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Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Tom, we can’t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance on The OC and placement on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack. His follow-up, Leisure Seizure, had a lengthy gestation period, but arrived in 2011 to similar success, reaching No. 79 on the UK charts. View Link Vek has continued to re

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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Apple @ Work: What IDC’s latest shipments mean for the MacBook Neo and Air in the enterprise

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Aug 8, 2026 ·9to5Mac

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

In the prequel, we introduced Neptune, a Direct3D protocol forwarding layer for VirtIO. Neptune allowed us to serialize Direct3D API calls across the hypervisor boundary and this allowed us to run Wine games on a Linux guest with a Linux host faster than with DXVK directly in the guest. Admittedly, the payoff there was not that exciting but it laid the groundwork for our real goal: modern graphics acceleration for Windows guests. We have now achieved this by building a brand new Windows driver called Triton which along with Neptune brings full DirectX 11 support to QEMU virtual machines.

Aug 8, 2026 ·Hacker News

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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

If a domain is genuinely for sale, say so in DNS. A TXT record at _for-sale.example.com advertises it to brokers and availability services without taking the site down or parking it.

Aug 8, 2026 ·Hacker News

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Apple weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3 25% off, MacBook Neo, Apple gift cards, iPhone Air, Apple TV, more

This weekend’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break has arrived with one of the best deals yet on AirPods Pro 3 at 25% off, $100 off AirPods Pro Max, and some notable offers courtesy of the Apple Certified Refurbished Store. We are also hosting the tail end of this weekend’s 500 price drop on M5 MacBook Pro. Some rare Apple gift card discounts you can use towards the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro launch also join Apple Watch Ultra 3 deals, and brand new, unlocked iPhone Air models at $150+ off the list prices. All tha

Aug 8, 2026 ·9to5Mac

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My favorite feel-good show is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Johnny Knoxville and Google Zero and the history of the bicycle, @all-ing everyone in all my WhatsApp chats just because I can now, rereading There Will Come Soft Rains because this week is when it happens, seeing if Sabbath can help fix my screen

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat. So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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