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Tech News Top Trends - 2026-08-08

This is the archived top ranking data for Tech News on 2026-08-08.

1 Pentagon signs $500 million deal for unmanned counter-drone missile systems promising 'decisive advantage' ↗2 Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1657) ↗3 NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1154) ↗4 NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #888) ↗5 Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination ↗6 I've rounded up the best Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 cases to keep your passport-shaped foldable safe from scrapes and drops ↗7 Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good ↗8 WhatsApp scam costs Hong Kong man $1.27 million after criminals used AI voice notes to impersonate his father — experts say secret codewords are the best way to stay safe ↗9 'I wasn’t driving. I had Autopilot on': Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is getting drivers speeding tickets, and owners aren’t happy ↗10 Our top-rated business PC is a multitasking powerhouse — save $530 on the Dell Tower Plus with Core Ultra 7 ↗11 Hivemind AI software carries out first on-water 'swarming test' in Taiwan mission ↗12 We called the GMKtec K8 Plus an 'understated mini PC that delivers far more power than you'd expect for the price' — and now it's $130 off ↗13 The next age of LLMs? Dev gets a small LLM running at 10 tokens a second locally on a $10 microcontroller ↗14 The SanDisk Extreme 1TB is one of our favorite portable rugged SSDs ever — fast, sleek, and now with a $60 discount ↗15 4 new 4K Blu-rays from July 2026 to add to your collection ↗