The EverDrive-64 Pro Brings a Cyclone 10 Chip and Native 64DD Support to Retro N64 Flash Carts
A new $169 flash cartridge upgrades the 64's processing foundation and adds native 64DD support with in-game disk swapping.
When the Digital Oversight Layer Disappears: The Coordinated Water Infrastructure Intrusions
Federal officials suspect Iranian actors targeted internet-exposed equipment across over thirty Minnesota water systems, though CISA has officially stopped short of attribution as confirmed breaches reach at least seven states.
The First Glueball Has Been Found
The BESIII Collaboration has confirmed the X(2370) as a pseudoscalar glueball after 15 years of study using 10 billion J/ψ decays — the first experimental glueball ever observed.
NASA's PUNCH Mission Predicts a Solar Storm's Arrival to Within 30 Minutes
NASA's PUNCH mission predicted the arrival of a May 31, 2025 coronal mass ejection to within 30 minutes, a tenfold improvement over the previous 12-hour forecast window.
Vintage computer collecting surges as enthusiasts push back against AI-era technology
A growing community of collectors is restoring classic machines from the 1970s-1990s as a deliberate counter-response to modern computing's locked-down, AI-driven direction.
Meta's Muse Glimmer Pushes AI From the Cloud to the Desktop
On August 10, Meta released a locally deployable AI model and opened its frontier weights, signaling a deliberate pivot toward distributed personal compute rather than centralized cloud architectures.
Swiss government rejects stricter neutrality initiative ahead of September referendum
The Swiss government has formally rejected a popular initiative to enshrine "perpetual and armed" neutrality in the constitution, launching an official campaign against the measure ahead of the September 27 referendum. The rejection, which includes no counter-proposal, leaves a stricter constitutional definition for voters to decide on while polls indicate strong opposition to the idea.
Recent expeditions document a new cave system in Papua New Guinea and a massive glacier break in Greenland
Within days, exploration teams in two of the world's most remote environments made significant discoveries: a pristine underground network in Papua New Guinea's Nakanai Mountains, and an 18-million-tonne glacier calving event in East Greenland.
A 567-million-year-old fossil site in the Mackenzie Mountains rewrites the dawn of animal life
A team from AMNH and Dartmouth has uncovered a 567-million-year-old Ediacaran assemblage in the Mackenzie Mountains, pushing back the dawn of complex animal life by 5–10 million years and suggesting it began in deep offshore waters.
White House Finalizes Secret AI Cybersecurity Vetting Framework
The Trump administration has established a voluntary, classified benchmarking process for frontier AI models, sharing testing criteria exclusively with major tech firms.
Federal Court Vacates HUD's 2026 Homelessness Funding Overhaul, Blocking Shift Away From Permanent Housing
A federal judge in Rhode Island vacated HUD's 2026 Continuum of Care funding notice, blocking an overhaul that would have redirected billions in homelessness grants away from permanent housing and toward temporary services carrying new political conditions. The ruling held HUD violated the Administrative Procedure Act by skipping the mandatory public notice-and-comment process.
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls on OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic to Pause AI Development
Senator Bernie Sanders has sent letters to major AI CEOs demanding an immediate pause on development and threatening Congressional action if companies fail to act.
Zero-day Metabase SQL injection flaw exploited in wild to breach Framework, Tally, and others
Metabase disclosed a zero-day SQL injection flaw rated CVSS 10.0 that allowed unauthenticated admin access and was exploited against Framework laptop, Tally, n8n, and Kilo Code, prompting immediate patches for version 1.58+ and data breach notifications across affected organizations.
CISA Adds Langflow RCE, N-central Auth Bypass, and Tomcat Encryption Flaw to Actively Exploited Catalogue
CISA adds Langflow RCE, N-central auth bypass, and Tomcat encryption flaw to actively exploited catalogue with 48hr federal remediation deadline.
US breaks 132-year record for hottest month ever in July 2026
The contiguous United States just experienced its hottest month in 132 years of recordkeeping, with July 2026 averaging 76.9°F across the Lower 48 — narrowly edging out the Dust Bowl era of 1936 and the previous modern benchmark set in 2012. Wyoming logged its hottest month of any month on record. The number carries the weight of comparison to a year in which heat killed thousands, but it arrived on top of a climate baseline that has shifted significantly since then.
Linux Kernel 7.2-rc7 Lands with Security Hardening and AI-Generated Patches
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc7 as the final pre-stable build, noting that an influx of AI-assisted code made the candidate unusually large.
Nvidia partners with six Wall Street giants on $500 billion AI infrastructure financing initiative
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data center construction and hardware acquisition.
INC Ransomware Exploits SonicWall Zero-Days, Targeting Enterprise VPN Infrastructure
INC ransomware accelerates exploitation of critical SonicWall SMA1000 zero-days while CISA confirms active attacks span months before patches arrive.
M42 Junction 6 North Bridge to be demolished after structural deterioration discovered
The 50-year-old M42 bridge near Birmingham Airport will be torn down in the coming weeks, with National Highways stating demolition is the safest long-term solution.
Amtrak Awards $242M Contract to Convert Century-Old Movable Span to Fixed Crossing
Amtrak awards $242M contract to convert century-old movable lift span into fixed crossing
Amnesty warns of escalating rights crackdown in Zambia ahead of Thursday's elections
Amnesty International's 18-page briefing warns that stalled reforms and interlocking legislation in Zambia have reversed human rights gains heading into the country's 13 August 2026 elections.
A silicon quantum processor that runs itself
HRL Laboratories demonstrates an 18-qubit silicon quantum processor with a custom CMOS controller operating at -450°F inside the cryostat, running error correction autonomously without real-time room-temperature electronics.