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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 45 # Comments: 26

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

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The USSR in 100 Photographs

Article URL: https://trinixy.ru/7039-sssr_v_fotografijakh_100_foto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221041 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 37 # Comments: 37

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Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220390 Points: 15 # Comments: 22

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 94 # Comments: 89

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US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339 Points: 25 # Comments: 19

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 29 # Comments: 4

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508 Points: 30 # Comments: 3

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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179 Points: 216 # Comments: 37

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Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218707 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179 Points: 78 # Comments: 11

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Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature

Anyone like C++'s module features? Feel free to try MCPP and talk with me. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217761 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 58 # Comments: 11