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Updated Jul 29, 2026 · 100 entries
Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Pokémon Pokopia's first DLC comes to Switch 2 on August 5

There's a new underwater location to explore and a dive mechanic.

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers

X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social network

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Is there any benefit to restarting your phone regularly?

It's a widely held belief that restarting your phone improves performance. Here's the truth.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

DoorDash unveils its own drone delivery service after FAA approval

The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house.

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

Remarkable’s refurbished bundle is an awesome deal that’s over $350 off

A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is currently offering a refurbished bundle for $449.99 through July 31st. It includes the […]

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key

Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy

PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning

Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future

Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same way, with a […]

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems

More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Netflix edges past the BBC in latest UK audience survey

The BBC has so many structural benefits that it's unthinkable it could be usurped by anyone else in the UK.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Are remote car starters still worth it in 2026?

Some newer vehicles include the feature, but to keep it, you'll have to pay monthly. You can also buy remote starters outright.

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning

Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

The Nothing Ear 3A look great… and sound good enough

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same transparent look as Nothing's previous earbuds, with a clear case and stem design accented by a solid-colored body - […]

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: A repairable notebook at the top of the class

The Framework 13 Pro is a class-leading Windows laptop that, right now, is just a little too pricey.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike

Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Festival Must-Haves, Field-Tested at Lost Lands and Electric Forest

Our field-tested gear includes power banks, electrolytes, outdoor blankets, earplugs, and more.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started

More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research

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MIT Technology Review · Jul 29, 2026

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately, he’s been clocking out on time and heading…

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

The 15 Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)

These are the cleaning robots, water monitors, and toys actually worth buying for pool season.

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Love It or Hate It, the Ferrari Luce Is a Thrilling Drive

WIRED test-drove a preproduction version of the Luce, the storied Italian automaker’s controversial electric car, and it was remarkably surprising. Will it convert Ferrari fanatics?

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

French musician Kavinsky found dead

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Rare, fully-functional Nintendo Famicombox retro consoles were discovered in a Japanese love hotel

Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

23 WIRED-Approved Gifts for Frequent Travelers (2026)

For the frequent flier who treats the Delta Sky Club like their second home.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

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Ars Technica - All content · Jul 29, 2026

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Mac Mini Availability: Long Waits and Higher Prices

Thanks to the surge in local AI processing and the ongoing memory shortage, it’s incredibly difficult to buy a Mac Mini.

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The Verge · Jul 29, 2026

Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms

After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn't […]

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Apple Upgrade Isn’t the Best Way to Buy an iPhone

With Apple Upgrade, the company is making it easier to pay for its products in monthly installments. Critics call it the “financialization of the affordability crisis.”

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package

Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Best Ethernet Switches: Fast, Reliable, and Secure

If your router is short on ports, you can add more with one of the best Ethernet switches. These are my top picks from what I’ve tested.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

Amiga Graphics Archive

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise

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Ars Technica - All content · Jul 29, 2026

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

How to Bring a Geothermal Well Back from the Dead

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness

Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’

One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

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MIT Technology Review · Jul 29, 2026

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that’s exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,…

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps

Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix

Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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Save up to 87% with a Surfshark coupon code, 3 months of VPN free today, and more from WIRED.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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Find the best Zoro coupon codes, deals, and free shipping offers to save big on industrial equipment, tools, and supplies this month.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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Enjoy top deals on cameras, computers, and tech essentials at B&H Photo.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Braun Promo Codes: 15% Off July

Unlock exclusive savings on Braun IPL, shavers, and grooming products. Find verified Braun promo codes and expert tips to maximize your discounts.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

Hostinger Promo Code: 79% Off for August 2026

Discover exclusive Hostinger promo codes, discounts, and deals on web hosting, cloud plans, and domain registration. Save big on your next Hostinger purchase today.

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Hacker News · Jul 29, 2026

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 29, 2026

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks

Docs point to China’s Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat

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Ars Technica - All content · Jul 29, 2026

Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9

The new full-size flagship SUV starts at $87,700 when it goes on sale in Q4.

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WIRED · Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

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TechCrunch · Jul 29, 2026

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 29, 2026

The US is banning foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters

It's part of a national security strategy to kickstart domestic production of emerging technology.

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WIRED · Jul 28, 2026

A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months

How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 28, 2026

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived

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www.theregister.com - Articles · Jul 28, 2026

MCP gets an enterprise makeover

Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle

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The Verge · Jul 28, 2026

The US is banning foreign robots

The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and quadruped models - but it is not limited […]

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Simon Willison's Weblog · Jul 28, 2026

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo ) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES ("neither of these results has a practical impact on today’s computer systems") is the prompts that they shared, spelling mistakes included: the models tend to think it is impossible to solve so they don't try they need a good amount of prompting. why not do aes-128 r7? the whole point is to find something better than existing approaches. no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian we need to find something that worth publishing again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly hard findings. Mythos Preview worked for 60 hours in total (~$100,000 in estimated API cost) and the main human interventions were to encourage it not to give up and "find something that worth publishing". The paper CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis? describes the new eval that was created as part of this work, in partnership with ETH Zurich, Tel Aviv University, and University of Haifa. Via Hacker News Tags: ai , prompt-engineering , generative-ai , llms , anthropic , claude , ai-security-research , claude-mythos-fable

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Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews · Jul 28, 2026

eBay and its former execs settle cyberstalking case brought by journalist couple

Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company.

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