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Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kris Holt | tags: social media ban, esafety commissioner, threads app

602.

Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jay Peters | tags: google earth, ai deepfake, nano banana 2

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Data Byte: This router's signal strength beat most competitors in our lab test (zdnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Allison Murray | tags: router, signal strength, zdnet

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AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Steven Levy | tags: twitter, creative revenue sharing, melodramas

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Reddit is testing a new way to watch — and listen to — its viral posts (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Sarah Perez | tags: reddit, tiktok, steve huffman

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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Marina Temkin | tags: smallest.ai, voice ai, human conversation

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How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Son | tags: openai, situational awareness, sk hynix

608.

Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: bitbang, nat traversal, go binary

609.

Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by David Schneider | tags: dark matter, discovery dish, horn antenna

610.

Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cro, raku, reactive systems

611.

Better to Beg Forgiveness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: creative commons, copyright law, fair use

612.

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: ai chatbots, pig butchering, crypto scams

613.

Let’s Talk About the Ending (and End Credits Scene) of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: spider-man, tom holland, marvel

614.

The Morning After We Pull a Root of Trust, Nobody Owns It (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: root of trust, certificate, key inventory

615.

Broadband Cables Are Surprisingly Good at Detecting Earthquakes (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, broadband cables

616.

Fiber-Optic Internet Cables Measure Earthquakes More Accurately Than the Government’s Alert System, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, government alert system

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The Government’s Earthquake Warning System Has a 30% Accuracy Rate. Scientists Found Something Better (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake warning system, government

618.

X settles with advertising group after accusing it of coordinating a boycott (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: world federation of advertisers, wfa, elonn musk

619.

Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Matt Beton | tags: 6502, bbc micro, autoregressive model

620.

USA Fencing Lunges Into the Hidden Identity Challenge in Amateur Sports (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: usa fencing, identity verification, olympic fencing

621.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, data centers

622.

The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: generative ai, record charts, music industry

623.

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: valve, linux, radv

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A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

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We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: ai-generated faces, vectorguidehq, riseguide

626.

Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: ellis ai, private credit, ai agents

627.

Android phones can now back up documents automatically to Google Drive, here’s how (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google drive, android phones, google play services

628.

Files by Google could finally become a better document scanner (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: files by google, google drive, document scanner

629.

First impressions of smart glasses with a display: the Even Realities G2 (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, smart glasses, apple glasses

630.

The Tech Download: Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf talks AI in warfare and manufacturing push (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Arjun Kharpal Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: anduril, autonomous weapons, defense industry