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More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: department, flock, investigation

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It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: details, details looks, game

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Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: clark, hesperaloe, kimberly clark

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: amazon, cash, expected

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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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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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tyler August | tags: apple, dell, efficiency

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Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: deployed, guards, human

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Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Matt Burgess | tags: domain, domains, messages

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Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing) (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: ai replaces, determine, determine prices

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China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: chipmaker, colorful, cxmt

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Flock wanted to put license plate cameras on 350,000 Uber and Lyft dashcams (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Daniel Sims | tags: alprs, cameras, flock

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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

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Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Kris Holt | tags: august, game, games

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Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: digital, ideas, love

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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: blocks, model, organism

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Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Matt Burgess | tags: domain, domains, messages

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Weathernext Team | tags: cyclones, forecasters, hurricane

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My favorite feel-good show is back (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by David Pierce | tags: apps, good, headphones

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Hackers Figure Out a Trick to Steal Bitcoin From Cold Wallets, Grab $110 Million (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bitcoin, bloomberg, coinkite

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Windows 11 26H2 is a small update with big quality-of-life improvements, expected around October 2026 (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: cloud, copilot, microsoft

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Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: failed, failed failed, flock

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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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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Julie Bort | tags: employees, macinnis, rippling

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OpenAI Pauses Some Work on New AI Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai testing, astra, astra model

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Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber Drivers Into Mobile Snitches (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: drivers, drivers mobile, flock

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Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: center, center reps, data center

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This Super El Niño Could Trigger the Highest Sea Levels Ever Recorded on the California Coast (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: california, california likely, coastal

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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: app store, astrology, astronomy

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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