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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
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Mar 3, 2026
Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/rubio-to-world-stop-doing-the-exact-same-thing-the-us-just-did/ Commen...
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Mar 3, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ceo-altman-defends-pentagon-work-to-staff-calls-backlash-really-painful...
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Mar 3, 2026
FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger "a lot cleaner" than defunct Netflix deal
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
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Mar 3, 2026
CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/03/cia-saudi-arabia-drone-attack-iran/ Comments U...
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Mar 3, 2026
AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid
A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York'...
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Mar 3, 2026
What Trump’s war on Iran means for the US energy crunch
Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questio...
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Mar 3, 2026
Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked
Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social about Iran echoed a conspiracy theory that has been circulating online for years.
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Mar 3, 2026
Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
Article URL: https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...
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Mar 3, 2026
The best AirPods deals you can get right now
If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max an...
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Mar 3, 2026
Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok
The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming back onlin...
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Mar 3, 2026
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medica...
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Mar 3, 2026
ChatGPT’s new GPT-5.3 Instant model will stop telling you to calm down
The company says the new model will reduce the "cringe" that's been annoying its users for months.
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Mar 3, 2026
Highguard is shutting down this month
Another high-profile live-service game is shutting down soon after launch: this time it's the free-to-play squad shooter...
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Mar 3, 2026
We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell
Article URL: https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47238279 Points...
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Mar 3, 2026
Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter
Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Tess...
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Mar 3, 2026
Shark’s latest robot vacuum hunts stains with UV light
The Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal is SharkNinja's latest robot vacuum and mop. A flagship model with a multifunctional doc...
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Mar 3, 2026
Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round
The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril's Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a...
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Mar 3, 2026
Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability
Anthropic is stepping up its game in the AI coding space with the rollout of Voice Mode in Claude Code.
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Mar 3, 2026
There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV
There's a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3. ...
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Mar 3, 2026
I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools, the Results Are Terrifying
Article URL: https://www.toolbox-kit.com/blog/i-audited-popular-dev-tools-privacy-results-are-scary Comments URL: https...
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Mar 3, 2026
A US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in Foreign Spy and Criminal Hands
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...
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Mar 3, 2026
Self-Hosted Software List
Article URL: https://hostedsoftware.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237592 Points: 20 # Comme...
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Mar 3, 2026
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
Article URL: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Mar 3, 2026
GitHub Is Having Issues
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472...
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Mar 3, 2026
Iran War Cost Tracker
Article URL: https://iran-cost-ticker.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237080 Points: 53 # Comm...
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Mar 3, 2026
A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues...
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Mar 3, 2026
Android’s Find Hub adds iPhone-like luggage tracking links
Google is rolling out an Android update that includes the ability to share the location of your missing luggage with an ...
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Mar 3, 2026
Google’s latest Pixel drop allows Gemini to order groceries for you and more
Google is adding several new features to Pixel phones with its latest March update, including the ability for its Gemini...
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Mar 3, 2026
Google brings Android’s desktop mode to Pixel devices
Google is bringing a new desktop mode to its Pixel phones and tablets. The feature comes as part of Google's March Pixel...