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Anthropic and OpenAI have both put out new flagship coding models within weeks of each other, and developers now have to pick a side without much time to test either one properly. Claude Opus 4.8 landed on May 28, 2026, and GPT-5.6 Sol followed on July 9, 2026, and both companies are marketing them as…
Added to a text thread from an unknown number, these family members were surprised with pornography featuring a relative.
I’ve been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I’ve listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I’ve been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good – great, even – but they lack a distinct character. Something to remind me why I fell in love…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares were on track to open at a fresh record high on Friday, September 4, 2026, after the company put a new Nvidia-powered server at the center of its pitch to enterprise customers racing to deploy autonomous AI agents. HPE stock rose more than 7% in premarket trading, according to Stocktwits, as…
Valve’s Steam Deck OLED has spent nearly three years as the handheld every PC gamer measures new hardware against, and after its May 2026 price hike it now starts at $789. AYN’s Thor takes a completely different route to the same shelf: a clamshell, dual-screen Android device built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2…
I’ve rounded up the best smart speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the popular Echo Dot to the newest Echo Studio.
It’s Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn’t human – and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have…
OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the “‘wiki incident,’ where our agents wrote to several internet sites,” OpenAI wrote…
Every time a new open-weight model drops, the same bottleneck shows up a few hours later: the safetensors checkpoint is enormous, your GPU has 12GB or 16GB of VRAM, and the model card offers no guidance on how to shrink it without wrecking output quality. GGUF is the file format that solves this, and llama.cpp…
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
