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Mini Computers

Zhihe A210 Brings an Octa-Core RISC-V SoC and 12-TOPS NPU to an Affordable Dev Board

Sipeed's Zhihe A210 is an octa-core RISC-V SoC with a 12-TOPS NPU and up to 16GB RAM, offered on a SODIMM-style dev board starting around $334 for edge-AI makers.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20265 min read
Gaming

Among Us Celebrates Its 8th Birthday With a Free Single-Player Demo

Innersloth marked Among Us's 8th birthday by dropping a free demo of its first single-player game, Story: On Guard, on Steam, alongside an animated series on Paramount+.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 17, 20264 min read
AI Security

CISA's BOD 26-04 Shifts Federal Patching to a Smarter Risk-Based Model

CISA's new Binding Operational Directive 26-04 tells agencies to patch smarter, prioritizing vulnerabilities that are internet-facing, automatable, high-impact, and actively exploited.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJun 17, 20265 min read
Crypto

Coinbase Unveils Tokenized Stocks and 21 New Products in 'Everything Exchange' Push

Coinbase announced 21 new products including 1:1-backed tokenized U.S. stocks with onchain dividends and an SEC-registered AI investment advisor, bridging crypto and traditional markets.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 17, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Flagright Raises $12.5M to Scale Its AI Platform for Financial-Crime Compliance

Fintech Flagright closed a $12.5M Series A to grow its AI compliance platform, which serves 100+ banks across 35 countries and claims to cut false positives by up to 93%.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 17, 20264 min read
AI

GLM-5.2 Arrives With a Usable 1M-Token Context and MIT Open Weights

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 is a coding-first open-weight model with a usable 1-million-token context window and MIT-licensed weights that drop into agentic dev tools.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 17, 20265 min read
AI

OpenAI Academy Adds Free Courses to Take Teams From Prompts to AI Agents

OpenAI Academy launched three free courses—AI Foundations, Applied AI Foundations, and Agents and Workflows—to build workplace AI fluency from prompts to agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 17, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

MINIX N304-AI Packs Intel Wildcat Lake and a 15-TOPS NPU Into a Budget Mini PC

The MINIX N304-AI mini PC pairs Intel's Core 3 N304 Wildcat Lake chip with a 15-TOPS NPU, 16GB LPDDR5x, dual GbE, and triple-display output for home and edge use.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

FriendlyELEC's NanoPi M6V2 Adds Dual Mic Input to a Capable RK3588S SBC

FriendlyELEC's NanoPi M6V2 refreshes its RK3588S single board computer with dual analog microphone input and a simplified 8GB build for voice and edge AI projects.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

Khadas Mind 2 Plus an RTX 5060 Ti Dock Turns a Mini PC Into a Scanning Powerhouse

A Khadas Mind 2 mini PC paired with the Mind Graphics 2 RTX 5060 Ti dock pushed 3D scanning from ~16 FPS to 90 FPS, showing the payoff of modular eGPU computing.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20264 min read
Gaming

Mina the Hollower Hits Half a Million Copies and a Game of the Year Buzz

Yacht Club Games' Mina the Hollower has sold over 500,000 copies since launch, landing as one of 2026's best-reviewed games and an early Game of the Year pick.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 17, 20264 min read
Crypto

State Street Launches a Money Market Fund Built for Stablecoin Reserves

State Street unveiled a government money market fund purpose-built to hold stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act, with Anchorage Digital as a launch partner.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 17, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Digital Asset Raises $355M to Bring Capital Markets On-Chain via Canton

Canton Network developer Digital Asset raised $355M led by a16z crypto, with HSBC, BNP Paribas, Citadel Securities and more backing on-chain market infrastructure.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 17, 20264 min read
AI Security

CrowdStrike Gives AI Agents a Verifiable Identity and Zero Standing Privilege

CrowdStrike's Continuous Identity for AI Agents replaces static credentials with real-time, risk-aware authorization and SPIFFE-based identities for autonomous agents.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJun 17, 20265 min read
AI

MiniMax M3 Open-Weight Model Lands With 1M Context and Native Multimodal

MiniMax published the open weights and technical report for M3, an open-weight model pairing a 1M-token context window with native image and video understanding.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 15, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

Gateworks Catalina GW9200 Pairs an NXP i.MX 95 With Swappable Sockets

Gateworks launched the Catalina GW9200, an industrial NXP i.MX 95 edge AI SBC whose Flexible Socket Adapter accepts either M.2 or mPCIe expansion modules.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 15, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

GEEKOM A7 2026 Edition Brings Ryzen 5 7545U Power to a Tiny Desktop

The GEEKOM A7 2026 Edition mini PC pairs an AMD Ryzen 5 7545U with 16GB of DDR5 and a fast NVMe SSD, making a compact, capable desktop for everyday computing.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 15, 20265 min read
Gaming

Nintendo Direct June 2026 Stacks the Switch 2 Lineup With Heavy Hitters

Nintendo's June 9 Direct loaded the Switch 2 calendar with Xenoblade Genesis, Kingdom Hearts IV, a free Deltarune Chapter 5 update, and a wave of fan favorites.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 15, 20265 min read
Crypto

Sui's Confidential Transfers Beta Brings Compliance-Friendly On-Chain Privacy

Sui launched Confidential Transfers in public beta on June 10, adding compliance-friendly on-chain privacy aimed at broader institutional adoption of blockchain.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 15, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Citi Sees a $5.5 Trillion Tokenized-Asset Market as Wall Street Goes On-Chain

A new Citi Institute report projects the tokenized-asset market reaching $5.5 trillion by 2030 as DTCC, NYSE, and Nasdaq embed tokenization in core infrastructure.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 15, 20265 min read
AI

Apple Opens Apple Intelligence to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini in iOS 27

At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled iOS 27 Extensions, letting users set Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok as their system-wide AI across Siri and Writing Tools.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 14, 20265 min read
AI

Gemma 4 QAT Lands in Ollama, Cutting Local AI Memory by ~72%

Quantization-aware-trained Gemma 4 weights are now runnable in Ollama, cutting VRAM roughly 72% so a 26B model fits on a 16GB laptop for self-hosted AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 14, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Youyeetoo K1 Is a Palm-Sized Mini PC With a Swappable N100 Module

The $210 Youyeetoo K1 mini PC puts its Intel N100 on a removable processor module that slots into a carrier board, making the CPU theoretically upgradeable.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 14, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Lenovo AI Host Packs an Arm Chip and 45 TOPS Into a Tiny Edge AI PC

Lenovo's AI Host is a compact Arm mini PC built on the 12-core Cix CD8180 with 45 TOPS of AI performance, designed for always-on edge AI inference.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 14, 20265 min read