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AI

Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI

Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 11, 20265 min read
AI

Claude Reflect Helps You Use AI More Mindfully

Anthropic's new Reflect dashboard, launched July 9, shows your Claude usage over 1 to 12 months and adds quiet hours and break reminders.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 11, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

ELM11-Feather Makes FPGAs Lua-Simple for $39

The $39 ELM11-Feather puts a Gowin FPGA and a 75 MHz soft-core into a Feather board you program in Lua, with MIT-licensed firmware coming.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Norik Dongle Brings DECT NR+ 5G to a USB Port

Norik Systems' nRF9151 USB dongle brings DECT NR+, the carrier-free 5G mesh standard, to developers with Zephyr samples and no debug probe.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster

KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20264 min read
Gaming

Team Fortress 2 Gets a Joyful Summer 2026 Update

Valve surprised fans on July 8 with a community-made Team Fortress 2 Summer update: 6 new maps, 24 cosmetics, and events running to September 15.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 11, 20264 min read
Gaming

Digimon Story: Time Stranger Lands on Switch 2

Digimon Story: Time Stranger reached Switch and Switch 2 on July 10 with a free update adding Terriermon, a photo mode, and a 60 FPS mode.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 11, 20264 min read
Crypto

USDC Powers a Record $1.79T Stablecoin Month

Stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79 trillion in June 2026, with regulated, fully reserved USDC leading roughly 70% of 2026 flows.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 11, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

SK Hynix IPO Becomes Biggest Foreign US Listing

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion and closed up 13% on July 10, the largest US IPO ever by a foreign company, driven by AI memory demand.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 11, 20265 min read
AI Security

Rustinel Is a Fast Open-Source EDR Built in Rust

Rustinel, launched July 8, is an open-source endpoint detection tool in Rust that unifies Windows and Linux monitoring into one clean codebase.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 11, 20265 min read
AI

ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Turn AI Agents Into Coworkers

OpenAI's July 9 launch pairs GPT-5.6 — split into Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers — with ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish whole jobs across your apps.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 11, 20265 min read
AI

Meta Muse Spark 1.1 Is a Budget Agentic Coding Model

Meta's first paid model, Muse Spark 1.1, launched July 9 at \$1.25 / \$4.25 per million tokens with a 1M-token context and a computer-use mode.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 11, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Open Book Touch Is a Hackable Open-Source E-Reader

The Open Book Touch is a DRM-free ESP32-S3 e-reader with a 4.26-inch touch e-paper screen, open firmware, and a replaceable battery, from \$149.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Rikomagic DS04 Packs a 6 TOPS NPU Into a 4K Player

The Rikomagic DS04 pairs a Rockchip RK3576, a 6 TOPS NPU, and dual 4K HDMI 2.1 in an Android 14 digital signage box for affordable edge AI.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Best Mini PC for Local LLMs in 2026: A Buyer's Guide

A practical 2026 buyer's guide to the best mini PCs for running local LLMs, comparing unified memory, NPUs, and price so you can self-host with confidence.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20269 min read
Gaming

Black Flag Resynced Remakes a Beloved Pirate Classic

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched July 9 with glowing reviews, a rebuilt Anvil engine, ray tracing, and new Blackbeard story content.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 11, 20264 min read
Crypto

Baillie Gifford's BAGEY Bond Fund Expands to Ethereum

Baillie Gifford brought its UK-regulated BAGEY tokenized bond fund to Ethereum, adding a second chain to a BNY-custodied product targeting ~7% yield.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 11, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Fincart's AI Wealth App Makes Goal-Based Investing Easy

Fincart's July 9 app update adds AI-powered, goal-based investing and bundles mutual funds, digital gold, and PMS to widen access for retail investors.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 11, 20264 min read
AI Security

CVE Lite CLI Scans npm Projects Right in Your Terminal

CVE Lite CLI, now an OWASP Incubator project, checks JavaScript lockfiles against the OSV database and suggests one-line fixes for npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 11, 20264 min read
AI

Grok 4.5 Arrives as an Opus-Class Coding Model at Budget Pricing

xAI's Grok 4.5 lands as an Opus-class coding and agentic model — trained alongside Cursor, priced low, and available today across Grok, Cursor, and the console.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 9, 20265 min read
AI

Liquid AI's Antidoom Open-Sources a Fix for Reasoning-Model Doom Loops

Liquid AI open-sourced Antidoom, a training method that stops reasoning models from looping on repeated tokens — cutting doom loops from over 20% to near 1%.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 9, 20265 min read
AI

Exo Labs' local.ai Helps You Run Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

Exo Labs launched local.ai, a free platform that matches the best AI model to your own hardware and shows when running locally beats paying per API token.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 9, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi 5 Becomes an 8-Channel USB Sound Card With Optical Out

A clever open-source project turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into an 8-channel USB sound card with real TOSLINK optical output generated from a single blinking GPIO pin.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 9, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Mekotronics AI Box Puts NVIDIA Jetson Orin Into a Rugged Edge Computer

Mekotronics' new edge-AI box packs an NVIDIA Jetson Orin module and rugged industrial I/O into a compact computer built for robots, smart cities, and agriculture.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 9, 20265 min read