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Transportation Secretary Announces That the Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History Now That He’s Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Frank Landymore | tags: air traffic controllers, sean duffy, epic games

4112.

Impulse Tracker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ovi Demetrian Jr | tags: impulse tracker, alan, electronic music

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Verizon is so fed up with cable vandals, it’s putting a $25,000 bounty on them (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: verizon, fiber cables, android authority

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This shocking Zoom bug allowed silent device takeovers on Android and iOS (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: zoom, android, ios

4115.

Android Auto messaging is useless, and it’s all because of one missing feature (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: android auto, google, android authority

4116.

Passenger returning from DEF CON 34 spoofs Delta Wi-Fi network while in flight using pentest tool — pilots tell ground crew to alert corporate security after attendee from hacking conference brings the party to the sky (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: def con, delta airlines, wifi pineapple

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Google aims for influencers with the Pixel 11 Creator Suite (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by David Imel | tags: pixel 11, google, creator suite

4118.

AI security cameras are everywhere. Can these garments scramble them all? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: axion, flock, adversarial camouflage

4119.

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Kate Knibbs | tags: openai, black hat, ai newsroom

4120.

Survey says YouTube Premium users are worried about the platform’s future perk plans (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: youtube premium, peacock premium, android authority

4121.

AI Spending Snuffs Out Tencent’s Profit-Growth Run (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-12 | tags: tencent, hy3, profit

4122.

FBI: Hackers target online accounts to steal nude photos (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: fbi, social media, hacking

4123.

The 7 biggest announcements of Google’s Pixel 11 launch (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: google pixel, tensor g6, pixel watch 5

4124.

McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Reece Rogers | tags: mcdonald’s, loyalty program, privacy rights

4125.

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: wolfram language, woxi, rust

4126.

Intel CEO hints at return to the memory business — says market is ripe for innovation, hints at stacking memory and CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Anton Shilov | tags: intel, sk hynix, 3d nand

4127.

The AI debate isn’t about AI. It’s about control (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: control, printing press, internet

4128.

What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: openai, large language models, group theory

4129.

My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jeff Campbell | tags: seahorse, animal behavior, graphic novel

4130.

Save $106 on this 4TB Team Group SSD with Gen 4 speeds, now 10.2 cents per GB — Newegg coupon deal makes this T-Force G50 one of the cheapest PCIe 4.0 drives on sale right now with this amount of storage (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ben Stockton | tags: team group, t-force g50, pcie 4.0

4131.

The Threat Hiding in Your Hiring Process: How Fake Remote Workers Get In (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: north korean, phishing, source-code

4132.

I tried to love ‘second brain’ apps. Here’s why I abandoned them — and what I’m using instead (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: notion, obsidian, tana

4133.

Commodore re-releases TAC-2 joystick after 40 years for just $49 — says retro-controller is tougher than ever and now comes in five colorways (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mark Tyson | tags: commodore, tac-2, amiga

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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, ai training, independent bookstores

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The Pixel Tag is Google’s answer to the AirTag (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Dominic Preston | tags: google pixel, pixel tag, bluetooth 6.0

4136.

Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Victoria Song | tags: pixel watch 5, google, gemini

4137.

Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by David Imel | tags: google, pixel 11, camera looks

4138.

Google’s Pixel 11 series pairs a little new hardware with a lot of new software (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by David Imel | tags: pixel 11, google, computational photography

4139.

This startup wants to turn your water heater into a smart thermal battery (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: reservoir, water heater, smart thermal battery

4140.

Google Pixel 11 launch: Live updates as the company unveils new devices, AI features and more (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Cherlynn Low | tags: google pixel 11, ai features, new devices