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Meta $1.4T threat could mean 'turning in the keys and walking away'

https://fortune.com/article/meta-faces-1-4-trillion-threat-stakes-of-case-reach-across-tech-08-20-2026/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago

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Dhruvjoshi9•35m ago
Existential legal threats usually end in negotiated settlements, not tech giants shutting down entirely.
clipsy•30m ago
Yeah but it could also have a bad outcome

Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/silicon-valley-tech-fans-children.html
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

Why the Closing of Harvard's Writing Center Matters

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/harvard-writing-center-closure/688331/
2•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

Math of Spider Wbes

https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=synapse
1•marysminefnuf•10m ago•0 comments

Berkeley Mystery Walls

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/berkeley-mystery-walls
1•Jimmc414•17m ago•0 comments

Roomy Is Generally Available

https://blog.roomy.space/3mplw6vvw4s23
1•abc42•18m ago•1 comments

How to Visualize Millions of Parcels on a Map

https://walker-data.com/posts/millions-of-parcels/
1•the-mitr•18m ago•0 comments

KDE Linux Experiences

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/
1•watermelon0•20m ago•0 comments

4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content

https://www.tuigroup.com/en/newsroom/news/travel-in-the-age-of-scrolling-tui-musement-research-re...
13•Markoff•29m ago•9 comments

ESP32-S31 dual-core RISC-V SoC is getting official Linux support

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/22/espressif-systems-releases-a-linux-bsp-developer-preview-...
1•pyprism•30m ago•0 comments

Meta $1.4T threat could mean 'turning in the keys and walking away'

https://fortune.com/article/meta-faces-1-4-trillion-threat-stakes-of-case-reach-across-tech-08-20...
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•2 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol
2•izakfr•38m ago•1 comments

Suspicions of hitting daughter between a congressman and his ex-wife

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/08/21/inside-police-investigation-how-rep-max-...
2•doctorpangloss•40m ago•1 comments

Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/explosive-russian-drone-boat-destroyed-near-european-offs...
1•jnord•40m ago•0 comments

I built an open-source FACEIT stats Browser Source for OBS

https://faceitwidget.com/
1•nachete•45m ago•0 comments

Firezone REST API generally available

https://www.firezone.dev/blog/rest-api-ga
1•jamilbk•49m ago•0 comments

Prevention of myopia in a near-primate by supplemental indigo light

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42612637/
1•OutOfHere•54m ago•1 comments

I tested 20 "agent-ready" Shopify stores –> 25% silently break at add-to-cart

https://github.com/MythrilS/agent-ready-checkout
1•MythrilS•1h ago•0 comments

Limnic Eruption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption
2•tchalla•1h ago•0 comments

EchoCoT: Extracting Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Large Reasoning Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20055
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

Finding a hidden Mersenne Twister inside a 15 year old game binary

https://medium.com/@jizoskasa/i-reverse-engineered-plants-vs-zombies-to-answer-one-very-specific-...
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

New U.S. tariffs to take effect after midnight, Canada plans to match levies

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7310605
4•morkalork•1h ago•1 comments

France issues warning over substandard condoms

https://www.dw.com/en/france-issues-warning-over-thousands-of-substandard-condoms/a-78462877
2•tchalla•1h ago•0 comments

Inevitable Architecture

https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/inevitable-architecture/
1•cl42•1h ago•0 comments

Chinese regulators tell Tesla: fix 3M cars

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/chinese-regulators-tell-tesla-to-fix-nearly-3-million-cars/
3•worik•1h ago•0 comments

King of the Indie Hacker? Will You Claim the Throne?

https://www.kingoftheindiehacker.lol
1•mattmerrick•1h ago•0 comments

Neo: A novel writing tool from Hugh Howey

https://hughhowey.com/introducing-neo/
1•js2•1h ago•0 comments

Getting Freaky in the Age of AI

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-08-07-getting-freaky-in-the-age-of-ai/
1•jbott•1h ago•0 comments

Ebb: A Privacy-First Period Tracker

https://ebb.lyfmail.com
1•LYFMail•1h ago•1 comments

People are vandalizing Flock surveillance cameras

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5939851/flock-cameras-police-block-surveillance-vandalize
2•0in•1h ago•0 comments

Linus: And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e...
2•Garbage•1h ago•0 comments