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Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says 9 August 2026 at 17:05

Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says

9 August 2026 at 17:05

According to computer science researcher and software performance expert Daniel Lemire, skyrocketing memory prices are a "historical anomaly," with the unprecedented increases effectively erasing decades of steady, exponential cost reductions.

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A jailbreak for iOS 26 is finally here, 326 days after launch 9 August 2026 at 15:56

A jailbreak for iOS 26 is finally here, 326 days after launch

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9 August 2026 at 15:56

The release also adds compatibility with devices running iOS 16.5.1 through iOS 17.3.1. That widens the range of iPhones, iPads, and Apple silicon devices that can run Dopamine, particularly older firmware versions that were not previously covered.

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Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb" 9 August 2026 at 14:01

Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb"

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9 August 2026 at 14:01

Bosworth gave his Victorian workhouse-style opinion on what employees should do with their free time from AI-related productivity gains at a July Q&A, reports Business Insider.

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I Gamed on a 4GB GPU in 2026: AMD is Repeating its Worst Radeon Mistake 9 August 2026 at 12:22

I Gamed on a 4GB GPU in 2026: AMD is Repeating its Worst Radeon Mistake

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9 August 2026 at 12:22

AMD is bringing 4GB graphics cards back in 2026. We tested the Radeon RX 6500 XT across 12 modern games to see what that means for buyers, and the results are every bit as bad as we feared all along.

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Flock wanted to put license plate cameras on 350,000 Uber and Lyft dashcams 8 August 2026 at 18:33

Flock wanted to put license plate cameras on 350,000 Uber and Lyft dashcams

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8 August 2026 at 18:33

A presentation from Flock, obtained by 404 Media, describes abandoned plans to install the company's automatic license plate readers on 350,000 vehicles operated by Uber, Lyft, and other delivery companies in Georgia. The plan could have significantly expanded the surveillance capabilities of the already controversial AI-powered cameras.

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Apple's rumored "Ultra" lineup would include a foldable iPhone, camera AirPods, and a touchscreen MacBook 8 August 2026 at 16:28

Apple's rumored "Ultra" lineup would include a foldable iPhone, camera AirPods, and a touchscreen MacBook

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8 August 2026 at 16:28

The foldable phone, likely to be called the iPhone Ultra, would be Apple's most expensive iPhone to date. Reports put its US starting price between $1,999 and $2,499. Apple is expected to introduce it alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max.

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SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs 8 August 2026 at 15:37

SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs

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8 August 2026 at 15:37

SK Hynix just announced a massive new investment to strengthen its manufacturing capacity for both DRAM and NAND flash products. The South Korean corporation, one of the world's three largest memory manufacturers alongside Samsung and Micron, is going to spend 54 trillion won ($38 billion) to build the new "Y2"...

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Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic 8 August 2026 at 14:04

Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic

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8 August 2026 at 14:04

CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web will look like in the future.

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Windows 11 26H2 is a small update with big quality-of-life improvements, expected around October 2026 8 August 2026 at 13:02

Windows 11 26H2 is a small update with big quality-of-life improvements, expected around October 2026

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8 August 2026 at 13:02

Many of the features aimed at power users and IT teams, like Point-in-Time Restore and Cloud Rebuild, have already started rolling out through cumulative updates rather than waiting for 26H2's official release. What 26H2 does is pull those pieces together, alongside a more flexible taskbar and Start menu, a more...

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Take-Two's CEO predicts streaming will 10x gaming's install base within three years 7 August 2026 at 23:17

Take-Two's CEO predicts streaming will 10x gaming's install base within three years

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7 August 2026 at 23:17

During Take-Two's first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick put a number on it: he expects cloud gaming to reach commercial, low-latency viability within three years, potentially multiplying the effective installed base tenfold. He made the comments while addressing the rising cost of gaming hardware.

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Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it 7 August 2026 at 21:13

Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it

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7 August 2026 at 21:13

Asus has announced a new update for its DisplayWidget Center software, adding agentic AI and other AI-based features. The tool, which is designed to manage and customize Asus monitors from within the traditional desktop environment, can now enable natural language interactions between users, IT administrators, and "compatible" AI agents for...

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Flock's biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage 7 August 2026 at 19:29

Flock's biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage

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7 August 2026 at 19:29

Andreessen Horowitz, which led Flock's $275 million funding round in March 2025, has also backed Toka, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that has reportedly developed tools capable of breaking into connected cameras and manipulating their footage.

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Netflix brings 4K streaming to Chrome, but you probably don't qualify 7 August 2026 at 18:13

Netflix brings 4K streaming to Chrome, but you probably don't qualify

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7 August 2026 at 18:13

Netflix's support for 4K streaming through Chrome on Windows was spotted last month. Now, the media giant has updated its documentation to explain exactly how subscribers can unlock the higher-quality option. However, the move will still leave many users behind, despite bringing 4K playback to the most popular web browser...

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RPCS3 just got a lot faster on Arm, after months of low-level optimization 7 August 2026 at 17:54

RPCS3 just got a lot faster on Arm, after months of low-level optimization

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7 August 2026 at 17:54

PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 is rolling out a major Arm64 upgrade, delivering up to 60% faster performance and 25% lower power draw on supported hardware. Demonstrated on an Ayn Odin 2 handheld, the optimizations make previously unplayable titles like Ninja Gaiden 3 run smoothly and extend across Arm64 builds on Linux, macOS, and Windows, from Apple Silicon to Snapdragon X laptops and handhelds.

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Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week 7 August 2026 at 17:15

Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week

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7 August 2026 at 17:15

During QuakeCon's opening ceremony, id Software and MachineGames released Dawn of the Machine, a free expansion for the original 1996 Quake. MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the modern Wolfenstein games and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has previously developed two Quake episodes.

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SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory 7 August 2026 at 15:16

SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory

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7 August 2026 at 15:16

Riley Trettel, who oversees energy and data center development for SpaceX, said the companies will handle much of the project's power needs themselves.

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OpenAI's mysterious ChatGPT device is a $300+ doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts 7 August 2026 at 14:44

OpenAI's mysterious ChatGPT device is a $300+ doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts

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7 August 2026 at 14:44

News of the device, whose journey began when OpenAI announced it was acquiring Ive's AI hardware startup io for $6.5 billion last year, comes from Bloomberg.

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Google's AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc 7 August 2026 at 14:08

Google's AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc

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7 August 2026 at 14:08

The issue began in the game's Discord server, where a player was asking Google's AI questions about Operation Octo. The answers sometimes included details the developer considered unusually specific for a small game.

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Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500 7 August 2026 at 13:39

Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500

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7 August 2026 at 13:39

Budget users shopping for a path toward mid-range 4K gaming or heavy AI workloads might want to investigate a Hong Kong-based reseller. The vendor recently began offering Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti with double its original memory for less than its current average price.

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The Google Pixel Tag is set to rival Apple's AirTag starting August 12 7 August 2026 at 13:06

The Google Pixel Tag is set to rival Apple's AirTag starting August 12

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7 August 2026 at 13:06

Leaked images published by 9to5Google ahead of next week's event show the so-called Pixel Tag adopting a pill-shaped, oblong design rather than the circular form factor favored by its rivals. The device is also expected to incorporate a built-in speaker to help users locate it when misplaced.

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