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Intel's 80286 CPU celebrates 44 years of x86 history

3 February 2026 at 22:53

Intel released the 80286 processor on February 1, 1982, making the CPU 44 years old. According to the company, the 16-bit chip represented a significant evolution in the personal computing industry. It introduced several innovative features for advanced computing applications and was considerably faster than the 8086.

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Intel unveils Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids" workstation CPUs with up to 86 cores, 128 PCIe 5 lanes

3 February 2026 at 19:59

The Granite Rapids-WS lineup is designed for Intel's high-end W890 workstation platform and consists of 11 SKUs, including six X-series models with unlocked multipliers and five mainstream models without the X suffix. The full lineup includes the Xeon 698X, 696X, 678X, 676X, 674X, 658X, 656, 654, 638, 636, and 634.

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Tesla expands the Model Y lineup with a lower-priced AWD option

3 February 2026 at 18:48

The newly added AWD variant offers 294 miles of range, a top speed of 125β€―mph, and can accelerate from zero toβ€―60β€―mph inβ€―4.6β€―seconds. These figures place it squarely between the rear-wheel-drive base model, which starts atβ€―$39,990, and the higher-end Performance trim. The configuration resembles Tesla's recent Standard range offerings, designed for...

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xAI launches Grok Imagine 1.0 with 10-second 720p video generation – here's what it looks like

3 February 2026 at 18:14

Users on X can now prompt Grok to generate clips up to 10 seconds long and at resolutions up to 720p. xAI announced that users have created approximately 1.245 billion videos over the past 30 days. In the hours since the release of version 1.0, users have already begun posting videos showcasing its advancements.

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Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure

3 February 2026 at 14:23

SpaceX has filed for permission to launch up to 1 million satellites configured as "orbital data centers." These spacecraft would operate in low Earth orbit between roughly 500 and 2,000 kilometers in a mix of low-inclination and Sun-synchronous planes, forming a dense, solar-powered compute mesh interconnected by high-bandwidth links.

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PSA: Update Notepad++ to version 8.9.1 after security incident

2 February 2026 at 22:05

Notepad++ reports that attackers compromised its former ISP in 2025 and redirected app update traffic to malicious servers without exploiting the editor's code itself – an incident we reported last month. The project has since migrated to a new host and strengthened update verification. Users must manually update to Notepad++ 8.9.1 to receive the latest security fixes.



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After 12 years with TSMC, Apple explores new partners for chip manufacturing

2 February 2026 at 19:59

Sources have told The Wall Street Journal that Apple has begun exploring the idea of sourcing certain processors from other foundries. The discussions appear to focus on the lower end of its product lineup – chips where absolute performance and power efficiency are less dependent on bleeding-edge fabrication technology. No...

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The NFL is testing a tactile device that lets blind fans feel the Super Bowl in real time

2 February 2026 at 16:32

The technology, developed by Seattle-based startup OneCourt, resembles a thick tablet etched with raised outlines of a football field. Beneath those lines, sensors pulse in patterns that reflect what's unfolding on the gridiron: the snap of the ball, a quarterback's throw, a tackle, a touchdown. In the same moment, synced...

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Apple redesigns its Mac buying experience with a new build-to-order configurator

1 February 2026 at 23:08

It's a notable departure from Apple's long-standing sales formula. Historically, Mac models were divided into several predefined versions, such as base, mid-tier, and maxed-out. Those bundles helped Apple keep inventory predictable while giving customers an easy pricing ladder to climb. The downside was a kind of hidden complexity: specifications could...

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Use of AI in the workplace triples in two years, with tech and finance leading the charge

1 February 2026 at 20:15

These stats mark a sharp rise from the 21% who reported any AI use just two years earlier, when Gallup first began collecting comparable data. The growth reflects the rapid commercialization of generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which popularized tools capable of writing code, summarizing lengthy reports, generating images,...

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Google dismantles massive proxy network that turned 9 million Android phones into data relays

1 February 2026 at 15:36

The discovery triggered what Google is calling the largest residential proxy network takedown in history. Armed with a federal court order, the company pulled the plug on the web domains and backend infrastructure that held the whole operation together. In one coordinated move, Google killed a network that had been...

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Tesla Robotaxis are crashing more often than human drivers, data shows

31 January 2026 at 15:34

Human drivers in the United States, according to NHTSA data, average a police-reported crash roughly once every 500,000 miles. Even after adjusting for underreporting to a more realistic estimate of once per 200,000 miles, people still outperform Tesla's autonomous system by a wide margin, according to data originally surfaced by Electrek.

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NASA's new Athena supercomputer delivers 20 petaflops while cutting energy consumption

31 January 2026 at 04:03

Athena, NASA's latest supercomputer, went online in January following a beta testing period. The US space agency says the new high-performance computing system can deliver more than 20 petaflops of peak performance while significantly reducing the energy required to run the extreme workloads needed to support its mission.

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OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) can manage your entire digital life, but it might leak your credentials

31 January 2026 at 02:32

OpenClaw, previously named Moltbot and before that, Clawdbot, is an open-source AI agent that runs locally on users' machines and autonomously interacts with websites, reads and writes files, and accesses email accounts. Fans of the assistant have used it to manage schedules, book flights, perform research, reorganize email inboxes, and...

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Google expands access to Project Genie, its AI tool that turns photos and text into explorable worlds

30 January 2026 at 21:47

Under the hood, Project Genie evolves from Genie 3, a world model first demonstrated by Google DeepMind last year. Unlike fully 3D game engines, world models don't construct continuous 3D geometry. Instead, they generate video sequences that appear interactive, adjusting what's shown in response to input commands. That gives the...

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Microsoft's Maia AI chip ambitions might include an exclusive SK Hynix HBM3e memory deal

30 January 2026 at 21:04

According to reports from Korean sources, Microsoft and SK Hynix have recently entered an exclusive partnership in the memory business. The South Korean giant, one of the world's leading makers of DRAM and NAND Flash, is allegedly poised to become the sole supplier of high-bandwidth memory for Microsoft's next generation...

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Patched WinRAR vulnerability remains a favorite tool for hackers and spies

29 January 2026 at 21:22

The WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was discovered and patched in July 2025, but the popular file archiver continues to suffer from its fallout. According to analysts at Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), the flaw remains a favored target for active exploitation by sophisticated threat actors, including groups linked to...

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