Framework Laptop 12 now ships with Intel Core Series 3 chips, including optional backlit keyboard and fingerprint reader, with pre-built options using Core 3, Core 5 or Core 7 chips.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Trump’s second administration cut AHRQ staff by an estimated 75% and canceled more than 100 research grants worth over $250 million, leaving only $15 million of Congress’s $345 million FY2026 appropriation spent on grants so far.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Data centers could account for as much as 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030, driving developers to treat power as a strategic resource and to structure energy and power solutions to both comply with state requirements and maximize federal clean-energy incentives like the Investment Tax Credit, which can return up to 50% of initial investment in cash within the first year assets are operational.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Ukrainian drones have been able to overwhelm Russia’s Arena-M active protection system for now, raising questions about how effectively turret-mounted countermunition launchers can scale up against drone swarms.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Cursor launched Origin, a GitHub-style code-hosting platform with collaborative code editing, pull requests, and repository storage.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Swarmer (SWMR) reported 2Q26 revenue of $216,413, up 56.6% year over year, alongside about $1.5 million in SkyKnight invoicing and $1.4 million in cash collections after license delivery.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Peter Thiel bought $76 million worth of Vista American depositary shares for a 1% stake in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
England vs. Pakistan’s 1st Test starts Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 11:00 a.m. BST (3 p.m. PKT, 3:30 p.m. IST, 6 a.m. ET, 3 a.m. PT), with Joe Root captaining England at Headingley and Babar Azam unavailable due to a right-hand injury.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses pair built-in Meta AI with a 12MP ultra-wide camera, a five-microphone array, and open-ear directional speakers for hands-free translation, real-time contextual assistance, voice calls/texts, and photo/video capture (3K video) while you stay aware of your surroundings.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
L3Harris Technologies ousted CEO Christopher Kubasik after an internal board investigation found conduct “inconsistent with the company’s core values,” and named Sam Mehta its new president and CEO.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bank of America’s August global fund manager survey shows a record consensus conviction in a “no landing” scenario, with equity allocations at a net 56% overweight (highest since November 2021) and cash levels down to 3.5%.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic is preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a special class of stock with extra voting power ahead of an expected IPO, to insulate them from external shareholder pressure.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A new npj Climate Action paper argues AI-driven productivity gains in the fossil fuel industry could outweigh AI-enabled emissions reductions in renewables, because it says renewables would need net emissions gains 4–5x greater than fossil fuel gains to offset them.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The DOJ is probing Andreessen Horowitz under Section 8 of the Clayton Act over partners serving on boards of competing companies, focusing on Databricks (valued at $190 billion) and Fivetran (merged with dbt Labs in June).
Aug 18, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Aura Glass installs on GNOME 48, 49, and 50 and adds features like dynamic frosted glass, true background blur with adaptive accent colors, optional app window blur, and GDM login screen theming (with a lightweight "No Blur" mode).
Aug 18, 2026 ·
ZDNet
iPhone battery health is shown in Settings under Battery > Battery Health (or Battery Health & Charging on some older models), including Maximum Capacity as a percent of what it held when new and a cycle count on iPhone 15 and later.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Rockstar is issuing DMCA takedown notices to remove two minute-long GTA VI gameplay clips and a Florida-inspired Leonida world-map screenshot that are circulating ahead of the game’s official reveal.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Neuberger and Securitize launched the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (HINC), a tokenized high-yield fixed-income fund available on Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Sui.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The AnyCubic Kobra X multicolor 3D printer is $300 (down from $460), a $160 discount and a record-low price per the article.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
Graham Holdings (GHC) fell 2.2% to $1,165.29 while Biglari Holdings (BH.A) rose 3.56% to $1,974.08 in Barchart’s Monday “price surprise” lists, and the article says to buy GHC over BH.A for long-term investing.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
