Cerebras CS-4 Packs Three Wafer-Scale Chips in a Rack

Cerebras CS-4 Packs Three Wafer-Scale Chips in a Rack

The Cerebras CS-4 puts three WSE-3 Turbo wafers in one rack for 750 PFLOPS, and Cerebras clocks 4,400 tokens per second per user on GPT-OSS-120B.

Ornith-1.5 Open Weights Score 86.1 on Terminal-Bench

Ornith-1.5 ships MIT-licensed weights from 9B to 397B, and the flagship posts 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 while a 35B MoE sibling runs far leaner.

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Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Palomar Registry Puts AI Math Proofs Under Lean Review

Palomar, incubated by the Lean FRO and ICARM, is now open for submissions and gives machine-checked math proofs a public registry with real metadata.

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Raspberry Pi CM5 Jig Flashes Modules With No Carrier

The official $600 Raspberry Pi CM5 programming jig flashes Compute Modules with secure boot and disk encryption without needing a carrier board.

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NXP MCX A5 MCUs Pair Post-Quantum Boot With Ethernet

NXP's MCX A5 pairs a 240 MHz Cortex-M33 with an integrated 10BASE-T1S PHY and post-quantum secure boot, sampling now and available in Q4 2026.

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PwrBlock 323 Is a $230 Programmable USB-C PD Supply

The open-hardware PwrBlock 323 turns a 100W USB-C PD charger into a scriptable 1-32V bench supply for test fixtures, at $230 on Crowd Supply.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Dishonored Director Opens Black Pony Immersive Studio

Harvey Smith and Arkane veterans revealed Black Pony Immersive, a 26-person studio making first-person action RPGs, already funded and a year into work.

Artificial Intelligence

Cerebras CS-4 Packs Three Wafer-Scale Chips in a Rack

The Cerebras CS-4 puts three WSE-3 Turbo wafers in one rack for 750 PFLOPS, and Cerebras clocks 4,400 tokens per second per user on GPT-OSS-120B.

Ornith-1.5 Open Weights Score 86.1 on Terminal-Bench

Ornith-1.5 ships MIT-licensed weights from 9B to 397B, and the flagship posts 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 while a 35B MoE sibling runs far leaner.

$Cover illustration for Palomar Registry Puts AI Math Proofs Under Lean Review$

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Palomar Registry Puts AI Math Proofs Under Lean Review

Palomar, incubated by the Lean FRO and ICARM, is now open for submissions and gives machine-checked math proofs a public registry with real metadata.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 18, 2026★5 min read

Etched Raises $700M at a $21B AI Chip Valuation

Etched closed a $700M Series D led by Jane Street at a $21 billion valuation, doubling in just a month as inference chip orders pass $1 billion.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Anthropic Revenue Reaches a $65B Annual Run Rate

Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65 billion at the end of July 2026, up from $47 billion in May — an $18 billion jump in roughly two months.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 18, 2026★9 min read

Embedding Models Guide: Dense vs Multi-Vector RAG

A practical 2026 guide to choosing embedding models for RAG: dense bi-encoders, multi-vector late interaction, and rerankers, with cost and memory math.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 17, 2026★5 min read

Grok Bot Beta Gives AI Agents a Real Cloud Computer

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot beta gives AI agents a persistent cloud computer and real app logins across 3 tiers, with approval gates on purchases and deletions.

Dr. Nova Chen★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Qwen3.8-27B Runs a 262K-Context Vision Model Locally

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B lands under Apache 2.0 with vision, a 262K context, and a 17GB quantization that runs at 15-30 tokens per second on a laptop.

Gaming

Maya Polygon★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Dishonored Director Opens Black Pony Immersive Studio

Harvey Smith and Arkane veterans revealed Black Pony Immersive, a 26-person studio making first-person action RPGs, already funded and a year into work.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

The Sinking City 2 Launches to Strong Horror Reviews

Frogwares' The Sinking City 2 landed August 18 on PC, PS5, and Xbox with an 81 on OpenCritic and a full pivot into over-the-shoulder survival horror.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

AGI-64 Makes Space Quest Playable on a Commodore 64

Mean Hamster Software's AGI-64 runs Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter on a 1 MHz Commodore 64, with Space Quest 1 already fully playable and free.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Kingdom Hearts 4 Lands Late 2027 With a Disney+ Anime

Square Enix confirmed Kingdom Hearts 4 for late 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2 day one, plus a Pixar Coco-inspired world and an original Disney+ anime series.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 15, 2026★4 min read

Pokemon Pokopia Tops 5 Million Nintendo Switch 2 Sales

The cozy life sim has sold 5 million copies in four months, attaching to over 20% of the Switch 2 install base and ranking second on the platform.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read

VR Games Showcase Recap: 25 Titles and Release Dates

The August 13 VR Games Showcase revealed System Shock VR and High On Life VR plus 25-plus games, with firm dates from September through 2027.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 13, 2026★4 min read

Ghost of Yotei Expansion Adds a Roguelike Bounty Mode

Ghost of Yotei: Echoes of Sekigahara and the Most Wanted roguelike arrive October 1 in a $69.99 Complete Edition, with a $14.99 upgrade for owners.

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Maya Polygon★Aug 12, 2026★5 min read

Grounded 2 Into the Abyss Adds a Whole Pond to Explore

Grounded 2's Into the Abyss update adds three biomes, full underwater exploration, diving suits, and an amphibious buggy — plus a same-day PS5 launch.

Crypto

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Injective Is the First Blockchain SEC Transfer Agent

Injective Institutional Services is now an SEC-registered transfer agent, making Injective the first layer 1 able to keep securities records onchain.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Ripple Payments Reaches Korea's Jeonbuk Bank

Jeonbuk Bank becomes the first Korean regional bank to deploy Ripple Payments, cutting cross-border settlement from days to seconds for local exporters.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Ethereum Hegota Upgrade Shortlists 66 EIPs for 2027

Ethereum's 2027 Hegota upgrade is down to 66 candidate EIPs, with FOCIL the only one locked in and a three-proposal package aiming at native privacy.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

UBS Bitcoin ETF Call Options Jump 24-Fold in Q2 Filing

UBS reported 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at June 30, up from 80,000 in March — a 2,337% increase disclosed in its latest 13F filing.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 15, 2026★5 min read

Ether.fi Neobank Adds Tokenized Stocks, Metals, Loans

Ether.fi's Summer release brings 90+ tokenized assets, Aave-backed borrowing near 4%, and 30+ fiat rails to its 500,000 self-custody members.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read

Fidelity Ether ETF Staking Would Pay Quarterly Cash

Fidelity's amended FETH filing would stake up to 100% of the fund's ether, keep 85% of gross rewards, and pay holders quarterly cash distributions.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 13, 2026★5 min read

Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Stocks

Coinbase secured Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi's FSRA to arrange deals, custody tokenized securities, and issue digital shares.

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Satoshi Lens★Aug 12, 2026★5 min read

Solana Slot Times Fall to 350ms on the Road to 200ms

Solana cut testnet slot times to 350ms on August 6, the first of four steps toward 200ms blocks, with Agave v4.2 mainnet targeted for August 17.

Mini Computers

Raspberry Pi CM5 Jig Flashes Modules With No Carrier

The official $600 Raspberry Pi CM5 programming jig flashes Compute Modules with secure boot and disk encryption without needing a carrier board.

NXP MCX A5 MCUs Pair Post-Quantum Boot With Ethernet

NXP's MCX A5 pairs a 240 MHz Cortex-M33 with an integrated 10BASE-T1S PHY and post-quantum secure boot, sampling now and available in Q4 2026.

PwrBlock 323 Is a $230 Programmable USB-C PD Supply

The open-hardware PwrBlock 323 turns a 100W USB-C PD charger into a scriptable 1-32V bench supply for test fixtures, at $230 on Crowd Supply.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 18, 2026★5 min read

USBridge-KVM 2.0 Brings BIOS Access Over SSH

The $219 USBridge-KVM 2.0 is an open-source IP-KVM built on a Radxa Zero 3W that turns graphical BIOS screens into text you can read over SSH.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Waveshare PiRack-M6F Racks Six Raspberry Pis in 2U

Waveshare's PiRack-M6F holds six Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 boards in a 10-inch 2U rack and moves every port to the front, starting at $69.99 direct.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit Adds a Keyboard for LoRa

LILYGO's T-Echo Lite Kit pairs an nRF52840 LoRa and GPS board with a backlit keyboard shield and speaker for off-grid messaging, from $65.34.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 17, 2026★5 min read

Google Chrome on Raspberry Pi 5: What It Adds Over Chromium

Google Chrome now ships an official arm64 Linux build. On a Raspberry Pi 5 it matches Chromium at 30 FPS in WebGL but adds sync and Widevine DRM.

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Alex Circuit★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Pi-Ener-lite: A $35 18650 UPS for Raspberry Pi Zero

The Pi-Ener-lite adds an 18650 battery backup, real-time clock, and fuel gauge to a Raspberry Pi Zero for $35 while leaving the GPIO header free.

Stock Trading

Cover illustration for Analog Devices Q3 Revenue Jumps 40% to a Record $4.02B

Jake Trader★Aug 20, 2026★4 min read

Analog Devices Q3 Revenue Jumps 40% to a Record $4.02B

Analog Devices posted record Q3 revenue of $4.02 billion, up 40% year over year, with adjusted EPS of $3.45 and a Q4 outlook calling for $4.3 billion.

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Jake Trader★Aug 18, 2026★4 min read

Baidu GPU Cloud Revenue Jumps 283% in Q2 2026

Baidu's Q2 GPU Cloud revenue rose 283% year over year and AI Cloud Infra grew 50% to RMB 7.3B, as the AI business becomes the company's core engine.

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Jake Trader★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Nvidia Invests $1.5B in SB Energy's Ohio AI Campus

Nvidia is putting $1.5B into SB Energy and backing up to $105B in credit to make the 4.25GW PORTS-Pike campus in Ohio an Nvidia-only compute site.

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Jake Trader★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Unitree IPO Heads to Shanghai at a $9 Billion Valuation

Unitree priced its STAR Market IPO at 150.80 yuan a share for a $9 billion valuation, with retail demand oversubscribed roughly 8,000 times.

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Jake Trader★Aug 15, 2026★4 min read

S&P 500 Record Close Led by Memory Chip Stock Rally

The S&P 500 closed at a record 7,798.99 on August 13 as flat July producer prices and a memory-chip rally lifted sentiment into a third weekly gain.

Cover illustration for Applied Materials Q3: Record $9.12B and Raised Outlook

Jake Trader★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read

Applied Materials Q3: Record $9.12B and Raised Outlook

Applied Materials posted record Q3 revenue of $9.12 billion, up 25% year over year, and guided Q4 to $10.25 billion on AI infrastructure demand.

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Jake Trader★Aug 13, 2026★5 min read

Cisco Q4 Revenue Hits Record $17.3B as AI Orders Surge

Cisco posted record Q4 revenue of $17.3 billion, up 18%, and booked $9.3 billion in hyperscaler AI infrastructure orders in fiscal 2026, up 4.5x.

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Jake Trader★Aug 12, 2026★5 min read

Datadog Q2 Revenue Grows 36% to $1.12B on AI Agents

Datadog Q2 revenue rose 36% to $1.12 billion with 4,720 customers above $100K ARR, as autonomous Bits AI and AI Guard reached general availability.

AI Security

Cover illustration for AI Agent Memory Files: One Prompt Blocks the Spread

Kai Aegis★Aug 20, 2026★5 min read

AI Agent Memory Files: One Prompt Blocks the Spread

Anthropic and EPFL found payloads spread between AI agents via editable memory files, and a one-paragraph prompt warning cut the spread to near zero.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 18, 2026★5 min read

Windows 11 Drops WMIC, a Longtime Malware Favorite

Microsoft has removed the WMIC command-line tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, closing a living-off-the-land binary abused by ransomware for years.

Cover illustration for Hazmat Locks AI Coding Agents Out of Your SSH Keys

Kai Aegis★Aug 17, 2026★5 min read

Hazmat Locks AI Coding Agents Out of Your SSH Keys

Hazmat is a free open-source tool that runs AI coding agents under a separate user with a kernel sandbox and firewall, keeping SSH keys out of reach.

Cover illustration for Google Cloud Maps Post-Quantum Crypto Readiness by 2029

Kai Aegis★Aug 17, 2026★4 min read

Google Cloud Maps Post-Quantum Crypto Readiness by 2029

Google Cloud published a phased post-quantum roadmap targeting full readiness by 2029, with quantum-safe key exchange already live on API endpoints.

Cover illustration for OT Vulnerability Triage Drops From Weeks to Minutes

Kai Aegis★Aug 15, 2026★5 min read

OT Vulnerability Triage Drops From Weeks to Minutes

Fortress and Industrial Defender integrated asset intelligence with AI vulnerability correlation, cutting OT vulnerability-to-asset triage to minutes.

Cover illustration for GLM-5.3 Posts an 84.5% CyberGym Cyber Defense Score

Kai Aegis★Aug 14, 2026★6 min read

GLM-5.3 Posts an 84.5% CyberGym Cyber Defense Score

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 lifts CyberGym from 77.2% to 84.5% on post-training alone, and the team is holding weights back two weeks for safety hardening.

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Kai Aegis★Aug 13, 2026★5 min read

Signal Automates Encryption Checks With Key Transparency

Signal's Automatic Key Verification uses a key transparency log audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits to confirm chats without meeting in person.

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