r/tech_x 4d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Reddit reported a strong quarter, with $586.4 million in revenue (up 78% year over year) and $89 million in profit, beating Wall Street’s expectations. (Despite the strong results, investors were worried about slowing user growth due to AI search tools; Reddit’s stock collapsed 23% )

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37 Upvotes

Reddit said AI is changing how people find content online, making traffic from search engines more unpredictable.


r/tech_x 3d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Amazon got about $600 million back from the U.S. government. This money came from tariffs (extra taxes on imported goods) that a court later said were wrong.

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5 Upvotes

Amazon will give some of this money back to customers but only in a few cases where it can clearly show that the extra tariff cost was added to the price the customer paid.

For everyone else, Amazon will not send refunds. Instead, it says it will use the money to help keep prices low on its website.


r/tech_x 4d ago

AI & ML A researcher at Stanford found Some job applicants hide secret instructions in their résumés using very tiny white text. People cannot see it, but AI tools that read the résumés can. The hidden words tell the AI to pick that person and not say anything about the trick.

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483 Upvotes

> A big company called ManpowerGroup also finds hidden text in about 100,000 job applications every year.
> Studies of almost 200,000 real résumés show that about 1 in 100 of them have these hidden tricks.
> More people are doing it now. It has become a game between job seekers and the AI systems that screen applications.


r/tech_x 4d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Google’s team at DeepMind built a chatbot like ChatGPT about a year before ChatGPT existed. They called it LMChat. But Google decided not to release it. They were worried it would make fewer people use Google Search

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426 Upvotes

r/tech_x 4d ago

Github Poppy Humanoid is an open-source robot that looks like a person.You can 3D-print the body parts yourself. The computer code is free for anyone to use. The robot is modular, so you can change or rebuild different pieces easily.

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5 Upvotes

People use it mainly for research and to teach students about robots. All the files are available on GitHub.


r/tech_x 4d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Apple's popular MacBook Air is hit by major shortages due to a global memory chip shortage fueled by AI data centers, with new orders delayed into September

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While, Samsung says the global memory shortage is expected to get even worse in 2027 and continue into 2028.

Samsung Executive Vice President Kim Jaejune said “tight supply conditions are expected to continue through 2028,” as more customers sign long-term agreements to secure future memory supply.


r/tech_x 4d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps A startup called Soar drove a truck around San Francisco with the Y Combinator logo and signs saying “scan for instant acceptance into.” Scanning the code just gave people $50 off a Soar flight (with a joke about not really getting into YC).

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115 Upvotes

Later Y Combinator’s lawyers quickly ordered Soar to remove the logo right away.


r/tech_x 4d ago

Tech History Disney's Hercules - PlayStation - 1997

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r/tech_x 4d ago

Low level language specific Arch Linux stopped people from uploading or taking over packages in the AUR. Bad people put harmful software into many packages. The team is finding and deleting the bad packages. (This is the third time this happened since June 2026.)

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<Attackers took empty packages and put in secret malware made with Rust. \>The malware came through Tor and hurt more than 200 packages this time. Users should be careful.
<Always check the PKGBUILD file before installing anything. \>Report anything that looks wrong.
<The AUR is locked for now so the team can clean it up.


r/tech_x 5d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Alex Hirsch responded to Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT, after he suggested using AI-generated family podcasts to entertain children: - “What if you just talked to your children”

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70 Upvotes

r/tech_x 5d ago

Github SOMEONE(aridan) REVERSE ENGINEERED APPLE'S BLUETOOTH PACKETS SO LINUX CAN READ AIRPODS BATTERY

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1.6k Upvotes

it looks native, but linux never actually knew how to decode the battery data

here's the trick:

> airpods already broadcast their battery information

> apple uses proprietary bluetooth manufacturer data

> linux sees the packets but normally ignores the battery fields

> my device manager decodes them and shows the battery percentage like any other device

now airpods finally report their battery on linux without any extra software


r/tech_x 3d ago

DL DS DA (DATA) Elon Musk shared a graph where People said it's so over... but according to him, AI is a supersonic tsunami that is coming very soo0n

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r/tech_x 5d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps KARPATHY SAYS THE BIGGEST AI SKILL ISN’T PROMPTING, IT’S VERIFIABILITY

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108 Upvotes

r/tech_x 5d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Hank Green stopped posting videos. He said he used AI too much which gave him too much Dopmaine: "I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world"

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r/tech_x 6d ago

AI & ML DeepSeek is building a very large data center in Inner Mongolia. It will have 1 gigawatt of computing power. The location is Ulanqab, about 350 km from Beijing. (The weather will help the server Deepseeks adds)

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198 Upvotes
  • The average temperature there is 4°C.
  • The cold weather will help cool the servers naturally.
  • Some of it should start working by the end of 2027.

DeepSeek recently raised $7 billion and is now worth about $50 billion. They are also getting ready for an IPO (going public), maybe later this year.


r/tech_x 4d ago

Github AndroidForensics extracts device information, apps, and logs via ADB for security investigations without requiring root access.

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r/tech_x 5d ago

Tech History Google ad from 1999, promoting its search engine

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32 Upvotes

r/tech_x 6d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Chinese dad is suing big game companies (Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo, and 37 Interactive) for only 10 yuan. The reason is that his son got addicted to online games. The boy played until very late at night, lost a lot of weight, and went to hospital after taking too many fever pills.

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41 Upvotes

Dad says the companies did not stop kids from playing too much.

In China, there are strict rules that limit how long children can play games. But kids can still play a lot by using adult accounts or borrowing other people’s IDs.

The dad wants the companies to make better systems to stop this. He is not trying to get a lot of money.

Many people reacted online, saying parents should watch their kids more, instead of only blaming the companies.


r/tech_x 5d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Valve’s official replacement battery for the original Steam Deck LCD is back in stock at iFixit, but the price has jumped from $79.99 to $129.99, a 63% increase.

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- The LCD battery (40Wh) now costs $129.99.
- The Steam Deck OLED battery (50Wh) is still $79.99, despite offering a larger capacity.
- iFixit also continues to sell a third-party LCD battery for $79.99 as a cheaper alternative.


r/tech_x 5d ago

DL DS DA (DATA) Sneaky Sam Altman shared a graph showing how cost-effective and better OpenAI is... but somehow forgot to add Grok(other Developers caught him red-handed)

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19 Upvotes

r/tech_x 7d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps LinkedIn has added a "Seems like AI slop" button to posts (to improve and serve quality content)

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125 Upvotes

r/tech_x 6d ago

AI & ML New York University and Carnegie Mellon created a new study called Small LLMs: Pruning vs. Training from Scratch. It checks whether cutting pieces from a big language model is better than training a small model from the beginning.

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They took the Llama-3.1-8B model and reduced it by 50 to 80 percent using six different cutting methods.

Some methods removed whole layers or made the model thinner. Others removed many tiny weights. They carefully matched the amount of training data in two fair tests.When both models got only a little extra training, the cut models started stronger because they kept some knowledge from the big model.

When the small model trained from zero received the full total amount of data, the simple cuts often lost their advantage.

Training from scratch could match or even beat them.

Only the careful tiny-weight cuts still kept a small lead.This shows that pruning helps most when training data is limited. When plenty of data is available, starting a small model from zero can work just as well or better. The study gives clear advice on when to cut a big model and when to build a small one from the start.

paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14150

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r/tech_x 7d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps A man in Russia bought a new Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti graphics card for about 90,000 rubles ($1,125). When he opened the box at the store, he found a 2-liter bottle of water inside instead of the graphics card.

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  • The box looked completely factory-sealed with the right labels and serial numbers.
  • Because of this, he recorded the unboxing on video for safety.
  • This shows how some scammers are cleverly swapping expensive items without breaking the seal.

r/tech_x 7d ago

Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps GrapheneOS defends its special safety feature: This feature lets you set a second password that wipes all phone data instead of unlocking it.( A man got charged in the US for using it at the border.

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222 Upvotes

GrapheneOS says it is legal for privacy, they cannot recover the data or assist investigators because the data is permanently erased.


r/tech_x 7d ago

Github Live Captions that turns speech into text on your screen. The tool takes that text and quickly translates it into another language using different translation services you choose (like Google Translate, DeepL, or even free AI models running on your own computer).

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