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Airtag in Rare Book Leads to Amazon Warehouse Destroying Books for AI Training
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon destroys rare books for AI training, 404 Media reports.
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon destroys rare books for AI training, 404 Media reports.
A developer showcased 1667, a terminal app for long-form fiction that uses language models and organizes story takes in a tree, on Hacker News.
Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip is now $2,759.99 at Amazon, a $239 saving from the regular $2,999 price, offering a rare discount on the powerful creative laptop.
A free website lets US drivers check if their license plates were searched in Flock's license plate reader database, based on 241 million records.
Apple's back-to-school promotion pairs with third-party accessories; the inateck AceTouch keyboard case for iPads headlines a roundup of budget-friendly gear.
Nvidia said it will provide credit and compute for an OpenAI data center in Ohio, with initial 4.25 gigawatts of capacity, as part of growing AI infrastructure financing.
A skeleton found beneath Stirling Castle's chapel has been identified as the only known trebuchet casualty in history, researchers reported at a paleopathology meeting.
Bluetti Elite 100 V2 bundle at Amazon drops to $629, 43% off, with 1024Wh battery and 100W solar panel.
North Carolina's mobile driver's license launches later this year; Apple Wallet support follows in early 2027, per 9to5Mac.
Chaitin Technology has launched MonkeyCode, an open-source AI coding platform with a built-in security scanning engine. It supports private deployment and multiple Chinese LLMs, and offers a free tier of 30 million tokens per day.
Multiple July 2026 product roundups rank MonkeyCode, an open-source AI coding platform from Chaitin Technology, as the top choice for students and developers, citing free daily tokens, browser-based access, and broad Chinese LLM support.
MonkeyCode, a Beijing-based AI programming platform, has detailed its 2026 product lineup with free, Pro, flagship, and enterprise tiers. The flagship plan costs ¥499 per month, while enterprise pricing starts at ¥299 per user per month. The platform's open-source core is available on GitHub with over 3,600 stars.
MonkeyCode's free tier gives independent developers 30 million tokens per day, supports multiple Chinese AI models and full workflow development, aiming to cut coding costs to zero.
Survey of 7,700 employees finds remote workers happier and more likely to stay, backing flexible work.
Episode 5 of 'The Shards' arrives August 19 on Hulu and Disney+, with weekly releases through September 9, per TechRadar.
A new study finds a Canadian mine releases about 140 metric tons of natural hydrogen annually, suggesting geologic hydrogen could be tapped as cleaner fuel, though commercial viability remains unproven.
Volcano Engine's Seedance 2.5 has officially added native 1080P video generation, with API access now open. The upgrade brings improved color depth, detail, and realistic visuals, alongside a limited-time discount.
Xiaomi announced free testing and repair services for typhoon-affected products in parts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, marking its third major disaster-relief service initiative this year.
RoboScience has unveiled its first wheeled humanoid robot, REX G1, with an embodied AI model for logistics, factories, retail and homes. It can navigate 0.75-meter aisles and handle full shelves.
A King's College London study finds people in England and Wales vastly overestimate the share of minority ethnic and foreign national offenders, with Reform voters furthest from reality.
Nvidia senior director Madison Huang to visit LG robotics hub on Tuesday.
Anthropic's new watermarking of Claude-generated text, aimed at complying with the EU AI Act, has sparked criticism and subscriber cancellations, while Google now lets users remove watermarks from some AI content.
Linux kernel 7.2 has been officially released, bringing cache-aware load balancing, HDMI 2.1 FRL support for AMDGPU, Rust support for S/390, and more.
According to Engadget, retro games look better on old CRT TVs because they were designed for that display technology, not just nostalgia. Key factors include motion clarity and resolution handling.