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Ferrari's first electric car sells for a record $40 million at auction
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
RM Sotheby's sold the first production example of the Ferrari Luce, a customized version of the company's new electric model. The buyer was not identified. The proceeds will go to the Ferrari Foundation's education programs.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A botched Mastercard update left Australian shoppers unable to pay
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
An undisclosed number of Australian customers were unable to pay with their cards during Saturday's shopping trips. As reported by ABC, Mastercard quickly identified the cause of the new outage: a scheduled system update that went wrong, triggering declined transactions for a period of several hours.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple will begin assembling Mac Minis at Foxconn's Houston plant later this year
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
The line will operate in a new 170,000-square-foot space at the plant, which already makes AI servers for Apple. Foxconn is funding the assembly-line buildout, while Apple has committed to purchasing the products made there.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Windows is losing a command-line tool that dates back to the Windows 2000 days
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
Microsoft recently released a new Insider Preview Build of Windows 11, giving unpaid beta testers an early look at features headed to the stable release. Tucked into the changelog for Preview Build 26100.9267/26200.9267 is confirmation that this marks the beginning of the end for WMIC.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
We're just four frames away from the perfect Super Mario Bros. speedrun
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
Two of the world's best Mario speedrunners – LeKukie and Niftski – are publicly battling to be the first to achieve the perfect game. The competitors have been livestreaming their attempts and during a session on August 14, Niftski set a new world record with a time of 4:54.332. Just...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Upscayl is our favorite cross-platform image upscaling tool, and it's free
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
Upscayl is an open-source tool for enlarging lower resolution images. It uses local AI models to upscale and sharpen images, adding believable detail instead of just stretching pixels. It runs entirely offline on your own GPU, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, with batch processing built in. For more useful tools, check out TechSpot's Essential Apps feature.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
The Microsoft-owned company acknowledged the incident at 13:40 UTC on Monday, saying it was investigating reports of performance problems across several GitHub services. Within minutes, API Requests and Actions were marked as degraded, followed by Webhooks, Issues, and Pull Requests.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with RTX 3060s in Chinese esports hotels until a blackout gave them away
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
In China, esports hotels are essentially a cross between a regular hotel and a high-end gaming café. Guest rooms are equipped with powerful gaming PCs, often with several setups in one room so groups of friends can play together overnight.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of object called a black hole star
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
"Our picture of this object is evolving very rapidly," says lead author Rohan Naidu, a NASA Hubble Fellow and Pappalardo Fellow at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. "We think there is a central black hole that is 100,000 times as massive as the Sun. And around this...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI
Posted on Monday August 17, 2026
The finding was part of a poll conducted by CNBC with Generational Lab. Participants aged between 18 and 34 were given the names of nine tech leaders and asked whether they trust them to act responsibly on AI.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »