GoKawiil - Tech News

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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: neurotechnology, apple, meta

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US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: us department of agriculture, customs and border protection, screwworm infestations

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This design studio turns brands into cults (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: day job, protein bar, logo design

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France bans unsolicited telemarketing calls and adds hefty fines (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: france, telemarketing, consumer protection

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YouTube Makes It Even Harder for Creators to Earn Money: ‘A Fool’s Errand to Try’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: youtube, shorts, emil protalinski

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Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: chrome vpn extensions, sock5 proxies, proton vpn

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Galaxy Watch 9 users are resorting to fans and ice baths (!!) to fix slow charging speeds (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: galaxy watch 9, samsung, thermal throttling

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DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Haye Kesteloo | tags: darpa, avidrone, katana

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OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: openssh, ssh protocol, sftp

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Government lawyers fight trade judge’s order to refund importers for tariffs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: court of international trade, u.s. customs, border protection

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France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls (slashdot.org)

2026-08-11 | tags: telemarketing calls, france, consumer protection

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Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Daniel Sims | tags: xbox store, game pass, heroic games launcher

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Stop Wasting Food and Start Saving Money With These Apps (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: too good to go, food waste, us environmental protection agency

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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kozlov | tags: nih, public policy, environmental protections

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NYC Mayor Mamdani announces support for the Delivery Protection Act (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Anna Washenko | tags: amazon, last-mile delivery, delivery protection act

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The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex” (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: deepmind, alphafold, ai agents

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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Eric Schmidt | tags: alphafold, protein data bank, deepmind

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Learning millisecond protein dynamics from what is missing in NMR spectra (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Wayment-Steele | tags: nmr, bmrb, esm-32

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Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: choral, java, distributed protocols

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Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: applications, founders, post

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ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: atproto, distributed systems, sharding

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Large genome models used to design new viruses (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: genome, large, large genome

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‘Unlawful On Its Face’: FCC Eliminates Cap on TV Ownership Rule (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: audience, audience reach, cap unlawful

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Unlawful On Its Face’: FCC Eliminates Cap on TV Ownership Rule (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: audience, audience reach, cap unlawful

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Just Joined a Long-Standing Hollywood Tradition (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: artwork, artwork honoring, avengers

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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: bier, bier wrote, head

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How the Trump administration is blocking the public’s right to protect the environment (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: trump administration, citizen suits, clean water act

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Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: zigbee, matter, thread

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An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Zhang | tags: buffer, cells, protein

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DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Yoon | tags: buffer, cells, proteins