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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on…
Marvel’s mishandling of its Blade reboot will likely go down as one of the studio’s biggest mistakes. There was a great actor in place to play the vampire hunter (Mahershala Ali), and a promising director set to take over the reins (Bassam Tariq). In retrospect, though, the disappointing demise of Blade might not be such…
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted its highest monthly revenue in company history on September 11, 2026, and the number tells a bigger story than one good month. TSMC booked NT$514.81 billion in August sales, up 10.1% from July and 53.3% higher than the same month a year earlier, according to company figures cited by industry…
Intel’s biggest data center CPU launch of the year barely got a headline. On the same week Intel formally rolled out its Xeon 6+ “Clearwater Forest” processors, built on the long-delayed Intel 18A process, Nvidia used its Computex/GTC Taipei keynote to unveil its first real push into PC processors, and Wall Street decided that was…
Kubernetes cost management sits at the center of the broader cloud computing conversation in 2026, and clusters are running hotter on cost than almost anything else in the infrastructure budget. The numbers back that up. Cast AI’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report, based on telemetry from tens of thousands of production clusters across AWS,…
Pick the wrong load balancer and you find out during an incident, not during planning. A team running HTTP microservices on Elastic Kubernetes Service does not need the same traffic cop as a fintech company pushing raw TCP order-book data, and neither of them needs what a globally distributed SaaS company needs when a whole…
Buying a PS5 Pro does not automatically retire the standard PS5 sitting under the TV. A growing number of households now run both consoles side by side, one upstairs for a kid or partner, one downstairs hooked up to the good TV, both signed into the same PlayStation Network account. The problem is that Sony…
Every Steam Deck owner eventually hits the same wall: a game launches fine on Windows but crashes, stutters, or refuses to boot on Linux. The fix usually isn’t a new graphics driver or a reinstalled game. It’s a different build of Proton. As of September 2026, Valve’s default Proton sits at version 11.0-2, the community-maintained…
Abacus.AI on September 10, 2026 released a new family of open-weight language models called Smaug, built specifically for enterprise agentic AI workloads. The line has three members — Smaug Agentic, Smaug Flash, and Smaug Mini — and every one of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and hosted inside a company’s own cloud environment.…
