2026-08-20

The 5 best U.S. cities for house flipping, ranked by return

House flipping is paying off again after years of shrinking margins. ATTOM's data shows exactly where investors are cashing in this year [...]

2026-08-20

NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message

Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems.Now NanoCo., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version of OpenClaw), is hoping to make it just as easy as [...]

2026-08-20

Hackers are using “evolved” capabilities in AI-generated malware to hit US critical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale — “active threat” currently hitting energy, water and agricultural industries

The attackers are exploiting internet-facing Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers to scout for potential targets. [...]

2026-08-20

Wispr Flow is better than your device's built-in voice text tool - how to try it for free

Designed for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android, Wispr Flow is a pleasure to use compared with other voice dictation apps. Here's how. [...]

2026-08-20

Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the USDA over its botched beef export data

Six senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, want to know what caused a nearly 500% overstatement in weekly beef export sales last month [...]

2026-08-20

Shein is pushing back its Hong Kong IPO debut as investor appetite wanes

The fast-fashion retailer had been aiming for an August 28 listing, but slower growth and rising costs have dampened investor appetite [...]

2026-08-20

20 things that happen to your body during a common cold or fever

What happens to your body during a cold or fever, explained mechanism by mechanism, from the first chill to the last lingering cough [...]

2026-08-20

Micron is pouring $10 billion into a new AI memory research lab in Boise

The planned decade-long investment will fund a flagship Boise campus, university partnerships, and satellite labs worldwide [...]

2026-08-20

Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-DSpark for Up to 3.2X Faster Inference

Liquid AI released speculative-decoding draft checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family on August 20, 2026, reporting throughput gains of up to 3.18x on a single H100 GPU and up to 2.87x on an Apple-silicon MacBook, with no change to model outputs. The LFM2.5-DSpark release covers drafters for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and the mixture-of-experts LFM2.5-8B-A1B, each adding roughly [...]