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Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launches today on PS5
Insomniac Games releases its second Marvel action game today. Creative leads detail suit design, claw combat, and why…
Consumer Tech
Cloudflare Adds ML-DSA-44 to 1.1.1.1 for Post-Quantum DNSSEC
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 now validates ML-DSA-44 signatures. The NIST algorithm produces 2,420-byte signatures exceeding UDP limits.
Gaming
Vanillaware’s Muramasa Remaster Locks February 2027 PS5 Launch
Marvelous confirms Vanillaware's Muramasa: Revenant Blades arrives February 4, 2027 on PS5 with dual audio and faster loads…
Consumer Tech
Google rolls out ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 with 32% better auto-connection
ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 brings a new mDNS stack and smarter network handling. Auto-connection success rates rose 32% and…
Open-Source AI
GitHub Ships CodeQL 2.26.4 With Go 1.27 and Actions Fixes
CodeQL 2.26.4 adds Go 1.27 support, improves Rust alert locations, and strengthens GitHub Actions security detections across C#,…
Consumer Tech
Framework Laptop 12 Ships with Fedora KDE Plasma Pre-installed
Framework's new 12.2-inch convertible laptop offers Fedora 44 KDE Plasma pre-loaded on Intel Core Series 3 hardware, starting…
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GitHub Ships CodeQL 2.26.4 With Go 1.27 and Actions Fixes
CodeQL 2.26.4 adds Go 1.27 support, improves Rust alert locations, and strengthens GitHub Actions security detections across C#,…
Open-Source AI
MSTest 4.4 Lets .NET Tests Run as Native AOT Executables
MSTest 4.4 adds source generation so test projects can publish as Native AOT executables, matching the deployment model…
AI
Microsoft’s GigaPath-Flash Cuts Pathology Model Compute by 50x
Microsoft Research releases GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash, distilling billion-parameter pathology models into efficient backbones for population-scale studies.
Consumer Tech
Consumer Tech
Apple Opens iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders September 12
Pre-orders for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max begin Saturday at 5 a.m. PT. Apple Watch Series…
Consumer Tech
Pixel Drop: VIP widgets, scam detection, Harry Potter packs
Google's 2026-09 Pixel Drop adds VIP widgets, Gboard scam warnings, expanded Scam Detection, and Harry Potter Audiobook Packs…
Consumer Tech
Fedora 45 Beta brings kmscon, signed packages, GCC 16.2
Fedora Linux 45 Beta landed 15 September with kmscon console, mandatory package signatures, oo7 secrets, and a refreshed…
Consumer Tech
Murena GS6 and GS6 Pro launch with removable batteries and /e/OS
e Foundation launches Murena GS6/GS6 Pro — deGoogled Android phones with removable batteries, wireless charging, privacy button. Security…
Consumer Tech
Apple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27 release
Apple's new parental controls launch today with iOS 27, adding Time Allowances, Ask to Browse, and expanded Communication…
Consumer Tech
Cloudflare Adds ML-DSA-44 to 1.1.1.1 for Post-Quantum DNSSEC
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 now validates ML-DSA-44 signatures. The NIST algorithm produces 2,420-byte signatures exceeding UDP limits.
Consumer Tech
Google rolls out ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 with 32% better auto-connection
ADB Wi-Fi 2.0 brings a new mDNS stack and smarter network handling. Auto-connection success rates rose 32% and…
Consumer Tech
Framework Laptop 12 Ships with Fedora KDE Plasma Pre-installed
Framework's new 12.2-inch convertible laptop offers Fedora 44 KDE Plasma pre-loaded on Intel Core Series 3 hardware, starting…
Gaming
Gaming
Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launches today on PS5
Insomniac Games releases its second Marvel action game today. Creative leads detail suit design, claw combat, and why…
Gaming
Vanillaware’s Muramasa Remaster Locks February 2027 PS5 Launch
Marvelous confirms Vanillaware's Muramasa: Revenant Blades arrives February 4, 2027 on PS5 with dual audio and faster loads…
Gaming
Xbox Insiders gain save cleanup and Day One badge
Xbox opened new Insider console tools: clear unused local game saves, hide Home tiles, and earn a badge…
Crypto & Web3
Crypto & Web3
Ethereum Foundation funds ZK proofs and clients with $5.5M
The Ethereum Foundation committed 5,502,930.20 USD in Q2 2026 to zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, and formal verification across…
Crypto & Web3
Ethereum Foundation awards $5.5M in Q2 2026 grants
Ethereum Foundation committed $5.5 million in Q2 2026 grants to zero-knowledge proofs, client diversity, and formal verification —…
Crypto & Web3
Kraken’s Bitcoin contest pays winners in real BTC
Kraken's Bitcoin perpetual futures contest runs Aug 19–Sep 19, 2026, with a 1 BTC prize pool paid in…
Crypto & Web3
Solana proposes cutting slot time to 200ms
Solana's SIMD-0525 would halve block intervals from 400ms to 200ms in four stages, reshaping validator economics and on-chain…
Crypto & Web3
Kraken brings its Krak Card to US crypto users
Kraken's Krak Card is now live in the US, letting holders spend Bitcoin and 600+ assets by card…
Crypto & Web3
63% of Americans feel behind, Kraken survey finds
Kraken's Krak unit commissioned a 2,001-adult US survey that found 63% of Americans feel financially behind. Most want…
Crypto & Web3
Kraken Prop doubles leverage to 10x on Bitcoin
Kraken Prop raised leverage to 10x on Bitcoin, Nasdaq 100, and the S&P 500, halving the margin a…
Crypto & Web3
Kraken brings US stock trading to EEA users
Kraken now lets eligible EEA customers trade over 7,000 US-listed stocks and tokenized xStocks inside one MiFID II-regulated…
Deals
Game Deals
Caravan SandWitch Free This Week on Epic Games Store
Claim Caravan SandWitch free on Epic Games Store this week. A $24.99 narrative adventure is 100% off until…
Game Deals
It Takes Two 70% Off on Steam India
Steam India drops It Takes Two to ₹659 from ₹2199—a 70% discount ending today at 17:00 UTC. Cooperative…
Game Deals
Kingdom Hearts HD Remaster 70% Off on Steam India
Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX- drops to ₹1,049 on Steam India from ₹3,499. Limited-time 70% discount available until…
How-To
How-To
How to isolate AI agents in GitHub Actions with Docker
Run coding agents inside Docker Sandboxes on GitHub Actions: install gh-aw, configure the sbx runtime, and let an…
How-To
How to build a fraud model in SageMaker Canvas from Snowflake
Amazon's step-by-step guide connects Snowflake to SageMaker Canvas, letting analysts prep data and train an XGBoost fraud model…
How-To
How to build a Bedrock document classifier with agents
A three-agent Amazon Bedrock system pairs Claude Haiku 4.5 with Titan multimodal embeddings to classify insurance documents by…
How-To
How to evaluate NVIDIA’s AI factory land-power-shell guarantee
NVIDIA is backing 20-year land, power and shell for OpenAI's Ohio AI factory. Learn how to read the…
How-To
How to let an OpenClaw agent pay for APIs with stablecoins
Use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the aws-agents-pay plugin to give a local OpenClaw assistant a bounded USDC…
How-To
How to stream AI agent telemetry to AgentCore from anywhere
Send AI agent traces, spans, and token metrics from on-premises or another cloud into the AgentCore Observability dashboard…
How-To
How to run automated behavioral research on AI agents
AEROBAT tested 79 hypotheses across 1,240 experiments and 23,512 simulations to map AI agent behavior—here is how its…
How-To
How to build a Bedrock AgentCore M&A due diligence agent
Deploy AWS's open M&A due diligence sample on Bedrock AgentCore: a supervisor and four specialist agents screen targets,…
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