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I ditched my NAS's default OS for TrueNAS, and storage management finally made sense

TrueNAS gave me deeper storage control, better visibility, and more flexibility than the default NAS OS, even if it meant giving up some convenience.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken stro…

One injection could keep osteoarthritis drugs working for weeks

Scientists have created an injectable gel that can remain inside arthritic joints for weeks, slowly releasing medication while also improving lubrication. The approach could make it easier to deliver disease-modifying drugs direc…

After Today, the Nintendo Switch 2 May Never Be $450 Ever Again

The only way to go is up, including console prices.

Your waist size may reveal health risks BMI misses

A simple waist measurement may be nearly as effective as more complicated methods for detecting unhealthy levels of body fat. Researchers also found that BMI alone missed many people with obesity, suggesting waist size could prov…

Australia Confirms Its First Known Bird Flu Death in a Dolphin

One longtime marine conservation scientist described the dolphin’s fatal infection with H5N1 bird flu as “shocking” and “very worrying.”

[Ekstra] Ny mobil-skadevare kan hente ut data fra 140 bank-apper

Toxic Panda 2.0 er den seneste Android-trusselen.

A 38-year-old NES platformer is getting a Steam remake by its original husband-and-wife team, as the pair's 'final major game product'

The Battle of Olympus will arrive on Steam in 2027.

Cheap mini PCs are the death knell for Raspberry Pis

With x86 mini PCs becoming more budget-friendly, I find it hard to recommend Raspberry Pi SBCs

Scientists discover two superconducting states hiding as one

Scientists have uncovered hidden complexity inside two ultrathin superconductors that seemed much simpler than they really are. Niobium diselenide and tantalum disulfide appeared to have a single superconducting state, but highly…

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large O…

DLSS 5 Now Works on RTX 20 & 30 GPUs, Older Graphics APIs and Even PCSX2

The leaked DLSS 5 Neural Rendering implementation continues to expand well beyond NVIDIA's officially announced scope, with modders now targeting older RTX GPUs, games without native DLSS implementations, older graphics APIs, and…

The World’s Most-Used Material Has a Massive Carbon Problem. A Bolt of Plasma May Fix It

Researchers have found a way to slash emissions from one of the most carbon-intensive industries in the world.

A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot

Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microw…

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (kernel, libarchive, libdbi-perl, libnet-dns-perl, librabbitmq, roundcube, starlette, and xrdp), Fedora (bluez, postgresql16-anonymizer, pyOpenSSL, python-cryptography, python-pynitroke…

Linux 7.3 Introduces Early Zen 6 Support, Native RGB Controls For Ryzen AI Halo, And Major Laptop Improvements

The latest x86 platform driver updates expand Linux hardware support across upcoming AMD chips, laptops, and gaming handhelds. Linux 7.3 Brings AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo RGB Control, and Improvements for ASUS, HP, Len…

AltTabby makes Windows 11's window switcher do things I didn't think were possible

Stardock has a new customization tool for Windows 11, and it's focused on an oft-overlooked part of the OS. And it's surprisingly good.

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an…

Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month

Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain …

Square Enix Delivers Extended Final Fantasy VII Revelation Look This Week, As September 3 PlayStation State of Play Is Announced

During Gamescom Opening Night Live, Square Enix provided another look at Final Fantasy VII Revelation with a new trailer focusing on the Weapons, the massive creatures the planet will unleash in the conclusion of the Final Fantas…

Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

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Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees …

A GIGABYTE RTX 5070 Ti GPU Failed To Work Just 11 days After Purchase, But After Two Return Attempts, The Owner Says That The Company Is Ghosting Him

A GPU purchase during the DRAM shortage hasn’t made it simple for consumers to head out and splurge a premium on pricey graphics cards, but when the hardware fails without even crossing the two-week mark, that’s a feeling equival…

The $60 Onn 4K Pro does all the things I kept my Nvidia Shield around for

I could have ditched my Shield long ago, if this budget Android TV box came out sooner.

Roman Commissioning

Where is Roman? Roman is making its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, or L2. Along the way, Roman is undergoing a process called commissioning, where systems are turned on, adjusted, calibrated, and pr…

Show HN: SlideOps, slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code

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You're wasting your OLED monitor if you're ignoring this Nvidia feature

What's the point of having an OLED monitor if most of your games don't support HDR?

Live Updates From IFA 2026 in Berlin 🔴

Follow along with the Gizmodo crew as we cover all the consumer electronics news announcements coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin.

The Steam 'teraleak' extends far beyond Valve games, including prototypes of third-party titles like Mafia 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3: 'This may be one of if not the biggest leaks t…

Hundreds of Steam file groups were included in the leak relating to game builds, trailers, soundtracks and more.

Samsung Locks 70% of Memory Capacity Into 2031 Deals – Long-Term HBM Deals Run 5x Cheaper Than Spot, as AI Demand Chokes the DRAM Market

The growing demand for high bandwidth memory (HBM) from the AI buildout has led to Samsung having booked 70% of its memory production capacity for long-term agreements (LTAs), according to a new report from the Korean media. Thes…

This free, open-source browser made me ditch Perplexity Comet, Dia, and Opera Neon

The free AI browser I’d actually keep using

The Universe as a Minified Bundle

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Agent Memory as a File Format

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A CVE Dispute

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Your BIOS is probably throttling your SSD, and a single toggle can fix it

PCIe power management can play spoilsport with system responsiveness

Forsvaret tenker data først – det bør flere gjøre

Datasentrisk arkitektur er en viktig del av vår digitale grunnmur og en forutsetning for vellykket digitalisering. Og nå går Forsvaret «all in». Det gir mening.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Fixes Shadows Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Couldn’t Render, as Daniel Vávra Says Characters Finally Look As Intended

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering's reveal earlier this year was met with extreme skepticism, and the general perception of the upcoming technology hasn't changed even with some of its best showings, including the significant improv…

Scientists find why the liver may not heal even after you stop drinking

Alcohol-related liver disease may trap damaged liver cells in a regenerative limbo, preventing the organ from rebuilding itself even after drinking stops. Researchers linked the problem to inflammation-driven RNA errors and ident…

Malleable software = solid bases and custom code

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China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips

CXMT claims to be the first to mass-produce LPDDR6 memory. Yet, for a niche phone.

ChatGPT, Reddit og Roblox ilegges ekstra strenge regler av EU

De har blitt så store i Europa at de nå må følge skjerpede krav for digitalt innhold, meddeler EU-kommisjonen.

ASUS’ And MSI’s Initial RTX Spark Laptop Shipments Have Reportedly Sold Out, With Both Of NVIDIA’s Partners Actively Placing Orders For A Fresh Batch

NVIDIA’s RTX Spark is picking up momentum in the laptop space, and before the chipset’s official release, the GPU manufacturer’s partners are said to be experiencing a popularity surge for this product. According to the latest re…

1666: Amsterdam's developer says it 'won't be using any AI anymore', and the tech was only used 'in conception and pre-production'—arguably the most creative phase of the entire p…

Patrice Désilets says AI has been "totally removed" from the development process.

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.

Google Maps has a list feature almost nobody uses, and it replaced three apps on my last trip

Turns out, Maps was the travel app

Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dongle, then relents af…

Asus refused to replace a loyal customer's wireless headset receiver because accessories are apparently not covered under warranty. The customer was not happy to see his dedication be put into question like this, brining receipts…

OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

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The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer

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Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi

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Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after …

A Taiwanese man sued his wife for having an affair using recordings from a robot vacuum to prove his case. He won, but got sued by the wife for infringing on her personal privacy and was fined the equivalent of 30% of what he ear…

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey speeds roughly 1,000 times faster…

State of the Map 2026: OpenStreetMap conference

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Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most

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[Ekstra] Tek-gigantene kommer med samlet opprop om cyberangrep

118 selskaper har stilt seg bak åpent brev med kraftige advarsler.

ReactOS 0.4.16

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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

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Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

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uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

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Rocky planets may have formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang

Rocky planets may have been able to start forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang, thanks to enormous early supernovae that scattered planet-building elements across space. Simulations found enough solid material and wa…

You, too, can squeeze an offline Wikipedia onto an ESP32 CYD with this project

It actually doesn't take up much data.

This ESP32 alarm clock comes complete with a built-in night light and wake-up light

It also looks the part.

Scientists discover diamonds can generate electricity

Diamond was thought to be incapable of producing electricity through mechanical deformation, but ultrathin flexible diamond membranes have now shown a strong and repeatable piezoelectric effect. The unexpected discovery could ope…

APOD: 2026 August 31 – Launch of the Roman Space Telescope

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 31 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our f…

Steam Week in Review: Here are the top 10 most popular genres on Steam

All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 30.

The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers

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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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PCSX2 v2.8.0 is now out, and it boasts huge performance boosts for your games

Also, no more codec nonsense.

P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

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Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

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Windows 11 finally lets you opt out of OneDrive during setup instead of just reminding you in three days

It's about time.

[Ekstra] IBM saksøker statlig IT-leverandør for millioner

Den statlige IT-leverandøren holder igjen millionbeløp fordi de mener IBMs leveranser ikke holder mål. Nå saksøker den amerikanske IT-giganten dem.

SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film

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The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

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Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking ar…

Understanding ChatGPT Work

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7 operating systems quietly running your house that nobody ever told you about

These are the operating systems you never think of but run the devices you never think of.

How to build a diffusion language model

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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

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OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More

While the average consumer has been literally priced out of the market, courtesy of the rampant memory 'chipflation,' machines that are suitable for AI workloads are selling like hotcakes, as can be gleaned from a new report that…

Muse Glimmer 30B runs on my 32GB GPU, handles its own tool calls, and never leaves the machine

This is a smartly designed local model for getting tasks done

Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc1

Linus has released 7.3-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. "Nothing really stands out - except for the fact that it's big. It's not the biggest rc1 we've ever had, but it's certainly up there, at least in number of …

“I just chose words carefully”

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'Sidequests are almost my reason for doing videogames in the first place:' The dev behind one of the coolest upcoming RPGs says its word count is ballooning because they just love…

You won't see me complaining

I turned a cheap Android TV box into the ultimate self-hosted streaming server

Budget doesn't mean cheap. This box can be turned into a self-hosted media file server.

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

I asked Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity to build the same game, and one absolutely crushed the others

I wanted a game, so I made three

Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mi…

I finally understand why retro games look so much better on CRT TVs, and it's not just nostalgia

Retro games were made to shine on CRT displays, and nothing else compares

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

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The VGA port refuses to die in 2026, and the reason has nothing to do with nostalgia

It has disappeared on consumer systems, but millions of other systems still use it

Shailene Woodley Remembers Almost Being in ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’

Among the casualties the 'Amazing Spider-Man' faced, Woodley's turn as Mary Jane as one of the more underdiscussed.

Microsoft Is Slowly Healing Windows 11, With OneDrive Finally Allowing Users To Fully Opt Out Of The Service, Getting Rid Of The Incessant Reminder

Continuous reminders of using Microsoft’s services were one of many annoyances of being a Windows 11 user, but thankfully, the company has finally had a change of heart. According to the latest report, a new full-screen pop-up of…

A Star Wars Galaxies community server was allegedly hacked with AI assistance by a Reddit moderator harboring a primeval grudge

"We’re obviously bothered by this, but there isn’t much we can do outside of being up front with all of you and staying focused on what makes Legends great."

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

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Most people think GIMP can replace Photoshop, but I found the one that actually does

The best open source Photoshop replacement in 2026 might not be the one you've been told to use

I added one hook to Claude Code, and it stopped making the same mistake twice

Hooks really change the game.

Star Wars Zero Company's permadeath makes it a better RPG than most RPGs, even though it's not really an RPG

Choice and consequence vs. death and consequence.

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets …

The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change

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5 things I did with my old Chromecast instead of leaving it in a drawer

Don't let your old Chromecast collect dust, put it to good use instead.

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wins best PC game at Gamescom

Previews of the grimdark strategy game are turning heads.

Animator Phil Tippett Retired and Sold His Studio This Weekend

After over 40 years of stop-motion and CG work, Phil Tippett's career and Tippett Studio went out on a down note.

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

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Thanks to a dedicated team 'art-directing' every single NPC, GTA 6 has over 10 times as many unique animations as GTA 5

Over 600,000.

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

I turned my mini PC into a Tailscale relay, and remote transfers went from crawling to instant

Peer Relays solved what dynamic DNS couldn't.

Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99

The LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B packs a fast 240 Hz OLED panel and 3440 x 1440 resolution into an immersive 800R curved display, now available for 50% off.

Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream

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I replaced Gmail with an email app that finally makes inbox zero feel realistic

Maybe I'll finally start replying to people...

Should We Have Kept the American Empire?

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Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

4 key Pixel settings I always change when I set up a new phone

Filtering Spam Calls, increasing the display resolution, optimizing the lockscreen, and more.

Elden Ring's Tarnished Edition is exciting enough on its own, but it's also our last chance to properly experience the game's launch day hype

One last hurrah for "fort comma night," "Mist, or Beast," and "offer pickle."

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

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I ditched my reverse proxy nightmare and let Tailscale handle Vaultwarden's HTTPS instead

From a Raspberry Pi Zero struggle to smooth HTTPS certs, a simple Tailscale trick rescued a stubborn Vaultwarden setup.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health stu…

14 years on, the creator of DayZ is still searching for a solution to survival gaming's biggest problem: 'I think I am going to die without having solved it'

"And honestly, I'm okay with that."

Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong: The Wii and PS3 are 'retro' now, according to iconic Japanese gaming show

80% of nearly 17,000 viewers agree: Wii Sports is even more of a grandpa game in 2026 than it was two decades prior.

Google Caves to Trump Again, Renames Lake Ontario

"Lake America" it is.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) be…

Waymo, Zoox Vehicles Still Causing Injuries to Test Drivers: Report

Troubling reports of sprains, back pain, and whiplash.

DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with minimum in-game settings, but newer titles can tank FPS to single digits.

Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

Having avoided death by tax writeoff, 'Coyote vs. Acme' is out for the world to see. Did you like it?

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

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TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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Startup Anti-Patterns

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China’s CXMT Is Getting Ready To Make History As LPDDR6 RAM Mass Production Scheduled To Happen In September; One Hint Reveals Limitations In Total Output

Xiaomi’s XRING 03 was previously reported to be the first smartphone chipset to have support for LPDDR6 RAM thanks to the Chinese firm’s partnership with CXMT. Now, it appears that there’s no stopping the momentum of the memory m…

Gamescom Congress 2026 Sets Attendance Record as German President Makes Historic First Visit

Gamescom Congress 2026 concluded with a new attendance record after welcoming more than 1,100 visitors from the games industry, business, education, politics, science, media, and wider society. Held on August 27 as part of Gamesc…

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over…

GeForce RTX 3080 Drops From 138 FPS to 4 FPS When DLSS 5 Neural Rendering is Enabled; Reports Confirm Similar Performance Drop With RTX 30 Series

The latest DLSS technology reportedly works even on older RTX GPUs, but the performance regression is too large to enable a smooth gameplay. DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Now Works With GeForce RTX 30 Series, But At A Huge Performance …

1.4-million-year-old footprints reveal a surprisingly large human relative

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like body sizes. The tracks offer a rare glimpse of thei…

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Launches on Nintendo Switch 2 Alongside €4.99 Tarnished Pack DLC

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, marking the acclaimed open-world action RPG’s first appearance on a Nintendo platform. The package includes the original game, its substantial Shadow of the Erd…

This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving …

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

It's definitely got plenty of parts to pick from, but does it all come together?

Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23

Description Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex n…

NASA Deep Space Network’s New Goldstone Antenna Goes Online

Description Long shadows are cast by the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026. A 34-meter (114-foot) multifrequency beam-waveguide antenna…

SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk wants to bring their manufacturing in-house at SpaceX.

Panorama Showcasing the 34-Meter Antennas of the DSN’s Goldstone Complex

Description Five antennas soak in the summer sun at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026. The recently completed Deep Space Station 23, a 34-meter (114-foot) beam-waveguide antenna, …

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

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Common supplements rival antibiotics for severe gum disease

Omega-3 and low-dose aspirin matched the effectiveness of antibiotics in a year-long study of patients with severe gum disease, with both approaches helping about 58% reach the treatment goal. The unexpected result could point to…

A Broken Laptop Display And Scarce Budget Didn’t Deter One Modder From Using The Notebook’s Webcam And Making It Functional Through An Ethernet Port Bypass

A laptop that helped its owner get through one Bachelor’s degree and two Master’s degrees, all the while moving countries, had its display broken, and due to the poor finances of the individual, there was no way to afford its rep…

Xbox May Jump Back Into Hollywood Adaptations

It seems Xbox wants Hollywood to do what it does best with its handful of ongoing, well-known IP.

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

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Donkey Kong 64 finally gets a fully native PC port written in C — DK64 ReKONGpiled brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and zero AI code

A team of veteran developers has recompiled Donkey Kong 64 in C, so it runs natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The entire project is free, uses no generative AI, but still includes more features than any vibecoded retro revival…

IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes

IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and finished the task in roughly 15 …

The First Quantum-Resistant Bitcoin Transaction Has Been Mined

StarkWare’s experiment shows Bitcoin users may have an emergency escape hatch for quantum attacks.

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

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HEPA air purifiers may boost brain function after just one month

Adults aged 40 and older performed about 12% faster on a test of executive function after using a HEPA air purifier at home for one month. The findings suggest that cleaner indoor air could offer a simple way to help protect the …

This newly-announced FPS will let you blast through the worlds of Medieval Europe's weirdest artist, and I really hope it includes the 500-year-old butt song from hell

Hieronymus invites you to step into artworks like The Garden of Earthly Delights.

NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ro…

Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Hundreds of previously overlooked seismic events have been detected beneath Antarctica, including 245 near the marine edge of the Thwaites Glacier. Many appear to be glacial earthquakes caused when huge icebergs break off, capsiz…

ASRock Continues Expanding AM4 Lineup By Launching Budget B550M Pro-A WiFi 6E Motherboard

As DDR5 platforms continue to skyrocket in price, vendors are expanding their previous-generation lineups that support DDR4 memory. ASRock Silently Launches B550M Pro-A WiFi motherboard for Older Ryzen CPUs; Features 8 Power Phas…

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free…

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

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Massive 12TB Steam leak reveals decades of unreleased games — archived files include unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 builds and assets

Early builds of Valve games from 2003 to 2013 have been found in a 12TB archive pulled from the company's old servers. These pre-release versions act like time capsules, preserving the state of the game from before it underwent m…

At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

Several developers, publishers, and studios have had their laptops and handheld consoles stolen at Gamescom 2026. However, the organizers said that it's only responsible for general security, and exhibitors can book individual bo…

Roborock Qrevo 2 Pro Review: A Midrange Robovac That Will Eat Your Cables

Roborock’s latest robot vacuum sucks and mops well, but its object avoidance leaves things to be desired.

Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars

Mars has a hidden temperature divide, with its southern interior potentially hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and partially molten. The discovery could help explain several long-standing Martian mysteries, including unus…

Microsoft Admits Windows 11 KB5120998 Update Breaks Mouse Cursors, With Wallpapers Turning Black Until You Uninstall It

The issue appears to be widespread, which has caused even Microsoft to acknowledge the problem with its latest Windows update. The Latest Windows 11 KB5120998 Update is Breaking Mouse Cursors; Microsoft Announces it is Investigat…

Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone

Adata's Urban Tapsafe portable SSD sports magnetic face plates, a metal mounting clip, the ability to unlock the drive with your phone, and share selective access with others via an app.

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

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China’s robots race ahead

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday …

Two new small, powerful Macs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer ho…

DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans

An epic book preservation effort.

14 clever USB-C gadgets I’d actually keep in my tech drawer

I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these…

Automating Immersive Reading

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A new recipe unlocks “impossible” nanocrystals for LEDs, implants, and superconductors

Scientists have cracked a long-standing chemistry problem, creating nanocrystals from tough metal nitrides that were previously extremely difficult to produce at this scale. The breakthrough could turn familiar materials used in …

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

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A massive cache of Valve data has reportedly leaked online, appearing to include Portal 2's elusive beta build and a potential weapon from Half-Life 2: Episode 3

The leak purportedly includes files that date between 2003 and 2013.

Hacking IKEA Furniture

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China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT wants the US Department of Defense to remove it from the list of companies linked to the Chinese military.

Corsair RM1000e (2026) ThermalProtect power supply review: Temperature-sensing 12V-2x6 cable shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt

Corsair's mainstream RMe series returns for 2026 with Platinum-class efficiency, a 500W fanless window, and a temperature-sensing 12V-2x6 cable that shuts the GPU down before a connector can melt.

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard cra…

A user on Reddit shared their story about how the factory-applied liquid metal on their Asus Zephyrus M16 gaming laptop corroded the heatsink and lid of their CPU. It got so bad that the corrosion was about to eat away and seep o…

CD Projekt Red and SEGA Dominate Gamescom 2026 with 3 Awards Each as The Witcher 3 Steals the Show Again

Gamescom 2026 closed out its most decorated edition yet by handing out 19 official awards to the best games shown this year at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. CD Projekt Red and SEGA each walked away with three trophies apiec…

Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling

TecLab, a Brazilian YouTuber, has just shown the most dangerous method of bypassing the 16-pin connector on an RTX 5090 — by soldering wires directly to the card's PCB. In an attempt to save the GPU from melting, they've created …

Seven new frog species were hiding beneath Madagascar’s forest floor

Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-running biological puzzle. The findings reveal surprising hidden diversity…

Loyal ASUS Customer With $30,000 Purchases To His Name Says It’s A Nightmare Getting The Company To Issue A Menial Headset’s 2.4GHz Receiver Replacement

Splurging a ludicrous amount of money on hardware from a single brand and being refused top-tier customer support when you require it the most has got to be the biggest backstabbing experience, at least for one individual. Trying…

Apple kommer med nye Airpods med kamera

Det er ulike meldinger om når de nye AirPods-ene vil komme.

Activision serves cease and desist to infamous Call of Duty cheat maker—and films the whole thing: 'We will find you'

The publisher says it has disrupted 375 reseller operations so far.

US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to supp…

The US military has successfully deployed a laser defense system on the southern border of the country and shot down alleged Mexican cartel drones. These UAVs are suspected of spotting U.S. law enforcement operations and help the…

Building my own network stack

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Ancient Egyptian princesses were buried with weapons. Their bones reveal why

Weapons buried with ancient Egyptian princesses may have been more than ceremonial decorations. Researchers studying royal mummies from Dahshur found bone changes consistent with years of archery and other strenuous weapon use. S…

– Det er greit å bruke KI, så lenge du er ærlig på det

Stadig flere lar språkmodeller skrive for seg. Problemet ikke er teknologien, men at vi skjuler at vi bruker den, mener to forskere ved Universitetet i Agder.

Did Google Glass Wearers Actually Get Punched in the Face?

Our memories seem a bit fuzzy.

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

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Today only: Get GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more for life for $80

TL;DR: 1min.AI puts writing, image, audio, video, and PDF AI tools in one app, and a lifetime Advanced Business Plan is only $79.99 today. Running separate subscriptions for all your different AI models could cost you hundreds ev…

For 2 days, a Microsoft Office lifetime license is just $50

TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest of Office 2024 Pro Plus for life for $49.97 (reg. $249.99) through September 1. Paying monthly for software you’ll use indefinitely doesn’t make sense. That’s why more people are c…

Researchers unveil sustainable spirulina solution to vitamin B12 deficiency

Researchers have produced a form of Spirulina containing biologically active vitamin B12 at levels comparable to beef. By carefully controlling the light used to grow the algae, they overcame a major problem with conventional Spi…

Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers, dies aged 85

The prolific voice actor also appeared in Knight Rider, Gremlins, King Kong, Crystal Crisis, and plenty more.

The next Cascadia megaquake could hit Oregon harder than expected

The Juan de Fuca plate beneath northern Oregon appears to be shallower than previously estimated, potentially making shaking from a future Cascadia megathrust earthquake significantly stronger. Scientists also found a deep basin …

Some signs of quantum gravity may be an illusion

Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity explain almost everything we see in nature, yet physicists still do not know how to unite them. A new theoretical framework suggests that some experiments that appear to show gra…

A cancer therapy put severe rheumatoid arthritis into remission

CAR T-cell therapy dramatically reduced disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis that had resisted other treatments, with three achieving medication-free remission. The treatment may work by clearing out ha…

Bug Blindness

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PSA: Swap the radial ability menu in Star Wars Zero Company for more of a trad XCOM-style experience

It's the Runa-approved way to play.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural Rendering In 10 Modern Games – The Best Unofficial DLSS 5 ON vs OFF Comparisons So Far

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 marks a major shift for the company's AI-powered graphics technologies, using Neural Rendering to enhance lighting, materials, skin, hair, and other visual elements in real time. NVIDIA is positioning it as a “sig…

Sony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic, Alleging Theft of Intellectual Property

It's a bit of a throwback to the IP lawsuits of a few years ago.

A native port of Donkey Kong 64 is finally playable on PC thanks to a team of programmers who boast that 'no generative AI [was] used at any point in the process'

The unofficial native port of the classic Nintendo platformer runs on modern hardware.

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren't thrilled with the …

Elden Ring players are hard at work putting the new Tarnished Edition DLC's gear to the test

Some poor bosses are getting "the Matador treatment".

Netflix Is Letting ‘Manifest’ Take Flight Again With New Spinoff

It hasn't been that long since 'Manifest' wrapped, but now it's returned with new arrivals and a new mystery.

As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens

Consumers evidently don't need "stars" to get them to gorge on AI content.

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legall…

Hy4 preview

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‘Transformers’ Could Always Count on Peter Cullen

No matter the take or the creator, Peter Cullen was never far behind 'Transformers' and helped push it along.

Valve assures Deadlock players hungry for its next big update that it will notify them, 'or order a ton of pizza', when it's ready

Yoshi said to expect the new big update by the end of September.

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for …

All the key details on HoYo's co-op monster slayer Nodusfall

Paimon could never.

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

Creepy Crawlies

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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical …

The Long Dark will get new DLC again as studio shifts devs away from the sequel to survive an 'uncertain' industry: 'We have to adapt to this'

Blackfrost's early access release won't make it this year after all.

DRAM And NAND Flash Combination Of Non-Flagship Smartphones Now Exceed Premium Chipset Costs, New Estimate Says Price Has Increased By 340% Since Last Year

Advanced lithography and next-generation manufacturing processes meant that a smartphone’s chipset would be the costliest component running inside these mobile devices, that’s until the AI boom arrived. According to a tipster’s l…

Modern gamers spoiled by Steam will never understand the joy of a MegaPak

A requiem for the early days of budget PC gaming.

‘Avengers Endgame: Encore’ Has the Biggest Re-Release Trailer Ever

The years have changed, but 'Avengers Endgame: Encore' is still striking a chord with audiences with just one trailer.

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personall…

I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.

Anthropic Pounces As OpenAI Abandons SpaceX’s Cursor, Vowing To Increase Claude Compute Even As OpenAI Cites Contract Distrust

The animosity between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is as convoluted as sordid, replete with a veritable smorgasbord of moves and countermoves that frequently spill out from the personal sphere and into the commercial one. Now, just a…

Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.

Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratori…

The ‘Iron Man’ Game Lives, And Its First Look Leaked

If you've spent years holding out hope for Motive's 'Iron Man' game, you can apparently stay in line a little while longer.

Get a 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G55C curved gaming monitor for $199 — 1440p 165 Hz screen is 39% off at Amazon for a limited time

The Samsung Odyssey G55C is a 32-inch curved gaming monitor with a 1440p QHD resolution and 1ms response time. It's currently on sale at just $199.99, saving you $130 off its $329.99 MSRP.

Startup raises $7 million to build backpack-portable 8.8-ounce drone interceptors — Mara claims 20x cost advantage over other interceptors, priced one-for-one against attack drones

San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massa…

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been posted; the winner is choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI. Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tool…

ICE Wants a Boston Dynamics K9 Unit

Surely they'll deploy them responsibly.

Acer Predator Helios’ Overheating 14900HX CPU Gave Rare Opportunity For Owner To Upgrade To RTX 5070 Ti Version For Free With Faster RAM, But Not Without Caveats

Like its desktop counterpart, Intel’s Core i9-14900HX is no stranger to overheating and throttling, with an Acer Predator Helios gaming laptop owner finding out the hard way when running YouTube videos caused insane temperature s…

I played just an hour of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and it was the highlight of my year

Living the grimdark dream.

Keto diet cut liver fat by 67% in a clinical trial

A ketogenic diet outperformed Mediterranean and low-fat diets in several measures of metabolic health during a clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease. All three groups lost about 10% of…

[Ekstra] Linkedin innførte «anti-KI-knapp» – har blitt en stor suksess

Brukere ser nå i snitt 40 prosent mindre KI-søppel, ifølge selskapet.

Rockstar considered having four protagonists in Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio 'worried about diluting the amount of player time' with each character

"How do we follow up three characters? Is it four characters now?"

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

I've checked gaming PC deals every week for two years and I'm not exaggerating when I say there isn't a single well-priced PC left

Even AMD builds are now depressing to look at.

Dogs may hold surprising clues to human longevity

Dogs and humans may have more in common when it comes to aging than scientists realized. Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs’ blood were linked to longer or shorter lifespans in r…

Scientists turn one of the hardest plastics to recycle into high-performance engine lubricant

Researchers have discovered a way to turn notoriously difficult-to-recycle PVC plastic into a key ingredient used in high-performance lubricants such as engine oil. The technique could give mountains of plastic waste a valuable s…

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

How Groupthink, Altruism, and Peer Pressure Led OpenAI Models to Hack Hugging Face

Allow AI agents to form a large group, and their behavior starts to look eerily human.

11 smart home gadgets that automate chores you still do yourself

Remember when “smart home” meant a single voice assistant that half-heard your requests? Those days are gone. Today, your house can vacuum itself, remotely unlock the door, water the lawn only when it’s needed, and even warn you …

'Well, that didn't go as planned' says EA as it footage of its Iron Man game leaks online

"But now you know, we've got a lot more to show you."