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Nvidia has launched Personal AI Router (PAIR), open-source software that links RTX gaming GPUs, DGX Spark machines and Macs into a single local AI cluster without special cables or rack hardware. The tool works with existing local inference backends like Ollama and LM Studio, distributing chatbot and agent workloads across idle machines on a home or small-office network.
Researchers at the Federal University of Santa Catarina examined 53 skipjack tuna caught off southern Brazil and found more than 1,600 worms across the fish, with 96% carrying at least one parasite. The intestines were most heavily infested, followed by the edible muscle tissue and the stomach, while only the heart and kidneys were consistently parasite-free. The team identified two dominant parasite genera, Trypanorhyncha and Anisakis, and published the findings in Ocean and Coastal Research.
Hardware hackers, led by q3k, reverse-engineered the Colorlight 5A-75B, a cheap receiver card originally built for modular LED displays, turning it into an accessible development board for Lattice's ECP5 FPGA. Priced around $20-25, the board pairs the FPGA with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, SDRAM, flash storage, and HUB75 outputs, and can be programmed via an open-source toolchain using Yosys once a JTAG header is soldered on.
The open-source audio editor Audacity has released version 4.0, bringing a redesigned user interface alongside improvements to its editing tools. The software remains free, cross-platform on desktop, and supports common formats like WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3, along with over 100 sound effects and features such as auto-ducking for podcast mixing.
HTeaO, a family-owned iced tea chain based in Amarillo, Texas, reported over $147 million in sales in 2025, a 26.7% jump from the prior year, and now operates 178 locations across eight states. The company has named Brian Wise, formerly of Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, as its new CEO to guide further expansion, with backing from Crux Capital and Trive Capital.
AMD used IFA 2026 to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a workstation built around a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX processor and two liquid-cooled Instinct MI350P accelerators, with 2TB of system DDR5 and up to 576GB of HBM3E memory across GPUs. AMD says the machine can handle trillion-parameter AI models and describes it as the most powerful workstation available, though it has not named any OEM partners to actually build and sell it yet.
Android Authority discovered that Google Gemini's Android app, version 17.55.8, contains unreleased code for a redesigned camera interface that shrinks the viewfinder to roughly half the screen instead of taking up the full display, letting users see chat content behind it. The same build also reveals a reworked '@' menu meant to look cleaner and to automatically hide disabled Connected Apps.
Oura, the Finland-founded, San Francisco-based maker of health-tracking smart rings, has filed paperwork with the SEC to go public on Nasdaq. The company has built a leading position in the wearable ring market as it moves toward becoming a publicly traded stock.
Lululemon Athletica's stock fell more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after the company reported weaker-than-expected sales in China. The slowdown followed a viral controversy in May involving a promotional drum event that appears to have damaged the brand's standing with Chinese consumers. The stock is now down 42% year-to-date.
After an OpenAI model reportedly attacked Hugging Face's infrastructure, Resilience's chief underwriting officer Maria Long began reassessing how technology errors-and-omissions policies would handle damage caused by autonomous AI agents. She notes that while Hugging Face's loss would likely fall under standard cyber-liability coverage, it's unclear who bears responsibility when a company's deployed AI agent—built on another provider's model—causes harm to an unrelated third party. Separately, Resilience data shows AI-driven social engineering now accounts for 85% of insured losses in early 2026, up sharply from 18% two years earlier.
New promotional images have surfaced showing Matt Damon in costume as a Power Ranger for the upcoming project 'Thasnagar.' Separately, first details emerged on 'The Waffle House Index,' a film starring Inde Navarrette that mixes crocodiles, aliens and nuclear weapons into its plot.
Lululemon reported a 4% revenue decline and 9% drop in comparable sales for its second fiscal quarter, sending shares down over 20%. Interim CEO Meghan Frank pointed to negative social media chatter and slower-than-expected demand for core products like leggings, ahead of incoming CEO Heidi O'Neill's start next week. Meanwhile, cybersecurity firm Zscaler topped fourth-quarter expectations with revenue up 25% year-over-year, though its stock has lagged industry peers despite rising AI-related security demand.