Sonic fire tech raises $15 million to extinguish fires with infrasound
Sonic Fire Tech raises $15 million to develop infrasound fire suppression systems, targeting NFPA certification and commercial kitchen markets.
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Github digest — august 23, 2026
Toonflow, VoiceStudio and AutoResearchClaw lead today's digest: AI tools for animation, local voice cloning, and autonomous scientific research.
AI agents overtake humans in token consumption on openrouter
AI agents have overtaken humans in token consumption on OpenRouter since February, growing 14x vs. human's 2.8x. Caching keeps actual costs lower than raw volumes suggest.
Muse spark 1.2 at -95% on openrouter: meta drops to $0.10 per million tokens
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor tier is now globally available on OpenRouter at a 95% discount, costing $0.10 per million input tokens.
Claude at a tenth of the price: china's gray market bypasses anthropic blocks
An analysis reveals how Chinese API proxies sell Claude tokens at a fraction of the official price, bypassing geoblocking and creating security risks for Anthropic.
10,000 probes for saturn: NASA funds 18 futuristic space ideas
NASA's NIAC program funds 18 futuristic space concepts for 2026, including a fleet of 10,000 femtosats to map Saturn's rings.
Aros goes bare metal on raspberry pi: amiga returns natively to arm
AROS, the Amiga-derived OS, now boots bare-metal on Raspberry Pi. This native ARM port removes Linux dependency and offers an ultra-lightweight alternative.
Sony sends terms of service email: "games are licenses, not property"
Sony sent users an email reiterating that digital games are licenses, not property. The move coincides with the start of the #PSBlackout protest against ending physical discs.
One piece to end the decade with two films: god valley and baad
One Piece Film God Valley and One Piece Film Baad are set for release in 2027 and 2029, marking the franchise's cinematic end-of-decade strategy.
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for four days
Iranian hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days in the first successful cyberattack to take a British energy facility offline, according to The Telegraph.
Echo dot hits $80: amazon raises prices up to 60% amid memory crisis
Amazon raises Echo, Kindle and Fire TV prices by up to 60% due to memory costs; the Echo Dot now costs $79.99.
Vercel launches is agentic: a free audit for the agentic web
Vercel and Ora launch Is Agentic, a free audit tool that scores website agent-readiness using 118 live technical checks and Markdown reports.
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