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Huge $750 saving makes this Gigabyte OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti an absolute steal right now — just $1,999 for 1600p rig with 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, and a 24-core Intel CPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ben Stockton | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5070 ti, oled display

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Emotional resilience is becoming the most valuable skill. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: gallup, global workforce, emotional resilience

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Your old role isn’t coming back (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: gartner, wall street journal, middle management

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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: edotenv, yc s26, quant trading

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Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cmcp, trusted execution environment, snowflake

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What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: labor force, participation, economic indicators

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Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai platforms, digital commerce, adobe analytics

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Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing Protestors (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: flock, surveillance cameras, ai-powered cameras

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Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Brad Bourque | tags: samsung, m80f, tizen

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What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: mirrorcode, metr, ai models

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AI shopping searches surged 200% in one year - and it's a top priority for commerce leaders now (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Vala Afshar | tags: salesforce, agentic ai, google

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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: int8 convrot, geforce rtx, comfyui

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Nearly 720,000 People Stopped Working or Looking for Work in a Single Month. Here’s What’s Behind It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jonathan Small | tags: u.s. bureau of labor statistics, unemployment, remote work

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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: ice, dna collection, immigration enforcement

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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-03 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: salesforce, bonobo ai, marc benioff

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Dozens of police officers accused of using license plate cameras to track women (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: flock safety, license plate reader, police surveillance

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The after-hours advantage: Why your life outside of work matters (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: knowledge workers, american workforce, creativity

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Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: flock cameras, license plates, california

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Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: orca-bench, language model agents, oncall

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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: ai nudes, lancaster country day school, law enforcement

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Severance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: severance, macroeconomic, workforce

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This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jason Parham | tags: orchid, weaponized incompetence, ai assistant

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This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend's Incompetence (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jason Parham | tags: orchid, weaponized incompetence, ai assistant

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Interpol Leverages Global System to Curtail Fraud Payments (darkreading.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: interpol, fraud payments, law enforcement

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The ‘Boorman and the Devil’ Trailer Peeks Behind the Scenes of the Notorious ‘Exorcist’ Sequel (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: exorcist, boorman, hollywood

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New open source printer has 7 toolheads that swap in 5 seconds for fast, zero-waste multi-color 3D printing — Sovol M1D 3D printer is the first open-source IDEX design with an integrated tool-changer (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: sovol, 3d printer, orca slicer

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9050 is roughly 30% slower than the RTX 5050 in games, early testing shows — the cheapest 8GB RDNA 4 GPU comfortably handles 1080p gaming but doesn't impress (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, radeon rx 9050, nvidia geforce rtx 5050

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: rocket lab, spacex, falcon 9

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update: Mid-2026 Edition (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060