2026-08-18
'There aren’t many keyboards offering better value for money': I tested a bargain mechanical keyboard from Keychron that will tempt gamers — just make sure you get yourself a wrist-rest
The K8 Ultra 8K aims to compete with big brands by offering an impressive spec for a low price — but has it succeeded? [...]
2026-08-18
Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
The biggest AI model release of the past few days, at least among the developers and AI power users on social media, wasn't a frontier cloud model from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.It was a 27-billion-parameter model from Alibaba: Qwen3.8-27B landed on Hugging Face on Friday under an enterprise-friendly, open source Apache 2.0 license, giving developers downloadable weights for a dense multimo [...]
2026-08-18
GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw
A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-18
Disney Parks' D23 keynote was packed — here's everything new coming to Disney World and Disneyland, including Piston Peak, Avengers Campus, and Villains Land
The latest Disney Experiences D23 keynote gave us a much better look at what's actually coming to Disney World and Disneyland, with updates on everything from Piston Peak and Villains Land to Monstropolis, Tropical Americas, Avengers Campus, Coco, and the reimagined Tomorrowland. [...]
2026-08-18
This new 16-inch laptop comes with a ridiculous 72GB of RAM — if you are willing to wait for the upgrade
Schenker's new Panther Lake laptop tops out at exactly 72 GB of RAM, and the reason why is hiding under its screwless bottom panel, even if you might end up waiting to get that particular spec. [...]
2026-08-18
Anthropic Run-Rate Revenue Hits $65 Billion as IPO Looms
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion at the end of July 2026, Bloomberg reported on August 17, 2026 — a figure Reuters separately attributed to a person familiar with the matter. The number is up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025, and it lands as the Claude maker moves toward a public listing. A run rate is a projection: it takes a recent short [...]
2026-08-18
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]