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It's getting worse – Retail DDR5 memory prices continue to increase (overclock3d.net)

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Key Transparency for the Fediverse (soatok.blog)

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Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)

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The gift card accountability sink (bitsaboutmoney.com)

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Tacit: We Know More Than We Can Tell (stripe.press)

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Agent Flywheel – Agentic Coding Setup (agent-flywheel.com)

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Disc-shaped satellite design offers unmatched power-to-weight ratio (arstechnica.com)

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Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells (2015) (upmc.com)

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To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of mercenary spyware (amnesty.org)

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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? (propublica.org)

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4 (tomshardware.com)

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What Is Prompt Caching? Best Practices Explained (apidog.com)

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Micron outlines grim outlook for DRAM supply in earnings call (tomshardware.com)

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Modular: The Startup Taking Direct Aim at Nvidia CUDA's AI Iron Grip (businessinsider.com)

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Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems (arxiv.org)

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Cellhasher – Server Rack for Mobile Device Boards (cellhasher.com)

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Hardware Has Changed (buttondown.com/justincormack)

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Methaphone: free your hand and your mind will follow (methaphone.com)

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Laws of (New) Media – By Andrew McLuhan (a16z.news)

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SK hynix and Nvidia formalize joint SSD development to boost AI inference (chosun.com)

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Hardware Powers of 10 (buttondown.com/justincormack)

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Is Motion Sensing Gaming Back? (playthatmovesyou.com)

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When Machines Pay Machines: The Economics of Agentic AI (msuiche.com)

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Getting serial port output on modern Macs (gist.github.com)

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Connect a U.2 Server SSD to Your PC's USB Port with This Adapter (2021) (tomshardware.com)

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8x EDSFF E1.S NVMe SSD Mobile Rack for External 5.25" Drive Bay (icydock.com)

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China to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, warns against promoting materialism (globaltimes.cn)

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Risk of acute kidney injury and mortality in patients vaccinated for Covid-19 (medsci.org)

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Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers (cnbc.com)

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Overview of the Memory Market in Mid-December 2025 (hanchouhsu.substack.com)

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You Might Soon See 8GB Laptops Everywhere (wccftech.com)

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RAMageddon is coming for your smartphones and laptops (tomsguide.com)

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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns (notebookcheck.net)

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Pantheon Is Challenging Animated Sci-Fi for Adults (rogerebert.com)

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Building Trustworthy AI Agents (schneier.com)

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A Better iPhone Typing Experience (2018) (medium.com/porsager)

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Overview of the Memory Market in Mid-December 2025 (hanchouhsu.substack.com)

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iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] (youtube.com)

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Slovenia gives cash constitutional protection (sloveniatimes.com)

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Malaysia uncovers $1B in power theft losses from illegal crypto mining (theblock.co)

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Agency Is Eating the World (giansegato.com)

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FixBot: We Built an AI That Knows How to Fix Things (ifixit.com)

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iPadOS 26.2 will restore Split View and Slide Over multitasking (9to5mac.com)

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The Seven-Minute Doctor Visit Cannot Understand a Human Body like AI (markatwood.substack.com)

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Taskwarrior 2.x fork with support for plaintext sync (github.com/linuxcaffe)

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Using RDP without leaving client filesystem traces: MSTSC public mode (devolutions.net)

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The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023) (untappedcities.com)

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Residents push back as 5G towers rise steps from their homes (local10.com)

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Las Vegas is in trouble. Everyone has a theory about why. (slate.com)

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Why OpenAI's AI Data Center Buildout Faces a 2026 Reality Check (forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao)

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India's request for satellite-aided iPhone location data is a privacy nightmare (appleinsider.com)

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OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case (reuters.com)

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Agentic e-commerce and OpenAI Shopping Agent (nextword.substack.com)

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Netflix Business Metrics and the Slow Death of Hollywood (2019) (thebignewsletter.com)

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Jon Voight's Plan to Save Hollywood (deadline.com)

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American Electric Power wants to offload excess capacity for data centers (utilitydive.com)

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EU "Chat Control" Twist: Commissioner Sides with Parliament over Governments (patrick-breyer.de)

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A New Governing Ecosystem Is Evolving (noemamag.com)

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Memory Crunch Hits PCs: Dell Hikes Prices 15-20% Mid-Dec, Lenovo from Jan 2026 (trendforce.com)

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Apple Design Leadership Change: Bad Dye Job (daringfireball.net)

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Samsung Could Convert Some HBM3E Capacity to Regular DRAM to Meet AI Demand (techpowerup.com)

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ASRock adds DDR4 slots on DDR5 H610M COMBO motherboard (videocardz.com)

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China's chip champions miss their DRAM cue (reuters.com)

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The Future of EU eCall: Why Automotive Crash Reporting Is About to Get Smarter (smarteye.se)

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My favorite iPhone ever is now officially obsolete (neowin.net)

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Collagen amino acid composition supplementation reduces biological age in humans (nature.com)

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OpenLog: Open-source Hardware Datalogger from UART serial port to SD card (github.com/sparkfun)

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Volvo EX90's Lidar Laser Sensor Will Fry Your Phone's Camera (thedrive.com)

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Kroger's Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices (epic.org)

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Compulsory spyware app to be installed on every Indian citizen's new phone (alecmuffett.com)

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AI Adds a New Dimension to DEVONthink 4 (macstories.net)

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Same Book, Different You (howardgray.net)

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IDF tightens cellphone regulations, bars Android phones (israelnationalnews.com)

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X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200 (tpart.net)

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Abused code-signing certificates by country and issue date (flourish.studio)

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Revideo: Create Videos with Code (github.com/redotvideo)

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Dance Card (wikipedia.org)

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Discovering that my smartphone had infiltrated my life (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Structuring LLM outputs: best practices for legal prompt engineering (2024) (netdocuments.com)

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A Deep Dive into the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC Details (semiaccurate.com)

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28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset (clickhouse.com)

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Intel Secures Apple as Foundry Customer for Future M-Series Chips (winbuzzer.com)

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The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work (justoffbyone.com)

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Ultralight gummy bear power bank removed from Amazon (theverge.com)

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iOS games for iPads that cannot be upgraded beyond iOS 9 (cjstewart88.github.io)

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EU lawmakers back plan for social media age rules (dw.com)

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Cryo-electron microscopy shows how statins harm muscles (medicalxpress.com)

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China's top memory chip maker YMTC to build 3rd plant, eyeing 2027 start (nikkei.com)

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Insulin Stored at Room Temperature Does Not Lose Potency (2023) (healthline.com)

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Remote Control, Done Right: Reviewing the Comet Pro Remote KVM (medium.com/engineering-iot)

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Children of Paradise is the greatest film to come out of France, 80 years on (theconversation.com)

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Information Literacy and Chatbots as Search (buttondown.com/maiht3k)

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Mapping the future with 3D-printed titanium Apple Watch cases (apple.com)

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Circular Transactions: The Complex Loopholes of Abusive Tax Shelters (fastercapital.com)

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Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop chip benchmarks (tomsguide.com)

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Renewed push to preempt US state AI laws gains steam (iapp.org)

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UK bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers' (bbc.com)

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Rise and fall of opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, 'Rothschilds of the East' (2022) (timesofisrael.com)

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Act-1: A Robot Foundation Model Trained on Zero Robot Data (sunday.ai)

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Keys Inc. Proposes U.S. National Locksmith Licensing (locksmithledger.com)