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Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | by Posted | tags: flock cameras, flock safety, big tech

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Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: big tech, ai spending, data centers

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Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: photosynthetic process, dry eye, treatment

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Turn on these settings to protect your Android phone from theft (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Thomas Godwin | tags: android, google play services, theft protection

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Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: rag, large language model, enterprise ai

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Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-16 | by Anthony Ha | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, anthropic

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Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android? (engadget.com)

2026-08-16 | by Jack Whitcombe | tags: google play protect, android, malware

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A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: risc-v, arm, stm32

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: risc-v, arm, stm32

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Large-scale DDoS attacks disrupted Threema secure messaging service (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ddos, threema, end-to-end encryption

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IFA 2026 Is About to Show What the AI-Powered Future Actually Looks Like, and It’s Landing in Berlin (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: ifa 2026, berlin, ai-powered

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The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture

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A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: geiger counter, portable device, low power

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People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content (futurism.com)

2026-08-16 | by Frank Landymore | tags: anthropic, claude, watermarking

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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: drug discovery, path forward, innovation

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Patent Filing Suggests Meta’s Facial Recognition Glasses Are Coming (cnet.com)

2026-08-15 | by Omar Gallaga | tags: meta, facial recognition, smart glasses

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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Elie Dolgin | tags: stanford university, ai-designed phages, bacteriophages

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Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5070 ti, predator orion 6000

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Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks in attempt to steal DRAM process tech for China — IT security team pinpointed perp due to camera's leaky wireless signals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anton Shilov | tags: nanya technology, dram process, insta360 x4

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Data Centers Will Eat 12% of US Electricity by 2030. This Platinum Fuel Cell Fix May Help (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: data centers, hydrogen fuel cells, platinum fuel cell

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The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: flock cameras, data centers, america

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The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: flock cameras, data centers, america

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Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater (wired.com)

2026-08-15 | by Yessenia Funes | tags: rainwater harvesting, puerto rico, water rationing

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The surprise must-see movie of the summer (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by David Pierce | tags: google pixel, vergecast, wired

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New Dell XPS 13 reviews are in with positive marks and $699 price (techspot.com)

2026-08-15 | by Our Editors Hand-Pick Related Products Using A Variety Of Criteria | tags: dell xps 13, techspot, future plc

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The Other Kushner Steps Into the Spotlight With $12.5 Billion Lakers Deal (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: kushner, thrive capital, lakers

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Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-14 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: paypal, stripe, advent

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RISC-V: They should have known better (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: risc-v, microcontrollers, supercomputers

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New Technique for Ruining Flock Cameras Just Dropped (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: flock cameras, foam sealant, camera network

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PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider (slashdot.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: iron mountain, cloud provider, data privacy