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- I'm in love with a German film star [15d]
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- Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age [15d]
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- Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 [15d]
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- WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload [15d]
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- I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again [15d]
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- A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th [15d]
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- 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth [15d]
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- Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first [15d]
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- Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs [15d]
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- The Mathocalypse [15d]
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- The Mathocalypse [15d]
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- As We Become Cameras (2016) [15d]
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- The Outing of Tinky Winky (2014) [15d]
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- Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection [15d]
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- ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains [15d]
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- Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools [15d]
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- Push Ifs Up and Fors Down: The Idiom, Its Algebra, and Its Limits [15d]
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- A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone [15d]
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- When the machine boots but the reply disappears [15d]
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- AI Model Groupthink [15d]
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- Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News [15d]
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 [15d]
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- GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone [15d]
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- In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick [15d]
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- Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code [15d]
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 [15d]
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- No new Ghostty updates since March [15d]
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- Docker Agent [15d]
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- DuckDB Ducklake [15d]
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- AI, Work, and the Next Downturn [15d]
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- Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler [15d]
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- Show HN: Pinrail – A desktop inbox where coding agents wait for your review [15d]
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- EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry [15d]
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- Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools [15d]
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- Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days [15d]
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- Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt [15d]
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- Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth [15d]
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- A Cop's Case for Flock [15d]
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- The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton [15d]
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- Open source 160 sound visualization experiments [15d]
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- My static site was serving my internal docs [15d]
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- Show HN: Trigora – durable execution without history replay [15d]
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- Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app [15d]
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- Thank You Indonesia for the Clean Air [15d]
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- AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots [15d]
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- Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation [15d]
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- Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy [15d]
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- Normal Tools – Useful online tools, no nonsense [15d]
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- Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware [15d]
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- GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions [15d]
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- ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests [15d]
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- Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees [15d]
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- Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective? [15d]
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- How to Assemble Science [15d]
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- Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages [15d]
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- We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory [15d]
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- Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS [15d]
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- Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous [15d]
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- Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts [15d]
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- SynthID Detector [15d]
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- AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares [15d]
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- Part of a police code for describing suspects [15d]
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- ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux [15d]
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- All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS [15d]
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- Google Playground [15d]
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- Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video] [15d]
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- Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging [15d]
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- House with 15M underground tunnels for sale for 300k [15d]
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- Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia [15d]
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- Plastic Straw Ban Isn't Environmentalism–It's Virtue Signaling – Oregon Catalyst [15d]
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- The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready? [15d]
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- Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector [15d]
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- 2D Vehicles [15d]
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- Google Playground: Create and play custom games [15d]
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- Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese [15d]
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- Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, vs. ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% to ~$145.7B, lower than expected (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [15d]
- Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 (Janine Liberty/MIT News) [15d]
- The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (Connor Jones/The Register) [15d]
- The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) [15d]
- Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (Wall Street Journal) [15d]
- OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers (@openai) [15d]
- Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [15d]
- Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 and adds monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, up to $500 shared by Team users (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [15d]
- Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [15d]
- OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (OpenAI) [15d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (Anthropic) [15d]
- Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [15d]
- Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [15d]
- Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) [15d]
- OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight (Reuters) [15d]
- Game studio Gardens Interactive raised a $35M+ Series B led by Lightspeed at a pre-money valuation of $190M, taking its total funding to $71M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) [15d]
- Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) [15d]
- Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M+ (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) [15d]
- Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the "best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno" (Grace Kay/The Information) [15d]
- Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Smart Lock, which uses a physical dial to recharge the battery when turned, set for a Q1 2027 launch, and five new cameras (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [15d]
- Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [15d]
- Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) [15d]
- North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B+ acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) [15d]
- Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training (Krystal Hu/Reuters) [15d]
- Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight, for $93M total funding (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [15d]
- Xreal's Aura and Meta's VR Glasses hands-on: similar compute puck, lightweight design, and price, but Aura uses optical see-through lenses suitable for walking (Boone Ashworth/Wired) [15d]
- Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria (Jay Peters/The Verge) [15d]
- Xreal opens pre-orders for the Android XR-powered Aura glasses, starting at $1,279 for 12GB RAM/256GB, shipping soon in the US with a separate compute puck (Mariella Moon/Engadget) [15d]
- 'This data center belongs downtown': Developer proposes 20-story vertical data center in Kansas City to trade suburban sprawl for urban density [15d]
- How to watch Chicago PD season 14 online for free – Chicago franchise returns for 2026 [15d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 8 (game #1718) [15d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 8 (game #1215) [15d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 8 (game #949) [15d]
- This 15.6-inch KYY K3-1 portable monitor is 15% off for Prime Day [15d]
- Tiny Asian country beats China, USA to world's most accurate clock — Lutetium-based device loses 1 second every 264 billion years [15d]
- The MSI Roamii Be Pro is the best-value tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh router you can get on Prime Day, with 11 Gbps speeds and absolutely no subscriptions [15d]
- How to watch Chicago Fire season 15 from anywhere in the world – stream the series online for free [15d]
- This 4-pack of smart bulbs is the only genuinely good Philips Hue deal this Prime Day [15d]
- Elevate your GTA 6 experience to make it look, sound, and feel better with these premium peripherals — all discounted in the sales and recommended by our experts [15d]
- Moving beyond chips and screens: Samsung joins Nvidia and KKR in a massive $1 billion data center infrastructure deal [15d]
- How to watch Chicago Med season 12 from anywhere in the world – stream online for free [15d]
- Trump's 'Super Intelligence' AI rebrand is running ahead of the technology [15d]
- Could you stop a rogue AI from escaping? Take our sci-fi security test [15d]
- US Army shows off its in-house 'Dragoons' drone with 3D-printed bombs which can fly up to 12 miles [15d]
- I keep buying these Beats cables, and Prime Day just dropped them to $7.60 [15d]
- Save $350 on this Newegg Core i7-13620H laptop with 1TB SSD — $549 Hasee X5 has 16GB RAM, is 2X faster than $699 Apple MacBook Neo [15d]
- Huawei and DeepSeek release open source AI tools in a bid to lower Nvidia exposure — but will programmers make the switch? [15d]
- My 3 top-rated portable power station deals for WFH blackout insurance this Prime Day [15d]
- The Sony Inzone H6 Air is an 'incredibly lightweight' gaming headset with studio-grade drivers — here's how to get it for its lowest-ever price [15d]
- The Amazon Prime Day deals I’m buying to upgrade my new home cooking space [15d]
- Netgear reveals new dark web monitoring tool which will tell you if your personal data turns up online [15d]
- MSI's Katana 15 HX and Crosshair A16 HX laptops are on sale — but there's only one winner [15d]
- D&D's Arcana Unleashed could be the perfect expansion if not for one thing [15d]
- Arizona court system hack leads to theft of personal data belonging to 1.3 million Americans [15d]
- Last call: Lego Prime Day Deals end tonight, and these 30+ deals are worth snapping up [15d]
- Sennheiser's wired earbuds might be my favorite ever, and I'd still recommend them to anyone today [15d]
- The only Bluetooth and wireless speakers worth buying this Prime Day [15d]
- I tested the 6 best foldable phones for battery life — here's which model is best [15d]
- 'Dependable, durable, robust, and purposefully designed': The Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is built for heavy-duty battery backup — and it's now in the Amazon Prime Day sale [15d]
- Viltrox has slashed the prices of its Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm and L-mount lenses by 20% – starting from $80 [15d]
- The Dyson Airwrap i.d. is down to its lowest price, but this alternative might be a smarter buy [15d]
- Kamrui Essenx E2 vs Bosgame E5 11 Pro: Newcomer trounces Amazon’s best selling Windows PC for Prime Day in the $300 category [15d]
- The best Amazon Prime Day SSD, RAM and GPU deals are more sad than exciting [15d]
- 34 Prime Day bargains under £50 — Lego, Blink, Oral-B, Samsung, Ninja, and more cheap deals I'd buy [15d]
- Microsoft blocks Outlook from sending two more file types over security concerns [15d]
- I'm getting these Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds to replace my AirPods at night [15d]
- Keep active this fall with these 8 home office upgrades [15d]
- I've tested dozens of Dolby Atmos soundbars, but the Sonos Beam Gen 2 is easily among the greatest compact options on the market — and I'd buy it today for one key reason [15d]
- This is the cheapest 4TB SSD for Prime Day — Acer FA200 Gen4 SSD costs $480, less than $0.12 per GB, 50% less than Samsung 990 Pro [15d]
- 8 minimalist home office essentials to boost focus [15d]
- Up to 50% off on waterproof jackets from The North Face, Rab, Arc'teryx, Patagonia and more — I've rounded up the best deals [15d]
- Google signs billion-dollar deal to expand nuclear power capacity at multiple US plants [15d]
- VPN threat protection vs. dedicated antivirus: Are VPNs really enough? [15d]
- The only headphones and earbuds worth considering this Prime Day [15d]
- Want a gaming TV upgrade in time for GTA 6? Here are the 3 we recommend — all personally tested by us [15d]
- 11 home office essentials for a cozy workspace this fall [15d]
- Ninja's vertical waffle maker just landed in the UK — and I can't wait to try it [15d]
- ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude imitated in fake ads that steal credentials and MFA codes [15d]
- Don't give your kid a Switch 2 — this child-proof gaming console comes bundled with a load of games and is a Prime Day bestseller [15d]
- The photographers’ secret that changes everything for the 2027 total solar eclipse [15d]
- VPN Deal of the Week: This single subscription gives you a VPN, antivirus, password management, and secure storage for less than NordVPN [15d]
- Ring's new Smart Lock lets you crank your way back inside [15d]
- The Samsung S90H is a great mid-range OLED TV that solves one of the LG C6's major shortcomings — here's why I recommend it [15d]
- Ring reveals 5 new security cameras in 4K and 2K — here are the details [15d]
- Every Amazon Fire tablet is on sale right now — but you might still want to wait [15d]
- Prime Day Ninja deals: save on my favorite drip and espresso coffee makers [15d]
- What is the release date for Crystal Lake on Peacock? [15d]
- It's cold, it's raining, and today is the perfect day to buy a portable AC unit — here's why [15d]
- Looking for a new soundbar? Prime Day is the perfect time to grab one — these 6 deals on models from Sonos, Sony and more are our top picks [15d]
- Anthropic is offering startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits to kickstart their AI journey [15d]
- The Canon EOS R6 II just sunk to a low price that makes the shiny new EOS R8 II hard to recommend [15d]
- I review gaming peripherals for a living, and these are the upgrades I'd buy ahead of GTA 6 — from controllers to headsets and OLED screens [15d]
- Surfshark claims a major first by bringing full post-quantum security to WireGuard [15d]
- My #1 tip is to upgrade to WiiM's hi-res wireless multi-room speakers this Prime Day — here's why [15d]
- Jaguar reveals the Type 01 — but the production EV is splitting opinion [15d]
- Think twice about buying a Kindle this Prime Day — this line of tiny Xteink ereaders is even cheaper [15d]
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- Your New Apple Watch and AirPods Still Fall Short on Repairability, iFixit Teardowns Reveal [15d]
- The Surface Laptop Ultra Is Here: Microsoft and Nvidia Built a Premium Computer for the AI Age [15d]
- OLED or Mini-LED? How to Pick the Right LG TV for Your Room, Lighting and Viewing Habits [15d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Thursday, Oct. 8, #1937 [15d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Thursday, Oct. 8, #1215 [15d]
- Is It Even Worth Buying Tech During Early Holiday Sales? Here’s What We Recommend [15d]
- Last Chance: Get a Free Soundbar When You Buy an LG B6 OLED TV This Prime Day [15d]
- This 2-in-1 Corded Upright Vacuum Pulled All the Dirt From My Carpet, and It’s $100 Off for Prime Day [15d]
- ‘Carrie’ Ending Explained: How the Fiery Finale Shines a Light on Another Stephen King Classic [15d]
- ChatGPT for Teens Is an ‘Unacceptable Risk,’ Watchdog Group Says [15d]
- BF6 Reports for Duty on Xbox Game Pass While Clair Obscur Gets Gommaged in October [15d]
- The Dell 14 Plus Is a Copilot+ PC. Here’s What That Actually Means [15d]
- This Combo Vacuum and Air Purifier Solved My Cat Litter Tracking Problem. It’s $52 Off for Prime Day [15d]
- This Combo Vacuum and Air Purifier Solved My Cat Litter Tracking Problem. It’s $52 Off for Prime Day [15d]
- Time’s Almost Up for You to Nab a Motorola Foldable for Up to $100 Off This Prime Day [15d]
- GPT-6 for All: Your ChatGPT Answers Are Getting a Very Visual Makeover [15d]
- This Rust-Removing Dishwasher Rod Saved My Silverware, It’s 30% Off on Prime Day [15d]
- Amazon Knows You Have a Goldfish Named Ziggy, Even if You Don’t [15d]
- Skydance Is a New Media Giant, ChatGPT’s New Ads, and Amazon Delivery Drivers Getting Smart Glasses | Tech Today [15d]
- Last Chance to Save Up to 60% on PopSockets Grips as Prime Day Winds Down [15d]
- Save Over $50 on the Anker Prime Foldable MagSafe Charger With This Prime Day Deal [15d]
- Our Coffee Guru Loved This New Compostible Pod Brewer. It’s Down to $58 for Prime Day [15d]
- Last Chance to Grab the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World Bundle While It’s Back in Stock This Prime Day [15d]
- This Mini Sander Is the Perfect Holiday Gift for the 3D Printer in Your Life [15d]
- Google’s Next Android XR Device Is Arriving Ahead of Meta’s VR Glasses, at a Similar Price [15d]
- Google’s Next Android XR Device Is Arriving Ahead of Meta’s VR Glasses, at a Similar Price [15d]
- CNET Lab Exclusive: Beyond More Cores, Higher Scores in the MacBook Pro [15d]
- Microsoft’s Windows and Surface Event: Live Updates From San Francisco [15d]
- Save Up to $110 on Moto G Play and Moto G With These Amazon Prime Day Deals [15d]
- The Best Amazon Prime Day Deals on Gaming Controllers You Can Buy Right Now [15d]
- GM Is Promising Hybrids Again, So Why Does It Rub Me the Wrong Way? [15d]
- Ring’s Debut Smart Lock Solves the Category’s Biggest Issue: Dead Battery Lockouts [15d]
- Ring’s First-Ever Smart Lock Fixes the Worst Thing About Them: A Dead Battery [15d]
- Best Ultra-Short Throw Projector for 2026: Tested by Experts [15d]
- Just Like Prime Day, B&H’s $60 Off 2nd-Gen Apple HomePod Deal Is Into Its Final Hours [15d]
- We Found a Way to Get the Viral Ninja Slushi at Over $200 Off [15d]
- The Brand-New Apple Watch Series 12 Is Here, and It’s Still $49 Off Even After Prime Day [15d]
- The Stunning Ceramic Apple Watch Series 12 Is Here, and It’s $49 Off on the Final Amazon Prime Day [15d]
- Prime Day Has This Bissell Cordless Vacuum at a Record Low Price, but Not for Long [15d]
- I Put the iPhone 18 Pro’s Camera Up Against the Pixel 11 Pro [15d]
- Best Razer Prime Big Deal Days deals: keyboards, mice, controllers, and more [15d]
- Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a $6,000 powerhouse [15d]
- Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) hits general availability [15d]
- This Dell laptop is great for students, now discounted by 30% only for the next few hours [15d]
- Microsoft's new coding AI model can run locally, but you'll need a monster PC [15d]
- Developers will soon be able to leverage local AI models in GitHub Copilot [15d]
- OpenAI brings GPT-6 to 1.2 billion ChatGPT users with new Intelligent UI [15d]
- Microsoft is redesigning Windows Search to act like an AI agent [15d]
- Visual Studio Code 1.141 tracks how much disk space dead agent sessions waste [15d]
- Windows 11 fixes buggy DLL file that lead to crashes on new insider build [15d]
- New Windows 11 Insider builds bring yet another Search redesign [15d]
- Amazon Prime Day 2026 has some nice DDR4 RAM deals from Corsair, and more [15d]
- Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is now available for pre-order for $2599 [15d]
- Google Chrome 155 brings support for JPEG XL (.jxl) [15d]
- Prime Big Deal Days: Pixel 11 is 15% off, deal ends in hours [15d]
- Users want Microsoft to release "Windows 12" at today's event [15d]
- Price Drop: Get a lifetime of MagellanTV for 86% off during Deal Days [15d]
- Xbox Game Pass adds Battlefield 6 alongside seven day-one games [15d]
- Outage may have caused X (formerly Twitter) to go down [15d]
- Google's SynthID Detector can now tell you if an image, video, or audio is AI-generated [15d]
- Google Playground lets you create and share games just by describing them to AI [15d]
- Xbox CEO talks Project Helix, first party recovery, and return to growth [15d]
- Microsoft explains why it took "months" to redesign the Copilot icon [15d]
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