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Cover illustration for Mastercard Pilots Shared Identity Checks for Stablecoins
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Crypto

Mastercard Pilots Shared Identity Checks for Stablecoins

Mastercard and Borderless.xyz are piloting Crypto Credential for cross-border stablecoin flows, testing a single-audit compliance model with 3 partners.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Unity Q2 Revenue Climbs 24% to $546M as Grow Surges
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Unity Q2 Revenue Climbs 24% to $546M as Grow Surges

Unity reported Q2 2026 revenue of $546.5 million, up 24%, with adjusted EPS of 28 cents against an expected 9-cent loss. Shares jumped double digits.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 7, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Securing AI Coding Agents in CI: A Hardening Guide
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Securing AI Coding Agents in CI: A Hardening Guide

Black Hat 2026 showed a single GitHub issue could reach CI secrets. Here are seven hardening steps for AI coding agents, plus the patched version numbers.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 7, 20269 min read
Cover illustration for ZecTrix Note 4 Puts an AI Voice Notepad on E-Paper
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Mini Computers

ZecTrix Note 4 Puts an AI Voice Notepad on E-Paper

ZecTrix Note 4 pairs a 4.2-inch E-Ink display with an ESP32-S3, NFC, and a 2,000 mAh battery for $54.99 — and a four-color variant lands near $30.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 6, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for CtrlVibe AI Console Keypad Starts at $109 on Kickstarter
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CtrlVibe AI Console Keypad Starts at $109 on Kickstarter

CtrlVibe AI Console packs nine hot-swappable keys, a rotary encoder, and a three-way permission toggle into a CNC aluminum keypad starting at $109.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 6, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for LoRaWAN QR Codes Replace Manual Key Entry at Scale
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Mini Computers

LoRaWAN QR Codes Replace Manual Key Entry at Scale

Three new LoRa Alliance specs turn LoRaWAN device onboarding into a QR scan and add relay guidance for coverage underground and behind thick walls.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 6, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for K-EXAONE 2.0 Ships 750B Open Weights Under Apache 2.0
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K-EXAONE 2.0 Ships 750B Open Weights Under Apache 2.0

LG AI Research released K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 37B active parameters, under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for OpenAI Astra Proves 10 Open Math Problems in Lean 4
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OpenAI Astra Proves 10 Open Math Problems in Lean 4

OpenAI published machine-checkable Lean 4 proofs for ten long-open math problems from an internal Astra model, at a total compute cost of about $2,000.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 6, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Cloudflare OS Open-Sources an Agent Workspace Platform
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Cloudflare OS Open-Sources an Agent Workspace Platform

Cloudflare released Cloudflare OS as open source — an agent workspace with isolated code runtimes, a governance layer, and user-modifiable internal apps.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Shieldstral Runs Multimodal Safety on One 16GB GPU
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Shieldstral Runs Multimodal Safety on One 16GB GPU

Mistral's Shieldstral is a 3B open-weight safety classifier covering 12 languages and images, taking plain-language policies at inference on a 16GB GPU.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Final Fantasy XIV Lands on Switch 2 With All Expansions
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Gaming

Final Fantasy XIV Lands on Switch 2 With All Expansions

Final Fantasy XIV arrived on Switch 2 on August 4 with every expansion through Dawntrail, editions from $19.99, and a free month of subscription time.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Cloudflare Wallets Give AI Agents a Spending Limit
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Crypto

Cloudflare Wallets Give AI Agents a Spending Limit

Cloudflare launched stablecoin wallets and cloudflare.pay handles so AI agents can buy APIs and content under spending caps and approved-merchant rules.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for AMD Data Center Revenue Doubles to $6.7B in Q2 2026
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AMD Data Center Revenue Doubles to $6.7B in Q2 2026

AMD posted record Q2 revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50%, as data center sales more than doubled to $6.7 billion and now make up 58% of the company.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 6, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context
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Qwen3.8-Max Packs 2.4T Parameters Into a 1M Context

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with a 1M-token window, priced at $2 per million input tokens and open weights next week.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 20267 min read
Cover illustration for NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super Ships an Open 34B AV Model
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NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super Ships an Open 34B AV Model

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial use — a 34B open reasoning model for robotaxis with 360-degree perception and a permissive OpenMDW license.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Sparse Mixture of Experts Explained for 2026 Models
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Sparse Mixture of Experts Explained for 2026 Models

Why a 2.4T-parameter model can be cheaper than a 70B one: what active parameters mean, how routing works, and what MoE really costs to self-host in 2026.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 202611 min read
Cover illustration for reComputer Mini J501 Puts 275 TOPS in a 119mm Cube
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Mini Computers

reComputer Mini J501 Puts 275 TOPS in a 119mm Cube

Seeed's reComputer Mini J501 pairs a Jetson AGX Orin module with 10GbE, dual CAN-FD and eight GMSL2 cameras in a 1.35kg box, from $2,399 early-bird.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 4, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for Espressif ESP32-C61-MINI Puts Wi-Fi 6 in a $2 Module
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Mini Computers

Espressif ESP32-C61-MINI Puts Wi-Fi 6 in a $2 Module

Espressif's ESP32-C61-MINI-1 brings 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE 5.3 to a RISC-V module costing about $2 each in five-packs, with a $9 dev board.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 4, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Silicon Labs BG2B Sleeps at 1.1uA on Bluetooth 6
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Mini Computers

Silicon Labs BG2B Sleeps at 1.1uA on Bluetooth 6

Silicon Labs' BG2B is its lowest-power Bluetooth LE part yet, holding 1.1uA deep sleep with RAM retention and cutting active MCU current by around 15%.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 4, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Hits Switch 2 Sept 17
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Gaming

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Hits Switch 2 Sept 17

Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Direct set a September 17 Switch 2 date, four playable protagonists, and a Dagdan Collection special edition.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonAug 4, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Wells Fargo Brings Tokenized Deposits to 24/7 Payments
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Wells Fargo Brings Tokenized Deposits to 24/7 Payments

Wells Fargo will launch tokenized deposits this fall on its own blockchain, starting with US dollar to sterling transfers for corporate clients.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensAug 4, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Palantir Q2 Revenue Grows 93% and Guidance Rises
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Palantir Q2 Revenue Grows 93% and Guidance Rises

Palantir posted $1.94 billion in Q2 revenue, up 93%, with US commercial revenue up 149% and full-year guidance lifted to roughly $8.15 billion.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderAug 4, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for OWASP Subtractive Security Scores What You Remove
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AI Security

OWASP Subtractive Security Scores What You Remove

OWASP launched a Subtractive Security Top 10 with nine platform lists and a Path Erasure Rate metric that counts attack paths deleted, not alerts raised.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisAug 4, 20266 min read
Cover illustration for DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Tops V4-Pro at a Third the Price
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AI

DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Tops V4-Pro at a Third the Price

DeepSeek's retrained V4-Flash 0731 beats its own V4-Pro preview on every published agentic benchmark at $0.28 per million output tokens, MIT licensed.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenAug 4, 20266 min read