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Valve's Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version
The living room gaming PC is finally here. Whether it's worth the price is a harder question
Highly anticipated: After months of delays and growing anxiety about memory prices, Valve has officially confirmed pricing, configurations, and a June 30 launch date for its Steam Machine. The living-room gaming box starts at $1,049 for a 512GB model and climbs to $1,349 for the 2TB version – a significant premium over the sub-$750 figure that had been anticipated when Valve announced the hardware in November 2025. Getting one at launch, however, is far from guaranteed.
Anthropic's Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban
A Senate briefing, a jailbreak, a rushed export ban, and a rare Five Eyes alarm
Why it matters: Ten days ago, Anthropic was happy to announce its most advanced AI model was going public. Today, almost nobody can use it. On June 12, the Trump administration directed the company to restrict Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to US citizens only – unable to verify nationality at scale, Anthropic's only option was a full global shutdown, cutting off allies, researchers, and its own foreign-national employees with 90 minutes' notice. It's the first time the US government has applied export controls to an AI model, and the consequences are still unfolding.
Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats
The study is focused on stripping the perceived human-like nature off LLMs
Modder cools RTX 3060 with countertop ice machine, slashing gaming temps by up to 62%
Condensation remains the biggest problem with the build
A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop
After decades of stalled talks with EA, Richard Garriott is about to reclaim Ultima's rights
Cyberpunk's disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back
CDPR's co-CEO admits the studio "lost the faith of some people indefinitely"
Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference
Ultrasonic espresso could cut coffee energy use by 75%
A modder is finally bringing seamless co-op to Dark Souls II, over a decade later
TL;DR: More than a decade after its original release, Dark Souls II is set to receive a significant fan-made multiplayer update. A modder is currently working on a new "seamless" co-op mode that would theoretically allow the game to be played from start to finish in a single, soul-crushing session.
Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards with plastic GPU dies and missing memory
Another day, another fake GPU scam
A company just publicly admitted it expects to lose a day of productivity to GTA 6
Ripple effect: If you own a current-gen console, there's a chance you're one of many people who have booked time off work on November 19. That's when GTA 6 launches, and one company is apparently going to be so impacted by the number of missing employees on that day that it's issuing an operational pause.
Sandisk's new PS5 SSDs cost up to $2,960, that's five PlayStation 5 consoles
Thanks to AI, gaming is no longer the most affordable type of entertainment
Trump says Apple will work with Intel to build chips in the US
Intel could gain a major foundry customer as Apple looks to reduce its reliance on TSMC
What just happened? President Trump says that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its chips in America. In a Truth Social post, Trump complained that "Stupid Presidents" had "let Taiwan and others steal our Semiconductor Factories."
Stop Killing Games lost its biggest battle despite 1.3 million signatures, but the fight isn't over
The EU rejected the petition to stop publishers from bricking games – after meeting with Ubisoft
Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month
Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history's footnote?
Microsoft refreshes Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X2 chips, longer battery life, and higher prices
Compared with 2024's cheaper Snapdragon X Plus entry models, prices are up by as much as $500 and $600
The "Made in America" Trump phone is just a reskinned HTC U24 built in China
And the American flag design is missing two stripes
Noctua launches its first AIO liquid CPU coolers with a range of radiator sizes
Pricing starts at $220 for the 240mm model
Commodore's Callback 8020 is a $499 flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
The Sailfish OS powered handset runs 99% of Android apps, but social, Gmail, and web browsing are off limits
Xbox is closing Ninja Theory and Double Fine, and Compulsion may not be far behind
Microsoft's 100-day Xbox reset may bring more layoffs and studio closures
The Rotary Mouse reimagines the way we scroll through content
Do people really get sore fingers by just scrolling the mouse wheel?
The FBI built a fake town in Alabama to study and simulate real-world cyberattacks
More than 200 servers power simulations to stress-test America's digital infrastructure
Onimusha: Way of the Sword releases September 25 with surprisingly modest system requirements
The first mainstream Onimusha title in 20 years
SpaceX goes public in the largest IPO ever, and Musk crosses the trillion-dollar line
What $135 (or more) a share buys: a rocket business, Starlink, and a very, very large bet on AI