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feeds.bbci.co.uk2026-09-12

Tech Now

Shiona McCallum meets mums and hospital staff trialling a new assisted birth innovation.

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feeds.arstechnica.com2026-09-11

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

By Dan Goodin

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

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news.ycombinator.com2026-09-13

CUDA for AMD on Windows

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hnrss.org2026-09-14

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

By negura

Article URL: https://calif.io/research/oempocalypse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691152 Points: 56 # Comments: 25

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www.theguardian.com2026-09-13

Tom Gauld on a new case for Hercule Poirot – cartoon

By Tom Gauld

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www.quantamagazine.org2026-09-08

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

By Konstantin Kakaes

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy. The post AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millenn…

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