Palworld's 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players
Mew-something, I guess
Firefox 153 ESR arrives with major productivity, privacy, and enterprise upgrades
Firefox 153 is now the latest Extended Support Release (ESR), rolling up all improvements introduced since Firefox 140. Highlights include profile management, Split View, AI features, stronger privacy protections, web apps, PDF merging and image insertion, HDR video playback, browser-wide containers, and numerous platform and enterprise enhancements.
The Marines' new AI gun can track and target people, even though it's marketed as anti-drone
A human must approve each shot, but AI handles nearly every other part of the decision to fire
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 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra debut with Flex Titanium displays and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
Samsung keeps refining foldables, but Apple's long anticipated iPhone Fold could get all the credit
Nvidia's first Windows on Arm GeForce driver confirms RTX Spark configurations
Nvidia has published its first native GeForce driver for Windows on Arm, and buried inside it confirms two RTX Spark configurations: a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU with a 20-core CPU, and a smaller 5,120-core variant with 18 cores, both supporting up to 128GB of unified memory.
The driver targets Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for now, but it lets developers start porting Arm64 apps ahead of Spark's fall launch on laptops and mini PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI.
Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035
The AI-fueled data center boom could put a serious strain on the power grid
Reddit and major publishers consider blocking Google as AI search continues destroying web traffic
Search referrals are collapsing as AI Overviews answer questions without sending users to the original sources
TSMC plans up to 10% price increases on advanced and mature nodes starting in 2027
Price hikes could affect 7nm chips as well as older 12nm, 16nm, and 28nm nodes
Iran claims it destroyed Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain. Nobody has confirmed it
AWS's Bahrain region was already offline following earlier attacks
Watch Samsung unveil the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 at Galaxy Unpacked
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 could receive its biggest redesign in years
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: The Budget 3D V-Cache King
AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D revives Zen 4 with a lower-clocked take on the 7800X3D. We benchmark 13 games to see how much performance it gives up and whether it still belongs in a modern gaming PC.
France just voted to ban kids under 15 from social media, but Australia's ban shows how hard that is to enforce
France plans to restrict VPNs to close that loophole, too
Overview: As social media algorithms come under increasing scrutiny, policies to ban children from services such as Facebook, X, YouTube, and Snapchat are gaining popularity across the globe. France has just become the latest country to pass such legislation – but data suggests the impact of Australia's earlier ban has been limited.
One in six Windows PCs still runs Windows 10, and the vulnerabilities are piling up
Windows 10 holdouts carry nearly 3x the security risk of Windows 11, report finds
Facing the Flaw: Many organizations have already migrated to Windows 11, but a few diehards are refusing to leave Windows 10 behind. In fact, millions of computers are still running the aging, albeit perfectly functional, operating system, and according to one market analysis, that could soon turn into a security disaster.
Der8auer converts $7,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z to custom water cooling, drops temps by 11°C
Modder says the setup could handle the card's 1000W mode too – for another $8,000
The latest Microsoft Office 2024 Pro suite is now $55 in this limited-time deal
Unlock your productivity with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and Outlook
OpenAI's ambitious ad revenue goals look like AI-generated money, analysis says
Sam Altman's plans for taking over the chatbot ad market have a long way to go
Fiat's new $15,000 mini EV is now on sale in the US, but it's not yet legal to drive
The Topolino has been zipping around European cities since 2023, it's about the size of a pickup bed
Microsoft just open-sourced the app that made Comic Sans famous
Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, its quirky 1996 IRC client that turned text conversations into comic strips with cartoon avatars, speech bubbles, and dynamic panel layouts. Now released under the MIT License, the project can be explored, preserved, and even modernized by developers and retro computing enthusiasts.
NAND shortages could finally ease in 2027, but ADATA warns the DRAM crisis may last another 10 years
TrendForce expects supply growth to overtake demand, while AI keeps pressure on DRAM
Crystal ball: Maybe we're worrying too much about the current memory crisis: according to TrendForce, NAND flash supply growth will outpace demand next year, with supply constraints easing in the second half of 2027. Or maybe we're not worrying enough: Adata's chairman says DRAM shortages will last another decade and that memory and electricity will become the world's two scarcest resources.
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FACEPALM
Windows bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB laptop
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UPSCALING
Nvidia gives devs more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop"
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MINI PC
Valve may be selling thousands of Steam Machines every week
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FAKE GAMES
FBI arrests 21-year-old for
infecting 8,000 PCs with malware via Steam -
FROM CHINA WITH LOVE
CXMT has grown from 40,000 to 720,000 DRAM wafers in a few years – and it's closing in on Micron
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GAMING
Bethesda confirms Fallout 5,
Fallout remasters, and new Obsidian game
Samsung finally has its own credit card, seven years after Apple
The Galaxy Card offers 5% cash back on Samsung purchases, but just 1% on everything else
Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive
Drones can traverse difficult terrain and prevent early-stage fires from spreading
Nvidia is giving developers more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop"
SIGGRAPH 2026 demo reveals developer sliders, three AI models, and character-level masking
Sony's digital-only future angers fans, but physical PlayStation games are barely selling
Only seven PlayStation games sold more than 100,000 physical copies in the first half of 2026
Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors wins final court approval
The deal covers nearly 500,000 books obtained from pirate libraries
What was the world's first digital and programmable robot?
It was stationed at General Motors and sold at a loss.
Refuse a data center transmission line on your property, and power companies may force it through anyway
AI's growing hunger for land and electricity is pushing eminent domain law into new, contested territory
Researchers create a drone that becomes almost invisible by spinning 25 times per second
It exploits motion blur rather than camouflage to hide in plain sight
New Ryzen 7 7700X3D drops to $279, just days after launch
Newegg is knocking $50 off AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D with promo code PKC337, bringing it down from its $329 to $279. At that price, it becomes a stronger value proposition against the Ryzen 7 7800X3D while gaming performance stays nearly identical. Our full review is coming this week.
7-Zip patches a flaw that could run malware just from opening a bad file
Unlike most software, 7-Zip has no auto-update mechanism, so users must install the fix manually
FluentCleaner ditches the bloat with a new 3.5 MB Classic edition
FluentCleaner Classic swaps the WinUI 3 shell for a portable 3.5 MB WinForms build on .NET Framework 4.8, no runtime install needed. Same cleaning engine, just far less overhead than the standard app's 140 MB footprint. The result is a fast, no-frills cleaner that runs on virtually any Windows installation.
VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 brings architectural upgrades and expanded OS support
VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 is the latest version of the go-to desktop hypervisor for developers and power users. Now fully free for commercial and personal use, it runs Windows, Linux, and BSD virtual machines side-by-side on a single PC – no rebooting, no repartitioning.
Marvel drops the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer, set to open against Dune: Part Three this December
Doctor Doom, the X-Men, and Steve Rogers return as Marvel tries to make superhero movies feel like events again
Highly anticipated: Marvel has released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, bringing together nearly every corner of its cinematic universe for what may be the studio's biggest test since Endgame. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the MCU as Doctor Doom, facing a lineup that includes the Avengers, the New Avengers from Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four, Wakanda's heroes, and characters from Fox's original X-Men films.
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