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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 6:29 PM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

PumpFun is making millions from a market where 81% of memecoins crashed 90%

Talos reports rare observed recoveries, while platform fees and PUMP burns offer no automatic route back to break-even for other tokens. The post PumpFun is making millions from a market where 81% of

CryptoSlate · 30 minutes ago

AI · lede

Bois, there's now a waterblock for the R9700. Quiet 4x or 6x builds are now possible.

Seems 1-slot design, so you could cram in quite a lot into a case submitted by /u/Mr_Moonsilver [link] [comments]

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago

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