GoKawiil - Tech News

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DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: doge, doge overstated, government

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: meta, mexico, new mexico

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Court orders Meta to pay an additional $567 million in New Mexico child safety case (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: apps, court, meta

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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: center, data center, statement

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xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: center, data center, statement

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The California Teamsters union is suing the state over self-driving trucks (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: autonomous, california, regulations

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Tristan Navera | tags: center, centers, data center

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I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Samsung phone and found 3 useful system diagnostics (zdnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Kerry Wan | tags: battery, download, dumpstate

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DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Dell Cameron | tags: fines, government, money

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I ran a dumpstate analysis on my Android phone - 3 system diagnostics to check for free (zdnet.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kerry Wan | tags: battery, download, dumpstate

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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by About The Author | tags: camera, flock, michigan

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Texas Data Centers Suffer Brutal Collision With Reality (futurism.com)

2026-08-05 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: abbott, centers, data centers

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Spokane wildfires: Map, smoke tracking tools, and latest update as 3 fires devastate eastern Washington (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: spokane, washington state, wildfire

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Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-02 | by Anthony Ha | tags: network school, balaji srinivasan, wsj

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A Meta developer's Linux patch could boost Steam Deck frame rates by up to 32% (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: meta, steam deck, amd apu

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Honda has a new partner for the advancement of solid-state battery technology (engadget.com)

2026-08-01 | by Alec Hively | tags: honda, quantumscape, solid-state battery

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Simon Willison | tags: model context protocol, anthropic, mcp 2.0

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US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Frank Landymore | tags: openai, ai hallucination, us state department

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Flock Cameras Are Being Destroyed Across the US (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: flock safety, license plate recognition, pan-tilt-zoom cameras

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New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption (slashdot.org)

2026-07-30 | tags: mcp protocol, anthropic, stateless protocol

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Brian Potter | tags: solid-state batteries, catl, byd

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Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Brian Potter | tags: solid-state batteries, catl, byd

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Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth (engadget.com)

2026-07-30 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: nano banana, google earth, image generation

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Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Martino Comelli | tags: bretton woods, welfare state, capital controls

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Austerity Breeds Financial Protectionism (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Martino Comelli | tags: bretton woods, capital controls, welfare state

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Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: agents, long-running, stateful

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro reviews: Premium modular computing comes at a cost (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Our Editors Hand-Pick Related Products Using A Variety Of Criteria | tags: framework laptop, modular computing, techspot

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Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mi | tags: solid-state batteries, electrolyte, pvdf

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MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | by David Soria Parra | tags: mcp, stateless protocol, sdk