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Project G Stereo: A 60s Design Icon

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4 February 2026

Dizzy Gillespie was a fan. Frank Sinatra bought one for himself and gave them to his Rat Pack friends. Hugh Hefner acquired one for the Playboy Mansion. Clairtone Sound Corp.’s Project G high-fidelity stereo system, which debuted in 1964 at the National Furniture Show in Chicago, was squarely aimed at trendsetters. The intent was to make the sleek, modern stereo an object of desire.

By the time the Project G was introduced, the Toronto-based Clairtone was already well respected for its beautiful, high-end stereos. “Everyone knew about Clairtone,” Peter Munk, president and cofounder of the company, boasted to a newspaper columnist. “The prime minister had one, and if the local truck driver didn’t have one, he wanted one.” Alas, with a price tag of CA $1,850—about the price of a small car—it’s unlikely that the local truck driver would have actually bought a Project G. But he could still dream.

The design of the Project G seemed to come from a dream.

“I want you to imagine that you are visitors from Mars and that you have never seen a Canadian living room, let alone a hi-fi set,” is how designer Hugh Spencer challenged Clairtone’s engineers when they first started working on the Project G. “What are the features that, regardless of design considerations, you would like to see incorporated in a new hi-fi set?”

Black and white photo of a young woman sitting on the floor in front of a stereo system and looking toward the floor. The film “I’ll Take Sweden” featured a Project G, shown here with co-star Tuesday Weld.Nina Munk/The Peter Munk Estate

The result was a stereo system like no other. Instead of speakers, the Project G had sound globes. Instead of the heavy cabinetry typical of 1960s entertainment consoles, it had sleek, angled rosewood panels balanced on an aluminum stand. At over 2 meters long, it was too big for the average living room but perfect for Hollywood movies—Dean Martin had one in his swinging Malibu bachelor pad in the 1965 film Marriage on the Rocks. According to the 1964 press release announcing the Project G, it was nothing less than “a new sculptured representation of modern sound.”

The first-generation Project G had a high-end Elac Miracord 10H turntable, while later models used a Garrard Lab Series turntable. The transistorized chassis and control panel provided AM, FM, and FM-stereo reception. There was space for storing LPs or for an optional Ampex 1250 reel-to-reel tape recorder.

The “G” in Project G stood for “globe.” The hermetically sealed 46-centimeter-diameter sound globes were made of spun aluminum and mounted at the ends of the cantilevered base; inside were Wharfedale speakers. The sound globes rotated 340 degrees to project a cone of sound and could be tuned to re-create the environment in which the music was originally recorded—a concert hall, cathedral, nightclub, or opera house.

$Between 1965 and 1967, Clairtone sponsored the Miss Canada beauty pageant. Miss Canada 1963 was Diane Landry, seen here with a Project G2 at Clairtone\u2019s factory showroom in Rexdale, Ontario.$ Diane Landry, winner of the 1963 Miss Canada beauty pageant, poses with a Project G2. Nina Munk/The Peter Munk Estate

Initially, Clairtone intended to produce only a handful of the stereos. As one writer later put it, it was more like a concept car “intended to give Clairtone an aura of futuristic cool.” Eventually fewer than 500 were made. But the Project G still became an icon of mod ’60s Canadian design, winning a silver medal at the 13th Milan Triennale, the international design exhibition.

And then it was over; the dream had ended. Eleven years after its founding, Clairtone collapsed, and Munk and cofounder David Gilmour lost control of the company.

The birth of Clairtone Sound Corp.

Clairtone’s Peter Munk lived a colorful life, with a nightmarish start and many fantastic and dreamlike parts too. He was born in 1927 in Budapest to a prosperous Jewish family. In the spring of 1944, Munk and 13 members of his family boarded a train with more than 1,600 Jews bound for the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They arrived, but after some weeks the train moved on, eventually reaching neutral Switzerland. It later emerged that the Nazis had extorted large sums of cash and valuables from the occupants in exchange for letting the train proceed.

As a teenager in Switzerland, Munk was a self-described party animal. He enjoyed dancing and dating and going on long ski trips with friends. Schoolwork was not a top priority, and he didn’t have the grades to attend a Swiss university. His mother, an Auschwitz survivor, encouraged him to study in Canada, where he had an uncle.

Before he could enroll, though, Munk blew his tuition money entertaining a young woman during a trip to New York. He then found work picking tobacco, earned enough for tuition, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1952 with a degree in electrical engineering.

Color photo of two men in office attire. Clairtone cofounders Peter Munk [left] and David Gilmour envisioned the company as a luxury brand.Nina Munk/The Peter Munk Estate

At the age of 30, Munk was making custom hi-fi sets for wealthy clients when he and David Gilmour, who owned a small business importing Scandinavian goods, decided to join forces. Their idea was to create high-fidelity equipment with a contemporary Scandinavian design. Munk’s father-in-law, William Jay Gutterson, invested $3,000. Gilmour mortgaged his house. In 1958, Clairtone Sound Corp. was born.

From the beginning, Munk and Gilmour sought a high-end clientele. They positioned Clairtone as a luxury brand, part of an elegant lifestyle. If you were the type of woman who listened to music while wearing pearls and a strapless gown and lounging on a shag rug, your music would be playing on a Clairtone. If you were a man who dressed smartly and owned an Arne Jacobsen Egg chair, you would also be listening on a Clairtone. That was the modern lifestyle captured in the company’s advertisements.

In 1958, Clairtone produced its first prototype: the monophonic 100-M, which had a long, low cabinet made from oiled teak, with a Dual 1004 turntable, a Granco tube chassis, and a pair of Coral speakers. It never went into production, but the next model, the stereophonic 100-S, won a Design Award from Canada’s National Industrial Design Council in 1959. By 1963, Clairtone was selling 25,000 units a year.

Black and white photo of a line of stereo components under assembly, with a man in a lab coat at one end and a man in a suit at the other. Peter Munk visits the Project G assembly line in 1965. Nina Munk/The Peter Munk Estate

Design was always front and center at Clairtone, not just for the products but also for the typography, advertisements, and even the annual reports. Yet nothing in the early designs signaled the dramatic turn it would take with the Project G. That came about because of Hugh Spencer.

Spencer was not an engineer, nor did he have experience designing consumer electronics. His day job was designing sets for the Canadian Broadcast Corp. He consulted regularly with Clairtone on the company’s graphics and signage. The only stereo he ever designed for Clairtone was the Project G, which he first modeled as a wooden box with tennis balls stuck to the sides.

From both design and quality perspectives, Clairtone was successful. But the company was almost always hemorrhaging cash. In 1966, with great fanfare and large government incentives, the company opened a state-of-the-art production facility in Nova Scotia. It was a mismatch. The local workforce didn’t have the necessary skills, and the surrounding infrastructure couldn’t handle the production. On 27 August 1967, Munk and Gilmour were forced out of Clairtone, which became the property of the government of Nova Scotia.

Despite the demise of their first company (and the government inquiry that followed), Munk and Gilmour remained friends and went on to become serial entrepreneurs. Their next venture? A resort in Fiji, which became part of a large hotel chain in that country, Australia, and New Zealand. (Gilmour later founded Fiji Water.) Then Munk and Gilmour bought a gold mine and cofounded Barrick Gold (now Barrick Mining Corp., one of the largest gold mining operations in the world). Their businesses all had ups and downs, but both men became extremely wealthy and noted philanthropists.

Preserving Canadian design

As an example of iconic design, the Project G seems like an ideal specimen for museum collections. And in 1991, Frank Davies, one of the designers who worked for Clairtone, donated a Project G to the recently launched Design Exchange in Toronto. It would be the first object in the DX’s permanent collection, which sought to preserve examples of Canadian design. The museum quickly became Canada’s center for the promotion of design, hosting more than 50 programs each year to teach people about how design influences every aspect of our lives.

In 2008, the museum opened The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a Design Icon, 1958–1971, an exhibition showcasing the company’s distinctive graphic design, industrial design, engineering, and photography.

Color photo of a modern stereo system in the foreground and a woman sitting in a modern arm chair in the back. David Gilmour’s wife, Anna Gilmour, was the company’s first in-house model.Nina Munk/The Peter Munk Estate

But what happened to the DX itself is a reminder that any museum, however worthy, shouldn’t be taken for granted. In 2019, the DX abruptly closed its permanent collection, and curators were charged with deaccessioning its objects. Fortunately, the Royal Ontario Museum, Carleton and York Universities, and the Archives of Ontario, among others, were able to accept the artifacts and companion archives. (The Project G pictured at top is now at the Royal Ontario Museum.)

Researchers at York and Carleton have been working to digitize and virtually reconstitute the DX collection, through the xDX Project. They’re using the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) to turn interlinked and contextualized data about the collection into a searchable database. It’s a worthy goal, even if it’s not quite the same as having all of the artifacts and supporting papers physically together in one place. I admit to feeling both pleased about this virtual workaround, and also a little sad that a unified collection that once spoke to the historical significance of Canadian design no longer exists.

Part of a continuing series looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.

An abridged version of this article appears in the February 2026 print issue as “The Project G Stereo Defined 1960s Cool.”

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Apple’s 2025 report showed that over the past year, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to its 2015 baseline. Apple is working toward achieving carbon neutrality across all of its operations, including transitioning its entire value chain to clean electricity, by 2030.

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Austrian Audio The Arranger Open-back Headphones Review: Reference or Preference?

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Austrian Audio didn’t appear out of nowhere. The company was formed in 2017 after AKG shut down its Vienna operations, and a significant portion of its engineering and design team decided not to follow the corporate roadmap. Instead, they stayed put and built something new, bringing with them experience tied to models like the K612, K702, and K812.

Since then, Austrian Audio has covered both ends of the market. The Hi-X series established its presence with studio focused, budget friendly designs, while The Composer proved the company could compete at the high-end if you’re willing to spend $2,699.

What’s been missing is the middle. That gap is now filled by The Arranger, a $1,299 open-back headphone that lands right in one of the most competitive segments in personal audio. It’s also where expectations get less forgiving. Up against established options like the HiFiMAN Arya Unveiled and Sendy Audio Egret, this isn’t about proving competence, it’s about proving relevance.

And that raises the real question: did Austrian Audio tune The Arranger for the studio, or for the Head-Fi crowd with very different expectations?

Custom Designed Drivers

Within each earcup of The Arranger sits a newly developed 44mm driver designed entirely in house. Austrian Audio has put real effort into the motor and diaphragm design, using a proprietary ring magnet system and a DLC coated diaphragm to improve rigidity and control.

On paper, the numbers are ambitious. Bass extension is rated down to 5Hz, which Austrian Audio claims is class leading. Distortion is kept below 0.1% at 1kHz, and driver excursion appears well managed for a driver of this size.

The electrical side looks just as approachable. With a 25 Ohm impedance and 94dB/mW sensitivity rating, The Arranger should be relatively easy to drive from a wide range of sources. Whether that holds up in real world use is something we will get into in the drivability section.

Design & Comfort

When it comes to design, The Arranger makes no attempt to hide what it is. This is a studio first headphone. It is not sculpted to impress and it is not chasing luxury cues. What you get instead is a build that feels like it was designed to survive actual use. Drops, knocks, and long days at a desk should not faze it. The foldable chassis also gives it an advantage over many open-back competitors when it comes to portability.

The aesthetic is functional. There is a lot of polymer in the construction, and the single sided cable terminates in a quarter inch plug, which tells you exactly where this is meant to live. The cable itself is a rubberized, high durability design that feels like it was built to be abused, rolled over by chairs, and kept working without complaint.

That said, it is not without character. The beige and gold finish gives it a distinctive look, and there is something appealing about how unapologetically utilitarian it is. If you do not like how it looks, it is largely irrelevant once it is on your head.

Comfort is a strong point. At 320 grams without the cable, The Arranger is relatively lightweight for its class, and that pays off over longer sessions. Six hour listening stretches are entirely manageable. The suede leatherette pads and headband padding are on the firmer side out of the box, but they do not create pressure hotspots.

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Long term usability has also been considered. The earpads and headband padding are user replaceable, which is not always a given in this category and should help extend the lifespan of the headphone.

The semi open acoustic design sits somewhere between fully open and closed-back. There is some attenuation of external noise, but passive isolation is limited and leakage is still present. Whether this is an issue for you or not will depend on your listening environment and personal preferences.

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Listening

Austrian Audio positions The Arranger as a reference grade headphone for studio use. However, the tuning is not really what I or many others, for that matter, would consider to be neutral.

The overall presentation leans warm, prioritizing ease of listening over absolute clarity and detail. It is a smoother, more forgiving sound rather than a strictly analytical one. Depending on your preferences and what you listen to, that will either work in its favor or feel like a compromise.

For testing, The Arranger was paired with a range of DACs and amplifiers. That included smaller dongle options like the Campfire Audio Relay, as well as higher end desktop setups such as the Ferrum Audio WANDLA and Ferrum Audio OOR with the Ferrum Audio HYPSOS. Source material ranged from high resolution FLAC files to Spotify streams, mostly over USB.

The idea was simple. See how consistent The Arranger is across different setups, and whether it behaves more like a studio tool or something tuned for longer listening sessions.

Bass

The lower frequencies on The Arranger are clearly elevated, especially through the midbass region. This adds a welcome sense of weight and impact, giving music more drive and physicality. For harder hitting genres, it works well. Drum and bass tracks like “The Moment” by Nu:Tone and Lea Lea come across with strong dynamics and a presentation that leans toward that nightclub energy.

There is a downside. The midbass lift can introduce a bit of muddiness on certain tracks, masking finer details and slightly softening both male and female vocals. It is not overwhelming, but it is noticeable depending on the recording.

Whether that trade off is worth it for the added sense of impact will depend on your preferences.

Midrange

The Arranger has a V-shaped sound signature, which means the midrange takes a step back compared to more neutrally tuned headphones. It is not completely recessed, but it is not the focus either. As a result, vocals and instruments do not come across with the same presence or naturalness that you would expect from a true reference tuning.

Female vocals in particular sit a bit further back in the mix than expected, likely due to a dip in the upper midrange. This gives them a slightly muted quality at times. Even headphones like the HiFiMAN Arya Unveiled, which also show some recession in the 1 to 2kHz region, do not exhibit the same degree of restraint with female vocals.

Treble

Those who prefer a smoother, more effortless treble presentation will likely enjoy the upper frequencies on The Arranger. There are no noticeable peaks or troughs throughout, and combined with the bass elevation, the treble was pared back in a pleasant way that allowed for extended listening session with no fatigue.

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Despite this, you still get plenty of clarity and sparkle up top that can cut through the slightly bass-heavy nature of The Arranger and make things a little more exciting. For example, listening to “La lune” by L’Imperatrice, you are able to make out the faint triangle hits through the bass guitar, both of which feature heavily in the track.

Soundstaging & Imaging

The Arranger has quite a small soundstage, reminiscent of closed-back headphones despite having a semi-open design. However, the imaging precision within said stage is pinpoint accurate, making for a coherent, intimate yet multi-layered soundstage that is way more aurally pleasing than a wide soundstage with poor imaging accuracy. I enjoyed TOOL’s “Chocolate Chip Trip” through The Arranger, as I was able to follow the complex track without any of the layers getting jumbled into one.

An opposite example would be the AKG K702, which to my ears has a very wide but diffuse and confused spatial presentation with a murky centre image.

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Drivability

With its relatively high sensitivity and low impedance, The Arranger is very easy to drive. In practice, it does not scale dramatically with more power or higher end source gear. Moving from the FiiO JM21 to the LAiV Crescendo VERSE resulted in only a small change in overall sound quality, and adding the Aune S17 Pro brought a slight improvement in bass texture rather than a wholesale upgrade.

That is not a criticism. If anything, it works in The Arranger’s favor. You do not need to invest heavily in a dedicated DAC or amplifier to get close to its full performance, which makes it a more practical option than many of its competitors.

The Bottom Line

The Arranger gets a lot right, but not always in the way Austrian Audio suggests. It delivers a smooth, engaging, and fatigue free presentation that makes long listening sessions easy. The elevated midbass and strong sense of dynamics give music real drive, especially with electronic, rock, and other harder hitting genres. Add in the lightweight build, solid durability, and very good comfort, and it is a headphone you can live with day to day without much effort.

The tradeoffs are just as clear. This is not a neutral or strictly reference tuned headphone. The V-shaped balance, midbass lift, and slightly recessed upper mids mean it does not excel at critical listening or vocal accuracy. Detail is there, but it is not pushed forward, and the overall presentation favors enjoyment over analysis.

So who is it for? Not the engineer looking for a microscope. Not the listener chasing absolute tonal accuracy. The Arranger is for someone who wants a well built, easy to drive headphone that sounds lively, forgiving, and musical across a wide range of gear.

Pros:

Smooth, fatigue free tuning that works well for long listening sessions
Strong dynamics with impactful midbass that suits electronic, rock, and other energetic genres
Easy to drive with low impedance and good sensitivity; no need for expensive amplification
Consistent performance across a wide range of sources with minimal scaling dependency
Lightweight at 320g with very good long term comfort
Durable, studio ready construction with a practical, foldable design
User replaceable earpads and headband padding extend product lifespan
Semi open design offers some awareness of surroundings without being fully exposed

Cons:

Aesthetic is functional and may not appeal to those expecting a more premium look
Not a neutral or true reference tuning despite studio positioning
Elevated midbass can introduce slight muddiness and mask fine detail
Recessed upper mids push vocals, especially female vocals, further back in the mix
Midrange lacks presence and natural timbre compared to more balanced competitors
Detail retrieval is good but not emphasized, limiting critical listening use
Semi open design still leaks sound and offers limited isolation

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5 Graphics Cards That Could Outperform PlayStation 5 Pro

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Consoles and gaming PCs have been in an unofficial contest for decades. Both have their strengths: PC gaming with its customizability and superior graphical quality, and consoles with their lower entry barrier and plug-and-play nature. If you’re trying to decide which to buy, price is likely the biggest factor.

With Sony bumping up the cost of its PlayStation 5 lineup earlier this month, it’s only natural for conversations about which gaming platform offers better value to resurface. Take the PS5 Pro, the apex of PlayStation’s options, as an example; it’ll set you back $899.99 at the time of writing. That’s a number that can be hard to swallow for a mid-generation upgrade.

When the PS5 Pro launched, its rasterization performance and GPU specifications drew close comparisons to the RX 6800 — a card from AMD’s RDNA 2 generation. However, the PlayStation’s ray tracing and PSSR upscaling bring it closer to newer RDNA 4 architecture GPUs from AMD, with improved ray tracing and FSR 4 upscaling, which is why we have decided to stick to that generation in this list while also highlighting their NVIDIA counterparts. With that context in mind, here is a breakdown of the graphics cards that can go toe-to-toe with Sony’s most capable console — and the ones that leave it firmly in the rearview mirror.

RX 9060 XT 16 GB

If you want to match the PS5 Pro on a budget, this might be the card for you. The RX 9060 XT 16 GB is the second most affordable GPU in AMD’s current RDNA 4 lineup, and it stakes its claim as a legitimate competitor of Sony’s console hardware even in the most recent and demanding games. Independent testing from Terra Ware on YouTube used Crimson Desert, a standalone adventure IP released in March, as a basis for comparison. The title has three performance modes: Quality, Balanced, and Performance.

In the Balanced and Performance modes, the testing revealed that the 9060 XT and the PS5 Pro performed very similarly with their respective upscaling technologies activated. In terms of ray tracing performance, the gap between the 9060 XT and the PS5 Pro narrows further. Here’s how ray tracing works. The PlayStation automatically uses the Ultra setting on Quality Mode and High for the other two, but the PC maintained the same quality for the entire test.

The Quality mode runs 4K native, and that’s where the PS5 Pro really starts to slow down compared to this graphics card; the PlayStation reports 27-30 fps, while the 9060 XT stays more consistent around 29-30 fps. Those dips are more pronounced on the console, so gamers looking for reliable performance should be more inclined toward the 9060 XT. At an MSRP of $349 — though reality has it closer to $449 — this is the floor of what it costs to compete with the PS5 Pro on PC.

RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

The RTX 5060 Ti is NVIDIA’s competitor to the 9060XT, and it comes in at a pricier $429 MSRP. That’s more of an ideal price at this point, though, as current memory chip shortages are driving the prices up. The rasterized performance difference between the two cards is enough to keep things interesting, but NVIDIA’s ecosystem comes with a more robust package. Like the 9060XT, this card also has 8 GB and 16 GB options.

However, the 8 GB memory buffer can be a bottleneck when playing at resolutions higher than 1080p. You might encounter losses in texture quality or frame time drops; experiences that make the 16 GB version of the graphics card the more favorable option for a seamless gaming experience.

In a test by Digital Foundry, which also featured the PS5 Pro and the 9060XT, the 5060 Ti performed better than both by about 2 to 15%, depending on the title and graphics setting. In terms of game support, NVIDIA’s latest upscaling tech (DLSS 4) has more support than AMD’s FSR 4, since more games come with it baked in. On the other hand, you have to rely on mods like Optiscaler to enable AMD’s latest upscaler in many titles.

RTX 4070 Super

The RTX 4070 Super is a last-generation NVIDIA card, meaning its RTX 50 series successors are already on the shelves. Despite the flurry of newer options, exploring the used market could unearth a gold mine if you’re looking to squeeze more performance out of your budget. The 4070 Super is a prime example of this; you can get it for as low as $520 on eBay. It’s not dated either: NVIDIA launched it in 2024 as a mid-series upgrade for the 4070, packing the card with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory and a level of rasterization muscle that the 5060 Ti 16GB finds it difficult to match.

This is particularly interesting since many people associate VRAM size with performance, but there are a lot of other factors that come into play when it comes to rendering games. In a test by Hardware Unboxed, Cyberpunk 2077 running at 1440p with Ray Tracing turned up to Ultra and Quality Upscaling could only reach 46 FPS on the 5060 Ti, while the 4070 Super averaged 66 (a 43% uplift). Although this represents an outlier, across an average of seven games with Ray Tracing turned on at 1440p, the 4070 Super was 8% faster.

When considering pure rasterized performance, the 4070 Super was 30% faster than the 5060 Ti across 16 titles at 1440p and 4K. Using the performance difference we established earlier between the PS5 Pro and the 5060 Ti, we can say that the RTX 4070 Super will outstrip the console with room to spare.

RTX 5070

If you have reservations about exploring the used market, the current gen RTX 5070 is also a valid option for 4070 Super-like performance. This card launched at an MSRP of $549, but prices now range from $600-$700 depending on your deal-hunting skills. Like the 4070 Super, the 5070 also comes with 12 GB of memory, but the newer generation features the faster GDDR7.

That configuration gives it more memory bandwidth. However, the former contains fewer CUDA cores and consumes less power than the latter. Wondering what CUDA cores are? We have an explanation for you. That equates to equal rasterized performance across 16 games in 1440p and 4K. However, gen-on-gen improvements to ray tracing mean the RTX 5070 is 4% faster across 7 titles in 1440p in ray tracing and performs equally in 4K.

For those interested in gaming in 4K natively or with quality upscaling, this card serves as an entry-level option. However, you should note that the 12 GB memory buffer may start to show its limitations in more demanding titles like “Alan Wake 2”.

RX 9070

The Radeon RX 9070 is AMD’s response to NVIDIA’s 5070, sharing the same MSRP of $549. It is also not exempt from the memory chip issues affecting the market, driving the price of the cheapest model currently available on Newegg to $620. However, it possesses a generous 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and raster performance that slightly edges out the 5070.

According to Hardware Unboxed‘s testing, the RX 9070 is 4% faster than the 5070 and 4070 Super in rasterized gaming performance at 1440p and 7% faster in 4K. NVIDIA’s superior ray tracing performance means the 9070 is 10% slower than the 5070 across those seven titles in 1440p with ray tracing turned on. The 16 GB memory buffer is a meaningful future-proofing advantage over the 5070’s 12 GB, particularly as games become increasingly VRAM hungry.

If you intend to build a PC in 2025 with longevity in mind, and the PS5 Pro as your performance benchmark, the RX 9070 clears with enough headroom and might even challenge the PS6 when it releases.

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SeekOut co-founders Aravind Bala (left) and Anoop Gupta, who is stepping down as CEO to become executive chairman. Bala will continue as CTO, working with new CEO Sean Thompson. (SeekOut Photo)

Anoop Gupta is stepping down as CEO of SeekOut, the Bellevue-based recruiting startup he co-founded in 2017, handing the reins to enterprise software veteran Sean Thompson and turning his attention to growing heirloom tomatoes, among other pursuits.

Gupta, 67, whose long Microsoft career included stints as Bill Gates’ technical assistant and head of Skype and Exchange, plans to step down from his full-time role May 4 and become executive chairman. The decision has been a few years in the making, he said in an interview.

“I am a geek and an entrepreneur, but to me, the most important things are the people and the connections and the storytelling and, you know, vegetables,” he said.

Enterprise technology veteran Sean Thompson will become SeekOut’s new CEO.

As the new CEO, Thompson said he plans to focus on scaling SeekOut Spot — the agentic AI recruiting service launched a year ago — while pursuing acquisitions of recruiting agencies to help fuel long-term growth.

A Seattle-area business and technology veteran, Thompson most recently led NAVEX, a private-equity backed governance and compliance software company, as president and CEO from 2022 until early 2025. He previously held senior roles at SAP and Microsoft, and co-founded the AI startup Nuiku, which sold to Nortek in 2016.

Thompson lives in Bellevue, about two miles from SeekOut’s office, and spent the past year in semi-retirement, riding horses on his Montana property and taking on board advisory roles.

Now he’s getting back in the startup saddle. In an interview, Thompson said SeekOut’s opportunity to take advantage of progress in agentic AI was too compelling to sit out.

“There’s a large market out there, and we can fundamentally change the way candidates experience the search process, and the way hiring managers approach the search process,” Thompson said. “Being able to make an impact is really what inspired me.”

Announcing the news Thursday morning, the company said SeekOut co-founder Aravind Bala, who has led product and engineering since the company’s founding, will continue as chief technology officer and work closely with Thompson on the next phase of growth.

Gupta and Bala worked together at Microsoft on Office Mix, an online presentation service, before leaving to launch a company together. As GeekWire reported at the time, they initially pursued a messaging service based on the idea that recipients — not senders or platforms — should be compensated for their attention. That idea didn’t take off, but a tool that they built to find potential customers became the foundation of SeekOut.

SeekOut has raised a total of $189 million from investors including Tiger Global, Madrona Venture Group, and Mayfield, hitting a $1.2 billion valuation with its Series C in early 2022. It grew rapidly and expanded headcount, but cut staff twice — in October 2023 and May 2024 — as the economy turned and the recruiting market contracted.

Today it has roughly 150 employees, more than 750 corporate customers, and over $100 million in the bank, according to Gupta. That gives SeekOut the runway to deepen its AI initiatives and time to pursue the acquisitions Thompson described as central to his plans.

SeekOut ran a formal executive search for more than six months, but Thompson didn’t come through that process. He was initially brought in as an advisor on SeekOut’s acquisition strategy, through connections including SeekOut general counsel Sam Shaddox — his outside counsel during the sale of Nuiku — and the Seattle M&A advisory firm Alexander Hutton, where his brother James Thompson works.

Through that advisory work, Thompson connected with Bala, and the CEO conversation evolved from there. “It clicked, and moved just very fast,” Gupta said.

SeekOut operates in two areas: Recruit, an AI-powered platform that recruiters can use to search more than a billion candidate profiles; and Spot, the service that pairs AI agents with SeekOut’s own recruiters to deliver interview-ready candidates to hiring managers in about two weeks. Under Thompson, Spot is expected to be the major focus.

As executive chairman, Gupta estimates he’ll spend 20% to 25% of his time on the role. More broadly, he said, he worries about the societal impact of AI, and wants to make more time for the things technology can’t accelerate, such as family, relationships, and community.

“Tomatoes don’t grow any faster,” he said. “They still take a season to grow.”

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Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face

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Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face

Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Marimo reactive Python notebook to deploy a new variant of NKAbuse malware hosted on Hugging Face Spaces.

Attacks leveraging the remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-39987) started last week for credential theft, less than 10 hours after technical details were disclosed publicly, according to data from cloud-security company Sysdig.

Sysdig researchers continued to monitor activity related to the security issue identified additional attacks, including a campaign that started on April 12 that abuses the Hugging Face Spaces platform for showcasing AI applications.

Hugging Face serves as an AI development and machine learning-focused platform, acting as a hub for AI assets such as models, datasets, code, and tools, shared among the community.

Hugging Face Spaces lets users deploy and share interactive web apps directly from a Git repository, typically for demos, tools, or experiments around AI.

In the attacks that Sysdig observed, the attacker created a Space named vsccode-modetx (an intentional typosquat for VS Code) that hosts a dropper script (install-linux.sh) and a malware binary with the name kagent, also an attempt to mimic a legitimate Kubernetes AI agent tool.

After exploiting the Marimo RCE, the threat actor ran a curl command to download the script from Hugging Face and execute it. Because Hugging Face Spaces is a legitimate HTTPS endpoint with a clean reputation, it is less likely to trigger alerts.

The dropper script downloads the kagent binary, installs it locally, and sets up persistence via systemd, cron, or macOS LaunchAgent.

According to the researchers, the payload is a previously undocumented variant of the DDoS-focused malware NKAbuse. Kaspersky researchers reported the malware in late 2023 and highlighted its novel abuse of the NKN (New Kind of Network) decentralized peer-to-peer network technology for data exchange.

Sysdig says that the new variant functions as a remote access trojan that can execute shell commands on the infected system and send the output back to the operator.

“The binary references NKN Client Protocol, WebRTC/ICE/STUN for NAT traversal, proxy management, and structured command handling – matching the NKAbuse family initially documented by Kaspersky in December 2023,” mentions Sysdig in the report.

Sysdig also spotted other notable attacks exploiting CVE-2026-39987, including a Germany-based operator who attempted 15 reverse-shell techniques across multiple ports.

They then pivoted to lateral movement by extracting database credentials from environment variables and connecting to PostgreSQL, where they rapidly enumerated schemas, tables, and configuration data.

Another actor from Hong Kong used stolen .env credentials to target a Redis server, systematically scanning all 16 databases and dumping stored data, including session tokens and application cache entries.

The overall takeaway is that exploitation of CVE-2026-39987 in the wild has increased in volume and tactics, and it’s crucial that users upgrade to version 0.23.0 or later immediately.

If upgrading is not possible, it is recommended to block external access to the ‘/terminal/ws’ endpoint via a firewall, or block it entirely.

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5 Expensive Milwaukee Tools Users Say Are Worth Buying

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There’s no way around it: Milwaukee is an expensive brand. The toolmaker produces a lot of niche tools that specialized professionals rely on, as well as more common work tools and small, portable alternatives for DIYers and renters, and none are known for being especially affordable. For that, you’ll want to look at cheaper brands like Ryobi, Hercules, and Kobalt instead.

However, purchasing an expensive tool doesn’t mean you’re wasting your money. Sure, buying into the Milwaukee ecosystem is a serious investment, but sometimes that investment pays off in spades. That’s true for a lot of the more expensive Milwaukee tools, but the five examples on this list represent the most beloved products made by the brand that the community absolutely recommends, even if they have a big price tag attached.

Of course, you should check for any active promotions. If you shop at Home Depot, for example, you can often get a Milwaukee tool with a battery included at no extra cost.

M18 Fuel Hammer Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit

This kit, which includes the M18 Fuel Hammer Drill, the Impact Driver, and two M18 XC 5.0Ah batteries, is normally $400. It is not the cheapest way to get a drill and a driver, and even Milwaukee itself sells a more affordable hammer drill and impact driver bundle as part of the M12 portable productivity system lineup.

That said, $400 is a good price for a kit as versatile and powerful as this, at least according to professional reviewers and those who own it. The bundle has a nearly perfect review score on Home Depot, and Pro Tool Reviews called the M18 Fuel Impact Driver in this kit “the best all-around impact driver we’ve tested to date.” While the publication didn’t have quite the same words for the drill, it was still highly recommended, especially for its overall value.

That’s the secret to this bundle. While it isn’t cheap, the reason users so often recommend it is that, compared to buying its individual components, the kit is a steal. The two included batteries are usually sold for $170 each, while just one of these tools costs more than $200, making this combo kit, model number 3697-22, the cheaper option by far. Plus, the kit often goes on sale, and sometimes it comes with the High Output 6.0Ah M18 battery pack as a “free gift,” which is worth $200.

M18 Fuel Oscillating Multi-Tool

Sold for $250, most users say the M18 Fuel Oscillating Multi-Tool is worth the price, even if other brands’ alternatives are quite a bit cheaper. DeWalt even sells a whole kit with battery, a charger, a bag, and an oscillating multi-tool for less than just the Milwaukee tool. Professional reviews of Milwaukee’s tool are very positive, with Pro Tool Reviews listing its relatively slow tool-free blade change as the only negative. Meanwhile, users simply love it, with many comparing it favorably to DeWalt’s version. At the time of writing, this tool is offered in a bundle with a High Output 6.0Ah M18 battery at no additional cost. According to users, this kind of deal happens pretty often.

While it seems to be aimed at carpenters (lots of enthusiastic users are, in fact, carpenters), there’s a lot you can do with a Milwaukee oscillating multi-tool. However, you need to get the right blades and attachments first. You can buy Milwaukee blades. However, with much less attention from users, it’s hard to say if they’re worth the higher price. Thankfully, a number of Ryobi attachment sets work on Milwaukee multi-tools, and they’re way cheaper than Milwaukee’s originals. A 16-piece set of blades and accessories from Ryobi will cost you about $50, significantly less than Milwaukee’s $70 eight-piece blade kit.

M18 Fuel Hackzall Reciprocating Saw

While it’s now a somewhat common term for all small reciprocating saws, Milwaukee invented and owns the name Hackzall. It’s no surprise, then, that the company makes some of the best versions of this versatile one-handed tool. Its versatility means you’ll likely be using it more often than other cutting tools. Users recommend you pick the best of the best, the M18 Fuel Hackzall. This is a brushless tool, meaning (among other things) that the motor is less likely to fail; great for something you’ll get a lot of use out of.

The Fuel Hackzall is more expensive than non-M18, non-Fuel Milwaukee versions, as well as other brands’ alternatives. DeWalt’s Atomic Brushless reciprocating saw is technically just as expensive (both are sold at $200 when not on sale), but you can get DeWalt’s for free “with a qualifying purchase,” like a big pack of batteries and chargers.

Still, users say the Milwaukee is absolutely worth the price for the pivoting shoe and power. It gets 4.8 out of 5 stars on Home Depot, is recommended by many of its users, and has great professional reviews as well.

M18 Fuel 1/2-inch Controlled Mid-Torque Impact Wrench

Why is an impact wrench that only goes up to 250 ft-lb of torque priced at $1,599.00? As you might imagine, the 1/2-inch Controlled Mid-Torque Impact Wrench isn’t a normal impact wrench. “Controlled” in the name refers to the ability to set a target torque via the One Key app without worrying that the tool will overtorque: an ability that few impact wrenches have, and one that Milwaukee claims to have perfected. And every single user review on Home Depot is a full five stars, wholeheartedly recommending this tool to those who need it.

According to Milwaukee, rather than relying on the imprecise method of counting the blows performed by the tool, this impact wrench uses sensors and “machine learning developed algorithms” to achieve higher repeatability. In this context, high repeatability means that repeated uses of the tool under similar circumstances create very similar results. Setting the torque to 100 ft-lb might not result in that exact number (that’s accuracy), but it will produce the same number every time.

If you were confused by its price, you weren’t the only one. Users ask about it quite often on the Milwaukee subreddit, and the answer is always the same: For someone who works on large-scale installation projects where precise torque levels are necessary, this tool (or the higher and lower torque models) is absolutely worth the money. As Milwaukee points out, the controlled torque line is designed for utility-scale solar projects like solar farms. And as noted by Pro Tool Reviews in its buying guide for this product, a trusty controlled torque impact wrench can save lots of time by removing the need to finish each bolt with a manual torque wrench.

M18 Fuel Gen-2 Mid Torque Impact Wrench

More users recommend the Fuel Mid Torque Impact Wrench over the high torque version, since it’s not as heavy and can still handle most of what you can throw at it. With up to 650 ft-lb of breakaway torque, 2,575 max rpm, and a dedicated function to maximize torque when removing tough bolts, it shouldn’t have any problems with removing lug nuts from cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks.

Some users point out that it can struggle with nuts stuck with rust, but most owners seem to agree that, even at $279, the Mid Torque 1/2-inch Impact Wrench is worth its price. It has a near-perfect review score on Home Depot, with a 4.9-star average from over 2,500 user reviews. Users on forums praise the weight-to-power ratio, and professional reviews place it near the top of the pile for mid-torque impact wrenches.

When using it with a large 5.0Ah battery, it weighs only around five pounds, while the head is only about six inches long, which helps it fit into tighter spaces. With four power modes and an auto shut-off to prevent overtightening, it’s a relatively precise tool, too.

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Ryu and Ken Lead the Charge in the Latest Street Fighter Trailer

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New Street Fighter Trailer Movie 2026
Set in neon-lit 1993, the new Street Fighter film follows Ryu and Ken, formerly best friends but now estranged, as they are brought back together by the mysterious Chun-Li. Some nefarious powers lurk in the shadows of the World Warrior Tournament, compelling the couple to confront each other as well as some unpleasant memories from their past that they thought they’d forgotten.

Ken Masters appears on screen as the has-been celebrity that he has become, the ideal host for some cringeworthy MTV-style show, but Noah Centineo manages to lend a little of humor to the role, even when Ken is screaming out off-key karaoke and plainly has lost a step. Despite this, he manages to unleash his trusted Shoryuken uppercut, followed by the roll back throw that usually sends opponents reeling, and land a Jinrai Kick straight out of the current games, a lovely touch that reminds everyone that you never lose your fighting talents totally.

New Street Fighter Movie Screenshot
Ryu is about as far from the flashy showbiz life as you can get, a solitary martial artist who has managed to step back from the limelight, but Andrew Koji adds depth to the character, revealing a man who is a force to be reckoned with even when he is alone in the still of the night training for the next battle. Even as Ken delivers a flying kick, Ryu blinks briefly before he and Ken exchange glances, sizing out their old enemy. Later, we see Ryu gathering energy in his palms, and then, in a moment that will send every Street Fighter fan wild, he says the one phrase we’ve all been waiting for: “Hadouken.”

New Street Fighter Movie Screenshot
Chun-Li emerges as the driving force for Ryu and Ken’s reunion, and she possesses a steely will. Callina Liang has the poise and strength of an Interpol agent who is personally invested in seeing justice served. She wants vengeance on those who killed her father, and she believes the infamous M. Bison is behind it all. From the start, she sees Ryu as a man hiding from the world, and Ken as something of a sideshow relic, but when she recruits them both, we get a taste of the banter, including a throwaway exchange in which she trades barbs with Cammy about her famously muscular legs, a wink to all the old-school players. Chun-Li then demonstrates her own top training with the Hundred Lightning Legs move, a whirlwind of kicks that proves she’s one of the best.

New Street Fighter Movie Screenshot
Additional fighters round out the roster, resulting in some very unforgettable scenes. Joe Anoa’i makes a brief appearance as Akuma, hurtling at Ryu with a dark energy whirling about him like a mad storm in a technique known as Empyrean’s End. Curtis Jackson appears as Balrog, the heavyweight boxer who has a serious go at Ken early on. Olivier Richters looms enormous as Zangief, who attacks Ken with a piledriver that appears to have been plucked straight from the games. Jason Momoa plays Blanka, the green-skinned warrior whose electric powers stem from a bizarre tale concerning an aircraft crash. Cody Rhodes exudes Guile’s confidence with military swagger. Meanwhile, lesser roles are given to some fairly familiar faces, like Orville Peck as the clawed Vega, Vidyut Jammwal as the stretchy Dhalsim, and Eric Andre as the loudmouth announcer Don Sauvage, and each cameo just long enough to get that old familiar spark going before the next blowout begins.

New Street Fighter Movie Blanka
Director Kitao Sakurai, who has worked on episodes of Twisted Metal and other projects, keeps the whole thing moving at a high energy level while yet keeping it grounded. The film will be released in theaters on October 16, 2026.

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How are balance, inclusion and skills critical to the workforce of the future?

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Rent the Runway’s Stephanus Meiring discusses the workforce of the future and what it will take to make it productive and sustainable.

For Stephanus Meiring, vice-president of engineering, managing director and site lead at Rent the Runway, the biggest challenge facing the workplace and workforce of the future is the pace of change.

He said, “Things are moving faster than many organisations and individuals are used to and that creates uncertainty. But the opportunity is just as real. The people who tend to do well in these moments are the ones who are willing to learn, adapt and get involved rather than dismissing change as hype.

“In my space – software engineering and delivery – AI is already changing how work gets done. I think that same pattern will play out across most industries in different ways.”

What part will diversity and inclusion play in the make-up of the workforce of the future?

A very important one. As technology becomes a bigger part of how work gets done, different perspectives shaping the tools, the decisions and the guardrails around them are needed. Inclusion will also mean making sure people have access to learning and the opportunity to build new skills, not just access to jobs. If that part is missed, the benefits of change will not be shared evenly.

Work-life balance is arguably central to job satisfaction – is this achievable by having a future-focused mindset?

It can be, but only if companies approach it in the right way. Technology should help remove repetitive work, reduce some of the manual grind and give people more time for the parts of work that really need judgement and creativity. Used well, that should improve work-life balance. But if companies simply use new tools to expect more and more output without rethinking workload and priorities, then it could just create a different kind of pressure.

We’ve recently seen increases in salary, particularly in tech. Do you think the future of work will bring in other types of non-salary benefits?

Yes, definitely. Salary will always matter, but I think other benefits will become even more important. Flexibility, learning opportunities, time to upskill, access to strong tools, good leadership and work that feels meaningful will all matter more. In a fast-changing environment, helping people stay relevant and grow their skills is a real benefit in itself.

We’re looking at a more automated future, so how do you think this will affect roles in your sector?

In software engineering, delivery and support, the nature of the work is already changing. The craft of sitting and typing code all day is shifting quickly. But writing code was never really the whole job, and it was rarely the biggest bottleneck on its own. The harder part has always been understanding the problem properly, making good decisions, and delivering something reliable, secure and useful.

AI can now help more with those parts too, which is exciting, but it also means human judgement, critical thinking and accountability become even more important, not less.

What new jobs do you think will come to the fore?

I think we will see more roles and responsibilities emerge around AI governance, automation oversight, quality control, platform enablement, model risk, as well as jobs where people need to bridge technical depth with business context. But beyond that, I think some of the most important jobs of the future may be ones we cannot fully describe yet.

A role a few years from now might look less like someone doing one narrow task all day, and more like someone directing systems, validating outputs, making judgement calls, and bringing creativity and context that machines do not have. In many cases, jobs may not disappear so much as evolve. A lot of what comes next is still speculation, so the best response is to get involved, keep learning and be ready for change.

What will companies need to do to attract and support the best talent?

They will need to create environments where people can learn quickly, use modern tools and still feel supported and trusted. The best talent wants room to grow, but also clarity and direction. Companies that combine ambition with sensible guardrails will be in the strongest position. People are much more likely to stay where they feel they are growing, where leadership is clear and where the company is helping them prepare for what is next rather than leaving them to figure it out alone.

In your opinion and from experience, what can companies do today to prepare for the work of tomorrow?

Start now. Encourage people to learn, experiment safely and build confidence with new tools. Update your ways of working, not just your technology. In the next year, I think the biggest shift will be how quickly teams bring AI into everyday work.

Over five years, I expect we will see many roles reshaped around judgement, oversight, creativity and decision-making far more than routine execution. The companies that prepare early, invest in people and build the right habits now will have a real advantage.

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