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Lost one-of-a-kind Nintendo DS cartridge hits eBay for $9,100 — PokePark Fishing Contest designed to delete itself after 12 hours, game so rare it was only distributed to theme park attendees in 2005 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nintendo ds, pokepark fishing contest, ebay auction

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Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, st. mary's

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The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, fish sludge

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U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: u.s. debt, gdp ratio, fiscal policy

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Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren’t sure why (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-31 | by Thompson | tags: orcas, sunfish, marine research

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Tim Cook marks final earnings call as Apple CEO, confirms Ternus will take over calls (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-30 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, tim cook, john ternus

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Maingear’s Fishbowl PCs Are a Cable-Free Stage for Your Components (and Labubus) (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: maingear, fishbowl pcs, labubus

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2027 Will Be Xbox’s Make-or-Break Moment as Hardware Prices Soar (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: xbox, microsoft, hardware prices

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This 83-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Rejecting a $400 Million Payday: ‘I Don’t Need a 200-Foot Yacht’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: grady-white, fishing boats, eddie smith jr

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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fish audio, ai voice models, nvidia

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Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fish audio, ai voice models, nvidia

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Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | by Anuradha Weeraman | tags: cryptography, openbsd, blowfish

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Skin cancer spreads between catfish in a freshwater lake (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Siddle | tags: transmissible cancer, brown bullhead catfish, nature

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Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | by James Woodford | tags: hunter-gatherers, brown trout, lake tesse

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Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive (futurism.com)

2026-07-26 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: immix biopharma, atossa therapeutics, rhode island

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The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-25 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: finfisher, hacking team, nso group

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Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish (wired.com)

2026-07-25 | by Javier Carbajal | tags: catfish, transmissible melanoma, nature

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NYC Mayor Takes Aim at AI Slop ‘Housefishing’ in Real Estate Listings (cnet.com)

2026-07-24 | by Omar Gallaga | tags: ai-generated images, streeteasy, zillow

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Author Correction: Feature-specific threat coding in lateral septum guides defensive action (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-24 | by Bhatti Mazo | tags: merfish, septum, biorxiv

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Researchers Discover First Known Transmissible Cancer In Fish (slashdot.org)

2026-07-23 | tags: fish, transmissible cancer, cbc news

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Watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: orcas, sunfish, cooperative hunting

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Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: orcas, sunfish, gulf of california

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Watch These Orcas Smash a Giant Dead Fish to Pieces—Just for Kicks (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: orcas, ramming behavior, fish

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I Test-Drove Substack’s New AI Detection Tool, and It Mostly Worked (cnet.com)

2026-07-22 | by Alex Valdes | tags: substack, pangram, ai detection

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Scientists Discover the First-Ever Contagious Cancer in Fish (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: contagious cancer, fish, scientists

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Rare contagious cancer discovered in wild catfish (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Callaway | tags: catfish, transmissible melanoma, lake memphremagog

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AI-redesigned starting points and outcomes enhance protein evolution (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Krasnow | tags: gold biotechnology, thermofisher scientific, new england biolabs

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On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: immix biopharma, ronald fischer, yacht

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Substack is adding an AI detection feature (engadget.com)

2026-07-21 | by Anna Washenko | tags: substack, pangram, ai detection

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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by Emma Roth | tags: substack, pangram, ai detector