Engadget

• newHow to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV
  A single adapter could be all you need.
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• newHow to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console
  There's a smarter way to power vintage portable gaming devices. Give these tips a try.
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• newWired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different & which is better to use?
  There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other.
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• newClaude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ
  In a practical breakdown of how Claude and ChatGPT AI models differ, one tends to fall short when it comes to quality responses and overall user experience.
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• newMario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy
  There are worse ways to kill time than Mario Kart 64 in VR -just don't eat beforehand.
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• newYour phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do
  A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port.
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• newThe Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed
  Apple has a not-so-obvious heart rate feature that's worth checking out. Here's what it does and how to use it.
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• newSupernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
  We chatted with Supernatural's Head of Fitness about the company's plans for its VR exercise app.
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• newBig Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out
  We're looking forward to Big Walk, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs, Pigeon: A Love Story and several others this week.
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• newX is replacing revenue sharing with a new original content rewards program
  X is retiring its old rewards-sharing program after September 7.
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• Framework customer information was accessed as part of a data breach
  Framework's customer database was accessed, but no payment info was released.
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• One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead
  NASA is planning to use elements of existing tech to learn more about all sides of the moon.
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• Sony might be rebooting its 2020 flagship headphones
  Sony might turn back the clock and revive an older model to save potential buyers some cash.
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• Static Hour challenges you to be the arbiter of truth and fear
  If only being a nighttime news editor was this thrilling all the time.
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• We thought we wouldn't write about Overwatch characters anymore but D.Mon looks too sick not to
  The new Overwatch hero is part-D.Va, part-Reinhardt and 100 percent cool as heck.
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• Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects
  This is the fifth such deal in which the president and his team has paid big to cancel a green energy contract.
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• Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon
  NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide.
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• AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways
  Hackers employing AI in their tactics are finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities that didn't even exist before.
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• Are USB flash drives becoming obsolete?
  USB drives have outlasted a lot of other tech through the years. Is it time for the industry to move on?
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• What type of phone case is best for wireless charging?
  If you use a Qi or MagSafe charger, it's important for your phone and the charging speed that you get the right kind of case.
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Tech News - Yahoo! News

• newIntel Foundry Lands a Major New Client Worth Watching
  
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• newUS Senate advances landmark crypto bill before heading on August recess
  
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• newCompetition Is Heating Up, but Here's Why Intuitive Surgical Might Still Be the Smartest Bet in MedTech
  
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• newWall Street Sees a Multitrillion-Dollar Humanoid Robot Market. These 2 Industrial Stocks Sell the Parts.
  
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• newApple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI service
  
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Techmeme

• newGoogle's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (Tim O'Reilly/Asimov's Addendum)
  Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum:Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity  —  SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google…
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• newRights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country (John Paul Rathbone/Financial Times)
  John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country  —  Move raises concern about ‘absolute dig…
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• newCape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M (FinTech Global)
  FinTech Global:Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M  —  Moment, a pan-African FinTech, has closed a $22m Series A fundin…
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• newData Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal:Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks  —  Plans for a megamerger were blessed by Putin, tying company'…
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• newAnthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
  Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions  —  This was one of the topics discussed…
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• newA look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)
  Hayden Field / The Verge:A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory  —  “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” some…
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• newA profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
  Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually  —  A7 says it handles nearly 20% of payme…
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• newAmazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
  Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal  —  The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas…
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• newSouth Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (Bloomberg)
  Bloomberg:South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating  —  Factory workers with $400,000-plus bonuses are supplanting doctors and la…
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• newHow Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
  Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes  —  Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly neg…
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• A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
  New York Times:A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks  —  As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site…
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• Ukrainian attacks on warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries are affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the platform (Reuters)
  Reuters:Ukrainian attacks on warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries are affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the platform  —  In the space of three weeks, Vasily Klimov's online shopping pick-up poin…
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• Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports (Nikkei Asia)
  Nikkei Asia:Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports  —  TOKYO — South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports fo…
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• X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access (@xcreators)
  @xcreators:X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access  —  Today, we're introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new w…
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• Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds (The Information)
  The Information:Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds  —  Nvidia has agreed to invest $2 billion into Lancium, the power…
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MacRumors - All

• newScore the A16 iPad for Its Best Price Since June's Hike
  Amazon this weekend is taking $50 off Wi-Fi models of Apple's 11th generation iPad. Prices start at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi iPad, down from $449.00. This is a match of the best price we've seen on the iPad since Apple's price hikes in June.No…
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• newTop Stories: Apple's September Announcements, MacBook Air Shortages, and More
  Apple's annual September iPhone event is just about a month away, and things are going to be a little bit different this year with Apple moving to a split launch for the iPhone 18 lineup, so make sure you're up to date on everything we may see at the…
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• newClaude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS
  Anthropic has updated Claude Code so that separate coding sessions can message each other directly, removing the need to manually copy context between Terminal windows.The company shipped the feature in Claude Code version 2.1.224, released on…
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• iPhone 17 Prices Could Rise as Soon as Monday, Rumor Claims
  Apple could raise iPhone 17 prices as soon as Monday, August 10, according to a new rumor, well before the wider round of increases expected with next month's iPhone 18 Pro launch.Weibo leaker "Fixed Focus Digital" said in a post yesterday that…
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• OpenAI Delays Next Major AI Model 'Astra' Over Critical Hacking Concerns
  OpenAI today said it is "pausing" activities involving its upcoming AI model Astra, because its cyber capabilities are potentially too dangerous. OpenAI says its newest internal evaluations show "significant advancements in agentic coding and cyberse…
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• iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine
  After 326 days, iOS 26 has received its first jailbreak, thanks to the developers behind the popular Dopamine jailbreak.Lars Fröder, better known as opa334, today released Dopamine 3.0, which adds support for a number of newer firmware versions,…
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• Apple Rumored to Launch Three New 'Ultra' Products by Early Next Year
  According to various reports from sources such as Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Macworld's Filipe Espósito, Apple is planning to release up to three new products with "Ultra" branding between late 2026 and early 2027.The long-rumored foldable iP…
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• The MacRumors Show: iPhone Air 2 - What Changes After a Difficult First Year
  The iPhone Air reaches one year on sale next month, and Apple is now closer to launching its successor than it is to the original's debut. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss what's next for the device.Subscribe to The MacRum…
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• Apple Flags Discovery Delays in Its Lawsuit Against Jon Prosser
  Apple has told a federal court that it hasn't heard from Jon Prosser's legal team in a month, as discovery drags on in its trade secret lawsuit against the leaker.In a joint status report filed on Wednesday in the Northern District of Californi…
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• Apple Captures 65% of Global Premium Smartphone Market
  Apple captured 65% of the global premium smartphone market in the first half of 2026, as the wider premium segment's share of overall smartphone sales climbed to a record 29%.That's according to Counterpoint Research's Handset Model Sales Track…
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• Apple Testing iOS 26.6.1 Update for iPhones
  Apple's software engineers are internally testing iOS 26.6.1, according to the MacRumors visitor logs.Apple already released macOS 26.6.1 yesterday with a fix for a security vulnerability affecting the Screen Sharing app. iOS 26.6.1 would likely…
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• AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, $25 Best Buy Gift Card With MacBook Neo, and More Apple Deals This Week
  Some of the best Apple deals of the summer arrived this week, including the AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, up to $500 off select MacBook Pro models, and the lowest iPad Air prices since Apple's price hike. Additionally, you'll find a solid offer on the M…
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• Apple Account Card Expands Again: What It Is and What It Isn't
  Apple this week expanded support for its Apple Account Card in the Wallet app to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta. The Apple Account Card option for Wallet started rolling out in 2022, and Apple has been gradually expanding the feature to more c…
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• Mac Pro Turns 20 Today, Five Months After Apple Killed It
  Apple announced the original Mac Pro 20 years ago today, with the anniversary landing five months after the company discontinued the machine for good.On August 7, 2006, Apple unveiled the first Mac Pro, powered by two dual-core 64-bit Xeon proc…
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• iOS 27's New Compact Clock Gives Your Wallpaper Room to Breathe
  In iOS 26, Apple let you stretch the Lock Screen clock down your iPhone's display until it dwarfed everything else. In iOS 27, Apple has a new clock option that does the opposite, with the introduction of a compact mode that shrinks the time to rough…
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• iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Could Sell Out Fast Due to Memory Shortage
  The iPhone 18 Pro, ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, and foldable "iPhone Ultra" could be in short supply this year, leading to long wait times and an initial sellout during preorders.Semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan says Apple is having trouble getting…
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• Original iPhone Loses Its Last Cellular Network as T-Mobile Kills 2G
  T-Mobile retired its 2G GSM network on Monday, August 3, which means all three major carriers in the United States have now ended 2G service.T-Mobile kept its 2G network active because it still had some legacy customers who were using it. Some…
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• Google Maps Can Now Order Your Dinner and Track Your Train Delays
  Google today added new agentic capabilities to the Gemini-powered "Ask Maps" assistant in the Google Maps app.Ask Maps can complete multi-step tasks, such as ordering a meal for you on your way home. Google says you can simply say something lik…
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• Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition Now Available on Apple Arcade
  Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition is available on Apple Arcade starting today. It's a full Madden NFL game that does not include ads or in-app purchases, and it is available exclusively on Apple devices.Users can lead and coach teams through every s…
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• BMW Owners Angry Over Spider-Man Ads Appearing on Dashboard Screens
  BMW has enraged customers by sending ads for Spider-Man: Brand New Day directly to in-car infotainment systems. An ad appears as a notification when starting the car, and when tapped, it plays a full-screen 19-second animation with music and a light…
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VentureBeat

• Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks
  As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it intr…
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• Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
  For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is a…
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• Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
  A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their ow…
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• No cloud, no GPUs, no problem: Liquid AI's new model LFM2.5-2.6B brings powerful AI agents to devices as small as a Raspberry Pi
  Earlier this week, the AI startup Liquid, formed in 2023 by former MIT computer scientists, debuted LFM2.5-2.6B, a new open-weight language model designed specifically for agentic workloads. In release materials and a recent interview with VentureBea…
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• Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill
  Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week and marketed the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5 (their launch-day table was more equivocal: the model leads on one of 12 coding-agent rows). But an independent harness came close to the opposite concl…
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• AI agents are part of your team now. Here’s how to secure all of them.
  Presented by JumpCloudA practical framework for securing every identity in the modern workforce, human or not.Your organization already has a rigorous process for governing human identities. New employees go through onboarding. They get a role, a set…
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• The browser is where attacks land. Why is security still focused on the endpoint?
  Presented by CloudMosa Enterprise work now happens increasingly inside the browser, and that shift has made the browser a primary point of entry for cyberattacks as well. Browser-based attacks have surged over the past two years, according to industr…
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