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Cover illustration for Kraken Launches USD-Settled Bitcoin and Ether Options
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Crypto

Kraken Launches USD-Settled Bitcoin and Ether Options

Kraken options on XBT/USD and ETH/USD settle in dollars across 4 expiry tenors, with portfolio margin on by default and RFQ access at launch.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 19, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for Darwinex TradingView Integration Turns Charts Into Trades
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Stock Trading

Darwinex TradingView Integration Turns Charts Into Trades

Darwinex traders can now order straight from TradingView charts, feeding auditable records behind more than $600 million allocated to independent traders.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 19, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for Google AI Mode Now Links Canva, Instacart, YouTube Music
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AI

Google AI Mode Now Links Canva, Instacart, YouTube Music

Google AI Mode can now open linked apps directly from a chat — starting with Canva, Instacart and YouTube Music in a US rollout announced July 16.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA NeMo Automodel Fine-Tunes Any Diffusers Model
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AI

NVIDIA NeMo Automodel Fine-Tunes Any Diffusers Model

NVIDIA and Hugging Face shipped distributed fine-tuning for any Diffusers model — FLUX.1-dev LoRA hits 53.73 images per second on eight H100s.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico
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Mini Computers

Olimex PICO-EVB Adds Mains Relays to Raspberry Pi Pico

Olimex's €14.95 PICO-EVB turns any Raspberry Pi Pico into an industrial controller with four 240VAC relays, four optoisolated inputs and ESPHome support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Espressif's ESP-Aliro SDK Brings Smart Locks to ESP32
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Mini Computers

Espressif's ESP-Aliro SDK Brings Smart Locks to ESP32

Espressif released esp-aliro, an open SDK implementing the CSA's Aliro credential standard on ESP32-C and ESP32-H chips — phone-as-key, no lock-in.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for M5Stack Core2 Firmware Clones a $230 Codex Macro Pad
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Mini Computers

M5Stack Core2 Firmware Clones a $230 Codex Macro Pad

Open-source firmware turns a roughly $50 M5Stack Core2 into a working equivalent of OpenAI's $230 Codex Micro control pad, using its touchscreen.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for VulnHunter Open-Sources Capital One's AI Bug Hunting
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AI Security

VulnHunter Open-Sources Capital One's AI Bug Hunting

Capital One released VulnHunter under Apache 2.0 — an agentic security tool that traces exploit paths and tries to disprove its own findings first.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Xbox July Update Adds 15-Character Gamertags and More
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Gaming

Xbox July Update Adds 15-Character Gamertags and More

Microsoft's July Xbox update ships 12 features to all Series X and S owners — longer Gamertags, poster-view library, and cloud play during updates.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 19, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Marex Accepts USDC Margin for US Derivatives Clearing
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Crypto

Marex Accepts USDC Margin for US Derivatives Clearing

Marex became the first traditional clearing firm to accept Circle's USDC as initial margin for US derivatives, with Coinbase Prime handling custody.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Alpaca Raises $135M to Build Agent-First Brokerage APIs
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Stock Trading

Alpaca Raises $135M to Build Agent-First Brokerage APIs

Alpaca raised $135M in equity toward a $435M total package, saying tokenized equity assets under custody have now passed the $1.5 billion mark.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 19, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Kimi K3 Becomes the Largest Open-Weight AI Model Yet
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AI

Kimi K3 Becomes the Largest Open-Weight AI Model Yet

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that ranks 3rd on GDPval-AA v2, with full weights arriving July 27.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Anthropic Backs Canadian AI Research With $10M in Credits
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Anthropic Backs Canadian AI Research With $10M in Credits

Anthropic is committing $10M CAD in Claude credits to eight Canadian universities, hospitals, and institutes advancing health and language AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for reCamera Pro Runs LLMs and Vision on a $300 AI Camera
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Mini Computers

reCamera Pro Runs LLMs and Vision on a $300 AI Camera

Seeed Studio's reCamera Pro packs a 3 TOPS NPU to run vision, LLMs, speech-to-text, and TTS fully on-device with no cloud, from $299.90.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Beelink EQi Brings 10GbE Networking to a $509 Mini PC
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Mini Computers

Beelink EQi Brings 10GbE Networking to a $509 Mini PC

Beelink's EQi mini PC pairs Intel's new 5-core Wildcat Lake chip with 10GbE and dual Thunderbolt 4, starting at $509 — a first at this price.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Prompt Injection Becomes a Defense With Context Bombs
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AI Security

Prompt Injection Becomes a Defense With Context Bombs

Tracebit's 'context bombs' plant text in cloud decoys that trip an AI attacker's own guardrails — cutting attack success from 91% to 15%.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Black Flag Resynced Sets an Assassin's Creed Record
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Gaming

Black Flag Resynced Sets an Assassin's Creed Record

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sold 3 million copies in its first week and set a franchise-record 99,451 peak players on Steam.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Visa Stablecoin Platform Spans Nine Blockchains in Beta
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Crypto

Visa Stablecoin Platform Spans Nine Blockchains in Beta

Visa's new Stablecoin Platform lets banks issue and redeem stablecoins across 9 blockchains, launching with the 140-firm-backed Open USD.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 18, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Longbridge Launches an AI-Native Investing Platform
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Stock Trading

Longbridge Launches an AI-Native Investing Platform

Longbridge's new AI-native platform turns investing into a conversation, drafting orders you review and plugging 13+ skills into ChatGPT and Claude.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Thinking Machines Inkling: A 975B Open-Weights Model
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AI

Thinking Machines Inkling: A 975B Open-Weights Model

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model with 41B active per token and a 1M-token context window.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 16, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Claude for Teachers Gives US K-12 Educators Free AI
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AI

Claude for Teachers Gives US K-12 Educators Free AI

Anthropic made premium Claude free for verified US K-12 teachers, with curricula mapped to standards in all 50 states and nine edtech connectors.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Jetson T3000 Brings Blackwell Edge AI to Small Robots
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Mini Computers

Jetson T3000 Brings Blackwell Edge AI to Small Robots

NVIDIA's Jetson T3000 packs 865 FP4 TFLOPS and 32GB LPDDR5X into a module half the size of the T5000, with both new modules shipping Q1 2027.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for RK3576 NPU Support Lands in Mainline Linux Via Rocket
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Mini Computers

RK3576 NPU Support Lands in Mainline Linux Via Rocket

A developer reverse-engineered the RK3576's hidden NPU registers to bring open-source acceleration to mainline Linux — and documented what still fails.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6
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Mini Computers

Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6

An open-source firmware turns the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W into a USB Wi-Fi adapter that needs no drivers on Linux, macOS, Windows, or mobile.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read