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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: amazon, carbon, carbon emissions

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Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: action, action reviving, coming

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’ (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: creators, earn, impressions

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: blocker, chrome, chrome extensions

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Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use? (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: access, carplay, connection

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Fastmail offers EU data region (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Bron Gondwana | tags: copy, fastmail, location

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: census, citizenship, funding

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Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition Review: Extra cool (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | tags: button, buttons, edition

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: hurricane, jamaica, model

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Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

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Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: building, factory, million

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‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: acquisition, acquisition led, alphonzo

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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The humble notebook still matters in the age of AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: capture, capture thoughts, change

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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: decision, decision making, governance

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Stop Burying Your Press Logos — Here’s Where They Actually Win Buyers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ali Raza | tags: buyer, coverage, footer

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Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other on macOS (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: claude, claude code, code

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Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: agent, agentradio, agents

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Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As 'Ghastly' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: clinical, clinical trials, kalshi

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Shopping App Whatnot Valued at $20 Billion in New Funding (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: doubled, doubled valuation, fast

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The fight over Trump’s White House ballroom just took a dramatic turn (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: adjacent, adjacent larger, administration

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‘The Odyssey’ Will Soon Be Christopher Nolan’s Highest-Grossing Film (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: billion, billion dark, crossed

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Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Will Shanklin | tags: color, color options, hours

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Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: applications, founders, post

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Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: administration, billion, energy

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Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-07 | by Prachi Jain | tags: career, leaders, leadership

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Before You Open a Second Location, Answer These 7 Questions — Or Risk Turning One Strong Business Into Two Weak Ones (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Dr. Sterling L. Carter | tags: expansion, founder, growth