George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban
The former US representative was also fined more than $71,000 for allegedly attempting to manipulate the prediction market.
Month: August 2026
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price
Sony is one of many companies offering Labor Day discounts on tech products, though its week-long sale on the last-gen WH-1000XM5 is one of the most attractive deals I found upon logging in this morning. The comfy over-ear headphones offer some of the best sound quality and active noise cancelling, and are down to $198…
Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution
Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution’s “development, maintenance, [and] documentation.” The new policy on AI acknowledges that “responsible” use of AI can improve developers’ productivity, and goes on to say, “generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already…
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools
AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to use hacking tools and spyware and could reignite calls to backdoor devices.
Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
VLC crosses 7 billion downloads
In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.
Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘HardBreacher’ Kaspersky Product Exploit
Kaspersky told SecurityWeek that it patched the vulnerability affecting its Endpoint Security product. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘HardBreacher’ Kaspersky Product Exploit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
US Data Firms Feed Chinese AI, Pentagon Rep Warns [2026]
Four of the biggest data-labeling firms behind today’s leading AI models — the companies that quietly clean, tag, and package the raw material large language models are trained on — are working both sides of a widening US-China tech divide, according to a New York Post report published August 30, 2026. The firms supply training…
Amp vs Claude Code vs Cursor: 0% Markup vs $200 Cap [2026]
Searches for “amp code” jumped hard in August 2026, and most of the people typing it are not asking about electrical current. They are trying to figure out what happened to Sourcegraph’s coding agent, why it suddenly has a $200-a-month tier called Gigawatt, and whether it is worth switching to from Cursor or Claude Code.…