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The biggest US power grid is under strain from AI — and no one is happy (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-08 | by Tim De Chant | get Smart Power Grid Monitor → | tags: pjm interconnection, american electric power, northern virginia

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iPhone-controlled Anthbot M9 robot lawn mower has replaced cutting grass for me [20% off] (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-08 | by Zac Hall | get iRobot Roomba Robot Vacuum → | tags: anthbot m9, robot lawn mower, rtk reference station

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The biggest U.S. power grid is under strain from AI — and no one is happy (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-08 | by Tim De Chant | get Smart Grid Monitoring System → | tags: pjm, american electric power, northern virginia

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Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-08 | by Ivan Mehta | get AI Coding Assistant Tool → | tags: airbnb, ai coding, api partners

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AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Data Center Cooling System → | tags: data center bans, ai hyperscalers, memory chip shortage

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US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get UAP Detection Drone Kit → | tags: uap, department of war, odni

5947.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: david attenborough, birthday, messages

5948.

Stephen Colbert Gets Why You’re Scared He’s Writing a ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-08 | get The Lord of the Rings Board Game → | tags: stephen colbert, lord of the rings, late show

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Why AI’s next frontier could be in your living room (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | get Smart Home Assistant Speaker → | tags: nielsen, streaming, entertainment

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There’s a reason data centers don’t look like castles, the Shire, or a spa (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | tags: data centers, artificial intelligence, tech companies

5951.

26 leaders discuss the shifting attitude toward AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | get AI Conference Notebook → | tags: artificial intelligence, impact council, company boards

5952.

Save $444 on this top-tier gaming PC combo with Asus Prime RTX 5070, Ryzen 9850X3D, X870E motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — world's fastest gaming CPU meets copious amount of RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Joe Shields | get ASUS Prime RTX 5070 → | tags: asus prime rtx 5070, amd ryzen 9850x3d, asus tuf gaming x870e

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Save $575 off this stellar gaming PC armed with a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 memory — $1424.99 ABS Flux II Aqua Gaming PC prebuilt costs less than some of its parts (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Stewart Bendle | get Gaming PC with RTX 5060 Ti → | tags: rtx 5060 ti, abs flux ii aqua, kingston fury ddr5

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Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Luke James | get SK hynix EUV Lithography Machine → | tags: sk hynix, euv lithography, memory shortage

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Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Hassam Nasir | get Seagate External Hard Drive → | tags: wayback machine, wikimedia foundation, hard drive shortages

5956.

Kalshi’s $22 billion problem (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | get Kalshi Trading Platform → | tags: kalshi, prediction market, massachusetts

5957.

AI’s got a brand problem. The CEOs aren’t helping (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-08 | get AI Ethics Book → | tags: artificial intelligence, pew research center, quinnipiac surveys

5958.

Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Emma Roth | get Cybertruck Wheel Lock Kit → | tags: tesla, cybertruck, brake rotors

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Here’s how technology transformed babymaking (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jessica Hamzelou | get Smart Baby Monitor → | tags: vitrication, ivf, embryo freezing

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Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices as chip crisis bites (engadget.com)

2026-05-08 | by Steve Dent | get Nintendo Switch Console → | tags: switch 2, nintendo, sony ps5

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Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | get Nanoleaf Light Panels → | tags: nanoleaf, robotics, smart lighting

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Apple’s education discount now requires proof that you’re a student (theverge.com)

2026-05-08 | by Jess Weatherbed | get Apple Education Discount Card → | tags: apple, unidays, education discount

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Sony PS5 sales fall off a cliff amid memory shortages (engadget.com)

2026-05-08 | by Steve Dent | get PlayStation 5 Console → | tags: ps5, memory shortages, sony

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Tech stocks could offer their best value in years, analysts say, after stellar earnings season (cnbc.com)

2026-05-08 | by Joseph Wilkins | get Tech Stock Investment Guide → | tags: s&p 500, artificial intelligence, semiconductors

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IMF Warns That Evolving AI Threat Could Upend Financial Markets (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-08 | get AI Risk Monitoring Tool → | tags: imf, artificial intelligence, cyber threats

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Former govt contractor convicted for wiping dozens of federal databases (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-08 | get Data Recovery Software Kit → | tags: federal contractors, u.s. state department, ashburn servers

5967.

Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court (slashdot.org)

2026-05-08 | get OpenAI ChatGPT Mug → | tags: sam altman, fermat's theorem, acm sigplan

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New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-08 | get Linux Kernel Security Book → | tags: linux kernel, dirty frag, ubuntu

5969.

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | by Lola Murti | get AWS Cloud Computing Mug → | tags: aws, amazon web services, ec2

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AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | by Lola Murti | get Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) → | tags: aws, amazon web services, ec2