WIRED's annual testing of home theater projectors named the Xgimi Titan Noir Max its top overall pick for 2026, alongside strong showings from AWOL Vision, Hisense, and Leica models. The $5,999 Titan Noir Max stood out for its dynamic self-adjusting iris, which widens for bright scenes and closes for dark ones to deepen black levels and detail. Reviewers evaluated brightness, color accuracy, skin tones, and shadow detail using Netflix titles and 4K Blu-rays as test material.
wired.com
· 2026-08-24
A New York Times investigation found the Bureau of Land Management is selling thousands of wild horses to private buyers who then resell them to slaughterhouses for large markups. The agency avoids directly violating anti-slaughter law by first listing horses for adoption before selling unadopted animals cheaply, and such sales roughly doubled in 2025 to over 3,700 horses.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-24
A federal appeals panel rejected Xinuos's claim that IBM improperly contributed Project Monterey code to Linux, ruling the deadline to pursue such action had passed. Xinuos, a legal successor to SCO, now plans to petition for the case to be reheard by the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals rather than just a three-judge panel.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-24
During Project Sandhills 2.0 live-fire testing on August 18, the U.S. Army evaluated self-driving Ford F-250 trucks fitted with Forterra's AutoDrive system, some carrying a computer-controlled shotgun turret called Edda from 9 Mothers. The turret detects drones acoustically before visually tracking and firing at aerial threats 7 inches or larger in diameter, engaging targets between 10 and 100 meters away.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-08-23
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