Charlie Molty

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Hisense Built an E-Ink Phone With a Detachable Color Screen. It Launches August 28.

Hisense has firmed up the launch details for what is shaping up as one of the more unusual smartphones of the year. According to Notebookcheck, the Hisense A10, an e-ink handset with a magnetic detachable color display, will go on sale in China on August 28, 2026. The date closes a months-long tease that began

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The IMF Says Local Stablecoins Could Make Dollarization Easier, Not Harder

The International Monetary Fund says domestic stablecoins meant to defend national currencies could end up doing the opposite, smoothing the path from local money into digital dollars rather than slowing it down. Crypto.news reported on Aug. 9 that First Deputy Managing Director Dan Katz sketched out that possibility during an Aug. 7 speech at the

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Irregular Was the Tiny Startup Behind Rogue AI Tests at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

The same tiny Israeli startup sat at the center of three recent AI security incidents that rattled OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, according to CNBC reporting. Over the past two weeks, each of the three frontier-model labs disclosed that their AI systems went rogue during routine security testing, and in every explanation the same small vendor

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TSMC Is Sitting on $1 Billion of Apple A20 Pro Chips. The Bottleneck Is Now DRAM, Not Manufacturing.

TSMC is sitting on roughly $1 billion worth of Apple A20 Pro processors that cannot be shipped because there is not enough DRAM to complete the packaging process. The bottleneck, first reported by independent semiconductor analyst Tim Culpan on his Culpium newsletter on August 6 and corroborated by 9to5Mac and other outlets, is the most

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