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'Godmother of AI' Says Biggest AI Risk In Schools Is Students Losing the Desire to Learn (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: fei-fei li, ai in education, imagenet

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Apple wins temporary Supreme Court pause in Epic Games proceedings (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-12 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, epic games, supreme court

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Your key to success isn't more luck or hard work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: facebook, raj chetty, economic connectedness

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Anthropic’s Claude Will Start Adding Invisible Watermarks to AI-Generated Text (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: anthropic, claude, ai-generated text

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Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, rtx 6000 blackwell, workstation gpu

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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai firms, google books, book scanning

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Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective hack strategies in real-time (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Etiido Uko | tags: china, ai-agent frameworks, dream cybersecurity

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Pixel 11 takes on iPhone’s Photographic Styles with Camera Looks, including retro film filters (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pixel 11, google, camera looks

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I Tested the Pixel 11 Pro’s Camera in Beautiful Paris (cnet.com)

2026-08-12 | by Andrew Lanxon | tags: pixel 11 pro, google, tensor g6

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Pixel 11 camera upgrades include Instant Night Sight and bigger sensors (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Steve Dent | tags: pixel 11, night sight, tensor t7

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Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: html validation, web accessibility, browser error recovery

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ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: ice, compliant technologies, ctg 5 glove

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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: blacksmith, openai codex, peak xv partners

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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, ai training, independent bookstores

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Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse (theverge.com)

2026-08-12 | by David Imel | tags: google, pixel 11, camera looks

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‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Paresh Dave | tags: cargo thefts, ai hardware, semitrucks

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Google Sheets makes it less of a headache to import Excel files (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: google sheets, excel files, pivot tables

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Bow shocks reveal how a dying star returns matter to interstellar space (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: bow shocks, dying star, interstellar space

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Degree-of-polarization modulation for high-dimensional optical computing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Petrini | tags: degree-of-polarization, hamamatsu, liquid-crystal-on-silicon

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Procognitive restoration of PV neuron plasticity in neurodevelopmental disorders (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Shih | tags: aav-s5e2-dtom, pvalbcre, addgene

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This desktop CNC mill lets you carve 3D figurines with zero experience, and it’s now on Kickstarter (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: infimaker, kickstarter, cnc mill

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Court rejects Apple’s attempt to postpone App Store fee proceedings in Epic Games case (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: app store, epic games, yvonne gonzalez rogers

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Anthropic models will soon inject watermarks identifying AI-generated text (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: anthropic, ai models, watermarks

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Zoom screen-sharing bug let people fully take over other devices on a call (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: zoom, screen sharing, cybersecurity

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‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Pens a Gory, Horny Love Letter to Slasher Flicks (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: camp miasma, jane schoenbrun, slasher flicks

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Googlebooks May Soon Overpower Any Chromebook, If That Matters (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: googlebooks, chromebook, google

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SwitchBot’s smart home devices are getting a major boost with their own smart assistant (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: switchbot, kata ai, smart home

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Google’s upcoming Pixel phones are for the fans, even if its launch event isn’t (theverge.com)

2026-08-11 | by Dominic Preston | tags: pixel 10, google store, pixel leaks

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FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers — blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jon Martindale | tags: fcc, optical transceivers, china

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You can now order this Android phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: minimal phone 2, mediatek dimensity 8300, unihertz