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I love Duolingo, but its XP Boosts are driving me mad (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: duolingo, xp boosts, android authority

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Yet Another Piece of AI-Pilled Speculative Fiction Has Gone Dangerously Viral (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: speculative fiction, viral, tech news

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Messi, Mbappe, and other soccer stars employ these 5 psychological principles (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: kylian mbappe, harry kane, attentional control

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Google Hits 50% IPv6 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | by George Michaelson | tags: google, ipv6, apnic labs

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Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes (slashdot.org)

2026-06-21 | by Posted | tags: facial recognition, kansas city, american civil liberties union

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New Law Would Give Artists Sweeping Protections Against AI Stealing Their Work (futurism.com)

2026-06-21 | by Frank Landymore | tags: creator act, ai art, congress legislation

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Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: windows ui, file associations, windows 3.1

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Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference (techspot.com)

2026-06-21 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: unsw sydney, ultrasonic espresso, acoustic cavitation

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3 lies we’re telling ourselves about work (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: workplace, leadership, organizational culture

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Building reliable agentic AI systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | by Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni | tags: agentic ai, retrieval-augmented generation, bayer ag

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Armstrong Effect (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: static electricity, william armstrong, armstrong hydroelectric machine

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Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games (slashdot.org)

2026-06-21 | by Posted | get PlayStation Game License Card → | tags: playstation, gaming licenses, game ownership

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How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | tags: big tech, internet regulation, social media ban

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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Digital Privacy and Security Kit → | tags: big tech, social media, internet regulation

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Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender' – Frank Elavsky (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Blender for Smoothies → | tags: good corp, super productionizer, good corporation

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Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Breathing Exercise Device → | tags: brain function, slow breathing, risk behavior

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Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Turing Encryption Device Kit → | tags: alan turing, enigma machine, bletchley park

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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Mariana Catacci | get Smartphone Security Alert System → | tags: national civil defense, misantropi4, wireless emergency alerts

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 21, #1106 (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | tags: nyt, connections, wordle

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 21 #840 (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | tags: nyt, strands, puzzles

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Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get AI Hallucination Detection Tool → | tags: 2brains inc, robert cringely, llm hallucinations

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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Jake Roach | get Ryzen 9000 BIOS Update → | tags: amd ryzen 9000, tsme, bios update

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Waymo Recalls About 3,900 Robotaxis After Some Drove Into 'Freeway Construction Zones' (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Waymo Safety Kit → | tags: waymo, robotaxis, nhtsa

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Cellphone Alert System Breached in Brazil, Message Sent in Leetspeak (slashdot.org)

2026-06-20 | by Posted | get Smartphone Security Alarm → | tags: cellphone alert system, brazil, hackers

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Let’s Hear It for This Prime Day Deal Slashing $76 Off Nothing’s Earbuds (cnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by See Full Bio | get Nothing Ear (2) Wireless Earbuds → | tags: nothing earbuds, amazon prime day, active noise cancellation

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George Lucas Will Be In ‘Minions & Monsters’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-20 | get Minions & Monsters T-Shirt → | tags: george lucas, minions, illumination

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Web Browsers on PDAS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by Declan Chidlow | get Portable Web Browser for PDAs → | tags: pda, web browsers, wireless application protocol

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What Fox and Roku aren’t telling us yet (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-20 | get Roku Streaming Stick → | tags: fox, roku, merger

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4 easy tweaks you can make to your TV soundbar for more immersive audio (zdnet.com)

2026-06-20 | by Jada Jones | get Soundbar Mounting Kit → | tags: sonos, soundbar, room calibration

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Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, amd, ace cpu extensions