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Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a light into every corner,” Fiza said. “Every time we get a system, our first thought is: how can it…

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Gears E-Day Director Laid Off 4 Days After Gold [2026]

Four days. That’s how long it took Microsoft to go from celebrating a shipped video game to cutting one of the people who wrote it. On September 17, 2026, The Coalition announced that Gears of War: E-Day had gone gold, the industry term for a build that’s finished, locked, and ready to burn to a…

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How to Set Up AWS Backup: 12 Steps, $0.05/GB [2026]

AWS Backup turns a scattered mess of service-specific snapshot schedules into one policy engine that covers EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, S3, Storage Gateway, Redshift, Neptune, DocumentDB, Timestream, CloudFormation stacks, and even SAP HANA on EC2 and VMware virtual machines. Instead of babysitting eight different backup consoles, you build one backup plan, attach resources…

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GPT-6 Sol, Luna Undercut Claude Opus 5.5 by 50% [2026]

OpenAI cut the API prices of its new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models by roughly half on September 22, 2026, positioning both below rival flagship pricing on the same day Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5. The timing was not a coincidence. GPT-6 Sol now costs less per million tokens than Claude Opus 5.5, and…

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ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok: 20-Point IQ Gap [2026]

Three flagship chatbots and one very late arrival all shipped inside a single three-week window this September, and for the first time in months the fight between them isn’t really about who writes the cleanest code. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 have each published (or…

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Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India

Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this spring against a bill that would have narrowed the legal recognition for transgender people in…

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