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Gaming

Dave the Diver Dives Into Freshwater With the In the Jungle DLC

Dave the Diver's In the Jungle DLC launched June 18 for $9.99, adding roughly 10 hours of freshwater adventure, new bosses, quests, and mini-games across all platforms.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 20, 20263 min read
Crypto

Morgan Stanley Files Ethereum and Solana ETFs With a 0.14% Fee

Morgan Stanley's June 18 amended filings propose spot Ethereum (MSSE) and Solana (MSOL) ETFs at a market-low 0.14% fee with a 95% staking reward pass-through on NYSE Arca.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 20, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Flutterwave Hits $3.2B Valuation in Ripple-Backed Series E Round

Flutterwave closed a Series E at a $3.2B valuation on June 19, with a strategic investment from Ripple fueling its stablecoin strategy across emerging-market payments.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 20, 20263 min read
AI

Moonshot's Kimi K2.7 Code Arrives as an Efficient Open-Weight Coding Model

Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code launched June 12 with a 1T-parameter MoE design, a 256K context window, and roughly 30% lower reasoning-token use.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 20, 20264 min read
AI

Ollama 0.30.8 Widens Local AI Hardware Support and Speeds Up Apple Silicon

Ollama 0.30.8, released June 12, broadens GGUF hardware support through llama.cpp and upgrades its Apple Silicon MLX engine for faster, private local AI.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 20, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi OS Moves to the Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel With a Fresher Desktop

The June 18 Raspberry Pi OS update jumps to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and LabWC 0.9.7, adding new drivers, refreshed icons, and the latest Pi firmware.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 20, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Gateworks Catalina GW9200: An i.MX 95 Edge AI SBC Built for Rugged Jobs

Gateworks' Catalina GW9200 pairs NXP's i.MX 95 and an eIQ Neutron NPU with flexible M.2/mPCIe sockets and 10GbE for industrial edge AI in harsh settings.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 20, 20264 min read
Gaming

Steam Next Fest June 2026 Is the Biggest Yet With Nearly 5,000 Free Demos

Steam Next Fest June 2026 is live through June 22 with roughly 4,900 free demos — the largest edition ever and a launchpad for indie games before the sale.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 20, 20263 min read
Crypto

Algorand Maps a Path to Quantum-Resistant Security Across Its Blockchain

Algorand's June 18 roadmap targets protocol-wide quantum resistance by end of 2027, starting with native Falcon-1024 post-quantum accounts in Q3 2026.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 20, 20264 min read
Stock Trading

Nuvei's $2.75B Payoneer Deal Aims to Build a Cross-Border Payments Powerhouse

Nuvei's $2.75B agreement to acquire Payoneer would create a global payments platform spanning 190+ countries, with stablecoin and agentic-commerce support.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 20, 20263 min read
AI Security

Accenture's $4.1B OT Security Push Unites Dragos, runZero, and NetRise

Accenture's roughly $4.1B move to combine Dragos, runZero, and NetRise builds an end-to-end defense for operational technology and critical infrastructure.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJun 20, 20264 min read
AI

Google's June Pixel Drop Adds Gemini Omni Video and AI Music Generation

Google's June 2026 Pixel Drop brings Gemini Omni video creation, AI music generation, and expanded Ask Photos editing across more of Europe.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 18, 20264 min read
AI

Claude Design Overhaul Adds Design System Imports and Code Round-Trips

Anthropic's June 2026 Claude Design update adds design system imports, code round-trips, and a canvas editor for seamless, on-brand designer-developer handoffs.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 18, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

AAEON UP WCL: A Credit-Card-Sized Wildcat Lake SBC with 24GB LPDDR5

AAEON's UP WCL packs Intel Wildcat Lake Core Series 3, up to 24GB LPDDR5, 256GB UFS, and a 17 TOPS NPU into an 85x56mm single-board computer.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 18, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

Amlogic A311Y3: Octa-Core Edge AI SoC with an 8 TOPS NPU

Amlogic's A311Y3 is a 6nm octa-core edge AI SoC pairing Cortex-A78/A55 cores with an 8 TOPS NPU and LPDDR5 support for smart retail and signage.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 18, 20263 min read
Mini Computers

MSI Cubi NUC TWG and TWG S: Twin Lake Mini PCs from ~6W

MSI's Cubi NUC TWG and fanless TWG S are compact Intel Twin Lake mini PCs drawing as little as 6W, with dual Ethernet, dual HDMI 2.1, and triple display.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 18, 20263 min read
Gaming

R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos Brings Classic Space-Fleet Strategy West

R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos launches worldwide June 18, 2026, finally bringing the Japan-only R-Type Tactics II west to Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, and Steam.

Maya Polygon
Maya PolygonJun 18, 20263 min read
AI Security

NeuralTrust Raises $20M to Secure Enterprise AI Agents at Scale

NeuralTrust's $20M seed round funds defensive infrastructure for enterprise AI agents, with TrustGate, TrustGuard, and TrustLens leading the way.

Kai Aegis
Kai AegisJun 18, 20263 min read
Crypto

Moody's Brings Credit Ratings On-Chain to Solana for Tokenized Assets

Moody's deployed credit ratings on Solana mainnet June 17, 2026, embedding machine-readable signals into tokenized bonds and boosting RWA transparency.

Satoshi Lens
Satoshi LensJun 18, 20263 min read
Stock Trading

Apis Partners Invests $50M in BIPO's Global Payroll Fintech Platform

Apis Partners' $50M investment in BIPO fuels global payroll fintech expansion and AI-driven workflows across 170+ countries and 5,600+ clients.

Jake Trader
Jake TraderJun 18, 20263 min read
AI

Qwen-Robot Suite Brings Open Embodied AI to Manipulation, World Modeling, and Navigation

Alibaba's Qwen team released three open embodied-AI models for robot manipulation, video world modeling, and vision-language navigation, with public weights and code.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 17, 20266 min read
AI

DiffusionGemma Generates Text 4x Faster With Open Diffusion-Based Decoding

Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an open 26B model that generates text via parallel diffusion decoding, reaching up to 2,000 tokens per second and running locally.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 17, 20266 min read
Mini Computers

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform Packs 126 TOPS Into a Local-AI Mini PC

AMD's first-party Ryzen AI Halo mini PC pairs the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, a 126-TOPS NPU, and 128GB of unified memory for running large models locally on the desktop.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

CrankGPT Runs Offline AI on a Raspberry Pi 5 You Power by Hand

A maker project called CrankGPT runs a fully offline AI voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 powered entirely by a hand crank, with the crank getting harder as the model thinks.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 17, 20265 min read