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Mini Computers

BIGTREETECH Panda Sense Pro: An 8-in-1 Air Quality Monitor for Makers

The BIGTREETECH Panda Sense Pro 8-in-1 air quality monitor tracks PM2.5, CO2, and formaldehyde for 3D printing spaces, with Klipper and Home Assistant support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 4, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

DEBIX T62P-01: A Pi-Sized Industrial SBC on TI Sitara AM62P

The DEBIX T62P-01 industrial SBC pairs a TI Sitara AM62P SoC with dual GbE TSN, Wi-Fi 6, and real-time R5F cores in an 88x59 mm board for robotics and edge IoT.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 4, 20265 min read
Gaming

Palworld Graduates: The 1.0 Launch Is Here, and It's Free for Everyone

Palworld leaves Early Access on July 10, 2026, with the World Tree endgame, Sky Islands, PvP, and a free 1.0 update that nearly doubles the map.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 4, 20264 min read
Gaming

Cyberpunk 2077 Zooms Past 40 Million Copies Sold in Night City

Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 40 million copies, outpacing The Witcher 3's run rate as free updates and a Switch 2 port fuel a craftsmanship success story.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 4, 20264 min read
Crypto

Ethereum Institutional: A Fee-Free Front Door for Bank On-Chain Adoption

Ethereum Institutional launches as an independent nonprofit giving banks and asset managers a neutral, fee-free contact for tokenization and stablecoin adoption.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 4, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Russell 2000 Hits Record High, Capping Its Best First Half Since 1991

The Russell 2000 small-cap index closed at an all-time high, capping its strongest first half since 1991 with a 22% gain as market strength broadens.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 4, 20264 min read
AI Security

Opera Paste Protect: A Browser Shield Against ClickFix Attacks

Opera Paste Protect blocks ClickFix clipboard attacks natively, inspecting copied commands to stop clipboard-based social engineering before users paste them into a terminal.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 4, 20264 min read
AI

Claude Sonnet 5 Brings Near-Flagship AI Power at a Lower Price

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model yet, approaching Opus 4.8 quality at $2/$10 per million tokens and shipping as the default for free users.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 3, 20265 min read
AI

A Local AI Agent Matches Tumor Boards on Blood-Cancer Decisions

A peer-reviewed Nature Medicine study shows a locally run LLM agent matching expert hematology tumor boards while keeping patient data private on-site.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 3, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Sipeed NanoKVM-Go Is an AI-Native 4K USB-C KVM With MCP

The Sipeed NanoKVM-Go is a tiny 4K USB-C KVM built on the Axera AX630C with a 3.2 TOPS NPU, exposing every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents. From $59.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 3, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

PaperBoy Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 FPS on E Ink

PaperBoy drives an ESP32-S3 E Ink devkit at a full 60 FPS, running a Game Boy emulator with a BLE gamepad by bypassing the normal e-paper waveform. It's open source.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 3, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Titan Mini Packs a Renesas RA8P1 AI Board Into Under $50

Titan Mini is a compact edge-AI board built on the Renesas RA8P1, with a Cortex-M85, an Ethos-U55 NPU delivering 256 GOPS, and RT-Thread support for around $50.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 3, 20264 min read
Gaming

Meccha Chameleon Hits 10 Million Sales in Just 16 Days

The $6 indie hit Meccha Chameleon, built by a two-person team in two months, sold 10 million copies on Steam in 16 days on pure word-of-mouth. A feel-good story.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 3, 20265 min read
AI Security

New Open-Source Tools Help Defenders Secure AI Agents

June's open-source security roundup brings free tools for the AI-agent era: DockSec's AI-powered container fixes and detections for prompt injection.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 3, 20265 min read
Crypto

Nasdaq Brings TotalView Market Data On-Chain via Pyth Network

Nasdaq is distributing its TotalView depth-of-book equity data through Pyth Network's on-chain marketplace, a step toward programmable market data.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJul 3, 20265 min read
Stock Trading

Webull's Vega Portfolio Puts an AI Research Partner in Your Pocket

Webull unveiled Vega Portfolio, an AI research and analysis partner for retail investors that offers personalized guidance while you stay in control.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJul 3, 20264 min read
AI

Anthropic's Claude Science: An AI Workbench Built for Researchers

Anthropic's Claude Science is an AI research workbench that unifies scientific tools and prioritizes full reproducibility, from genomics to drug discovery.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 1, 20265 min read
AI

OpenAI and Broadcom's "Jalapeño" Chip: Custom Silicon for Inference

OpenAI's first custom chip, Jalapeño, is an inference-focused ASIC co-built with Broadcom, promising better performance-per-watt for large language models.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 1, 20265 min read
AI

Xiaomi's HarnessX: Agents That Rewrite Their Own Scaffolding

Xiaomi's HarnessX lets AI agents rewrite their own scaffolding mid-task, delivering a +14.5% average gain, with smaller open models benefiting the most.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 1, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

QuadRF: A Raspberry Pi 5 4x4 MIMO SDR RF Camera Hits Crowd Supply

QuadRF is a Raspberry Pi 5 4x4 MIMO software-defined radio tile that renders a live 30fps RF overlay. Open-source SDR beamforming from $499.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 1, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

Waveshare ESP32-C6-Zero-B Adds 5V-36V Wide Input for Industrial Use

The Waveshare ESP32-C6-Zero-B is a tiny RISC-V board with a 5V-36V wide supply input, WiFi 6, and Zigbee/Thread radio, priced around $6-7.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 1, 20264 min read
Mini Computers

sprite_tm Builds a Retro PC From Scratch With FPGA Glue Logic

At Hackaday Europe 2026, sprite_tm built a working i486 retro PC from parts, using a Lattice ECP5 FPGA for glue logic. It became the Vapourdeck handheld.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 1, 20266 min read
Gaming

AYANEO Pocket MICRO 2 Sells Out on Day One as Retro Fans Rejoice

The AYANEO Pocket MICRO 2 retro handheld launched June 26, 2026 with a Snapdragon chip, TMR joysticks, and a bigger battery, then sold out day one.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJul 1, 20265 min read
AI Security

cURL 8.21.0 Ships a Record 18 Fixes, Including a 25-Year-Old Bug

cURL 8.21.0 patched a record 18 vulnerabilities on June 24, 2026, including a 25-year-old flaw surfaced by AI-assisted code analysis, before any exploitation.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJul 1, 20265 min read