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Nvidia just showed off DLSS 5 — and if you don't own an RTX 50 card, you're locked out
Jensen Huang called it 'the GPT moment for graphics.' Everyone with an RTX 40 card or older just got told to wait.
Diego Santos · 15h ago · 7 min
Local-AI hardware
What GPU do you actually need?
Which card runs a model, what fits at your context length, and what it costs to rent — computed from each model's own config and live provider prices. Not opinion.
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Hardware
Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one
AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.
Ravi Malhotra · 15h ago · 6 min
Deals
Nvidia sold GPUs at MSRP for one weekend. everywhere else, prices just jumped 39%
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Nadia Rahman · 15h ago · 6 min
Deals
AMD's RX 9070 GRE just dropped to $499 — while every other GPU gets more expensive
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Nadia Rahman · 1d ago · 7 min
Hardware
Cisco's server controller scored a 9.8 bug that hands out root — exploit code is already public
CVE-2026-20200 lets a low-privilege, already-logged-in attacker take full root control of Cisco UCS C-Series servers through the web management interface — and the discoverer's own proof-of-concept tool is sitting on GitHub right now.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 6 min
AI
Meta just open-sourced a 30B AI model that beats Google and Alibaba's best — for free
Muse Glimmer runs on a single consumer GPU and, per Meta's own numbers, beats Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B at agentic and coding tasks — and Zuckerberg used the release to make his most pointed case yet for open AI over the API-gated kind.
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 7 min
Software
someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch
An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.
Priya Nair · 2d ago · 8 min
AI
openai built an AI that might be too good at hacking. so it's not shipping yet
Astra is the first OpenAI model ever flagged as possibly 'Critical' for cyber capability — and the company told the White House before it told the rest of us.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 8 min
Hardware
nvidia built a 24GB RTX 5080 Super. then it vanished over a $60 memory chip
The card was reportedly finished and sitting with board partners — and Nvidia shelved the whole Super lineup anyway.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 7 min
PC Hardware
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Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one
AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.
Ravi Malhotra · 15h ago · 6 min
Hardware
Cisco's server controller scored a 9.8 bug that hands out root — exploit code is already public
CVE-2026-20200 lets a low-privilege, already-logged-in attacker take full root control of Cisco UCS C-Series servers through the web management interface — and the discoverer's own proof-of-concept tool is sitting on GitHub right now.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 6 min
Hardware
nvidia built a 24GB RTX 5080 Super. then it vanished over a $60 memory chip
The card was reportedly finished and sitting with board partners — and Nvidia shelved the whole Super lineup anyway.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 7 min
AI & Local LLMs
More →AI
Meta just open-sourced a 30B AI model that beats Google and Alibaba's best — for free
Muse Glimmer runs on a single consumer GPU and, per Meta's own numbers, beats Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B at agentic and coding tasks — and Zuckerberg used the release to make his most pointed case yet for open AI over the API-gated kind.
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 7 min
AI
openai built an AI that might be too good at hacking. so it's not shipping yet
Astra is the first OpenAI model ever flagged as possibly 'Critical' for cyber capability — and the company told the White House before it told the rest of us.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 8 min
AI
an AI just found 14,090 real security bugs in open source — in two months
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 pointed an ensemble of frontier AI models at almost 4,000 open source projects. 99.4% of what it found had never been reported before.
Lena Fischer · 3d ago · 6 min
Gaming
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Gaming
is a 4K gaming monitor worth it in 2026? The honest answer depends on your GPU
4K looks glorious — but it costs ~4× the GPU power of 1080p, and for competitive play it's the wrong choice. Here's who a 4K gaming monitor is genuinely worth it for, and who should skip it.
Diego Santos · Aug 4 · 10 min
Gaming
IPS vs VA vs OLED gaming monitors (2026) — which panel should you buy?
OLED used to be a luxury with a burn-in asterisk. In 2026 the prices collapsed and the burn-in fear is largely outdated — here's the honest panel comparison, and who each is really for.
Diego Santos · Aug 4 · 10 min
Gaming
what refresh rate do you need for gaming? 60 vs 144 vs 240 vs 360 (2026)
The jump from 60Hz to 144Hz is life-changing. Everything after that has diminishing returns — unless you play competitively. Here's exactly how many Hz you actually need.
Diego Santos · Aug 4 · 10 min
Software & Apps
More →Software
someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch
An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.
Priya Nair · 2d ago · 8 min
Software
Microsoft just fixed three perfect-10 bugs in Azure and Teams — five days before Patch Tuesday
Three CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities in Planetary Computer Pro, Azure SQL Database, and Teams got quietly patched on August 6 — completely outside Microsoft's scheduled August 11 Patch Tuesday.
Priya Nair · 3d ago · 6 min
Software
a hacked github account just turned npm into a credential-stealing worm
One compromised maintainer account, ten trojanized packages, two billion downloads a month — and the malware is specifically hunting for your Claude and Cursor configs.
Priya Nair · 3d ago · 6 min