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Cover illustration for Antmicro Open-Sources a Thunderbolt Dual 10GbE Card
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Mini Computers

Antmicro Open-Sources a Thunderbolt Dual 10GbE Card

Antmicro released the full KiCad files for a Thunderbolt 3 to dual 10GbE adapter under Apache 2.0, measured at 9.4 Gbps while drawing under 9 watts.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Bird Logger Identifies 11,000 Species
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Raspberry Pi Bird Logger Identifies 11,000 Species

A Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone run BirdNET to identify over 11,000 bird species by sound, then render the day's visitors as an e-ink collage.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Ghost Recon Future Soldier Free to Keep Until Aug 13
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Ghost Recon Future Soldier Free to Keep Until Aug 13

Ubisoft is giving away Ghost Recon Future Soldier free to keep on PC through August 13, celebrating 25 years of the tactical shooter series.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 10, 20263 min read
Cover illustration for XRP Ledger Amendments Add Confidential Token Transfers
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XRP Ledger Amendments Add Confidential Token Transfers

Six XRP Ledger amendments up for validator vote would encrypt token balances while keeping selective visibility for regulators and auditors.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 10, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for MACOM Revenue Jumps 36% on Data Center Optical Demand
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MACOM Revenue Jumps 36% on Data Center Optical Demand

MACOM posted $342.2M in fiscal Q3 revenue, up 35.8% year over year, and guided fiscal Q4 to as much as $425M on strong data center optical demand.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Linux Kernel SCTP Fix Lands in All Stable Branches
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Linux Kernel SCTP Fix Lands in All Stable Branches

An 18-year-old SCTP use-after-free went from private report to patched across every supported Linux stable branch in a little over three weeks flat.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 10, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for ChronoWatch X2040 Is a DIY RP2040 Round-Screen Watch
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ChronoWatch X2040 Is a DIY RP2040 Round-Screen Watch

The ChronoWatch X2040 turns a $23 Waveshare RP2040 board into a DIY wearable with a 1.28-inch round touchscreen, a 3D-printed case, and a 950mAh battery.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for ChatGPT Reasoning Slider Puts Thinking Effort in Your Hands
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ChatGPT Reasoning Slider Puts Thinking Effort in Your Hands

ChatGPT's new reasoning slider spans five effort levels, and the updated GPT-5.6 Sol makes factual errors 68% less often than GPT-5.5 Instant.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for LFM2.5-2.6B Runs Tool-Calling AI Agents in 2.5GB of RAM
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LFM2.5-2.6B Runs Tool-Calling AI Agents in 2.5GB of RAM

Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B runs full tool-calling AI agents on a phone or Raspberry Pi, hitting 220 tokens per second in under 2.5GB of memory.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA NOOA Turns an AI Agent Into One Python Class
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NVIDIA NOOA Turns an AI Agent Into One Python Class

NVIDIA open-sourced NOOA, an agent framework where a 253-line agent hits 82.2% on SWE-bench Verified using half the tokens of rival harnesses.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for LILYGO T-Echo Card Puts Solar LoRa Mesh in an IP66 Shell
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LILYGO T-Echo Card Puts Solar LoRa Mesh in an IP66 Shell

The LILYGO T-Echo Card packs nRF52840, SX1262 LoRa, GPS and a solar panel into a 9.5mm IP66 card, starting around $60 with Meshtastic support.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console
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PICOTTY Turns Pi Picos Into a Networked Serial Console

PICOTTY pairs a Pi Zero 2 W hub with Ethernet-connected Pico nodes to give four headless machines a browser-based serial console for under $100.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Meshtastic vs MeshCore vs LoRaWAN Explained for 2026
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Meshtastic vs MeshCore vs LoRaWAN Explained for 2026

A plain-English guide to the three LoRa networking options: which one suits hikers, which scales to a city, and which needs gateway infrastructure.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 9, 202610 min read
Cover illustration for Quake Gets 19 Free New Levels for Its 30th Birthday
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Gaming

Quake Gets 19 Free New Levels for Its 30th Birthday

MachineGames built Quake: Dawn of the Machine, a free 19-level campaign with a new soundtrack and rune system, out now on every modern platform.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for JPYC Raises $38M to Take Yen Stablecoins Into Logistics
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JPYC Raises $38M to Take Yen Stablecoins Into Logistics

Japan's first registered stablecoin issuer extended its Series B to $38 million, led by logistics group AZ-COM Maruwa, bringing total funding to $106M.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Onto Innovation Q2 Revenue Climbs 35% to $343 Million
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Onto Innovation Q2 Revenue Climbs 35% to $343 Million

Onto Innovation posted record Q2 revenue of $343M, up 35% year over year, with backlog above $1.1 billion on AI memory and advanced packaging demand.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for HTTP Terminator Hunts Request Smuggling Bugs With AI
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HTTP Terminator Hunts Request Smuggling Bugs With AI

PortSwigger open-sourced HTTP Terminator, an AI research system that generated 30,000 desync vectors and surfaced a now-patched Apache zero-day.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 9, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Meta Muse Code Pairs a Terminal Agent With Muse Spark 1.2
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Meta Muse Code Pairs a Terminal Agent With Muse Spark 1.2

Meta shipped Muse Code, a terminal coding agent co-trained with Muse Spark 1.2, a model scoring 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Fable 5 Biology Safeguards Cut False Positives by 85%
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Fable 5 Biology Safeguards Cut False Positives by 85%

Anthropic retuned Fable 5's biology classifier, cutting biology fallbacks roughly 85% and total fallbacks 67% on Claude.ai while keeping dual-use limits.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for WeatherNext Cyclones Adds a Full Day of Forecast Lead
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WeatherNext Cyclones Adds a Full Day of Forecast Lead

Google DeepMind published WeatherNext Cyclones in Nature and open-sourced the weights under Apache 2.0, adding over 24 hours of cyclone forecast lead time.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Proxmox VE 9.2 Brings Official Arm64 Virtualization
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Proxmox VE 9.2 Brings Official Arm64 Virtualization

Proxmox VE 9.2 adds official 64-bit Arm builds, with full support for NVIDIA Grace and Vera platforms and best-effort support for UEFI Armv8-A hardware.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Token Monitor Shows AI Coding Usage on a 4-Inch Screen
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Token Monitor Shows AI Coding Usage on a 4-Inch Screen

Token Monitor is an ESP32-S3 desktop display tracking Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Antigravity quota, starting at 99 euros with an Apache-2.0 local broker.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for ESP RainMaker Neo Open Sources the Full IoT Stack
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ESP RainMaker Neo Open Sources the Full IoT Stack

Espressif released ESP RainMaker Neo under Apache 2.0, handing makers the cloud backend, firmware SDK, and phone app to self-host on their own AWS account.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Launches With 20 Fighters
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Launches With 20 Fighters

Arc System Works' 4v4 Marvel tag fighter arrived August 6 on PS5 and PC with 20 launch characters and a day-one patch, starting at $59.99 standard.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 7, 20265 min read