The Brutalist Report - tech
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- By billboards for over 100 years, holdout building by Macy's is back [4d]
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- ReFrame – The EPaper Camera [4d]
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- AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI [4d]
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- Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters [4d]
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- Leeaky Catches hidden fees draining your travel budget [4d]
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- Banning AI will not make it go away [4d]
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- Underwater Oxygen Loss Threatens Earth's Stability, Researchers Warn [4d]
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- Offer rates for tech jobs fell from 51% to 39% since 2015 [4d]
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- Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript [4d]
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- Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac [4d]
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- Anthropic publishes a practical key-recovery attack on HAWK-256 [4d]
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- Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 [4d]
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- OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security [4d]
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- I sent Claude Opus 5 '–-' and it wrote me 5k tokens about a cartographer [4d]
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- Toolcraft [4d]
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- Azulejo [4d]
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- Recursion Is Lying to You [4d]
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- Pacing the Frontier [4d]
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- Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux [4d]
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- Granola for Apple Watch [4d]
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- uv 0.12.0 [4d]
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- Donate to GrapheneOS [4d]
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- Deflock Casa Grande [4d]
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- Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM [4d]
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- MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless [4d]
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- Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond IO [4d]
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- Linux on ESP32 [4d]
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- iPhone Upgrade Program [4d]
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- Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude [4d]
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- Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI [4d]
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- Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 [4d]
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- WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web [4d]
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- Coding Tools MCP (v0.2.2):Give any AI chat or agent a pair of hands on your code [4d]
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- I vibe-coded a travel app in a weekend, security scan found 8 critical flaws [4d]
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- Substack writers, you need a website [4d]
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- Xenharmlib (music theory library) adds support for Just Intonation [4d]
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- I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw [4d]
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- You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention [4d]
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- How Do I Profile eBPF Code? [4d]
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- Show HN: XY – Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated charts, written in Rust [4d]
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- Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' [4d]
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- Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes [4d]
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- Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals [4d]
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- So, you want to make a game engine (2023) [4d]
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- Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database [4d]
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- Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees [4d]
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- Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM [4d]
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- Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) [4d]
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- GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search [4d]
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- Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor [4d]
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- Anthropeum [4d]
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- Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library [4d]
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- Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification [4d]
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- Una Watch: Garmin watch competitor but repairable, open ecosystem and USB-C [4d]
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- Printing floating point numbers in binary [4d]
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- Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget [4d]
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- Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now? [4d]
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- When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery [4d]
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- Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women [4d]
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- Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights [4d]
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- How far can you push the range of Wi-Fi connectivity in an ideal environment? [4d]
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- Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal [4d]
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- Show HN: Base-GPUI: A GPUI port of Base UI headless components [4d]
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- VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines [4d]
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- Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights [4d]
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- Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction [4d]
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- Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History [4d]
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- Show HN: Ctrlb-decompose: Strip the noise from logs before sending to LLMs [4d]
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- Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast [4d]
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- New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study [4d]
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- Show HN: I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104 [4d]
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- Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code [4d]
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- The First Idempotency Key [4d]
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- AWS Secrets Manager Terraform: Least-Privilege Access [4d]
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- What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski? [4d]
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- Great Mobile Apps Aren't Built Around Features [4d]
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- I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore [4d]
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- Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle [4d]
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- Show HN: I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow [4d]
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- AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough [4d]
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- Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives [4d]
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- Show HN: Vivari – Open-Source WebContainer for Node, Bun, and Python [4d]
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- Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings) [4d]
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- Twelve South Valet mini review: A luxe MagSafe catch-all with new, faster speeds [4d]
- No major reset is coming as John Ternus prepares to take over Apple [4d]
- There's still time to grab AirPods 4 for $99, AirPods Pro 3 for $199 at Amazon [4d]
- Got a lot of Apple hardware? Here's how an Apple Ring can bind them all [4d]
- Ahead of earnings, Goldman Sachs hikes AAPL target to $370 [4d]
- Amazon slashes $500 off 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 2TB SSD [4d]
- Apple Upgrade: What you're going to pay per month for iPhone, Mac, or iPad [4d]
- Your iPhone could stop you getting into the wrong Uber ever again [4d]
- Back to Richmond in season 4, 'Ted Lasso' changes the playbook [4d]
- Strong iPhone demand turns Apple's rebound into a $5 trillion run [4d]
- Apple's smart home hardware refresh draws closer with Siri AI smarts [4d]
- Beyond Preview: How UPDF brings PDF editing, conversion, OCR, and AI to Mac and iPad [4d]
- Privacy is dead, personal AI prompts indexed by Google search [4d]
- Apple Upgrade goes live as a new installment plan for iPhone, iPad, Mac, & Apple Watch [4d]
- Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) [4d]
- OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the "Pacing the Frontier" initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) [4d]
- NXP reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.5B, vs. $3.46B est., as it struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat Q3 forecast; NXPI down 5%+ after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs (Reuters) [4d]
- Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital surged more than 25% to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an implied valuation of ~$2.75B (Kyle Baird/The Block) [4d]
- Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack (Hugging Face) [4d]
- Seagate reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $3.6B, vs. $3.5B est., adjusted earnings of $5.71 a share, above analysts' forecast of $5.10; STX jumps 6%+ after hours (Nate Wolf/Barron's Online) [4d]
- The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats (Reuters) [4d]
- Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors (Ina Fried/Axios) [4d]
- Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind staffers are sharing a letter asking the US government to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development" (Bloomberg) [4d]
- Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube) [4d]
- The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [4d]
- Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions (Mark Zuckerberg/Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to "build essentially a clone" of Runlayer's safety and governance product (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post) [4d]
- Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system (Dustin Volz/New York Times) [4d]
- Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek) [4d]
- Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters) [4d]
- eBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [4d]
- Filing: Shein says its US business is under FTC investigation and it is "cooperating", without giving specifics, as the company prepares for an IPO in Hong Kong (Gabrielle Fonrouge/CNBC) [4d]
- Corning's shares fall 16%+ after weak Q3 guidance, as its growth is squeezed by production limits on its AI connectivity products; Q2 sales rose 17% to $4.74B (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech) [4d]
- Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B (Kyle Alspach/CRN) [4d]
- Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [4d]
- GrubMarket, which connects wholesalers and distributors to grocers and other food buyers, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $4.5B in February (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) [4d]
- Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block) [4d]
- Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [4d]
- UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios) [4d]
- Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4; the Chinese startup trained K3 on Nvidia chips including Blackwell (The Information) [4d]
- Sources: Apple is preparing to launch a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and refreshed HomePod mini in 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [4d]
- ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (Juli Clover/MacRumors) [4d]
- A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California's most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued [4d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #1647) [4d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #1144) [4d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #878) [4d]
- Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'There's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it'' — downplaying Apple's foray into tablets [4d]
- 50-year-old A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog gets reprieve as BRRRRT act keeps it alive after Iran showdown [4d]
- Today I learned the CIA hid a home movie camera inside a Xerox machine — and trained a real repairman to steal the film right in front of the KGB [4d]
- I took a deep dive into the future of robot vacuums — here's what the biggest brands have cooking, from from E.T.-style limbs to full humanoid home helpers [4d]
- Ukraine has used its own indigenous Tomahawk-lite guided jet bombs on targets 125 miles away [4d]
- Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be [4d]
- The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the modern-day wild Nokia phone and may finally put foldables on the map — but how much credit will Samsung get for this enchanting design once the iPhone Ultra arrives [4d]
- Meta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy [4d]
- This Plugable portable monitor fixed my single-screen workflow — but one cable rule almost ruined everything for me [4d]
- ‘What we're really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer's Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever [4d]
- I pitched Chuck Lorre a plan for how Stuart Fails to Save the Universe can retcon The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon's biggest mistake — and he's seriously considering it [4d]
- Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google [4d]
- I gave ChatGPT my entire bookshelf — and it became the world’s most personalized librarian [4d]
- Brave1 and the open source future of war [4d]
- 'They will renew your subscription even if you turn off the auto-renewal' — Which VPN has the most price complaints on the Play Store? [4d]
- 'I want Racemate to be the second screen': Infobip is helping TGR Haas to fund Formula 1 car development through an entirely new kind of fan engagement [4d]
- I'm worried that Windows 11 will slowly turn into a subscription-based OS, and AI agents will be to blame — here's why [4d]
- 'If I feel guilty taking a device off, that's a warning sign': How fitness trackers made me — and others like me — obsessed with over-optimization [4d]
- ‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips [4d]
- College students face strict campus Wi-Fi blocks, but people are getting round it with this tool [4d]
- Shadow AI is actually the symptom: here's how to treat the cause [4d]
- AMD's Helios beats Nvidia on memory at rack level and on compute — only if you count it at the GPU level [4d]
- Why Europe cannot let the AI sovereignty ship sail [4d]
- A bard, a sorceress, a witcher? Find out which character from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt you are [4d]
- Data centers, power and how to be a winner in the AI Boom [4d]
- "We’re not hiding how things work, we’re expressing it" — I sat down with Jake Dyson to talk radical product design, and why your favorite vacuum and hair dryer look like nothing else on the planet [4d]
- 'People should have the choice to buy games in the format that suits them best': top G2A executive supports push for physical game preservation, as Sony and Rockstar look to a disk-free future [4d]
- I think the Surface Laptop for Business might be the smartest and most effective work device Microsoft has ever produced — but I'm most enamored with this one key privacy feature [4d]
- American Airlines Flights Resume After Being Grounded by System Outage [4d]
- A New Smart Ring Uses Finger Sweat to Track Health [4d]
- Pixel 11 Models Will Start With 256GB Storage, Report Says [4d]
- HBO Max Joins the Vertical Video Game With ‘HBO Max Shorts’ [4d]
- The Government’s Indictment of an Activist Tests Whether You Have a Right to Wipe Your Phone [4d]
- Signalis and Dying Light 2 Dominate PlayStation Plus’s Free August Games [4d]
- I Lived Without Cooking Gas for Over a Month. These Hacks Helped Me Feed My Family [4d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 29 #878 [4d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for July 29, #1144 [4d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #674 [4d]
- Apple TV’s Neuromancer Doesn’t Look Exactly Like Blade Runner — and It Shouldn’t [4d]
- This USB Microphone Just Dropped to $15, an Impressive 85% Off [4d]
- Pet Parents, Don’t Miss This Dyson Vacuum at One of Its Best Prices Yet [4d]
- Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 29, #1866 [4d]
- Data Breaches Are Getting Bigger and Companies Are Telling Us Less [4d]
- Private Claude Conversations Have Been Indexed by Search Engines [4d]
- What’s New on Peacock in August 2026? Catch the ‘Love Island USA’ Reunion, ‘Oppenheimer’ and More [4d]
- B&H Knocks Up to $200 Off the Latest MacBook Air in Time for Back-to-School Shopping [4d]
- A New Season of ‘Ted Lasso’ and More Great Originals Are Coming To Apple TV This August 2026 [4d]
- This MSI Codex R2 Gaming Desktop Is Now a Massive $900 Off at Woot [4d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: It’s Not Every Day You Can Score a Samsung TV for Under $100 [4d]
- The Lego-Like Envo UPT Is an EV That Can Be a Golf Cart, ATV or Lawnmower [4d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Save $39 on a TV Backlighting Kit for Next-Level Immersion [4d]
- Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 Trail Running Test: Can It Outrun Your Garmin? [4d]
- I Test Portable Power Stations for a Living, This Is the One I’d Grab in an Emergency [4d]
- Apple Upgrade Program Will Let You Lease an iPhone Without Sticker Shock [4d]
- Apple Upgrade Program Will Let You Lease an iPhone Without Sticker Shock [4d]
- I Don’t Travel Without These Online Safety Tools and Tricks [4d]
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