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An iPhone 17 Pro gets dropped from 100,000 feet and survives (techspot.com)

2026-08-28 | by Skye Jacobs | get RhinoShield iPhone 17 Pro case → | tags: iphone 17 pro, rhinoshield, sent into space

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An iPhone 17 Pro fell 100,000-feet and survived intact thanks to its case (techspot.com)

2026-08-28 | by Skye Jacobs | get RhinoShield AirX case iPhone 17 Pro → | tags: iphone 17 pro, rhinoshield, sent into space

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Safety regulator says Apple needs to do more to combat sextortion (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-14 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple, online, regulator

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Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-12 | get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone → | tags: collery, device, phone

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Premature optimization is fun sometimes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Invlpg On | get Code Optimization Tips Book → | tags: address, bits, counter

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Premature Optimization Is Fun Sometimes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-08 | by Invlpg On | get Code Optimization Book → | tags: address, bits, counter

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GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols (theverge.com)

2026-06-06 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Anti-Nazi Symbol Sticker → | tags: game, included, newsletter

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A Trillion Characters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get 8TB External Hard Drive → | tags: datastar, server-sent events, sse

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How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | by Zak Knill | get WebSocket Multi-Device Toolkit → | tags: server-sent events, last-event-id, resumable streams

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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Cryptocurrency → | tags: binance, binance fired, crypto

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Binance Fired Employees Who Found $1.7B in Crypto Was Sent to Iran (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Cryptocurrency → | tags: binance, binance fired, crypto

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Institutions are drowning in AI-generated text and they can’t keep up (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-10 | get AI-generated text → | tags: accepting, ai generated, ai sent

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China's Decades-Old 'Genius Class' Pipeline Is Quietly Fueling Its AI Challenge To the US (slashdot.org)

2026-02-02 | by Posted | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: china, international, million

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Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-28 | get Amazon Prime → | tags: bbc sent, canada, canada costa

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Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs (slashdot.org)

2026-01-28 | by Posted | get Amazon Layoffs → | tags: accidentally, accidentally sent, amazon

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Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-21 | get SMS Gateway → | tags: access, links, researchers

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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | get Adafruit → | tags: adafruit, communication, communication sent

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Proving Liveness with TLA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-03 | by Thomas Leonard | get Proving Liveness with TLA → | tags: assume, prove, recv

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Americans lost $330 million to Bitcoin ATM scams last year, FBI says (techspot.com)

2026-01-02 | get Bitcoin ATM → | tags: atms, bitcoin, bitcoin atms

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Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | by Simon Willison | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: email, pike, rob pike

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Corsair replaces $1,000 96GB DDR5 memory kit with $35 RGB-only RAM (techspot.com)

2025-12-23 | get Corsair → | tags: corsair, corsair website, crisis

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Ditch the Chain-of-Thought Hacks: A Modular System for Composing AI Operations (news.ycombinator.com)

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Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-21 | tags: age verification, based age, online

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Govini founder Eric Gillespie's lawyer calls child sex chat 'internet fantasy,' not a crime (cnbc.com)

2025-11-17 | by Lori Ann Larocco | tags: agent, cnbc, gillespie

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Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-05 | get Electric cars → | tags: away, buyers, buyers tesla

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DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Atomic Habits book → | tags: card, credit, messages

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Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Adi Robertson | get Meta Quest → | tags: companies, law, letters

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A million SMS two-factor authentication codes were intercepted; here’s what to do (9to5mac.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | get wifi router → | tags: 2fa, app, code