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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: beshry, beshry said, joining

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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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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: community, fitness, members

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What’s the Difference Between Surveillance Pricing and Dynamic Pricing? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: avoid, avoid getting, getting

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Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dell Cameron | tags: nexar, openai, security

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Apple's rumored "Ultra" lineup would include a foldable iPhone, camera AirPods, and a touchscreen MacBook (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: airpods, apple, cameras

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Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: client, head, head mare

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VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: cases, entrepreneurs, performance

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Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: ai draining, asked, asked experts

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: band, browser, burned

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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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Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center (slashdot.org)

2026-08-07 | tags: cyber, def franklin, fewer people

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: band, browser, burned

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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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The fight over Trump’s White House ballroom just took a dramatic turn (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: adjacent, adjacent larger, administration

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5 things wrong with Wendy’s right now, including 1 big one that’s threatening its entire turnaround effort (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: away, away wendy, biggie

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The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Zeyi Yang | tags: china, chinese, interview

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T-Mobile Just Quietly Killed Its Better Value Phone Plan After Less Than a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: better, better value, experience

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One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Mariella Moon | tags: lunar, mars, moon

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The Team Behind ‘Paddington 2’ Could’ve Made a ‘Star Wars’ Movie (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: didn, didn happen, droid

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Before You Open a Second Location, Answer These 7 Questions — Or Risk Turning One Strong Business Into Two Weak Ones (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | by Dr. Sterling L. Carter | tags: expansion, founder, growth

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Details Leak on OpenAI’s Doughnut-Shaped Speaker (cnet.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tyler Lacoma | tags: apple, devices, home

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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive” (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: apple, bloomberg, openai

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How snails engineer their slime (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: anti, garden, mucus

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AI-Generated Patches Fail Half the Time (darkreading.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: break, break open, bugs

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Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: paper, research, rich

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OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: ai hardware, allegedly, details

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This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: major, major wars, opening