US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to support illegal activitie
The U.S.military shot down three drones that were suspected of operating for Mexican cartels earlier this week.…
According to CBS News, the uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destro…
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) between Tuesday evening and Wednesday mo…
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.…
The Senate amended the Bill on August 21 before passing it on the 26th…
The amendment ends almost a year of uncertainty surrounding whether Li…
Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech
A homebrew dinner-plate-sized magnetic core memory USB storage device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.…
In what is “maybe the world’s first” [machine translation] Japanese re…
We covered this space science researcher’s earlier efforts to rekindle…
Startup raises $7 million to build backpack-portable 8.8-ounce drone interceptors — Mara claims 20x cost advantage over other interceptors, priced one-for-one against attack drones
San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.…
The complete system costs $30,000 to $100,000, depending on the number…
8 ounces) autonomous interceptors are designed to cost no more than th…
Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support
It's almost hard to believe that Grand Theft Auto VI is finally almost here after years of waiting.…
Even more surreal was seeing the first official gameplay reveal happen…
YouTuber Davy Jones was invited by Rockstar North for a three-hour gam…
Site provides instructions to get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first
The majority of PCs are sold with Windows 11 licensed, paid-for, and pre-installed.…
This fact irks many folks, especially Linux aficionados who intend to …
The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society …
Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over 62 unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution
The DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, has faced a slew of complaints from the community since construction began in 2025.…
According to Stand.
earth, the project has reportedly been operating several unpermitted g…
US Navy launches missiles from its first drone sailboat — Saildrone Surveyor launches dual JAGM missiles, carrier strike group tests armed USV and electronic warfare
The U.S.…
Navy successfully tested a sail-powered drone in live-fire exercises i…
During the recent Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2026 exercises, the Sail…
GTA 6 leaker cashes out in $250,000 crypto rug pull just hours before Rockstar's official reveal — memecoin crashes as Cyberleek's 'anti-corporate' campaign ends in a payday
The person or group behind nine days of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leaks cashed out of the $CYBERLEEK memecoin on Thursday, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look premiered on Netflix, according to on-chain data reported by CoinDesk.…
The wallet that created the Solana token claimed roughly $146,000 in w…
4 million tokens in accumulated creator fees, then sold the whole allo…
New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September
The Trump administration is considering a new AI export control that would close a loophole in current U.…
trade policy toward China, that being the PRC's access to advanced AI …
The rule, should it go into effect, would target remote access through…
MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070
The ongoing DRAM crisis has led to a sharp increase in laptop prices, with manufacturers facing exponentially high component costs, particularly memory and SSDs.…
The situation has created a growing gap in the affordable gaming lapto…
In its response, MSI has introduced the new Katana 15 HX C14 that feat…
Nvidia gears up its influence in Washington, forming PAC — tells employees that decisions Congress makes over the coming years could have substantial consequences for the AI industry, according to rep
When you serve a barely regulated emerging market worth trillions of dollars, you have to gear up your presence in politics beyond what usual lobbying or government affairs can do.…
This is exactly what Nvidia is doing by establishing its employees' fe…
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Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware
Security researchers have found three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware for routers manufactured by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics, better known as ZBT.…
The hardware is sold around the world under a bewildering array of bra…
The research, published by security firm VulnCheck, began with a Zbtli…
DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware
Tom's Hardware has verified that modders have managed to get DLSS 5 up and running on RTX 4000 series graphics cards, following the leaked release of the DLSS 5 nvngx_dlssnr.…
dll yesterday, which saw modders flock to integrate it into other titl…
Yesterday, modders managed to get Nvidia's DLSS 5 running inside Contr…
Save up to $600 on iBuyPower gaming PCs in its Labor Day sale — beat the component crisis with big bundles and coupons
Kicking off the Labor Day sales event in style, iBuypower has dropped the pricing on a number of PC builds and added a special LABORDAY coupon to enjoy up to an extra $350 discount (depending on the value of your PC choice) on one of their specced-out gaming PCs.…
You have until September 8th, 2026, to take advantage of any of these …
For anyone interested in the iBuypower RDY Y50 R01 PC build, there's a…
Micron workers increasingly support strike over bonus pay — labor union wants profit-sharing scheme, as employees at Samsung, SK hynix enjoy bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
Micron Taiwan faces a potential strike as support for this labor action is increasing among its workers.…
Local media reports that a preliminary survey showed 80% of the people…
Micron, alongside Samsung and SK hynix, have been raking in a lot of c…
Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved customers
Nvidia on Friday denied a report by the Wall Street Journal claiming that the company had put some transactions under its recently introduced 'take or pay' AI Compute Partnership on hold, less than two months after unveiling the initiative in early July and days before detailing the effort in its earnings call.…
The transactions were reportedly paused as some partners were irritate…
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Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB
Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers, and that it did so by redesigning how each DNS cache entry is laid out in memory.…
In a technical blog post, systems engineer Sebastiaan Neuteboom gave u…
1 resolver, that shrank each cached entry from 953 bytes to 420 bytes …
Save a ridiculous 76% on this 7-in-1 Hyper Dual Monitor Thunderbolt 4 Dock — just $24 buys a dual 4K60Hz HyperDrive docking station for pennies on the dollar
The portability of a laptop is nice, but it’s not without drawbacks.…
I often find myself wanting more from their generally tiny screens and…
Even writing a simple deals post like this requires multiple windows t…
X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to 'manipulate' debate
X’s Global Government Affairs team posted on its account that it identified a 200,000-strong bot farm operating on the platform, with 200 of them posting information designed to influence public perception.…
According to the team, the accounts are suspected to have been created…
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Indiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential users $100 annually
Indiana Michigan Power, or I&M, which serves over half a million residential customers across the two states, said that it’s planning to cut rates for residential customers in Indiana.…
According to the company, it’s planning “one of the nation’s largest b…
This translates to about $100 per year for each home that uses around …
Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to
Stories of AI agents running amok and following instructions literally, creatively, or a surprising mix of both are becoming common.…
In the case of developer Sebastien Guillemot, Claude ran an exceedingl…
The developer frequently uses AI agents, and became a bit annoyed that…