Weekly Slickdeals Tech Deals: Business Laptop, QHD Monitor, and Wi-Fi 7 Mesh
Three verified technology deals checked August 26, 2026: a Lenovo business laptop, Samsung QHD monitor, and ASUS Wi-Fi 7 mesh system—with stale headline prices called out.
Category Technology News
Morning Good News for Today: A Tiny Reactor Design Just Passed a Real-World Reality Check
Westinghouse completed a zero-power criticality test for its eVinci microreactor—a real engineering checkpoint that generated data, not electricity.
Microsoft and HUMAIN Plan to Bring Saudi Arabic AI Into Foundry and Copilot—It Is Not Live Yet
Microsoft and HUMAIN plan to bring Saudi Arabic-language AI model ALLAM into Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot, but no live listing or launch date is published.
NASA’s New DSS-23 Antenna Strengthens the Deep Space Network—Here’s Why It Matters
NASA has completed and placed DSS-23 into service, adding a modern 34-meter radio antenna to the Deep Space Network at Goldstone.
5 PM Technology News Recap: Apple M6, CISA’s Two SOCs, Emerald AI Power Flexibility, and Instagram First Draft (August 25, 2026)
Apple’s M6 and M5 Ultra desktops, CISA’s two-SOC red-team lesson, Emerald AI’s power-flexible funding, and Instagram First Draft—checked through 5:12 p.m. EDT on August 25, 2026.
Morning Good News for Today: A Digital Twin Spots Battery Traffic Jams Before They Hide
A KAIST 3D digital twin found localized fast-charging stress that ordinary capacity numbers can miss—an encouraging design clue, with the confetti kept factual.
Intel Details Crescent Island AI Accelerator: Up to 480GB in a 350W PCIe Card
Intel’s upcoming Crescent Island data center GPU combines 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, up to 480GB of LPDDR5X and a 350W air-cooled PCIe form factor—but pricing, availability and independent performance results remain open.
Australia’s ARIA Charts Draw a Line on AI Music—Assisted Tracks Can Still Qualify
Australia’s ARIA Charts will exclude wholly or primarily AI-generated recordings while allowing substantially human-made, AI-assisted tracks. Reports differ on the first affected chart date.
Scalable Capital Opens Brokerage Accounts to AI Assistants—Every Trade Still Needs Customer Confirmation
Scalable Capital now lets customers connect major AI assistants to portfolio analysis and transaction preparation. Every order or savings plan still requires active customer confirmation.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over the Hugging Face AI-Agent Breach—What the Investigation Does and Does Not Prove
Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI for records about the July Hugging Face AI-agent breach. The investigation is real; no violation, judgment or new breach has been established.