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Political operatives in Trumpworld hope that US Senate candidate Graham Platner stays in the race as long as possible.

For the last couple weeks, I've been in an extremely lucky position: I've been spending a lot of time playing games on Valve's Steam Machine. We gave the Steam Machine a 6, and I don't disagree with my colleague Sean Hollister's review. But even though I already own a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, […]

Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile's T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX's constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it […]

It’s not a great time to shop for a gaming laptop. The unprecedented rise in cost for RAM (and storage to a slightly lesser extent) has made laptops with low-to-midrange specs cost much more than they should. Recent deals on gaming laptops worth your attention have been uninspiring, but one recently caught my eye: MSI’s […]

Google's upcoming Pixel lineup might cost more than last year's. A report from Dealabs spotted by 9to5Google suggests that Google could raise the starting price of its 41mm Pixel Watch 5 to $399, while adding LTE could bump the price to $499. That's a $50 jump from the base Pixel Watch 4, which starts at […]

What if you had a drone that wasn't a buzzy, annoying fly people wanted to swat - but rather a cute dog that runs and jumps? What if it could do tricks on command, and film your tricks as well? What if it could get right back up after a nasty-looking crash, dozens of times […]

The more often you look at your P&L, the more losses you see — and the worse you trade. The math behind looking less.

INTELLECT-3.1 is a 106B open-source MoE reasoning model from PrimeIntellect built for math, coding, software engineering, and agents.

During the ICO boom, whitepapers moved from technical documents to world-building tools: part pitch deck, part manifesto, part speculative fiction. This essay revisits what it felt like to write them from the inside.

AI agents work better when they start from maintained product memory: pages, workflows, API behavior, incidents, and decisions. This article explains how to design that context layer so agents understand the system before editing code.

Wall Street has MicroStrategy down ~80% and calls it the next Ponzi. But the numbers tell another story: the famous "42% discount" is just leverage, not distrust in Bitcoin — no creditor can force a margin call, and the treasury covers ~30 years of dividends. The real risk is a two-sided vise: if Bitcoin stays low the issuance engine stalls, but if it rises too fast a cash tax hits paper gains it never realized. MicroStrategy has to thread a narrow corridor of price and time. The market is prici...

Encrypting private keys is not enough if one backend can decrypt them all. Here’s how MPC-TSS reduces key-theft risk in Web3 custody.

Your AI character changes faces between shots. The fix is a character bible built like a schema. A step-by-step tutorial for stateless AI pipelines.

A 4-year cybersecurity journey from beginner confusion to internship, built on curiosity, technical foundations, proof of work, and networking.

Quasar (Subnet 24), Gradients (Subnet 56), and Subnet 3 have joined forces on Bittensor to train long-context AI models. The collaboration pairs Quasar’s long-context foundation model work with Gradients’ AutoML post-training/fine-tuning capabilities, signaling deeper cooperation between subnets on shared AI infrastructure rather than isolated, siloed development. Want me to flag anything else in this draft while I’m in here — sourcing on Subnet 3’s role is currently the thinnest claim in the p...

Use Zapier, Make, or n8n for low-risk rules-based workflows. Move to custom AI when the workflow touches customer experience, proprietary logic, exceptions, or margin. The real decision is not tool vs no tool. It is whether you are solving a simple automation problem or a production-grade systems problem.

South Korea’s Toss Bank — the country’s third-largest internet-only bank — signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation on June 19, marking the first direct one-to-one partnership between a Korean internet-only bank and the Foundation. The agreement kicks off a phased proof of concept to test whether Solana-based stablecoin rails can improve the speed and cost of cross-border transfers across the bank’s existing 30-country remittance service, with longer-term exploration of tokenized assets and bloc...

Web3 projects routinely report hundreds of thousands of testnet wallets, then watch real usage collapse after mainnet launch. Data from Keyrock, DappRadar, and Memento Research shows 84–88% of airdropped tokens lose value within months, driven by Sybil farming and mercenary users with no intention of staying. This piece breaks down why testnet metrics are structurally unreliable and what actual product-market fit signals look like instead.

Open ports aren't the finish line — they're the starting point. This covers the full offensive chain: enumerating SMB before touching credentials, mapping version strings to CVEs across three verification methods, piping scan data straight into Metasploit's database, building an evasion profile that targets specific detection methods instead of guessing, and reaching internal networks through a pivot using three different techniques depending on what's available. Every example ran against real l...

Cold data does not need NVMe or always-spinning RAID.

Mobile work is now routine, but many workplace apps still treat phones as a backup to desktop workflows instead of a real place where work happens.

This series comprises six main articles covering, in sequence, IQ Lab build-up, Intrinsic/Extrinsic Calibration, component selection, factory EOL testing and Active Alignment, environmental reliability testing, and customer telemetry with closed-loop optimization. The articles form a clear causal chain, starting from precise lab measurements, running through mass production validation, and ultimately returning to continuous improvement driven by field data.

RAG and "chat with your docs" tools only read. A file agent acts - organizing, renaming, sharing, and signing files in plain English — and the real engineering is making it safe to act on messy files, not making it smart.

Bittensor is now pausing emissions weekly (every Monday) to subnets with no miner activity or missing code, per an announcement from co-founder Const. Over 50 subnets were affected in this round, though removal isn’t permanent — subnets can be reinstated case-by-case once issues are fixed. The move aligns with Bittensor’s Taoflow emission model, which rewards subnets showing real staking activity and redirects resources away from inactive ones.

Float built an AI platform that disaggregates 1Hz smart meter data into appliance-level energy insights. After evaluating major time-series databases, the startup chose Tiger Data, achieving 99.3% compression—well above the 90% needed to make its subscription model viable. Continuous aggregates power real-time billing, while the managed platform lets a three-person team scale efficiently.

Prediction markets hit a record $45 billion in June, driven largely by World Cup demand. But the surge exposed the harder challenge ahead: turning headline volume into deep, reliable liquidity that institutions can actually trade. At the same time, platforms are competing to own different parts of the stack; from distribution and user access to exchange infrastructure and data, while regulatory pressure, marketing scrutiny and security failures show the sector’s systems are still catching up wi...

A key delay from a state agency means robotaxi rides in the company’s new Ojai vehicle might be free for a few more months.

Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.

Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.

Scammers are hijacking government websites to upload ads for “leaked” OnlyFans content. Thousands of copyright complaints from adult creators are helping people avoid malicious links.