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This is not Crypto! This is me meeting the Ruler of #Dubai.

❤️ I love the #UAE and have been calling Dubai my home since 2007. UAE is also the HQ of Binance.

I am glad that the leadership understands the potential of #Blockchain technology here. 🫶🏼✨
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Samsung Raises Foundry Prices Up to 15% Amid AI Demand

Samsung raised its 4nm, 5nm, and 8nm foundry prices by up to 15% in July, with Chinese customers absorbing the largest increases as AI chip demand grows.

If AI demand keeps filling advanced foundry lines, will price increases become a permanent feature of chip manufacturing rather than a temporary response to demand spikes? The answer could reshape cost structures across the technology industry, from data centers to consumer wearables. It may also determine how quickly next-generation devices, including AR and smart glasses, become affordable for mass adoption.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/samsung-foundry-prices-hike-15-percent

OpenAI Hits Pause on AI Training Amid Safety Concerns

OpenAI paused key AI training this week to fix security gaps after a testing breach, a rare voluntary safety slowdown in the AI race.

If OpenAI slows down and rivals do not, does the industry simply reward whoever moves fastest, regardless of safety? Nick Moes of The Future Society argues pacing only works if it becomes industry-wide, enforced by governments rather than left to individual companies. Without that, what stops any lab, including OpenAI, from abandoning caution the next time speed and safety collide?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/openai-pauses-ai-training-safety-concerns

GTA VI Leak Videos Push New CyberLeek Crypto Token

Leaked GTA VI clips carry a CyberLeek crypto token pitch, surfacing days before Rockstar's Netflix reveal and November launch.

How do studios protect a blockbuster's marketing moment when anyone with a leaked clip can attach a crypto token, a QR code, and a call to buy, all before the official reveal even airs? The answer affects more than gaming. As leaks travel faster than verification, and as tokens attach themselves to any viral moment, the line between hype and fraud gets thinner for every industry with a big reveal to protect, including music, film, and hardware launches.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/gta-vi-leak-cyberleek-crypto-token

Valve Steam Frame VR Headset Leak Shows Setup Videos

Valve accidentally leaked internal videos showing the Steam Frame VR headset's unboxing, setup, and accessories, fueling speculation that a launch is near.

Will bulky standalone VR headsets like Steam Frame end up as a bridge technology, or will they remain a separate product category from the lighter AR smart glasses many companies are racing to build? Valve is investing heavily in comfort, streaming, and accessories for a device users still strap fully over their eyes. The open question is whether that investment speeds up the industry's move toward thinner, always-on AR glasses, or simply proves VR and AR need to evolve on entirely separate hardware paths.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/valve-steam-frame-vr-headset-leak

Google Rules Out Smart Rings, Bets on Wearable Future

Google executives say smart rings are not in near-term plans, favoring wrist-worn devices like the Fitbit Air as the company charts an uncertain wearable future.

Google suggests smart glasses cameras could act as sensors that never record, answering questions about your surroundings without saving images. That raises a bigger question for every wearable maker: if a device can sense your world in real time, should it be allowed to remember any of it, and who decides, the company, the wearer, or the stranger standing nearby?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/google-smart-rings-wearable-strategy-fitbit-air

HoverAir Versa Camera-Drone Challenges FCC Drone Ban

HoverAir's $750 (USD) Versa is sold as a pocket camera with snap-on propellers, not a drone, testing whether the FCC's foreign drone ban can be sidestepped.

If a product's flight hardware carries no wireless radio, should regulators still treat it as a drone? The FCC built its rules around radios because that is what it can certify, but HoverAir's approach shows how a component split can separate the parts regulators can see from the parts that actually make a device fly. As more hardware, from cameras to wearables, mixes modular parts with wireless chips, who decides where one certified product ends and a new one begins?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/hoverair-versa-fcc-drone-ban-loophole

Why Transparent Displays Still Don't Work for AR Glasses

AR display analyst Karl Guttag explains why transparent OLED and MicroLED microdisplays still cannot deliver clear optical see-through AR, despite attempts from Fraunhofer, LusoVu, and Newsight Reality.

Guttag argues the fundamental focus problem facing transparent near-to-eye displays is unlikely to be solved soon. That raises a bigger question for the whole AR industry. Will any future advance in micro-optics, holographic elements, or new materials ever let a transparent microdisplay sit directly in front of the eye without darkening, distorting, or narrowing the real world view, or will optical AR always need indirect paths like waveguides instead?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/transparent-ar-displays-smart-glasses

Coyote vs. Acme: WBD Tried to Kill It, Film Survives

Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill Coyote vs. Acme before Ketchup Entertainment stepped in to release it on 28 August 2026.

Coyote vs. Acme survived because another company bought it, not because any system protecting finished creative work forced a release. That raises a bigger question: when a media company can profit more from a tax write-off than from releasing a finished film, what actually protects audiences and creators from work simply disappearing? The answer may shape how studios treat legacy characters and completed projects as consolidation continues across the entertainment industry.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/coyote-vs-acme-wbd-shelved-film-release

AMD Claims 4X Efficiency Gain for Rack-Scale AI Systems

AMD says its next rack-scale AI hardware is 4 times more energy efficient than its 2024 platform, with no independent benchmarks released yet.

Should the industry treat efficiency claims as credible before independent benchmarks confirm them, or does that practice risk normalizing unverified marketing as fact?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amd-4x-efficiency-rack-scale-ai-systems

Apple Overhauls EU App Store Fees Under DMA Rules

Apple is rewriting its EU App Store terms, cutting some fees, adding new ones, and tightening child safety rules ahead of an October 2026 deadline.

Does a single, simplified fee structure actually end platform disputes, or does it just reset the argument over what counts as a fair fee for building on someone else's platform?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/apple-eu-app-store-rules-2026

Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Drop to $139.99 in Best Buy Sale

Samsung's Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are now $139.99 (USD) at Best Buy, a 44% cut from their $249.99 retail price.

As wearable device prices continue to fall, will voice controlled earbuds and AR smart glasses eventually converge into a single hands free device, or will consumers keep buying separate hardware for audio and visual interaction? The answer could shape how companies design the next generation of everyday wearables and how much people are willing to spend on each category.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/galaxy-buds-3-pro-price-drop-deal

Robin Williams Instagram Returns to Fight AI Deepfakes

Robin Williams' children reactivated his dormant Instagram account to share authentic memories and push back against AI-generated deepfakes of their late father.

Who should control a deceased person's digital likeness: their family, the platform, or a future legal framework built for the AI era? Robin Williams' case shows families can act now, but no clear law defines these rights. More families may soon face the same choice.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/robin-williams-instagram-ai-deepfakes

SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P Wireless Headset Hits 45% Off

SteelSeries' Arctis Nova 3P wireless gaming headset is on sale for $59.99 (USD), a 45 percent discount, at Woot.

As wireless audio hardware becomes lighter and steadily cheaper across every gaming platform, what happens to the idea of a premium headset category? If 260 gram builds with 40 hour batteries and multi platform support now sell for $60 (USD), will manufacturers keep competing on price, or shift focus toward new wearable formats like smart glasses where audio is just one feature among many?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/steelseries-arctis-nova-3p-deal

Who remembers Giko?
Before Grumpy Cat, before Nyan Cat, before every single “I can haz” LOLcat… there was Giko.
In December 1998, deep in the text-only corners of Japan’s early internet, a simple cat made of keyboard characters appeared on boards like Ayashii World and soon took over 2channel. No high-res photos. No GIFs. Just pure Shift-JIS art — a little white cat with big dotted eyes, a wide open mouth, and that unmistakable attitude.

This was the first real internet cat.

Giko wasn’t designed by a brand or a marketing team. He was born the old-school way: anonymous users drawing him, remixing him, giving him new poses and expressions for every mood. Sometimes polite. Sometimes telling you to leave. Always unmistakably him. Twenty-six years of folklore later, he’s still floating around in the collective memory of the early web — drawn by everyone, owned by no one.

While the rest of the internet was still figuring out what “online” even meant, Giko was already posting cat content before “cat content” had a name.
That raw, pixel-perfect, slightly chaotic energy is pure late-90s internet magic. No filters. No algorithms. Just a cat made of text, staring back at you from a glowing CRT screen, quietly declaring that the web would forever belong to the cats.

So… who remembers Giko?
Raise a hand (or type (,,ﾟДﾟ)) if you do.

Small text / blurb:
Giko. Est. 1998.
The first internet cat.

Born as ASCII art on Japan’s early boards, long before cat memes had a name.
#giveaway #fun #cat #meme

Giko was Drawn by everyone. Owned by no one. 
Still cooler than your timeline.

Apple Removes Telegram Again, Leaves X App Store Alone

Apple briefly banned Telegram over child sexual abuse material this week, while X stayed online despite a months-long Grok deepfake scandal. The gap raises questions about how app store rules really work.

If app store removal depends partly on political weight rather than policy alone, what does that mean for platform accountability going forward? Apple enforces CSAM rules strictly against smaller or less politically connected apps, yet gave X and Grok private warnings and time to fix violations instead of removal. As more of daily life, communication, payments, and eventually AR interfaces route through a handful of app stores, who decides which violations are severe enough to warrant removal, and on what basis?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/apple-telegram-ban-x-app-store

Camp Miasma: How Fake Props Built a Real Slasher Myth

A new film invents a fake 30 year slasher franchise using nothing but props, posters, and a playable board game, and makes it feel completely real.

How much physical detail does a fictional world need before audiences accept it as real? Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma answers with fake VHS tapes and a playable board game, not special effects. As virtual and augmented worlds compete for attention, the same question applies to them, whether believability depends on technical accuracy or on something closer to memory, the fragmented, imperfect way people recall media they grew up with.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/camp-miasma-fake-slasher-franchise

ByteDance Trains Massive 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model

ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, aiming to match or exceed Anthropic's most advanced systems, according to Financial Times sources.

If ByteDance's model matches Anthropic's scale, does raw parameter count still determine which AI systems lead the world, or has data quality and training method become the bigger factor? The report notes both matter, but companies keep racing for size. As more labs approach 10 trillion parameters, the industry may need a clearer answer about what actually separates a leading model from a merely large one.

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/bytedance-trains-10-trillion-parameter-ai-model

AI Writing Detectors Fuel New Era of Distrust Online

AI detection tools are flagging human writers as machines, triggering lawsuits, canceled book deals, and academic suspensions, even as their own makers admit the tools are unreliable.

If AI detectors admit they cannot be fully accurate, yet institutions and platforms keep using them to judge people, who should bear the cost of a false accusation, the writer, the tool maker, or the institution that trusted the tool?

https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/ai-writing-detectors-distrust