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Cover illustration for ART-Pi II Pairs a 600 MHz Cortex-M7 With a 2.5D GPU
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Mini Computers

ART-Pi II Pairs a 600 MHz Cortex-M7 With a 2.5D GPU

The $45 ART-Pi II runs a 600 MHz STM32H7R7 with a NeoChrom 2.5D GPU, 32MB HyperRAM, Wi-Fi 4 and a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin header.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 21, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Halo: Campaign Evolved Hits Game Pass Day One July 28
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Gaming

Halo: Campaign Evolved Hits Game Pass Day One July 28

Halo: Campaign Evolved lands day one on Game Pass July 28 with four-player co-op, three new missions and cross-play across Xbox, PC and PS5.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 21, 20264 min read
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AI Security

AI Agent Sandbox Design: 4 Lessons From New Research

Pillar Security's seven disclosures across Cursor, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI reveal four sandbox failure modes AI agent builders can design against.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 21, 20265 min read
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Crypto

CoinShares MINE Is Europe's First Bitcoin Mining UCITS ETF

CoinShares listed MINE on Xetra: a physically replicated Bitcoin mining UCITS ETF with a 0.65% expense ratio, targeting Europe's €26.3T fund market.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 21, 20264 min read
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Stock Trading

Chime Invest Adds Commission-Free Stock Trading From $1

Chime Invest brings commission-free stock and ETF trading from $1 plus managed portfolios at 0-0.25%, with no account minimums and SIPC coverage.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 21, 20264 min read
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Qwen3.8-Max Benchmarks: What to Watch in the Preview

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max preview brings 2.4 trillion parameters and multimodal input, but no benchmark table yet. Here's the baseline to measure it against.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge Puts World Models Inside Robots
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NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge Puts World Models Inside Robots

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter world model doing spatial reasoning on Jetson and RTX hardware, adaptable to a robot in about a day.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for SAP Closes Prior Labs Deal on Tabular Foundation Models
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SAP Closes Prior Labs Deal on Tabular Foundation Models

SAP completed its Prior Labs acquisition at over 1 billion euros and will invest another 1 billion by 2030 in open tabular foundation models.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Real World VoiceEQ Benchmarks the Human Side of Voice AI
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Real World VoiceEQ Benchmarks the Human Side of Voice AI

Hume AI and Hugging Face open a voice AI benchmark built on over one million human ratings, covering 40+ models and 60+ metrics of speech quality.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 Packs 6 TOPS Into a CM5 Slot
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Mini Computers

Geniatech XPI-3576-CM5 Packs 6 TOPS Into a CM5 Slot

Geniatech's XPI-3576-CM5 packs a 6 TOPS RK3576 NPU into a 55 x 40 mm module that drops straight into existing Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier boards.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for moddo Pinch Is the Smallest Arduino Board Yet at 11mm
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Mini Computers

moddo Pinch Is the Smallest Arduino Board Yet at 11mm

The moddo Pinch is a 10.9 x 10.5 mm Arduino-compatible board that fits inside a USB-C shell, with 12 GPIO, 11 PWM channels, and pre-orders open at $15.90.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide
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Mini Computers

Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide

Compare five edge AI dev boards from 4 to 67 TOPS and $70 to $249, and see why NPU toolchain maturity, not the TOPS number, decides what runs.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for SteamVR Quick Access Menu Lands Ahead of Steam Frame
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Gaming

SteamVR Quick Access Menu Lands Ahead of Steam Frame

SteamVR Beta 2.17.4 ports the Steam Deck Quick Access Menu into VR, adding volume, battery, achievements and Steam Notes inside the headset.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Microsoft Dusseldorf Brings Open-Source OAST to Your Servers
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AI Security

Microsoft Dusseldorf Brings Open-Source OAST to Your Servers

Microsoft open-sourced Dusseldorf, a self-hosted OAST platform catching 4 blind bug classes while keeping callback data on your own servers.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 20, 20264 min read
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Crypto

JPYC Stablecoin to Pay 2,300 Japanese Logistics Partners

AZ-COM Maruwa will settle payments to 2,300 partners in JPYC, Japan's first regulated yen stablecoin, after 2 billion yen hit on-chain circulation.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Hut 8 Beacon Point Campus Fully Leased in $9.8B AI Deal
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Stock Trading

Hut 8 Beacon Point Campus Fully Leased in $9.8B AI Deal

Hut 8's second 352 MW lease commercializes the full 1 GW Beacon Point campus, taking campus base-term contract value to $19.6 billion over 15 years.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for MIT's GIFT Turns 2D Designs Into CAD at 20% Compute
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MIT's GIFT Turns 2D Designs Into CAD at 20% Compute

MIT's GIFT system converts a 2D image and text into executable CAD code using about 20% of the compute rival methods need, with no human labeling.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Gemini Notebook Replaces NotebookLM and Runs Your Code
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Gemini Notebook Replaces NotebookLM and Runs Your Code

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and added secure cloud code execution, serving 30 million users and over 600,000 organizations.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 19, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B for Faster Model Inference
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Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B for Faster Model Inference

Fireworks AI closed a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, a 4.4x step-up in nine months, betting on production model inference.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 19, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide
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Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide

A buyer's guide to Raspberry Pi LoRa boards and long-range 4G HATs, from a 19 USD Waveshare SX1262 node module to a 149 euros LoRaWAN concentrator.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for OpenInfrared Point: An Open Local ESP32-S3 Remote Hub
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Mini Computers

OpenInfrared Point: An Open Local ESP32-S3 Remote Hub

The OpenInfrared Point pairs an ESP32-S3 with IR, NFC and audio streaming, running fully local. Kickstarter early-bird pricing starts at 149 USD.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for BornHack's Cyber Aegg Badge Runs LoRa Mesh Networking
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Mini Computers

BornHack's Cyber Aegg Badge Runs LoRa Mesh Networking

The BornHack 2026 Cyber Aegg badge pairs an nRF52840 with an SX1262 LoRa radio and a 1.54-inch e-paper display, and it lasts the whole camp on one charge.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
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Gaming

Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters Are Officially On

Bethesda confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, put Fallout 5 in pre-production on Creation Engine 3, and made an Obsidian project official.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for 7-Zip 26.02 Patches an Archive Decoder Flaw via ZDI
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AI Security

7-Zip 26.02 Patches an Archive Decoder Flaw via ZDI

7-Zip 26.02 fixes a heap overflow in the XZ decoder, found by researcher Landon Peng and coordinated through ZDI as advisory ZDI-26-444. Update manually.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 19, 20264 min read