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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 12 (cnet.com)

2026-08-12 | by Gael Cooper | tags: wnba, odysseus, nolan

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Government workers can officially waste time scrolling TikTok again (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Karissa Bell | tags: tiktok, office of management and budget, byte dance

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The whole of PyTorch on one page (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: pytorch, torch, python

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Get 32GB of DDR5 for $261 in this AM5 gaming bundle — $970 deal features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870 motherboard, and free 240mm AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Shields | tags: ryzen 7 9800x3d, corsair ddr5-6000, gigabyte x870

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Walmart has slashed $600 off this RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop, now just $1,099 — get Gigabyte's 16-inch Aero X16 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5060, amd ryzen ai 7

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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: openai, daybreak, mythos

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Metabase SQL Zero-Day Attacks Could Have Wide Blast Radius (darkreading.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: metabase, sql, zero-day

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The Patch Gap: Why Defenders Need to Think in Chains, Not Checklists (darkreading.com)

2026-08-10 | by Shubham Paikrao | tags: anthropic, project glasswing, claude mythos

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TikTok maker ByteDance pulls the plug on AI companion services in China, as users grieve (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: bytedance, tiktok, ai companions

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What Judge Judy Can Teach Senior Leaders About Strong Executive Communication (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Dr. Kyle Elliott | tags: judge judy, judge judy sheindlin, tech leaders

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Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: c programming, java, perl

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The only current-generation graphics card on sale below MSRP — AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU with 12GB of VRAM returns to its lowest-ever price of $499 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: amd, radeon rx 9070, rdna 4

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This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: shieldfont, seneda & abruccio, playtype

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Google Play Store’s first experimental ‘Labs’ feature lets you ‘expand everything’ (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: google play store, play labs, android authority

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: byte, gateway, page

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Static Hour challenges you to be the arbiter of truth and fear (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: barkbyte, game, hour

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ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: bytedance, chinese, model

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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: advanced, anthropic, bytedance

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Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by The Stochastic Blog Team | tags: python, postgresql, hyperloglog

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Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time (slashdot.org)

2026-08-06 | tags: brooks, brooks mythical, chart

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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: customer, intent, malachyte

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$200 slashed off Gigabyte's 4th-Gen WOLED gaming monitor — 280Hz beast also packs a KVM and tactical gaming switch for just $399 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: features, gaming, gaming monitor

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The RAM Crisis Is Forcing PC Makers to Team Up With a Company the U.S. Hates (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: anytime, anytime soon, doesn

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Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: bits, bits bits, byte

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Southwest Airlines is courting business travelers with a new offering: Here’s everything you can get out of it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: airlines, airlines just, anytime

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Farmworkers across 22 states will get free access to electrolytes to combat dangerous heat stress (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: access, access electrolytes, blueberries

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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: anthropic, mythos, openai

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Anthropic AI used fake profiles to target people in hack then hid the evidence (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-05 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: aisi, github, malicious

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Anthropic AI used fake profiles to target people in hack - then hid the evidence (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-05 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: aisi, github, malicious