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Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
Pokkén Tournament DX never got an official PC release, and Nintendo shut down the Wii U’s online services back in April 2024, so the only way to play Pikachu Libre or Shadow Mewtwo in anything close to full resolution today is through emulation. Cemu, the open-source Wii U emulator that has powered most “play Wii…
A ransomware group has put a dual-listed insurer on notice, and the insurer is pushing back on the word “confirmed.” On October 3, 2026, Insurance Business reported that Tower Limited, the New Zealand insurer known as Tower Insurance, is investigating a claim from a cyber-extortion group that says it stole company data. Tower told Stuff…
A corrupted MDF file is one of the more stressful things a database administrator can run into. The MDF is the primary data file for a SQL Server database, so when it will not attach, throws I/O errors like 823 or 824, or leaves the database marked “Suspect,” the data inside can feel locked away.…
Google shut off Imagen 4 inside the Gemini API on August 17, 2026. Any app still calling imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 now gets a hard failure instead of a picture. The replacement, Nano Banana 2 (officially Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), uses a different endpoint, a different method name, and a different response shape, so a…
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa’s “Money” and “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles…
The best key switches you could ask for pair with a drift-proof TMR thumbstick, but it needs a few Synapse app updates to earn its highest potential praise.
I visited Ubisoft Montreal for a first look at one of the most promising new MOBAs in a decade. March of Giants is something special.
The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers’ increasingly advanced capabilities.
