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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Julie Bort | tags: river ai, general catalyst, xai

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Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: climate change, heatwaves, sun yat-sen university

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FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation prediction markets (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: flightaware, kalshi, prediction markets

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Deal: A $200 price drop means the Nothing Phone 3 has never been cheaper (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: nothing phone 3, snapdragon 8s gen 4, glyph matrix

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Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Nathan Yau | tags: flock, nexar, uber

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Wendy’s Fell to No. 3 in Burger Chains. Its New CEO Blames ‘Quality Degradation.’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jonathan Small | tags: wendy’s, burger king, mcdonald’s

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Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: wesco, exfilsquad, cloud crm

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Microsoft raises Windows OEM fees for PC makers by 7% to 10% (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: microsoft, windows, pc makers

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More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Osmond Chia | tags: truth social, trump media, cryptocurrencies

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Skullcandy Discount Code: 30% Off | August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Harry Rabinowitz | tags: skullcandy, bose, method 360

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HIV vaccines guide rare immune cells to make broadly neutralizing antibodies (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-11 | by Gnanakaran | tags: hiv vaccines, immune cells, broadly neutralizing antibodies

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Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China (slashdot.org)

2026-08-10 | tags: royal navy, kraken unmanned vessels, china

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Apple Reportedly Testing Controversial Chinese Chips as Memory Supply Crunch Intensifies (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: apple, chinese chips, trump admin

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Metabase SQL Zero-Day Attacks Could Have Wide Blast Radius (darkreading.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: metabase, sql, zero-day

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The U.S. records its hottest month ever, NOAA says (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: noaa, july, record

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Don't let a Wall Street analyst's downgrade of Apple scare you out of the stock (cnbc.com)

2026-08-10 | by Morgan Chittum | tags: apple, jefferies, supply chain

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Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jake Roach | tags: nvidia, rubin ultra, hbm4

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A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: noreply.net, cory solovewicz, email security

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Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp (futurism.com)

2026-08-10 | by Frank Landymore | tags: flock, nexar, uber

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Claude's Record-a-Skill cut my research from hours to 30 minutes - but the magic has limits (zdnet.com)

2026-08-10 | by David Gewirtz | tags: claude, anthropic, ai skills

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The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Drugs From Scratch (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Mattha Busby | tags: willy myco, lsd, mycelium familia

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HoverAir unveils the Versa modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone — Modular camera transforms into an auto-tracking drone by magnetically snapping together for instant palm launch and AI tracking (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: hoverair, versa, self-flying drone

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Social Security: 2026 bill could save benefits from insolvency—and impact COLA increases. How your checks could change (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: social security, social security 2100 act, colas

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What a Family Business Taught e.l.f. Beauty’s CEO (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-10 | tags: e.l.f. beauty, family business, ceo

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Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town (slashdot.org)

2026-08-09 | by Posted | tags: flock safety, littleton, dashcams

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The ‘Crawl’ Sequel Has Found Its Gator Chow—I Mean, Stars (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: actor, actor emily, aja long

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Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: apple, apple data, aware

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: chip, learning, poly

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: curious, curious lately, lately

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Anthony Ha | tags: artificial state, just, really