3 Best Sleep Tracker Picks for Optimizing Your Sleep (2026)
I tested the top sleep wearables for every type of sleeper, including devices from Oura, Google Fitbit, and Eight Sleep.
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Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones
The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix,…
Meta Tests Watney Robots to Cut 80% of Cable Jobs [2026]
Meta has started running robots inside two of its data centers to see whether machines can take over the physical maintenance work that keeps its AI server farms online. According to a report published by TechRepublic on August 31, 2026, the company is piloting hardware from three separate vendors, Watney Robotics, Kinova and ABB, to…
Fix Stick Drift on PS5, Xbox, Switch, Deck: 12 Steps [2026]
Analog stick drift is the single most common hardware complaint across every major gaming platform in 2026, and it is no longer just an annoyance you shrug off. In June 2026, France’s consumer protection agency (DGCCRF) fined Nintendo of Europe €35 million (roughly $40 million) over how the company communicated about Joy-Con drift on the…
Fervo Secures Its Largest-Ever Geothermal Power Deal, With Google
The company, which counts Bill Gates as an early backer, went public in a buzzy IPO in May.
‘Off the Sidelines’—Lowe’s CEO Marshals Skilled Workers Coalition
See the New Building Techniques Turbocharging the Data-Center Boom
Hyperscalers’ need for speed is spawning timesaving products and building techniques.
Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced “Meter”), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered “two notable security incidents” where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The team behind Starcloud’s orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
TP-Link’s first Wi-Fi 8 router is almost here
The Wi-Fi 8 standard is far from finalized, but TP-Link is almost ready to release its first hardware targeting the next-gen spec. It unveiled the Archer 8 Ultra tri-band router and Deco 8 Ultra mesh system at IFA 2026, which utilize the upcoming IEEE 802.11bn standard to “address the connectivity problems people actually notice” instead…