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Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: microsoft, wmic, windows 11

5762.

Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: theban necropolis, egyptian burial trends, frontiers in environmental archaeology

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Unearthed Video Seems to Reveal Apple AirPods That Can ‘See’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: apple, airpods, cameras

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'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent (slashdot.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: buy now pay later, flex, zip

5765.

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | by Tik Root | tags: california energy commission, low rolling resistance tires, appliance standards awareness project

5766.

The Benchmarkpocalypse (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: vulnpocalypse, benchmarkpocalypse, rust

5767.

R.I.P. Columbia House: Here’s How It Improbably Survived This Long (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: columbia house, music streaming, pivot

5768.

Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: alibaba, qwen3.8-27b, hugging face

5769.

NIH proposes major revamp of how it scores research grant proposals (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kozlov | tags: agency, peer, proposals

5770.

A revolutionary stem-cell therapy must proceed responsibly to achieve its full potential (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: shinya yamanaka, induced pluripotent stem cells, kyoto university

5771.

Mathematics holds the secret to ‘ladder-proof’ knitting (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | by Patil | tags: knot theory, physical review x, knitting technology

5772.

Will you be wearing an exoskeleton in ten years? The tech that could change how we move (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | by Stokel-Walker | tags: exoskeletons, spinal-cord injuries, biomechanical engineering

5773.

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Marina Temkin | tags: anthropic, openai, annualized revenue

5774.

Most Real Estate Teams Are Building Businesses That Can’t Survive Without Them. Don’t Make the Same Mistake. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | by Patrick Hagerty | tags: real estate, mls, brand

5775.

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: repair cafe, nederland, belgië

5776.

How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was on the Ropes (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: wall street, anthropic, options

5777.

How Wall Street Sussed Out That Situational Awareness Was On the Ropes (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: wall street, anthropic, options

5778.

Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: verizon, fcc, supreme court

5779.

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Matt Scott | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, atlanta police

5780.

Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: reservoirs, southwest, water scarcity

5781.

Apple releases public beta 4 for iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27 (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: ios 27, macos 27, ipados 27

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US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: cdc, vaccination rates, mmr vaccine

5783.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: quake, id software, cd-rom

5784.

Find people is rolling out on Wear OS, but it’s not for finding people (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: wear os, google, find hub

5785.

Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: cursor, origin, github

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'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: buy now pay later, lenders, electricity

5787.

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

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

5788.

Pilots and Flight Attendants Are Bombarded by Cosmic Radiation—And Getting Deadly Cancers From It (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: cosmic radiation, pilots, flight attendants

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Why flash drive capacity keeps increasing (and why small drives are rarely sold today) (engadget.com)

2026-08-17 | by Husain Parvez | tags: flash drive, nand, toshiba

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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: relay, google chrome, ai automation