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Cover illustration for GLM-5.3 Posts an 84.5% CyberGym Cyber Defense Score
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AI Security

GLM-5.3 Posts an 84.5% CyberGym Cyber Defense Score

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 lifts CyberGym from 77.2% to 84.5% on post-training alone, and the team is holding weights back two weeks for safety hardening.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 14, 20266 min read
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Gaming

VR Games Showcase Recap: 25 Titles and Release Dates

The August 13 VR Games Showcase revealed System Shock VR and High On Life VR plus 25-plus games, with firm dates from September through 2027.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 14, 20266 min read
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Crypto

Fidelity Ether ETF Staking Would Pay Quarterly Cash

Fidelity's amended FETH filing would stake up to 100% of the fund's ether, keep 85% of gross rewards, and pay holders quarterly cash distributions.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Applied Materials Q3: Record $9.12B and Raised Outlook
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Stock Trading

Applied Materials Q3: Record $9.12B and Raised Outlook

Applied Materials posted record Q3 revenue of $9.12 billion, up 25% year over year, and guided Q4 to $10.25 billion on AI infrastructure demand.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Make a 2.4T Model Downloadable
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AI

Qwen3.8-Max Open Weights Make a 2.4T Model Downloadable

Alibaba published Qwen3.8-Max open weights on August 12: 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B active per token, and a 262K context that extends past 1M tokens.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 14, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for On-Device Vision AI Reads Screens in 3GB of Memory
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AI

On-Device Vision AI Reads Screens in 3GB of Memory

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-3B scores 69.4% average across vision benchmarks and decodes 228 tokens/second on an M5 Max, all inside roughly 3GB of memory.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Robot Model Trained on a Million Hours of Video
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AI

Robot Model Trained on a Million Hours of Video

Dyna Robotics says DYNA-2 lifted manufacturing task success from 20% to 80-90% through pre-training on a million hours of egocentric human video alone.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Grok 4.6 Brings a 500K Context Window to AI Agents
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AI

Grok 4.6 Brings a 500K Context Window to AI Agents

xAI's Grok 4.6 ships a 500K-token context window and scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis index, holding Grok 4.5's $2 per million input token price.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Snapdragon C Runs 67% Faster on Battery Than Intel N250
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Mini Computers

Snapdragon C Runs 67% Faster on Battery Than Intel N250

Qualcomm's Snapdragon C beat Intel's N250 by up to 67% in unplugged Cinebench multi-core tests, with up to 2.1x better battery power efficiency.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for RISC-V MCU Adds Built-In Ethernet PHY and 8MB PSRAM
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Mini Computers

RISC-V MCU Adds Built-In Ethernet PHY and 8MB PSRAM

WCH's CH32V467 packs a 200 MHz RISC-V core, built-in Fast Ethernet PHY, 480 Mbps USB, and up to 8MB PSRAM at roughly $2.40 to $2.90 per chip.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for AAEON PICO-ADN2 Fits 2.5GbE Into an 80-Gram Pico-ITX SBC
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Mini Computers

AAEON PICO-ADN2 Fits 2.5GbE Into an 80-Gram Pico-ITX SBC

The AAEON PICO-ADN2 pairs Intel N97 or Core i3-N305 silicon with 2.5GbE, 16GB LPDDR5, and TPM 2.0 on a 100x72mm Pico-ITX board weighing 80 grams.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 13, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Ghost of Yotei Expansion Adds a Roguelike Bounty Mode
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Gaming

Ghost of Yotei Expansion Adds a Roguelike Bounty Mode

Ghost of Yotei: Echoes of Sekigahara and the Most Wanted roguelike arrive October 1 in a $69.99 Complete Edition, with a $14.99 upgrade for owners.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 13, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Stocks
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Crypto

Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Stocks

Coinbase secured Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi's FSRA to arrange deals, custody tokenized securities, and issue digital shares.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Cisco Q4 Revenue Hits Record $17.3B as AI Orders Surge
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Stock Trading

Cisco Q4 Revenue Hits Record $17.3B as AI Orders Surge

Cisco posted record Q4 revenue of $17.3 billion, up 18%, and booked $9.3 billion in hyperscaler AI infrastructure orders in fiscal 2026, up 4.5x.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Signal Automates Encryption Checks With Key Transparency
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AI Security

Signal Automates Encryption Checks With Key Transparency

Signal's Automatic Key Verification uses a key transparency log audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits to confirm chats without meeting in person.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 13, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Puts 1M-Token Agents on RTX PCs
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AI

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Puts 1M-Token Agents on RTX PCs

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30B open model with 3B active parameters, a 1M-token context, and 4x faster output for local AI agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 12, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for ChatGPT Restaurant Booking Arrives via Yelp and Resy
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AI

ChatGPT Restaurant Booking Arrives via Yelp and Resy

ChatGPT can now book restaurant tables through OpenTable, Resy, and Yelp, with waitlist joins across thousands of venues in the US and Canada.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 12, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Claude Code Auto Mode Turns On by Default August 14
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AI

Claude Code Auto Mode Turns On by Default August 14

Anthropic makes Claude Code auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team on August 14, after a 1,053-person study found it caught 89% of harmful actions.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 12, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for NXP i.MX 95 Dev Board Adds 10GbE and Dual M.2 Slots
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Mini Computers

NXP i.MX 95 Dev Board Adds 10GbE and Dual M.2 Slots

The $300 FRDM-IMX95-PRO pairs a 6-core i.MX 95, 16GB of LPDDR5-6400, an 8 TOPS NPU, and 10GbE networking with two PCIe Gen3 M.2 slots for edge AI.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 12, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for PewCB One Etches Circuit Boards With a Desktop Laser
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Mini Computers

PewCB One Etches Circuit Boards With a Desktop Laser

PewCB One is a 20W laser PCB fab that ablates 0.1mm traces in under an hour with no chemicals, priced at $5,000 with production from September 1.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 12, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for PiShot Makes a Pocket Camera From a Raspberry Pi Zero
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Mini Computers

PiShot Makes a Pocket Camera From a Raspberry Pi Zero

PiShot is an open-source 3D-printed camera built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Camera Module 3, an ST7789 rear display, and a single 18650 cell.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 12, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Grounded 2 Into the Abyss Adds a Whole Pond to Explore
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Gaming

Grounded 2 Into the Abyss Adds a Whole Pond to Explore

Grounded 2's Into the Abyss update adds three biomes, full underwater exploration, diving suits, and an amphibious buggy — plus a same-day PS5 launch.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 12, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Solana Slot Times Fall to 350ms on the Road to 200ms
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Crypto

Solana Slot Times Fall to 350ms on the Road to 200ms

Solana cut testnet slot times to 350ms on August 6, the first of four steps toward 200ms blocks, with Agave v4.2 mainnet targeted for August 17.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 12, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Datadog Q2 Revenue Grows 36% to $1.12B on AI Agents
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Stock Trading

Datadog Q2 Revenue Grows 36% to $1.12B on AI Agents

Datadog Q2 revenue rose 36% to $1.12 billion with 4,720 customers above $100K ARR, as autonomous Bits AI and AI Guard reached general availability.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 12, 20265 min read