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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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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,
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HEATWAVES
Repair shops are booming as people keep putting phones in fridges
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MOBILE
iPhone hits 87% loyalty rate, Android-to-iPhone
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SOFTWARE
Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
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LOOK MA, NO BUBBLE
SoftBank says AI will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble
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.
A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk
No single byte is going to be wasted
Rufus improves Windows installs, adds RISC-V and UEFI:NTFS fixes
Rufus is a free utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISOs. Version 4.15 brings RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS, improves unattended Windows installations, and fixes Snapdragon X Arm64 boot crashes, and more.
CD sales are up 16%, but half the buyers don't even own a CD player
Young buyers see physical media as collectibles
AWS billing goes haywire, hits customers with bills as high as $7.8 trillion
Customers watched penny-sized monthly charges balloon into economy-sized bills
Samsung cuts hundreds of US jobs while AI boom sends chip profits soaring
The company is relocating its US consumer electronics headquarters from New Jersey to Texas
Valve's Steam Machine may be selling between 12,000 and 15,000 units per week despite its high price
Valve's latest hardware could be selling far better than many expected
Indie Gaming's Next Big Wave Is Coming From Outside the West
The next great game could come from anywhere. Developers across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Oceania are turning local stories and fresh ideas into global hits that are reshaping the industry.
FBI arrests 21-year-old accused of infecting 8,000 PCs with malware through fake Steam games
The scheme stole roughly $220,000 from about 80 crypto wallets over nearly two years
Nvidia may have RTX 5000 Super GPUs ready, but costly 3GB GDDR7 is holding them back
The new memory chips reportedly cost more than three times as much as standard 2GB modules
Bethesda confirms Fallout 5, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, and new Obsidian Fallout game
Microsoft is betting on Fallout and Elder Scrolls to reassure fans after brutal Xbox layoffs
India fined HP $14.4 million for rigging government bids and fixing ink and toner prices
WhatsApp messages allegedly show HP India and resellers splitting contracts and coordinating prices
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