The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal [4d]
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- Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance [4d]
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- AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab [4d]
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- Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals [4d]
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- Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that distills usage into a better model [4d]
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- LeanDB a strongly Typed SQL front end [4d]
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- Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away from Top U.S. Universities [4d]
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- $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor [4d]
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- Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform [4d]
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- There Is No Consensus on Biological Sex [4d]
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- Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash [4d]
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- Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference [5d]
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- Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force [5d]
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- Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments [5d]
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- Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology [5d]
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- I measured what my Claude.md, skills and hooks are worth [5d]
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- Previewing the Model Hardware Standard [5d]
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- Gemini-3.5-Transcribe [5d]
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- Show HN: Voronoi Go [5d]
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- We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer [5d]
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- M5Stack Launches PaperMono [5d]
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- Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go. [5d]
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- Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' [5d]
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- Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser [5d]
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- Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache [5d]
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- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash [5d]
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- Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineers [5d]
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- Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source) [5d]
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- Reverse engineering my ADHD test [5d]
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- Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates [5d]
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- Qwen3.8-27B can silently corrupt business records [5d]
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- See fiber breaks linked to a map [5d]
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- Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why [5d]
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- CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API [5d]
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- BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updated [5d]
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- Hit anything. Discover how it rings [5d]
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- Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf] [5d]
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- Numerical (In)Stability of Recurrence Relations [5d]
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- Formalization of the Solution to the Hopf Problem [5d]
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- Agents still can't automate Excel [5d]
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- Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration [5d]
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- Markdown Database Pattern [5d]
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- Small Models Have Arrived [5d]
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- The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT [5d]
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- Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card [5d]
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- Japanese polka dot artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97 [5d]
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- Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots [5d]
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- Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them [5d]
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- Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food [5d]
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- Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino [5d]
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- Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products [5d]
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- Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize [5d]
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- Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms [5d]
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- The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood [5d]
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- Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens [5d]
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- Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85 [5d]
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- Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days [5d]
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- Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good? [5d]
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- Launching Route 53 Files [5d]
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- Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision [5d]
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- Classical chess ranks 562nd of 960 starting positions after 460,800 games [5d]
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- French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress [5d]
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- The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall [5d]
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- Software engineering is about managing complexity [5d]
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- Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore [5d]
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- The Wandering Yamamura Theater Troupe [5d]
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- 507 Mechanical Movements [5d]
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- Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents [5d]
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- AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents [5d]
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- The Unwelcoming States of America [5d]
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- Harness Engineering [5d]
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- Trade (and Tariffs) [5d]
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- Never Launch Alone [5d]
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- Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know [5d]
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- Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals [5d]
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- Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It? [5d]
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- CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps [5d]
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- Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode [5d]
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- Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages) [5d]
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- Aphantasia Beginner's Guide [5d]
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- US Government Designates Host of Noblogs.org a "Global Terrorist" [5d]
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- MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training [5d]
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- Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets [5d]
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- How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero? [5d]
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- Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] [5d]
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- Electric rain can eat through metal [5d]
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- Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday's catastrophic glacier collapse [5d]
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- Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity [5d]
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- Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring [5d]
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- Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+ (The Information) [4d]
- Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (Madison Mills/Axios) [4d]
- Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (Bloomberg) [4d]
- Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place (Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (Reuters) [4d]
- Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer) [4d]
- Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied "unfair" charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (Alistair Gray/Financial Times) [4d]
- Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank (Wall Street Journal) [4d]
- Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (CNBC) [4d]
- Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more (Emma Roth/The Verge) [4d]
- Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [4d]
- YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams (Anna Washenko/Engadget) [5d]
- Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (The Information) [5d]
- Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired) [5d]
- Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch "has its own computer" to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more (Hugh Langley/Business Insider) [5d]
- Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) [5d]
- OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is "a limited window" to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for "collective action" (Sam Sabin/Axios) [5d]
- OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [5d]
- Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [5d]
- Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more (Google) [5d]
- Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025 (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic "box" to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (Google DeepMind) [5d]
- Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use "reliable age signals" shared with it by "OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google" (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) [5d]
- CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a "Google Maps for the underground", raised a $26M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [5d]
- Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic (New York Times) [5d]
- Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [5d]
- Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies (Politico) [5d]
- Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant (Reuters) [5d]
- Kalshi partners with Weather Co. to verify climate and weather prediction market settlements; Kalshi says weather vertical trading volume will hit $1.1B in 2026 (Clara Hudson/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering a MediaTek, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50 jump (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Laser internet breakthrough sees scientists hit 98% fidelity over hundreds of meters —magnetic 'skyrmions' shield data from distortion in alternative to fiber-optic cables [4d]
- My housemate keeps losing their keys, so I bought them these AirTag dupes that are better value [4d]
- Google unveils Gemini AI plans specifically for legal and finance workers [4d]
- Ukraine warns Russia has built metal-cutting drones to topple its power grid [4d]
- Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming [4d]
- Russia's bid to launch a Starlink rival is falling embarrassingly short — 'Rassvet' is losing satellites faster than it can build them [4d]
- Asobo Studio used the soundtrack from A Plague Tale: Requiem during Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy mocap to help the cast 'get into the sadder moments, the darker moments' [4d]
- 16 new GTA 6 details we learned from the big Extended Look gameplay video, captured in-game on a PS5 [4d]
- 'No, you cannot do the game 100% without killing' — Rainbow Six Tactics game director confirms players can't do a complete no-kill playthrough since some missions require players to kill enemies that are out of range for non-lethal takedowns [4d]
- New EPA rules mean polluting US data centers can now keep their output secret from neighbors [4d]
- OpenAI reveals more on Hugging Face AI hack incident, and it's pretty disturbing stuff — AI agents organized into a ‘swarm’, considered the risks of attack, and did whatever it took to achieve its goal [5d]
- Grand Theft Auto 6's 'Extended Look' on Netflix is about to start — follow all the big GTA gameplay reveals live as they happen [5d]
- Microsoft cracks down on employee AI use after one worker spent $28,000 in 28 days [5d]
- Will plug-in solar panels affect your home insurance? An expert explains what you should know before fitting them [5d]
- Forget Disney’s BDX Droid — the $399 Hugging Face MicroDuck robot is even more adorable and versatile thanks to Lidar, NFC and, yes, roller skates [5d]
- I spent a weekend playing Game of Thrones: War for Westeros — and the strategy game is the most faithful compnion the HBO series yet [5d]
- Want to own a .slop domain? You could soon be in luck, along with .therapy, and .hype [5d]
- New GTA 6 details reveal a 'Bonnie and Clyde-type' narrative, life sim systems, and the ability to seamlessly swap between Jason and Lucia during gameplay [5d]
- Can you make money online with lead generation? [5d]
- British Gas starts free competition to win £500 plug-in solar panels — as Argos beats Amazon and Currys to stock the UK's first kits [5d]
- Home appliances giant Dreame has scrapped itsrocket-powered supercar, which we suspected was 'too fast and too wide-reaching' [5d]
- Home Depot's long-awaited Labor Day sale is live — appliances, giant-sized skeletons, patio furniture, outdoor tools, and more [5d]
- Got a bold cybersecurity idea? Surfshark's €100K advocacy fund could back it up [5d]
- Best Buy just dropped our favorite budget Mini-LED TV to $499 – a brand new record-low price [5d]
- Stuart Fails to Save the Universe haters need to stream 'heartfelt' Chuck Lorre sitcom Leanne season 2 instead — new episodes are waiting for you on Netflix [5d]
- Trump signs order banning some foreign equipment from US energy grid, including some software [5d]
- The 'spectacular' Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 is our favorite mobile workstation for engineering students — and it's just got a $3030 discount [5d]
- Five years after its announcement Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR has finally come to the Meta Quest 3 — via a vibe-coded fan-made mod [5d]
- Netflix confirms that the GTA 6 Extended Look has an official runtime of just under half an hour — and is captured on the base PS5 [5d]
- Can't install plug-in solar panels? No problem — I've hand-picked 12 solar-powered gadgets to brighten your home and save you money anyway [5d]
- Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look on Netflix — follow live updates on everything we know so far, and what to expect from the big gameplay reveal [5d]
- How to self-host Docker apps [5d]
- 7 things to expect at the 'Surprise and shine' Apple event [5d]
- Ever wished your AirPods could have their own tiny rugged Pelican case? Well, Dbrand — known for controversy over its PS5 covers and unlicensed Steam Machine Companion Cube — has made one [5d]
- How to watch The Traitors Australia season 3 online and from anywhere – Ep. 8 out now [5d]
- 16GB G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 RAM gets a $43 discount as the memory crisis continues to punish PC builders [5d]
- CISA says over 100 US water systems were targeted in July 2026 alone [5d]
- How to watch Tour Championship 2026 for FREE: TV Channels & Preview [5d]
- Exclusive: ‘The point isn't that it never misunderstands; it's that the user stays in control’ — Plaud tells us why its new AI earbuds want to do more than record your meetings [5d]
- Forget the IKEA x Xbox collection — you're all sleeping on IKEA's existing cheap gaming range [5d]
- This Acer Aspire Go 15 laptop deal has an absurd 48GB RAM — and a massive $325 discount [5d]
- My 12 top Amazon Tech Week deals for home offices and small businesses in the surprise sale [5d]
- Boston Scientific says cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to medical device operations [5d]
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