AIBreaking
perplexity built a free local AI agent — you just need a $4,700 computer to run it
Portable Computer promises zero token costs by running entirely on your own GPU. here's what that GPU actually costs you.
Lena Fischer · 2h ago · 8 min
Local-AI hardware
What GPU do you actually need?
Which card runs a model, what fits at your context length, and what it costs to rent — computed from each model's own config and live provider prices. Not opinion.
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Deals
this '$500 off' gaming PC deal has a number nobody's pointing out
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Nadia Rahman · 2h ago · 7 min
Hardware
Apple's new Mac Studio has more AI memory than a $13,000 Nvidia box. let that sink in
The M5 Ultra tops out at 512GB of unified memory — here's the actual math on whether that beats a real GPU for running big local models.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 8 min
Web3
bitcoin erased three months of losses in one week — and it's still 30% below its record high
BTC crossed $80,000 for the first time since May on a Treasury bond-buyback surprise and a Trump-Coinbase meeting — but the rally hasn't undone a brutal year.
Sam Okafor · 12h ago · 6 min
Gaming
Elden Ring's director basically told IGN: enough multiplayer, I want to go back to solo
Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware's back-to-back multiplayer games were never the plan — and single-player is still the heart of the studio.
Diego Santos · 12h ago · 6 min
Deals
someone traded a box of broken PlayStations and Xboxes for $10,690 — here's the real math
GameStop store credit for a pile of dead consoles sounds like a scam until you actually run the numbers against eBay.
Nadia Rahman · 12h ago · 6 min
Software
a construction giant just leaked SSNs, bank accounts, and military project files in one breach
Payouts King says it walked off with 27 terabytes from Turner Construction — including files it claims are covered by U.S. arms-export law. Turner took seven weeks to tell anyone.
Priya Nair · 18h ago · 7 min
AI
n8n's 'authenticated-only' RCE bug is scarier than it sounds — half your team can trigger it
CVE-2026-33696 needs zero exploits and zero admin rights — just permission to edit a workflow, which in most n8n setups is basically everyone.
Lena Fischer · 18h ago · 6 min
Software
Gogs has a history of sitting on RCE bugs. this time, someone actually fixed it
Two critical bugs let anyone overwrite Git hooks and run code on your server — and for once, the fix shipped before it turned into the usual Gogs mess.
Priya Nair · 18h ago · 6 min
PC Hardware
More →Hardware
Apple's new Mac Studio has more AI memory than a $13,000 Nvidia box. let that sink in
The M5 Ultra tops out at 512GB of unified memory — here's the actual math on whether that beats a real GPU for running big local models.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 8 min
Hardware
AMD says it's finally catching Nvidia. I checked if that's true for the GPU on your desk
The earnings numbers show real momentum for AMD in AI data centers — the RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5060 Ti benchmarks tell a very different story.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 7 min
Hardware
Cisco just found five perfect-10 bugs in its own network tools — before anyone else did
Nine vulnerabilities, five of them maximum severity, were sitting in the software that runs and secures corporate networks — Cisco caught them first, but that clock is already running.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 6 min
AI & Local LLMs
More →AI
n8n's 'authenticated-only' RCE bug is scarier than it sounds — half your team can trigger it
CVE-2026-33696 needs zero exploits and zero admin rights — just permission to edit a workflow, which in most n8n setups is basically everyone.
Lena Fischer · 18h ago · 6 min
AI
your GPU isn't too small for that 235B model — you're just using it wrong
A handful of llama.cpp flags let a 16GB card run models that shouldn't fit, and most people running local AI have never touched them.
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 7 min
AI
I lined up five GPU cloud providers' real prices — the 'best-rated' one costs almost double
CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda and Crusoe all rent you the same Nvidia silicon. The price gap between them is bigger than most people renting compute realize.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 8 min
Gaming
More →Gaming
Elden Ring's director basically told IGN: enough multiplayer, I want to go back to solo
Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware's back-to-back multiplayer games were never the plan — and single-player is still the heart of the studio.
Diego Santos · 12h ago · 6 min
Gaming
Riot just gave up on 2XKO — 11 months after launch, and everyone's getting refunded
The fighting game launched in January to real critical love. Riot says it still isn't making enough money to justify building it.
Diego Santos · 2d ago · 6 min
Gaming
xbox just posted its worst physical sales number ever — barely 4 out of every 100 discs sold in the us this year
Circana's 2026 numbers put Xbox at just over 4% of new physical game sales in the US, miles behind Nintendo's 63% and PlayStation's 32%.
Diego Santos · 3d ago · 6 min
Retro & Consoles
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Retro
A 1995 arcade racer that made you sit on a real leaning motorcycle just landed on Switch 2
Namco's Cyber Cycles put players on a full-size lean-steer motorcycle cabinet in 1995. Thirty-one years later it's $17 on your couch, and HAMSTER swapped the handlebars for a control stick.
Tom Ashcroft · 5d ago · 6 min
Retro
Kingdom Hearts is finally coming to Switch 2 for real — but Nintendo's killing the version you've been playing
The full trilogy collection launches October 8 as a native, physical Switch 2 release — two days after the cloud version everyone's been using gets shut off.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 17 · 5 min
Retro
a 1986 Amiga classic just came back after 40 years — and two of its three modes miss the mark
Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns launched August 13 with three different games in one box — critics say only the brand-new one is actually worth playing.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 16 · 6 min
Software & Apps
More →Software
a construction giant just leaked SSNs, bank accounts, and military project files in one breach
Payouts King says it walked off with 27 terabytes from Turner Construction — including files it claims are covered by U.S. arms-export law. Turner took seven weeks to tell anyone.
Priya Nair · 18h ago · 7 min
Software
Gogs has a history of sitting on RCE bugs. this time, someone actually fixed it
Two critical bugs let anyone overwrite Git hooks and run code on your server — and for once, the fix shipped before it turned into the usual Gogs mess.
Priya Nair · 18h ago · 6 min
Software
One free BI tool had a password-reset bug that handed out admin — hackers found it first
A single API endpoint let anyone become an administrator on thousands of self-hosted Metabase servers, and Framework, n8n and Kilo Code already got hit before the patch even shipped.
Priya Nair · 1d ago · 7 min
Web3 & Crypto
More →Web3
bitcoin erased three months of losses in one week — and it's still 30% below its record high
BTC crossed $80,000 for the first time since May on a Treasury bond-buyback surprise and a Trump-Coinbase meeting — but the rally hasn't undone a brutal year.
Sam Okafor · 12h ago · 6 min
Web3
your 'safest' Bitcoin wallet had a broken lock since 2021 — and hackers just found it
A five-year-old firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets let attackers drain $116 million in Bitcoin this summer — and if you generated a seed on one between 2021 and July 2026, your coins might still be exposed.
Sam Okafor · Aug 16 · 7 min
Web3
this ransomware gang can't be shut down the normal way — their servers live on the blockchain now
DeadLock skips throwaway domains entirely. Its victim chat and leak blog run on Polygon smart contracts, and Microsoft says that's exactly why takedown notices don't work on it anymore.
Sam Okafor · Aug 15 · 7 min