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1261.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: earth, machines, planet

1262.

A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: emergency, human, opcd

1263.

Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: linux kernel, bpf, inlined functions

1264.

The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

1265.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: launched, project

1266.

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: alaska, coast, coast guard

1267.

Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: core, core rtx, multi

1268.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: book, build, compiler

1269.

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

1270.

Myspace eyes comeback as an 'antidote' to social media fatigue — but it may be a long shot (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Sawdah Bhaimiya | tags: media, myspace, platforms

1271.

This wearable patch could get you into REM sleep 43 minutes faster (techspot.com)

2026-08-09 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: brain, patch, rem sleep

1272.

Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: city, council, emporia

1273.

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: core, gaming, intel

1274.

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: newspaper, palantir, publisher

1275.

Everyone thinks the iPhone Ultra will crush Samsung. They’re wrong (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: android, apple, fold

1276.

The Fitness and Recovery Tech I Swear By as a Wellness Expert (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: apple, peloton, plus

1277.

If You’re Hoping to Collect on Apple’s $250M AI iPhone Settlement, You’ll Have to Wait a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, features, intelligence

1278.

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

1279.

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: autopilot, autopilot eyes, autopilot years

1280.

Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, endoh, image

1281.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Oskari Mantere | tags: cloud, conf, sync

1282.

Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: acm sigplan, commandment, compute

1283.

How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta (cnbc.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jonathan Vanian | tags: anthropic, irregular, meta

1284.

Everything you do is being recorded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ross Andersen | tags: algorithms, noise, recorded

1285.

Victims Are Losing Thousands of Dollars on the ‘Jury Duty’ Scam (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: competitive, demands, demands reopening

1286.

4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: best, best compression, boots

1287.

Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: eruption, mount, park

1288.

The Motorola Razr Fold has an accessory problem that no one’s talking about (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: case, fold, motorola

1289.

Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Justin Pot | tags: meetily, meeting, open

1290.

Made by Google 2026: How to watch and what to expect from at the Pixel 11 event (zdnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: android, google, likely