Stripe Acquiring OpenRouter, Aggregating AI?, Flipping the Business Model
Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter, an implicit bet on a future market of models and the chance at Aggregation.
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Long March 12 launches despite recent 7A failure, Long March 2C launches satellite for UAE
HELSINKI — China launched a new batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites over the weekend, following up with a separate launch of a developmental satellite for the...
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Desktop UV printers and wild custom builds take over Open Sauce 2026 — $1,700 full-color printers, flash-cured resin, and a rideable speeder bike
If you want to see the bleeding edge of 3D printing tech, you go to FormNext in Frankfurt, Germany. If you want to see the latest...
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Air conditioner powered by a 'PC fan' labeled a scam by German consumer organization — there's a reason this lookalike AC unit is far cheaper than its competitors
Tear down of a so-called air conditioner from Epicool revealed 'a simple PC fan combined with a small heating element.'
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Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms
From threats to the safety of poll workers to voters who can’t distinguish between odds and results, prediction markets are already scrambling the political process.
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Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped...
Read moreGNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon...
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Gameplay footage for the cancelled Star Wars: Magellan has appeared online
Years after its cancellation, gameplay footage for Star Wars: Magellan, the action RPG developed by the now-shuttered Echtra Games, has appeared online. Read more
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Heroes and Until Dawn star Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36
Hayden Panettiere - the actor who shot to fame as the cheerleader in TV superhero show Heroes - has died aged 36. Read more
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Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force ghosts
I'll be honest, having just watched the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, I'm less confident I know what's going on in the game. Protagonist Sora's...
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Fortnite is getting a collaboration with a game made in Roblox, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival platform as a force that could "grow and eat gaming"
It looks like Fortnite is getting a crossover with a game made in Roblox. In the latest upcoming season of the game - named Fortnite Chapter...
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Presentation: From Thousands to One: Building LLM-Powered Selection Systems
Jendrik Jördening shares practical engineering strategies for integrating LLMs into production pipelines. He discusses overcoming non-determinism, restricting schemas, separating semantic text extraction from deterministic code, and...
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