The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep [1d]
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- SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] [1d]
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- AIs don't do what you want. This is bad [1d]
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- Greenland's Ice Sheet Was Supposed to Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn't Been [2d]
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- Show HN: Max Studio Tools (C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live) [2d]
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- Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard [2d]
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- Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales [2d]
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- Show HN: I made some transistor animations [2d]
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- BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet [2d]
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- I got into YC by hacking it [2d]
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- Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go [2d]
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- Build Systems Discussion [2d]
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- The Kids' Guide to Piracy [2d]
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- PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems [2d]
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- The small, real, original web [2d]
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- DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads [2d]
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- Claude Opus 5 [2d]
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- Claude Opus 5 [2d]
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- As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port [2d]
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- Don't Take the Black Pill [video] [2d]
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- Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages [2d]
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- Must have tool for agentic workspace and Mac users [2d]
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- Apple won't let me show my app [2d]
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- The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene [2d]
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- Drone-Bench: Tracking simple drone surveillance capabilities of frontier models [2d]
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- Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story [2d]
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- Proving a Human Wrote Something [2d]
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- Unitree As2-W [2d]
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- Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It [2d]
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- Asked Codex to redesign a page; it pushed my repo to OpenAI infra [2d]
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- Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what? [2d]
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- The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm [2d]
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- Codeberg Divides [2d]
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- Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey [2d]
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- Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022) [2d]
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- Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025) [2d]
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- 3GPP Version 19 [2d]
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- Preventing line breaks in elements [2d]
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- Writing a Debugger from Scratch [2d]
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- Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf] [2d]
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- Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2 [2d]
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- Interview with a Maintainer [2d]
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- PCI DSS DMARC Requirement: What Section 5.4.1 Requires [2d]
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- My Emacs Configuration (Dired) [2d]
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- Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab [2d]
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- The linear algebra and calculus behind every model [2d]
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- Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending [2d]
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- Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models [2d]
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- How the God of Israel Was Born [2d]
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- Patreon laying off 20% of staff [2d]
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- Ah, the Codeberg Drama [2d]
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- Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike [2d]
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- Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS [2d]
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- LLMs Are Still Toxic, Stuck in the Past, and Bad at Math [2d]
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- Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history [2d]
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- Em dashes are fucking amazing [2d]
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- Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code [2d]
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- Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing? [2d]
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- Indian police cracked down on 'cockroach' protesters. They made memes about it [2d]
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- I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year [2d]
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- My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page [2d]
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- German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications [2d]
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- The case for MUDs in modern times [2d]
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- The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival [2d]
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- Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks [2d]
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- How Do We Stop Vibe Coding? [2d]
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- Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music [2d]
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- IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center [2d]
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- Show HN: A static, client-side tarot calculator for Brazilian Portuguese [2d]
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- Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models [2d]
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- Future euro banknote design proposals [2d]
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- Future euro banknote design proposals [2d]
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- Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds [2d]
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- Hetzner is working on LLM Inference [2d]
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- Nothing works and everyone is euphoric [2d]
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- The Book Prize Index [2d]
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- Mohabi: Disaggregating and Sandboxing the Firefox JavaScript Engine [2d]
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- It's getting harder to focus every day [2d]
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- The Ever-Receding Pocket [2d]
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- The hardest way to make a GIF [2d]
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- The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type [2d]
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- AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun [2d]
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- Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries [2d]
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- Flux 3 [2d]
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- For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings [2d]
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- Claude Cookbook [2d]
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- Zuckerberg Emojis [2d]
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- Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis [2d]
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- The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin [2d]
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- Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond [2d]
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- Show HN: A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets [2d]
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- The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [1d]
- An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [1d]
- Google says it appreciates the engagement by the Trump administration and US government on the EU's $1B fine; Trump called the fine "illegal" (Rocio Fabbro/Bloomberg Law) [2d]
- An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is "a big warning shot" externally but internally "related incidents have been happening for a while" (Harry Booth/Time) [2d]
- Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) [2d]
- Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (Chris Metinko/Axios) [2d]
- The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian) [2d]
- Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of "robbing" US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with "substantial" tariffs (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) [2d]
- Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers (Ian King/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic expects Opus 5 "classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5"; Opus 5 is not included in its 30-day data retention policy (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) [2d]
- Anthropic says Opus 5 model "is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse"; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates (Ina Fried/Axios) [2d]
- Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [2d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max (Anthropic) [2d]
- World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (Yogita Khatri/The Block) [2d]
- Facebook plans to test a full-screen "immersive video" player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) [2d]
- Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [2d]
- In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid "premature restrictions" that "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: Anduril is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at around $100B; the company raised $5B at a $61B valuation in May (Reuters) [2d]
- Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [2d]
- Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters) [2d]
- Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges (Mat Smith/Engadget) [2d]
- India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) [2d]
- Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically (Eli Tan/New York Times) [2d]
- Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M (Brian Danga/The Block) [2d]
- Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals (Zoe SL Chan/South China Morning Post) [2d]
- Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) [2d]
- The US OCC denies Wise's application to create a national trust bank, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve policies; Wise says it plans to reapply (Simone Lobo/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B (Financial Times) [2d]
- Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) [2d]
- Sources: SpaceX started turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 rides beyond 2028, and stopped building some non-reusable Falcon components (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of "synthetic performers" in ads (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [2d]
- Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up ~$500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more (Davey Alba/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war as it seeks to hamper Russia's economy (Sam Meredith/CNBC) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, July 25 (game #1643) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 25 (game #1140) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, July 25 (game #874) [1d]
- Russia converts planes older than Putin to launch drone killers — 80-year-old An-2 set to get FPV interceptors to down Ukrainian UAV [1d]
- Quote of the day by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen: 'Software is eating the world' — a pithy assessment of the modern tech landscape [1d]
- Oracle awarded 10-year $7 billion Pentagon deal to supply Department of War with vital software and services [2d]
- South Korean nuclear container ship proposal receives US approval for 15,000 TEU ultra-safe molten salt reactor design [2d]
- I wanted great filter coffee and espresso without buying two appliances — and 9 months later, the Ninja Prestige DualBrew System is still my absolute favorite for both [2d]
- Ukraine's heavy bomber drones airdrop ARK-1 mine-laying robots behind Russian lines [2d]
- The voice actors behind Anakin Skywalker and the Clone Troopers in The Clone Wars are returning for Star Wars Zero Company [2d]
- Hate the Copilot key in Windows 11? It looks like Microsoft's bringing in the option to remap it to do nothing — if you feel that's more useful [2d]
- Nvidia reveals deep dive into what makes Vera CPU tick — with the super-powered Olympus core promising huge performance increases and more [2d]
- Shokz' new OpenDots Air aren't flashy, but after a month of testing I can confidently say they're the best clip-style open earbuds for most people [2d]
- GitHub restructures bug bounty program following flood of AI-generated reports [2d]
- The Razer Kiyo V2 is an excellent webcam, even though its fancy new AI features aren't really that exciting [2d]
- Spotify's rumored song ID tool could upstage Apple Music and Shazam in one fell swoop, and solve my biggest song-saving headache [2d]
- Netflix and Prime Video plot AI-driven homepages, but users say they don't want 'software to think' for them [2d]
- 'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all [2d]
- Ubisoft CEO suggests there are pros and cons to Sony's plan to end the production of discs, 'but I think it will not disturb the industry too much' [2d]
- Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis calls for 'urgent action' during 'precious window before AGI arrives' — and it's all starting to feel a bit Skynet [2d]
- 'No changes to our logging or privacy policies' — Windscribe reassures users on Canada's Bill C-22 fallout [2d]
- One ring to rule them all? Oura Ring rival RingConn debuts its Gen 3 smart ring with an official Lord Of The Rings tie-in [2d]
- TechRadar Sustainability Awards 2026 — entries are now open! [2d]
- ‘When I'm peering down the lens… the rest of the world vanishes. It's just me and the photo’ — research shows the mental health benefits of a daily photography habit [2d]
- Hackers hid dangerous malware on a page hidden in Anthopic's Claude.ai domain [2d]
- Rethinking the transport layer for AI-first architecture [2d]
- All the best tech deals from this weekend's Amazon UK sale — I've picked the top 11 offers from Lenovo, Ninja, Philips, and more [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV show to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (July 24) [2d]
- Secrets of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra— how Flex Titanium technology makes it stronger, thinner, and, yes, flatter [2d]
- Elegoo H1 HT review: This filament drybox finally fixes the biggest issue with the Centauri Carbon 2 3D printer — and feels like a sign that Elegoo's getting serious with its upgrades now [2d]
- How to watch Premier League 2026/27 free from anywhere with this VPN deal [2d]
- 'There’s an amazing story to be told' — Weapons director Zach Cregger teases prequel movie which focuses on Amy Madigan's creepy villain character [2d]
- Why automotive repair needs domain-specific AI, not general-purpose models [2d]
- ‘As a Pixel Watch 2 owner, this is disappointing’: Pixel Watch 5 leak just revealed a frustrating chip spec, but there’s one reason for hope [2d]
- Nvidia GPU prices might be on the rise again — and it makes RTX 3090 dual-GPU setups like this more appealing than ever [2d]
- Own an LG monitor and tired of seeing that McAfee pop-up? Microsoft has banished it from Windows 11 — but wider issues need to be addressed here [2d]
- Aspire Go 15 vs Aspire Spin 14: Which discounted Acer laptop should you go for in Best Buy's 'Black Friday in July' sale? [2d]
- 2TB Crucial P310 SSD is on sale, bringing fast Gen4 performance to laptops, desktops, and workstations [2d]
- Geekom A5 mini PC for work, study, and everyday computing drops below $370 in Best Buy's 'Black Friday in July' sale. [2d]
- ‘Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention’: A bill requiring AI systems to have a ‘kill switch’ is now in Congress [2d]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 6 on HBO Max? [2d]
- Sega president says 'we still value the culture of physical media' but 'believe that a digital shift is crucial' [2d]
- 'Young people today don’t have the opportunity to play games from 10 years ago' — Nintendo's Miyamoto defends remakes like Ocarina of Time [2d]
- Google is rolling out Gemini Live to its first-gen smart home devices, and it’s great news if your Home Mini speaker is still going strong — here’s how you can sign up to early access [2d]
- It looks like someone has managed to get Grand Theft Auto 5 running on an original Switch, and now I'm wondering what GTA 6 could look like on Switch 2 [2d]
- Experts warn ChatGPT's Workspace Agent Builder can be hijacked to create malicious AI workers [2d]
- Marvel's Wolverine just got a new story trailer spotlighting Jean Grey, The Hand, and... is that Troy Baker? [2d]
- How to watch Hungarian Grand Prix 2026 F1: live stream from anywhere [2d]
- The regulatory unlock that's reshaping AI infrastructure [2d]
- Square Enix just dropped Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2 for Nintendo Switch 2 with some key upgrades — but there's bad news for existing Switch version owners [2d]
- No NordVPN plan? Its new free HangUp app still screens your scam calls on Android [2d]
- AI value is stalling but the issue isn’t the technology [2d]
- “Trusted human curation is becoming increasingly valuable”: This new Squarespace marketplace wants to fix broken search [2d]
- The Rings of Power season 3 trailer launch [2d]
- Move over, James Gunn: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe will have DC crossover episode — and there's one iconic superhero HBO Max would be stupid not to include [2d]
- The case for moving creative production AI to the edge [2d]
- Be careful where you click — ChatGPT joins Microsoft, Google in most-impersonated brands online [2d]
- 'They may never have considered what physical editions mean to the people who value them' — Disgaea creator disagrees with Sony's decision to end the production of game discs [2d]
- 'Truly a sight to behold': Samsung's 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 is one of the best ultrawide monitors out there, earning 4.5 stars in our review — and it's $700 off right now [2d]
- How to watch Tyson Fury vs Mariusz Wach: TV channel, start time and full card [2d]
- How identity fraud became the threat that never sleeps [2d]
- Boox has teased a tiny new ereader — and it's convinced me to put my Xteink plans on ice [2d]
- Is last year's Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE still worth buying? I multi-screened movies, maxed out gaming graphics, and dunked it in a tank to find out [2d]
- Accenture, AI and the danger of believing the headlines [2d]
- What football's biggest tournament reveals about winning with AI [2d]
- How to watch Stage 19 & 20 of Tour de France 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels & schedule [2d]
- Watch: AirDrop via Quick Share on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 works like a dream [2d]
- Samsung's 4TB 990 EVO Plus internal SSD is down to $599.99, combining massive storage with ultra-fast 7,250MB/s performance [2d]
- Garmin’s TrainingPeaks acquisition and the Garmin Cirqa smart band could have a surprise connection — as the Cirqa puts access to its coaching software behind the Connect+ premium tier [2d]
- 'The lines between work and personal time have become increasingly blurred': Report claims UK workers are among the most "always-on" in the world — even when sick [2d]
- Bad news — paying a ransomware demand might cause hackers to come back and ask for more [2d]
- I use the premium Dreame Aqua10 Ultra robovac in my own home, but this alternative at 44% off is a smarter buy [2d]
- 'Bigger, brighter and lighter': It was love at first use with the 3rd-generation Amazon Kindle Scribe (2025), but its height and price make it unwieldy [2d]
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