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Xbox's devastating July was inevitable (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jessica Conditt | tags: financial, july, layoffs

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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: crowdstrike, developer, keyv

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As iPhones get more expensive, T-Mobile launches new 3-year plan (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple upgrade program, t-mobile

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Samsung announces next-gen 3D memory when all we want is reasonably priced DDR5 (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Steve Dent | tags: samsung, 3d memory, v-nand

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Gen Z Says This Is the Main Reason They Don’t Date: ‘Feels So Unattainable’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: brigham young university, wheatley institute, institute for family studies

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‘Minions & Monsters’ Is Coming Home Faster Than You Can Say ‘Banana’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: minions, illumination, banana

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Opinion | AI Can Empower People, but Only With Some Guardrails (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-04 | tags: artificial intelligence, governance, ai access

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Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anton Shilov | tags: kioxia, sandisk, bics10

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Apple claims that even more ex-employees may have given trade secrets to OpenAI (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: apple, openai, trade secrets

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Chase Bank is closing another wave of branches this summer: See a list of shuttered locations in several states (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: chase bank, jpmorgan chase, retail banking

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AI is helping Grab ship products more than 30% faster, CFO says, as company raises forecasts (cnbc.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jenny Lee | tags: grab, cnc, ride-hailing

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LEGO deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: hubble space telescope, lego icons, nasa

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Plans for nuclear-powered merchant ships must confront risks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-03 | by Chen | tags: nuclear ships, core power, marine fuels

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Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: vp8, nand gates, video codecs

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US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: us treasury, yen market, financial intervention

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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Betsy Vereckey | tags: mit, large language models, ai financial advice

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From MIT: AI financial advice is surprisingly good (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Betsy Vereckey | tags: mit, financial advice, large language models

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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Leonardo De Moura | tags: lean kernel, collatz conjecture, nanoda

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Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: milwaukee shoulder syndrome, humerus, new england journal of medicine

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Google Earth slams the brakes on Gemini image generation for depressingly predictable reasons (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google earth, gemini, nano banana 2

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Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google earth, nano banana, satellite imagery

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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: google earth, nano banana 2, ai image generator

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Google Quickly Rolls Back a Feature That Could Make Deepfake Satellite Images (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Dashia Milden | tags: google earth, nano banana 2, deepfake satellite images

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Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Igor Bonifacic | tags: google earth, nano banana, google

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New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: google earth, nano banana 2, gemini

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China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: china, ev recycling, battery materials

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Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jay Peters | tags: google earth, ai deepfake, nano banana 2

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Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Frank Landymore | tags: google earth, google nano banana 2, ai-generated satellite images

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Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: google earth, nano banana, synthid

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Amazon spent $1.8 million on a failed AI project, and didn't notice the overrun for five months (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: amazon, anthropic, claude sonnet