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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: ai chatbots, pig butchering, crypto scams

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U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: u.s. debt, gdp ratio, fiscal policy

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Clockwise/Spiral Rule (1994) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: c programming, c declaration, spiral rule

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The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule'' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: c programming, c declarations, clockwise/spiral rule

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Kelly Criterion Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kim Birch | tags: kelly criterion, bankroll simulation, betting strategies

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The Government’s Earthquake Warning System Has a 30% Accuracy Rate. Scientists Found Something Better (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake warning system, government

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When transit passes were designed by hand (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stephen Coles | tags: milwaukee electric railway, transit passes, tobias frere-jones

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When transit passes were designed by hand (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stephen Coles | tags: milwaukee electric railway, transit passes, tobias frere-jones

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How to safely eat your greens during the cyclospora outbreak, according to an infectious disease expert (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cyclospora, leafy greens, infectious disease

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The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | tags: robot vacuums, federal communications commission, cybersecurity

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Interpol Leverages Global System to Curtail Fraud Payments (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: interpol, fraud payments, law enforcement

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The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: great lakes, tardigrades, fungi

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X settles with advertising group after accusing it of coordinating a boycott (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: world federation of advertisers, wfa, elonn musk

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Beat the AI price surge on PC hardware — leverage Newegg combo deals, track Amazon prices, and shop refurb outlets like Woot (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: newegg, amazon, pc hardware

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Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: aberrant labs, pathogenic game, steam

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Meta’s Stock Just Took an Unexpexted Hit. Here’s Why Investors Are Spooked. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jonathan Small | tags: meta, ai race, wall street

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Here’s Where Samsung Makes and Tests Its Galaxy Phones Before Shipping Them to You (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Abrar Al-Heeti | tags: samsung, galaxy s26, gumi smart city

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CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cisa, water utilities, programmable logic controllers

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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qr codes, browser-based transfer, decimen optical transfer

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The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: generative ai, record charts, music industry

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Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: valve, linux, radv

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A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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TGI Fridays store closures: See a list of locations that have lost the most restaurants since its bankruptcy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tgi fridays, bankruptcy, chapter 11

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Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by André Arko | tags: ruby central, rubygems, bundler

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PS5 emulation hits new milestone in record time, multiple 3D games now playable in Kyty — Performance and support steadily improving with 30 FPS gameplay possible today (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: ps5 emulation, kytyps5, sharpemu

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Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: lightbulb, tungsten filament, lifespan

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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MSI promises an EXPO ULL-like boost for your existing DDR5 memory — High-Efficiency Mode brings low-latency tuning to older RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: msi, expo ull, amd

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First impressions of smart glasses with a display: the Even Realities G2 (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, smart glasses, apple glasses