The Brutalist Report - tech
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- HN: The Good Parts [1d]
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- Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding [1d]
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- Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha [1d]
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- Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team [1d]
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- Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference [1d]
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- I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned [1d]
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- Three important steps in my maturation process [2d]
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- 'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them [2d]
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- Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters [2d]
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- The Creation of Abulafia [2d]
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- Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM [2d]
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- Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude [2d]
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- Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism [2d]
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- Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction [2d]
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- Rust Glancer [2d]
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- One Night in Uzbekistan [2d]
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- Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler [2d]
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- Death to the Self-Playing Game [2d]
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- Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders [2d]
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- A look under our trunk: what's in our compute of Waymo taxis [2d]
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- How Thailand Resisted Colonization [2d]
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- Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) [2d]
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- OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it) [2d]
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- Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string [2d]
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- Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift [2d]
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- When the Shortage Is the Strategy [2d]
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- Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode [2d]
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- Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him [2d]
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- Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection [2d]
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- LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers [2d]
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- Another Better Lower Bound for N=17 Square Packing [2d]
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- Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent [2d]
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- A self hosted AI software factory [2d]
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- Kobo can run apps now [2d]
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- What happens when a GPU reads memory [2d]
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- Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix [2d]
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- Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it [2d]
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- Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M [2d]
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- I Just Want to Search [2d]
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- LLMs are proof that Unix won [2d]
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- How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms [2d]
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- Flagwars.lol [2d]
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- My AI agents kept trying to cross red lines, so I wrote them a constitution [2d]
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- Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line [2d]
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- Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) [2d]
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- New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report [2d]
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- Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor [2d]
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- AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows [2d]
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- Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants [2d]
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- Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants [2d]
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- Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes [2d]
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- The B-right/V R2 Operating System [2d]
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- Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode [2d]
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- I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip [2d]
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- Felony Bench [2d]
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- c100 [2d]
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- Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing [2d]
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- I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport [2d]
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- Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article [2d]
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- Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat [2d]
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- WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust [2d]
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- What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think [2d]
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- Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest [2d]
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- Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results [2d]
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- Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout [2d]
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- US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? [2d]
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- Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support [2d]
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- How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt [2d]
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- Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] [2d]
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- Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle [2d]
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- Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark [2d]
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- What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x [2d]
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- Convite [2d]
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- I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases [2d]
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- We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson [2d]
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- Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older [2d]
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- Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera [2d]
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- Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar [2d]
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- DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser [2d]
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- Nothing Doing [2d]
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- AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy [2d]
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- Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border [2d]
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- If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck [2d]
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- The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 [2d]
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- I'm Becoming AI-Blind [2d]
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- TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering [2d]
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- Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 [2d]
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- DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp [2d]
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- AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late [2d]
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- Small, native web tricks worth remembering [2d]
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- Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 [2d]
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- Better Batteries [2d]
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- The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates [2d]
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- We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon [2d]
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- Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents [2d]
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- The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) [2d]
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- Stop Making TUIs [2d]
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- Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened [2d]
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- Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness [2d]
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- Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise [2d]
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- Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit) [1d]
- OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) [1d]
- Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [1d]
- Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites (Rashika Singh/Reuters) [1d]
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [2d]
- Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog) [2d]
- Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [2d]
- DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News) [2d]
- Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information) [2d]
- The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios) [2d]
- Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude) [2d]
- Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says it will soon start rolling out the tech, which supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes last year, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes; Apple paid $43B in corporate income taxes globally (Jamie John/Financial Times) [2d]
- Uber is set to be fined €825M by the Dutch data watchdog over its use of automated systems to deactivate driver accounts, in the second largest fine under GDPR (Financial Times) [2d]
- Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 (Reuters) [2d]
- Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale (Reuters) [2d]
- DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [2d]
- A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services (Financial Times) [2d]
- CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with ~394K jobs, beating the Bay Area's ~375K, amid SF job cuts and finance sector tech hiring (Diana Olick/CNBC) [2d]
- Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company" (Jenny Lee/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [2d]
- China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) [2d]
- How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho, with new millionaires, job growth, rising housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution (CNBC) [2d]
- How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M (Dawn Kopecki/Reuters) [2d]
- Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters) [2d]
- Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) [2d]
- A NJ teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without any payment; TikTok previously settled her claims (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [2d]
- A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies (Tom Hals/Reuters) [2d]
- Taiwan taps US startup Vatn for modular S12 undersea drones – Washington’s ally turns to cheaper underwater systems [1d]
- $16,000 Quad AI Geekom mini PC cluster gets DeepSeek V4 Flash treatment with 512GB RAM — reaches 14.61 tokens per second [1d]
- ‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough [2d]
- Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments [2d]
- Insidious: Out of the Further review — the new horror movie is the franchise's scariest yet, but that doesn't mean it's good [2d]
- This 9-in-1 USB dock with a Blu-ray drive just smashed its Kickstarter goal by 300x—as backers succumb to dongle fatigue and physical media nostalgia [2d]
- 'Took me months to work this out': Redditor explains how Windows 11 can end up stripping out the GPU driver on your gaming laptop [2d]
- 'We're offering gamers not just two more headsets, but two different ways to experience their games' — Audio specialist beyerdynamic announces two new, affordable wireless headsets, the MMX 100 and MMX 130 [2d]
- No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer [2d]
- Back to school on a budget: Our top 5 mini PCs under $600 for work and study [2d]
- I spent six months with the Poco F8 Ultra, and it delivers a mobile streaming experience ‘that simply can’t be matched by any phone of a similar price’ [2d]
- Even dead websites aren't safe — experts warn hackers are spending millions on expired domains to enable malware scams [2d]
- Canon's Pixma TS6520 wireless all-in-one inkjet is a true back-to-school printer pick for $79 [2d]
- The 5 best 4K Blu-rays for showing off your TVs vibrant colors — with titles from Disney, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros [2d]
- Aldi just brought out a £60 stick vac — as a vacuum reviewer, these are the cheap alternatives I'd buy instead [2d]
- A new Gemini for Home update is rolling out, but users are slamming Google for not fixing ‘missing and broken features’ despite the voice upgrades [2d]
- How to watch Arsenal vs Coventry: Live streams and TV channels for the Premier League 2026/27 game [2d]
- Target may have suffered another damaging data leak as hackers claim 8.6GB haul [2d]
- The JBL Live Beam 4 are my favorite wireless earbuds of 2026 after weeks of testing — and I swear it’s not just because of their awesome touchscreen charging case [2d]
- What is the release date and launch time for Lanterns episode 2 on HBO Max? [2d]
- 'There was never really any big plan that these two games would both release next to each other' — FromSoftware president suggests a return to single-player games after Nightreign and The Duskbloods [2d]
- Smaller than a PS5 and our Best-in-Class gaming mini PC, the Asus ROG NUC drops to $3499 — but it's still an absolute fortune [2d]
- Mullvad VPN is testing smarter multi-hop and a spinnable server globe on Android [2d]
- Are Meta smart glasses doomed to fail like Google Glass? Have your say on what fate is most likely for wearable cameras [2d]
- Outer Banks 'gets the Yellowstone treatment' as new prequel goes ahead at Netflix — and fans are more open to it after divisive season 5 ending [2d]
- This new malware can use Google passkeys even after a victim resets their password [2d]
- How to watch Premier League 2026-27 for *FREE* [2d]
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #4, Friday, August 21 [2d]
- Beats leak reveals the name of its next headphones plus most of its specs — but there could be one disappointing omission [2d]
- Leaker claims the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition will launch in November for an estimated $899.99 [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (August 21) [2d]
- Proton VPN on Linux gets a huge accessibility boost with 20 new languages [2d]
- This TeamGroup 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM kit drops to $215 in a memory market where prices have tripled since last year [2d]
- Digital camera sales are up, and Fujifilm just leapfrogged Nikon — here's what the numbers tell us [2d]
- Security experts targeted by fake crypto conference in scam to hand over details [2d]
- Best Buy's massive Anniversary sale is like a Labor Day preview — 60% off TVs, AirPods, laptops, appliances and more [2d]
- 26 best early bank holiday deals at Amazon UK — get up to 40% off Blink, Fitbit, Lenovo, Lego, Ninja, and more [2d]
- The back-to-school sales are drawing to a close — these are the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5070 gaming laptops I'd buy [2d]
- Forget Weatherspoons — patchwork bans won't fix the Meta glasses' privacy crisis, so what comes next? [2d]
- Are your PC games crashing after the latest Windows 11 update? Microsoft is investigating whether a nasty new bug is the cause — but there are workarounds [2d]
- DDR5 prices are painful right now, but you can save on 32GB of V-Color Manta XFinity RGB RAM with Newegg's special coupon [2d]
- Tired of expensive printer ink? Canon's MegaTank G3270 is our top budget ink tank printer, loaded with enough to print thousands of pages and a big discount at Amazon [2d]
- Sorry, OpenAI — people are using your God-level AI to choose wine, wash clothes, and solve other weirdly specific problems, not change the world [2d]
- The Pixel 11 Pro’s HiLight LED is bafflingly limited out of the box, but a new app removes its shackles [2d]
- Logitech sued for keeping US tariff refunds instead of returning them to customers [2d]
- I tested this game-changing, sub-$100 Godox flash kit — and it’s the best portrait photography upgrade I’ve tried all year [2d]
- Why AI success starts with teams, not tech [2d]
- Slack will now let you code as a team to get those tricky tasks done [2d]
- Understanding infrastructure performance is becoming more important than ever [2d]
- How to watch Dutch Grand Prix 2026: Live stream F1 race from anywhere [2d]
- We've found the cheapest way to stream all 380 Premier League games – it's less than $2/month [2d]
- The next AI phase is better agents not bigger models [2d]
- How to listen to Premier League 2026/27 from anywhere in the world [2d]
- I've played every Metal Gear Solid multiple times, and Master Collection Vol.2 feels like the best way to experience two of the series’ most legendary games [2d]
- How to watch Premier League 2026/27: Free Streams, TV Channels & Fixtures — Matchday 1 [2d]
- Massive supply-chain attack sees terabytes of data belonging to some of the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations leaked online [2d]
- Stuart Fails to Save the Universe season 2 could be in trouble, as creators confirm there's 'no big picture' for future seasons [2d]
- Meta smart glasses could soon be banned in cinemas, says UK trade body — but this time it’s more about piracy than privacy [2d]
- Father’s Day 2026 is fast approaching — here are 45 tech gift ideas to spoil him this year [2d]
- Sennheiser gives its flagship true wireless earbuds a full revamp, complete with Bluetooth 6 and replaceable batteries [2d]
- African defense tech startup reveals $52 million funding as it looks to take on Ukraine and US giants [2d]
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