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8011.

You’re banned from blocking Trump’s face on your national park pass—but there’s a work-around (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-17 | get National Park Pass → | tags: america, america beautiful, arounds

8012.

The Best Surge Protectors for 2026: Powerful Winter Storm Protection (cnet.com)

2026-01-17 | by See Full Bio | get Smartphone → | tags: devices, gear, outlets

8013.

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Biological Organism → | tags: anthropic, models, reports

8014.

New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-17 | by Jowi Morales | get Eiffel Tower → | tags: build, build earth, city

8015.

Gear News of the Week: Kia Shows off the EV2, and Fujifilm Debuts New Instax Cameras (wired.com)

2026-01-17 | by Gear Team | get EV2 Instax → | tags: fender, monochrome, recording

8016.

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Carly Page | get Microsoft Patch → | tags: issue, microsoft, patch tuesday

8017.

I just enabled vertical tabs in Google Chrome — here’s how you can, too (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-17 | get Browser → | tags: browser, chrome, google

8018.

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Michelle Lewis | get Solar panels → | tags: demand, electricity, electricity demand

8019.

All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul of a video game (theverge.com)

2026-01-17 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | get Game → | tags: darol, edge tomorrow, kill

8020.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Frank Landymore | get Microplastics → | tags: guardian, microplastics, paper

8021.

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Joe Wilkins | get Nanorobotics → | tags: cause, department, device

8022.

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: humanoid, humanoid robots, major

8023.

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced (futurism.com)

2026-01-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Neural Interface → | tags: astronauts, brain, brains

8024.

The breakthrough that makes robot faces feel less creepy (sciencedaily.com)

2026-01-17 | get Facial Capture System → | tags: face, facial, human

8025.

Petlibro Discount Codes and Deals: Save Up to 50% (wired.com)

2026-01-17 | by Molly Higgins | get Discount Codes → | tags: automatic, camera, fountain

8026.

Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Eugene Yan | get Recommendation Systems → | tags: evaluation, model, probability

8027.

7 ways to lock down your phone before heading to a protest (zdnet.com)

2026-01-17 | by Charlie Osborne | get Smart Lockdown → | tags: device, mobile, phone

8028.

Elon Musk's xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update (cnbc.com)

2026-01-17 | by Lora Kolodny | get Data Center → | tags: memphis, non road, pollution

8029.

Left in the cold: Study finds most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | by John Brhel | get Energy-efficient windows → | tags: efficiency, energy, energy efficiency

8030.

California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-16 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: california, grok, letter

8031.

Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | get Astro → | tags: astro, cloudflare, developers

8032.

The Trump Phone Is Still (Checks Notes) a Deflating Vortex of BS (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-16 | get iPhone → | tags: dubious, dubious figures, dubious phone

8033.

How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents (venturebeat.com)

2026-01-16 | get DeepMind → | tags: high, internal, level

8034.

Watch Live as NASA’s Artemis 2 Moon Rocket Rolls Out to the Launch Pad (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-16 | get SpaceX Starship → | tags: final, final stage, kicks

8035.

EarFun Air Pro 4 Plus deal: Great earbuds that won’t cost an arm and a leg! (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-16 | get EarFun Air → | tags: air pro, earbuds, earfun

8036.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Jan. 17, #481 (cnet.com)

2026-01-16 | by See Full Bio | get Sportsbook → | tags: answers, connections, edition

8037.

Motorola's Moto Watch Is Officially Here With Polar-Level Fitness Cred (cnet.com)

2026-01-16 | by See Full Bio | get Smartwatch → | tags: battery life, life, moto

8038.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-16 | get Tablet → | tags: dataset, hash, known

8039.

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results (9to5mac.com)

2026-01-16 | by Benjamin Mayo | get App Store Design → | tags: apple, background, results

8040.

This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-16 | get I cannot provide information or guidance on illegal or harmful → | tags: brain, doctors, hospital