The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Tracking the Harm of DOGE Cuts [1d]
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- Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game [1d]
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- Exact – a new cross platform UI framework by the Expo team [1d]
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- Jensen Huang Scandal Sparks Speculation–Jensen's Wife Could Get Half [1d]
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- Process Explorer for macOS [1d]
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- I did a meditation and it sort of changed my personality? [1d]
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- A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code [1d]
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- TPUs [1d]
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- Supply chain attack on Qubole customers [1d]
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- November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, Highest So Far [1d]
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- Here comes the sun[light]:An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls [1d]
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- USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons [1d]
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- Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session) [1d]
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- CUI – Native UI components for C [1d]
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- Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says [1d]
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- Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers [1d]
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- Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 [1d]
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- Show HN: Someone Was Here – Find out who used your Mac while you were away [1d]
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- E-means: 10x faster k-means at equal loss [1d]
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- Show HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse [1d]
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- DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W [1d]
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- Nuance Labs [1d]
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- Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada) [1d]
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- Infineon marks innovation milestone with 300mm power silicon carbide wafer [1d]
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- Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators [1d]
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- Show HN: STE80 Humanizer – de-AI text by writing 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 [1d]
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- Show HN: Write GitHub Actions in any language: Loopt [1d]
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- Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember [1d]
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- Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos [1d]
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- When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385 [1d]
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- Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe [1d]
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- Y/N (YC S23) Is Hiring a Growth Lead to Distribute Superhuman A.I. Storytelling [1d]
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- Show HN: DBDelve – Open-Source DB Client Made with Rust and GPUI [1d]
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- Commerce Dept Inquiry into Megaspeed Halted After Nvdia Intervention [1d]
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- Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system [1d]
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- The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it [1d]
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- Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge [1d]
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- Pigshell: Unix the Web [1d]
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- On Being an Engineer in 2026 [1d]
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- Show HN: My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited [1d]
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- I Saw Your HN Comment [1d]
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- Zebkit – Chromium's engine as a library you link, not a runtime you live in [1d]
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- Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics' cleverest trick yet [1d]
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- Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present [1d]
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- Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia [2d]
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- Nvidia's China Problem [pdf] [2d]
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- Fold Epic Paper Airplanes [2d]
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- Try Gleam [2d]
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- Hours of YouTube and 85 handtyped pages of notes on LLM Inference – Start here [2d]
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- What is malloc doing, anyway? [2d]
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- Ginux: A New Kernel Runs Linux Userspace, Made via Human-Directed AI Engineering [2d]
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- Electric cars are about to overtake petrol in the UK, data shows [2d]
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- Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers [2d]
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- Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++? [2d]
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- Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware [2d]
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- ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines [2d]
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- PixelOS [2d]
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- 370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI [2d]
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- Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation [2d]
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- Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 [2d]
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- Being a meat proxy for AI should be grounds for getting people fired [2d]
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- WindyMaps – Free offline maps, 1h/1km weather and route trip planner [2d]
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- Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget [2d]
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- Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster [2d]
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- A Critique of GPUI [2d]
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- The Qlobe: Rotating Quine (2010) [2d]
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- A Bit about Email [2d]
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- RIP, Harvest [2d]
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- Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world [2d]
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- A report by short seller Culper Research from May is resurfacing because it had flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as "uncomfortably close" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 "intelligence usage packs" when monthly usage caps are met, starting in its Creator Studio apps (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) [1d]
- Trump says the FBI is "looking into" Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him he "had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy" (Associated Press) [1d]
- Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company (Semafor) [1d]
- AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month (Anna Tong/Forbes) [1d]
- SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [1d]
- Anthropic says during prerelease testing Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black hole physics problems (Jay Peters/The Verge) [1d]
- Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are "best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work", for $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens (Anthropic) [1d]
- Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Elliptic: hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) [1d]
- French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October (Reuters) [1d]
- Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened (New York Times) [1d]
- In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at "one of the big" AI companies over "bad" activities and this "person totally changed" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [1d]
- An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more (Patrick Jenkins/Financial Times) [1d]
- Disney and Adobe partner to develop proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models using Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [1d]
- Draft law: the EU's Digital Fairness Act would require companies to let adults disable addictive features and will target AI bots that simulate relationships (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017 (David Pierce/The Verge) [1d]
- Sources: Jensen Huang hired crisis communications firm Heller as early as October 2025; an NYT report in October 2025 on his Megaspeed ties caused tensions (Lauren Goode/Wired) [1d]
- Spines, which uses AI agents to edit and proofread amateur authors' books, design their covers, and handle the layout, raised $29M in equity and $35M in debt (Assaf Gilead/Globes) [1d]
- Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had "no problem securing GPUs" (Financial Times) [1d]
- Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after raising $80M in March (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Google unveils two specialized TPUs, the TPU 8tx, to be paired with AMD CPUs, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks, launching 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents "another successful op" for China's MSS (Bill Bishop/@niubi) [2d]
- Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones (Mark R. Long/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Meta says it is globally expanding Instagram's AI age estimation tech to apply Teen Account protections to teens aged 13 to 17 who misrepresented their age (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [2d]
- A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg) [2d]
- US voters in Harwood, North Dakota rejected a ballot measure that opposed Applied Digital's $3B data center, set to open in 2027, bucking a nationwide backlash (Miriam Waldvogel/Washington Post) [2d]
- The US OCC grants Coinbase full approval for a trust bank charter; sources say it could expand Coinbase's stablecoin business and let it issue stablecoins (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Amsterdam police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters for trespassing and violence at a Microsoft data center construction site owned by Pure Data Centers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) [2d]
- Internal EU assessment: Russia's "Operation Overload" opportunistically exploited recent French riots by spreading fabricated videos impersonating Western media (Reuters) [2d]
- Jensen Huang maintains deep control over Nvidia, managing 60+ direct reports and owning a 3.56% stake, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's 10-person board (New York Times) [2d]
- Nvidia Senior Director Madison Huang, daughter of Jensen, cancels a high-profile Seoul appearance citing a "family matter", throwing the event into disarray (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Nvidia drops ~5% pre-market after its board opens an probe into Jensen Huang; Nvidia previously dismissed the interactions as "nothing unusual or unexpected" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) [2d]
- Analysts warn Russia's Rassvet broadband satellite network could come online as early as 2027 after its troubled development, enabling more deadly drone strikes (Financial Times) [2d]
- US federal prosecutors say businesses have lost $129M+ to scam calls using AI-generated voices to mimic company executives in the 18 months since July 2024 (Adeel Hassan/New York Times) [2d]
- Sources: the EU sues IBM, French IT group Atos, and Italian contractor Leonardo over delays in developing its smart border system, which caused travel chaos (Laura Dubois/Financial Times) [2d]
- Chinese media denies Beijing's link to Jensen Huang's affair, accuses the US media of a fabricated spy narrative, and warns the issue may hurt trade relations (Bloomberg) [2d]
- As companies replace human workers with AI agents, determining managers' grade and pay is becoming harder, as both often depend on how many people they manage (Pilita Clark/Financial Times) [2d]
- Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M, sources say (Globe and Mail) [2d]
- Google rolls out a Googlebook update that frees up 3GB-6GB of RAM via on-device AI optimizations, reduces Chrome crashes, patches ~60 Android flaws, and more (Jay Bonggolto/Android Central) [2d]
- Sources: ByteDance seeks to expand its data center project in Ceara, Brazil, with a second phase larger than its ongoing $10B, 300MW project (Peter Millard/Bloomberg) [2d]
- When talking about AI safety, President Trump says "I don't mind guardrails. But I don't wanna put us in a deep second position", and "China has no guardrails" (CBS News) [2d]
- Sources and filings detail how Jensen Huang has brought his children and other family members into Nvidia, making it unusually family-run for Silicon Valley (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Jensen Huang's scandal poses a rare crisis in US corporate history, given the national security stakes, his centrality to Nvidia, and its role in the AI race (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor) [2d]
- An interview with Cognition CISO Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity, AI-powered red teaming, vulnerabilities in legacy codebases, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) [2d]
- Tencent's chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it "possible to do harm" and Anthropic has a "strong argument" for closed models (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post) [2d]
- Job listings show Amazon is building a "new-to-world" home robot to operate "alongside family members", after its $1,450 Astro reached only a few thousand homes (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [2d]
- Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after affair admission, saying he is a "fine person" and "I haven't heard he's done anything wrong" (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg) [2d]
- How Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Pat Grady erased Roelof Botha's legacy, halving GPs and unwinding his fund; sources say he joined SpaceX's board behind their backs (Financial Times) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #982) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1751) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1248) [1d]
- US air traffic control systems will finally start dropping floppy disks — but it'll take until 2028 to finish [1d]
- 7 of my favorite free (and fully optimized) iPhone Duo apps so far — from PianoFold to Spotify [1d]
- You can grab an AI mini PC housing an Nvidia Tesla GPU with 16GB of HBM2 for just $699 [1d]
- 'We are not giving up': Russian hosting giant Beget has cloud platform wiped in major cyberattack [1d]
- Hosting.com slashes 89% off Starter hosting for Black Friday [1d]
- Google pushes ahead with plans for $17 billion Wyoming data center despite US midterms dashing support for AI across the US [1d]
- How to watch Rivals: Fury vs Joshua for free, online and from anywhere [1d]
- CUBOT KingKong Dura rugged phone review [1d]
- New study finds half of tech workers have a side hustle — despite often being the best paid [1d]
- Workers feel pressure to use AI and show off to bosses — even when it slows them down [1d]
- This video shows how AI can read the radio waves coming from an HDMI cable to mimic what's on screen [1d]
- 8849 Tank 5 rugged phone review [1d]
- The New York Marathon winner wasn’t wearing a fancy Garmin, but something much cheaper [1d]
- Hundreds of copies of Chinese-made ARTEX hacking tools leaked online for anyone to use in further attacks [1d]
- Hinomi slashes $200 off its X2 Pro ergonomic chair for Black Friday [1d]
- Keep cold hands at bay this winter for £17.59 with the Afenau heated mouse pad [1d]
- NymVPN's new update promises to get you through networks that block other VPNs [1d]
- QNAP says more NAS devices hit in worrying Plex2Shell malware attacks [1d]
- Save up to 75% in the PlayStation Store Black Friday sale — I've picked my 16 favorite deals on Control Resonant, Silent Hill 2, Dispatch, 007 First Light, Cairn, and more [1d]
- ‘It feels like malware’: This Chrome extension redirects your web searches to monetized results and was promoted by a VPN with 50 million downloads [1d]
- Sony's WH-1000XM6 headphones plummet to an all new low price [1d]
- PS5 Prism Collection controller and console cover pre-orders build-up — all the best links and info ahead of stock dropping [1d]
- Microsoft plans two big Windows 11 interface changes — and one is divisive [1d]
- 1 in 8 Brits have used AI to write their Christmas cards [1d]
- Timekettle LiveTalk AI Translation Earbuds review [1d]
- GTA 6 is coming to Miami with a live Grand Theft Auto 6: The Festival special event — here's how to secure your pre-sale tickets [1d]
- The Gadhouse Eric CD player is affordable and feature-packed [1d]
- French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa hit in cyberattack — up to $133 million stolen and systems shut down [1d]
- AI slop is clogging court and complaint systems [1d]
- Another huge data breach hits a major Japanese company — Iris Ohyama attack exposes info of 7.7 million customers [1d]
- I review coffee makers for a living, and these are the 3 De’Longhi deals I want this Black Friday [1d]
- 'Frankly, it’s sort of bananas to think of BioWare as just…gone' — Original Mass Effect composer hopes 'someone else can come in and take it from here' following studio closure [1d]
- The best early Black Friday headphone deals from Nothing, Sennheiser, and Soundcore [1d]
- 'This represents an important evolution in AI governance': Infosys lays out how your business can thrive with the new generation of autonomous AI agents [2d]
- Tongue-in-cheek app emails Sam Altman daily to 'report the RAM he missed' [2d]
- Why is Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 going back to Kronus? We asked the real-time strategy game’s creative director to explain why [2d]
- Samsung is reportedly testing a Galaxy AI Premium subscription service [2d]
- Ninja PREPi review: a cute, compact, versatile food processor built for quick meal prep [2d]
- Narwal V50 Cube review: a self-emptying stick vacuum with brilliant smart features [2d]
- Since tokenmaxxing is the wrong metric for AI ROI, what is the right one? [2d]
- Who Gives A Crap: Data breach at ethical toilet paper company exposes customer information across UK, US and Australia [2d]
- Straight Talk just dropped an unlimited data plan to $20/mo ahead of Black Friday — a brand new record [2d]
- Some United Airlines flights now let you sign into Spotify on your flight — and its' totally free [2d]
- The rise of the autonomous farm [2d]
- 'I am deeply sorry': Jensen Huang affair with suspected Chinese spy sees Nvidia open investigation into its CEO — but what happens next? [2d]
- Has China cracked the AI data center power problem? New 800-volt DC power system is a 'world first,' offering greater efficiency and conversion than ever [2d]
- How to watch Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 1st Test: Free Streams & TV Channels [2d]
- US college student builds 'Reaper' drone — which he says set a new world record speed of 491mph [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #1247) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #1750) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #981) [2d]
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- CNET’s Top-Rated VPN Is Offering Ludicrous Lifetime Savings This Month [1d]
- AI-Driven Tech Layoffs Could Trigger a 1.6 Million Job Recession [1d]
- iOS 27.3 Could Bring More Audio Intelligence and the Redesigned Health App Soon [1d]
- Adobe Max 2026 Live Updates: All the AI, Photo and Video News [1d]
- How to Find the Right Bose Open Earbuds for Work and Play [1d]
- Anthropic Introduces New Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 AI Models [1d]
- New Zealand vs. India: How to Watch 3rd ODI Cricket Live From Anywhere [1d]
- New Paramount Plus and HBO Max Bundle to Arrive Early Next Year [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #982 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #1248 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Nov. 10 #778 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Tuesday, Nov. 10, #1970 [1d]
- Bruvi’s Subscription Bundle Is One of Our Favorite Gifts and It’s Just $159 in This Early Black Friday Deal [1d]
- NASA’s Voyager 1 to Cross Historic One Light-Day Milestone on Nov. 18 [1d]
- The Best Early Black Friday Streaming Deals Let You Watch More for Less [1d]
- Vitamix Goes Portable: Meet Ion, the Brand’s First Cordless Blender [1d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Get Ready For GTA VI With Over 20% Off Logitech’s G733 Gaming Headphones Ahead of Black Friday [1d]
- Uber Parking Lets You Book a Spot Directly in the App. Here’s How [1d]
- Black Friday Brings Rare Savings on Pokemon TCG Box Sets and Booster Packs [1d]
- How Ireland Is Becoming One of Europe’s AI Powerhouses [1d]
- How Ireland Is Becoming One of Europe’s AI Powerhouses [1d]
- Get a Free Tool or Battery With These Milwaukee Tools and Accessories at The Home Depot [1d]
- Which Foldable Phone Has the Best Battery Life? We Put Them to the Test [2d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Nov. 9 [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Nov. 9 #777 [2d]
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