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Apple squashes EU beef with new App Store rules (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Emma Roth | tags: apple, app store, european union

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Google Wallet’s fancy new colorful UI is finally rolling out (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: google wallet, android authority, pass design

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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: railway network, linear scanning camera, emfcamp

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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: fairphone, snapdragon 7s gen 4, fairphone gen 6+

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Treasury yields rise, Home Depot earnings, Paramount's bond request and more in Morning Squawk (cnbc.com)

2026-08-18 | by Alex Harring | tags: treasury yields, home depot, paramount

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Adata XPG Novakey RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — Turning salvage into pure performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: adata, memory, memory kit

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Tesla is finally launching the Cybercab — let’s hope it’s ready (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: tesla, cybercab, elon musk

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Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: meta, facial recognition, ray-ban

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Spotify’s new feature will let you remember why you added a track to your playlist (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: spotify, playlist notes, android authority

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The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-18 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: meta, openai, nvidia

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Record-breaking El Niño could be a preview of Earth’s future. It’s not pretty (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: el niño, climate change, earth

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Fairphone brings its $649 repairable Gen 6+ smartphone to the US (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Shawn Knight | tags: fairphone, qualcomm snapdragon, oled display

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Readers’ favorite Galaxy Watch 9 alternative might come as a surprise (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: garmin, venu 4, wear os

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Store closures update 2026: See a list of retailers that have shuttered the most locations this year (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: 7-eleven, gamestop, coresight research

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Want to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way (zdnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jack Wallen | tags: userland, android, linux

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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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I asked Canonical if Ubuntu on Windows will outgrow native installs as rumored - it's a no (zdnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | tags: ubuntu, canonical, wsl

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AI-generated bills are reportedly causing problems in the Capitol (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mariella Moon | tags: chatgpt, house office of legislative counsel, ai-generated bills

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Rising Temperatures Are Turning Antarctica Into a ‘Hotspot’ for This Toxic Pollutant (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: antarctica, heavy metal pollution, climate change

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The Morning Risk Report: L3Harris Ousts CEO After Investigation Into Conduct (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-18 | tags: l3harris, ceo, quarterly earnings

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I Put the Best Digital Notebooks to the Test. Here Are My Favorites (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Nena Farrell | tags: remarkable paper, kindle scribe, kobo libra

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Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: airline, court, especially

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‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Was Inspired by a Francis Ford Coppola Classic (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: star wars, starfighter, francis ford coppola

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The Fairphone Gen 6 Plus is officially available in US, no middleman needed (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: fairphone, gen 6 plus, /e/os

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Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: case, decision, immunity

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Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim (slashdot.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: sainsbury's, facial recognition, facewatch

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Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fairphone, fairphone 6+, qualcomm snapdragon

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Fairphone is finally releasing its first official handset in the US (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: fairphone, fairphone gen. 6+, snapdragon 7s gen 4

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ChatGPT's stricter teen mode starts rolling out today (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Igor Bonifacic | tags: chatgpt, openai, study mode

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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: reach capital, ai applications, replit