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Uh, We’re Running Out of Sand—And It’s a Bigger Problem than You Might Think

Published: August 12, 2026 05:02

submitted by allende2001 to technology6 points | 0 commentshttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a73393351/sand-extraction-problem/cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/12491917 cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/51277718 archive.ph/6eeKS

You get a drone, you get a drone. Everyone gets a drone, except America!

Published: August 12, 2026 04:02

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology7 points | 1 comments

Chinese researchers develop new lithium battery withstanding - 40 C with both long endurance and explosive strength

Published: August 12, 2026 03:15

submitted by allende2001 to technology2 points | 0 commentshttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1367927.shtml

China Scientists Create 'Unbreakable' Crystal Stronger Than Diamond: How It Works

Published: August 12, 2026 03:10

submitted by allende2001 to technology2 points | 0 commentshttps://www.ibtimes.sg/china-scientists-create-unbreakable-crystal-stronger-diamond-how-it-works-91948Full text: archive.ph/x0bxf Chinese researchers have developed a diamond composite designed to…

Why doesn't anything support JPEG-XL or AVIF?

Published: August 11, 2026 20:31

submitted by ashinadash to technology8 points | 1 commentsBoth vastly superior to old JPEG and WEBM, both with pisspoor support on phones and the internet. Smash cut to Conversations freaking out because it has no idea what “.jxl” means. FOSS community pls…

Nvidia, AMD, and data centers need diamonds from China | Inside China Business

Published: August 11, 2026 17:18

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology2 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i45DMGjNci0cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9270444 Newest-generation semiconductors have a heat dissipation problem. Copper and aluminum are insufficient…

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

Published: August 11, 2026 12:19

submitted by chobeat to technology1 points | 0 commentshttps://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

What the Global South Can Learn From Shenzhen’s Tech Rise

Published: August 11, 2026 06:59

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology1 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BRfJufIsm4cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9266537 Forty years ago, Shenzhen was a small southern Chinese fishing village, just across the border from…

Huawei Named Sole Leader in GlobalData 2026 Microwave Backhaul: Competitive Landscape Assessment

Published: August 11, 2026 04:48

submitted by allende2001 to technology2 points | 0 commentshttps://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/8/globaldata-microwave-leader

Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops

Published: August 11, 2026 02:14

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology14 points | 1 commentshttps://www.techspot.com/news/113420-farmer-trusted-ai-after-gave-good-advice-helped.html The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use high-efficiency flupyrimethalin and…

No More Using Reddit From the Outside. You Must Sign In Now

Published: August 11, 2026 01:43

submitted by OptimusSubprime to technology25 points | 9 commentsCan’t do anonymous browsing of old Reddit and now you can’t do anonymous browsing of new Reddit either.

The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America

Published: August 11, 2026 01:00

submitted by git to technology9 points | 3 commentshttps://www.effort.news/uk-lobby

Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike

Published: August 10, 2026 21:46

submitted by chobeat to technology1 points | 0 commentshttps://longhaulmag.com/first-tech-workers-strike/

Forget DeepSeek. China's real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage

Published: August 10, 2026 21:42

submitted by allende2001 to technology3 points | 0 commentshttps://fortune.com/2026/08/10/china-us-ai-critical-technology/cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/12478442 archive.ph/iIarG

China enables free access to DNA-screening AI tool to help fight rare diseases

Published: August 10, 2026 21:37

submitted by allende2001 to technology3 points | 0 commentshttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3363246/china-releases-powerful-dna-screening-ai-tool-free-help-fight-rare-diseasescross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/12478432 archive.ph/ozrGj

China Humanoid Makers Hold 97% of Global Shipments, Report Says

Published: August 10, 2026 21:35

submitted by allende2001 to technology3 points | 0 commentshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/china-humanoid-makers-hold-97-of-global-shipments-report-saysArchive link: archive.ph/32Ewf

Toggles Considered Harmful

Published: August 10, 2026 17:01

submitted by git to technology4 points | 1 commentshttps://ignorethecode.net/blog/2026/08/09/toggles_considered_harmful/

China's coal liquefaction remade global supply chains for energy and food. (Almost) nobody noticed | Inside China Business

Published: August 10, 2026 07:46

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology1 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYBvlnFI2ocross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9258443 Analysts are confounded that the severely negative impacts to China’s energy and food stocks have not…

World's First Sodium-Ion Mining Truck - 626 kWh Battery Charges in 12 Minutes!

Published: August 10, 2026 07:39

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology1 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UON2kZ7JB7Ecross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9258439 A sodium-ion battery-powered mining truck has been delivered to a real mine in northern China, marking…

Trump Says EV Drivers Have "A Disease" — "These People Are Crazy"

Published: August 10, 2026 07:37

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology7 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihmNQK3T3h0During an August 2026 speech at a Las Vegas rally, President Donald Trump mocked electric vehicle owners’ range anxiety, characterizing the habit of…

Fuck samsung

Published: August 10, 2026 06:01

submitted by vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch to technology7 points | 0 comments2019 Device is EOL for security updates, but not eol for a system embedded app to install adware Refurb pixel on the way, custom roms my beloved

Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak

Published: August 9, 2026 10:49

submitted by Champoloo to technology5 points | 1 commentshttp://ppc.land/stack-overflow-drops-to-1-442-questions-in-july-down-99-from-2014-peak

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook

Published: August 9, 2026 09:22

submitted by Champoloo to technology14 points | 3 commentshttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

Published: August 9, 2026 09:17

submitted by git to technology4 points | 0 commentshttps://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police

Published: August 9, 2026 04:22

submitted by Letztertod to technology14 points | 1…

China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615bn

Published: August 9, 2026 00:46

submitted by allende2001 to technology5 points | 0 commentshttps://asia.nikkei.com/business/science/china-overtakes-us-to-lead-global-r-d-spending-hitting-615bn

Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

Published: August 8, 2026 22:50

submitted by Champoloo to technology4 points | 0 commentshttps://www.techspot.com/news/113410-cloudflare-humans-could-become-rounding-error-bots-generate.html

Now That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time Soon

Published: August 8, 2026 22:28

submitted by Champoloo to technology7 points | 0 commentshttps://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

Published: August 8, 2026 09:07

submitted by git to technology2 points | 0 commentshttps://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours

'Good Start': Meta Fine Now Nearly $1 Billion for Social Media Giant's Harm to Kids | Common Dreams

Published: August 8, 2026 01:44

submitted by thelastaxolotl to technology10 points | 0 commentshttps://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-ordered-to-pay-another-567-millioncross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/70261 A New Mexico court on Thursday ruled that Meta must pay an…

Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing

Published: August 7, 2026 22:59

submitted by sexywheat to technology8 points | 2 commentshttps://gizmodo.com/data-center-reps-face-the-guillotine-flee-public-hearing-2000795939 By the end of the event, the residents of Salem emerged with a few tentative wins on its ledger. The council…

Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

Published: August 7, 2026 16:21

submitted by chgxvjh to technology8 points | 1 commentshttps://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/30/google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer/spoilerAlphaFold was a machine learning system from Google Deepmind. It did protein folding. It was usably good at…

AMD acquires Taalas. AI models hard coded on chip.

Published: August 7, 2026 16:09

submitted by Evilphd666 to technology5 points | 2 commentshttps://youtu.be/3MKRjt59hh4chatjimmy.ai - tech demo

RedMarx: Teaching AI to Read Marx Dialectically

Published: August 7, 2026 15:35

submitted by thelastaxolotl to technology9 points | 2 commentshttps://thetricontinental.org/redmarx-teaching-ai-to-read-marx-dialectically/cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/70064 What is the relation between the socialisation of labour and the…

Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work

Published: August 7, 2026 11:07

submitted by chobeat to technology5 points | 0 commentshttps://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union

ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors

Published: August 7, 2026 07:14

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology3 points | 0 commentshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/ice-tracks-thousands-of-immigrants-ankle-monitors

does anyone else have a Pebble watch? I created a Hexbear watchface

Published: August 7, 2026 01:26

submitted by geese_feces to technology31 points | 8 commentsapps.repebble.com/a224ede0d77f47bcb5b7d831 Was thinking about making a series of watchfaces themed after different Lemmy instances:

DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

Published: August 6, 2026 18:32

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology11 points | 3 commentshttps://www.techspot.com/news/113357-duckduckgo-made-sunglasses-do-absolutely-nothing-they-sold.html

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

Published: August 6, 2026 17:51

submitted by Champoloo to technology6 points | 0 commentshttps://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh

Tiny Gameboy Style MP3 player on Kickstarter

Published: August 6, 2026 15:17

submitted by Athena5898 to technology4 points | 0 commentshttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hidizs/ap30-music-boy-the-first-truly-wearable-hi-res-music-player?ref=checkout_rewards_pageI was really excited to find this when I decided that it was time to…

The east has fallen (deepseek price increase)

Published: August 6, 2026 13:50

submitted by chgxvjh to technology16 points | 6 comments Dear DeepSeek API user, We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific…

SK Hynix test Chinese chip tools as hedge against US risks

Published: August 6, 2026 03:41

submitted by allende2001 to technology5 points | 0 commentshttps://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-sk-hynix-test-chinese-chip-tools-hedge-against-us-risks-2026-08-05/

China's air-borne nuclear strike system revealed in military video

Published: August 6, 2026 03:39

submitted by allende2001 to technology5 points | 0 commentshttps://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/04/WS6a71d50da310986e2b468f40.html

HKU chip performs search task 100 million times faster than standard CP

Published: August 6, 2026 03:39

submitted by allende2001 to technology6 points | 0 commentshttps://www.ecns.cn/m/cns-wire/2026-08-05/detail-ihfhziqh0062402.shtml

China's AI ambitions have a major sand problem | Inside China Business

Published: August 5, 2026 17:47

submitted by Yuritopiaposadism to technology4 points | 1 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5rxP0dzBx8cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/9218511 China’s massive industrial sectors and population centers in the East of the country are heavily…

Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

Published: August 5, 2026 17:37

submitted by Champoloo to technology17 points | 4 commentshttps://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/04/microsoft-never-learns-it-admins-rage-as-a-new-onedrive-app-invades-windows-11-and-keeps-coming-back-when-you-remove-it/

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 is now open source

Published: August 5, 2026 17:33

submitted by allende2001 to technology8 points | 0 commentshttps://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.htmlcross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/12424835 github.com/XiaomiRobotics/Xiaomi-Robotics-1 huggingface.co/collections/…/xiaomi-robotics-1