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The Slice 10, an ultrasonic craft knife that uses high-speed vibration instead of heat to slice materials, has surpassed its Kickstarter funding goal and remains available for backers at $119, roughly $100 below retail. A reviewer tested it on 3D-printed PLA and ABS, leather, DTF plastic, and cloth, finding it excelled at plastics and leather but performed weaker on fabric.
Comedian Des Bishop, who grew up in New York, became famous performing stand-up in Ireland and later in Mandarin in China, discussed his career on the podcast How Success Happens. In 2018 he deliberately restarted his comedy career in the U.S., refusing to rely on income earned abroad and performing for small, unfamiliar crowds. His new special, 'Bridge and Tunnel,' is now streaming on Hulu and YouTube.
NASA has repainted one of its T-38 supersonic training jets with a new black-and-white design featuring blue and red stripes, the Artemis program logo, and Moon graphics on the rear fuselage. The design, proposed by pilot Sean Brady of the Aircraft Operations Division at Johnson Space Center, was applied during the jet's scheduled repainting rather than for any special ceremony. The aircraft, tail number N924NA, is now the only one of NASA's 14 active T-38s that doesn't wear the agency's traditional blue-stripe livery.
Netflix will livestream the third GTA VI trailer today in partnership with Rockstar and Take-Two, giving subscribers first access before it hits YouTube and other platforms six hours later. The move comes right after hackers leaked gameplay and story details, first demanding physical game discs, then shifting to demanding cryptocurrency payments for further leaks. Rockstar called the leaks 'heartbreaking' but said it remains eager for fans to see the official extended look.
At Black Hat USA 2026, security researchers and reporters focused heavily on the risks posed by agentic AI systems and mounting concerns over the future of the CVE vulnerability-tracking program. Discussions centered on how AI is reshaping vulnerability disclosure and security research practices industry-wide.
Pixel 10 owners attempting to trade in their phones for the new Pixel 11 on the Google Store are reporting broken trade-in workflows, according to complaints on Reddit's Pixel community. Users describe receiving conflicting confirmations about whether their trade-in was accepted, only to have their cards charged the full price anyway, with Google reportedly unable to retroactively apply the promised credit.
A reader recounts how his father, an electrical engineer who once designed early aviation safety systems, built a KIM-1 computer kit at home before moving on to a Fairchild Channel F and an Atari 400. The family customized the machines with RF output, serial ports, and floppy drives, and grew up playing early cartridge and cassette-based games like an unlicensed Star Trek title and Activision's grueling 'Decathlon.'
A term coined by developer Niklas Guhn in an August 3 blog post has gone viral online: 'meat proxy,' describing someone who copies and pastes chatbot output like ChatGPT or Claude into conversations without adding their own understanding or value. Guhn's original complaint was about receiving verbatim AI replies on Slack, and the phrase quickly spread on social media with a broader definition covering anyone who forwards AI text or code without reading or validating it themselves.
Cloudflare engineers made five successive changes to how DNS cache entries are stored in memory for Big Pineapple, the platform underlying 1.1.1.1 and related DNS services that hold over 250 billion cache entries at once. The changes shrank the per-entry memory footprint by more than half, freeing roughly 100 terabytes across the company's servers while also boosting insert throughput by 43% and cutting lookup latency by 19%.
Anthropic is embedding its own browser directly within Claude Cowork, removing the requirement for a separate Chrome extension to handle many everyday browsing tasks. This lets Claude operate web pages and complete tasks natively inside its own app environment rather than relying on Google's browser infrastructure.
Samsung showcased four new Odyssey gaming monitors at Gamescom, headlined by the 27-inch Odyssey G6, which it calls the world's first 1,100Hz display, achievable at 1080p with a 1ms response time. The lineup also includes the 32-inch 4K Odyssey OLED G8 with switchable refresh rates up to 680Hz, and a 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 offering 360Hz at DQHD resolution or 720Hz in a lower-resolution mode. The G6 is slated for release in the second half of 2026, with pricing for all models still unannounced.
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, adding creative controls and generative video features aimed at developers building media and editing tools through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. The update introduces scene extension, letting users continue existing videos using up to 10 seconds of prior context instead of just the final second, and extend clips in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds total.