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Cover illustration for Mac mini M6 Speeds Local LLM Prompts by 4.8x for $899
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Mini Computers

Mac mini M6 Speeds Local LLM Prompts by 4.8x for $899

Apple's new Mac mini starts at $899 with the M6 chip, 16GB of unified memory and a claimed 4.8x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio than M4.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 27, 20266 min read
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Mini Computers

HomeMaster MiniPLC Puts ESPHome on a 9-Module DIN Rail

The $324 HomeMaster MiniPLC is an ESP32 DIN-rail controller with 6 relays, RS-485 Modbus and ESPHome preinstalled for local Home Assistant control.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 27, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Banana Pi BPI-AI2N Packs 15 TOPS Into a Vision SoM
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Banana Pi BPI-AI2N Packs 15 TOPS Into a Vision SoM

Banana Pi's $266 BPI-AI2N pairs a Renesas RZ/V2N with a 15 TOPS DRP-AI accelerator, 8GB of LPDDR4X, 32GB eMMC and dual MIPI CSI camera inputs.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 27, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Claude Memory Now Carries Between Chat and Cowork Tasks
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Claude Memory Now Carries Between Chat and Cowork Tasks

Anthropic unified Claude's memory across chat and Cowork, with topic-by-topic editing and sensitive categories excluded by default on Free, Pro and Max.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 27, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Gemini Enterprise for Legal Brings AI Agents to Law Firms
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Gemini Enterprise for Legal Brings AI Agents to Law Firms

Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal with four launch firms, iManage and Thomson Reuters connectors, plus audit logging and ethical walls.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 27, 20265 min read
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Agentic Investing Lets Claude and ChatGPT Place Trades

Scalable Capital opened its European brokerage to ChatGPT, Claude and Grok via an MCP server, with every order requiring the investor's approval first.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 27, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for BankChain Alliance Plans a Bank-Owned Blockchain for 2027
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BankChain Alliance Plans a Bank-Owned Blockchain for 2027

Thirty-nine US state bankers associations formed the BankChain Alliance to build an industry-owned network for tokenized deposits and stablecoins by 2027.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 27, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks Hits Steam This Winter
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RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks Hits Steam This Winter

Atari and Let's Build a Zoo studio Springloaded revealed RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks at Gamescom, launching in Early Access this winter for $24.99.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 27, 20265 min read
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CISA Red Team Advisory Shows What Fast Detection Buys

CISA's new advisory compares two red team assessments where one SOC contained the intrusion in 2 to 20 minutes, and explains what made the difference.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 27, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Intel Diamond Rapids Packs 256 Cores for Agentic AI
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Intel Diamond Rapids Packs 256 Cores for Agentic AI

Intel's Hot Chips 2026 lineup pairs a 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon with Crescent Island, a 350W inference GPU holding up to 480GB of LPDDR5X.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 26, 20266 min read
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Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Targets 30x Tokens Per Watt

Nvidia detailed the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at Hot Chips 2026: 72 GPUs, 2 ZFLOPS of NVFP4 inference and up to 30x more tokens per megawatt.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 26, 20266 min read
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Edge AI Model Zoo Logs 837 Reproducible NPU Tests

EdgeFirst's new model zoo publishes 837 validation sessions for YOLO models across NXP, Hailo, Jetson, Qualcomm and Apple Neural Engine hardware.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module
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Advantech AOM-6741 Packs 100 TOPS Into a SMARC Module

The Advantech AOM-6741 SMARC module runs a 100 TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 with up to 36GB of LPDDR5 and 16 concurrent camera inputs.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Firehat HAT Brings FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi
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Firehat HAT Brings FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi

The $79 Firehat is an open-source FireWire HAT that digitizes MiniDV, Digital8 and HDV tapes straight from a Raspberry Pi 5, with no laptop needed.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Jetway PIC-TWL1 Puts an Intel N150 on Pico-ITX
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Jetway PIC-TWL1 Puts an Intel N150 on Pico-ITX

Jetway's $315 PIC-TWL1 fits an Intel N150, 32GB of DDR5 and dual gigabit Ethernet into a fanless 100 x 72mm Pico-ITX board rated to 60C.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 26, 20264 min read
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WhatsApp Passkeys Go Multi-Device for 1 Billion Users

WhatsApp now supports multiple passkeys per account, upgrades its six-digit PIN to a full password, and adds caller context on Android.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for BNB Chain Pasteur Upgrade Nearly Doubles Throughput
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Crypto

BNB Chain Pasteur Upgrade Nearly Doubles Throughput

BNB Chain's Pasteur hard fork went live August 25, lifting test throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS while tightening bridge and validator security.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Star Wars Zero Company Lands August 27 With XCOM DNA
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Gaming

Star Wars Zero Company Lands August 27 With XCOM DNA

Star Wars Zero Company arrives August 27 from XCOM veterans at Bit Reactor — a single-player turn-based tactics game with no battle pass.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Ingenic Semiconductor IPO Raises $410M in Hong Kong
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Ingenic Semiconductor IPO Raises $410M in Hong Kong

Ingenic Semiconductor listed in Hong Kong on August 25, selling 31.29 million H shares at HK$102.80 to raise up to $410 million under code 3223.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 26, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for IBM Dual-Architecture Chip Runs Arm and Z on One Core
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IBM Dual-Architecture Chip Runs Arm and Z on One Core

IBM's new mainframe processor packs 11 cores above 5.7 GHz on 2nm silicon, and every core runs both z/Architecture and Arm code natively - no emulation.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 24, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for MNT Station Puts 10+ Swappable CPU Modules in a Mini PC
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MNT Station Puts 10+ Swappable CPU Modules in a Mini PC

MNT Research's fanless MNT Station takes 10 or more Arm and FPGA modules, starts at $299 for the case, and ships from Crowd Supply in January 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 24, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Openterface KeyMod Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard
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Openterface KeyMod Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard

The $42 Openterface KeyMod turns a phone into a USB keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or SSH terminal for any PC, server, or Raspberry Pi board, even at the BIOS.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 24, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Nordic nRF93M1 Dev Kit Brings LTE Cat 1 bis for $60
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Nordic nRF93M1 Dev Kit Brings LTE Cat 1 bis for $60

Nordic's nRF93M1 development kit pairs a 10 Mbps LTE Cat 1 bis modem with an nRF54L15 host MCU, and prices start at $60 with a trial SIM card.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 24, 20264 min read
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DeepMind Puts SIMA 2 AI Agents to Work in EVE Online

Google DeepMind and Fenris Creations will test SIMA 2 agents in offline EVE Online copies, extending 15 years of AI games research to a live universe.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 24, 20265 min read