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The Competence Trap is closing in around us (reddit.com)
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Pope Leo's latest AI warning: 'overly affectionate' chatbots (businessinsider.com)
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Europeans Can Turn 2 Car Seats into 4 Child Seats, but It's Illegal in America (theautopian.com)
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[flagged] Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter (gadgetreview.com)
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WA proposes 3D-printed gun controls with blocking features, blueprint detection (tomshardware.com)
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New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent printing guns (tomshardware.com)
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The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references (ais523.me.uk)
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The ESP32-C3 Super Mini Scam [video] (youtube.com)
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iFixit: We Found the Worst Devices at CES 2026 [video] (youtube.com)
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HSBC blocks app users for having sideloaded password manager (theregister.com)
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Ask HN: Are there any antifeature-free power tools you can still buy new?
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Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet (neowin.net)
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Superfest (wikipedia.org)
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Microsoft Updates Windows 'To Stop Users from Downloading Google Chrome' (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)
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Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign streams – and experts are worried (techradar.com)
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UK Lords propose ban on VPNs for children (techradar.com)
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Jellyfin does hardware transcoding for free, and Plex wants $250 to match it (xda-developers.com)
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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image (bbc.com)
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Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers – again (theverge.com)
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Power banks sold on Amazon cause $380k in property damage (abc27.com)
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AT&T and Verizon are fighting back against T-Mobile's easy switch tool (androidauthority.com)
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Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages with Your Employer (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)
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How the Firefox desktop launcher works (support.mozilla.org)
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The Steam Machine's HDMI Port Has a Built-In Identity Crisis (bgr.com)
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Why Jailbreaking Calculators Is (Unfortunately) a Thing Now [video] (youtube.com)
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Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (neowin.net)
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Rust: No Linux/Proton, says games supporting them 'not serious about anti-cheat' (pcgamer.com)
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UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills (marginalrevolution.com)
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Google sues to dismantle Chinese phishing platform behind US toll scams (bleepingcomputer.com)
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Framework releases 3D-printable case to enable re-use of the Laptop 16 Mainboard (twitter.com/frameworkputer)
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Why unions are becoming a problem for self-driving cars (axios.com)
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YouTube's age verification system is back to calling adults kids (androidcentral.com)
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Visa and Mastercard near deal with merchants that would change rewards landscape (wsj.com)
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Google's proposed Android changes won't save sideloading (androidauthority.com)
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Sorry, Pixel 9 and 10 owners: Google won't be fixing that speakerphone issue (androidauthority.com)
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Norway's Public Buses Can Be Shut Down Remotely from China (carscoops.com)
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EEVblog 1687 – A Pointless Alkaline Battery Leakage Repair [video] (youtube.com)
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Google warns non-Pixel Wear OS users will lose Clock app support soon (androidcentral.com)
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Why is NPM getting rid of TOTP as 2FA authentication method? (github.com/orgs)
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LPE via refcount imbalance in the af_Unix of Ubuntu's Kernel (ssd-disclosure.com)
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This Week's AWS Crash Made Smart Beds Overheat, Get Stuck in Wrong Position (pcmag.com)
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Merchant Category Codes [pdf] (citibank.com)
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DJI Removes Video Shot in National Parks After It Raises Eyebrows (petapixel.com)
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TikTok videos continue to push infostealers in ClickFix attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
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BitLocker encryption permanently locks users' backup drives causing loss of data (tomshardware.com)
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Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 (microsoft.com)
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EU gets what it asked for, there is no charger in the MacBook Pro box (appleinsider.com)
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Pro-Hamas messages broadcast at two N.American airports following cyber breaches (cnn.com)
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HalfStyle: Style each half or third of a character, vertically or horizontally (github.com/arbelh)
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DJI's Promo Shows Drone Footage from Prohibited National Parks and Tribal Lands (dronexl.co)
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China Detains Members of Underground Church (nytimes.com)
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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move (makeuseof.com)
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Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere (androidauthority.com)
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Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 (arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account (theverge.com)
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Google confirms Android dev verification has free, paid tiers, no list of devs (arstechnica.com)
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We know how Android's new app verification rules will work (androidauthority.com)
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Grab's Migration from Go to Rust Cut Costs by 70% (bytebytego.com)
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Amazon sends brick in lieu of 5080 – latest cautionary tale in commingling scams (tomshardware.com)
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As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried (androidauthority.com)
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Ubuntu Switches to Dracut with 25.10 (itsfoss.com)
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Ubuntu security repository are in maintenance (reddit.com)
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Some T-Mobile reps are asking customers to bring a penny with them to the store (phonearena.com)
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YouTube now flagging accounts on family plans that aren't in the same household (androidpolice.com)
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FreeDroidWarn (github.com/woheller69)
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Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% (neowin.net)
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Dangerous Fake Foraging Books Scam on Amazon: AI-Generated Garbage Books [video] (youtube.com)
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Some Pixels are bricked and Google apparently won't help revive them (androidauthority.com)
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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is No Longer Free to Play (bookriot.com)
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Repairer encounters Xbox 360 Microsoft banned over 'bad debt' from unpaid bills (tomshardware.com)
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Josef Prusa Warns Open Hardware 3D Printing Is Dead (hackaday.com)
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Microsoft Warns Windows Users to Stop Using Google Chrome (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)
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Ask HN: Why did tech news sites report that Linux dropped Intel 486 support?
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Cheaters Spotted in Battlefield 6 Beta, Despite Secure Boot Requirement (ign.com)
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Some UK users on r/YouTube report that VPNs are being blocked by the platform (twitter.com/awk20000)
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Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites (theverge.com)
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Battlefield 6 Forces Enabling Secure Boot, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is Next (ign.com)
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Viral TikTok Challenge Leaves 9-Year-Old with Burns: Police (msn.com)
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Drivers who appeal school speed zone camera fines almost guaranteed to lose (abcactionnews.com)
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Comcast Is Shutting Down Its Email Service, Moving Email Accounts to Yahoo Mail (cordcuttersnews.com)
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I'm working to switch from wget to curl (due to Fedora) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
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New report alleges MS Recall still screenshots credit card numbers and passwords (pcgamer.com)
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Teams admins will now be able to see telemetry for screen sharing (neowin.net)
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Gigabyte removes PCIe 5.0 support from B650 motherboards in latest BIOS update (videocardz.com)
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'Kick Door Challenge' on TikTok dangerous, Atlanta police warn parents (fox5atlanta.com)
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Doctor's note no longer excuse for absences at TN school district (wsmv.com)
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Nvidia's AI said to 'update' to old drivers and that I wasn't gaming (I was) (pcgamer.com)
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I Got a Parking Ticket for Using a Charging Station in an Electric Car (insideevs.com)
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Ask HN: Influx of Telegram Spam?
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Mario Kart 64 has a PC port now by the team who also ported Zelda and Star Fox (pcgamer.com)
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Blind pilot guided to land by RAF (2008) (bbc.co.uk)
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No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude (thetimes.com)
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Superman's Big Kiss Was Cut by the Censors in India (kotaku.com)
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Need For Speed franchise 'shelved' by EA (gamingbible.com)
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It turns out Tesla Canada's shady $43M incentive grab was above-board after all (electrek.co)
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Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing (bleepingcomputer.com)
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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom (androidauthority.com)
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Imaging objects out of sight using a single photodetector [video] (youtube.com)
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