Espresso yourself — I’ve found the 7 best coffee machine deals brewing this Afterpay Day | Daily Reports Online
There are three things guaranteed in life: death, taxes and me seeking out the best coffee machine deals during major sales events such as Afterpay Day. Yes, I love a hunt for discounts on the givers of life that are coffee machines, and this week there are plenty to shop. Admittedly, some stores’ discounts aren’t…
Roku’s new AI channel is top of the slops: is this an important AI milestone or just “the cutting edge of AI slop”? | Daily Reports Online
Channel 300 brings you Fairground AI, 24/7 AI video Critics have been harsh, calling the channel “slop” Could this be a lawsuit waiting to happen? Roku has added four new channels to its Roku Channel collection: Mad TV, Retro Black Laughs, Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Fairground AI. That last one is a world…
Redditor turns Android phone into a desktop PC in a stroke of genius, sandwiching it between two huge CPU coolers so it runs Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra | Daily Reports Online
A Redditor has turned their phone into a desktop PC, sort of This involves jamming the device between two hefty CPU coolers The results are seriously impressive, including running PC games at playable frame rates on a Linux desktop Have you ever thought about using your phone as a PC? A creative hardware modder has…
Pre-ordering the new Google Pixel 11 range? Score a free PS5 or a Fitbit Air from these telcos and retailers | Daily Reports Online
After months of leaks and rumours, Google has officially launched its new flagship Pixel handsets, introducing a wave of hardware upgrades and even a new ‘HiLight’ feature. Also unveiled were a new Pixel Watch and the Pixel Tag, Google’s answer to the Apple AirTag. Pre-orders have also kicked off in Australia, with retailers and telcos…
‘The best Shark vacuum cleaner overall’ is now down 48% — just in time for spring cleaning | Daily Reports Online
The term spring cleaning exists for a reason, and the new season is right around the corner, officially kicking off in Australia on Tuesday, September 1. That means you don’t have long to get your cleaning tools in order, specifically a vacuum cleaner. If your current model could do with an upgrade, this perfectly timed…
Tiny 150M AI model runs 11X cheaper than ChatGPT while solving reasoning problems without generating endless chains of thought | Daily Reports Online
A 150M model reached 29.5% while costing just $0.0007 per task ChatGPT scored higher, yet its comparable reasoning runs cost substantially more BDH-CQ performs reasoning internally instead of generating lengthy intermediate text Pathway, an AI lab focused on building Post-Transformer architectures, has released new benchmark results for its BDH-CQ reasoning model. According to the researchers,…
Russia’s Microsoft Office challenger forced to shut down offices and fire workers as reports claim it is losing millions | Daily Reports Online
MyOffice closes St. Petersburg and Innopolis development centers, moving remaining staff into Kaspersky Lab’s Moscow office after restructuring Parent company New Cloud Technologies restated its 2025 accounts in June 2026, raising the net loss from 4.02 billion to 8.82 billion rubles, roughly $107 million, while revenue halved to about 1 billion rubles Kaspersky Lab, which…
NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, August 13 (game #893) | Daily Reports Online
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 12 (game…
‘C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success’ — Quote of the day by the creator of the programming language Dennis Ritchie | Daily Reports Online
First released in 1972, the general-purpose programming language C is one of the most important in the history of computing and underpins many of the modern systems that we use daily. Its creator, the late Dennis Ritchie, laid the foundations for much of the world’s technical infrastructure in his early work, and C was a…










