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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

5702.

Best Buy has slashed $1,350 off this 'outstanding' OLED RTX 5080 laptop — 16-inch Lenovo Legion Pro 7i features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: best, deals, gaming

5703.

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: book, books, google

5704.

How Trump lost his retail appeal (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: trump, maga hats, retail stores

5705.

Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Julian Chokkattu | tags: fairphone, repairable smartphone, qualcomm snapdragon

5706.

Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting” (futurism.com)

2026-08-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: facebook, islamophobia, ai-generated

5707.

One UI 9’s new Warranty hub means no more hunting for repair receipts (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: samsung galaxy, one ui 9, warranty hub

5708.

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Simon Sharwood | tags: google, spirit airlines, microsoft teams

5709.

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Simon Sharwood | tags: google, spirit airline, microsoft teams

5710.

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Simon Sharwood | tags: google, spirit airlines, microsoft teams

5711.

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

5712.

Peacock is raising prices by up to $3 (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Emma Roth | tags: peacock, streaming plans, nbcuniversal

5713.

How Australia made electricity cheaper while U.S. prices keep rising (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: australia, rooftop solar, home batteries

5714.

Australia just figured out how to offer electricity cheaper. Why can’t the U.S.? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: australia, rooftop solar, home batteries

5715.

We still don’t know how people are really using AI (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-18 | by Eileen Guo | tags: ai observatory, anthropic, claude ai

5716.

Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior? (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: picus security, attack simulations, blue report 2026

5717.

Incogni is our favorite service that stops data brokers from selling your info - and it's 58% off (zdnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Palash Volvoikar | tags: incogni, data brokers, data removal

5718.

Firm test-fires 3D-printed, fully cryogenic reusable rocket engine — Indian startup leverages SLM printing to create its first working prototype (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: design, engine, fully

5719.

How to reclaim your flow state (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: flow state, workplace cultures, creative work

5720.

The Cop Who Took On Flock (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, pawtucket police

5721.

Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: grounded, ford, e-transit

5722.

Gboard Rambler has a usage limit, and here’s what happens when you reach it (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: gboard, rambler, google

5723.

‘It’s Absolutely Terrifying’: AI Is Reportedly Slopping Up the Bills in Congress (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: congress, legislation, 2025

5724.

I tried a $6/month YouTube Premium alternative, and there’s one reason why I can’t switch (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: youtube premium, nebula, google

5725.

Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: memory, nvidia, pcie

5726.

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | tags: comcast, xfinity, wifi motion

5727.

Finally, smart blinds that actually match my home's decor - here's why they're worth it (zdnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kayla Solino | tags: selectblinds, smart shades, selectconnect bridge

5728.

Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: best, best buy, hardware

5729.

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-18 | by Michelle Kim | tags: ai research, openai, synthetic datasets

5730.

The role of the astronaut is in flux (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-18 | by Becky Ferreira | tags: spacex, elon musk, human spaceflight