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hardware

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  • The Steam Machine Manual Does Not Come With the Part

    iFixit now has a full set of Steam Machine (2026) repair guides. Its parts page for the machine is empty. A guide without a part is documentation, not repairability.

  • The cloud is running out of Earth

    Google's Project Suncatcher launches four TPUs into orbit on October 1 to test whether AI data centers can live in space. The bottleneck isn't GPUs — it's the power grid and the neighbors.

  • Google's flagship skipped a security feature to save money

    The Pixel 11 series lacks ARM's Memory Tagging Extension, so GrapheneOS can't be fully ported. Google apparently cut it from hardware and software to save money.

  • The 27B Model That Fits in Your Pocket

    PrismML compressed a 27B reasoning model down to 5.9GB with 98% of the performance intact. The future of AI is local — and it's arriving faster than the datacenter guys want to admit.