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Satechi launches colorful accessories made just for Apple MacBook Neo
July 14, 2026
Satechi has unveiled a new lineup of colorful accessories for the MacBook Neo, including the OntheGo 5-in-1 Multiport Adapter, USB-C Snap Hub, and Slim EX Wireless Mouse.
Visa wants to put an AI financial adviser in your banking app
July 14, 2026
Visa is launching an AI financial assistant that banks can add to their apps, giving customers personalized spending insights, conversational answers, and direct account controls.
System76 Adder Pro packs RTX 5070 power into a lightweight Linux laptop
July 14, 2026
System76 has unveiled the sixth-generation Adder Pro, a lightweight Linux laptop with RTX 5060 or RTX 5070 graphics, a 165Hz OLED display, and support for up to 96GB of RAM.
Bitcoin is helping Venezuelans fund earthquake relief directly
July 13, 2026
Grassroots groups in Venezuela are using Bitcoin to raise money directly for medical teams displaced children emergency communications and other earthquake relief efforts
Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human
July 13, 2026
Cloudflare Precursor uses session-long behavioral monitoring to detect bots by studying mouse movement, typing cadence, scrolling, and page activity.
Fastmail launches EU email hosting with one important privacy catch
July 13, 2026
Fastmail is opening a new Amsterdam data center for European customers, but its EU hosting promise comes with an important catch: customer data will still be replicated to the United States.
Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets
July 10, 2026
Apple claims OpenAI benefited from confidential hardware information taken by former employees as it built its consumer device operation.
Nearly half of small businesses would choose AI over a new employee
July 9, 2026
AI adoption is climbing among small businesses, but a new Thryv survey reveals a troubling shift as 46 percent say they would choose software over hiring a person.
Developer gets Linux running on the Atari Jaguar
July 9, 2026
The Atari Jaguar may have been one of gaming’s biggest commercial failures, but it has earned an unlikely new achievement. Developer cakehonolulu has successfully ported uClinux to the 1993 console, overcoming its tiny 2MB of RAM, lack of an MMU, and other hardware challenges to boot Linux on real hardware.
Google hands Open Health Stack to the Linux Foundation
July 9, 2026
Google is moving Open Health Stack to the Linux Foundation, where the open source healthcare platform will be developed under vendor-neutral governance with support from a $3 million Google.org grant.