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Thieves swap RTX 5080 GPUs for RTX 3060s in Chinese gaming hotels — rogue 'downgrades' go unnoticed until sudden blackout exposes $12,000 heist (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: rtx 5080, gaming hotels, chinese police

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Ex-farm bureau chief invites AI data center developers to buy his land —argues blocked $6.3B project will just move to willing neighbors, defies 500-jurisdiction moratorium wave and 70% public opposition (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Luke James | tags: white cloud acres, scale microgrids, atchison county

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UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nhanced drug testing, organoids, nhs

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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anthony Ha | tags: grok, xai, spacex

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‘Lilo & Stitch 2’ Is Getting Nostalgic and Thinking Ahead (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: lilo and stitch, disney, animated film

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Big Manufacturers Find New Demand in Equipping AI Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: caterpillar, cummins, ai data centers

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The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower with a couple of frustrating flaws (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: airseekers tron, rtk precision, obstacle avoidance

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‘Kingdom Hearts’ Is Making the Leap to Television (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: kingdom hearts, television, action-rpg

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Grab this Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC for $2,099 before it sells out —prebuilt powerhouse includes a Core Ultra 7 265KF, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5070 ti, predator orion 6000

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 14, 2026 — Testing the BC-250, our interview with Intel's Robert Hallock, and a big week for optical (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: amd, bc-250, intel

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The Problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Var Molongui_Authorship_Byline_Params | tags: asi, deep learning, geoffrey hinton

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Engineer used 360-degree cam hidden in bag of snacks in attempt to steal DRAM process tech for China — IT security team pinpointed perp due to camera's leaky wireless signals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Anton Shilov | tags: nanya technology, dram process, insta360 x4

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Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater (wired.com)

2026-08-15 | by Yessenia Funes | tags: rainwater harvesting, puerto rico, water rationing

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Samsung says Claude Code can cut chip design work from weeks to days, but it still makes serious mistakes (techspot.com)

2026-08-15 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: samsung, anthropic, claude code

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The surprise must-see movie of the summer (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by David Pierce | tags: google pixel, vergecast, wired

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Commerce Secretary says US opposes Apple buying Chinese memory chips (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-15 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, ymct, cxmt

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U.S. Urges Apple Not to Buy Chinese Memory Chips (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: apple, china, memory chips

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RISC-V: They should have known better (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: risc-v, microcontrollers, supercomputers

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The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Zeyi Yang | tags: humanoid robot, china, edward warchocki

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High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: lru hash table, concurrent programming, numa architectures

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Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile (slashdot.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: nvidia, ai chip, ukraine

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Why Your Top Performers Quit Right After Their Biggest Wins (and How to Prevent It) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | by Ashley Armstrong | tags: top performers, dopamine, post-achievement depression

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Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | by Lydia Hallie | tags: claude, gpu, tokens

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France's top court strikes down social media ban for children under 15 (engadget.com)

2026-08-14 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: social media, france, constitutional council

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E-bike injuries in kids are surging in the U.S. These jurisdictions want parents to be held liable (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: e-bike, california, new york city

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Architecting for Growth: The Case for Early Scalability Decisions—Q&A With Srilakshmi Bharadwaj (computer.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: scalability, systems architecture, ieee computer society

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Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them (slashdot.org)

2026-08-14 | tags: prompt injection, legal filing, oscar wilde

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Drone stocks rally after Trump orders tariffs on foreign-made components (cnbc.com)

2026-08-14 | by Samantha Subin | tags: aerovironment, drone stocks, tariffs

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Scythe Magoroku Review: excellent RAM thermals, but needs improvement elsewhere (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Albert Thomas | tags: scythe, magoroku, amd ryzen 9 9950x3d

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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: openai, anthropic, gpt-5.6 luna