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Month: August 2026

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ASUS, MSI RTX Spark Laptops Sell Out: 100K Units [2026]

ASUS and MSI have run out of RTX Spark computers before most shoppers even had a chance to place an order. Both companies confirmed that their first production allocations from Nvidia are already spoken for through channel pre-orders, and both are now going back to Nvidia for a second batch of the GB10-powered chips that…

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Waydroid vs Anbox vs Genymotion: 30-Month Gap [2026]

Linux users looking for an Android emulator run into a different problem than Windows gamers do. BlueStacks, LDPlayer, and MuMu Player don’t ship native Linux builds at all, so the search for “android emulator for linux” keeps surfacing three names instead: Waydroid, Anbox, and Genymotion Desktop. Only one of those three has shipped a real…

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Apps

ASUS Reorders RTX Spark Stock as 8 OEMs Target Q4 [2026]

ASUS told investors on August 12, 2026 that the initial production run of its RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs had been fully claimed by channel partners before a single unit reached a retail shelf, and that the company is now placing additional orders with Nvidia to cover a Q4 2026 launch. The disclosure, made…

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Traders Pile Into a Trump Assassination Market as Iran Threats Escalate

Traders Pile Into a Trump Assassination Market as Iran Threats Escalate. A long-dormant Manifold market asking “Will Trump be assassinated during his second term?” saw roughly 43% of its all-time volume change hands in a single day, one of the busiest 24-hour windows on the platform. The contract still prices a YES outcome at about…

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Messi’s Argentina Retirement Sends a Kalshi Market to 2%

Messi’s Argentina retirement just settled a Kalshi market, and the money moved before most fans read the news. A prediction market asking whether Lionel Messi would play an official match for Argentina after July 20, 2026 and before retiring sits at roughly 2% implied probability of “Yes” as of August 31, 2026, on Kalshi. The…

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AI

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI training

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, accusing the $2 trillion AI company of pirating copyrighted songs at massive scale to train Claude, its family of AI models. The lawsuit, filed Friday in California federal court, alleges […] The post Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI…

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Cyber Security

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-81578 PaperCut NG/MF Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability  CVE-2026-82078 PaperCut NG/MF Unsafe Reflection Vulnerability  These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal…

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