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Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks For MacBooks By the Thousands (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: macbook neo, apple, chromebooks

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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Already a Pretty Big Hit (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: spider-man, marvel, comic books

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The Best Audio Players for Kids: Yoto, Toniebox, and More (wired.com)

2026-08-03 | by Nicole Kinning | tags: yoto, toniebox, audiobooks

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Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day?’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: spider-man, marvel, comic books

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The Best Kids’ Backpacks for the 2026 School Year (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Adrienne So | tags: the north face, chromebooks, simple modern

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eBay Coupons: 20% Off in August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-01 | by Molly Higgins | tags: ebay, apple macbooks, dyson vacuums

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Lenovo's first Googlebooks have leaked (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: googlebooks, lenovo, chromebook

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Here’s an early look at Lenovo’s inaugural Googlebooks (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: googlebooks, lenovo, android

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Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: apple, iphone, memory

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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books (wired.com)

2026-07-29 | by Miles Klee | tags: ai-generated books, imagitime, storywonderbook

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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: isbndb, generative ai, printed books

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Instapaper update adds Liquid Glass, Home Screen widgets, new fonts, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-28 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: instapaper, liquid glass, home screen widgets

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AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: anthropic, claude ai, better world books

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AI companies are shredding rare books (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: ai companies, rare books, isbndb

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Best Laptops for College Students (2026): MacBooks and Beyond (wired.com)

2026-07-27 | by Luke Larsen | tags: macbook air, dell 14 plus, hp omnibook 3

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AppleCare One insurance for multiple devices finally expands outside the US (engadget.com)

2026-07-27 | by Steve Dent | tags: applecare one, apple watch, apple iphone

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Marvel is Whipping Indiana Jones Back Into Comics Adventures (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: marvel, indiana jones, comic books

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3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle (wired.com)

2026-07-25 | by David Nield | tags: kindle, spotify, kindlify

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Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds (wired.com)

2026-07-25 | by Luke Larsen | tags: macbook, dell 14s, m5 chip

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of ‘Star Wars’ With These New Books (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: star wars, luke, leia

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This feminist translation of ‘The Odyssey’ is controversial. And it’s flying off shelves (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: the odyssey, christopher nolan, homer

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Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Neal Stephenson | tags: fountain pen, handwriting, ai education

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Using sed to make indexes for books (1997) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: sed, indexes, books

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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | by Benjamin Breen | tags: library of congress, ai slop, non-fiction books

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Marimo now runs in PyCharm (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: marimo, pycharm, jetbrains

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Marimo Now Runs in PyCharm (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: pycharm, marimo, jetbrains

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Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: readkinetic, speed reader, local-first

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (slashdot.org)

2026-07-21 | tags: isbndb, ai training data, pre-llm

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Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: anthropic, claude, copyright