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Ingenious indie hacker funds $3,000 MacBook purchase by selling advertising space on the lid — sticker space auction has already raised 111% of the price of the laptop
An enterprising individual has successfully pre-sold enough advertisement sticker space on their dream MacBook’s lid to...
EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS
An environmental group said that two new chemicals approved by the EPA for semiconductor manufacturing do not come with...
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia's open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals
Nvidia reportedly plans to buy Hugging Face at a price that exceeds its revenue by over 80 times, making it a major stra...
Hot Chips 2026: OpenAI's Jalapeño AI ASIC unpacked — accelerator developed using AI achieves efficiency and throughput gains against power-hungry Blackwell
OpenAI's first AI accelerator fails to beat Nvidia's Blackwell in terms of raw performance, but it can offer very good p...
Alienware AW3926QW 39-inch WUHD OLED gaming monitor review: Premium play and imagery in a large format
Alienware delivers an ultra-wide flagship with its AW3926QW. This curved 21:9 RGB Stripe Tandem OLED panel boasts 5120x2...
Anthropic’s new Files API vs. pasting: It will save you time, but it won’t save you money.
Anthropic moved the Files API and computer-use toolset out of beta on August 19 and launched a browser-use toolset. It T...
Bank of England set for new innovation mandate covering stablecoins
The UK plans to expand the Bank of England’s remit to support digital payments innovation, including stablecoins, while...
Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants
Speedo’s new smart goggles module can track all four swim strokes
Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across...
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech...
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems witho...
Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announ...
AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi
Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming
Goodgrowth: Boot Sequences, Spinning Discs, and the Art of the Portfolio
By Matt Stone in Articles on August 27, 2026 Goodgrowth: Boot Sequences, Spinning Discs, and the Art of the Portfolio Di...
MLB players union backs VIP sportsbook marketing ban amid CBA talks
The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) is open to stopping players from appearing in personalized sportsb...
Quantum computing used in 'first commercial game development' — IBM simulator generated maps, characters, and graphics in C.L.A.Y. RPG
Game studio MiTale Ltd. is promoting a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic RPG, which it claims is 'the first commercial g...
$215 discount turns Corsair's DDR5-6000 Vengeance memory kit into the cheapest 32GB of RAM at those speeds — 35% saving as stock dwindles and prices continue to rise
Corsair's Vengeance DDR5-6000 memory kit becomes the cheapest 32GB kit you can buy after a large $215 discount.