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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Anthony Ha | tags: artificial state, just, really

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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Anthony Ha | tags: artificial state, just, really

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Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: card, drive, firmware

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Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: artifact, film, intel

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The Cold War legend of Romania’s tank-melting laser (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: article republished, certainly, certainly existed

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X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: original, participants, program

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Simon Willison | tags: agent, agents, artifactory

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Olivia Rodrigo handpicked Etsy founders for festival merch. Their sales soared more than 2,000% (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: artist, businesses, chain

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10 essential tools for discovering, learning, and making music (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apps, apps websites, article republished

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OpenAI wants to be the underdog against Apple. That won’t be easy (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apple, apple goliath, artificial

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Most People Prefer AI Writing, but That’s Because It’s Trained on Us (cnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Macy Meyer | tags: ai generated, generated, human

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Suno Plans New Tools to Make AI-Generated Music More Transparent. Is It Enough? (cnet.com)

2026-08-06 | by Dashia Milden | tags: artists, generated, music

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GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: major, major outage, outage

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A User’s Guide to the Universe of Rogue AI Bots (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-06 | tags: agents, agents taken, artificial

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Alibaba-Backed AI Startup Vast Seeks Fresh Capital, Eyes IPO (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-06 | tags: alibaba, alibaba baidu, artificial

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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months (theverge.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jay Peters | tags: articles, edits, grokipedia

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TikTok and YouTube could fill a gap for musicians as space shrinks on late-night TV (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: artists, fallon, fallon consistently

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Googlebooks Are Starting to Look Like Laptops We Actually Want to Use (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: actually, actually want, googlebooks

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A University Used AI to Police Its Entrance Exam. Now 58,000 Students Need a Do-Over (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: artificial, artificial intelligence, chanted

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SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-05 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: spacex, starlink, elon musk

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First poo transplant to treat food allergy in people has ‘exciting’ results (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Chen | tags: allergies, bacteria, food

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How tech is helping in the battle against wildfires (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-04 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: fire detection, artificial intelligence, gironde

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Could tech replace firefighters in the battle against wildfires? (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-04 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: fire detection, artificial intelligence, wildfires

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'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-04 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: outsourcing, philippines, artificial intelligence

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Your daily Diet Coke habit could be negatively affecting your brain, new study suggests (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: diet coke, artificial sweeteners, memory decline

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Your daily Diet Coke habit could be negatively affecting your brain, study suggests (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: diet coke, artificial sweeteners, memory decline

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Fender’s CEO compared cover bands to AI. Now he’s walking it back (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: fender, artificial intelligence, cover bands

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What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: labor force, participation, economic indicators

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Opinion | AI Can Empower People, but Only With Some Guardrails (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-04 | tags: artificial intelligence, governance, ai access

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The Truth About AI That Every Business Leader Needs to Hear Right Now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Majeed Javdani | tags: entrepreneur, openai, artificial intelligence