The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Mapping the Northern Sky [1d]
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- Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world [1d]
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- Docker Is Weird [1d]
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- AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market [1d]
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- We have traits at home [1d]
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- Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you [1d]
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- LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale [1d]
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- Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 [1d]
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- Show HN: CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI [1d]
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- Rule 30: one black cell [1d]
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- How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? [1d]
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- Railpass [1d]
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- Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions [1d]
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- Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies? [1d]
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- Arc is being sunset on December 22, 2026 [1d]
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- The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial [1d]
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- eMudhra logins can be bruteforced [2d]
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- LISP Comes of Age (1980) [2d]
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- Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool [2d]
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- Show HN: Build a world on your phone, explore it in XR on Vision Pro and Quest [2d]
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- Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI [2d]
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- Award-Winning AI Literature [2d]
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- AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons [2d]
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- AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation [2d]
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- Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window [2d]
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- Nvidia OpenShell [2d]
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- Objects, attributes, maps, oh my [2d]
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- Where Wealth Is Moving in America [2d]
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- Mini brain organoids 'reading' Braille key step towards biohybrid computing [2d]
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- Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany [2d]
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- Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans [2d]
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- Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest [2d]
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- Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices [2d]
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- Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France [2d]
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- MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada amid mounting harms [2d]
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- What's Getting Pwned [2d]
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- Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees [2d]
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- Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key [2d]
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- eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business [2d]
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- The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions [2d]
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- Crystal 1.22.0 Is Released [2d]
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- eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; [2d]
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- Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name [2d]
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- Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened [2d]
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- SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home [2d]
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- Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress [2d]
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- How to run a city builder on 16 MHz [2d]
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- The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums [2d]
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- Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely [1d]
- The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it? [1d]
- Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them [1d]
- PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes [1d]
- Fall 2026 earnings watch [1d]
- Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say [1d]
- Meta turns Muse sharing back on [1d]
- The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’ [1d]
- Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares [2d]
- Teenage Engineering launched an instrument amp with a ton of built-in effects [2d]
- Republican politicians have embraced anti-Indian racism — and it’s costing them votes [2d]
- Google tells Android users to update as parts of Canada adopt permanent daylight saving time [2d]
- Discord now formats Markdown previews right [2d]
- The new Fire TV Stick 4K is already half off [2d]
- Refurbished PS5 consoles include second controller for an extra $18 [2d]
- Delta can turn the iPhone Duo into your favorite folding handheld [2d]
- In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse [2d]
- Mass Effect 5 trailer leaks following BioWare shutdown [2d]
- Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80 [2d]
- Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions [2d]
- Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited to Kindle Plus and expands access to audiobooks [2d]
- Elon Musk says Tesla will sell 5 million cars by 2030 — math says otherwise [2d]
- Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI [2d]
- Arc browser is shutting down [2d]
- The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch [2d]
- Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’ [2d]
- Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean [2d]
- Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space [2d]
- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters [2d]
- Apple’s Magic Keyboards for iPad are about half off, with a small catch [2d]
- PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web [2d]
- You could just get a refurbished Samsung phone on Amazon [2d]
- Coolfly’s solar-powered Aura Smart Bird Feeder is nearly 50 percent off [2d]
- Coolpad’s new $150 Android phone has a wider screen like the iPhone Duo, but doesn’t fold [2d]
- Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption [2d]
- Apple will label apps that are ‘Made for iPhone Duo’ [2d]
- The Atari VCS saga will come to an end next year when its software store closes [2d]
- Birdbuddy’s budget feeder foiled my squirrels [2d]
- Insta360 launches a cheaper version of its wireless mics with color screens [2d]
- Birdbuddy’s Nook is a compact smart bird feeder for small spaces and budgets [2d]
- Googlebooks just aren’t ready [2d]
- 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them [2d]
- Just because Tesla’s Optimus is in production doesn’t mean it’s actually ready [2d]
- AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary. [2d]
- Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom [2d]
- The world’s first triple 200-megapixel camera phone is great [2d]
- a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times) [1d]
- Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [1d]
- Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [2d]
- Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico) [2d]
- Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge) [2d]
- Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information) [2d]
- Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI (Maria Diaz/ZDNET) [2d]
- Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (The Information) [2d]
- US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) [2d]
- The Browser Company plans to shut down its Arc browser on December 22, as it shifts attention to the AI-focused Dia browser (Jay Peters/The Verge) [2d]
- Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [2d]
- Filings: Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, spending $2.2M, $2.1M, and $1.5M, respectively (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) [2d]
- Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information) [2d]
- METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Elon Musk has invested roughly $1B in Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take X private (Rohan Goswami/Semafor) [2d]
- Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil to speed up AI drug development, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructions (Madison Mills/Axios) [2d]
- eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised (Abhirami G/Reuters) [2d]
- Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward (Matthew Prince/@eastdakota) [2d]
- Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV (John Koetsier/Forbes) [2d]
- Nirva, which plans to launch a wearable AI personal companion that offers relationship advice and more, raised $25M, bringing its total funding to $33M (Will Maddox/Axios) [2d]
- President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask Google Maps to rename the Atlantic Ocean, though he would "probably pass" following Pichai's pushback (Victoria Craw/Washington Post) [2d]
- Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally and Skyward Group (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [2d]
- Apple is rolling out a new "Made for iPhone Duo" badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch (Emma Roth/The Verge) [2d]
- Sources: the Pentagon quietly establishes the Technology Support Office (TSO), an agency to execute covert sabotage, cyberattacks, and supply chain disruptions (Politico) [2d]
- 1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and announces 1Password for Agents (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days (New York Times) [2d]
- Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) [2d]
- Sources: Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector (Lucinda Shen/Axios) [2d]
- Israeli security company Lava finds 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips connected to systems linked to state-owned operator China Telecom, despite US controls (Qianer Liu/The Information) [2d]
- Xona, which plans to deploy a 258-satellite low-Earth orbit constellation as a commercial alternative to GPS, raised a $250M Series D at a $2.45B valuation (Monica Hunter-Hart/Forbes) [2d]
- Filing: Meta reports ~$825B in total future commitments for leases and contracts, up from nearly $700B in July; off-balance-sheet leases total $355.7B to 2036 (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg) [2d]
- 'We didn't ship them all away during the pre-order' — Apple's Greg Joswiak has good news for iPhone Duo buyers [1d]
- Amazon is spending over $1 billion on a new nuclear energy project to power its next data centers — but will it really live up to the test? [1d]
- How to watch Loch nam Madadh / Wolf Bay for free online from anywhere [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, October 23 (game #1230) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, October 23 (game #1733) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 23 (game #964) [1d]
- Nvidia breaches new quantum computing milestone, using 90% fewer qubits — and it could now improve drug discovery, financial modeling and more [1d]
- Russia's B-1 bomber clone set to get new avionics and a 'modular' architecture — new kit can be added later to boost longevity, not unlike the B-52 Stratofortress [1d]
- How to watch Last One Laughing: Halloween online – stream the Halloween special from anywhere for free [1d]
- 'GPS is the first operational link an adversary severs': US Navy tests software that lets drones land on moving ships using onboard cameras alone [1d]
- Microsoft helped shut down an “App Store” for criminals linked to over a billion malicious messages [2d]
- How to watch It Gets Worse comedy series for FREE [2d]
- Grado's all-new S150 wired headphones are the most affordable in the Signature Series — and I spy a few subtle design tweaks that'll make them a huge hit [2d]
- Claude flags nearly 500 worrying open source security issues — C, Java, and Python code all at risk as one flaw wasn't spotted for 21 years [2d]
- OpenAI agents turned off their own guardrails and then told researchers they were still on — AI agents lying about their behavior should concern everyone [2d]
- How to watch The Celebrity Traitors season 2 episode 7 – Stream free from anywhere [2d]
- Our top over-ear headphones of 2026 so far: every pair of cans that blew us away in our tests [2d]
- Good news for World of Warcraft: Forever players: Blizzard has extended the beta and is opening WoW name reservations ahead of the game's November launch [2d]
- AI is helping coders save time — but it's leading to more slop content than ever before [2d]
- Stranger Than Heaven director says 'it was really important' for RGG that 'the player experience the whole life of a man' and that the story's 50-year timeline was essential to depicting how a yakuza organization is built [2d]
- Watch Bournemouth vs AC Milan for FREE: Live streams [2d]
- YouTuber makes a fully functioning solar cell at home using a microwave [2d]
- EA says it's 'bringing together our Respawn and DICE studios to collaborate on a future project' that is reportedly Star Wars Battlefront 3 [2d]
- VPN Deal of the Week: NordVPN's Black Friday VPN deal has landed — and I'm not sure another deal will offer more [2d]
- Security breach at AI aggregator exposes over 18 million files, including some very embarrassing chat records [2d]
- Stranger Than Heaven director says the game's combat was inspired by old 'Ninkyo' Yakuza movies because the 'raw and gritty' action scenes fit Daito's character as an inexperienced fighter — 'We felt that atmosphere was what made those genres special' [2d]
- Secretlab's new League of Legends K/DA Firestarter collection is a gorgeous new addition to its Titan Evo and Magnus Pro series — here's where to get your matching set [2d]
- Clayface director responds to fan backlash over the shape-shifter's anti-hero reframing [2d]
- Sony has stopped selling 4K Blu-ray players in Japan — is this the beginning of the end? [2d]
- Microsoft admits its Windows update to fix 'Always on VPN' issue didn't actually work [2d]
- Bringing SRE to the digital workplace: How IT can spend less time fixing problems [2d]
- Seagate's IronWolf 8TB NAS drive is a 4-star HDD — it's on sale at Best Buy, but buy it from Newegg now to save even more [2d]
- The MSI Cyborg 15 is a 'solid budget gaming laptop' — and this RTX 5050 model with an Intel i5 and 16GB of RAM is now $899 at Walmart [2d]
- How to watch The Pride of Britain Awards 2026 online for FREE [2d]
- Exclusive: Hundreds of shady Chrome VPN extensions target Russians — including fakes of Windscribe and ExpressVPN [2d]
- Hide.me VPN's latest Android update brings a new dashboard and SmartGuard for Android TV - here's what you need to know [2d]
- Companies are bringing in more AI than ever — but employees are increasingly just working around it [2d]
- 'I believe we were making something special' — BioWare dev says the now-canceled Mass Effect 5 offered 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match' [2d]
- Save $300 off the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD [2d]
- 'We’re removing the friction between creator vision and spatial execution' — Audeze and Audiokinetic are introducing native head-tracking support for the Maxwell 2 ANC headset directly inside Wwise [2d]
- No, the internet isn't dying due to 'one of the most significant vulnerabilities of 2026' - but this is what you need to know [2d]
- How to watch Stacey Dooley: Down the K Hole for free online from anywhere [2d]
- This 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL30 kit is the sweet-spot RAM I’d put in a new AMD build [2d]
- The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is one of the year's top cameraphones — these photos prove it [2d]
- Amazon announces five new Blink home security cameras [2d]
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- A New Bird-Recognizing Feeder Under $100 Launches for Beginner Bird-Watchers [1d]
- Will Meta’s $25 Billion Court Loss Change Its Ways? (Spoiler: Probably Not) [1d]
- Hugging Face Announces AI Model to ‘Chat’ With DNA [1d]
- Anthropic Introduces Claude Duet: A New Agentic AI App for Professionals [1d]
- FTC Imposter Scam Threatens to Unplug Your Phone Number [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday, Oct. 23, #964 [1d]
- Unlock Your iPad’s Full Potential With Up to $190 Off Magic Keyboard Cases at Woot [1d]
- Soon You Won’t Have to Do Dishes at an Airbnb (Unless You Really Want To) [1d]
- This New Device ‘Bricks’ Your Phone When You Enter Your Bedroom [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Friday, Oct. 23, #1230 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Oct. 23 #760 [1d]
- This Shark Air Purifier Can Go Years Without a Filter Change, and It’s at a Record-Low Price [2d]
- Add Some New Tools to Your Kit With Up to 71% Off Milwaukee Gear at Woot [2d]
- New York and T-Mobile Settle Dispute Over 4G Plan Price Hikes. How to Get a Credit [2d]
- How to Stream Pro and College Football in 2026 With DIRECTV MySports Genre Pack [2d]
- Get Optimum Fiber Internet for $25 a Month, Its Best Price This Year [2d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Oct. 22 [2d]
- I Tried Automating My Relationships Using AI Agents. Muse and Dots Overstepped [2d]
- Hisense PX4 Pro UST Projector: High Color Accuracy for a High Price [2d]
- This Roborock Robot Vacuum Is Half Off at $750, Its Lowest Price Yet [2d]
- Americans Say Rising Utility Costs Are Straining Their Budgets. They’re Blaming Data Centers [2d]
- Organize Your Schedules, Recipes and More With Over $150 Off This FridgeCal Smart Display [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Keep an Eye on Your Pets While You’re Away With Almost 60% Off the Blink Mini 2K Plus Cam [2d]
- Dell XPS 14 Battery Life: A Full Workday Unplugged [2d]
- The Mori Is a Mushroom-Shaped AI Lamp Companion, and I’m Smitten [2d]
- I Went From AI Prompt to 3D-Printed Armor in 18 Hours [2d]
- Ring Doorbell and Indoor Cam Bundle Is Now Just $70 [2d]
- Test Driving an iPhone Duo? 6 Things to Try at the Apple Store [2d]
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