GoKawiil - Tech News

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A weird Chrome bug is preventing users from hiding the bookmarks bar (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-11 | get Chrome Bookmark Bar Hide Tool → | tags: chrome, google, bookmarks

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$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3D-printed cooling — modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs and is more efficient than many modern midrange offerings in AI inference (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-10 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia Tesla V100 PCIe → | tags: nvidia v100, socketed gpu, pcie adapter

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Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get Google Tensor G2 Smartphone → | tags: chrome, google, on-device ai

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Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-04 | get PyTorch Lightning Security Patch → | tags: pytorch lightning, python package index, bun v1.3.13

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Dav2d (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get Dav2D Video Decoder → | tags: dav2d, av2, dav1d

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Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get Quantization Toolkit for AI → | tags: autoround, transformers, signroundv1

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Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum (theverge.com)

2026-05-01 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | get Dyson Robot Vacuum Motor → | tags: dyson, robot vacuum, lidar

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Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum (theverge.com)

2026-05-01 | by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy | get Dyson Robot Vacuum → | tags: dyson, dyson v10, robot vacuum

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iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 Motherboard Review: Colorful enters the high-end overclocking scene (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-29 | by Joe Shields | get Colorful iGame Z790 Vulcan → | tags: colorful, igame x870e vulcan oc v14, overclocking

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Multicentre gene therapy for <i>OTOF</i>-related deafness followed up to 2.5 years (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Jiang | get Gene Therapy for Hearing → | tags: otoferlin gene therapy, aav1-hotof, otof gene mutations

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NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-18 | get NAKIVO Backup & Replication → | tags: nakivo, v11.2, ransomware

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Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | tags: gas town, clown show, v1.0

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This 2nd-Gen Google TV Stick brings a faster CPU and AV1 decoding, but with barely enough RAM (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-31 | get Google TV Streaming Stick → | tags: google tv, xiaomi, av1 decoding

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This 2nd-Gen Google TV Stick brings a faster CPU and AV1 decoding (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-31 | get Google Chromecast with Google TV → | tags: xiaomi, google tv, av1 decoding

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Best Cordless Vacuums: Our Newest Award Winners Deliver Great Performance for the Price (cnet.com)

2026-03-30 | by See Full Bio | get Dyson V15 Detect Cordless Vacuum → | tags: dyson, eureka, levoit

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OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-28 | get Civilization I Board Game → | tags: openciv1, civ1, sid meier

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Dolby sues Snap over video codec patents tied to AV1 and HEVC (techspot.com)

2026-03-28 | get Dolby Vision Blu-ray Player → | tags: dolby, snap, av1

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AV1's Open, Royalty-Free Promise In Question As Dolby Sues Snapchat Over Codec (slashdot.org)

2026-03-28 | get AV1 Codec Support Card → | tags: av1, dolby laboratories, snap inc

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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-27 | get AV1 Codec Support Card → | tags: av1, dolby laboratories, snap chat

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General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | by Bill Pierce | get EV1 Model Car Kit → | tags: ev1, questionably garage, mark reuss

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General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | by Bill Pierce | get EV1 Model Car Kit → | tags: ev1, general motors, questionably garage

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HandBrake remains the go-to free encoder for compressing and converting video (techspot.com)

2026-03-15 | get HandBrake Video Converter → | tags: handbrake, h.264, h.265

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Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent (venturebeat.com)

2026-03-13 | get AI Coding Assistant Keyboard → | tags: random labs, slate v1, swarm native

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This RTX 5060 Acer gaming laptop with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD is a steal for just £799.99 — solid 1080p performer includes a 10-core Intel CPU and a fast 165Hz refresh rate (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-12 | by Ben Stockton | get RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop → | tags: nvidia geforce rtx 5060, acer nitro v15, intel core i7-13620h

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Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | get Calyx → | tags: libghostty, liquid glass, metal gpu

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Veeam warns of critical flaws exposing backup servers to RCE attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-03-12 | get Veeam Backup & Replication → | tags: veeam, backup & replication, rce vulnerabilities

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Chrome on Android just got two huge upgrades that can fix your messy tabs - what's new (zdnet.com)

2026-03-10 | by Jack Wallen | get Tab Manager → | tags: chrome android, chrome v144, pinned tabs

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Fanttik’s foldable V10 Apex vacuum is on sale for the lowest price we’ve seen (theverge.com)

2026-02-25 | by Brandon Widder | get Vacuum → | tags: foldable, vacuum, fanttik

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I 3D Printed Dyson Vacuum Tools and Other Cool Home Accessories (cnet.com)

2026-02-22 | by See Full Bio | get Vacuum tools → | tags: dysun tool holder, prusa mini plus, bambu labs a1

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Leica's latest M camera drops the rangefinder in favor of an electronic viewfinder (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get digital camera → | tags: camera, ev1, leica