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Newegg is selling an ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt gaming PC for $1,399.99, a $300 cut from its regular price. The system pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU with a 20-core Intel Core i7-14700F processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD.
Futurism's follow-up to its investigation of Brown Brothers Media — the AI-powered network of ex-news sites run by Justin, Lachlan and Brendan Brown that draws roughly 64 million monthly visits — reports that Justin Brown's earlier venture, Ideapod, had extensive ties to people connected to Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Ideapod was later absorbed into Brown Brothers Media and continues to operate as part of the network.
SpaceX plans to launch its Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas on Monday morning within a 75-minute window opening at 8:15 a.m. EDT. Flight 14 will attempt to send the vehicle's upper stage into Earth orbit for the first time, where it is meant to deploy 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites before splashing down in the Pacific near Chile after roughly 10 hours and six orbits.
YouTube confirmed it has resolved an issue that caused missing thumbnails and blank gray or black spaces in Home, Subscriptions, and profile feeds on Android and iOS. The bug appeared over the weekend, following a separate freezing issue reported on Galaxy phones last week. YouTube says users still seeing blank gaps should force-quit and restart the app.
Ungleich Hosting reported that a customer became the target of a massive DDoS attack on August 11, 2026, which spilled over to affect the provider's own services hours later. The attack generated an estimated peak of 500-600 Gbit/s in waves lasting from Tuesday evening until Thursday afternoon, hitting Deploio, the company website, Cockpit, and its ticketing system intermittently. The company confirmed no data was accessed or compromised, and independent telemetry from Nokia's Deepfield threat research team corroborated the attack's scale and pattern.
Kalmuri is a free, portable Windows utility that combines screenshots, screen recording, and OCR text extraction in one app. It supports full-screen or area capture in formats like PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF, plus MP4 video recording via an added FFmpeg component, along with color picking, hotkeys, floating image previews, and a built-in browser for capturing full webpages. It requires no installation, so it can run from a USB drive.
Android Authority reports that Google's Pixel 11 series, running the Tensor G6 chip with a new PowerVR CXTP GPU, ships with ANGLE set as the default OpenGL ES implementation as of the September 2026 update. ANGLE translates OpenGL ES calls into Vulkan commands, and the outlet says this layer is causing jank and microstutters in games and emulators like Genshin Impact and Dolphin that didn't affect the Pixel 10.
Philips has released its Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige smart toothbrush in Europe and the US, with wider global availability planned for 2027. The device includes a touchscreen offering eight cleaning modes and three intensity levels, a 12-segment mouth map that shows which areas have been brushed well, and a light ring powered by a third-generation AI model that flags excessive pressure and adjusts vibration intensity automatically.
Nvidia has moved its OpenShell agentic AI sandbox, first unveiled at GTC in March, into general availability for all users. The tool isolates AI agents' activity at the operating system kernel level while they perform tasks, and Nvidia says it has security collaborations with companies including Anthropic, Cisco, CoreWeave, Dell, Microsoft, Palantir, Salesforce and SAP.
British startup Worldmodeldata, advised by AI researcher Yann LeCun, is packaging controller inputs and gameplay footage from video game studios into datasets meant to train 'world models'—AI systems designed to understand physical cause and effect. The company positions itself as a broker that curates this data for AI labs, rather than collecting it directly from its own gaming platforms.
Scissor is a new free vector and pixel graphics editor that runs entirely in the browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly, requiring no installation, account or file upload. It supports pen and shape tools, layers, masks, gradients, live effects, image tracing, multiple grid types, and can import and export formats including SVG, PDF, PSD, PNG and WebP. The tool also works offline and can be installed as an app, with all files stored locally on the user's device.
A satirical article portrays OpenAI and Anthropic shifting their marketing from showcasing coding or productivity features to boasting about how capable their AI models are of threatening humanity. It cites a fictional academic, an OpenAI breach of Hugging Face praised by Sam Altman as a cybersecurity threat, and an Anthropic whistleblower whose warnings reportedly boosted the company's share price.