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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring

Japanese authorities have taken a big step in cracking down on piracy by arresting an initial-seeder at popular anime torrenting website Nyaa.

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Modder adds Radeon RX 9070 XT eGPU to Steam Machine, runs Crimson Desert at over 100 FPS on High — moves boot drive to USB-C port, leverages M.2 to OCuLink adaptor and eGPU dock

A Redditor has successfully connected a very powerful eGPU the Steam Machine via an M.2 to OCuLink adapter.

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Laser wireless charging could keep drones airborne indefinitely — improved receiver converts at 38.49% efficiency and uses nanocrystalline material for thermals

Researchers use a ground-based laser to wirelessly deliver power to drones, potentially allowing them to stay airborne without landing to recharge.

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Gamer recruitment drive results in ‘supercharged’ hiring campaign for new Air Traffic Controllers — 94% hiring goal hit in record time with $155,000 salary potential; ‘the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history’

The campaign to recruit video gamers into Air Traffic Control jobs has been a resounding success, according to U.S. Department of Transport head Secretary Sean P. Duffy.

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DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong — 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power

The custom machine uses an ESP32-C3, OLED display, and 16-key keypad while squeezing retro gaming into a tiny 150mW power budget.

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Xbox PC and Game Pass titles are coming to Linux through 'Xodus' — Heroic Launcher devs embark on new open-source reverse-engineering project

You might be able to enjoy Xbox PC and PC Game Pass titles on Linux very soon thanks to the efforts of the Xodus team, who're emulating the entire Xbox PC stack through open-source implementations of Microsoft's proprietary components and dependencies.

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GeForce RTX 50-series GPU prices spike as much as 39% as Blackwell price hikes hit the US — RTX 5070 gets a 36% hike, RTX 5060 up 27% at the median of Newegg listings

After recent news of price hikes on RTX 50-series GPUs in other regions, those same increases now appear to have come Stateside, as Newegg prices for some Blackwell cards have spiked as much as 39% compared to June 2026.

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Nvidia reportedly testing lower memory configs of Rubin Ultra as memory shortage bites back — designs tested include as little as 192 GB and step back to HBM4 [Updated]

Nvidia is reportedly testing at least three Rubin Ultra configurations that pack as little as 192 GB of memory, as opposed to the 1 TB of HBM4E originally announced.

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Rogue AI agent tasked with booking a gym class hacks system, removes other participant — says 'sorry about that' after trying to bump user up the waitlist

A rogue OpenClaw tasked with booking a gym class for its user hacked into the system and removed another participant.

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AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans

New AI data center development bans jumped to over 500 in July, according to recent analysis, with political and public pressure growing.

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GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions

Swapping the executable of a game with a modified file will fool Steam into thinking it's opening that game when it's really just giving you unrestricted desktop access. This is against GeForce NOW's terms of service, though, so you run the risk of getting banned.

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Steam hardware distributor hit by cyberattack, 'expect fake messages,' Valve warns — Europe vendor has personal information and hardware purchase details stolen

Steam hardware customers in Europe should 'expect fake messages' said Valve in an email bulletin, after a distributor's security was breached.

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HoverAir unveils the Versa modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone — Modular camera transforms into an auto-tracking drone by magnetically snapping together for instant palm launch and AI tracking

Have you ever wanted a pocket gimbal camera and a selfie drone that follows your around autonomously in one device? That's what the HoverAir Versa offers with a transforming, two-in-one body that can make filming yourself from all sorts of angles as convenient as possible.

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UK's Royal Navy sea drones contain component that secretly sent data to China, report claims — government cuts camera connectivity and insists data wasn’t sensitive, only ‘heartbeat communications’

K3 Scout surveillance drones used by the UK’s Royal Navy contain components that have been secretly transmitting data to China, according to reports.

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Windows 11's built-in weather app hogs more than 1.2 gigabytes of RAM just to tell the forecast — memory-sucking web wrapper filled with ads masquerades as an actual application

MSN Weather acts as the native weather app for Windows 11 and all it does it run a bunch of Chromium subprocesses in the background to retrieve the forecast data. This causes it to use 5x more memory than the macOS weather app. And, oh, you also get to enjoy…

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Chinese farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice — farmer trusted pesticide recipe after months of successful advice

A farmer in China followed an AI app's advice for his 25-acre farmland, resulting in the death of his entire crop of sesame seedlings. 67-year-old man was initially skeptical of the tool but eventually trusted it after months of using it.

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Europe expands its Starlink rival to 348 satellites as IRIS² moves into implementation — €15.6 billion network will boost EU government capacity by 60%, with launches starting in 2029

Europe has finalized plans for its €15.6 billion IRIS² satellite network, expanding it to 348 satellites with first launches scheduled for 2029.

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Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases

Users are asking why some measurements on Noctua's compatibility page are different from manufacturer spec sheets.

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Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks

The fearless TrashBench has been testing direct die water cooling of graphics cards and suffered most of the leaky nightmares you might expect.

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Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint

Elon Musk's Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk's ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.

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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11

A developer has ported 1990's Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to x64 so it can run natively on Windows 11 PC systems.

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Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests

The 20-core SKU of the RTX Spark that we've known to exist for a long time scored 2,570 points in the single-core test and 23,126 points in the multi-core test. The second, 18-core cut-down SKU scored 2,541 points in the single-core test while its multi-core was 21,776 points.

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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as "military-grade" in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows

The FCC is proposing a retroactive sales ban on previously approved foreign-made drones with LiDAR and other “military-grade” features, potentially removing several popular DJI models from U.S. stores.

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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases

Amazon is reportedly building a 7.65GW natural gas power plant in Texas to feed a new AI data center, with permits allowing up to 33 million tons of CO₂ emissions per year.

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Kansas town silences public comment on gigawatt AI data center after receiving death threats, moves to virtual meetings — shift follows physics teacher's arrest for clapping at data center hearing

Emporia, Kansas, switched to virtual city council meetings after death threats intensified against city leaders. The move also canceled public comments, prompting some members of the public to ask why it was affected, too.

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