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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'

PC Gamer | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:58 p.m. | Original

Despite assurances from management, some workers believe the company will be subject to censorship by its new owners.

Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

NVIDIA Technical Blog | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m. | Original

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data...

Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins

Phoronix | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m. | Original

David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel.

Btrfs with Linux 7.3 is now using the IOmap bounce buffer for direct I/O rather than falling back to buffered I/O. The merge request notes that past correctness vs. speed trade-offs dropped performance to around 50% of the theoretical maximum while now it's up to around

How the Toxoplasma parasite adapts to crowded conditions in host cells

MIT News | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m. | Original

A new study by Whitehead Institute researchers identifies how the widespread parasite Toxoplasma gondii survives in crowded environments in infected cells, which helps it persist in long-lasting brain cysts.

Trump and Canada’s Carney Seem to Make Progress on a Tariff Deal, but Questions Linger

The New York Times | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:49 p.m. | Original

After a deadline extension, the latest U.S. tariff threats seemed headed toward resolution on Wednesday, but questions lingered about what Canada would give up, and what it would get in exchange.

Canada and US say they are finalising a trade deal, but details remain murky

BBC World News | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:47 p.m. | Original

Canada and the US are finalising a highly anticipated trade deal, with President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney touting it as a success.

Trump said the proposed deal will be welcome by US farmers and manufacturers, while Carney said it will secure "the best terms" for Canada's strategic sectors and provide certainty on the future of US-Canada trade.

Trade negotiators met on Wednesday for the third time in as many days on Wednesday and after Trump paused a new wave of tariffs he had threatened to impose overnight

Multiple deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza in under 24 hours

BBC World News | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:46 p.m. | Original

Verified videos show the aftermath of Tuesday and Wednesday's strikes in Gaza City which show several injured people, including women and children.

The Hamas-run health ministry said multiple Palestinians had been killed.

The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas commanders and that it had taken measures to mitigate harm to civilians prior to conducting strikes.

These deadly strikes come after a ceasefire agreement which has seen repeated Israeli attacks.

10 years ago AMD demonstrated Zen performance against Intel

VideoCardz | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:44 p.m. | Original

AMD gave its first detailed Zen performance preview in August 2016

AMD’s Zen architecture reached an important milestone almost exactly ten years ago. In August 2016, AMD held an event in San Francisco where it provided new architectural details and demonstrated Zen performance against an Intel Broadwell-E processor.

Summit Ridge takes on Broadwell-E

The August presentation focused on an 8-core and 16-thread Summit Ridge engineering sample. AMD clocked the processor at 3.0 GHz and compared

Apple just patched a critical macOS flaw that let hackers break in without a password

TechSpot News | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:42 p.m. | Original

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A hot potato: While traditionally a massive problem for Windows machines, zero-day flaws can wreak havoc on macOS as well. A newly disclosed vulnerability is about as dangerous as it gets, which is why Cupertino quickly fixed the issue on three different releases of its Mac operating system.

The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) recently published an alarming security advisory about the new macOS flaw. It describes

Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold reviews are in: rivals are moving faster

TechSpot News | Aug. 19, 2026, 1:31 p.m. | Original

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is lighter and slimmer, with new AI and multitasking features and IP68 protection. Reviewers say it's a solid device but overly conservative, with average battery life, weak SoC performance, a noticeable crease, and a high price.

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AMD gave its first detailed Zen performance preview in August 2016

Summit Ridge takes on Broadwell-E

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