PlayStation 5 officially passes 100 million sales as GTA VI prepares to give it another boost
Six years after launch, Sony's console is closing in on the original PlayStation and Nintendo Wii
Ring unveils AI-powered security drone that patrols your home and a robot that guards businesses
Both use AI to map a space and patrol it on their own
Uber, DoorDash, and Airbnb reveal how few people are actually using AI agents
Uber recorded just four AI-booked rides and 500 food orders in a week that saw 320 million transactions
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 85% off the regular price.
AMD launches Zen 6 Epyc 9006 series with up to 256 cores, 512 threads, and TSMC N2
Pricing starts at $700 for an eight-core part, while the top chip reportedly costs $14,904
Highly anticipated: AMD has fully pulled back the curtain on its first Zen 6 CPU lineup. Debuting with Epyc server chips, the new architecture offers up to 256 cores and 512 threads at the top end, and AMD has promised substantial upgrades in AI, GPU hosting, and per-watt performance.
Ex-PlayStation boss says the next big innovation is a $300 PS5, not a $1,200 PS6
Shawn Layden says the PS6's rumored upgrades come down to more ray tracing and teraflops, gains most players won't notice
A vibe-coded GTA VI PC port is coming, whether Rockstar likes it or not
Ex-Rockstar director says GenAI is an existential threat to game developers and expects the next two years to be an inflection point for the industry
Blender 5.3 adds native Gaussian Splatting and Nvidia DLSS 4.5
Blender is bringing new upgrades to the open-source 3D creation suite, including native Gaussian Splatting for importing and rendering realistic scenes reconstructed from photos and videos. DLSS 4.5 ray reconstruction delivers faster and cleaner viewport previews. The update also improves video editing, materials, animation, and project management.
GTA VI is ready to pre-load, but even the PS5 Pro tops out at 30 FPS
The pricier console gets sharper visuals and ray-traced shadows instead
Something to look forward to: These days, paying extra for a PS5 Pro usually gets you a smoother version of the same game. Grand Theft Auto VI won't offer that, at least not at launch. Rockstar opened pre-loads for the game today and confirmed it targets 30 FPS on every console, Sony's pricier box included. Instead, the Pro's extra muscle is going toward sharper visuals.
Ollama makes it easy to run AI models locally for free
Ollama lets you download and run popular AI models like DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, and Llama directly on your PC, without subscriptions or sending your data to the cloud. Use it for chatting, coding, and other AI tasks, with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
AMD confirms GPU driver bug is writing data continuously, promises fix with next update
Disabling the AMD External Events Utility service is a temporary workaround
Your meditation headband may be feeding your brainwaves to an AI model
Muse maker didn't tell users it was training AI on data from some headbands, until someone asked about it
Kalshi user who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues to get back $580,000
He now argues that contracts on the prediction market are illegal online gambling
Anthropic was going to rent power for its data centers, then decided to spend $3.4 billion buying the generators
It took over another company's order to skip the wait
Microsoft patent describes paying you to train AI on your idle GPU
Users could receive store credit or advanced AI model access as compensation
France says Iran was behind supermarket refrigerator cyberattacks
Hackers remotely raised refrigeration temperatures to 122°F, spoiling food and causing at least 15 fires
Claude Code's "don't ask again" button is leaking passwords and API keys to public GitHub repos
Auto-approved commands have leaked credentials into about 1,100 repositories
Nvidia and Jensen Huang face class-action lawsuit after affair with alleged Chinese spy wipes $190 billion off company
The internet, meanwhile, is having a field day with the memes
Iomega Zip Drive: Elite Floppy Disks Before USB Sticks
With 100MB in a disk that fit in your pocket, the Zip drive was the coolest way to carry files in the 1990s. It made Iomega a Wall Street darling, until thumb drives and the click of death caught up.
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THE SPY WHO...
The US says a businesswoman close to Nvidia's Huang was a China spy
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OPEN FORUM
How much is too much to spend on a GPU?
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DEAD PIXELS
Older WOLED TVs suffer from "edge rot" test finds
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INDUSTRY
After AMD's gaming revenue crashes 40%, CEO Lisa Su declares "We are a data center-first company"
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IT'S ALMOST 2027
The FAA is finally replacing floppy disks used by US air traffic control
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SOFTWARE
Discord is rebuilding app in Rust to fix its memory problem
Googlebooks get their first big update, freeing up 3GB to 6GB of RAM
AI memory hogging gets an early fix, plus around 30 bug fixes and patches for Android vulnerabilities
The big picture: Barely a month after the first Googlebooks went on sale, Google is rolling out their first substantial software update. The headline fix gives back memory that the laptops' own AI features had been holding onto: between 3GB and 6GB of system RAM optimizations, according to Google.
Many PCs from '80s and '90s had keyhole locks, right next to the Turbo and Reset buttons. What was it for?
Your 486 had a key. Do you remember what it was for?
AIMP is a powerful and free music player for your offline library
AIMP is a feature-rich music player for anyone who prefers local files over streaming. It supports nearly every popular audio format, with a customizable UI, advanced equalizer, and playlist management. Built-in tools for converting audio files and editing metadata make it an excellent choice for organizing and enjoying your local music collection.
Microsoft is making Windows keyboard accessibility features less annoying
A 1990s accessibility feature has been interrupting gamers for decades, and Windows is finally fixing it
World of Warcraft: Forever launched on 70,480 CPU cores and 251,136 GB of RAM
The smoothest MMO launch ever?
Huawei says its new desktop PC is 100% Chinese-made, with a few asterisks
The components are homegrown, but some of the technology behind them isn't
Used memory chips are creeping into budget phones, and it could get worse
Reballed modules are expected to make up 4% of mobile RAM this year, and as much as 9% in 2027
TL;DR: Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the electronics industry has been there for a while now. After grappling with rising memory costs and inventory shortages, and eventually realizing that the situation may take years to resolve, some device makers are looking for alternative solutions that give old hardware components a new lease on life.
AMD's fastest gaming CPU drops to $419, just $20 more than the 9800X3D
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D builds on the excellent 9800X3D with higher clock speeds and slightly better gaming performance. In our tests, it delivered ~5% more FPS at the cost of higher power consumption. Originally $499, the 8-core chip is now available for $419 on Amazon, just $20 more than the 9800X3D, which is also on sale for $399.
School buses are becoming AI-powered ticket machines, generating millions from drivers who fail to stop
Millions of dollars in fines, hundreds of thousands of tickets, but little evidence that the roads are getting safer
Australia's internet restrictions could go even further, Gmail warns of ban for under-18s
A law designed to shield children from harmful content could end up blocking them from their own inboxes
Older WOLED TVs suffer from "edge rot" as test finds dead pixels in 14 of 16 sets
Their screens can slowly rot from the edges inward
CPU-Z data reveals impact of the memory crisis: 32GB and 64GB PCs decline, DDR4 makes a comeback
For the first time ever, PC RAM capacities are going in reverse
Starlink expands surge-style pricing model with increases of up to 20%
A backlash has formed as bills now depend on how crowded the network is
US officials say a Chinese businesswoman close to Nvidia's Jensen Huang was a spy for Beijing
The spy who shagged? US intelligence believes Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman who befriended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while her company bought billions of dollars' worth of his AI chips, was spying for China's Ministry of State Security. Last spring, a memo that circulated among top Trump's policymakers said she had been recruited to learn about American AI chips and possibly influence the Nvidia chief to push for China to get the company's most advanced processors.
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