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901.

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: hop.earth, openstreetmap, car racing

902.

Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: phishing-as-a-service, ringcentral, microsoft 365

903.

More GPU price hikes loom for Asia as Japanese distributor warns of new increases — CFD Sales signals 20% to 40% higher prices on Gigabyte graphics card orders starting this month (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: gigabyte graphics cards, cfd sales inc., gpu price hikes

904.

Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: mental health startups, dataset, classification labels

905.

Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: apple, openai, jony ive

906.

CMF announces its first pair of open-ear earbuds for under $100 (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Matt Tate | tags: cmf, nothing, clip pro

907.

George R.R. Martin Blogs a Melancholy Life Update (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: george r.r. martin, game of thrones, house of the dragon

908.

Samsung’s next foldable display trick could make creases much less noticeable (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: samsung display, galaxy z fold, ctg

909.

US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond if necessary (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jowi Morales | tags: fcc, chinese transceivers, data centers

910.

Parents Horrified as Boomer Mawmaws Gift Children Blatant AI Slop Picture Books (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai-generated children’s books, wired, imagitime

911.

Motorola’s Next Smartwatch Might Help You Run Without Your Phone (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: motorola, moto watch ultra, smartwatch

912.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu

913.

3 tricky retirement decisions and how to tackle them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: retirement planning, withdrawal rates, insurance

914.

EA is now a private company (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jay Peters | tags: ea sports fc, battlefield, saudi arabia

915.

Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anton Shilov | tags: kioxia, sandisk, bics10

916.

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai benchmarks, benchmark saturation, systematic study

917.

Jim Cramer weighs the next move after massive rallies in two tech stocks (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: intel, boeing, iran

918.

The Next Xbox Could Be Every Xbox Ever Rolled Into One (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: xbox, microsoft, gaming

919.

Apple claims that even more ex-employees may have given trade secrets to OpenAI (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: apple, openai, trade secrets

920.

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: fcc, tv ownership, brendan carr

921.

Samsung starts notifying Galaxy S26 Ultra owners about red screen fix (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: samsung, galaxy s26 ultra, samsung members

922.

BMW Is Playing a Spider-Man Ad on Its Dashboard Displays, and People Are Pissed (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: bmw, spider-man, dashboard displays

923.

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sarah Perez | tags: apple, openai, trade secrets

924.

New Jersey sues Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging it unlawfully wielded its power over delivery contractors (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Annie Palmer | tags: amazon, delivery contractors, antitrust

925.

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: color space, skin tones, javascript

926.

Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Emma Roth | tags: telegram, app store, csam

927.

This New Field of Study Is Giving College Students an ‘Edge’ in the Job Market (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: ai degrees, computer science, virginia commonwealth university

928.

Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cyclospora, foodborne parasite, taylor farms

929.

I switched to this SSD enclosure - and immediately saw faster rendering speeds (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jack Wallen | tags: terramaster, nvme ssd, mac studio

930.

Google Is Teasing Some Kind of Notification Light on the Pixel 11’s Camera Bar (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: google, pixel 11, camera bar