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Why do people actually prefer AI-generated stories to human writing? New study reveals surprising insights (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: accusations ai, ai bias, ai use

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Mysterious new Garmin smartwatch spotted in FCC filings (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: connectivity, device, filing

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SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: carriers, mobile, satellites

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Zed DeltaDB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: agent, branch, code

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Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI 'Operating System' (slashdot.org)

2026-08-05 | tags: apps, cloudflare, cloudflare os

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Greece is using thermal satellites to spot wildfires before people do (techspot.com)

2026-08-05 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: detect, fires, greece

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Your Employees Are Bringing AI Salary Ranges to Pay Talks. Here’s How to Respond. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | by Alison Stevens | tags: compensation, compensation decisions, decisions

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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: saudi aramco, mitti labs, satellite imagery

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SpaceX reveals how Starlink Mobile plans to take on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: starlink, spacex, echo star

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Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: spacex, elon musk, starlink

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T-Mobile wants to make switching providers easier with its revamped plans (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: t-mobile, essentials 2.0, experience more 2.0

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Blackmail Fail (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: pastebin, satoshi nakamoto, genesis block

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When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai benchmarks, benchmark saturation, systematic study

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Hughesnet Files for Bankruptcy After Bleeding Customers to Starlink (cnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Joe Supan | tags: hughesnet, starlink, low earth orbit

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Microsoft CEO Touts His Own DIY AI Project To Wall Street and His 20 Million Followers (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: microsoft, satya nadella, copilot

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Tech Bro Boasts He Used AI to Secretly Monitor Toddlers’ Conversations, Categorize Them In Giant Database (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Frank Landymore | tags: mocha, claude, ai monitoring

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The Download: reward hacking explained and suspected Iranian cyberattacks (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-03 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: iran cyberattacks, google satellite images, apple ai bug reports

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The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-03 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: iran cyberattacks, google satellite images, apple ai bug reports

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Living Underwater in 2026: New Ocean Habitat Just Dropped (cnet.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jesse Orrall | tags: deep, vanguard, saturation diving

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Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: nasa, swift gamma-ray observatory, katalyst space technologies

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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 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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This new robot centaur designed to save lives is pure nightmare fuel (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: satyress, threehalves, robotics startup

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How to keep your AI conversations as private as possible (zdnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Lance Whitney | tags: ai conversations, zdnet, vendor

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The Google Pixel Watch 4 LTE is down to $349.99 in one of its best Amazon deals yet (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: google pixel watch 4, amazon deal, 4g lte

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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Marina Temkin | tags: smallest.ai, voice ai, human conversation

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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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Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: amazon, iran, satellite imagery

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Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: space force, true anomaly, rocket lab