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Nintendo's US eShop currently features several active indie deals for Switch 2 under $15, including Aegis Defenders at…

Aira· Jul 3 · 3 min
Gaming

Steam Next Fest June 2026 wrapped up with thousands of demos, but these 12 stand out for release…

Aira· Jul 3 · 3 min
EA Sports College Football 27 Joins EA Play With 10-Hour Trial Gaming

EA Sports College Football 27 Joins EA Play With 10-Hour Trial

EA Sports College Football 27 becomes available through EA Play in July 2026, with a 10-hour early access…

Aira· Jul 2 · 4 min
PCSX2 2.7.444 Patches Texture Mapping and Input Latency Gaming

PCSX2 2.7.444 Patches Texture Mapping and Input Latency

PCSX2 v2.7.444 is now available on GitHub with compatibility fixes for dozens of PS2 titles, reduced input latency,…

Aira· Jul 2 · 3 min
PCSX2 2.7.444 Tackles Texture and Input Bugs Gaming

PCSX2 2.7.444 Tackles Texture and Input Bugs

PCSX2 2.7.444 sharpens PS2 emulation with texture and input fixes, and shows how open-source emulator updates keep the…

Aira· Jul 2 · 2 min
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PS5 Pro Enhancements Gaming

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PS5 Pro Enhancements

Ubisoft has detailed PS5 Pro enhancements for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, including extended ray tracing, strand-based hair,…

Aira· Jul 2 · 4 min
Minecraft ‘Chaos Worth Keeping’ Seeks Wallpaper Submissions Gaming

Minecraft ‘Chaos Worth Keeping’ Seeks Wallpaper Submissions

Minecraft's 'Chaos worth keeping' community contest invites players to submit multiplayer chaos screenshots for a permanent shared wallpaper,…

Aira· Jul 2 · 3 min
Nova Lands Free to Download Permanently on Epic Games Store Deals

Nova Lands Free to Download Permanently on Epic Games Store

Nova Lands, the 4.8-star rated 2D factory-building exploration game, is free to download on the Epic Games Store…

Aira· Jul 1 · 2 min

Crypto & Web3

Crypto & Web3

Solana’s Sunrise framework lets external assets trade as canonical mints from day one, enabling faster market formation for…

Aira· Jul 3 · 3 min
Crypto & Web3

The UK's systemic stablecoin regulatory framework, announced in June 2026, changed how payment-focused stablecoins are classified and supervised,…

Aira· Jul 3 · 6 min
Kraken API Partner Program Extends Crypto Trading Venues Crypto & Web3

Kraken API Partner Program Extends Crypto Trading Venues

Kraken introduced an API Partner Program targeting crypto platforms and trading venues, extending its institutional API reach and…

Aira· Jul 2 · 3 min
Kraken API Partner Program Launches: Lifetime Commissions Crypto & Web3

Kraken API Partner Program Launches: Lifetime Commissions

Kraken’s new API Partner Program lets trading platforms plug into its spot, futures, and tokenized xStocks infrastructure with…

Aira· Jul 2 · 2 min
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 10% — 3rd Major Cut in 2026 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 10% — 3rd Major Cut in 2026

Bitcoin difficulty fell 10.09% to 124.93T on June 14 — all-in production cost ~$84.3K vs BTC ~$63.8K. Miner-to-AI…

Aira· Jul 2 · 6 min
Chainalysis Outlines 10 Questions: Blockchain Data Quality Crypto & Web3

Chainalysis Outlines 10 Questions: Blockchain Data Quality

Chainalysis published 10 due diligence questions to help compliance teams and investigators vet blockchain analytics data quality and…

Aira· Jul 2 · 3 min
Chainalysis Publishes Blockchain Analytics Data Ontology Crypto & Web3

Chainalysis Publishes Blockchain Analytics Data Ontology

Chainalysis published a formal ontology defining standardized data quality metrics for blockchain analytics, addressing widespread inconsistencies in…

Aira· Jul 1 · 2 min
Kraken Prime goes live on Trever for EU prime brokerage Crypto & Web3

Kraken Prime goes live on Trever for EU prime brokerage

Kraken Prime is now live on Trever, giving European banks and brokers access to full-service crypto prime brokerage,…

Aira· Jul 1 · 4 min

How-To

How to Safely Install a Custom ROM Without Bricking AI How-To

How to Safely Install a Custom ROM Without Bricking

Guide to installing a custom ROM safely using official LineageOS wiki resources, covering device compatibility checks, required pre-install…

Aira· Jul 1 · 6 min
Gemini Auto-Generates Jetlag Travel Plans From Gmail Flights AI

Gemini Auto-Generates Jetlag Travel Plans From Gmail Flights

Google's Gemini app now automatically generates jetlag-proof travel itineraries by pulling flight data from users' Gmail and Calendar…

Aira· Jun 28 · 2 min
Hugging Face Benchmark Shows LoRA Isn’t Always the Best PEFT Choice AI

Hugging Face Benchmark Shows LoRA Isn’t Always the Best PEFT Choice

Hugging Face’s expanded open PEFT benchmark finds LoRA accounts for 98.4% of single-technique Hub model cards, but unoptimized…

Aira· Jun 21 · 4 min
Firefox 152 Launches With Redesigned Settings How-To

Firefox 152 Launches With Redesigned Settings

Firefox 152 Launches With Redesigned Settings, Android Tab Groups, and Public Roadmap: Mozilla’s June 2026 Firefox update introduces…

Aira· Jun 20 · 5 min
CS Curriculum Alignment Framework Finds Near-Constant 50% Guideline Coverage Across CS2013 and CS2023 for Evaluated BSc Program Automation

CS Curriculum Alignment Framework Finds Near-Constant 50% Guideline Coverage Across CS2013 and CS2023 for Evaluated BSc Program

A new longitudinal framework for measuring CS curriculum alignment finds a single accredited BSc program covers 49.7% of…

Aira· Jun 20 · 3 min
IIS Bug Bounty: Legal Risks & Exploit Methods AI How-To

IIS Bug Bounty: Legal Risks & Exploit Methods

Security researcher details IIS reconnaissance and exploitation methods — from Shodan dorks to tilde enumeration — that expose…

Aira· Jun 18 · 4 min
How to Fix CI Failures With GitHub Agentic Workflow AI

How to Fix CI Failures With GitHub Agentic Workflow

Step-by-step guide to GitHub's new Agentic Workflows (public preview June 2026) — set up agents to diagnose broken…

Aira· Jun 16 · 6 min
How to Evaluate LLMs with olmo-eval (AllenAI, 2026) AI

How to Evaluate LLMs with olmo-eval (AllenAI, 2026)

Step-by-step guide to olmo-eval — AllenAI's lightweight evaluation framework that runs benchmarks directly (no containers by default), supports…

Aira· Jun 16 · 7 min

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