Grand Theft Auto VI could cause a massive workplace productivity crisis
People are already planning to disappear for a week when GTA 6 launches
A massive Valve leak just exposed 12TB of old Steam data, no hacking required
No Half-Life 3 in sight, but data hoarders are celebrating nonetheless
Calibre can now generate custom book covers with AI
Calibre remains one of the best free tools for managing, converting, and organizing ebook libraries. Version 9.14 adds AI-generated book covers in several styles from sci-fi and romance to pulp fiction, plus improved tag searches, and support for Anthropic and Grok backends.
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 85% off the regular price.
Windows may finally take no for an answer, adding a permanent opt-out for OneDrive backup nags
The option has appeared on stable Windows 11 25H2 PCs, but Microsoft has yet to confirm the rollout
Apple prototyped and tested a Pencil accessory for its foldable iPhone
Display durability concerns will likely keep it on the sidelines, however
ICE seeks to purchase up to $2 million in Boston Dynamics Spot robots
The deal would bring Spot into one of its most controversial government roles yet
Nvidia and Intel supplier Unimicron under investigation over alleged relabeling of Chinese parts
The company is accused of relabeling China-made circuit boards as Taiwan-made
Man uses robot vacuum to catch cheating wife, wins $16,000 affair case, then gets jailed for secretly filming her
The husband's unusual evidence won the case, but also led to a fine and five months behind bars
A federal court just ruled Kalshi's sports markets are basically sports betting
The decision could strengthen similar challenges across Western states
Activision posts video showing Call of Duty cheat seller getting served at his home
Activision says it has disrupted more than 375 cheat reseller operations and served over 80 legal demands
Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit
GPU prices are rising sharply again, with GeForce cards taking the biggest hit. We tracked prices across 10 countries to see which GPUs are getting more expensive and where value remains, if any.
Your ChatGPT conversations could end up in court, and they're not protected
Chatbot conversations lack the legal privilege covering communications with lawyers, doctors, and therapists
Nvidia's $63 billion stock portfolio is a map of its own supply chain
The chipmaker's 13F filing shows it now owns big pieces of the companies it sells to, builds with, and depends on
The takeaway: Nvidia's latest 13F reveals a $63.4 billion portfolio of US stocks, and it is very lopsided. Intel and SpaceX account for roughly 80% of it. But the filing's most interesting detail is what didn't happen: seven of the eight positions were untouched last quarter, but the portfolio more than tripled in value anyway.
Cities are dropping Flock's surveillance cameras at a record pace
Flock says new city contracts still outpace cancellations by roughly 10 to one, however
NASA launched a space telescope on Sunday that will give astronomers a much wider view of the universe
Its enormous wide-field surveys will uncover planets, galaxies and cosmic structures
Fable PC requirements show it can run on an RTX 2060, but you'll need an RTX 5080 for 4K at 60 fps
The listed performance targets appear to be native
Scientists built a battery that charges almost instantly, but there's a catch
This new battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second, but don't expect it in your phone soon
Nvidia DLSS 5 is getting modded into just about every game, often with hilarious results
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
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GAMING
This is Grand Theft Auto 6
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AI + LAYOFFS
Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded
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"SOCIAL"
Meta to pay up to $18 billion to end trial over Instagram, Facebook child addiction
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SURVEILLANCE
Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, charged a man for destroying it
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GAMING
Sony reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased
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APPLE SILICON
Apple built its new M6 and M5 Ultra desktops for the people daisy-chaining Macs to run AI
Cloudflare freed up 100TB of RAM behind its 1.1.1.1 DNS without adding a single server
Five Rust code changes cut typical DNS cache entries from 953 bytes to 420 bytes
Micron's workers want the AI boom bonuses SK Hynix and Samsung already gave theirs
SK Hynix paid employees around $477,000 each, with next year's bonus potentially reaching $900,000
Bottom line: The profits of DRAM and NAND manufacturers have skyrocketed since the AI boom drove up demand for memory. After SK Hynix and Samsung awarded their employees generous bonuses from the windfall, union members at Micron are now wondering when they will receive their share.
South Korea is giving its entire population free access to AI, no token limits
About a quarter of South Koreans already pay for AI services, compared to just 2% of Americans
HP strikes deal with blacklisted Huawei to license essential Wi-Fi patents
HP said it was essentially compelled to strike a deal with the Chinese giant
Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 delayed to Q2 2027 to avoid GTA 6
Fable, Crimson Desert, and other games have also been pushed back to make room for GTA 6
Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet
High-quality, fast external storage that will cost you an arm and a leg
Data center backlash isn't about AI, it's about who pays the bills (and the noise)
Water disputes in Georgia and Wyoming have also fueled local opposition
Affinity is a free creative suite for photo editing, vector design, and page layout
Affinity combines professional photo editing, vector graphics, and publishing tools in one free app for Windows and macOS. Owned by Canva, it supports formats such as PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, and IDML, and is also featured in our Essential Apps selection.
Judge strikes down Anthropic blacklist, says government retaliated over Pentagon criticism
The court found no evidence that Anthropic posed a genuine national-security threat
Developer auctions off sticker space on a MacBook he hasn't even bought yet, and it worked
The auction has already attracted more than €7,000 in bids
The $700 Galaxy S26 FE brings Samsung's latest AI features to a cheaper phone with few hardware upgrades
Buyers get Android 17, an Exynos 2500 and seven years of updates
X says China used hundreds of bot accounts to amplify fears about AI data centers that many Americans already share
Does China really need to bother?
New US tariffs threaten to make PCs, game consoles, and data centers more expensive, again
Tech lobbyists worry tariffs could handicap the US in the AI race
Windows 10 users have just weeks left before Nvidia ends Game Ready driver updates
Nvidia will keep issuing critical security fixes, but new features and game-specific optimizations are ending
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