Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech

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At least three exhibitors got robbed at Gamescom 2026 — laptops and handhelds with unfinished game builds stolen from locked cabinets

Laley reportedly lost all his laptops from his booth, while iam8bit said in its X post that it’s missing two laptops as well. Meanwhile, Tessera Studios had two laptops and a Steam Deck taken from its cabinet. Laley’s an…

TP-Link announces its first consumer Wi-Fi 8 routers — Archer 8 Ultra preorder commences September 30, in select regions

What remains unclear is how or when these new Wi-Fi 8 products will launch in the U.S. As of today, TP-Link has yet to obtain FCC approval to release all-new products in the country. Unlike competitors Amazon and Netgear…

Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

None of the liberated RAM will be cashed out as smaller memory configurations, though; Cloudflare plans to pour it back into larger DNS caches, which raise hit rates and cut the query traffic it sends upstream to authori…