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An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: news site, journalism, scooped

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Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions already eliminated (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Luke James | tags: oracle, ai data center, restructuring plan

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How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Russell Brandom | tags: videoverse, minute media, acquisition

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Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: html validation, web accessibility, browser error recovery

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Parents urged to revisit screen time limits as kids head back to school (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: screen time limits, florida international university, university of california

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Scientists found a way to generate quantum entanglement using sunlight, not lasers (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: quantum entanglement, entangled photons, university of ottawa

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Rover Promo Codes and Referral Deals for 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Molly Higgins | tags: rover, pet cameras, automatic feeders

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Superconducting 2D cuprate with a single CuO<sub>2</sub> plane (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Luo | tags: cuprates, bi-2201, superconductivity

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Heterogeneous climatic controls on tropical-forest biomass (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Nunes | tags: amazon rainforest, tropical forests, biomass density

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Reply to: Pre-clinical data interpretation requires clinical context (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Pitroda | tags: university of chicago, radiation oncology, clinical interpretation

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The Ultimate Horse (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Sophie Fessl | tags: belmont stakes, secretariat, thoroughbred

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Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Frank Landymore | tags: openevidence, chatgpt, claude

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Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: climate change, heatwaves, sun yat-sen university

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How to Teach Kids to Become Fearless Entrepreneurs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Dan Bova | tags: entrepreneurship, pitchology, high point university

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How This Founder Turned an Awkward College Bathroom Story Into a Leading Brand in a Billion Dollar Category (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Dan Bova | tags: goodwipes, liquid death, florida state university

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U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’ (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: university of michigan, first-semester grades, mental health

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Trouble sleeping in a new place? You’re not alone—it’s called the first-night effect (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: first-night effect, smartwatch, university of freiburg

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His Bootstrapped Business Fixes Broken Customer Service and Brings in 9 Figures a Year: ‘We Should Not Use AI to Replace the Human Touch’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Amanda Breen | tags: call center, horatio, columbia university

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You can now order this Android phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: minimal phone 2, mediatek dimensity 8300, unihertz

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Laser wireless charging could keep drones airborne indefinitely — improved receiver converts at 38.49% efficiency and uses nanocrystalline material for thermals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: laser wireless charging, civil aviation university of china, perovskite laser cell

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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Claire L. Evans | tags: organoids, johns hopkins, biocomputing

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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: london underground, facial recognition, passenger scanning

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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun (theverge.com)

2026-08-11 | by Robert Hart | tags: openai, mathematics, james maynard

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Seven tips for a graceful lab exit (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-11 | by Melchor | tags: safe labs, university college london, pip coen

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Phosphine-mediated azine C–H couplings with water and ammonia (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-11 | by Nottingham | tags: phosphines, transition metals, azine coupling

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Boeing sells eVTOL subsidiaries, takes stake in Archer (cnbc.com)

2026-08-10 | by Phil Lebeau Meghan Reeder | tags: boeing, archer aviation, wisk aero

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For the First Time, AI Designed 16 New Viruses, Raising Fears and Hopes (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: viruses, stanford university, arc institute

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The Flesh-Eating Screwworm’s Comeback Is Now Killing People, Too (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: screwworm, north america, livestock

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Convince an AI it's not alive in psychological horror game Prove You're Human (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Sarah Thwaites | tags: prove you're human, mesa, sunset visitor

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Archer buys former rival Wisk Aero (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: archer aviation, wisk aero, boeing