4 Best Alexa Speakers I’ve Tested (2026)
I’ve rounded up the best smart speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the popular Echo Dot to the newest Echo Studio.
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GGUF Quantization: Shrink LLMs 72% in 12 Steps [2026]
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…
There May Not Be an iPhone 18 This Year
Apple is expected to announce several products at its September event next week—including a folding phone—but the iPhone 18 might not be among them. It would be a first for the company.
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
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.
What Muse Spark 1.3 actually changes
Meta AI has shipped Muse Spark 1.3, a new agentic coding model that the company says needs roughly 20% fewer tool calls and about 25% fewer tokens than its predecessor, Muse Spark 1.2, to finish comparable engineering tasks. The release, dated September 2, 2026, arrived quietly through Meta’s research blog before spreading across MarkTechPost, Seeking…
ROG Ally vs Legion Go: 246g Weight Gap, Same Chip [2026]
Three years after their launch, the original ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go are no longer the flagships of their own product lines. ASUS moved buyers toward the ROG Ally X and the co-branded ROG Xbox Ally, while Lenovo now pushes the Legion Go 2 and Legion Go S. Yet both 2023 originals are…
Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.3: 20% Fewer Tool Calls [2026]
Meta AI has shipped Muse Spark 1.3, a new agentic coding model that the company says needs roughly 20% fewer tool calls and about 25% fewer tokens than its predecessor, Muse Spark 1.2, to finish comparable engineering tasks. The release, dated September 2, 2026, arrived quietly through Meta’s research blog before spreading across MarkTechPost, Seeking…
How to Use a Capture Card: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]
A capture card sounds like a niche accessory until you try to record clean 4K footage from a PlayStation 5 Pro, an Xbox Series X, or a Nintendo Switch 2 without one. Built-in console recording tools work fine for a quick clip, but they cap out on bitrate, framerate, and flexibility the moment you want…
Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. Here Are the 10 You Need to See
The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn’t just a Swiss party.