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Beyond handhelds, there are other interesting gaming laptops that play with form factors. My favorite is the Asus ROG Flow Z13 (7/10, WIRED Recommends). This is a 2-in-1 gaming laptop, meaning it’s essentially a Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard cover. All the guts of the device are behind the screen, which, in the case of the 2025 model, includes the AMD Ryzen Max+ chip. In other words, it’s a Surface Pro designed for playing games.Nearly every gaming laptop I’ve ever used gets warm on the palm rests and keyboard while gaming, leaving you with sweaty hands after a few…

Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. The Federal Office for Information Technology and Telecommunication (BIT) detected the cyberattack after security specialists noticed unusual activity on its SharePoint servers on July 28. After confirming the breach, BIT blocked external internet access to SharePoint, patched the suspected vulnerabilities, and reset the passwords for the affected accounts. “During the analysis, security specialists discovered on Friday, July 31, that the login credentials for several accounts had been compromised,” BIT said. The agency believes the attackers exploited SharePoint vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft in mid-July and fixed in…

SUI Group Holdings has lent 6 million SUI tokens to Bluefin Markets under an uncollateralized agreement that lets the borrower reuse the assets and gives the Nasdaq-listed treasury company a share of Bluefin’s revenue. The arrangement may improve income, but SUI Group has not disclosed the revenue base needed to show that it can compensate for the added counterparty and liquidity risk.The company’s Aug. 6 results filing said it held 109.1 million SUI as of Aug. 3, including the 6 million SUI recorded as loan receivables. It marked the total position at $75.3 million using a $0.69 SUI reference price.…

Natural gas surged to the top in the first round of power projects accepted into PJM Interconnection’s reformed interconnection process, making up nearly half of the more than 200 gigawatts of capacity qualified for study. Battery storage and solar trail natural gas, according to the latest figures by the grid operator. The picture stands in stark contrast to three years ago when PJM, the nation’s largest grid operator, stopped accepting new projects to clear its backlog. At that time, more than 90 percent of the projects waiting in the queue were solar, wind and battery storage. But most of those…

This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria. Etna: A Novel Paul Yoon (Scribner, 208 pp., $28, August 2026) This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria. Etna: A Novel Paul Yoon (Scribner, 208 pp., $28, August 2026) As many a moviegoer leaving Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey can attest, the most powerful scene in Homer’s epic is arguably a…

Bruno Guimaraes looks set to move to Premier League champions Arsenal, but Newcastle say they did not want to sell.Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026Newcastle United did ‌not want to sell captain Bruno Guimaraes, sporting director Ross ⁠Wilson has said, after reports linked the Brazil midfielder with a move to Arsenal.British media reported on Wednesday that Arsenal had ⁠agreed a deal worth 75 million pounds ($101m) for the 28-year-old. Neither club has confirmed the reported transfer.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We didn’t want to sell Bruno. It wasn’t in the plan to sell Bruno. None of us…

There’s two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving grams off the gear I carry when backpacking, bikepacking, and trail running. So imagine my delight when Nitecore released a new generation of its ultralight NB10000 battery. After a few weeks with it I can confidently say: Haribo be damned!The $83.95 NB10000 Gen 4 weighs just 146 grams, according to my scale, and measures 1.45 x 11.6 x 4.68cm (0.57 x 4.57 x 1.84 inches), according to Nitecore’s spec sheet. That makes it the lightest…

In this tutorial, we explore the advanced visualization capabilities of the XY Python library by building interactive, scalable, and extensible charts. We begin with XY’s composition model, where we combine multiple marks, dual axes, annotations, tooltips, legends, themes, and interactive controls within a single chart declaration. We then work with Pandas DataFrames, faceted layouts, linked viewports, and million-point datasets that automatically switch to density-based rendering for efficient exploration. We also connect browser interactions back to Python through selections and callbacks, update charts dynamically through streaming, customize visual components with DOM slots and CSS, and extend the library with a reusable…

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was enough to make the assistant gather internal data and send it out through a URL request, with no separate approval step. The firm published on August 5, 2026 and said the chain still worked with Rovo’s web-search option switched…

In brief BTCPay Server said attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability. Users should update immediately or shut down their servers. The project has not said whether AI was involved. BTCPay Server warned users Friday that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability that could lead to stolen funds.In a post on X on Friday, the Bitcoin payment processor urged administrators to install version 2.4.2 and confirm the update in the server footer.“If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update,” the company wrote.BTCPay Server also told users to replace…