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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years
Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down on 30 September after 21 years, taking SageMaker Ground Truth and Augmented AI with it. Here is what changed.
ComputingThe world is building AI factories and Wistron's Fort Worth plant shows who actually makes them
There is a story that often gets missed in all the excitement about AI models, AI chips, and AI cloud services: someone has to actually build the ...
SpaceA 96 percent lunar eclipse happens early Friday
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse puts 96 percent of the Moon in Earth shadow. Here are the times, where it is visible, and what you need to ...
AINvidia killed Rubin CPX and paid 20 billion dollars for SRAM instead
Nvidia cancelled Rubin CPX and replaced it with a Groq 3 LPX rack after a 20 billion dollar licensing deal, conceding SRAM wins the inference half.
ComputingNPU vs GPU vs CPU: What actually runs your AI
NPU vs GPU vs CPU explained: what each chip actually runs, what a TOPS number does not tell you, and why memory bandwidth decides local AI speed.
ComputingApple Put a 2nm Chip in the 899 Dollar Mac mini
The Mac mini M6 starts at 899 dollars with Apple first 2nm chip and two Neural Engines, built for running AI models locally on your own desk.
AIHow to run a local LLM on a Mac in 2026
How to run a local LLM on a Mac in 2026: work out your memory ceiling, pick a runner, choose the right quantisation, and know when a local model ...
GadgetsAmazon Prime Air goes from 11 metros to nearly 500 towns
Amazon Prime Air drone delivery expands from 11 metro areas to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, with a 5 pound limit doing the ...
SpaceEmpty space bent light around a magnetar, which is not something empty space should do
Vacuum birefringence around a magnetar may have been detected for the first time, 90 years after Heisenberg and Euler predicted empty space could ...
SpaceThe Roman Space Telescope launches Sunday and it sees 100 times more sky than Hubble
The Roman Space Telescope launch date is 30 August 2026. Same 2.4-metre mirror as Hubble, but it captures at least 100 times more sky per exposure.
AIOpenAI's Astra solved ten open maths problems, and the proofs are machine-checkable
OpenAI Astra solved ten open math problems and published Lean 4 proof certificates with zero sorrys, so the results are machine-checkable, not just ...
SecurityThe Open Secure AI Alliance has grown to 120 organisations and its focus has shifted to agentic AI
When the Open Secure AI Alliance launched, the conversation around AI safety was mostly about model outputs: was the chatbot saying harmful things ...
ComputingNvidia skips new gaming GPUs, ships DLSS 4.5 instead
Nvidia is not launching a new gaming GPU generation in 2026. Instead it shipped DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, a transformer model that folds denoising ...
SecurityKeycloak CVE-2026-18963 lets anyone reset anyone's password, no email click needed
Keycloak CVE-2026-18963 is a CVSS 9.1 unauthenticated account takeover. Patch to 26.7.2 upstream, or 26.4.15 and 26.6.6 on the Red Hat build.
ComputingIntel is building a stripped-down Panther Lake chip for gaming handhelds
Leaks point to a budget Panther Lake variant from Intel with eight CPU cores and four Xe3 graphics cores, aimed squarely at gaming handheld makers ...
SpaceHow scientists measure dark energy when nobody can see it
How do scientists measure dark energy? Not by looking at it. They measure what it has done to a billion galaxies, using two techniques and a very ...
SecurityCISA added four actively exploited flaws to KEV, including a 9.8 in macOS Screen Sharing
CISA's August 2026 KEV additions include a CVSS 9.8 macOS Screen Sharing auth bypass and a 9.1 SharePoint flaw, both under active exploitation right ...
ComputingAMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE trims VRAM to chase a wider market
AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally, a trimmed-memory variant of the RX 9070 aimed at expanding its reach in the mid-range rather than ...
SecurityZimbra's SNMP flaw is being Exploited and the deadline is today
Zimbra CVE-2026-73570 is under active exploitation. CISA gave US federal agencies until 24 August to patch, and over 12,100 servers sit exposed ...
SpaceWebb's sharpest view yet of the Lion Nebula
Webb lion nebula image: NIRCam and MIRI combined to show NGC 2392's illuminated dust mane and the white dwarf carving it, 6,000 light-years away in ...
EVs and EnergyWaymo vs Tesla vs Zoox vs Motional: Four robotaxi stacks compared
Waymo vs Tesla vs Zoox vs Motional robotaxi comparison: sensor suites, vehicle designs, operating models and permit counts, and what each bet assumes.
SecurityA critical vulnerability in a widely used VPN client has exposed millions of corporate networks
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in one of the most widely deployed enterprise VPN clients has been publicly disclosed, and the ...
SpaceSpaceX Starship's eighth integrated flight test achieved full reuse for the first time
SpaceX has been methodical about Starship in a way that can make individual milestones feel incremental until you step back and look at what has ...
ComputingSnapdragon C puts Arm Windows laptops in the budget aisle
Snapdragon C debuts in the Acer Aspire Go 15, pushing Arm Windows laptops into the entry tier with up to 8GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E and dual USB-C ports.
AIAlibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent is built to drive real screens
Qwen-UI-Agent is Alibaba's GUI agent foundation model for phones, desktops and browsers, scoring 82.1 percent on MobileWorld and batching CLI ...