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Trump Admin Declares Total Victory Over Algae Thanks to ‘Advanced Nanobubbler Technology’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-18 | get Nanobubbler Water Purifier → | tags: trump administration, algae control, nanobubbler technology

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States Are Betting That AI Can Solve the Prison Recidivism Crisis (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-18 | tags: prison recidivism, digital dashboards, corrections departments

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U.S. jobless claims drop to 226,000 as unemployment rate stays at a historically low 4.3% (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-18 | tags: labor department, unemployment claims, job market

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Bosch to pay $36 million penalty for $72 million in ‘illicit’ sales to Huawei — German company sold export-controlled goods and software to banned Chinese firm between 2020 and 2024 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: bosch, huawei, mems sensors

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Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | by Matthew S. Smith | get E Ink Color Display Kit → | tags: epaper display, modos flow, enchanter controller

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The White House’s dodgy app is being pushed to even more official government devices (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-18 | get Government Device Security Kit → | tags: white house app, department of homeland security, elfsight

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The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare (theverge.com)

2026-06-18 | by Lauren Feiner | get YubiKey Security Key → | tags: save program, voter data, department of homeland security

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Locked Out of the World Cup: A Year Marked by Barriers, Borders, and Broken Access (wired.com)

2026-06-18 | by Malak Saleh | get VPN Proxy Server → | tags: fifa world cup, iran football federation, us state department

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Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI (cnbc.com)

2026-06-18 | by Lee Ying Shan Jennifer Elias | tags: character, departure, founded

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DeepSeek was set to be added to US Entity List for supporting China’s military and intelligence operations, report claims — White House holds off to avoid escalating tensions with China (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-17 | by Jowi Morales | tags: china, ai startup, department of commerce

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The White House app could soon be auto-installed on every DHS work phone (techspot.com)

2026-06-17 | by Rob Thubron | get DHS Work Phone Security Kit → | tags: white house app, department of homeland security, president trump

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Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-16 | get Cockroach Bacterial Genome Kit → | tags: cockroaches, bacterial genomes, horizontal gene transfer

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DOJ assists Musk's xAI in NAACP air pollution suit, asks court to toss case (cnbc.com)

2026-06-16 | by Lora Kolodny | get Legal Defense for AI → | tags: xai, spacex, naacp

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SpaceX gets assist from DOJ in effort to toss NAACP air pollution lawsuit (cnbc.com)

2026-06-16 | by Lora Kolodny | get SpaceX Starship Model Rocket → | tags: spacex, naacp, xai

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Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Molly Taft | get Algae-Resistant Pool Cover → | tags: reflecting pool, hydrogen peroxide, interior department

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Android 17 introduces a new Foldable Gaming Mode, but there’s a massive catch (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-16 | get Android Gaming Controller → | tags: android 17, foldable gaming mode, google pixel

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Fable ban was never about a jailbreak (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | by Zack Whittaker | get Fable Game Controller → | tags: anthropic, fable 5, mythos 5

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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-16 | by Tim De Chant | get Gas Turbine Power Generator → | tags: xai, gas turbines, department of justice

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Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros. (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Miles Klee | tags: paramount, warner bros, skydance

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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-15 | by Zack Whittaker | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: anthropic, fable 5, mythos 5

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Claude Corps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | tags: claude, anthropic, codepath

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Anthropic to meet with Trump administration over Mythos dispute (cnbc.com)

2026-06-15 | by Ashley Capoot | get AI Ethics and Policy Book → | tags: anthropic, mythos 5, trump administration

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How Trump officials pushed Anthropic to shut down the world’s most powerful AI models (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-15 | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: anthropic, claude, commerce department

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Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get Waterproof Smartphone Case → | tags: smashed samsung a70, android, web server

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How America's Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI (slashdot.org)

2026-06-14 | by Posted | get AI Research Cloud Platform → | tags: energy department, artificial intelligence, unix

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Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens — company also boasts of its improvements in water efficiency (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Amazon Water Efficiency Kit → | tags: amazon, data centers, water efficiency

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Hardcore SpongeBob speedrunners smudged Xbox optical disks with sweat and grease to exploit 'lag clip' trick — filthy smeared disks cut gameplay times in ultimate pursuit of speed (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Xbox Cleaning Kit → | tags: spongebob squarepants, xbox, lag clip

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Paramount Gets Justice Dept. Approval to Buy Warner Bros. (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-13 | get Warner Bros. Blu-ray Collection → | tags: paramount, warner bros, justice department

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US bans differential privacy in Census data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | by Damien Desfontaines | get Privacy Protection Software Kit → | tags: census bureau, differential privacy, disclosure avoidance

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Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women (techspot.com)

2026-06-13 | by Rob Thubron | get Deepfake Detection Software → | tags: deepfake, cfake.com, socfake.com