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Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away,…

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Set Up OpenAI Embeddings API: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

OpenAI’s embeddings endpoint quietly became one of the most-used pieces of the entire API stack in 2026. Every retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline, every “chat with your docs” tool, and every recommendation engine built on top of GPT-6 Astra, Sol, or Luna leans on the same primitive underneath: a vector produced by text-embedding-3-small or text-embedding-3-large. Search…

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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Hits Bedrock: 1.56TB Release [2026]

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has spent the past two months quietly working its way from a GitHub release notice into mainstream cloud infrastructure, and the past three weeks have turned that slow build into the biggest open-weight AI story of the fall. The Beijing-based lab published Kimi K3 as an open-weight model in July 2026,…

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GPU Upgrade Guide: Install a New Graphics Card in 13 Steps [2026]

Upgrading a graphics card sounds simple until you actually open the case. Between the new 12V-2×6 power connectors on RTX 50-series cards, PCIe 5.0 clearance issues, and the RAM and storage price spikes squeezing 2026 PC budgets, a GPU swap has more failure points than it did five years ago. Search interest in “how to…

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ShinyHunters Bypass WAF on CVSS 9.8 PeopleSoft Bug [2026]

Four months after Oracle patched a critical remote-code-execution hole in PeopleSoft, the attackers who broke in through it are back. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and its Mandiant incident-response unit say the extortion crew tracked as ShinyHunters, internally designated UNC6240, has resumed widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by disguising its attack traffic so that web application firewalls…

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