GoKawiil - Tech News

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Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’ (cnbc.com)

2026-08-10 | by Hugh Son | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, ai chips

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Greenland Glacier Break Creates New Ice Island the Size of Manhattan (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: greenland, glacier, ice island

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Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal (slashdot.org)

2026-08-10 | tags: nvidia, blackrock, ai infrastructure

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Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sarah Perez | tags: blackberry, clicks technology, magsafe

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For the First Time, AI Designed 16 New Viruses, Raising Fears and Hopes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: viruses, stanford university, arc institute

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Outdated Cybercrime Laws Put Security Researchers at Risk (darkreading.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: cybercrime laws, security researchers, ethical hackers

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Why managers are ransomware's top targets now - and 6 ways to stay safe (zdnet.com)

2026-08-10 | by Lance Whitney | tags: ransomware, managers, zscaler

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Free Divers Thought They Found a Weird Rock. It Was a 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: roman shipwreck, underwater archaeology, ancient artifacts

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Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sarah Thwaites | tags: prove you're human, mesa, sunset visitor

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Companies Are Adopting a Controversial Method for Increasing Pay, Leading Some Workers to Quit (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: payscale, peanut butter raises, employee compensation

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Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mistral, large language model, sandbox

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Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: mistral, large language model, sandbox

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50k Boat Names (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Aug | tags: ais vessel data, noaa marine cadastre, boat names

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AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Ben Stockton | tags: ai data centers, texas, greg abbott

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Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Anton Shilov | tags: hyperscalers, ai hardware, memory

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Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: c programming, tail-call optimization, gcc

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Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: c programming, gcc compiler, tail-call optimization

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Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills (slashdot.org)

2026-08-10 | by Posted | tags: california landfills, chiquita canyon, underground fires

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Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era? (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: peer review, hpv vaccine, cervical cancer

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A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Chris Baraniuk | tags: heat pumps, vayu, volthub

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Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: meta, open-weight model, superintelligence

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This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Nathan Edwards | tags: novelkeys, realforce 86u, mechanical keyboards

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Verizon suffers another outage, this time after fiber cables were cut by vandals (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: verizon, fiber cables, southern california

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New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: coverage, local, music

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AI’s Scariest Week Yet (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai data, center, center wires

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The pros and cons of the switch to digital games (engadget.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ben Stegner | tags: digital, discs, game

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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: callers, calls, emergency

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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Utm Team | tags: build, calls, directx

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Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: demand, electrical, grid