The Brutalist Report - tech
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- What Liberal Arts Education Is for (2024) [1h]
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- About 100 firefighters are convicted of arson, every year [1h]
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- BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display [2h]
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- The development pipeline is a production system [2h]
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- What Is MiniMax H3? Everything You Need to Know About the Hailuo 3.0 Video Model [2h]
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- Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era [2h]
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- A Week in Matrix [3h]
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- How to Exist [5h]
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- That Viral Photo of San Francisco NIMBYs Shows Why Housing Is Winning [5h]
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- Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 [7h]
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- Thomson Reuters built its own AI model that now ranks among the best [7h]
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- Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts [8h]
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- Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Product Educator [8h]
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- Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena [8h]
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- Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent [9h]
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- Predictive Speculative KV Replication for Bursty LLM Inference [9h]
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- Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion [10h]
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- AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books [10h]
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- Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Is Missing Opportunities to Apply Lessons [10h]
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- Lerd, an open source Herd-like PHP development environment for Linux and macOS [10h]
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- Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types [10h]
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- Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? [10h]
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- Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video] [11h]
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- Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer) [11h]
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- June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more [11h]
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- How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars [11h]
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- Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours [11h]
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- qm [11h]
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- AFC Stands in Solidarity with UEFA and Concacaf to Protect the FIFA World Cup [11h]
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- Severance [12h]
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- Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device [12h]
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- Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion [12h]
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- The great wealth transfer reality check [13h]
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- Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted [13h]
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- Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio [13h]
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- Online Friends Are Real Friends [13h]
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- Big Food vs. the People [13h]
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- US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner [13h]
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- Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy [13h]
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- Show HN: Shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT, over MCP [13h]
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- Next-Level Productivity Revealed to Be Smart Sticky Notes [13h]
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- Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion [13h]
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- A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig [13h]
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- Make Everything to Markdown [13h]
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- New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key [13h]
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- Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children [14h]
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- Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? [14h]
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- 13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS [14h]
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- Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements [14h]
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- Where .env Went Wrong [14h]
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- Elevators [14h]
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- I built a f.lux alternative because the M5 Max firmware broke existing solutions [14h]
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- The most official water costs $120k a gallon [14h]
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- Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces [14h]
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- Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism [14h]
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- Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account [14h]
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- How many people are dying as a result of USAID's demise? [14h]
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- Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard [15h]
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- Authorize, don't authenticate [15h]
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- Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s [15h]
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- Better to Beg Forgiveness [15h]
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- U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% [15h]
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- Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption [15h]
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- Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout [15h]
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- Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling [16h]
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- Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba [16h]
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- Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing [16h]
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- About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says [16h]
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- Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy [17h]
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- Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer [17h]
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- The End of an Era [17h]
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- The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) [17h]
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- You have been mislead about lightbulbs [17h]
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- Progressive Web Components [19h]
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- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis [21h]
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- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis [21h]
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- Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant [21h]
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- Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI [22h]
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- DeepSeek v4 Flash final models show solid improvements [23h]
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- Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all [23h]
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- Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) [42m]
- A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica) [2h]
- Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [4h]
- Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg) [5h]
- The FTC clears quantum computing company IonQ's $1.8B acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater after the FTC's two members disagreed at first on imposing conditions (Jody Godoy/Reuters) [6h]
- Sources: OpenAI demoed a new "Astra" AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (The Information) [7h]
- Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (Financial Times) [7h]
- Amazon shares closed up 15.32% on Friday, the biggest one-day jump since April 2012, after the company reported accelerating AWS revenue (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) [8h]
- Roblox shares close down ~27%, its worst-ever daily percentage decline, after forecasting falling bookings and slowing revenue growth; RBLX is down 40%+ YTD (Kit Norton/Barron's Online) [8h]
- Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters) [8h]
- FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) [9h]
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to "addictive" social media algorithms (Ben Szalinski/Capitol News Illinois) [9h]
- An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (Wall Street Journal) [10h]
- Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add "stronger guardrails" after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (Geoff Brumfiel/NPR) [10h]
- Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) [11h]
- Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) [11h]
- Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times) [12h]
- OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) [12h]
- Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: "I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent" (Reuters) [12h]
- Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [12h]
- SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) [13h]
- South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (Haram Lim/Bloomberg) [14h]
- MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) [14h]
- DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis) [15h]
- Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (Abner Li/9to5Google) [15h]
- Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg) [15h]
- AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 (Jennifer Rankin/The Guardian) [16h]
- A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (Elizabeth Grenier/Deutsche Welle) [17h]
- Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (Reuters) [17h]
- Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal) [18h]
- Counterpoint: Q2 global smartphone revenue rose 7% YoY, and average device selling price rose 17% to $400; Apple took 49% of global revenue, and Samsung 16% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg) [18h]
- The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (Inti Landauro/Reuters) [18h]
- Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal) [19h]
- Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg) [19h]
- DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores "far surpassing" V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg) [19h]
- New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an "overreach" (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [19h]
- Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg) [20h]
- Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging) [20h]
- Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) [20h]
- An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (Casey Newton/Platformer) [23h]
- Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY (Ethan Gach/Kotaku) [23h]
- What does a backyard Dolby Atmos home music studio look like when you’re a sound engineer for major artists? The shed of my dreams, that’s what [4h]
- Zelensky confirms Ukraine's drones will reach 6,000 miles in 2027 — enough to cover the entirety of Russia and able to reach as far as San Francisco from Kyiv [4h]
- I electrocuted my own vagus nerve every day for a week to find out if brain health wearables are worth the hype [5h]
- Pentagon is looking for drone bombers, but don't expect a B52 replacement, as they'd carry only an 18 lb payload [6h]
- Grab 1.54TB free cloud storage for life — but you will need to sign up to 43 services [6h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, August 1 (game #1650) [6h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 1 (game #1147) [6h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 1 (game #881) [6h]
- Seagate reveals more on its 50TB HDD plans — but looks like we'll still have a long wait to buy one [6h]
- Quote of the day by The Odyssey director Chris Nolan: 'AI researchers refer to the present moment as an 'Oppenheimer moment'' — putting into perspective the scale of change AI will bring [7h]
- Japan just got a 999g laptop with a 30-hour battery — and you probably can’t buy it [8h]
- Why are home servers trending? I took the plunge in an attempt to demystify the quiet tech community of tinkerers that are choosing to build, upcycle and host it themselves [8h]
- This hilarious robot collapse reminds me that robot development is nowhere near where it needs to be, but a huge breakthrough from DeepMind could change all that [9h]
- Ukraine built a stealth electric bike that powers drones and zooms over landmines [10h]
- 'We've set this company up in preparation for this moment' — as PlayStation scraps discs, these companies are ready to keep physical games alive [10h]
- Miss your CD collection? This wall-mounted display for Spotify and Apple Music promises to bring back its ‘feeling of connection’ — but its maker insists he doesn’t want to kill off physical media [11h]
- 7 new horror movies on Netflix, Paramount+, Shudder, and more in August 2026 [12h]
- Exclusive: 'We...ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out': I saw inside Beats' labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why 'the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound' is the hidden secret [12h]
- I stopped using ChatGPT Voice like a smart speaker — and it became far more useful [13h]
- Keeper Security's top-rated password manager is now 50% off, and it's the best security upgrade you'll make this year [13h]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 7? [13h]
- Magic: The Gathering’s most controversial change is coming to Dungeons & Dragons — starting with its first official World of Warcraft expansion [13h]
- Apple and Google are hosting hundreds of dangerous VPN links — here is why your device is at risk [13h]
- I'm incredibly excited for The Witcher 4 - but CD Projekt Red needs to avoid the same performance issues The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 once had [14h]
- First your age, next your identity: Inside the 'hack' that broke the EU age verification app's privacy promises [14h]
- '8K Blu-ray would be a technical feat in search of a problem to solve’. I talked to the Blu-ray Disc Association, player manufacturers and TV makers about what comes after 4K Blu-ray, and the future of physical media [14h]
- 'C-suite executives need to upskill themselves to really understand the threats': AI is becoming a tool for attackers and defenders, but true resilience requires a constantly changing strategy, says former GCHQ intelligence expert [15h]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (July 31) [15h]
- TechRadar's first crossword is here — puzzle #1, Friday, July 31 [15h]
- Lioness season 3 is Taylor Sheridan's most scathing, brutal, and AI-wary outing yet — but the new Paramount+ series is still making sure that the Yellowstone creator is the action hero of the hour [15h]
- Why traditional security checks are failing in the age of AI-driven fraud [15h]
- The surge in AI-driven fraud requires coordinated global defense [15h]
- I can't believe it's taken LinkedIn so long to push back against AI slop — but will its changes really stop all the cringey updates? [16h]
- I swapped my iPhone for the distraction-free Balance Phone to curb my social media habit, and it wasn't quite the digital detox I expected [16h]
- Air stylers are being sold as a one-size-fits-all solution for 'healthy curls' — but that's just not accurate, says major haircare brand founder [17h]
- Disney+ just lost 4K and all HDR support in parts of Europe, so you have to ask what the point of a Premium subscription is — and this is exactly why physical media is on the rise [17h]
- 'It can be a win-win situation': Xero explains why giving businesses more control over their finances might actually be the key to AI success [18h]
- First drones, now robot vacuums — the US government's ban on foreign robots is confirmed to include many of the best robovacs and robot lawn mowers on the market, and brands may have been caught off-guard [18h]
- I asked, you answered: here’s whether you think the Nintendo Switch 2 is a hit or a flop, plus thoughts from industry insiders [18h]
- Beyond Tokenmaxxing: the rising token tax on enterprise AI [18h]
- The real fight in agentic commerce isn't autonomy. It's authorization [18h]
- Reviews Recap [18h]
- Why the UK’s quantum procurement strategy matters more than the £2bn headline [19h]
- The UK wants to lead on AI, but who is going to build it? [19h]
- Starlink sends the telecoms world off in a spin, but what is the big picture? [19h]
- Cracking down on shadow AI is making your business less secure, not more [19h]
- 'The VPN you can simply trust and forget about' — Norton VPN boosts security, speeds, and network in latest round of upgrades [20h]
- I found my 2006 iPod nano during a clearout — and honestly, we’ve lost something beautiful in the streaming age [20h]
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day ending explained — who does Sadie Sink play, how many post-credits scenes are there, and more on the new Marvel movie [21h]
- Microsoft turns to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice over second-hand software licenses, and billions could ride on the outcome [22h]
- 'The risk is that people begin spending more time signalling progress than making it': Report claims many workers now spend more time staying visible than learning new skills [22h]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 1, #677 [6h]
- I’ve Been Running the New Safari on iOS 27, and My Thumbs Are Already Happier [6h]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 1 #881 [6h]
- Sony’s Plan to Kill Physical PlayStation Discs Faces Gamer Backlash [8h]
- Google Quickly Rolls Back a Feature That Could Make Deepfake Satellite Images [10h]
- A New FCC Ban May Affect Robot Lawn Mowers: Get This One While It’s $500 Off [10h]
- This 160-Watt Ugreen Charger Powers 4 Devices at Once and Is $50 Off [10h]
- Feel the Wind in Your Hair and Save $450 Off a New Segway Electric Scooter [11h]
- Apple’s CEO Hints That Heavy Use of Siri AI Could Cost You [11h]
- Gamers, You Can Pick Up an Epos Wireless Headset or External Sound Card for Just $20 [12h]
- Who Will You Play in D&D’s New World of Warcraft and Star Wars Sets? CNET Answers [13h]
- To Get Beyond ‘Pervert Glasses,’ Meta Should Remember the Lessons of VR [14h]
- I Made Brownies in the Air Fryer. I’ll Never Go Back [15h]
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition Gen 11 Review: Good Design, Middling Performance, Ugly Price [16h]
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition Gen 11 Review: Good Design, Middling Performance, Ugly Price [16h]
- Is the Steam Machine Perfect for Your Living Room? [16h]
- These Funky Open Over-Ear Headphones Let My Ears Feel the Breeze — Perfect for Summer [17h]
- These Funky Open Over-Ear Headphones Let My Ears Feel the Breeze — Perfect for Summer [17h]
- These $90 Pack of 2 Bluetooth Speakers Can Link With 100 Others [17h]
- Google DeepMind Shows Off Gemini Robotics 2 Doing Chores, and the Future is Here! [17h]
- Back-to-School Is Expensive Enough Already. Here Are the Best Deals to Help With That [18h]
- Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra: The Best Update Isn’t What I Expected [20h]
- Bitcoin holds July gain as 'forced-selling fuel was already spent,' analysts say [8h]
- Tether posts $1.5 billion operating profit in Q2 as reserve buffer falls by half [11h]
- The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders [11h]
- Coldcard's $38 million (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody, may push investors to ETFs [12h]
- Quantum computing nears commercial breakthrough, IBM CEO says [13h]
- Crypto faces 3 barriers to next bull run, STS Digital CEO says [14h]
- Circle secures New York trust charter as crypto regulatory push accelerates [15h]
- Coinbase's weak quarter leaves Wall Street split on timing of a recovery [16h]
- RWA perps will outpace tokenization [16h]
- Dubai-based crypto exchange tied to $4 billion Iran sanctioned-evasion network [17h]
- World Cup bets smash records as prediction markets hit $20 billion in volume [17h]
- U.S. sanctions Iran-linked bitcoin insurance scheme for Strait of Hormuz ships [17h]
- Bitcoin $60,000 put leads the pack as mood swings bearish for August [17h]
- Bitcoin, ether fall, equities rally with broader crypto market on track for best month in a year [18h]
- New York sues Kalshi, alleges it offers a gambling platform 'plain and simple' [19h]
- Quantum Solutions, Hyperscale Data tap crypto treasuries to fund AI data centers [20h]
- Bitcoin’s calm is back and so is the setup for a volatility explosion [21h]
- Live updates: Bitcoin steady as Japan holds rates at 1%, keeping the yen carry trade alive [21h]
- Bitcoin flat near $64,000 as Kospi's record 17% surge leaves crypto untouched [23h]
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