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Visa to buy cybersecurity firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion amid surge in AI-powered scams (cnbc.com)

2026-08-03 | by Hugh Son | tags: biocatch, visa, behavioral biometrics

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Visa to Buy Fraud Defense Platform BioCatch in $2.4 Billion Deal (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-03 | tags: visa, biocatch, artificial intelligence

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A New Smart Ring Uses Finger Sweat to Track Health (cnet.com)

2026-07-28 | by Anna Gragert | tags: smart ring, finger sweat, uc san diego

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Researchers are building computers that run on brain organoids — but have neglected a major ethical issue (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-27 | by Salem | tags: brain organoids, biocomputing, neural networks

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Sony deletes a movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | by Timothy Geigner | tags: sony, playstation store, studiocanal

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C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | by Liam Proven | tags: code, game, ioccc

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Sony Erases Digital Content From Libraries, a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy (wired.com)

2026-07-03 | by Scharon Harding | tags: playstation, studiocanal, funimation

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Author Correction: Synthesis of enantioenriched atropisomers by biocatalytic deracemization (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-02 | by Roos | tags: biocatalytic deracemization, atropisomers, enantioenriched

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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | by Cindy Harper | get Sony PlayStation Plus Subscription → | tags: sony, playstation, studiocanal

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Sony erases digital content from libraries; reminded we don't own what we buy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | get Digital Content Management Kit → | tags: sony, playstation, studiocanal

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Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-29 | get Digital Content Management Kit → | tags: sony, playstation, studiocanal

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Pong game recompiles its own source code every frame — winning entry at IOCCC29 was generated by a custom compiler (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-29 | by Luke James | get Self-Compiling Code Kit → | tags: ioccc29, insert compiler, pong game

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PlayStation is removing over 500 movies from UK customers' accounts with no refunds — Iconic films like Terminator 2, Apocalypse Now, and Mulholland Drive are getting deleted (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get PlayStation Plus Subscription → | tags: playstation, studiocanal, terminator 2

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Scientists Say New Method Turns Coffee Grounds Into High-Potency Renewable Fuel (futurism.com)

2026-06-24 | by Joe Wilkins | get Coffee Grounds Recycling Kit → | tags: flame plasma pyrolysis, biochar, coffee waste

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The ‘Parasite of Parasites’ Has Been Discovered in the Tropical Forests of Borneo (wired.com)

2026-06-23 | by Marta Musso | tags: ophiocordyceps, pleurocordyceps, sabah

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Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-23 | get Lunar Microbial Containment Kit → | tags: nasa, lunar biocontainment, alien germs

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Scientists Rewrote the Story Behind One of History’s Most Famous Child Sacrifices (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-22 | get Ancient Minoan Snake Goddess → | tags: llullaillaco, radiocarbon dating, inca

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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-07 | get Obfuscated C Code Book → | tags: contest, entries, entry

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What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Siddhant Pusdekar | get Geological Biochemistry Kit → | tags: biochemical processes, soil respiration, sébastien fontaine

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Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Siddhant Pusdekar | get Soil Microbiome Test Kit → | tags: biochemistry, soil microbiome, gamma radiation

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The Dirt That Refused to Die (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Siddhant Pusdekar | get Microbial Soil Remediation Kit → | tags: soil microbiome, gamma radiation, carbon dioxide

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Microsoft’s carbon removal plans aren’t dead after all (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-20 | by Tim De Chant | get Microsoft Azure Sustainability Kit → | tags: microsoft, biocirc, carbon removal

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All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert (wired.com)

2026-05-12 | by Emily Mullin | get Hantavirus Protective Mask → | tags: hantavirus, andes virus, world health organization

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I'm Scared About Biological Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Biological Computing Kit → | tags: biological computing, human neurons, language models

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Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get RFID USB Card Reader → | tags: usb, rfid, eviocgrab

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Geologists Uncover a Hidden Path That the Colorado River Hasn’t Taken in 5.6 Million Years (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-17 | get Colorado River Geological Map → | tags: colorado river, miocene epoch, grand canyon

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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-16 | get AI Biology Textbook → | tags: openai, gpt-rosalind, biology

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This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-16 | by Tim Fernholz | get AI Simulation Software → | tags: antioch, sim-to-real, robotics

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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-25 | by Marsh | get Paleolithic Dog Figurine → | tags: canids, radiocarbon dating, gough’s cave

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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-25 | by Bergström | get DNA Testing Kit → | tags: radiocarbon dating, oxcal, sweden