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ESPN is raising prices on most of its streaming subscriptions, even bundles with Disney+ (engadget.com)

2026-08-24 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: espn, disney+, hulu

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YouTube Premium could get another price hike just months after the last one (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: youtube premium, price hike, europe

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GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Lorin Hochstein | tags: github, istio, autoscaling

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This everyday product in your medicine cabinet is wreaking havoc on people’s livers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: medicine cabinet, uva study, liver injuries

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This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to ‘Incite Fear’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: electric shock glove, police, 1930s

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Dialkyl ether synthesis through heteroatom homolytic substitution (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-20 | by Großkopf | tags: dialkyl ethers, heteroatom homolytic substitution, titanium catalysis

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No plan is safe from Peacock’s latest price bump (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: peacock, nbcu, streaming

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Peacock is the latest streaming service to increase prices, details here (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-18 | by Zac Hall | tags: peacock, streaming service, premium plus

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GitHub down again? no PR access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, githubstatus, pull requests

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Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, githubstatus, server outage

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It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith (theverge.com)

2026-08-17 | by Nilay Patel | tags: semafor, ben smith, buzzfeed news

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Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Scalpel (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Emily Mullin | tags: ultrasound therapy, west virginia university, substance use disorder

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AI Companies Are Suddenly Racing to Watermark Their Content — Here’s What That Means (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jon Small | tags: anthropic, claude, suno

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YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream Users Could Be Owed Money From Disney. Here’s the Deadline (cnet.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: youtube tv, directv stream, disney

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Google to build three new subsea cables connecting Chile, Panama, and the Caribbean (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: google, subsea cables, firmina system

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American Heart Association to coffee fans: Go ahead and have 5 cups a day (as long as you also do this) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: american heart association, coffee, caffeine

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Tesla Buyers Blow Through California’s New EV Rebates in Just 5 Days (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: tesla, california, ev rebates

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Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: klaviyo, facebook, google

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The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Joel David Hamkins | tags: power set, natural numbers, lattice

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Disney Agreed to Pay $50 Million to Streaming Subscribers. Here’s How to Claim Your Share (cnet.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: disney, streaming, lawsuit

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YouTube TV subscribers are starting to get access to their latest free perk (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: espn, espn unlimited, subscribers

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After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: amaro, disney, free

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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: content email, email, email subscribe

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We just got our first real look at how small X's ad business is (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Karissa Bell | tags: spacex, elon musk, ad tech

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Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: trump, wall street, subscription service

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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh (theverge.com)

2026-08-01 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: verge, synths, questlove

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Here’s the live concert connection Spotify and YouTube Music are missing (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: spotify, youtube music, relisten

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 1, #677 (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Gael Cooper | tags: nyt, connections, golf clubs

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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: snapchat, spotlight, ai-generated

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YouTube and Substack are targeting AI slop (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: youtube, substack, ai assistants