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1411.

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

1412.

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

1413.

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

1414.

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

1415.

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

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

1416.

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

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

1417.

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

1418.

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

1419.

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

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

1420.

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

1421.

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

1422.

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

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

1423.

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

1424.

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

1425.

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

1426.

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

1427.

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

1428.

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

1429.

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

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

1430.

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

1431.

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

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

1432.

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

1433.

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

1434.

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

1435.

Google Health could soon make your medical lab results much easier to understand (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google health, medical record infographic, lab reports

1436.

How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: ai-cheating, yale, generative ai

1437.

Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company's keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated) (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qualcomm, neura robotics, dragonwing iq10

1438.

Keyboard giant Keychron launches Nape Pro wireless trackball mouse — rectangular form factor designed to sit under spacebar gives users six customizable buttons and a control dial (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jowi Morales | tags: keychron, nape pro, wireless trackball

1439.

Ambitious gamer turns fanless Subway menu PCs into gaming rigs — passive Intel Core i3 units manage just 15 fps in GTA V and 25 fps in Minecraft (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: subway mini pcs, intel skylake, advantech ds-081

1440.

PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: pwc, ai hallucinations, gptzero