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Retailer selling broken RTX 5090 GPUs for as low as $1,760 — GPUs were damaged during transport, but include all components on the PCB (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia geforce rtx 5090, ldlc, msiventus 3x oc

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Scientists Exposed Flies to Crushing Hypergravity. The Results Were Unexpected (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-01 | get Hypergravity Simulation Kit → | tags: hypergravity, flies, scientists

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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | by Issy Clarke | get Security Camera System → | tags: whatsapp, dubai international airport, iranian drone strike

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Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Mark R Johnson | tags: map geometry, edge cases, flood-fill algorithm

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DNA damage drives antigen diversification in <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i> (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-08 | by Smith | get Genomic DNA Repair Kit → | tags: trypanosoma brucei, dna damage, antigen diversification

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The Pixel 10 Pro flashlight might be hot enough to do some damage (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-30 | get Pixel 10 Pro Flashlight → | tags: pixel 10 pro, flashlight, reddit

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The US Has Already Caused $10 Trillion in Climate Damages—and the Math Gets Worse (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-25 | get Climate Change Awareness Book → | tags: climate damages, monetary consequences, researchers

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Daily briefing: Static electricity is still a mystery — here’s what we know (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-19 | by Smith | get Electrostatic Discharge Simulator → | tags: static electricity, crisper-cas9, cancer immunotherapy

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The Story Behind the Death of the ‘Buffy’ Reboot Just Keeps Getting Weirder (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-18 | tags: chloé zhao, buffy reboot, sarah michelle gellar

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Here’s how much a MacBook Neo repair will cost you (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-09 | by Marcus Mendes | get MacBook Neo Repair Kit → | tags: macbook neo, applecare, apple authorized service providers

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Museum of Plugs and Sockets (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Power Outlet → | tags: assumed, assumed damages, assumes

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Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-17 | by Fred Lambert | get Autonomous driving system → | tags: crash, crashes, damage

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Love, lies, and LLMs: How to protect yourself from AI romance scams (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-12 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: affect, affect organization, cash

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Shai-hulud: The Hidden Costs of Supply Chain Attacks (darkreading.com)

2026-02-06 | get Supply Chain → | tags: attacks, attacks involving, chain

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Shai-hulud: The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Attacks (darkreading.com)

2026-02-06 | get Supply Chain → | tags: attacks, attacks involving, chain

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I Played the 5 New Overwatch Heroes Dropping Next Week. Check Out the Gameplay (cnet.com)

2026-02-04 | by See Full Bio | get Game → | tags: ability, damage, enemies

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I Played the 5 New Overwatch Heroes Dropping Next Week. Here Are My Thoughts (cnet.com)

2026-02-04 | by See Full Bio | get Game → | tags: ability, damage, enemies

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Ball x Pit's first update brings an endless mode and much more to the chaos (engadget.com)

2026-01-26 | get Nintendo Switch Online Plus → | tags: ball, ball pit, balls

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Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-23 | get Drones → | tags: birds, cherry, crop

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Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: contributions, damages, musk

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Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-17 | by Connie Loizos | get Neural Network → | tags: billion, billion billion, damages

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Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-12 | get Neural Network → | tags: damage, damage said, extremely

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Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-01 | by Ivana Kottasová | get Undersea cable → | tags: damage, damaged, finland

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Finnish authorities seize ship and crew after undersea cable cut, pursuing criminal charges — Finnish special forces board ship, detain all 14 crewmembers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-31 | by Anton Shilov | get Undersea Cable → | tags: cable, cables, estonia

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Attackers Caused So Much Havoc Inside Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft Shut Down the Whole Game (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-28 | get Ubisoft Uplay → | tags: damage, damage game, economy

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TSMC chipmaking factories rocked by magnitude 7.0 earthquake that was the strongest in 27 years, but facilities escaped unharmed — company's earthquake protection measures pay off (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Chipmaker → | tags: damage, earthquake, safety

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Can eating cheese lower your dementia risk? A new study says maybe (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-18 | get Cheese → | tags: beat, beat damage, benefits

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UC Berkeley Professor Uses Secret Camera To Catch PhD Candidate Sabotaging Rival (slashdot.org)

2025-12-11 | get Smartphone → | tags: candidate, computer, damage

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UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate busted repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer, causing $46,000 in damages — hidden camera sting catches perp causing "sparks to fly out of the laptop," student arrested on three felony counts (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Laptop → | tags: computer, damage, hardware

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‘It Was Nuts’: The Extreme Tests that Show Why Hail Is a Multibillion-Dollar Problem (wired.com)

2025-12-10 | by Chris Baraniuk | get Weather Radar → | tags: damage, hail, left