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China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Luke James | tags: bloomberg, china, chinese

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ABC sues the FCC over Trump and Carr’s campaign of threats (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Emma Roth | tags: abc, fcc, disney

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Better founder who fired 900 employees over Zoom is now fighting to get his own job back (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: better, vishal garg, better home & finance

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It’s Official: No Man Can Outrun Our Robot Overlords (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: unitree, superman, humanoid robot

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Over 10,000 readers told us that the Pixel 11 series missed the mark (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: pixel 11, google, tensor chip

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Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: meta, facebook, mark zuckerberg

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Gen Z is over dating apps. This 403% surge reveals what they’re doing instead (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: dating apps, gen z, trivia events

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Attackers Could Take Over Your Mac Through Screen Sharing Unless You Update Now (cnet.com)

2026-08-17 | by Omar Gallaga | tags: macos, apple, screen sharing

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Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: petlibro, smart pet feeder, cloud server

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In Which I Lose My Mind over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: embeddings, tokenization, language models

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How I Over-Engineered My Book (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Ben Balter | tags: git, pandoc, markdown

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If You Are Always Hiring, It Means Something Is Broken. Here’s the Part You’re Overlooking. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | by Paul Wellons | tags: restaurant operations, labor analytics, pizza hut

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion reckoning in latest trial over social media addiction (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Karissa Bell | tags: meta, facebook, instagram

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This Google Play Store trick saved me over $100 on the Pixel 11 Pro XL - here's how (zdnet.com)

2026-08-17 | by Artie Beaty | tags: google play store, pixel 11 pro xl, play pass

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AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two-thirds of revenue, driven by co-packaged optics (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Etiido Uko | tags: silicon photonics, yuanjie semiconductors, lightcounting

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A theory for decades of C vulnerabilities (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: c vulnerabilities, memory-safe, semantic invariants

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Senior PC store staff accused of running secret rival shop with stolen inventory — Hong Kong retailer claims substantial losses over year-long scheme (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Luke James | tags: future technology, point connect, hong kong police

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Desktop UV printers and wild custom builds take over Open Sauce 2026 — $1,700 full-color printers, flash-cured resin, and a rideable speeder bike (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Denise Bertacchi | tags: open sauce, formnext, prusa research

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Tech CEOs Overwhelmingly Distrusted by Young: Study (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: ceo, youth, trust

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Google quietly resurrects a Pixel gesture we first spotted over a year ago (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: pixel, android 17, google

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | by Simon Willison | tags: qwen, alibaba, qwen 3.8 27b

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Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: stripe, openrouter, deal

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Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: bluesky, active users, social protocol

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: jellyfish, electricite de france, gravelines nuclear

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Disney Snuck In and Overhauled the Millennium Falcon While You Were Sleeping. Here’s Why (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Russell Holly | tags: disney, millennium falcon, star wars

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Splitting a Git Commit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: git, commit, stack overflow

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Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: elektron, digitakt, synth

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How long will software-defined cars last? The auto industry doesn't know yet (cnbc.com)

2026-08-15 | by Robert Ferris | tags: software-defined cars, rivian, over-the-air updates

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Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Andrew Liszewski | tags: xteink, libby, crosspoint reader

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The case for overhauling American science (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: american science, scientific research, government funding