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Philips Evnia 27M2N5500XD 1000Hz Review (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: mode, monitor, overdrive

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The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Luke Larsen | tags: display, inch, macbook

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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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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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NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: laptops, modem, nasa

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Just got your Galaxy Z Fold 8? Here are the first 5 things you need to do (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: apps, fold, galaxy

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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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Why Aren’t Any AI Companies Watching Their Frontier Models to Make Sure They Don’t Go on Hacking Sprees? (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: agents, hack, models

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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: ai labs, cybersecurity, labs

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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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'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: asimov, humans, inglis

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PSA: Claude Code enabling auto mode as default next week, Anthropic says (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Zac Hall | tags: anthropic, auto, auto mode

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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: cost, frontier, harness

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Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: cost, frontier, harness

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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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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai generated, ai models, citing

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ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: bytedance, chinese, model

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Chesky says Airbnb will spend ‘a lot more’ on AI as earnings beat and stock surges 15% (cnbc.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mackenzie Sigalos | tags: airbnb, chesky, chesky said

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Apple seems to have abandoned Cinematic mode, and that’s a mistake (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-07 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, cinematic, cinematic mode

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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jay Peters | tags: agentic, astra, critical

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Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: ai model, model, models

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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: advanced, anthropic, bytedance

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The Summer of Rogue AI Sends a Signal to the Enterprise (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai models, enterprises, enterprises governance

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AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Frank Landymore | tags: bacteria, create, model

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Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: agents, frontier, kimi

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Google built a portable AI translator that works offline, and you can build one too (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: gemma, gemma model, google

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Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X? (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Emma Roth | tags: apple, grok, moderation

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Meta becomes the third AI giant in two weeks to admit its model went rogue (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Rob Thubron | tags: access, anthropic, internet

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Meta becomes the third AI giant in two weeks to admit its model went rogue and hacked another company (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Rob Thubron | tags: access, anthropic, internet

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One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Will Knight | tags: internet, kimi, model