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Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi CM5 Mini PC Runs OpenClaw Agents Locally
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Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi CM5 Mini PC Runs OpenClaw Agents Locally

EDATEC's ED-CLAWBOX packs a Raspberry Pi CM5 into a 100mm passively cooled aluminum box for $267.19, running local OpenClaw AI agents on just 12W.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Wi-Fi Sensing Turns an ESP32 and Pi Into a Motion Radar
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Wi-Fi Sensing Turns an ESP32 and Pi Into a Motion Radar

WifiSense-Pi pairs an ESP32-S3 sampling 100 times a second with a Raspberry Pi 4 to detect people through walls — and the code is now open source.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Luckfox Lyra PLC Runs Linux on an $84 Industrial Board
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Luckfox Lyra PLC Runs Linux on an $84 Industrial Board

The Luckfox Lyra PLC pairs a Rockchip RK3506B with 10A relays, RS485, CAN and dual Ethernet for $83.99, running Linux, Node-RED and OpenPLC.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Stripe Buys OpenRouter in a $7 Billion AI Gateway Deal
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Stripe Buys OpenRouter in a $7 Billion AI Gateway Deal

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, more than five times the AI gateway startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Kog Inference Engine Squeezes 30x From Existing GPUs
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Kog Inference Engine Squeezes 30x From Existing GPUs

French startup Kog hit 3,000 tokens per second on standard AMD and NVIDIA datacenter GPUs, claiming a path to 30x faster LLM inference in software.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 17, 20264 min read
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AI Agents Reproduced 2,226 ICML Papers in Just 19 Days

A Hugging Face community challenge used AI coding agents to audit 2,226 ICML 2026 papers, verifying claims across 6,816 public reproduction logbooks.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Kingdom Hearts 4 Lands Late 2027 With a Disney+ Anime
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Gaming

Kingdom Hearts 4 Lands Late 2027 With a Disney+ Anime

Square Enix confirmed Kingdom Hearts 4 for late 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2 day one, plus a Pixar Coco-inspired world and an original Disney+ anime series.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for UBS Bitcoin ETF Call Options Jump 24-Fold in Q2 Filing
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Crypto

UBS Bitcoin ETF Call Options Jump 24-Fold in Q2 Filing

UBS reported 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at June 30, up from 80,000 in March — a 2,337% increase disclosed in its latest 13F filing.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Unitree IPO Heads to Shanghai at a $9 Billion Valuation
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Stock Trading

Unitree IPO Heads to Shanghai at a $9 Billion Valuation

Unitree priced its STAR Market IPO at 150.80 yuan a share for a $9 billion valuation, with retail demand oversubscribed roughly 8,000 times.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Google Cloud Maps Post-Quantum Crypto Readiness by 2029
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Google Cloud Maps Post-Quantum Crypto Readiness by 2029

Google Cloud published a phased post-quantum roadmap targeting full readiness by 2029, with quantum-safe key exchange already live on API endpoints.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Gemma Downloads Top 900 Million Across Open Models
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Gemma Downloads Top 900 Million Across Open Models

Google's Gemma open models have now passed 900 million downloads, with Gemma 4 alone contributing over 300 million since its April 2026 launch.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for IBM and OpenAI Partner on Secure Enterprise AI Rollouts
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IBM and OpenAI Partner on Secure Enterprise AI Rollouts

IBM Consulting will embed GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into its platform, backed by a new OpenAI Practice of thousands of certified staff.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for GEEKOM IT13 Max Linux Benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
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GEEKOM IT13 Max Linux Benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Core Ultra 9 185H mini PC posts 14,980 Geekbench multi-core on Ubuntu 26.04, with working USB4, dual 2.5GbE, and 8.6W idle draw at $735.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 15, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Giada DK320 Packs Wildcat Lake Into a 25mm Signage PC
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Giada DK320 Packs Wildcat Lake Into a 25mm Signage PC

The DK320 digital signage player pairs Intel Wildcat Lake with 15 TOPS of NPU, up to 48GB DDR5-6400, and dual 4K HDMI in a 25.4mm-thin case.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for ESP32-S3 Music Sequencer Doubles as a Slap Bracelet
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ESP32-S3 Music Sequencer Doubles as a Slap Bracelet

Maker 3DSage built a wearable ESP32-S3 sequencer with brass-rod note input, a translucent PETG case, and a measuring-tape slap bracelet band.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Which ESP32 Variant to Choose: A 2026 Buyer's Guide
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Which ESP32 Variant to Choose: A 2026 Buyer's Guide

Nine ESP32 variants, one decision. Compare S3, C3, C5, C6, H2, and P4 by cores, RAM, radios, and price to pick the right chip for your project.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 15, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for Pokemon Pokopia Tops 5 Million Nintendo Switch 2 Sales
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Gaming

Pokemon Pokopia Tops 5 Million Nintendo Switch 2 Sales

The cozy life sim has sold 5 million copies in four months, attaching to over 20% of the Switch 2 install base and ranking second on the platform.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Ether.fi Neobank Adds Tokenized Stocks, Metals, Loans
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Crypto

Ether.fi Neobank Adds Tokenized Stocks, Metals, Loans

Ether.fi's Summer release brings 90+ tokenized assets, Aave-backed borrowing near 4%, and 30+ fiat rails to its 500,000 self-custody members.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 15, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for S&P 500 Record Close Led by Memory Chip Stock Rally
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S&P 500 Record Close Led by Memory Chip Stock Rally

The S&P 500 closed at a record 7,798.99 on August 13 as flat July producer prices and a memory-chip rally lifted sentiment into a third weekly gain.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 15, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for OT Vulnerability Triage Drops From Weeks to Minutes
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OT Vulnerability Triage Drops From Weeks to Minutes

Fortress and Industrial Defender integrated asset intelligence with AI vulnerability correlation, cutting OT vulnerability-to-asset triage to minutes.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 15, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Gemini 3.7 Flash Benchmarks: What Developers Get Now
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Gemini 3.7 Flash Benchmarks: What Developers Get Now

Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived August 13 with DeepSWE v1.1 at 65.3%, WebDev Arena Elo of 1588, and intro pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Claude Text Watermarking: What App Builders Should Know
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Claude Text Watermarking: What App Builders Should Know

Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks in Claude text output and C2PA metadata in image files, with a detection API confirmed as on the roadmap.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Gemma Translator: Offline AI Translation on a Pi 5
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Gemma Translator: Offline AI Translation on a Pi 5

A Raspberry Pi 5 runs a full speech-to-speech interpreter offline using Gemma 4 E2B and LiteRT, at 9 tokens per second and 1,432 MB peak memory.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for EITWatch Reads Hand Gestures With an ESP32-S3 Watch
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EITWatch Reads Hand Gestures With an ESP32-S3 Watch

Northwestern's open-source EITWatch fits eight electrodes on a watch back and hits 92.5% macro-gesture accuracy from a XIAO ESP32-S3 at 48 Hz.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 14, 20266 min read