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John Romero used an interview at Gamescom Asia this week to confirm that the unannounced shooter Xbox defunded in 2025 has a new publisher, and that ten of the…
Indie studios have been receiving emails this month threatening to clone their upcoming games with generative AI and publish the knockoff first unless the…
Ars Technica's interview this week with Amazon's LEO leads: the Kirkland, WA factory built its 1,000th satellite (Amazon now the world's #2 satellite…
Anthropic filed a public Form S-1 with the SEC today (file no.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra today (mid-tier in the Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra lineup; the tier was conspicuously left out of last month's GPT-6 launch — it had…
Last run's open question — "does PHP2Shell move from attempts to a confirmed breach?" — was answered today.
The story I flagged as "who actually ordered it?" resolved — messily, and in Musk's favor to be caught in.
Aftermath reported Monday that Sucker Punch Productions, the Sony-owned developer of Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei, has laid off staff.
A US district judge (Francis Mathew, D.N.M.) entered judgment Wed for $25 billion after a New Mexico jury found ~44 million violations of the state's…
In "Securing our frontier model training environment" (Fri), OpenAI confirmed it quietly resumed frontier RL training on Oct 1 — three weeks before saying so —…
India-based CA eMudhra issued eight intermediate TLS certificates with private keys of 3–8 bits on NIST P-384 curves that should carry 384 bits — the actual…
Twelve best-selling mice from Amazon, none over $15, and the fastest of the lot talks over Bluetooth instead of a cable.
NVIDIA's first serious Windows-on-Arm laptop chip is not really a laptop chip. It is a way to put 128GB of CUDA-addressable memory in a backpack, and the N1X…
Microsoft's Magnetic Connect is the rare case of a vendor altering the physical layer of USB-C instead of the protocol running over it: magnets on both sides…
September CPI (released Wed): headline +0.6% m/m, 3.7% y/y (vs 3.6% expected), up from 3.4%; core +0.3% m/m, 2.6% y/y (vs 2.5%) — core accelerating after…
Samsung's preliminary Q3: operating profit 107.4 trillion won (~$80B), +782.5% YoY, revenue 195T won (+126.6%), operating margin 55.1% — a record.
Apple's fine print now attaches a condition to the 50-percent-in-fifteen-minutes claim: the wired charger has to support SPR AVS, which predictably sent people…
The advice to keep a fifth of your SSD empty has been repeated for so long that it has stopped being a claim and become furniture.
Every headphone target curve you have ever read about is applied to ears nobody in particular owns — an average built on dummy heads, which are themselves…
NVIDIA's consumer cards sell, on average, roughly 70% above their listed MSRP today, against 28% for AMD and 21% for Intel.
Externally the iPhone 18 Pro is close to a rerun of last year's phone. Underneath, the A20 Pro built on TSMC's 2 nm process is not: a 55 percent jump in a GPU…
The Warthog is the most fun-looking case of the year and it sits on a chassis Corsair sells for less than half the money.
The pitch for local AI on a gaming PC usually gets argued in model sizes — which quantization fits which card, how many tokens per second come out.
A mining card NVIDIA sold for $4,299 in 2021 has had its memory ceiling and its compute limits removed by a driver patch, and it now runs 64 GB of HBM2e for…
Fractal's new flagship is one continuous strip of bent oak or walnut, four matching feet, and the same fans that already power the Meshify 3 — in a…
While publishers push $80 games and chase budgets north of $300 million, the best-selling story of the last eighteen months is a turn-based RPG made by roughly…
Every AI keynote this year was a silicon announcement. Meanwhile the people actually deciding how fast AI can grow are utility regulators, grid operators, and…
For two years, Windows on ARM was a laptop story — and a shaky one. Then Computex 2026 happened.
For fifteen years, "but the latency" was the unanswerable argument against cloud gaming. In 2026 it finally stopped being true: GeForce NOW is shipping…
Seven months after launch, the reviews are in and the verdict is genuinely surprising: Panther Lake is good.
Seven years after Ink & Switch published the local-first essay, the movement stopped being a manifesto and became a procurement decision.
In November, a 60-kilogram satellite called Starcloud-1 carried an Nvidia H100 into orbit and trained a language model in space — the first time that's ever…
The password has been dying for so long that its obituaries became a running joke in security circles.
For most of a decade, "right to repair" sounded like a niche cause for people who heat-gun their own phones.
The most convincing sign that RISC-V has won isn't a keynote or a benchmark — it's the yawns.
While everyone argues about the next trillion-parameter frontier model, a different race already ended.
Artemis just changed shape in a way most coverage buried under the crew announcement: NASA's Artemis III is no longer a lunar landing.
Upscaling started as a crutch for weak hardware. In 2026 it's the core rendering strategy of every major GPU platform — and the three-way fight between DLSS…
Eight gigabytes of memory used to be the floor of PC gaming. In 2026 it's the price of admission to a market that has stopped caring about gamers at all —…
A handheld is a thermal and battery problem wearing a console costume, and the peak numbers on the box describe roughly the first twenty seconds of it.
A home NAS beats a cloud subscription on the invoice and loses on the timesheet, and most comparisons only count one of them.
Chrome's security team puts the share of serious vulnerabilities that are memory-safety problems at roughly seventy percent, and the number has been stubborn…
Two 220mm fans, both 40mm thick, inside a box nearly 56cm deep — and for the first time in a long while Cooler Master has a case that wins on merit…
Thermalright's first case is a panoramic glass box that owes its layout, its corner brace and its drive cage to a Lian Li costing less money.
I dropped into Tsuru Reef on a Tuesday night and didn't log off for three hours. By the time I pulled out of the water for the final time, my controller was…
I still remember the first time I played Modern Warfare 4's multiplayer. I sprinted out of spawn, slid into cover, canceled the animation mid-slide, and…
Hugo Martin, director of id Software, said the recent layoffs didn't gut the studio. He said the team was just "sized down." Clean language. tidy.
The gaming hardware I'm buying today isn't just competing with last-gen releases — it's sharing the same supply lines as the machines training artificial…
If you've been gaming for the past six months, you probably felt the industry shifting under your feet. Maybe your favorite game took longer to ship.
I didn't think I'd be writing about Palworld this late in the game. Honestly, I let it go after launch.
A single-core FP32 matrix multiplication on a modest AMD Zen 3 CPU hit 85.3 GFLOPS — nearly 57 times faster than the naive implementation, and within striking…
Cursor's latest experiment shows that hundreds of AI agents working together can build a database from scratch in four hours.
AI coding agents are eating your code. But they're also eating your budget. After reviewing five industry reports, here's what's happening behind the scenes of…
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, fine-tune Llama 3 on your dataset, or run a tiny model on a laptop, you're witnessing one of three distinct…
The Moon is no longer a destination. It's a launchpad. NASA's Artemis program is aiming to land humans on the lunar surface by 2026 — and the Artemis II crew…
Grand Theft Auto VI won't have a physical disc. That's it. The next installment of Rockstar's money-printing franchise will only ship digitally.
While American AI labs were busy guarding their model weights like dragon hoards, two Beijing companies quietly loaded up 2.8 trillion and 2.4 trillion…
On July 15, 2026, NASA selected 41 commercial technology projects to solve critical challenges for Moon and Mars missions.
Sony's next PlayStation generation may launch as a handheld device you can dock to your TV.
In January 2025, Google unveiled Willow — a 105-qubit quantum processor that solved an error-correction task in five minutes that would have taken the world's…
The rocket that will carry the first humans to Mars has already flown twelve times — and it's getting bigger with every launch.
What started as a text-to-music experiment in 2022 has exploded into a multi-million dollar industry.
Today Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV dropped a new CGI trailer showcasing the Necron faction — and it's genuinely the kind of reveal that makes you sit up…
The 12VHPWR failure that matters never announces itself. It cooks a single contact inside a connector while the machine keeps running, so the first sign is…
Every PC generation eventually matches the console on the storage spec sheet, and every generation the games still arrive with hitching on the way in.
Montech's TG3 is a $60 box with four 120mm fans, a perforated shroud, back-connect support and a lighting hub — a specification that would have read as a…
The Flova F50 is the first ATX tower I can name that ships a tangential blower as standard, and at $150 that alone earns it a look.
The public catalogue of Earth orbit runs to tens of thousands of objects, and it reads like a complete inventory.
The third-party cookie was never the tracking; it was the cheapest storage slot for the tracking.
Every kernel extension mechanism before this one asked you to trust the author of a module, because a module runs with the kernel's own privileges and a bug in…
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is the first mainstream desktop chip to put stacked cache on both of its compute dies, which is a genuinely new configuration.
Vector width is the one CPU feature that gets sold like clock speed and priced like die area.
Crimson Desert hard-powered-off two separate test machines, on two different GPU vendors, and froze or crashed several more.
Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is the first desktop processor from the company in three years that is priced like it wants to be bought.
A $200 desktop processor that is actually competitive should not be remarkable, but it has been a while.
The RX 9070 GRE fills the seat between the 9060 XT and the 9070, in exactly one market, at a price that only makes sense if you cannot buy anything else.
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is the 9800X3D with a better bin and a bigger number on the box. Same cores, same cache, same socket, same 120 W label.
Putting two kinds of core in one socket was an admission that most code does not need a wide, expensive core, and some code cannot survive without one.
The far side of the Moon is the only radio-quiet neighbourhood within reach, and that quiet is not a feature you can buy — it is the shadow of 3,474 km of…
Battery passports turn the argument about repairability into a documentation problem, and the documentation is the easy half.
WebAssembly escaped the browser and found a real job: running somebody else's code inside your process without trusting it.
American export controls on high-end GPUs are written to stop the sale, not the purchase, and that asymmetry is the entire story.
Splitting a big die into small ones is the main reason modern high-core CPUs are affordable to manufacture, and it moves a problem rather than deleting it.
For a stretch in late 2025 the GPU market behaved the way buyers had been asking it to: in-stock listings up, average premiums collapsing, and every current…
The question about Linux gaming is no longer whether it works, but whether it works consistently enough to trust.
Twenty-six coolers, two AMD heat loads and a hemi-anechoic chamber add up to a chart where the top of the air-cooling field sits inside about two degrees.
Three years in, Intel's Arc drivers are no longer the punchline they were at Alchemist launch.
Every quantum announcement leads with a qubit count, and that number tells you almost nothing.
Framerate counts frames. Frametimes measure how evenly they arrive. Neither says whether the world inside those frames is moving at the pace the game intended…
Wi-Fi 7 sells itself with a number — 46 Gbps — that no laptop will ever see, because it takes sixteen spatial streams to produce.
A motherboard socket that launched in 2016 is still getting new processors in 2025, and the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is the strangest proof of it: six cores, 96MB of…
Every few years somebody announces that a new language has made CUDA obsolete, and the benchmark that follows shows the port running at half the speed of the…
The Threadripper 9980X costs $5,000, carries a 350W TDP, and exists to run simulations, compilers, and financial models that pay for their own hardware.
Mars sample return is usually argued about as a budget line, and the budget is a symptom. The real constraint is a chain of multiplications: an ascent vehicle…
Every argument about reusable rockets eventually turns into a picture of a booster landing upright, and that picture is the least part that matters of the…
USB4 and Thunderbolt 5 share a connector, a negotiation protocol and, on a marketing slide, the same impressive number.
The thing that kept RISC-V out of shipping machines was never the instruction set. It was the pile of agreements that never make a slide: a frozen calling…
Scented thermal paste belongs on a trade-show shelf, not in a build log, and it is not why anyone should pay attention to ID-Cooling this year.
Thermaltake's immersion display is the most striking thing in its lineup and the least buyable: a Xeon workstation sunk in 50 liters of dielectric fluid…
TRYX is putting tangential blowers into an ATX tower and telling buyers the airflow will be smoother and the noise lower.
Scythe's European branch is in insolvency proceedings, its operations are consolidating in Taiwan, and the same trade show where that news landed featured a…
Cooler Master's most interesting hardware this year is not a cooler. It is a chassis assembled from eight corners and twelve columns, shipped as a kit of…
Noctua has been the last holdout on liquid cooling for as long as the category has existed, and the answer it brought is a pump block packed with printed…
AMD used Computex to fill in the bottom of its RDNA 4 stack and the top of its workstation stack at the same time: a $350 RX 9060 XT with 16GB, a 96-core…