Copilot's bonus credits end August 31. What breaks then?
GitHub Copilot's promotional AI credits stop on August 31, 2026. Nothing about how your team writes code changes on September 1. The invoice does.
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 7 min read · 7 views
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Stripe bought OpenRouter. Should you still route through it?
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, 2026. If your product calls a large language model through OpenRouter, nothing breaks this
Tue Aug 18 2026 · 7 min read · 1 views
Is there Chinese CXMT memory in your new laptop?
Three of the largest PC makers now ship some notebooks with Chinese memory chips, and the machines that get them are sold outside the United States. That makes this a European shopping question rather
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 3 views
Who can actually run GPT-5.6-Cyber, and what it costs
OpenAI now sells a model built to write exploits, and almost nobody can buy it. GPT-5.6-Cyber sits inside a tier called Daybreak Red, behind identity checks, legal paperwork and, from September 1,
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 4 views
No standard iPhone 18 this fall. What should you buy?
Apple is set to launch three iPhone models in September 2026, and every one of them belongs to the premium tier. The standard iPhone 18 is not among them. That single change rewrites the autumn
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 10 views
1,600 Court Cases of Fake AI Citations. One Cause.
There is now a public database of more than 1,600 court decisions worldwide in which someone filed AI-fabricated material and a judge responded. It is the largest documented record of AI being used
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 5 min read · 3 views
Your AI Agent Bought the Wrong Thing. Who Pays?
Browsers and chat apps are now happy to hand an AI agent your payment details and let it check out on your behalf. Nobody has told you what happens when the agent buys the wrong running shoes, buys
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 6 min read · 0 views
Do You Have to Label AI Content? The Aug 2 Rules
Two AI labelling laws switched on together on August 2, 2026 — Article 50 of the EU AI Act and California's AI Transparency Act — and almost every explainer written about them is aimed at compliance
Sun Aug 16 2026 · 6 min read · 3 views
DeepSeek V4 pricing now depends on what time you run it
DeepSeek moved its entire API over to peak and off-peak billing at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Output generated by the flagship V4-Pro model now costs $3.96 per million tokens at peak, and $1.98 the
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 6 min read · 30 views
Is uBlock Origin dead? What actually breaks on August 31
Two uBlock Origin stories broke in August 2026, and most coverage has merged them into one. They are separate failures with separate fixes. On August 10, 2026, the people who maintain the extension
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 5 min read · 32 views
Apple threat notification: is it real, and what now?
Apple sent a fresh wave of mercenary spyware warnings to users in 110 countries on August 13, 2026. The news is not that Apple warned people, because it has done that since 2021. The change is where
Sat Aug 15 2026 · 6 min read · 4 views
Nvidia's $500B AI financing deal, explained
Nvidia announced on 10 August 2026 that it is working with six of the world's largest capital managers. The goal is to mobilise more than $500 billion for AI data centres. Almost every report of that
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 6 min read · 44 views
Are passkeys still safe after Pass-ta-key?
Passkeys are still safer than passwords. That is the answer, and the research behind the scary headlines says so too. On 3 August 2026, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 published three techniques that let
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 6 min read · 6 views
ChatGPT Business Premium: $125 a Seat, Worth It?
OpenAI announced Premium seats for ChatGPT Business on August 11, 2026, at $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month billed annually. A Premium seat carries five times the usage of a
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 12 views
Claude Code Auto Mode Goes Default August 14
On August 14, 2026, auto mode becomes the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans. The agent stops asking before each step and simply proceeds, unless the
Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views
The cheapest AI API is not the cheapest to run
Every comparison chart ranks AI APIs by price per million tokens. That number does not tell you what a task costs. A model priced at $0.14 per million input tokens can finish a job for more money than
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 7 min read · 2 views
Does the free AI API tier train on your data?
Yes, on most of them. A free AI API tier is an API plan that costs no money and instead grants the provider broader rights over the text you send it. Google's Gemini API terms are the clearest
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 6 min read · 1 views
Nvidia's RTX Spark has no price yet. Here's why.
Nvidia announced the RTX Spark at Computex 2026 and confirmed a fall 2026 ship window. As of early August 2026, not one launch partner has published a price or opened pre-orders. That is unusual this
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 7 min read · 1 views
RAM prices are cooling. Should you buy now or wait?
RAM prices are still going up in 2026. They are just going up more slowly. TrendForce expects conventional DRAM contract prices to rise 13-18% quarter over quarter in the third quarter of 2026, and
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 8 min read · 1 views
SCTPhantom gives root on Linux. Do you need to care?
A kernel bug that survived 18 years is a good headline. It is a poor way to judge risk.
Sat Aug 08 2026 · 5 min read · 2 views