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Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, 2026, and within days it landed on 20 different inference providers, from OpenRouter to Cloudflare Workers AI to Together AI. That’s an unusually fast fan-out for a model that isn’t from OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic, and it’s happening because GLM-5.3-Flash undercuts most frontier-class competitors on price while matching or…
Google cut the price of its Gemini 3.7 Flash model in half on August 13, 2026, and the timing tells its own story. AI compute bills are climbing across the industry, and the company that runs some of the world’s largest data centers just made its most-used AI model dramatically cheaper to call. The move,…
HP’s Envy Move was a clever all-in-one PC with a portable twist thanks to a genius built-in battery, but it didn’t last long. I’d love to see it return one day.
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …
Abbott Laboratories is the latest household-name healthcare company to learn that a single phone call can undo years of security investment. On August 7, 2026, The Register reported that the extortion group ShinyHunters had dumped data stolen from Abbott’s Cancer Diagnostics business, after the company apparently declined to pay a ransom. The leak, according to…
Valve has quietly turned a two-year side project into the default operating system option for the entire Windows handheld category. SteamOS 3.9, which began rolling out to non-Valve hardware in April 2026, now installs natively on the ROG Ally line, and Asus’s own “enhanced support” listing has effectively become a green light for millions of…
Sony’s PS5 Pro now carries a US sticker price of roughly $699.99, unchanged from its original 2024 launch price, while the standard PS5 Slim sits at $499.99 for the disc model and around $449.99 digital-only. That $200-$250 gap is exactly why so many PS5 Slim owners are stuck deciding whether the upgrade is worth it,…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has confirmed that hackers demanded a ransom after breaking into systems tied to Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, and that the company refused to pay. The disclosure, made public on August 27, 2026 and still developing as of August 29, shifts the story away from the raw scale of…
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joined 113 other companies on August 27, 2026, to sign an open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are about to get much worse, and that governments, tech firms, and critical infrastructure operators have only a short runway to catch up. The letter, first reported by Politico and confirmed by the BBC…
The Commodore 64 sold somewhere between 12.5 million and 17 million units during its production run, and in 2026 more people are running C64 software than at almost any point since the machine went out of production in 1994. That’s thanks to three emulators that have taken very different approaches to recreating a 1982 8-bit…
