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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety Lawsuit
Meghan Bobrowsky and Erin Mulvaney, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing the cost of the landmark chi…
wsj.com
Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
techcrunch.com
Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem
The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data-processing tools they…
spectrum.ieee.org
‘Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop’
Steven Levy, writing for Wired: Today it’s official: After almost 27 years, Dean is leaving Google, along with Ghemawat and two other top-tier AI scientists, to found a company called Discovery Loop. Even though Google will take a stake in the new company, it’s a devastating blow…
wired.com
The First Details on Garmin’s Fenix 9 Smartwatch Have Leaked
Rumors and regulatory filings point to the flagship wearable arriving before the end of the year.
gizmodo.com
No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July
Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names topping the ranks in several metrics including most prolific venture dealmakers, most active lead backers, biggest spenders and highest-volume seed investors.
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International tech
How STCH Is Modernising Apparel Manufacturing With AI & Factory OS
India’s D2C fashion ecosystem has become exceptionally good at spotting trends. Brands today use AI to generate hundreds of new…
inc42.com
Research suggests that the most warm and generous people are sometimes the loneliest, and the explanation isn’t that kindness pushes people away, but that a particular way of being kind quietly does.
You will probably know someone like this. Possibly you are someone like this. They are the friend everyone calls when something has gone wrong. They remember your birthday, ask after your parents, notice when you seem off, and turn up with soup when you have a cold. They are, on …
siliconcanals.com
Inside Nykaa’s Inventory Model: Where The Margin Comes From
Nykaa was once called the “Amazon of beauty”. And it wasn’t an unfair comparison to some degree.  Like Amazon, Nykaa…
inc42.com
Steven Levitt ran an experiment with more than 20,000 coin tosses over decisions people could not make, and the ones the coin told to make the change were happier six months later: his conclusion is that people may be excessively cautious about life-changing choices
A randomized coin-toss study suggests we're trapped by sunk costs more than we realize—and that sometimes the best decision is the one we're too afraid to make.
siliconcanals.com
DeepSeek Takes RMB141 Million Strategic Placement in Unitree IPO
Unitree Robotics has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, with 40.45 million shares to be issued. The final strategic-placement list allocated 933,900 shares worth about RMB141 million to Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research, the developer of Deep…
technode.com
Alibaba's Qwen App Tests Paid Features as It Tries to Follow Doubao's Office Playbook
Alibaba's Qwen App pushed a major update this week that finally moves it beyond pure free chatbot territory. Office assistant, scheduled tasks and flagship Qwen3.8-MAX model access are now bundled into the new release, with a clear signal that productivity use cases will soon shi…
pandaily.com

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FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated
When you think about it, time is all we’ve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, …read more
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic... https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-…
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Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk As Gloriously Ergonomic Macropad
[John Dingley] spends a lot of time editing videos, and as many of us know, when it comes to repetitive tasks the more ergonomic the better. Keyboard shortcuts exist for …read more
hackaday.com
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209546 Points: 320 # Comments: 315
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The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.
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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 243 # Comments: 241
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 795 # Comments: 756
bbc.com
Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server
Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though, [WNY Over The Air] decided to take …read more
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs
This week’s Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast …read more
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