EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-08-23 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

GPUs and Silicon

Nvidia's GB300 DGX Station reaches retail at nearly $100,000

Nvidia's GB300-powered DGX Station is now listed from $94,930, with higher configurations reaching $108,350. The desktop system pairs a 72-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell Ultra GPU and 748GB of unified memory, bringing data-center-class AI compute into a tower workstation for well-funded enterprise users.

Voodoo 3 gets a Linux driver update 25 years after 3dfx closed

Linux support for classic 3dfx Voodoo 3 graphics hardware has received a new driver update a quarter-century after the company folded. The work lets these GPUs initialize without relying on a PC BIOS, extending their usefulness in retro-computing and specialized systems.

Cloud and Infra

Pakistan Tech

Security

ToxicPanda Android malware abuses VPN permissions to block Google Play

The ToxicPanda Android malware has added capabilities that abuse VPN permissions to interfere with Google Play and hinder remediation. Its operators now target 349 applications and can issue 167 remote commands, substantially widening the malware's reach and control over infected devices.

Dev Tools

DeepMind alumni launch Faraday research-replication agent

British AI lab Inherent has released Faraday, an AI teammate designed to reproduce results from scientific papers. The company says the agent outperformed systems from Anthropic and OpenAI on research replication, positioning the tool as a possible foundation for faster scientific experimentation.

Apple deprecates hdiutil in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple has deprecated the long-standing hdiutil command-line utility in macOS 27 Golden Gate. Developers and administrators who automate disk-image creation and management will need to review their workflows and prepare for replacement tooling before the utility is removed.