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Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/876866/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ad-online-backlash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978966 Points: 82 # Comments: 33

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Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down

Article URL: https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710 Points: 330 # Comments: 239

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NetNewsWire Turns 23

Article URL: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978490 Points: 72 # Comments: 13

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FAA halts all flights at El Paso airport for 10 days

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flight-restrictions.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972610 Points: 273 # Comments: 456

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We rendered and embedded one million CAD files

Article URL: https://cad-search-three.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968374 Points: 39 # Comments: 18

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Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.

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Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ AI feature lets you personalize your feed

The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed.

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Google releases the first beta of Android 17, adopts a continous developer release plan

Google is changing how developers get access to new APIs and features of the latest version.

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How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP

Amanda Silver is a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agentic systems within enterprises.

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UpScrolled’s social network is struggling to moderate hate speech after fast growth

Upscrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including user names and hashtags that contain racial slurs.

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Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy

At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

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Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV

Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

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TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the US leveraging users’ precise location

TikTok's new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.

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OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s ‘adult mode’ reportedly fired on discrimination claim

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

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The Feds closed air space around El Paso on Wednesday to address "cartel" drones

Violators were told they would be shot down.