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‘This is painful’: one of my favorite budget audio brands is still building elite 5-driver earbuds with LDAC and hi-res iPhone streaming, but its engineering blog and Q&As are a refreshingly open look at audio design issues

* Soundpeats Nebula Aura were teased in January 2026 * Since then, the brand has continued to run a blog about their development * Fans look willing to sell a kidney to try them Thanks to its roster of solid affordable earbuds, Soundpeats is a brand I always keep an eye on. Between

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Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into

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UK government gives data centers the ability to skirt building regulations and local authority oversight by applying for…

* UK data centers can apply for a special 'national significance' designation under the NSIP scheme * The designation allows new projects to receive approval direct from Whitehall, avoiding local planning and building regulations * Opposition to data centers in the UK has not reached the same levels as the US,

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South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into

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Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into

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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

It’s around an hour and 10 minutes into the role-playing game I’ve been invited to observe, a simulated catastrophic cyberattack on US water utilities, when the whole thing begins to feel less like a fun afternoon playing Dungeons & Dragons and more like a plausible threat to civilization.

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced shows that a quality remake is more than a shiny coat of paint, as the modernizations enhance it considerably — but not absolutely

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a great remake of a classic game and does a great job of walking the tightrope between respecting the original source material and introducing new content and modernizing aged features. Cut content is a shame, and the game’s more repetitive elements don’

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INTELLECT-3.1 Brings Open-Source RL Reasoning to 106B MoE Scale

Overview INTELLECT-3.1 is a 106 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model built by PrimeIntellect as continued training of the base INTELLECT-3 model. The model receives additional reinforcement learning optimization for math, coding, software engineering, and agentic tasks using the prime-rl framework and verifiers library. This is a text-to-text generation model

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The Practical Case for Context Engineering in Software Teams

Someone asked me for a practical example of context engineering. Here is one pattern I use: keep a separate context layer for product memory, and give agents clear rules for maintaining it. This is different from putting another AGENTS.md into the product codebase. In this pattern, the context layer

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The Web3 Key Management Mistake That Creates Massive Blast Radius

Encrypting the private key still leaves one decryptable key behind one server — the honeypot that MPC later removes. Encrypting the private key still leaves one decryptable key behind one server — the honeypot that MPC later removes. Your backend can decrypt every user's private key. So can your ENCRYPTION_

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Your AI Hero Turns Into a Stranger Every Shot. The Fix Is a Document, Not a Better Prompt.

A working tutorial for building a character bible that survives a stateless pipeline, from someone who lost a whole afternoon to a heroine who would not stay the same person. The first time I tried to cut a real scene of Lost Garden, my dark-fantasy anime series, my lead character

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How I Got Into Cyber Security Without a Degree or Fancy Certificates

This article will sum up the past 4 years of my life. I remember someone telling me “It’s not what you know but who you know”. This stayed with me for as long as i can remember. This is not absolute but does make up a huge part of

&lsquo;This is painful&rsquo;: one of my favorite budget audio brands is still building elite 5-driver earbuds with LDAC and hi-res iPhone streaming, but its engineering blog and Q&As are a refreshingly open look at audio design issues

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it

UK government gives data centers the ability to skirt building regulations and local authority oversight by applying for…

South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns

Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced shows that a quality remake is more than a shiny coat of paint, as the modernizations enhance it considerably — but not absolutely

INTELLECT-3.1 Brings Open-Source RL Reasoning to 106B MoE Scale

The Practical Case for Context Engineering in Software Teams

The Web3 Key Management Mistake That Creates Massive Blast Radius

Your AI Hero Turns Into a Stranger Every Shot. The Fix Is a Document, Not a Better Prompt.

How I Got Into Cyber Security Without a Degree or Fancy Certificates

‘This is painful’: one of my favorite budget audio brands is still building elite 5-driver earbuds with LDAC and hi-res iPhone streaming, but its engineering blog and Q&As are a refreshingly open look at audio design issues