Daily Drop on Technology – August 12, 2026 | DailyDrops

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• Pixel 11 phones will recognize ASL (youtube.com)
• Gemini intelligence on Pixel Watch 5 (youtube.com)
• Google's Pixel 11 line up comes with Magic Capture (youtube.com)
• I stripped the smarts out of my old TV, and it finally got good again (makeuseof.com)
• Pixel 11 Pro's HiLight feature (youtube.com)
• Pixel 11 Pro's new telephoto camera (youtube.com)
• Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Grok Gets Cursor-Driven Upgrade, Claims to Be Competitive With Top Models (gizmodo.com)
• GitHub availability report: July 2026 (github.blog)
• Not Ready For Prime Time: The Current State Of Legal Ethics And AI (techdirt.com)
• Xbox's August update brings deeper Xbox 360 support and larger wishlists (neowin.net)
• This 1,500-nit OLED gaming monitor from GIGABYTE is now 29% off (neowin.net)
• The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font (arstechnica.com)
• The New Siri's Privacy Story Has a Google-Shaped Asterisk (makeuseof.com)
• Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
• Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones (theverge.com)
• This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off (theverge.com)
• The next great game may not come from a million-dollar studio (thenextweb.com)
• Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down (theverge.com)
• Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now (arstechnica.com)
• The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy (wired.com)
• Northrop's robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• 4 default Plex settings you should never mess with (howtogeek.com)
• Google's new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series (thenextweb.com)
• Why software factories are back - and how they work in the age of AI (zdnet.com)
• Grok Bot: A new kind of colleague (x.ai)
• Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
• WorldClaw: Agentic 3D Open-World Generation at Scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
• What's new in pg_clickhouse v0.10.0: Subqueries, TPC-H Speedups, C Driver, and Aggregates | ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)