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Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: fda, heidi overton, johns hopkins

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US charges Iranian hackers over $3.4 billion intellectual property theft (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: iranian hackers, mabna institute, intellectual property theft

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MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: sandisk, microsd, datahoarder

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: minecraft, command blocks, objz

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Google Photos could soon let you keep your phone awake all night for a good reason (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: google photos, android doze mode, cloud backup

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Apple's services business is finally feeling the pain of losing control over App Store payments (techspot.com)

2026-08-19 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: apple, app store, epic games

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CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: medusa ransomware, cisa, fbi

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Virus deploys a ‘loose cannon’ enzyme to overpower bacterial defences (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: virus, enzyme, bacteria

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Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | by Faravelli | tags: human brain organoids, harvard university, stemcell technologies

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Too much mate choice overwhelms frogs (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: cope’s gray treefrog, hyla chrysoscelis, mate choice

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The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Dale Baskin | tags: tower optical, binocular viewfinders, norwalk connecticut

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Ukrainian drones overwhelm Russian tanks’ new active protection system—for now (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: arena, armored, drones

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Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses (slashdot.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: disney, abc, fcc

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Disney just sued the Trump administration over an ‘unprecedented’ move against ABC (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: abc stations, amendment, amendment rights

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DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Marina Temkin | tags: andressen horowitz, databricks, fivetran

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This Hidden Operational Crisis is Overloading College Admissions Teams — And Putting Enrollment at Risk (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | by Ashish Fernando | tags: admissions, institutions, operational

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Scientists Think We’re Overestimating a Promising Fusion Reactor Ingredient (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: fusion reactor, scientists, ingredient

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OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Maxwell Zeff | tags: openai, astra, chatgpt

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Apple overhauls Europe app store fees to resolve payments clash (cnbc.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kif Leswing | tags: apple, app store, digital markets act

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Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Sarah Perez | tags: apple, app store, european union

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Apple overhauls App Store fees in the EU with new unified terms (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-18 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, app store, app tracking transparency

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One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Beck Klein | tags: oakland police department, police union, overtime spending

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Don’t Wait for iOS 27, Download iOS 26.6.1 Now for Over a Dozen Bug Fixes and Patches (cnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: ios, apple, webkit

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Apple’s big Home product overhaul leaked in new report (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-18 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: apple, homepod mini, homepad

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Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: snowflake, cortex ai gateway, model routing

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How to choose a new motherboard without overpaying — scoping out the features you need, and what you might never use as component costs soar (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Joe Shields | tags: bandwidth, board, boards

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Overclocker updates Hydra overclocking tool with VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs — new update gives up to +3000 MHz memory offset (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Aaron Klotz | tags: hydra, memory, overclocking

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GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: broken, broken consoles, consoles

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Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: facebook, instagram, meta