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You Won't Believe the Tech Disney Used to Update These Rides (cnet.com)

2026-05-28 | by See Full Bio | get Disney Ride Maintenance Kit → | tags: disney, motion-capture, audio-animatronic

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ASRock BC-250 used for Steam Machine duty gains third-party hack to unlock all 40 CUs — mining board now has more CUs than a base PS5 (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-28 | by Aaron Klotz | get ASRock Steam Machine Hack → | tags: asrock bc-250, ps5 soc, gddr6 memory

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A Google employee allegedly used insider info to manipulate Polymarket bets (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-28 | get Insider Trading Awareness Book → | tags: google, polymarket, insider trading

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Elon Musk Says America’s Kamikaze Drones Used the Wrong Starlink Subscription (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-27 | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: elonn musk, spacex, starlink

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A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket (theverge.com)

2026-05-27 | by Emma Roth | get Polymarket Trading Platform → | tags: google, polymarket, search trends

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CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-27 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Toolkit → | tags: crowdstrike, google, shadowserver

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CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-27 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Toolkit → | tags: crowdstrike, google, shadowserver

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Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones (futurism.com)

2026-05-27 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: starlink, spacex, starshield

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Lenovo says it's digging into allegations that its China-only G10 handheld is being used for piracy — third parties may be including illicit games to inflate prices in the gray market (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Zhiye Liu | get Lenovo G10 Handheld Console → | tags: lenovo, g02, piracy

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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, supermicro, taiwan

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Gene-expression patterns can be used to estimate mortality risk and chronological age (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-27 | by De Magalhães | get Epigenetic Age Test Kit → | tags: gene expression, age prediction, mortality risk

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Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-26 | tags: starlink, spacex, starshield

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One of the most user-friendly Linux distros I've ever used is also one of the most secure (zdnet.com)

2026-05-26 | by Jack Wallen | get Ubuntu Linux Operating System → | tags: aurora linux, fedora silverblue, kde plasma

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I've used Chrome, Edge, and Safari for years - here's why Firefox is the better browser for most people (zdnet.com)

2026-05-26 | by Jack Wallen | get Mozilla Firefox Browser → | tags: firefox, mozilla, open-source

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I've Used GoPro's Mission 1 Pro. Here's What You Should Know (cnet.com)

2026-05-26 | by See Full Bio | get GoPro HERO11 Black → | tags: gopro, mission 1 pro, action camera

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Topo Designs Rover Trail Pack Is the Best Backpack I’ve Ever Used (wired.com)

2026-05-24 | by Martin Cizmar | get Topo Designs Rover Trail Pack → | tags: topo designs, rover trail pack, bag check

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I’ve used the new Google Health app for a week, and I hate it (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-24 | get Google Health App Guide → | tags: google health, fitbit, google

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People used AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash (engadget.com)

2026-05-23 | by Mariella Moon | get Voice Cloning AI Software → | tags: ntsb, cockpit voice recorder, ups flight 2976

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TDK and NHK Spring accused of fixing prices on components used in 97% of hard drives for over a decade (techspot.com)

2026-05-23 | get Hard Drive Component Price Guide → | tags: tdk corporation, nhk spring, hard drives

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768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU — local Kimi K2.5 install achieved roughly 4 tokens per second (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Intel Optane Memory Module → | tags: intel optane, xeon gold 6246, asus dual geforce rtx 3060

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AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-22 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Voice Cloning Software → | tags: ntsb, spectrogram, ai voice synthesis

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All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques (wired.com)

2026-05-22 | by Rhett Allain | get Digital Caliper Set → | tags: sphygmomanometers, spectrophotofluorometers, ideal gas law

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Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-21 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get VPN Security Kit → | tags: vpn, ransomware, law enforcement

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Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE (wired.com)

2026-05-21 | by Makena Kelly | get Palantir Gotham Software → | tags: palantir, ice, dhs

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Audi enthusiast upgrades 2001 A4 gear shift with old smartwatch in 3D-printed housing — vide-coded WearOS app displays gear selection, can be used to control in-car media (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Wear OS Smartwatch Car Controller → | tags: audi, wearos, smartwatch

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I’ve used Plex for 10 years. Here’s why absolutely no one should pay $750 for Plex Pass (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-21 | get Plex Pass Subscription Card → | tags: plex, plex pass, kodi

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Police seize “First VPN” service used in ransomware, data theft attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-21 | get VPN Security Kit → | tags: first vpn, ransomware, law enforcement

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Used an Android Phone After 2017? You Might Get Part of Google's $135 Million Settlement (cnet.com)

2026-05-21 | by See Full Bio | get Google Pixel 7 → | tags: google, android, google play

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Want to Opt Out of Your Data Being Sold, Shared or Used? Good Luck (cnet.com)

2026-05-20 | by See Full Bio | get Data Privacy Protection Book → | tags: google, meta, amazon

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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | tags: human brains, drug testing, disembodied