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These 2 WFH items are a splurge - but I'd highly recommend them (zdnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by Kayla Solino | tags: work-from-home, eureka ark sd, cord wrangler

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Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-19 | tags: spirit airlines, google, flight attendants