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Raspberry Pi now has an official guide for building your own cyberdeck

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:19 -0500

Raspberry Pi recently shared a series of DIY instructions for building a custom cyberdeck. The organization said the maker community has fallen in love with these homemade machines, which is why it has now published an "official" tutorial explaining how to build one using Raspberry Pi hardware and accessories.

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Xbox unveils disc-to-digital feature designed to digitize existing physical games

Shawn Knight — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:24 -0500

To claim a digital copy of a game, simply insert a supported disc into your Xbox One or Xbox Series X and launch the title. Once claimed, you'll be able to leverage the benefits of digital, including support for Xbox Play Anywhere and Xbox Cloud Gaming when applicable.

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Apple Maps is getting ads before and after searches, and there's no way to turn them off

Rob Thubron — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:44 -0500

We first heard that Apple was considering strengthening its services revenue by monetizing Maps at the start of 2025. Cupertino confirmed earlier this year that the ads would be rolling out this summer.

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Microsoft partners with Razer, 8BitDo, and Backbone on Xbox 25th anniversary collection

Shawn Knight — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:06 -0500

The Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection consists of a Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K mouse, a Razer BlackWidow V4 75% mechanical keyboard, and a set of Razer Hammerhead V3 X HyperSpeed earbuds – all decked out in translucent green.

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Asus customer says $10,000 ROG anniversary bundle order was canceled, forcing them to pay $500 more

Rob Thubron — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:01 -0500

According to Trying-to-buildpc, they preordered the ROG 20th Edition Component Bundle, which contains a ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20, ROG Crosshair X870E Edition 20 motherboard, ROG Ryujin 360 Edition 20 liquid cooler, ROG Thor 3000W Titanium III Edition 20 power supply, and ROG GR20 Edition 20 chassis. With...

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Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, then charged a man with three felonies for destroying it

Daniel Sims — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:33 -0500

News 6 Orlando reports that police in Oviedo, Florida, have charged a man with three felonies for destroying a Flock surveillance camera, even though the camera was fake. Even the mayor, who was unaware of the decoy operation before the arrest, admitted the charges are controversial.

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SpaceX will build a $100 billion Starbase in Louisiana, a 195-square-mile spaceport designed for thousands of annual launches

Rob Thubron — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:47 -0500

SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said the facility, aptly named Starbase Louisiana, will be a self-sustaining spaceport with propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle-processing facilities, and even an airport.

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Gamescom 2026 brings new Rainbow Six, Metro, Witcher 3 and Heroes of Might & Magic reveals

Daniel Sims — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:03 -0500

Gamescom 2026 has officially begun. Over the next week, game publishers and developers will announce and preview numerous upcoming titles. Here are just a few that received new trailers during the opening ceremony.

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NASA's Gateway could become the Moon's first airport – here's how traffic will work

Rob Thubron — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:15 -0500

A team from Texas A&M University, NASA's Johnson Space Center, and Purdue University has now devised the mathematical flight manual and rules of the road that could stop this cosmic airport from descending into Futurama-style chaos.

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Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction Is Better Almost Everywhere

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:01 -0500

DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction delivers sharper upscaling, cleaner ray-traced effects, and far fewer artifacts, all while maintaining virtually the same performance across every RTX generation.

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The Witcher 3 is getting a major free remaster in September, new expansion arrives in 2027

Daniel Sims — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:48 -0500

The Witcher 3 Remastered appears to go considerably further than simply sharpening up the visuals of the 2015 RPG. CD Projekt Red says the new edition will update graphics, performance, combat, movement, progression, and several other parts of the game.

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Qualcomm details next-gen Oryon CPU, targets 5GHz with heterogeneous cache design

Alfonso Maruccia — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:04 -0500

Qualcomm is pushing its Oryon CPU up to 5GHz, which should provide a significant performance uplift on the next generation of mobile flagship devices. The company said the upcoming Oryon architecture will be the world's fastest mobile CPU, although it will require some additional silicon magic to truly shine in...

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Xiaomi takes another shot at Qualcomm and MediaTek with its 3nm flagship Xring O3 chip

Skye Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:18 -0500

Built on a 3-nanometer process, the chip is designed for flagship devices, with a focus on AI workloads, graphics performance, and camera processing. The manufacturing technology puts Xiaomi closer to Apple's latest A19 Pro chips and ahead of Huawei's current in-house smartphone processors.

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Interpol's latest crackdown targeted the global network behind West African cyber-scams

Alfonso Maruccia — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:41 -0500

From November 2025 to June 2026, Interpol worked to dismantle a massive network assisting cybercrime gangs based in West African nations. After the eight-month investigation, "Operation Jackal IV" led to 58 arrests and the identification of 263 alleged criminals. The operation will likely provide enough information to further expand Interpol's...

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Apple built its new M6 and M5 Ultra desktops for the people daisy-chaining Macs to run AI

Julio Franco — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:37 -0500

The new M6 chip moves to TSMC's 2nm process and is the first Apple SoC to combine all three core types at once. The CPU has 12 cores: two "super cores," four performance cores, and six efficiency cores. Super cores themselves aren't new. Apple introduced them with the M5 Pro...

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Intel confirms Crescent Island GPU will pack 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB of memory

Kishalaya Kundu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:02 -0500

At the Hot Chips 2026 symposium in Palo Alto this week, Intel revealed that Crescent Island will feature 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32MB of unified L2 cache, a PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, and a 350W TDP for the air-cooled model. Intel will ship Crescent Island accelerators with 160GB...

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Nvidia releases DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, available now in 30 games

Ivan Franco — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:44 -0500

Nvidia has released DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, bringing its 2nd-gen Transformer model to all RTX GPUs. The upgrade promises improved lighting, temporal stability, and detail in motion, while reducing artifacts such as ghosting. An early access update to the Nvidia App lets users enable this in 30 supported games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Resident Evil Requiem, with a wider release coming in September.

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A British gearhead built a road-legal sports car in his shed for $7,000

Skye Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:30 -0500

Called the Gasolini AR1, the car is powered by a 2017 Honda CBR500 twin-cylinder motorcycle engine and rides on wheels taken from a Ford Ka hatchback. Ely estimates the project cost about $7,000. He designed it around low weight, modest running costs, and a parts list that other enthusiasts could realistically source.

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Business schools are charging $28,000 to teach executives how to be "chief AI officer"

Kishalaya Kundu — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:42 -0500

The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business is one of the leading business schools to have launched a program for prospective chief AI officers. According to the institution's official website, the course is designed to prepare executives to "lead AI initiatives, build scalable infrastructure, and drive transformative AI adoption."

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Tesla just killed Solar Roof after years of complaints and price hikes

Skye Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:56 -0500

The company told its certified third-party installers that Solar Roof is no longer available for new projects. Tesla will continue selling standard solar panels and home battery systems instead. Its former Solar Roof web address now sends visitors to the company's solar-panel page.

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AI music can no longer chart in Australia, unless a human actually made it

Rob Thubron — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:31 -0500

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has updated its Charts Code of Practice to distinguish between AI-generated and AI-assisted music. The changes apply to the chart dated Monday, August 31, which will be published on Friday, August 28.

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Sony reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased

Daniel Sims — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:04 -0500

The company began emailing copies of the PlayStation Terms of Service and other legal documents earlier this month. Notably, the messages contain a section from the PlayStation End User License Agreement stating that software on the platform is licensed, not sold.

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Russian tech giant VK wants Apple to pay $696,000 every day until its apps return to the App Store

Rob Thubron — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:33 -0500

VK, which was known as Mail.ru Group until 2021, filed the suit against Apple in a Moscow arbitration court after the US firm removed its apps from the App Store in June.

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This 98-qubit quantum computer moves ions around to compute more efficiently

Skye Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:58 -0500

Helios is the largest trapped-ion quantum computer demonstrated so far. Quantinuum, which is based in Cambridge, UK, and Broomfield, Colorado, previously demonstrated machines with 32 qubits in 2023 and 56 qubits in 2025.

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"We've all been too ambitious": Sam Altman says our old habits are delaying the great AI transition

Rob Thubron — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:15 -0500

A recent survey found that almost 49% of US adults now use AI chatbots. While that is up from 33% two years ago, it's not as all-encompassing as, say, the number of people who use the internet every day.

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs. 9070 XT: Which Should You Buy?

Steven Walton — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:06 -0500

We compare the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT across 52 games at 1440p and 4K, test how each responds to undervolting, and determine whether the XT model is worth its price premium.

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IBM is building a dual-architecture mainframe chip that will run Arm and Z software on the same cores

Skye Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:08 -0500

The processor was showcased at Hot Chips 2026 and is expected to use 11 IBM Z cores built on a 2-nanometer process. IBM said the cores will operate above 5.7 GHz and support native execution of both z/Architecture and AArch64 instructions.

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Intel re-enters Amazon's top-10 best-selling CPUs after over a year, but AMD still dominates

Kishalaya Kundu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:04 -0500

Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core i7-14700K rank #6 and #9, respectively, surrounded by an array of Ryzen chips spanning multiple generations. Both are mid-range parts, priced at $255 and $312, respectively. The 270K Plus belongs to Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh series, while the 14700K comes from the...

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Windows NT 4.0 turns 30: when Microsoft brought the Windows 95 look to the enterprise

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:57 -0500

Microsoft released Windows NT 3.1, its first true 32-bit operating system, in 1993. The "New Technology" platform initially adopted the traditional user interface of the DOS-based Windows 3.x operating environment, but things began to change exactly 30 years ago.

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Trump says data center protesters are "making a mistake," but his allies disagree

Kishalaya Kundu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:13 -0500

Explaining the reason for his support despite strong opposition from members of his own party, Trump insisted that data centers are beneficial because they create "tremendous amounts of jobs and money." He added that people opposed to new data centers are making a mistake because the original concerns about excessive...

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