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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | by Tom Uren | tags: romanian land registry, ancpi, hacking forum

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AliExpress hit with record $629 million fine for selling counterfeit and illegal products (engadget.com)

2026-07-20 | by Steve Dent | tags: aliexpress, digital services act, counterfeit products

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I tested 3 blood pressure trackers for a month - only one rivaled my Garmin Index BP Monitor (zdnet.com)

2026-07-20 | by Matthew Miller | tags: garmin index bp monitor, samsung galaxy watch ultra, amazfit cheetah 2 ultra

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‘President Curtis’ Is Sci-Fi White House Wish-Fulfillment (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: rick and morty, adult swim, keith david

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Mac beach balls and unresponsive trackpad? This fix seems to work (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-20 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: macos 26.5, mediaanalysisd, apple intelligence

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Personal tragedy made Care.com CEO Brad Wilson a more empathetic leader—and more tolerant of risk (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: care.com, brad wilson, mansueto ventures

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Spotted the new Android Developer Verifier app? Read this before you uninstall it (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: android developer verifier, google, sideloading restrictions

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Bezos backs CuspAI as startup teams up with Nvidia to hunt for chipmaking materials (cnbc.com)

2026-07-20 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: cuspai, nvidia, semiconductors

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Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, Unless You’re the Designated Scroller (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-20 | tags: disney, ride reservations, mobile booking

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Disney is the Happiest Place on Earth, Unless You’re the Designated Scroller (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-20 | tags: disney, ride reservations, mobile booking

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Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | by Adam Kues | tags: wordpress, gpt5.6, wp2shell

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New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes (slashdot.org)

2026-07-20 | by Posted | tags: ai chatbots, free speech, repressive regimes

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AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales (theverge.com)

2026-07-20 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: aliexpress, digital services act, counterfeit products

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These 3 Perplexity power-user techniques make AI search more useful (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: perplexity, ai search, automation

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Why some trees never come back after rainforests are cleared (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: rainforests, deforestation, nature.com

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The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-20 | by Meskó | tags: foresight, artificial intelligence, vaccine development

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Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Daniel Lawrence Lu | tags: nvidia dgx spark, nvidia, arm cpu

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The CEO Trying to Fix PayPal Has a New Option: Sell It for Billions (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-19 | tags: paypal, enrique lores, rivals

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Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: lean, formal verification, cryptography

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Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids — the on-board camera can occasionally tilt down to check bearings if satellite comms are lost (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-19 | by Jowi Morales | tags: molniya drones, starlink, expresslrs

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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Bartosz Kotrys | tags: quesma, claude max, tokenomics

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We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: nasa, solar storms, geophysical research

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I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to pick the best smartphone — I didn’t expect the results (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: chatgpt, google, android authority

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The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward (wired.com)

2026-07-19 | by Jorge Garay | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140 b, habitable zone

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Sony Is Paying Out $7.85M in PlayStation Store Credit. How to Claim Part of the Settlement (cnet.com)

2026-07-19 | by See Full Bio | tags: playstation store, sony interactive entertainment, the last of us

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Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme (slashdot.org)

2026-07-18 | by Posted | tags: digital id, andy burnham, office for budget responsibility

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Heresy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: heresy, trinity college, newton

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Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by Isomorphic Labs | tags: google deepmind, isomorphic labs, alphafold

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Update now: 7-Zip fixes RCE flaw exploitable with malicious archives (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: 7-zip, rce flaw, zero day initiative

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How does the Apple Watch water lock feature actually work? (engadget.com)

2026-07-18 | by Christine Persaud | tags: apple watch, water lock, swimming