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1951.

Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-11 | by Luke James | tags: account, court, digital

1952.

My Fitbit Air test revealed the flaws of calorie counting with a health tracker - here's why (zdnet.com)

2026-07-11 | by Nina Raemont | tags: fitbit, fitbit air, heart

1953.

Spotify Release Radar's new personalization options improve your music recommendations (engadget.com)

2026-07-11 | by Mariella Moon | tags: artists, controls, music

1954.

FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-11 | by Aaron Boley | tags: earth, orbit, orbital

1955.

HyperTexting Makes the Entire Web a Social Feed for Your Doomscrolling Pleasure (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: advertisements, advertisements algorithms, ai slop

1956.

Artemis II Shows How Off-the-Shelf Cameras Are Becoming Scientific Tools in Space (cnet.com)

2026-07-11 | by See Full Bio | tags: artemis, artemis ii, camera

1957.

This airport wants to separate wealthy travelers from everyone else (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: airport, airport experience, boom

1958.

This ransomware negotiator was paid to fight hackers, he was secretly working with them instead (techspot.com)

2026-07-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: access, blackcat, martino

1959.

Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: experts, hardware, model

1960.

Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-11 | tags: ai upstarts, america, america angst

1961.

China’s Tianwen-2 Space Probe Has Rendezvoused With Earth’s Quasi-Moon (wired.com)

2026-07-11 | by Ritsuko Kawai | tags: asteroid, earth, kamo

1962.

Scientists Say They’ve Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door (futurism.com)

2026-07-11 | by Frank Landymore | tags: atmosphere, earth, habitable

1963.

The key to a more productive life is to pace yourself (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: art pacing, balancing, better

1964.

Are you filthy enough for a $700 portable shower? (theverge.com)

2026-07-11 | by Thomas Ricker | tags: flow, hottap, portable

1965.

Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging former employees stole trade secrets to build AI hardware (techspot.com)

2026-07-11 | by Daniel Sims | tags: apple, cupertino, employees

1966.

Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: department, drone, drones

1967.

Russia Hacks Doorbell Cameras To Spy On NATO Bases (slashdot.org)

2026-07-10 | tags: began, began suspect, cartoon

1968.

Frontier AI: The Genie's Out of the Bottle, But Where's the Rulebook? (darkreading.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: artificial, artificial intelligence, cutting

1969.

Samsung’s next-gen SmartTag trackers could be just months away (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: alongside, galaxy, galaxy fe

1970.

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: goldberg, martin, martino

1971.

Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: agent, agents, enterprises

1972.

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that's been widely criticized by astronomers (engadget.com)

2026-07-10 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: earth, orbital, reflect

1973.

A key federal election agency suddenly has no commissioners. Here’s why that matters (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: administration, administration thursday, agency

1974.

Scientists Used AI to Find Hidden Earthquake Signals Along the San Andreas Fault (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: called, called slow, earthquakes

1975.

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-10 | by Sarah Perez | tags: hailey, hypertexting, social

1976.

Spotify makes Release Radar more customizable with new listening filters (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-10 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: artists, playlist, radar

1977.

An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: black, disco, disco globe

1978.

FanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts Hooked (futurism.com)

2026-07-10 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: betting, fanduel, gambling

1979.

What Watching a Soccer Final Does to Your Body, According to Science (wired.com)

2026-07-10 | by Jorge Garay | tags: fans, final, heart

1980.

China Just Caught a Rocket Booster for the First Time, Taking Aim at SpaceX (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: catching, catching virtually, china