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Altar II: a 4.75mm-thin fully mechanical keyboard, two years in the making
Altar II is a pre-launch mechanical keyboard whose main claim is thinness: a 4.75mm chassis that undercuts even non-mechanical slim boards like Apple's Magic Ke
AMD buys Taalas to burn AI models straight into custom inference chips
AMD has acquired Taalas, a startup building AI accelerators that hard-wire a specific model directly into silicon rather than running it on general-purpose GPUs
ChipTycoon: a browser theme park that rides one wafer through chip fabrication
ChipTycoon is a single-page animation that reframes semiconductor manufacturing as a RollerCoaster Tycoon-style theme park. A cart hauls one silicon wafer down
DeepSeek V4 Flash posts 89% on ARC-AGI-1 at two cents a task
DeepSeek's V4 Flash 0731, released July 31, 2026, has landed verified scores on the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmarks. Running at maximum reasoning effort, the model
Framework breach exposes customer PII via Metabase zero-day; no payment data hit
Framework has notified customers of a data breach stemming from a zero-day vulnerability in Metabase, the third-party business-intelligence platform it used to
GitHub Actions and Pages Hit by Hours-Long Runner Outage, Now Resolved
GitHub has resolved a significant incident that degraded GitHub Actions and Pages, with the core problem tracing back to runners being handed jobs that were no
Inouye Telescope Confirms Kelvin-Helmholtz Whirlpools on the Sun's Surface
An international team using the NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on Maui — the largest solar telescope in the world — has captured the first direct observat
Inside vLLM: How a Modern LLM Inference Engine Hits High Throughput
This deep-dive walks through the internal architecture of vLLM, the open-source engine widely used to serve large language models at scale. Working from a singl
Nepal Becomes 47th Government to Join Have I Been Pwned's Free Gov Service
Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has been onboarded to Have I Been Pwned's free government tier, making it the 47th national body with access to the servi
New Mexico court hits Meta with $567M more, pushing total to $942M over child harms
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567m into a fund addressing the mental-health harms its platforms cause young people, on top of a $375
One man's guerrilla tree-planting turned a São Paulo dump into a 32,000-tree park
In 2003, East Zone resident Hélio Silva began planting native Atlantic Forest seedlings along the neglected, garbage-strewn banks of São Paulo's Tiquatira strea
OpenAI says upcoming 'Astra' model may cross 'High' cyber-capability threshold
OpenAI's internal evaluations of an upcoming model, referred to as Astra, indicate it may reach the 'High' cyber-capability tier under the company's Preparednes