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💸 An RTX 5090 PC for almost the same price as the GPU alone

Okay, this one is genuinely strange. Dell has the Alienware Area-51 with an RTX 5090 on sale for $4,780 — that's a full system, $1,550 off.

A standalone 5090 right now runs $4,500+ new, or around $4,000 used on eBay with real risk attached. For a few hundred more you also get a Core Ultra 7 265K, 32GB DDR5-7200 RAM, 1TB SSD, 360mm liquid cooling, and a 1,500W PSU.

If you were already eyeing a 5090, buying just the GPU right now is a hard sell, IGN reports.

🤖 AI proctoring at Mexico's biggest university ends in a redo

16.3% of applicants scored 100 or above on the 120-question entrance exam this year — versus a 3.5% average from 2021 to 2025. A panel of experts found the results unreliable and recommended a new in-person test. Around 58,000 students, including those who already secured places, will have to sit it again, according to Gaceta UNAM.

Ars Technica

🎮 MS Paint is now a monitor

Doom — the 1993 shooter that became the internet's universal test for "can this thing compute?" — has run on lawnmowers, printers, and gut bacteria. The bacteria managed, but a full playthrough would take 600 years.

New entry: MS Paint. Every frame is pasted onto the canvas as a genuine document edit, the original shareware runs at up to 35 FPS, sound and music included. The author is Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure — the man running planetary cloud infrastructure who, in his spare time, taught Paint to run a thirty-year-old shooter, per Tom's Hardware.

Corporate boredom at Microsoft seems to be greatly exaggerated.

Engadget

⚽ First Filipino. First title. Two days to get there.

Alexandra Eala made history at the Washington Open — the first Filipino ever to win a WTA singles title. The final got rained out mid-second-set on Sunday, with Eala leading, and finished Monday.

The rest was swift. Two-time champion Jessica Pegula took the opener 6-4, then conceded the next two sets 6-4, 6-0 to Eala's left-handed serve and zero visible nerves.

Pegula had called her "the future of the tour" before the match. Five consecutive wins over top-10 players later — Rybakina, Svitolina (twice), Swiatek, Pegula — the future seems to be running ahead of schedule, per BBC Sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yxXiOeGvlE

🍎 Apple's biggest September in years is one month away

According to 9to5Mac, five devices are expected at next month's event — and the iPhone lineup is unusually slim.

🔸 iPhone 18 Pro — camera upgrades, smaller Dynamic Island
🔸 iPhone 18 Pro Max — same, plus major battery gains
🔸 iPhone Ultra — Apple's first foldable, all-new form factor

Analysts put starting prices at $1,399 for the Pro and $1,999 for the Ultra. The base iPhone 18 and Air 2 are pushed to 2027.

Also expected: Apple Watch Ultra 4, Series 12, and possible wildcards including AirPods Pro with cameras and a screen-equipped HomePod. MacBooks and an OLED iPad mini are slated for October.

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😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 25 — Extreme Fear

📌 Daily Recap · Aug 05

🤖 Ex-Microsoft kid raises $70M to simplify robotics
🖥️ Samsung's QD-OLED monitor just broke the $300 barrier
🎮 STALKER 2 drops expansion and free 2.0 update August 2026
🛰️ Amazon filing to beam 5,000 satellites at your phone
⚽ Infantino quietly kills his $20B FIFA power grab

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