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Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

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Ok, but Does It Scale?

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Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

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Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone

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We spent the week testing IFA’s best (and weirdest) gadgets, ask us anything

Europe's biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week - and we've been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we're hosting an AMA that's e

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Bluetti launches ‘e-generator’ to take on noisy, stinky, polluting gas generators

Bluetti doesn't want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen), even though that's what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off sol

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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

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Why AI food looks like that

There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. The resulting horror show includes donut

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Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

Score: 5 | Comments: 0

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O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

Score: 38 | Comments: 14

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Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this

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Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left

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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

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This NAS company wants to run your local smart home

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart hom

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Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

Score: 155 | Comments: 40

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Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

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Aqara goes all in on smart lighting

After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Thread. One of these new devices is the Floor Lamp T

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Lexar’s Muse is an ultra-slim portable SSD that’s less than 4mm thick

Following the lead of companies like Xteink, Lexar is the latest to sacrifice a USB-C port in the pursuit of slimming down its hardware. When the Lexar Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD launches later this

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Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

Score: 300 | Comments: 115

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John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

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