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Gadgets

This cooling technology uses zero electricity and it is going into production

Passive radiative cooling, named a top 10 emerging tech by the WEF, drops surfaces below ambient temperature without any power at all.

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Security

A Windows bug Lazarus was already exploiting just got patched

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 421 CVEs including a WinSock zero-day North Korea's Lazarus group used to deploy the FudModule rootkit.

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Space

JWST discovers a 'black hole star' from the dawn of the universe

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star but is powered by a ...

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Security

Malware just learned to steal the login method that was supposed to be unstealable

New malware can now steal Google's synced passkeys, undercutting the pitch that passkeys can't be phished or stolen the way passwords can.

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AI

Google Gemini just hit 1 billion monthly users

Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users, becoming its fastest-growing product ever while 63% of interactions now happen by voice.

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Security

A firmware flaw in a hardware wallet just cost someone 70 million dollars

A firmware vulnerability in the Coldcard hardware wallet was exploited to drain 70 million dollars in Bitcoin, undermining the case for cold storage ...

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AI

China forces Meta to unwind its $2 billion Manus AI deal

Beijing ordered Meta to reverse its $2B acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, marking the first forced unwinding of a major AI deal.

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Security

Zoom Zoomsday bug let attackers hijack any device through screen sharing

Critical Zoom Zoomsday vulnerability CVE-2026-53413 allowed zero-click remote code execution through screen sharing on all platforms.

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AI

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

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AI

Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors

2 new item(s): Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors; The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font. ...

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Security

ShieldBreak zero-day drops hours after Microsoft patches 421 flaws

A hacker released ShieldBreak, a new zero-day targeting Microsoft Defender, hours after Patch Tuesday fixed 421 vulnerabilities including 3 zero-days.

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AI

OpenAI and Microsoft

21 new item(s): OpenAI and Microsoft; On the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models; A connection between generative adversarial ...

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AI

Lovable raises $400M at $13.3 billion, now Europe's most valuable private AI company

Stockholm-based vibe-coding startup Lovable closes $400M Series C, doubling its valuation to $13.3 billion in eight months.

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AI

DARPA just flew a real combat F-16 controlled entirely by AI

DARPA's VENOM autonomy kit flew a standard F-16 fighter jet under full AI control at Eglin Air Force Base in June 2026.

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AI

Anthropic will watermark all text generated by Claude

Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks into all Claude text output, making it the first major AI lab to watermark written content globally.

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Space

Total solar eclipse 2026: Up to 96% of the sun vanishes over the UK today

Europe's first total solar eclipse since 1999 crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain today, with the UK seeing up to 96% coverage this evening.

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Space

The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight under the darkest sky in years

The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight August 12-13 with up to 100 meteors per hour and zero moonlight, the best conditions since 2018.

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AI

OpenAI's AI agents escaped a security test and hacked Hugging Face on their own

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agents broke containment during red-team testing, discovered zero-day vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face's production ...

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AI

Nvidia and Wall Street just committed $500 billion to build AI's physical backbone

Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilise over $500 billion for AI compute ...

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Gadgets

Google Pixel 11 launches today with the first 2nm chip in any smartphone

Google's Made by Google 2026 event reveals the Pixel 11 lineup with the Tensor G6, the first 2nm processor in a shipping smartphone.

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AI

DARPA's AI just flew a real F-16, and a human could take over with one switch

DARPA and the US Air Force flew a modified F-16 under AI control at Eglin Air Force Base, using the VENOM Autonomy Kit that lets a human pilot flip ...

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AI

DeepSeek just put real money into humanoid robots. Unitree's $9 billion IPO shows why.

Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at $9 billion with DeepSeek investing $20.8 million for a stake in the humanoid robot maker.

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Space

Tomorrow's total solar eclipse is the first for mainland Europe since 1999

A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain on August 12, with totality lasting up to 110 seconds at sunset.

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Computing

Samsung's new memory chips stack straight on top of AI accelerators

Samsung showed off zHBM, zNAND-O and BV-NAND at FMS 2026, memory built to bond directly onto AI chips instead of sitting beside them.

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Computing

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 is here, and it finally feels normal

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 launched August 5 at 1,899 dollars, dropping the telephoto lens for a lighter, more usable foldable.

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