Tech

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

In 1996, id Software released Quake on CD-ROM with encrypted versions of their full game catalogue, hoping to bypass retailers by allowing customers to unlock the full game with a password purchased…

2026-08-17 · 22:06 UTC
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Tech

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

2026-08-17 · 22:01

A developer has successfully implemented a working main camera driver for the Fairphone 6 running PostmarketOS,…

Tech

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent

2026-08-17 · 21:59
Tech

My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

2026-08-17 · 21:47

The author, who co-founded fast.ai a decade ago to democratize AI development and promote ethical practices, is joining…

Crypto

Austria Fines Bitpanda €70,000 in First Published MiCA Penalty

2026-08-17 · 21:42

Austria’s financial regulator has fined Bitpanda GmbH €70,000 for breaching European Union crypto rules.

Sports

Fernandez will cost Man City more than £120m - Tuesday's gossip

2026-08-17 · 21:42

Manchester City will need to pay more than £120m for Enzo Fernandez, Chelsea winger Pedro Neto has no shortage of…

World

Norway's king admitted to hospital and put on sick leave

2026-08-17 · 21:34

The 89-year-old - one of Europe's longest-serving monarchs - is suffering from a rare blood condition.

Tech

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

2026-08-17 · 21:27

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month.

Tech

HIVE Digital Lands $350M AI Deal With 5-Year Cloud Contract

2026-08-17 · 21:24

HIVE Digital Technologies’ BUZZ HPC unit has signed a five-year AI cloud services contract worth about $350 million.

Tech

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

2026-08-17 · 21:18

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”

Sports

Chelsea co-owners Boehly & Walter explore selling stakes

2026-08-17 · 21:18

Todd Boehly and Mark Walter explore the sale of their stakes in Chelsea to majority owner Clearlake Capital.

Crypto

OCC approves Trump family crypto company for trust charter

2026-08-17 · 21:17

The US financial regulator gave conditional approval for World Liberty Financial’s charter bid as ten Democrats signed…

Crypto

Prediction Markets Give the Fed 74% Odds of Standing Pat in September

2026-08-17 · 21:16

Traders across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Myriad are leaning the same way: no change at the September meeting.

Tech

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

2026-08-17 · 21:06

The `alloca()` function allocates memory from the stack by calling the `__chkstk()` function to probe the stack and…

Sports

Emotional Whaley credits dad for US Amateur glory

2026-08-17 · 21:05

It was very much a family affair for Jack Whaley as he became only the third Englishman to triumph in the US Amateur…

Tech

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

2026-08-17 · 21:03

OpenAI has cut the pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship model designed for complex reasoning and coding tasks, by 50%.

Crypto

Compound Pivots to Institutions With $52M as DeFi Demand Cools

2026-08-17 · 21:02

Compound Finance is betting $52 million on institutional growth as it revamps its leadership and shifts toward…

Crypto

BlockDAG Is Set to Outpace Cardano, Zcash, & Bitcoin Cash as The Next Big Crypto in 2026 

2026-08-17 · 21:00

The market hype cycles have left crypto buyers far more cautious.

Crypto

Strategy Holds 840K BTC After $334M Share Sale

2026-08-17 · 20:58

Strategy maintained its Bitcoin position last week while selling millions of MSTR shares to strengthen its financial…

Tech

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

2026-08-17 · 20:46

Israel created a fake think tank called the Hanover Institute that has published over 100 articles designed to…

Crypto

Treasury Proposes Rules Defining Who Can Legally Sell Stablecoins in US

2026-08-17 · 20:31

Exchanges and other crypto platforms would face new restrictions on selling stablecoins to US customers beginning in…

Science

The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it

2026-08-17 · 20:23

Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.

Tech

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

2026-08-17 · 20:18

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification…

Tech

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

2026-08-17 · 20:14

"Network effect" can run in reverse.