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Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Commodore unveils striking Cyberpunk 2077 version of its C64U made in partnership with CD Projekt Red — Commodore 77 special edition uses more powerful AMD Artix XC7A100T processor

A special edition of the Commodore 64 Ultimate made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red has been announced today. The new Commodore 77 takes its stylish inspiration from Cyberpunk 77, and is skillfu…

A special edition of the Commodore 64 Ultimate made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red has been announced today. The new Commodore 77 takes its stylish inspiration from Cyberpunk 77, and is skillfully melded into the game's universe.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption

If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, ge…

If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently selling Steam versions of the secret-packed deckbuilder for […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
BenQ's first dual-monitor desk lamp will give your screens a glow up

BenQ's first dual-monitor desk lamp is excellent, but it'll cost you.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
SpaceX to use NVIDIA GPUs for its Starmind project — Here's what they'll face in space

Elon Musk wants to harness solar energy for AI.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered …

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a "reimagined" skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two […]

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatical…

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut. Instagram says the process can produce […]

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead

Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChi…

Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with […]

Wired General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold Review: Better, Not Best

A polished update to Google’s foldable brings real improvements, but the price bump and rampant competition make it a tough sell.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

Samsung detailed the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM at Hot Chips 2026, adding logic directly to memory to speed up data-intensive workloads like AI inference.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should)

Find My is a vital iPhone security feature that you should keep on almost all the time. Turning it off makes your device much harder to recover.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana

The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple Quietly Fixes iCloud Private Relay Vulnerability in iOS 26.6.1

The problem could leak your device’s IP address, even when the paid iCloud Plus feature was enabled.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit

Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!

Wired General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Year

The fatalities come amid declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Take a look at Microsoft’s new 25th anniversary Halo accessories

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almo…

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent "OG Green," matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes […]

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
OpenAI’s 700W Jalapeño ASIC outpaces 1,400W Nvidia flagship GPU — claims up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency, co-developed with Broadcom

OpenAI arrived at Hot Chips on Tuesday with benchmarks claiming its first in-house chip beats Nvidia's GB300.

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MIT Tech Review General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Art and algorithms at Sotheby’s

Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen builds algorithms to …

Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen builds algorithms to predict prices, using factors like buying trends and artists’ popularity. She has also worked on such efforts as cataloguing…

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Add the AirPods 5, Beats 360 to Rumored Apple Headphones Coming Soon

There’s been a lot of chatter about new AirPods Pro buds with tiny IR cameras, but don’t sleep on the AirPods 5 and new Beats over-ear headphones.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Bose’s smallest Bluetooth speaker is a great deal at 35 percent off

Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro…

Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro — its most compact Bluetooth speaker — is currently discounted to $79.99 at Amazon, a pretty great discount from its usual $129 price tag. […]

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich

Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Why movie tie-in games are rarely sold anymore

Movie-tie in games were huge in the 2000s, but have mostly dried up in the last decade. We still get games tied to existing IP, but in a different manner.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
These Cookies Are 3D-Printed and Made of Recycled Plastic

Scientists have engineered yeast that converts waste plastic and plant biomass into vanilla-flavored, 3D-printable protein cookies.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before…

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before. Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, […]

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Anthropic Unifies Memory Across Claude and Cowork

You can also allow Claude to generate memory topics as you chat.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and …

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and provides a "starting point" that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday. An example shared by Instagram shows […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The Nokia 300 Charge doubles as a 10W powerbank

The Nokia 300 Charge doubles as a 10W powerbank.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hands-on with Hyte’s Y50 RGB case: Premium looks at an affordable price

Hyte’s Y50 RGB is an affordable option for anyone looking to get a glass chassis with included ARGB fans.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Claude's memory now works across both chats and Cowork sessions

Anthropic is giving users more control over what memories Claude saves.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's bu…

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper "while Nothing's predominantly monochrome character […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Xbox has a bunch of translucent green accessories for the console's 25th birthday

Xbox has a bunch of translucent green accessories for the console's 25th birthday.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
GeForce Now is getting support for the Steam Controller

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you'll be able to play games with…

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you'll be able to play games with Valve's great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you're using GeForce Now on Windows or […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts

Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medicat…

Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while new care-tracking features help households keep tabs on feeding, walks, medication, and more.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
How Xbox controllers have changed in the last 25 years

Every Xbox controller has the familiar ABXY buttons and offset thumbsticks. But Microsoft has slowly evolved the controller over its quarter-century life.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban

Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue selling its electric vehicles in the US under a rule outlawing vehicles with connect…

Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue selling its electric vehicles in the US under a rule outlawing vehicles with connected software from China. In an August 18th letter sent to dealers and obtained by The Verge, Polestar said it doesn't have a clear answer […]

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO

568.99 ($200/26% off) gets you a 3-item Newegg combo: a Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus B650 board, 16GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000, and a free 240mm AIO thrown in — a inexpensive avenue into AM5.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware

Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to this new cyberattack.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration

Intel's Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel's latest 18A node.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Waymo is expanding to Germany, with service in Munich planned for 2027

Waymo has set up subsidiaries in several European countries this summer as it prepares to expand.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power

Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple M5 Ultra vs M3 Ultra: What's changed?

Everything you need to know about Apple's powerful new chip.

Wired General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The Supreme Court’s Mail-In Ballot Ruling Is a Step Toward Chaos in the Midterms

The Supreme Court has removed one roadblock from the Trump administration’s attempts to impose severe restrictions on voting.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Best RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch

We're rounding up the best RAM deals from retailers across the U.S here.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference work…

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed more about its Crescent Island AI accelerator, which uses the Xe3P architecture. The accelerator will use liquid-cooled chips and HBM4 memory to serve inference workloads in data centers.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple price hikes continue as Mac mini with 16GB RAM and 256GB is now $899 — 1TB storage option adds $500 to entry-level headless system

Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio see price hikes, while memory and storage upgrades get even more expensive

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Nintendo reveals its latest Switch 2 bundles just ahead of the console's price increase

Let this serve as a reminder that the Switch 2 is getting more expensive next week.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Sony phones in an update to the midrange Xperia 10 and slaps a sizable price hike on it

The Xperia 10 VIII offers few upgrades for a lot more money.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
What's the difference between Thunderbolt 4 and 5?

Thunderbolt 5 offers extremely fast data transfer and lots of power, but most devices can't take advantage of it

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple’s ‘new’ polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper

Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still "made with soft, nonabrasi…

Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still "made with soft, nonabrasive material" but costs $9 instead of $19. It doesn't look like anything else has changed, as the description matches an archived […]

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal

The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with repor…

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Pebble Time 2 review: The perfect smartwatch for a select group of people

Pebble Time 2 is a smartwatch designed to push back against the trend, and it does so beautifully.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899

The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Gamescom Opening Night Live: Updates from the showcase including Final Fantasy and Gears of War previews

We're liveblogging the two-hour showcase and half hour pre-show of Gamescom's ONL today! Come join us, we'll even start a little early for you.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple M6 vs M5: How much faster is Apple's new 'everyday' Silicon?

Apple finds respectable performance gains on a new 2nm process, but M5 users shouldn't feel any FOMO.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
🔥 Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple has announced new M6 and M5 Ultra chips, a new Mac mini, and a new Mac Studio.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Where to preorder the updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them. The new machines are already available for preorder directly from App…

Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them. The new machines are already available for preorder directly from Apple, with shipping for most configurations starting on September 22nd, 2026. The Mac Mini starts at $899, $300 more than the […]

IEEE Spectrum General Tech Aug 25, 2026
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA

At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the…

At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency’s main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 through the Vietnam War and on past the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The machine stopped running only when its moving parts finally gave out.The Harvest computer mattered because of what it was as well as when it ran. For 14 years, it was the engine processing the NSA’s most sensitive intercepts at a time when signals intelligence was as close to a strategic weapon as anything short of a warhead.Designed and built by IBM for the NSA, Harvest was one of the first machines designed to apply operations to enormous datasets rushing past, a precursor to the computers today that manage continuous video streams and security systems in real time. It was also one of the first machines built as an add-on—a specialized helper intended to do one job exceptionally well, bolted onto a general computer. Harvest’s modular design is like a 1960s version of today’s graphics chips that CPUs use to run intensive video-game and AI processing loads.All that raw processing power meant that Harvest also needed nonstop rivers of data to run on. And that led to another pioneering achievement: the world’s first automated tape library that could robotically fetch any one of hundreds of large cassettes of magnetic tape from the machine’s racks.Given Harvest’s unprecedented processing and storage capacity, the machine’s designers naturally needed to rethink how their system handled information. So IBM wrote a customized programming language called Alpha to let code breakers rigorously describe cryptographic problems, just as scientists at the time were using the emerging language Fortran to describe equations and data-processing algorithms. In Fort Meade, Md., an NSA data center host

Wired General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Specs, Price, Release Date

Apple’s Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been tough to buy for months, but updated versions have arrived. Both include new chips optimized for AI, with the M6 Mac Mini getting a $200 price bump.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more

WhatsApp’s two-step verification previously relied on a six-digit PIN, but now users can choose a longer, alphanumeric password with special characters.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio with new M6 and M5 Ultra chips

Apple is finally refreshing the Mac mini and Mac Studio, which will sport new M6 and M5 Ultra chips.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
WhatsApp is upgrading its 2FA settings

You can now ditch the six-digit code for a stronger password.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple's M5 Ultra with an 80-core GPU will power through your AI models and 8K video

With the launch of the latest Mac mini and Mac Studio computers, Apple introduced new chips with cutting-edge technology.

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Uber will let parents peek through a driver's selfie camera when teens are taking a trip

Uber will only access recordings from a driver's phone to review safety reports.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Uber’s New Safety Feature Lets Parents Watch Teens’ Rides Live

Guardians can access a live video stream to see how a trip is going. The feature will roll out across the US in the coming weeks.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
New M6 Mac Mini and Mac Studio With M5 Ultra Promise Needed Boost for AI and Graphics

At higher prices, naturally.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
China strategically slows exports of critical materials used in semiconductor fabrication to Taiwan — germanium and quartz exports to the region also threaten optical and robotics supply chain

China slows exports of germanium, quartz-based materials, and magnets. The move potentially disrupts the optical connectivity, semiconductor, and robotics industries.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra

Apple is announcing new models of the Mac Studio, now using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. This reunification under one chip generation comes over a year after Apple awkwardly split the Stud…

Apple is announcing new models of the Mac Studio, now using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. This reunification under one chip generation comes over a year after Apple awkwardly split the Studio between M4 Max and M3 Ultra offerings. (The older sounding M3 Ultra was actually the more powerful one, and […]

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices

Apple is announcing a new generation of the Mac Mini, once again offering two models: one with a new M6 chip and a higher-end model with the M5 Pro found in this year's MacBook Pro. The new Minis hav…

Apple is announcing a new generation of the Mac Mini, once again offering two models: one with a new M6 chip and a higher-end model with the M5 Pro found in this year's MacBook Pro. The new Minis have the same tiny design and footprint as the 2024 M4 / M4 Pro models, but with […]

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute

Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its "most powerful chip ever," designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple'…

Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its "most powerful chip ever," designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements in performance and power efficiency, and it also […]

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Uber is letting parents check in on their teens through drivers’ selfie cameras

Uber is updating its teen account feature to allow parents to use the selfie cameras on Uber drivers' phones to check in on their teenage children during ridehail trips. Since first launching teen ac…

Uber is updating its teen account feature to allow parents to use the selfie cameras on Uber drivers' phones to check in on their teenage children during ridehail trips. Since first launching teen accounts in 2023, Uber has touted the myriad ways parents can keep tabs on their children, from PIN verification to live GPS […]

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
GuliKit’s Switch 2 TV dock gives me one feature I’ve missed when traveling

Nintendo didn’t design its Switch dock with travel in mind. Genki’s Covert Dock is a much smaller alternative my family has been using to connect our Switch to hotel TVs for years, but I’ve come to r…

Nintendo didn’t design its Switch dock with travel in mind. Genki’s Covert Dock is a much smaller alternative my family has been using to connect our Switch to hotel TVs for years, but I’ve come to realize I much prefer having a stand for the console when using it this way. So when it came […]

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The lens in Wyze’s new $40 indoor camera retracts for privacy

Wyze announced a new pan-and-tilt security camera today designed for indoor use. The entire Indoor Cam Pan can rotate 360 degrees, while the camera and lens on its front can tilt up and down 103 degr…

Wyze announced a new pan-and-tilt security camera today designed for indoor use. The entire Indoor Cam Pan can rotate 360 degrees, while the camera and lens on its front can tilt up and down 103 degrees. When you want privacy, the lens can tilt down until it completely disappears inside the Indoor Cam Pan's body […]

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts

Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Andy Dunn’s startup Pie becomes less of an events app and more of a social network

The social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is expanding beyond events with new digital homes for groups to connect, organize, and make plans.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Nvidia Jetson Orin-guided Russian AI drone killed three civilians in Ukraine, forensic teams say — first documented case of civilian deaths caused by a Russian drone using fully autonomous targeting

A Russian Molniya drone carrying an Nvidia Jetson Orin module killed three civilians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia last month.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Fiat Ventures combines venture and advisory divisions into new brand, raises $35M Fund II

In an environment where emerging fund managers struggle to attract LP attention, FGV is betting that a different venture model can help it lure LPs.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 with OLED screen available October 15, pre-orders start now — standalone system for $1,299.99, or an AR bundle for $2,499.99

At gamescom, Asus finally announced the pricing for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20, either as a standalone handheld or a bundle with AR glasses.

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The OLED Xbox Ally X20 officially starts at $1,300

The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet made - but originally, Asus wanted you to buy a bundle pairing it with pricy AR glasses. In July, we told you th…

The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet made - but originally, Asus wanted you to buy a bundle pairing it with pricy AR glasses. In July, we told you that bundle would no longer be necessary, and today it's official: you can pre-order a […]

Engadget General Tech Aug 25, 2026
ASUS is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its gaming division with the ROG XBOX Ally X20

The big upgrade on the 20th anniversary ROG XBOX Ally X20 is a larger 7.4-inch OLED display.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure

The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Micron warns HBM wafer penalty is widening with every generation — AI memory uses 3x more silicon than DDR5, company says memory wall is 'getting worse' as prices rise

Micron Fellow Raghu Sreeramaneni told the Hot Chips 2026 conference that the silicon penalty HBM carries against DDR5 is growing with every generation.

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MIT Tech Review General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots too…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots took schools by surprise. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any homework question or…

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The Verge General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The TCL Note A1 is a kinder, gentler tablet

Without thinking, I scribbled over what I'd just written. It's what I would have done if I was writing with pen and paper. But I didn't have a pen in my hand; my canvas was an LCD and the letters on …

Without thinking, I scribbled over what I'd just written. It's what I would have done if I was writing with pen and paper. But I didn't have a pen in my hand; my canvas was an LCD and the letters on my page were just pixels. Score one point to the TCL Note A1. TCL's […]

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
CNET Finds 75% of US Adults Couldn’t Care Less About a Foldable iPhone

Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Ultra (or Fold), could cost over $2,000 according to analysts. But US adults aren’t willing to pay that much.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

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TechCrunch General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band

Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, all without needing a phone nearby.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia breaks down 88-core Vera CPU — spatial multithreading benchmarked, 1.2 TB/s SOCAMM2 memory, agentic workloads detailed, and more

Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and the power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.

CNET General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Our Robot Pool Vacuum Tests Show Why Suction Power Matters Less Than You Think

Suction isn’t everything. Smart navigation and efficiency are what really define a great robotic pool cleaner.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
Stack up on Seagate hard drives with $30 off the 8TB Barracuda HDD — Its lowest price at Best Buy since April

Save $30 on an 8TB Seagate Barracuda HDD at Best Buy. The lowest price since April.

Tom's Hardware General Tech Aug 25, 2026
AI coder gets Doom running on a custom CPU designed by GPT-5.6 Sol — game viewport is overlaid on a pulsing schematic of the CPU in Turing Complete's sandbox environment

An AI computing enthusiast has demonstrated Doom running on a custom CPU designed by GPT-5.6 Sol.

Wired General Tech Aug 25, 2026
The 4 Best Car Phone Mounts I’ve Tried (2026): Belkin, Andery, Andobil

The best car phone holders keep your phone firmly in place while never getting in your line of sight. I took a dozen on road trips this summer to find the best.