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Sipeed T256s Brings AI Super-Resolution Thermal Imaging to the Maker Workbench
The Sipeed T256s is a pocket USB thermal camera with a 256x192 LWIR sensor and built-in AI super-resolution scaling to 640x480 — professional-grade thermal imaging at a hobbyist price point.
Google Gemma 4 Comes to Android: On-Device AI in 140+ Languages, No Cloud Required
Google's AICore Developer Preview brings Gemma 4 natively to Android devices — offline, privacy-preserving AI inference in over 140 languages that upgrades automatically to Gemini Nano 4.
LG Releases EXAONE 4.5: Open-Source Vision-Language AI That Outscores GPT-5-mini
LG AI Research's EXAONE 4.5 is a 33B multimodal VLM with Hybrid Attention architecture that outscores GPT-5-mini and Claude 4.5 Sonnet on STEM benchmarks — and it's fully open-source.
Project Glasswing: How Anthropic's AI Uncovered Decade-Old Vulnerabilities Across Every Major Platform
Anthropic's Project Glasswing used Claude AI to discover thousands of critical vulnerabilities — including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw and 16-year-old FFmpeg bug — across major OS and browser codebases.
Biconomy and Ethereum Foundation Propose ERC-8211: The Execution Standard for AI Agents in DeFi
ERC-8211 is a new Ethereum smart batching standard enabling AI agents to execute complex multi-step DeFi transactions atomically — co-published by Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation with a live reference implementation.
Pokemon Champions Is Live on Nintendo Switch — Free-to-Start Competitive Battles Begin
Pokemon Champions launched April 8 on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 as a free-to-start competitive battle game featuring Mega Evolutions, ranked play, and cross-platform online matches.
CME Group Launches Sui Futures on May 4 — Institutional Derivatives Arrive for Layer 1 Crypto
CME Group will launch cash-settled Sui (SUI) futures on May 4, 2026, in standard and micro sizes — a significant institutional validation as Sui's DeFi TVL climbs to $585M.
Tufts Researchers Build AI That Uses 1% of the Energy and Outperforms Neural Nets
A Tufts University neuro-symbolic AI achieved 95% accuracy on complex reasoning tasks while consuming just 1% of the energy of conventional deep learning systems.
Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65
Radxa's updated Taco V1.61 carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 packs five SATA ports, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and RAID support into a 114×85mm footprint.
Velxio Lets You Simulate Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32 Boards in Your Browser
Velxio is a self-hostable, open-source board emulator supporting 19 real boards across five CPU architectures — no hardware required, runs fully in-browser via Docker.
Tomodachi Life Returns After 12 Years — Living the Dream Launches April 16
Nintendo's beloved Tomodachi Life series wakes from a 12-year slumber on April 16, bringing your Mii community to Nintendo Switch with full Switch 2 compatibility.
Google Quantum AI Paper Spotlights Algorand as a Model for Post-Quantum Blockchain
A Google Quantum AI research paper cited Algorand's FALCON signature scheme as a quantum-resistance benchmark, validating one of the first live post-quantum blockchain deployments.
Franklin Templeton Launches Franklin Crypto With Veteran Wall Street and Web3 Leadership
Franklin Templeton launched Franklin Crypto on April 1, a dedicated institutional crypto investment management platform co-led by Chris Perkins, Seth Ginns, and Tony Pecore.
Exabeam Now Monitors AI Agents Like It Monitors Human Users — With Behavioral Baselines
Exabeam's April 2026 New-Scale update introduces Agent Behavior Analytics, treating ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot integrations as first-class security identities requiring behavioral monitoring.
NVIDIA's AI-Q Blueprint Brings Enterprise Agentic AI to Adobe, Salesforce, and SAP
NVIDIA's AI-Q Blueprint gives enterprises an open framework for building AI agents that perceive, reason, and act — slashing query costs by 50% with a hybrid routing architecture.
PrismML's Bonsai Is a 1-Bit LLM That Runs on a Smartphone and Matches Full-Size Models
Caltech startup PrismML emerged from stealth with Bonsai, a 1-bit LLM family that's 14x smaller, 8x faster, and 5x more energy-efficient than standard 8B models — and runs on an iPhone.
Milk-V Jupiter 2 Is the World's First RVA23-Compliant RISC-V SBC With 60 TOPS AI Acceleration
Milk-V's Jupiter 2 opens pre-orders with RVA23 compliance, a SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V CPU, 60 TOPS on-chip AI acceleration, 10GbE, and up to 32GB LPDDR5 from $199.
MSI's MS-CF19 Is a Fanless 3.5-Inch Industrial SBC With Intel Core Ultra and 96GB DDR5
MSI's new MS-CF19 industrial single-board computer packs Intel Core Ultra 100U/200U chips, up to 96GB DDR5 via dual SODIMM, and a fully fanless design into a compact 3.5-inch form factor.
Replaced Arrives April 14 on Xbox and PC — The Cyberpunk Platformer That Defied a Four-Year Wait
Sad Cat Studios' stunning cyberpunk 2.5D action-platformer Replaced finally launches April 14 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, with day-one availability on Xbox Game Pass.
Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Launches April 28 With Two New Classes and the Skovos Region
Blizzard's second Diablo IV expansion arrives April 28 with the Paladin and Warlock classes, the new Skovos region, sweeping Skill Tree reworks, and the War Plans endgame system.
Microsoft Releases Zero Trust for AI: A Security Framework Built for the Age of AI Deployment
Microsoft's new Zero Trust for AI initiative delivers reference architectures, assessment tools, and governance workshops specifically designed to secure AI systems in enterprise environments.
Alabama Gives DAOs Full Legal Status — Making It the Second U.S. State After Wyoming
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, granting DAOs formal legal entity status with property rights, contract authority, and member liability protection effective October 2026.
9fin Raises $170M at $1.3B Valuation to Scale Its AI Platform for Debt Markets
London-based fintech 9fin closed a $170M Series C at a $1.3B valuation, bringing AI-powered debt market intelligence to over 300 banks, asset managers, and law firms.
Meta Launches Llama 4 Scout and Maverick: Multimodal MoE AI Goes Open-Weight
Meta's Llama 4 Scout and Maverick bring multimodal mixture-of-experts AI to the open-source community, with an unprecedented 10 million token context window.
Hades 2 Arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on April 14 — Day One on Game Pass
Hades 2 makes its PlayStation and Xbox debut on April 14 with the complete patched PC experience included — and it's day-one on Xbox Game Pass at no extra cost.
Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5
Sanctuary Systems launched the Sentinel Core on Crowd Supply — a $129 open-hardware mini-ITX carrier board that gives the CM5 a full-size PCIe x16 expansion slot.
Polygon's Giugliano Hardfork Activates Today, Cutting 2 Seconds From Finality
Polygon mainnet activated the Giugliano hardfork at block 85,268,500 on April 8, delivering a 2-second finality improvement as part of the Gigagas scalability roadmap.
The 1H 2026 AI Security Report: The Era of Agentic Security Has Arrived
The 1H 2026 AI and API Security Report finds enterprises racing to secure AI agents as agentic architectures reshape the enterprise attack surface.
JPMorgan's LLM Suite Has Scaled to 450 Agentic AI Workflows Across the Bank
JPMorgan Chase's proprietary LLM Suite now powers over 450 agentic AI workflows — including generating full investment banking pitch decks in under 30 seconds.
Pragmata Is Finally Here: Capcom's 6-Year Sci-Fi Adventure Launches April 17
Capcom's long-awaited sci-fi action-adventure Pragmata launches April 17 on PS5, Xbox Series, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2 — a week ahead of its original April 24 date.
Microsoft Launches MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 on April 2 — three new in-house foundation models now available in Microsoft Foundry.
Orange Pi AI Station Brings 176 TOPS and 96GB RAM to the DIY AI Workbench
Orange Pi's new AI Station packs a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 176 TOPS of AI performance and up to 96GB LPDDR4X RAM into a maker-friendly mini PC.
Starfield Arrives on PS5 April 7 With Free Lanes and DualSense Support
Starfield lands on PS5 on April 7 alongside the Free Lanes update and Terran Armada DLC, with full DualSense adaptive trigger and PS5 Pro support.
ISC2 Weaves AI Security Into All Its Cybersecurity Certifications
ISC2 published AI security exam guidance on April 2, mapping AI concepts across 50+ domains in its entire certification portfolio for 265,000 members.
Robinhood's Prediction Markets Hit 11 Billion Contracts — CFTC Exchange Next
Robinhood's prediction markets hit 11 billion contracts and 1 million customers, making it the platform's fastest-growing product since launch.
Australia Passes Its First Crypto Law — Exchanges Must Get Licensed Now
Australia's Corporations Amendment (Digital Assets Framework) Bill passed on April 1, creating the country's first comprehensive crypto licensing law.
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus Delivers 1M-Token Context and Repository-Level Agentic Coding
Qwen3.6-Plus arrives with a default 1 million-token context window and breakthrough agentic coding performance, enabling AI that can navigate and rewrite entire software repositories autonomously.
Google Gemma 4 Launches With Four Sizes, Apache 2.0 License, and a Top-3 Open Model Ranking
Google's Gemma 4 arrives with model sizes from 2B to 31B, a permissive Apache 2.0 license, native multimodal support across all sizes, and the #3 spot on the global open model leaderboard.
Asus NUC 16 Pro Goes on Sale — the First Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Available to Buy
The Asus NUC 16 Pro hits shelves with Intel's new Panther Lake Core Ultra processors, starting at $999 — a powerful compact desktop with an Intel Arc B390 GPU in the high-end config.
NYSE Parent ICE Completes $600M More in Polymarket, Pushing Its Total Stake to $1.64 Billion
Intercontinental Exchange has finalized a fresh $600 million investment in Polymarket, bringing its total equity stake to $1.64 billion as prediction markets become a serious financial data asset class.
Naoris Protocol Goes Live With the World's First Post-Quantum Layer 1 Blockchain
Naoris Protocol has launched its quantum-resistant blockchain mainnet using NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography, addressing the quantum computing threat to crypto infrastructure head-on.
Pokémon Champions Launches April 8 — Free-to-Start Competitive Battle Platform With Cross-Platform Play
Pokémon Champions arrives April 8 as a free-to-start dedicated competitive battle platform for Switch, Switch 2, and mobile, with full cross-platform play and the official VGC circuit moving in.
CSA's 2026 AI Cybersecurity Survey: 92% of Security Leaders Are Concerned About AI Agents
The Cloud Security Alliance surveyed 1,500+ security leaders for its 2026 report, finding near-universal concern about AI agent security alongside meaningful year-over-year progress in AI-powered defenses.
OpenClaw Becomes GitHub's Most-Starred Project as the Open-Source AI Agent Wave Crests
The open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has surpassed 250,000 GitHub stars, overtaking React — marking a pivotal shift in how developers worldwide build and ship autonomous AI agents.
LILYGO T-Display-P4 Packs GPS, LoRaWAN, and Ethernet Into a Smartphone-Style ESP32 Dev Board
LILYGO's new T-Display-P4 combines the ESP32-P4 RISC-V chip with GPS, LoRa radio, Wi-Fi 6, Ethernet, and a crisp 4-inch touch display in a hacker-friendly handheld launching today.
Super Meat Boy 3D Launches Today Across All Platforms — Day One on Xbox Game Pass
Team Meat's beloved precision platformer leaps into 3D today on March 31, launching day-one on Xbox Game Pass alongside PS5, PC, and Switch 2 to strong early reviews.
Ripple Deploys AI Red Team to Harden the XRP Ledger Ahead of Institutional Scale
Ripple's new AI-driven security strategy uses autonomous fuzzing and adversarial testing on the XRP Ledger, uncovering over 10 bugs in the decade-old codebase as institutional volumes ramp up.
AccuQuant Launches Next-Gen AI Quantitative Trading Platform for Global Investors
UK-based AccuQuant launched its AI-powered quantitative trading system today, bringing institutional-style automated strategy execution to retail and institutional crypto investors worldwide.
CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Pick 35 AI Security Startups for Their 2026 Accelerator
Three of tech's heavyweights selected 35 AI-native security startups from hundreds of global applications for their prestigious 8-week cybersecurity accelerator announced March 24.
Shopify Agentic Storefronts Put Millions of Merchants Inside ChatGPT
Shopify's Agentic Storefronts went live March 24 for all US merchants — making every eligible Shopify store shoppable inside ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot by default.
Sipeed's llmdev.guide Benchmarks Every Mini PC for Local AI Performance
Sipeed launched an interactive hardware comparison tool on March 30 that visualizes tokens-per-second benchmarks across dozens of mini PCs, SBCs, and GPUs for local LLM deployment.
Google's TurboQuant Compresses AI Memory 6x With Zero Accuracy Loss
Google Research's TurboQuant cuts LLM KV cache memory to 3 bits without accuracy loss, delivering up to 8x inference speedups on NVIDIA H100 GPUs — with no retraining required.
Cybersecurity Spending Tops $244 Billion in 2026 as AI Reshapes Defense
Gartner projects global information security spending will hit $244 billion in 2026, driven by AI-powered threats, cloud security at 28.8% growth, and post-quantum cryptography preparation.
Midas Raises $50M to Bring Instant Liquidity to Tokenized Real-World Assets
Midas closed a $50M Series A on March 30 to scale its instant redemption system for tokenized yield products, backed by RRE Ventures, Creandum, Franklin Templeton, and Coinbase Ventures.
Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Launches Tomorrow With Original Voice Cast
Crystal Dynamics' Legacy of Kain: Ascendance arrives March 31 as a fast-paced 2D prequel to Soul Reaver, featuring Michael Bell, Simon Templeman, and an original score by Celldweller.
Mistral Voxtral TTS Is an Open-Weight Voice AI That Rivals ElevenLabs
Mistral AI's new 4B open-weight TTS model supports zero-shot voice cloning in 9 languages with 70ms latency — and the weights are free to download.
Google Opens Gemini 3 Deep Think to API Developers and Ultra Subscribers
Google's frontier reasoning model Gemini 3 Deep Think is now live for Ultra subscribers and API developers, built for scientific research, math, and complex engineering.
NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin GPU Architecture and Open AI Agent Platform at GTC 2026
NVIDIA's GTC 2026 brings the Vera Rubin GPU with 3-4x Blackwell AI compute density, the Nemotron 3 Super 120B coding model, and an open-source platform for safe autonomous AI agents.
M5Stack Stamp-P4 Is a $12.95 RISC-V AI Board Smaller Than a Postage Stamp
M5Stack's Stamp-P4 squeezes an ESP32-P4 RISC-V processor, 32MB PSRAM, MIPI camera and display interfaces, and 44 GPIOs into a 30x22mm board for just $12.95.
Xbox Partner Preview March 2026: Hades II Confirmed and 18 More Games
Xbox's March 26 Partner Preview confirmed Hades II for Xbox, revealed Stranger Than Heaven, Super Meat Boy 3D arriving March 31, and 16 more games in just 30 minutes.
BitGo and ZKsync Build Tokenized Bank Deposit Rails for Institutional Finance
BitGo and ZKsync partner to bring tokenized fiat deposits to blockchain via Prividium — no stablecoins needed — opening compliant institutional access to $450T in assets.
Zenity Launches Guardian Agents at RSA 2026 for Real-Time AI Agent Security
Zenity's Guardian Agents platform brings continuous, real-time security to enterprise AI agents — detecting multi-step prompt injection and tool misuse across full interaction chains.
CFTC Launches Innovation Task Force for Crypto, AI, and Derivatives Markets
The CFTC's new Innovation Task Force will build regulatory clarity for crypto derivatives, AI autonomous trading systems, and prediction markets in US financial markets.
ElevenLabs and IBM Give Enterprise AI Agents a Human Voice
ElevenLabs integrates with IBM's watsonx Orchestrate, giving enterprise AI agents natural voice for richer, human-feeling agentic workflows at scale.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Arrives With Real-Time Voice and ChatGPT Memory Import
Google's March Gemini Drop delivers real-time voice AI, ChatGPT history migration, and free Personal Intelligence — a major leap for Gemini's consumer platform.
Luckfox Lume Is a $21 Industrial SBC With Dual Gigabit Ethernet and RISC-V
The Luckfox Lume combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, a 40-pin GPIO header, and hybrid Arm/RISC-V silicon into a compact industrial SBC for just $20.99.
picoZ80 Gives Vintage Z80 Machines a Raspberry Pi RP2350B Brain
The picoZ80 is a cycle-accurate, DIP-40 Z80 replacement built on Raspberry Pi RP2350B — giving classic vintage computers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and modern compute for free.
Ripple's RLUSD Enters Singapore's Central Bank Sandbox for Cross-Border Trade Finance
Ripple has joined Singapore's MAS BLOOM sandbox with RLUSD on XRP Ledger, targeting automated cross-border trade payment settlements alongside JP Morgan and DBS.
Google Cloud Launches an AI-Powered Agentic SOC With Mandiant Threat Intelligence
At RSAC 2026, Google Cloud unveiled an Agentic SOC where autonomous AI agents detect and respond to threats at machine speed, powered by Mandiant's frontline intelligence.
ECB Opens Eurosystem Collateral to Tokenized DLT Assets Starting March 30
The ECB accepts DLT-issued tokenized assets as Eurosystem collateral from March 30, marking Europe's biggest step toward institutional-grade tokenization.
Apple's iOS 27 Opens Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT
Apple's iOS 27 will let Siri hand off to third-party AI assistants, positioning iPhone as an open AI platform in its biggest intelligence overhaul yet.
Oracle AI Database 26ai Embeds Persistent Agent Memory Into the Database Engine
Oracle's AI Database 26ai embeds persistent agent memory inside the database engine, unlocking a new class of data-centric AI agents for enterprise deployments.
ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE Brings Raspberry Pi's 40-Pin GPIO to a 400 MHz RISC-V Board
The ESP32-P4-Pi-VIEWE combines a 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V microcontroller and Wi-Fi 6 with a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO header for next-generation maker projects.
Otonomii AI Acquires AI Signals to Bring Autonomous Market Intelligence to Retail Traders
Otonomii AI's acquisition of the AI Signals platform extends its cognitive trading architecture to retail traders and brokerages, adding equities and futures to its AI market intelligence stack.
Crimson Desert Surges Past 3 Million Copies Sold in Just Five Days
Pearl Abyss's Crimson Desert crossed 3 million copies sold just five days after its March 19 launch, marking one of the biggest action RPG debuts in recent memory.
Visa Becomes Canton Network's First Global Payments Super Validator
Visa becomes the first global payments giant on the Canton Network as Super Validator, unlocking stablecoin settlement infrastructure for regulated financial institutions.
PwC's 2026 Threat Report: AI-Powered Identity Defense Is Outpacing the Attackers
PwC's Annual Threat Dynamics 2026 shows how security teams are deploying AI-powered identity defenses to counter automated attack tooling — and the defensive tools are keeping pace.
Microsoft Brings Zero Trust to AI Agents With Agent 365 and New Framework
Microsoft unveils Zero Trust for AI and Agent 365 at RSAC 2026, giving enterprises unified visibility, shadow AI detection, and governance over AI agents at scale.
STS Digital and Kraken Launch Structured Crypto Products for Institutions
STS Digital's new platform offers tailored crypto derivatives on 400 tokens, with Kraken as distribution partner powering Dual Investment products for BTC and ETH holders.
Cursor Composer 2: Frontier AI Coding at 86% Lower Cost
Cursor launches Composer 2, a code-only AI agent with a 200K token context window, 73.7 SWE-bench score, and 86% lower cost than its predecessor.
Thermo Fisher Closes $8.9B Clario Deal to Accelerate AI Drug Trials
Thermo Fisher Scientific completes its $8.875B acquisition of Clario, adding AI-powered clinical trial data tools that have supported 70% of FDA novel drug approvals in a decade.
Life Is Strange: Reunion Arrives Tomorrow — Max, Chloe, and a New Power
Square Enix and Deck Nine's Life Is Strange: Reunion launches March 26 for $39.99, reuniting Max and Chloe with dual playable characters and enhanced time manipulation mechanics.
Xbox March Update Reveals Project Helix Details and Xbox Mode for Windows
Microsoft's March 2026 Xbox update details Project Helix's custom AMD SoC with FSR Diamond, announces Xbox Mode rolling out to Windows 11 in April, and expands Play Anywhere to 1,500 titles.
Alibaba's XuanTie C950 Sets a RISC-V World Record and Runs AI Agents Natively
Alibaba DAMO Academy's XuanTie C950 5nm RISC-V processor hits 3.2GHz and sets a new benchmark record, becoming the first RISC-V chip to natively support 100B-parameter AI models.
Mistral Forge Lets Enterprises Train Custom AI Models on Their Own Data
Mistral's new Forge platform gives enterprises end-to-end custom model training using open-weight models including the new 119B Mistral Small 4, backed by NVIDIA at GTC 2026.
OpenAI Closes $120B Round at $850B Valuation — History's Largest Private Raise
OpenAI's total fundraise reaches $120 billion after CFO Sarah Friar confirmed an extra $10B injection, lifting the AI lab's valuation to approximately $850 billion.
Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Is a $299 Open-Source AI Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4
Hugging Face's Reachy Mini desktop robot brings open-source AI interaction to makers for $299–$449, with the wireless version running on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
Google DeepMind Partners With Agile Robots to Bring Gemini AI to Commercial Humanoids
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics foundation models are coming to Agile Robots' commercial humanoid hardware in a March 2026 partnership expanding physical AI deployment.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch 2 Edition Launches With New Bellabel Park Content
The beloved 2D Mario adventure arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 on March 26 with enhanced performance and brand-new Bellabel Park multiplayer content exclusive to the upgrade.
Standard Chartered Calls 2026 the Year of Ethereum as Glamsterdam Targets 10K TPS
Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick has declared 2026 the year of Ethereum, backed by the Glamsterdam upgrade targeting 78.6% gas fee cuts and 10,000 transactions per second.
Agentic AI Defense Dominates the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards at RSA
The 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards at RSA crowned AI security as its most competitive category, recognizing purpose-built tools for governing and protecting autonomous AI agents.
Clintech Pico Unlocks All 48 GPIOs on Raspberry Pi's RP2354B for Just $20
Clintech's $20 Pico-compatible board is the first to use the RP2354B chip variant, exposing all 48 GPIO pins alongside dual ARM and RISC-V cores for embedded developers.
CrowdStrike Expands Falcon Platform to Secure Autonomous AI Agents
CrowdStrike announces Falcon expansion at RSAC 2026 with AI Runtime Protection, Shadow AI Discovery, and data security for GenAI tools across enterprises.
Arm Holdings Unveils First In-House AGI CPU, Targets $15B Revenue
After 35 years of pure IP licensing, Arm unveils its first self-designed 136-core AGI CPU on TSMC 3nm for AI inference, with Meta as launch customer.
Figma Opens Design Canvas to AI Agents via MCP Integration
Figma launches MCP server expansion enabling AI coding agents to generate and modify design assets directly on live canvases with a new skills system.
MoonPay Launches Open Wallet Standard for AI Agents
MoonPay releases the Open Wallet Standard, an open-source framework for AI agents to securely hold value and sign transactions across 8 blockchain families.
Xbox Partner Preview March 26: Stranger Than Heaven, STALKER 2 DLC, and More
Microsoft announces Xbox Partner Preview airing March 26 with RGG Studio's new IP Stranger Than Heaven, STALKER 2 story DLC, and The Expanse game.
Espressif Announces ESP32-S31: Its Most Powerful Wireless MCU Yet
Espressif unveils the ESP32-S31, a dual-core RISC-V MCU with Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, BT, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, USB 2.0 High Speed, and MIPI-CSI camera.
VR Games Showcase Reveals Payday: Aces High and Dozens of New VR Titles
The Spring 2026 VR Games Showcase unveils Payday: Aces High, a 4-player co-op VR heist game, plus Compass, The Boys: Trigger Warning, and more VR titles.
Xiaomi Pledges $8.7B AI Investment, Launches MiMo-V2-Pro Rivaling Frontier Models
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun commits 60B yuan to AI over three years and unveils MiMo-V2-Pro, a 1T parameter reasoning LLM approaching frontier benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
Revolut Posts Record $2.3B Profit as Crypto Wealth Revenue Hits $876M
Revolut reports record 2025 results with profit up 57% to $2.3B, crypto-inclusive wealth revenue reaching $876M, and 68.3 million customers worldwide.
RetroAchievements Launches Wii Support With 180+ Achievement Sets
RetroAchievements rolls out its biggest platform launch ever with Wii support, 180+ achievement sets, Dolphin integration, and a four-month community event.
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PCs With 128GB RAM Flood the Market
At least nine Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs with 128GB unified memory are now shipping, bringing desktop AI workstation power to compact form factors from $2,399.
Microsoft-Backed Startup Lace Raises $40M for Atomic-Scale Chip Lithography
Norwegian startup Lace closes a $40M Series A to develop helium atom beam lithography capable of etching chip features 10x smaller than current EUV technology.
Cisco Releases DefenseClaw: Open-Source Framework for Securing AI Agents
Cisco unveils DefenseClaw at RSAC 2026, an open-source framework that scans AI agents for vulnerabilities across MCP tools and can quarantine threats in 2 seconds.
Game Boy Advance Turns 25: Gaming Community Celebrates a Portable Legend
The GBA hits its 25th anniversary, celebrated as a portable SNES with a thriving modding community keeping its legacy alive through backlit screens and USB-C mods.
Coinbase Launches 24/7 Stock Perpetual Futures Covering All Magnificent 7 Stocks
Coinbase goes live with stock perpetual futures on its international exchange, offering round-the-clock trading of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and more with up to 20x leverage.
Anthropic Launches Claude Code Channels for Telegram and Discord
Developers can now control a local Claude Code session from Telegram or Discord, sending messages that flow through chat apps to a local instance with full filesystem access.
SteamOS 3.8 Launches with First Official Steam Machine Support and Handheld Expansion
Valve releases SteamOS 3.8 with Steam Machine support, Deck LCD hibernation, HDR/VRR on external monitors, and compatibility with Legion Go 2 and ROG Ally.
Sysdig Catches Langflow AI Platform Exploitation Within 20 Hours of Disclosure
Attackers reverse-engineered exploits for CVE-2026-33017 in Langflow within 20 hours of the advisory, with no public PoC available. Sysdig tracked 6 IPs across 48 hours.
Arctic Senza AI 370: A Completely Fanless Mini PC That Mounts Under Your Desk
Arctic releases the Senza AI 370, a fanless mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB LPDDR5X, Radeon 890M, and a radiator-style chassis that claims 50C under gaming load.
Grayscale Files S-1 for Hyperliquid ETF on Nasdaq as HYPE ETF Race Heats Up
Grayscale files an S-1 for a Hyperliquid ETF (ticker GHYP) on Nasdaq, joining VanEck, 21Shares, and Bitwise in a four-way race for HYPE exchange-traded fund approval.
The Witcher 4 Hits Nearly 500 Developers as CD Projekt Red Ramps Up Production
CD Projekt Red reveals 499 developers now work on The Witcher 4 after adding 220+ hires in the past year, with the studio approaching 1,000 employees total.
Uber Invests $1.25 Billion in Rivian to Deploy 50,000 Robotaxis Across Three Continents
Uber commits up to $1.25B in Rivian to build a fleet of 50,000 autonomous R2 electric SUVs launching in San Francisco and Miami by 2028, expanding to 25 cities by 2031.
MIT Researchers Develop a New Metric That Catches Overconfident AI Models Before They Hallucinate
A new uncertainty measurement technique from MIT combines self-consistency checks with cross-model disagreement to flag when LLMs generate confident but incorrect responses.
Minecraft Live 2026 Unveils Dungeons 2, a Real-World Theme Park, and Two Major Updates
Mojang's March 21 showcase announces Minecraft Dungeons 2 for fall 2026, a Minecraft World theme park at Chessington in 2027, plus the Tiny Takeover and Chaos Cubed updates.
An AI Agent Just Found Its First Critical CVE — XBOW Autonomously Discovers a 9.8-Severity Microsoft Vulnerability
XBOW, a fully autonomous AI penetration testing agent, independently discovered CVE-2026-21536, a critical RCE flaw in a Microsoft service — marking a milestone for AI-powered defense.
Radxa AICore DX-M1M Delivers 25 TOPS of Edge AI in an M.2 Module That Sips Just 3 Watts
Radxa and DEEPX release a tiny M.2 2242 AI accelerator with 25 TOPS INT8 performance at 3W, compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and x86 hosts, starting at $85.
Bitcoin Takes Its First Step Toward Quantum Resistance as BIP-360 Goes Live on Testnet
BTQ Technologies deploys the first working BIP-360 implementation with quantum-resistant Dilithium signatures, attracting 50+ miners and 100+ cryptographers ahead of a federal deadline.
International Coalition Dismantles Four Record-Breaking IoT Botnets That Hijacked 3 Million Devices
The DOJ, Canadian, and German authorities take down Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets that powered 30+ Tbps DDoS attacks targeting hundreds of thousands of victims.
Microsoft Reshuffles Copilot AI Division — Suleyman Pivots to Model Building
Mustafa Suleyman shifts focus to next-gen AI model development as ex-Snap exec Jacob Andreou unifies consumer and enterprise Copilot under one roof.
Micron Posts Record $23.9B Revenue as AI Memory Demand Nearly Triples the Business
Micron's Q2 FY2026 revenue surges 196% year-over-year to $23.9B with 75% gross margins, driven by insatiable AI data center demand for HBM and server DRAM.
Xbox Game Pass March Wave 2 Delivers 11 Games Including Disco Elysium and RE7
Microsoft's second March wave adds South of Midnight, Disco Elysium, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Resident Evil 7 to Game Pass through early April.
FTX Recovery Trust Prepares $2.2B Fourth Payout — Multiple Creditor Classes Hit 100%
The defunct exchange's March 31 distribution brings US customer and general unsecured claims to full recovery, with convenience class holders receiving 120% cumulative payouts.
DRAM Surge Pushes Raspberry Pi and Mini PC Prices to Parity — Used Hardware Becomes 2026's Best Homelab Strategy
A 171% DRAM price spike erases the Pi's cost advantage over Intel N100 mini PCs, with Jeff Geerling and homelab experts recommending used corporate hardware as the smart play.
Perseus Android Malware Evolves From Cerberus to Steal Financial Data From Notes Apps
Security researchers discover Perseus, a Cerberus descendant that monitors note-taking apps for passwords and financial details, distributed through fake IPTV streaming apps.
Steam Spring Sale 2026 Kicks Off Today With Up to 95% Off Thousands of Games
Valve's week-long Spring Sale runs March 19-26 with deep discounts on Manor Lords, Phasmophobia, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and thousands more.
The Fed Holds Rates at 3.5% and Projects Just One Cut in 2026 — Powell Says Inflation Isn't Falling as Fast as Hoped
The FOMC keeps rates unchanged at 3.5-3.75% with a lone dissent favoring a cut, while Powell's cautious inflation remarks send markets lower by 0.7% across the board.
Crimson Desert Reviews Drop Ahead of Tomorrow's Launch — Pearl Abyss's $70 Open-World RPG Is the Biggest Release of Q1 2026
With worldwide release times confirmed for March 19 and PC review coverage now live, Crimson Desert positions itself as the most anticipated action RPG since Elden Ring's DLC.
Surgical Robots and Disney's Olaf Take the Stage at GTC 2026 — NVIDIA's Physical AI Push Goes From Factory to Operating Room
Johnson & Johnson MedTech, CMR Surgical, and Moon Surgical adopt NVIDIA's healthcare physical AI platform, while Disney's free-roaming Olaf robot steals the keynote spotlight.
GlassWorm Returns With a Second Wave — The Supply Chain Attack Expands From GitHub to npm Packages and VSCode Extensions
The invisible Unicode malware campaign that hit 151 Python repos has evolved, with security researchers detecting coordinated injections across npm, GitHub, and VSCode/OpenVSX extension marketplaces.
NVIDIA Open-Sources Cosmos World Models and Isaac GR00T N1 — Giving Robotics Developers a Free Physics Engine for AI
The Cosmos world foundation models and GR00T N1 humanoid robot model are now available on GitHub, enabling simulation-to-reality robotics development on Jetson edge hardware.
Bitcoin Slips Below $82K as Crypto Markets React to the Fed Hold — Powell's Inflation Caution Triggers a Risk-Asset Pullback
Bitcoin drops 2.8% and altcoins fall harder after the Fed projects only one rate cut in 2026, with traders recalibrating expectations for monetary easing that fueled Q1 crypto gains.
NVIDIA Previews DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 — Full Neural Rendering That Generates Entire Frames From Scratch
NVIDIA's next-gen upscaling technology moves beyond enhancement into full neural frame generation, promising a paradigm shift for real-time path-traced gaming on RTX hardware.
NVIDIA IGX Thor Hits General Availability — Bringing Real-Time Physical AI to Factory Floors and Industrial Edge
The industrial-grade edge AI platform delivers high-speed sensor processing with enterprise reliability and functional safety certifications for manufacturing and robotics deployments.
NVIDIA Ships the DGX Station GB300 — 748GB of Coherent Memory, 20 Petaflops, and Trillion-Parameter Models at Your Desk
The first DGX Station GB300 systems arrive with the Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, while DGX Spark gains 4-unit clustering for desktop-scale AI data centers.
Five Automakers Are Building Level 4 Self-Driving Vehicles on NVIDIA Drive Hyperion — From Nissan to BYD
NVIDIA reveals that Nissan, BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Hyundai are developing Level 4 autonomous vehicles using its Drive Hyperion platform, expanding AI chips beyond the data center.
The SEC Officially Classifies XRP, Solana, and Ether as Non-Security Crypto Assets — Ending Years of Regulatory Uncertainty
In a landmark interpretation of federal securities law, the SEC sorts crypto into securities and non-securities, giving Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and Solana the same commodity-like legal status.
NVIDIA Open-Sources NemoClaw — A Security-First Stack for Deploying Autonomous AI Agents on Any Hardware
Built on the OpenClaw platform, NemoClaw bundles Nemotron models with sandboxed execution and privacy controls, enabling secure AI agent deployment from RTX laptops to DGX clusters.
Markets Edge Higher as the Fed Opens Its March Meeting — NVIDIA Rallies Post-GTC While Micron Surges on Memory Demand
The S&P 500 gains 0.25% and the Nasdaq adds 0.47% as investors digest GTC announcements and position ahead of the Fed's rate decision, with Micron rallying on AI memory chip demand.
NVIDIA GTC 2026 — Jensen Huang Unveils Vera Rubin GPUs, Groq 3 LPU, Kyber Racks, and the First Data Center in Space
NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote reveals the Vera Rubin GPU platform with 10x performance per watt, the Groq 3 LPU for 35x inference gains, and a $1 trillion Blackwell-to-Rubin opportunity.
Arduino Turns 21 With the Ventuno Q — A Dual-Brain SBC That Pairs Qualcomm AI With STM32 Motor Control for Robotics
Arduino's birthday board combines a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 running 40 TOPS of AI inference with a dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller for real-time actuation in a single platform.
Pokémon Pokopia Earns an 89 on Metacritic — Making It the Highest-Rated Pokémon Game Ever and 2026's Best So Far
Game Freak and Omega Force's life-sim spinoff stars a Ditto rebuilding a post-apocalyptic world, blending Dragon Quest Builders creativity with Viva Piñata charm on Switch 2.
Meta Signs a $27 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Nebius — The Largest External Cloud Commitment in AI History
Nebius Group surges 14% as Meta commits up to $27B over five years for dedicated GPU capacity, including one of the first large-scale NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments starting early 2027.
HSBC and Standard Chartered Set to Receive Hong Kong's First Stablecoin Licenses — Banking Giants Enter Digital Currency
Hong Kong plans to issue its first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses by March 24, with two of the city's note-issuing banks leading the way under strict reserve and AML requirements.
GlassWorm Supply Chain Attack Hides Malware in Invisible Unicode Across 151+ GitHub Python Repos — Here's How Defenders Caught It
Security researchers at Aikido discover a novel attack using stolen tokens and invisible PUA Unicode characters to inject undetectable payloads into Django apps, ML code, and PyPI packages.
Australia's Senate Backs a National Crypto Licensing Framework — Setting the Stage for Regulated Digital Asset Exchanges Down Under
The Senate Economics Committee endorses the Digital Assets Framework Bill, creating clear licensing requirements for crypto exchanges while maintaining consumer protections and innovation.
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Arrives on PS5, Switch 2, and PC — Team Ninja's Horror Return Earns Strong Reviews
The beloved 2003 survival horror classic gets a full remake with modernized controls, stunning visual upgrades, and an atmosphere that reviewers call hauntingly beautiful.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 — A Million-Token Context Window and Native Computer Use Arrive Together
GPT-5.4 ships with a 1M-token API context window, built-in computer-use capabilities, and a new Thinking mode that scores at expert level on economic benchmarks.
Orange Pi's AI Station Packs a Huawei Ascend 310 With 96GB RAM and 176 TOPS Into a Single Board Computer
The Orange Pi AI Station pairs 10 dedicated AI cores with 16 CPU cores, up to 96GB LPDDR4X, and 256GB eMMC — delivering data-center-class AI inference on a 130mm board.
Ethereum Gets a Commerce Layer for AI Agents — ERC-8183 Enables Trustless Hire-Deliver-Pay Workflows On-Chain
Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation propose ERC-8183, a new standard that lets autonomous AI agents transact commercially using escrow contracts and on-chain evaluators.
Mastercard Launches Crypto Partner Program — Uniting Binance, PayPal, Ripple, and 85+ Firms to Bridge Card Rails and Blockchain
The new global initiative brings together crypto-native companies and traditional financial institutions to explore cross-border payments, B2B transfers, and on-chain settlement.
Slay the Spire 2 Enters Early Access With 4-Player Co-Op — The Roguelike Sequel Adds Multiplayer Without Losing Its Edge
Mega Crit's highly anticipated sequel launches with five playable characters, multiplayer-specific cards, collaborative map routing, and one to two years of early access planned.
OpenAI's Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects
The AI-powered security agent discovers critical bugs in OpenSSH, Chromium, PHP, and GnuTLS during its research preview, with false positive rates dropping 50% over 30 days.
Nasdaq Partners With Kraken to Build a Tokenized Equities Gateway — Bridging Wall Street and Blockchain Markets
The world's second-largest exchange teams with Kraken's xStocks platform to create interoperability between traditional financial markets and on-chain tokenized stock trading.
Sapphire's Strix Halo Mini PC Packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With 128GB RAM and RTX 4070-Class Graphics Into a Tiny Box
Demoed at Embedded World 2026, the Sapphire Edge AI Max+ 395 runs 16 Zen 5 cores at 5.1 GHz, a Radeon 8060S iGPU, and can link two units via USB-C for pooled LLM inference.
Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 — The First AI Model That Maps Text, Images, and Video Into a Single Search Space
Google's new natively multimodal embedding model jointly maps text, images, and video into a unified vector space, enabling cross-modal retrieval and RAG applications.
Perplexity Unveils 'Personal Computer' — A Mac Mini That Runs an Always-On AI Agent With Full Local Access
At its Ask 2026 conference, Perplexity launches Personal Computer software for Mac mini and expands Computer for Enterprise with SOC 2, SAML SSO, and Slack integration.
GDC 2026 Wraps as the 'Festival of Gaming' — Five Takeaways From the Industry's Biggest Week
The rebranded Game Developers Conference featured Hideo Kojima's first keynote in 5 years, a new pass structure, 14 content tracks, and a renewed focus on indie development.
Europol Dismantles SocksEscort — A Global Botnet That Enslaved 369,000 Routers Across 163 Countries for Fraud
Operation Lightning takes down the SocksEscort proxy service, seizing 34 domains and freezing $3.5M in crypto after the botnet enabled millions in fraud through hijacked home routers.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Launches to Strong Reviews — Capcom's RPG Spinoff Grows Up
Capcom's turn-based Monster Hunter RPG earns praise for its refined combat, captivating world, and visual overhaul, with review scores averaging 8/10 across major outlets.
Polkadot's First 'Halving' Arrives — DOT Issuance Cut 53% as the Network Caps Total Supply at 2.1 Billion
Starting March 12, Polkadot slashes annual DOT issuance from 120M to 55M tokens, introduces a 2.1B hard cap, and cuts unbonding from 28 days to under 48 hours.
Energy and Materials Stocks Surge as Oil Crosses $100 — CF Industries, Dow Inc, and Mosaic Lead the Rally
While the broader S&P 500 posts its third consecutive weekly loss, energy and materials sectors buck the trend with CF Industries up 7.25% and Dow Inc gaining 5.09%.
FriendlyELEC's NanoPi NEO3 Plus Packs Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 Into a 48mm SBC for Just $24
The new NEO3 Plus upgrades to a Rockchip RK3528A at 2.0 GHz, adds eMMC support and RTC battery, and runs Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04, and Proxmox VE out of the box.
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Raises $1.03 Billion in the Largest European Seed Round Ever — Betting on World Models Over LLMs
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun leaves Meta to build Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, raising $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to develop JEPA-based world models.
Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck's InterPositive for Up to $600 Million — The Biggest AI Filmmaking Deal Yet
Netflix snaps up the stealth AI post-production startup InterPositive, bringing its 16-person team in-house to build AI-powered tools for relighting, VFX, and continuity.
Google Closes Its $32 Billion Wiz Acquisition — The Largest Deal in Google's History Reshapes Cloud Security
After a year of regulatory review, Google officially completes the all-cash acquisition of Wiz, which will join Google Cloud while maintaining multi-cloud security support.
Crimson Desert Preloads Begin March 17 — Pearl Abyss's Open-World RPG Launches Worldwide on March 19
Pearl Abyss confirms a simultaneous global launch at 6 PM ET on March 19 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with 48-hour preloads starting March 17 for digital preorders.
GeForce NOW Upgrades VR Streaming to 90fps and Adds GOG Library Syncing — Making Cloud Gaming More Versatile Than Ever
NVIDIA announces 90fps VR streaming for Ultimate members on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest starting March 19, plus GOG account linking and subscription game labels.
BlackRock Launches ETHB on Nasdaq — The First Staked Ethereum ETF That Pays Investors Yield While They Hold
The iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF begins trading March 12, staking 70-95% of its ETH via Coinbase and passing 82% of rewards to shareholders at a 0.25% fee.
February CPI Holds at 2.4% as Rent Posts Its Smallest Gain Since 2021 — But Oil Prices Cloud the Outlook
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports February inflation at 2.4% annually with core CPI at 2.5%, while rent's 0.1% monthly gain signals shelter disinflation is finally arriving.
NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Open Models at GDC — 120B Parameters With 5x the Throughput
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes with up to 1M-token context, already adopted by CrowdStrike, Cursor, Perplexity, and Zoom.
ASUS Launches the NUC 16 Pro — An Intel Panther Lake Mini PC With 180 Platform TOPS in a 0.7-Liter Chassis
The latest NUC packs Intel Core Ultra 9 Series 3 with Arc B390 graphics, a 50 TOPS NPU, WiFi 7, and dual 2.5G LAN into a chassis smaller than a coffee mug.
OpenAI Is Bringing Sora Video Generation Directly Into ChatGPT — Giving Hundreds of Millions of Users Access
According to The Information, OpenAI plans to embed Sora's video-generation capabilities into the ChatGPT interface, mirroring how DALL-E image creation was integrated.
Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday Fixes 2 Zero-Days and 79 Vulnerabilities — Including Critical Office Preview Pane Bugs
The March 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 79 flaws across Windows, Office, and SQL Server, with two publicly disclosed zero-days and three Critical-rated remote code execution bugs.
Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Raises $190M for Armadin — An AI Security Startup That Hunts Threats Autonomously
After selling Mandiant to Google for $5.4B, Kevin Mandia is back with Armadin — an autonomous AI security agent platform backed by Accel, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins.
Cyberpunk 2077 Joins Xbox Game Pass — One of the Greatest Redemption Stories in Gaming Is Now Free for Subscribers
CD PROJEKT RED's open-world RPG arrives on Game Pass for Cloud and Console subscribers, bringing Night City's neon-soaked streets to millions of new players.
Oracle Crushes Q3 Estimates as Cloud Revenue Surges 84% — And the $553 Billion Backlog Signals What's Coming
Oracle reports $17.19B in Q3 revenue with cloud infrastructure up 84% to $4.9B, raises FY2027 guidance to $90B, and reveals a $553B remaining performance obligation.
Ethereum Foundation Quadruples Its Maximum Bug Bounty to $1 Million — Funded by the $220M DAO Security Reserve
Critical vulnerabilities that could affect the entire Ethereum blockchain now qualify for payouts up to $1 million, backed by $220 million in unclaimed funds from the 2016 DAO hack.
NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026 — Dynamic Multi Frame Generation Pushes 240+ FPS With Path Tracing
NVIDIA's GDC showcase introduces DLSS 4.5 with up to five AI-generated frames per rendered frame, plus RTX Mega Geometry debuting in The Witcher 4.
Waveshare's IPCBOX-CM5 Turns a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Into a Rugged Industrial Mini PC
This industrial-grade enclosure adds RS485, RS232, CAN Bus, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and optional 5G cellular to the CM5 — targeting factory floors and edge deployments.
OpenClaw's 'ClawJacked' Vulnerability Exposed 135,000 AI Agent Instances — And 820 Malicious Skills Were Hiding in Plain Sight
The fastest-growing GitHub repo in history faces its first security crisis as researchers find a critical WebSocket hijack flaw and hundreds of malicious marketplace skills.
Google Embeds Gemini Across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive — Your Workspace Just Got an AI Co-Pilot
Google rolls out deep Gemini AI integration across its entire Workspace suite, including full-document generation in Docs, real-time data population in Sheets, and AI-powered Drive search.
Happy MAR10 Day — Nintendo Celebrates With New Virtual Boy and GBA Additions to Switch Online
Nintendo marks Mario Day 2026 by expanding the Switch Online + Expansion Pack library with three retro titles, available on both Switch and Switch 2.
Amazon Introduces Mandatory Senior Review for AI-Generated Code Deployments After Learning Hard Lessons
After incidents involving autonomous AI coding tools, Amazon now requires senior manager sign-off before junior engineers can deploy AI-assisted code to production environments.
Bitcoin ETFs Cross $200 Billion in Total Assets — BlackRock's IBIT Alone Holds 786,000 BTC
Spot Bitcoin ETFs hit a historic milestone as cumulative assets surpass $200 billion, with Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Vanguard all opening retail access.
AMD Lands a $60-100 Billion AI Chip Deal With Meta — The Biggest GPU Contract in History
Meta commits to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs built on TSMC's 2nm node, with first shipments in H2 2026 and AMD issuing 160 million performance-based share warrants.
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — A Lightning-Fast AI Model at Just $0.25 Per Million Tokens
Google DeepMind's new Flash-Lite model delivers 2.5x faster responses than its predecessor at a fraction of the cost, making production-scale AI deployment dramatically more affordable.
Claude AI Discovers 22 Security Vulnerabilities in Firefox in Just 14 Days — Ushering In AI-Powered Bug Hunting
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 CVEs in Firefox during a two-week audit with Mozilla, including 14 high-severity flaws that traditional fuzz testing had missed.
Orange Pi's AI Station Packs 176 TOPS of Edge AI Power Into a Single Board With Up to 96GB RAM
Built around a Huawei Ascend 310 SoC with 10 AI cores, the Orange Pi AI Station delivers over 13x the AI performance of a Raspberry Pi 5 with Hailo — on a single board.
Ubisoft Confirms Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake — The Beloved Pirate Adventure Is Getting a Full Rebuild
After years of rumors, Ubisoft officially announces a full remake of the 2013 fan-favorite pirate adventure, with concept art and a cryptic tease from the creative director.
Nasdaq Partners With Kraken to Build a Tokenized Stock Trading Platform — Targeting a 2027 Launch
The second-largest stock exchange teams up with crypto exchange Kraken to create an equities transformation gateway, giving token holders full shareholder rights including voting and dividends.
NIST Launches the AI Agent Standards Initiative to Get Ahead of Autonomous AI Security Risks
With 83% of organizations planning to deploy agentic AI but only 29% security-ready, NIST is building guardrails before the first major incident forces reactive regulation.
Biotech Stocks Surge Double Digits as Regulatory Clarity Returns to the FDA
Gene therapy and rare disease stocks rally sharply as an FDA leadership transition signals a more predictable approval environment — uniQure jumps 36%, Biohaven gains 23%.
The Pentagon Just Labeled Anthropic a 'Supply Chain Risk' and Ordered a Federal Phase-Out of Claude
After Anthropic refused to remove guardrails banning mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the Department of Defense triggered a six-month phase-out of Claude from classified networks.
The Pironman 5 Pro Max Transforms a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Full Tower PC With a Touchscreen, Camera, and AI Accelerator Slot
SunFounder's $146 enclosure adds a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, dual speakers, dual NVMe RAID slots, and Hailo AI accelerator support to the Raspberry Pi 5.
Marathon Launches to 91% Positive Steam Reviews — But Player Counts Have Already Dropped 50% in 48 Hours
Bungie's extraction shooter nails the gunplay and earns glowing user reviews, but a halving of concurrent players within two days raises serious retention questions.
Pakistan-Linked APT36 Floods Indian Government Networks With AI-Generated 'Vibeware' Malware
Bitdefender reveals a nation-state campaign using AI coding assistants to mass-produce disposable malware in 12+ languages, overwhelming defenders with sheer volume.
Pokemon Pokopia Becomes the Highest-Rated Pokemon Game on Metacritic — And It's Selling Switch 2s
Game Freak's Animal Crossing-style Pokemon life sim earns an 89 Metacritic average and is convincing holdout fans to finally buy a Nintendo Switch 2.
U.S. Banking Regulators Declare Blockchain 'Technology Neutral' — Clearing Banks to Hold Tokenized Securities
The Fed, FDIC, and OCC jointly rule that tokenized securities receive the same capital treatment as traditional ones, removing the last major barrier for bank participation in on-chain markets.
Boeing Surges on Reports of a $100 Billion China Deal for 500 Jets — Defying the Broader Market Selloff
Boeing jumped 3.7% to become the Dow's top gainer after Bloomberg reported a landmark 500-jet 737 MAX order from China, expected to be unveiled at the Trump-Xi summit.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 With Native Computer Use, 1M Token Context, and 33% Fewer Errors
OpenAI's newest frontier model can autonomously operate your desktop, processes up to a million tokens of context, and cuts hallucinations by a third compared to GPT-5.2.
Raspberry Pi Prices Are Closing In on Mini PCs as the Global DRAM Shortage Squeezes the Market
A worldwide memory shortage is pushing Raspberry Pi kit prices uncomfortably close to budget mini PCs, forcing hobbyists to rethink their build strategies.
Slay the Spire 2 Hits 526K Concurrent Players on Launch Day — The Roguelike Deck-Builder King Returns
Mega Crit's long-awaited sequel smashes Steam records with over half a million concurrent players and a 97% positive rating in its first 24 hours of early access.
Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts Nearly 40% of Its Workforce — And Says AI Will Fill the Gaps
Block slashes its headcount from over 12,000 to roughly 7,500 employees, citing AI-driven productivity gains as a core reason the company can operate leaner.
World of Warcraft: Midnight Officially Confirms Player Housing — The Feature Fans Have Waited 20 Years For
Blizzard reveals that the Midnight expansion will finally deliver player housing to World of Warcraft, with customizable homes tied to the new Quel'Thalas zones.
Google's Threat Analysis Group Exposes 'Coruna' — An iOS Exploit Kit Packing 23 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Google TAG reveals a sophisticated commercial spyware vendor using a chain of 23 previously unknown iOS exploits to compromise iPhones without user interaction.
An AI-Powered Attacker Just Breached 600+ FortiGate Firewalls Using Automated Exploit Chains
Security researchers trace a mass exploitation campaign against Fortinet firewalls to an attacker using large language models to automate vulnerability discovery and exploit generation.
Wall Street Suffers Its Worst Day in Three Months as Weak Jobs Data and Surging Oil Collide
The S&P 500 drops 2.4% and the Nasdaq tumbles 3.1% after February's jobs report misses badly and crude oil spikes above $88 a barrel.
Bitcoin Drops to $68,800 as Weak Jobs Data and Surging Oil Prices Trigger a Broad Crypto Selloff
A disappointing February jobs report and a spike in crude oil prices send Bitcoin tumbling 8% in 24 hours, dragging the broader crypto market down with it.
Apple's M5 Pro and Max Chips Fuse Neural Accelerators Into Every GPU Core — Delivering 4x the AI Compute
Apple's new Fusion Architecture bonds two 3nm dies into a single SoC, embedding dedicated neural accelerators in every GPU core for massive on-device AI gains.
The Morefine Nexus N1 Is a Compact NAS That Doubles as an AI Workstation — Complete With a Desktop GPU Slot
Morefine's Nexus N1 pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8845HS with four hot-swap drive bays, triple NVMe, and a full-length PCIe x16 slot for desktop GPUs.
Esoteric Ebb Launches to Universal Acclaim — A Solo Developer's RPG Is Being Called the Best Since Disco Elysium
Swedish solo developer Christoffer Bodegard's narrative RPG earns 90+ scores across the board, blending D&D 5e rules with Disco Elysium-style storytelling.
Push Security Ships Automatic Detection and Blocking for Malicious Browser Extensions
Push Security's new capability identifies and neutralizes known-malicious browser extensions before they can exfiltrate data or hijack sessions.
Federal Agencies Are Going All-In on AI for Cyber Defense — And the Results Are Already Showing
U.S. government agencies deploy AI-powered threat hunting and automated diagnostics as CISA's modernized defense strategy takes shape.
Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf Launches to Glowing Reviews — And It's on Game Pass Day One
The sequel to the beloved puzzle-platformer doubles the adventure with new biomes and underwater exploration, earning an 84 average on OpenCritic.
The Trade Desk Surges 21% After Reports of OpenAI Ad Partnership Talks — And the CEO Just Bought $148 Million in Stock
Shares of The Trade Desk soared after reports that OpenAI explored selling ads through its platform, while CEO Jeff Green made the largest insider buy in company history.
Kraken Becomes the First Crypto Company to Secure a Federal Reserve Master Account
Kraken Financial's Wyoming charter unlocks direct access to the Fed's core payment infrastructure — a historic first for the cryptocurrency industry.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.3 Instant — Cutting Hallucinations by 27 Percent and Delivering Snappier Answers
GPT-5.3 Instant focuses on reliability over raw power, reducing hallucination rates by nearly 27 percent while trimming unnecessary refusals and preambles.
Waveshare Launches the IPCBOX-CM5 — A Rugged Industrial Computer Built Around the Raspberry Pi CM5
The IPCBOX-CM5 packs RS485, RS232, CAN Bus, dual Ethernet, and an M.2 slot into a palm-sized aluminum enclosure starting at just $100.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Mass-Produce Optical AI Interconnects — Backed by NVIDIA and AMD
Ayar Labs closes a massive Series E to scale optical chiplets that replace copper connections with light, delivering up to 20x more bandwidth per watt for AI data centers.
Capcom Spotlight Drops Big Updates on Pragmata, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Two New Mega Man Projects
Capcom's March 5 showcase delivers fresh looks at Pragmata, confirms Monster Hunter Stories 3 for March 13, and reveals Mega Man Dual Override alongside the Star Force Legacy Collection.
Flip-Screen Mini PCs Are Here — AYANEO's AM01S Leads a Charming New Hardware Category
A wave of mini PCs with built-in flip-up touchscreens is redefining what a desktop computer can look like in 2026, blending retro aesthetics with modern AI silicon.
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Demo Is Live — A Ground-Up Rebuild of a Horror Classic
Koei Tecmo releases a free demo for the full Fatal Frame II remake today, featuring rebuilt gameplay systems, new endings, and a Silent Hill f crossover.
The NYSE's Parent Company Invests in Crypto Exchange OKX at a $25 Billion Valuation — Bridging Wall Street and Web3
Intercontinental Exchange takes a board seat at OKX and plans to bring tokenized NYSE-listed equities to the exchange's 120 million users worldwide.
Broadcom Smashes Q1 Estimates as AI Revenue Doubles to $8.4 Billion — Announces a $10 Billion Buyback
Broadcom posts record fiscal Q1 revenue of $19.3 billion with AI chip sales surging 106 percent year-over-year, and management sees a path to $100 billion in AI semiconductor revenue.
DeepSeek Unveils V4 — A Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model That Generates Text, Images, and Video
DeepSeek's V4 model enters the frontier tier with trillion-parameter multimodal capabilities spanning text, image, and video generation plus elite coding performance.
Atlassian Brings AI Agents Into Jira — Managed Alongside Human Workers on the Same Dashboard
Jira now lets teams assign tasks to AI agents from the same board used for human work, plus a new Rovo MCP Server connects Claude, Cursor, and Gemini to Atlassian data.
FriendlyELEC Launches the NanoPi NEO3 Plus — A Tiny Headless SBC With Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.2
The NanoPi NEO3 Plus packs a Rockchip RK3528A quad-core SoC, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2, and 26-pin GPIO into a palm-sized board running mainline Linux.
Beelink's SER10 MAX Ships With AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 — Bringing Serious AI Compute to Your Desk
The Beelink SER10 MAX pairs AMD's latest Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 processor with a compact desktop form factor, targeting local AI inference and creative workloads.
Crimson Desert Goes Gold After Six Years of Development — Launches March 19 Across All Platforms
Pearl Abyss confirms Crimson Desert has gone gold, with simultaneous launch on PS5, Xbox, PC, and Mac on March 19 after six years of ambitious development.
CrowdStrike Smashes Q4 Records as Annual Recurring Revenue Surpasses $5.25 Billion
CrowdStrike's Q4 FY2026 delivers record net new ARR of $331M, total ARR of $5.25B, and 45% operating income growth — crossing $1B in net new ARR for the full year.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Hard Fork Takes Shape — Parallel Processing, 200M Gas Limit, and Enshrined PBS
Ethereum's mid-2026 Glamsterdam upgrade targets parallel transaction processing, a 200M gas limit, expanded data blobs, and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation.
Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Supercharge Claude's Computer-Use and Visual AI Agent Capabilities
Anthropic's acquisition of Vercept brings specialized computer vision and UI understanding tech to Claude, accelerating the push toward fully autonomous AI agents.
A Maker Built a Stunning 1970s Terminal Replica With a Raspberry Pi and a 3D Printer
David Green's ADM-3A terminal replica pairs a 3D-printed vintage enclosure with a Raspberry Pi 3 to recreate the dawn of interactive computing for under $100.
Apple Is Rebuilding Siri From the Ground Up With LLM-Powered Conversational Intelligence in iOS 26.4
Apple's Siri overhaul replaces the command-based architecture with on-device large language models, bringing natural conversation and app-aware context to one billion iPhones.
Nintendo's Indie World Showcase Drops 20+ Games for Switch 2 — Rotwood, Blue Prince, and More
Nintendo's March 2026 Indie World reveals over 20 titles for Switch 2, headlined by Klei's Rotwood, the viral Blue Prince, and Heave Ho 2.
This Arduino and Raspberry Pi Duo Powers a Two-Factor Entry System for a Community Hackerspace
A maker built a reliable two-factor access control system pairing an Arduino Nano for hardware control with a Raspberry Pi authentication backend.
Scott Pilgrim EX Is Here — A Brand-New Adventure With an Original Bryan Lee O'Malley Story
Scott Pilgrim EX launches today with a new storyline written by the original creator, expanded combat, and eight playable characters across Switch 2, PS5, and PC.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Sign a Blockchain MoU to Digitize Cross-Border Cargo Trade
The two financial hubs signed a memorandum of understanding to build blockchain-based cargo trade infrastructure, targeting faster customs clearance and reduced paperwork.
Target Beats Q4 Estimates as Comparable Sales Turn Positive — Signaling a Broader Consumer Recovery
Target's Q4 earnings surprise with positive comparable store sales for the first time in five quarters, led by strength in discretionary categories and digital growth.
Anthropic Embeds Claude Directly Into Excel, PowerPoint, and Slack With New Enterprise Plugins
Claude's Cowork Enterprise Plugins let AI edit spreadsheets, build presentations, and pass context across Office apps — with prebuilt vertical integrations.
AT&T Slashes AI Costs by 90 Percent Using Small Language Models That Process 27 Billion Tokens Daily
AT&T's multi-agent architecture routes tasks to specialized small models, cutting AI infrastructure costs while scaling to 27 billion tokens per day.
Jeff Geerling Builds a Working Macintosh for $20 Using a Raspberry Pi Pico
A Raspberry Pi Pico running Pico Micro Mac firmware delivers 63% more RAM than the original 128K Macintosh — all for about twenty dollars in parts.
Lenovo Unveils the ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2 — A Fanless Edge AI Computer With 97 TOPS of Intel Arrow Lake Power
Lenovo's new fanless ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2 packs Intel's Core Ultra 7 265H with 97 TOPS of AI compute into a compact industrial form factor launching April 2026.
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered Arrives With Never-Before-Seen Lost Levels and a Dark Prophecy Demo
The cult classic returns with HD visuals, restored lost content, and a playable demo of the cancelled sixth game — earning early 9/10 reviews.
Pokemon Pokopia Launches March 5 on Switch 2 — A Charming Life-Sim Where You Are the Ditto
Game Freak's life-sim spin-off lets you play as a Ditto-turned-human building a paradise with Pokemon friends, featuring four-player online multiplayer.
U.S. Manufacturing Expands for a Second Straight Month as the ISM PMI Hits 52.4
The ISM Manufacturing PMI registers 52.4 in February — only the third expansion in 40 months — with strong new orders signaling renewed industrial momentum.
Twelve European Banks Form the Qivalis Consortium to Launch a Regulated Euro Stablecoin
A consortium including BNP Paribas, ING, and UniCredit plans a MiCA-regulated euro-pegged stablecoin backed by sovereign bonds, targeting H2 2026.
Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 Video Decoders Land in Mainline Linux — A Milestone for SBC Media
Collabora merges H.264 and H.265 hardware video decoding for Rockchip's top SoCs into the upstream Linux kernel, benefiting dozens of popular boards.
NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 — Open Models With 4x Throughput and a Million-Token Context Window
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships three tiers of open models optimized for agentic AI, plus 3 trillion tokens of training data for the community.
Perplexity Launches Computer — An AI Agent That Orchestrates 19 Models to Tackle Complex Workflows
Perplexity's new Computer platform routes tasks across Claude, Gemini, GPT-5.2, and Grok, ushering in a multi-model orchestration era for AI agents.
Slay the Spire 2 Hits Early Access March 5 With a Bold New Addition — Four-Player Co-Op
The sequel to the genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder adds cooperative multiplayer with team synergy cards, entering Early Access on March 5.
Resident Evil Requiem Launches to Rave Reviews — The Best Non-Remake Entry in Two Decades
Capcom's RE9 debuts at 88 on Metacritic across PS5 and Switch 2, earning praise for its blend of stealth-horror and kinetic action with new protagonist Grace Ashcroft.
An Nvidia GPU Now Runs AI Inference on a Raspberry Pi 5 at 121 Tokens Per Second
Community patches enable Nvidia GPU compute on the Pi 5 via PCIe, running a 3B language model at 121 tok/s with llama.cpp and Vulkan acceleration.
Dell Posts a Record Quarter as AI Server Revenue Surges 342 Percent to $9 Billion
Dell's Q4 revenue hits $33.4B with AI server orders reaching $64B for the year, validating that enterprise AI spending is translating into real hardware demand.
Morgan Stanley Files for a National Crypto Trust Bank Charter — And Plans Bitcoin Trading on E*Trade
Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley applies to the OCC for a dedicated crypto custody subsidiary and prepares spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading on E*Trade.
The Khadas Mind Pro Is the First Panther Lake Mini PC — And Its iGPU Rivals an RTX 3060
Khadas opens pre-orders for the pocket-sized Mind Pro featuring Intel's Core Ultra X7 358H with Arc B390 graphics benchmarking at RTX 3060 laptop levels.
HyperNova 60B Uses Quantum-Inspired Math to Halve an LLM's Size With Near-Zero Accuracy Loss
Multiverse Computing's free HyperNova 60B compresses a 120B-parameter model by 50% using quantum tensor methods, benchmarking 5x better on tool-calling tasks.
ServiceNow's New AI Agents Already Resolve 90 Percent of Its Own IT Requests Autonomously
ServiceNow launches Autonomous Workforce with AI specialists that handle Level 1 IT support, processing requests 99% faster than human agents.
Marvel's Wolverine Locks In a September 15 Release Date on PS5
Insomniac Games confirms Marvel's Wolverine launches September 15, 2026 on PS5 with a darker tone and adamantium-slicing combat built from the ground up.
Microsoft Taps ASUS and Dell for Purpose-Built Windows 365 Cloud PC Mini PCs
The 0.7-liter ASUS NUC 16 and fanless Dell Pro Desktop ship with Windows CPC, booting directly into a cloud desktop experience for enterprise use.
The Guitar Hero Creators Are Back With Stage Tour — A New Rhythm Game Built for the Long Haul
RedOctane unveils Stage Tour at IGN Fan Fest with 4-player band support, a new Gibson guitar controller, and a live-service model replacing annual releases.
Salesforce Posts Record Q4 as Agentforce AI Hits $800M ARR and a Massive $50 Billion Buyback Drops
Salesforce crushes Q4 with $11.2B revenue and $3.81 EPS, announces a $50B buyback while Agentforce AI surges 169% to $800M in annual recurring revenue.
Bitcoin ETFs Attract $1.1 Billion in Three Days as Institutional Buyers Return
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs post their strongest week in six after $1.1B in net inflows, with BlackRock's IBIT alone pulling in $652 million.
Tokenized Real-World Assets on Ethereum Surpass $17 Billion — Up 315 Percent in a Year
Ethereum's RWA market hits $17B as BlackRock, JPMorgan, and institutional giants move traditional funds onchain, driven by post-GENIUS Act clarity.
Snowflake Crushes Q4 Estimates as AI Data Cloud Demand Hits an Inflection Point
Snowflake’s Q4 product revenue surged 30% to $1.23B with EPS of $0.34, smashing estimates as over 9,100 accounts now use its AI offerings.
Inception Labs Launches Mercury 2 — The First Reasoning LLM Built on Diffusion Architecture
Mercury 2 processes tokens in parallel via iterative denoising, hitting 1,000 tokens per second while matching top reasoning models on benchmarks.
Marathon’s Server Slam Is Live — Here’s How to Jump Into Bungie’s Free Extraction Shooter Preview
Bungie’s Marathon opens to all players today with a free Server Slam preview on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam running through March 2.
MIT Researchers Develop a Proxy Model Technique That Doubles LLM Training Speed
A new MIT method uses a lightweight proxy model to predict reasoning outputs, cutting the reinforcement learning rollout bottleneck in half.
The EXAVIZ Cruiser Turns a Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a 9-Port PoE Networking Powerhouse
This $139 mini-ITX carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 packs nine Ethernet ports, dual SATA, NVMe, and Zigbee for serious homelab builds.
World of Warcraft Midnight Early Access Goes Live Today — And It Finally Brings Player Housing
WoW’s latest expansion launches early access today with four new zones, level cap 90, and the Player Housing feature fans requested for 22 years.
Minix Unveils Six New Mini PCs With Up to 180 TOPS of AI Compute
From 36-watt office boxes to 180 TOPS AI workstations, Minix’s 2026 mini PC lineup spans every tier of the local AI computing spectrum.
Meta Plans a Stablecoin Comeback Through Stripe — Bringing Crypto Payments to 3 Billion Users
Meta is integrating stablecoin payments across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp via Stripe, targeting cross-border transfers in the second half of 2026.
The Ethereum Foundation Just Staked 70,000 ETH — Here’s Why That Changes Its Funding Model
After years of selling ETH to fund operations, the Ethereum Foundation pivots to staking 70,000 ETH for sustainable yield and stronger network security.
New Self-Distillation Technique Triples LLM Inference Speed With a Single Model
Researchers achieve 3x faster LLM inference by baking multi-token prediction directly into model weights — no draft model or extra hardware required.
Solana’s Firedancer Validator Hits 20 Percent Stake — And Benchmarks Show Over a Million Transactions Per Second
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer client reaches 20% network stake on Solana mainnet, with benchmarks showing up to 1M TPS and Alpenglow targeting 150ms finality.
Circle Crushes Q4 Estimates as USDC Circulation Hits $75 Billion and Shares Surge 19 Percent
Circle’s Q4 revenue jumped 77% to $770M as USDC circulation reached $75B. Onchain transaction volume tripled year over year to $11.9 trillion.
Nvidia Reports Q4 Earnings Today — Wall Street Expects $65 Billion in Revenue and All Eyes Are on Guidance
Nvidia’s fiscal Q4 FY26 earnings drop after market close today. Analysts expect $65.7B revenue and $1.53 EPS, but forward guidance will move the stock.
Tales of Berseria Remastered Launches Tomorrow With Over 70 DLC Items and Welcome QoL Upgrades
Bandai Namco’s action JRPG remaster arrives Feb 26 on PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC with faster movement, instant pickups, and every original DLC item.
AMD Strix Halo Mini PCs Are Here — And They Can Run 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models Locally
A wave of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs is shipping with 128GB unified memory, bringing serious local AI inference to a box on your desk.
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
World Labs secures $1B from Nvidia, AMD, Autodesk, and Fidelity to scale its MARBLE spatial intelligence platform for gaming, VFX, and robotics.
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Doubles Reasoning Performance With a New Three-Tier Thinking System
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than doubling its predecessor’s reasoning with a three-tier thinking architecture.
Endless TD Drops Patch 0.5.1 With a Full PvP Ranked System, Three New Towers, and a Talent Constellation Overhaul
Endless TD patch 0.5.1 delivers a full PvP ranked system with 20 tiers, three new towers, a hex-node talent constellation overhaul, and color blind accessibility support.
AMD and Meta Announce a $100 Billion AI Chip Partnership That Reshapes the GPU Landscape
Meta will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs for AI data centers in a landmark multi-year deal worth over $100 billion, sending AMD stock soaring 14% in pre-market trading.
OpenAI Teams Up With McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to Bring AI Agents to the Enterprise
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to deploy AI agents across enterprise workflows, marking a major step for agentic AI in business.
Hugging Face Acquires ggml.ai, Giving llama.cpp a Permanent Open-Source Home
Hugging Face acquires ggml.ai, bringing llama.cpp and the GGUF model format under its umbrella while keeping everything MIT-licensed and open-source for local AI inference.
The PocketBeagle 2 Industrial Packs 1GB RAM and 64GB eMMC Into a Rugged $50 SBC
BeagleBoard releases the PocketBeagle 2 Industrial single board computer with 1GB DDR4 RAM, 64GB eMMC, and industrial-grade temperature rating in a 12.7-gram form factor for $50.
The $25 Olimex ESP32-P4-PC Is Now Shipping — A RISC-V Board With HDMI, Ethernet, and 4 USB Ports
Olimex ships the ESP32-P4-PC open-source RISC-V single board computer with HDMI output, Ethernet, four USB ports, and camera support for under $25.
Steam Next Fest Is Live With Thousands of Free Demos — Here Are the Highlights
Steam Next Fest February 2026 is live with nearly 10,000 free playable demos and developer livestreams running through March 2 — the biggest indie game showcase of the season.
Pokemon Turns 30 — FireRed and LeafGreen Hit Nintendo Switch on Pokemon Day
Pokemon celebrates its 30th anniversary with FireRed and LeafGreen launching on Nintendo Switch for Pokemon Day, plus a major Pokemon Presents and the first-ever LEGO Pokemon sets.
ProShares Launches First GENIUS Act-Compliant Stablecoin ETF — And It Debuted at $17 Billion
ProShares launches IQMM, the first GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin reserve ETF, generating record-breaking $17 billion in first-day trading volume as institutional crypto demand surges.
AI System Discovers 25 New Magnetic Materials That Could Replace Rare Earth Elements
University of New Hampshire researchers used AI to scan 67,000+ compounds and found 25 high-temperature magnets that could reshape the clean energy supply chain.
Model Context Protocol Goes Mainstream as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Adopt Anthropic's Standard
The protocol that lets AI systems connect to databases and tools is now governed by the Linux Foundation, with every major AI lab on board.
This Finnish Startup Burned Llama 3.1 Directly Into Silicon — And It Runs at 17,000 Tokens Per Second
Taalas HC1 eliminates the memory bottleneck entirely by hardwiring an LLM into the chip itself, achieving 10x the speed of an NVIDIA H100.
The DshanPi-A1 Is a $70 AI Education Board With a Rare HDMI Input Port
This Rockchip RK3576-powered SBC packs a 6 TOPS NPU, dual cameras, and both HDMI input and output — perfect for computer vision projects.
S&P 500 Posts Its Fifth Straight Quarter of Double-Digit Earnings Growth — And Margins Hit a Record
Q4 2025 earnings came in at 13.2% growth with record profit margins, and analysts see more upside ahead for 2026.
Resident Evil Requiem Arrives February 27 With a Dual-Protagonist System That Nails Both Horror and Action
Capcom's latest survival horror entry lets you switch between classic first-person horror and RE4-style action, and early previews are glowing.
Robinhood's Layer 2 Blockchain Logs 4 Million Transactions in Its First Week
The trading giant's Ethereum L2 testnet is already buzzing with 600,000 smart contracts deployed and 100ms block times.
PlayStation's 85-Minute State of Play Was a Banger — God of War Trilogy Remake Headlines 30+ Reveals
Sony's biggest State of Play ever brought God of War Greek trilogy remakes, a surprise shadow drop, and over 30 game announcements.
Aave Becomes the First DeFi Protocol to Cross $1 Billion in Real-World Asset Deposits
Tokenized Treasuries, bonds, and private credit are pouring into DeFi as Aave's Horizon market doubles deposits in a single month.
The Dow Just Crossed 50,000 — And It Got There Faster Than Anyone Expected
The fastest 10,000-point climb in the index's 130-year history was powered by AI-driven productivity gains spreading beyond Big Tech.