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This Bluetooth-only Marshall home speaker sounds so good, I can forgive the missing Wi-Fi (zdnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Prakhar Khanna | tags: marshall, marshall stanmore, speaker

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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: challenge, chrome, chrome http

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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: challenge, chrome, chrome http

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Gen Z Helicopter Parents Are So Intense That They’re Calling Hiring Managers to Interfere (futurism.com)

2026-08-06 | by Frank Landymore | tags: behalf, called, helicopter

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Neanderthal gene makes some modern humans taller and more muscular (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Basu | tags: ancient, humans, modern

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Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anna Washenko | tags: xbox, xbox series x, klobrille

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Marshall Stanmore IV vs. Sonos Era 300: I tested both to find the ultimate home speaker (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Prakhar Khanna | tags: marshall, sonos, airplay

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Apple launches fresh legal challenge against UK encrypted data access demand (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: apple, encrypted data, home office

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‘House of the Dragon’ Star Gayle Rankin on What It’s Like Being a Freaky Westeros Witch (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: house of the dragon, gayle rankin, harrenthal

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Google Messages is getting much stricter about pinning chats (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: google messages, chat pinning, nerds chalk

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Top Consulting Group PwC Caught Using AI on “Thought Leadership” Report About AI, Resulting in Corporate Document Filled With Bizarre Hallucinations (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: pwc, ai hallucinations, citizen pulse

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Arm yourself with a Hall Effect controller for just $9 — GameSir's Tegenaria Lite PC controller is 50% off for a limited time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: hall effect, gamesir, tegenaria lite

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From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: chalkdust, latex, mathematical typography

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Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop (futurism.com)

2026-08-01 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: adaptavist, generative ai, prompt engineering

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About 100 firefighters are convicted of arson, every year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: firefighter arson, edmonton, lawson schalm

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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Benjamin Breen | tags: farsi, indo-european, div

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Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: neanderthal, denisovans, ghost lineage

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Mahershala Ali Has ‘Moved On’ From ‘Blade’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: mahershala ali, blade, marvel

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This new robot centaur designed to save lives is pure nightmare fuel (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: satyress, threehalves, robotics startup

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Streaming QR codes at 60 FPS achieves nearly 190 KB/s data rate in phone-to-phone tests — browser-based method requires no app, no networking, no pairing, and no permissions beyond camera access (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qr codes, browser-based transfer, decimen optical transfer

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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Why I’m excited (and a little uneasy) about Android Halo’s always-on AI (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google, android halo, gemini spark

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PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: pwc, ai hallucinations, gptzero

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US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Frank Landymore | tags: openai, ai hallucination, us state department

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Exploring Apple Silicon’s local AI performance with the Mac Studio and M4 Max — M4 Max beats GB10 and Strix Halo in decode throughput, but memory bandwidth isn't everything (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: apple silicon, mac studio, m4 max

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Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: npm, north korea, sapphire sleet

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Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features (theverge.com)

2026-07-30 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: razer, huntsman v3, hall effect switches

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How AI can help make busy shipping routes safer for whales (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: san francisco bay, whale detection, ferry

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Why we still hate HR—and 100 business leaders on how to fix it (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: corporate america, workforce challenges, global company

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Metal God Ozzy Osbourne Is Halloween Horror Nights’ Newest Attraction (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: ozzy osbourne, halloween horror nights, universal studios