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Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Adeline Vance | tags: cave, life, movile

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This 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Brutal Chain of Cretaceous Violence (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: fossil, cretaceous, dinosaur

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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: earth, engineered safeguards, habitability

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iPhone 18 Pro will have three upgrades that have been rumored for years (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: iphone 18 pro, variable aperture, dynamic island

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Next year’s iPhone Pro models will have larger screen sizes, per leak (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: iphone, apple, iphone x

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Chinese chipmaking tool roadmaps examined — Beijing's nascent lithography tools target DUV production at five machines a year, and an EUV prototype with no chips (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Luke James | tags: china, lithography, asml

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T-Mobile Is Stretching Its Device Commitment to 3 Years with New Installment and ‘2.0’ Phone Plans (cnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: t-mobile, verizon, build-a-plan

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Your Pixel’s lock screen may be about to get its biggest shortcut upgrade in years (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: pixel, android authority, app shortcuts

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After a year with the Pixel 10 Pro, here’s why I won’t buy the Pixel 11 Pro (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: pixel 11 pro, google, tensor g6

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I’ve used AirTags for years. Google’s new Pixel Tag needs these 4 things to succeed (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: airtag, pixel 10 pro, ultra wideband

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Curlese, Five Years Later (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: client, curl, http

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Malwarebytes Offers US College Students 2 Years of Free Antivirus Protection (cnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Antuan Goodwin | tags: malwarebytes, antivirus, ransomware

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Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: ai era, engineers, engineers ai

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Apple’s Rumored Camera-Equipped AirPods Could Arrive as Early as This Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: airpods, apple, siri

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Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: began, began year, camera

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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by John Goerzen | tags: kermit, c-kermit, ibm mainframes

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AI shopping searches surged 200% in one year - and it's a top priority for commerce leaders now (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Vala Afshar | tags: salesforce, agentic ai, google

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Early Social Media Use Linked to Lower Grades Years Later, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: social media, teen, grades

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Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: wordle, whatsapp, nyt

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Twenty Years of Pandoc (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: pandoc, haskell, markdown

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Tencent pulls the plug on GTA rival Last Sentinel after spending $300 million over six years (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: last sentinel, lightspeed la, tencent

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This 24-Year-Old Hedge Fund Prodigy Was Called the ‘Nostradamus of AI’— He Didn’t See a 73% Drop Coming. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: leopold aschenbrenner, hedge fund, stock market

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The 7 tech travel hacks I swear by - after years of learning the hard way (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: google maps, waze, travel card

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New leaks cover iPhone Ultra timing, iPhone Pro’s design next year (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: iphone ultra, apple, foldable phone

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Best Robot Lawn Mowers (2026): My Picks After 3 Years of Testing (wired.com)

2026-08-03 | by Simon Hill | tags: robot lawn mowers, sunseeker x7 gen 2, husqvarna aspire r6v

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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: ice, dna collection, immigration enforcement

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I used to upgrade my Android phone every year. Here’s why I finally stopped (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: android, samsung, pixel

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Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gtx 1080 ti, nvidia, pascal architecture

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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children (wired.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: ice, dna, immigration

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SpaceX Vows to Keep Poisoning Nearby Towns With Its Fume-Belching Data Center For Another Year (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Frank Landymore | tags: spacex, elon musk, xai