Grounded 2's Biggest Update Yet Just Dropped on PS5 — and It Opens an Entire World Beneath the Surface
Obsidian's underwater-themed "Into the Abyss" update hit all platforms on August 11, and brought Grounded 2's Early Access to PlayStation 5 for the first time. »
CachyOS Rewrites Its Package Manager from C# to Zig — and the Results Are Worth It
The August 2026 CachyOS release lands a fully rewritten Shelly package manager in Zig, dropping the managed runtime for native binaries with faster startup and lower memory use. »
Samsung's zHBM Stacks Memory Directly on AI Chips — and It's Claimed to Be 8× Faster Than HBM5
At FMS 2026, Samsung unveiled zHBM, zNAND-O, and V10 BV-NAND — three memory architectures that use wafer bonding to push the limits of AI hardware density and bandwidth. »
OpenAI's Astra Just Solved 10 Unsolved Math Problems for $2,000
OpenAI's next model Astra cracked ten long-standing open problems in mathematics — including a 27-year-old question in group theory — and published machine-checkable proofs for about $200 each. »
SCTPhantom: An 18-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Lets Attackers Get Root on Your System
CVE-2026-64564 has been lurking in the Linux kernel since 2007. It lets unprivileged users escalate to root and escape containers — patches are available now for all major distros. »