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AI 20 AUG

DeepSeek's new 'harness' has 169,000 GitHub stars — but nobody's checked if it's any good

A TypeScript project from DeepSeek's GitHub org has rocketed up the charts, but the numbers tell you more about hype than about whether the thing actually works.

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  1. 01
    OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, is being folded into Stripe
    AI 20 AUG
  2. 02
    RuneScape: Dragonwilds lands on Xbox Game Pass on 15 September - but Microsoft isn't saying much else
    Gaming 20 AUG
  3. 03
    'Perfect 10' bug in an old TRENDnet Wi-Fi controller's nginx binary - but check who actually owns one
    Security 20 AUG
  4. 04
    MLflow webhook bug now under active attack, CISA confirms
    Security 20 AUG
  5. 05
    DeepSeek's 'Harness' tool hits 162,000 GitHub stars - but nobody's saying what it actually does
    Software 19 AUG
  6. 06
    Sony's Pulse Elevate speakers get a launch date - but only if you live in Southeast Asia
    Hardware 19 AUG

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PlayStation's July charts: old favourites beat new releases across Asia and the US

18 AUG
Gaming

Cozy pixel-art game Whisper of the House opens Xbox and PC preorders, but there's no price yet

18 AUG
Gaming

The Gears of War: E-Day open beta ends today, and the real test was never the guns

17 AUG
Gaming

No Man’s Sky is ten years old, and the industry still has not learned the lesson

12 AUG

AI

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AI

Qwen 3.8 27B is genuinely impressive - if you can stop it thinking for 21 minutes

18 AUG
AI

Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives with benchmarks Google graded itself — and a price that doubles in January

17 AUG
AI

ChatGPT ads arrive in the UK, seven months after OpenAI said it would only be testing

12 AUG
AI

Nevari's new AI sales agent comes with a human attached - and that is the story

11 AUG

Hardware

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Hardware

The Shared Rural Network hit its coverage target a year early. The 150 masts behind today's announcement cover 2 per cent of Britain

14 AUG
Hardware

Samsung’s earbuds just became hearing aids — but not yet in Britain

12 AUG

Software

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Software

Bluesky's screenshot watermark is a clever bit of iOS trickery, not magic

18 AUG
Software

Publishers were the most attacked industry on the internet in the first half of 2026

12 AUG

Security

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Security

Critical flaw in Red Hat's cluster management tool needs a privileged account to matter

19 AUG
Security

Critical Windows networking flaw is being actively exploited, CISA confirms

19 AUG
Security

Charity Commission flags rising abuse of charitable status, but the numbers need context

18 AUG
Security

Another Tenda router flaw scores 9.8 - but check your firmware before panicking

18 AUG

Science

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Science

Government promises to get 'everyone' off the streets by Christmas - here's what's actually confirmed

19 AUG
Science

Semaglutide "cuts dementia risk", say the headlines. The number is modelled, and the real trial already failed

17 AUG
Science

Google’s medical AI can now run a video consultation. The study was with actors.

12 AUG

Film & TV

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Film & TV

Netflix’s number one was watched for a third as long as the show beneath it

12 AUG
Film & TV

Britain’s competition regulator has cleared the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal

12 AUG
Film & TV

Netflix Top 10: the week of 2026-08-09 in the UK, US and UAE

09 AUG
Film & TV

The Walking Dead – Isolation Review

29 OCT

Guides

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Guides

New planning rules promise a 'default yes' for homes near stations - but nobody's said what 'near' means

18 AUG
Guides

How to find out whether the kit on your network is already being attacked

12 AUG

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