SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble

Sarah Connor warned us: Multiple reports are routinely confirming that the alleged "AI revolution" is not going the way Big Tech and VC investors would like it to. SoftBank's founder and largest shareholder, however, still believes the revolution will come to pass. AI skeptics, in his view, are simply on the wrong side of history. Or are they?

Samsung launches new SSD 990: reviews praise the performance, question the price

HWMonitor restores hotspot temperature monitoring for RTX 50 GPUs

The Blood of Dawnwalker director says delayed next-gen consoles could benefit smaller studios

Windows Search is getting the cleanup users have wanted for years (more like decades)

The latest Microsoft Office 2024 Pro suite is now $55 in this limited-time deal

Christopher Nolan believes Gen Z will push back against generative AI and its growing influence

Intel's Starfire SoC combines 18A CPU, Intel 3 GPU, and NPU for space-grade computing

China's courts say your digital game items are inheritable – Steam and The West disagree

Black Flag Resynced is a smash hit, but 51 Ubisoft Barcelona developers are still being laid off

UChicago Law bans laptops and phones for first-year students, mandates in-class exams starting this fall

GigaWiper malware can wipe your hard drive, spy on you, and stream your screen live

Sega's Virtua Racing hits PC and Xbox for the first time, with 8-player online

Connecting the dots: Since its release way back in 1992, the legendary Sega Virtua Racing has been ported to a lot of machines, but Xbox and PC never made it onto the list. That has now changed. A developer going by Wanszai recently released an unofficial emulator, built to run the game and nothing else, for Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI

First look: AMD will give its first public look at Epyc Venice CPUs this month, showcasing the new Zen 6 architecture at the Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco on July 22. The demonstration will highlight performance for AI workloads, with AMD claiming a major speed increase over current Epyc chips.

OnePlus could be exiting the US and European markets as soon as this week

Black Flag Resynced is a hit, but its always-online requirement just proved it's not really offline

The studio behind MindsEye is flying fans in for playtests, all while laid-off workers protested outside

Steam just made $11 billion in the last 6 months, and most of it came from older games

Bottom line: Steam just posted its strongest half-year ever. In the first six months of 2026, it's estimated that games sold through the platform generated $11.1 billion in gross revenue, a record haul for the PC storefront. That figure is close to what Steam generated across all of 2021, a year boosted by pandemic lockdowns – also only 21% of that revenue comes from games released in 2026. The rest came from older titles in Steam's back catalog.

12 states sue to block Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal, warning of a "media behemoth"

Apple's iOS 27 public beta arrives with Siri AI, faster app launches, and more

Zimbra patched a flaw that let hackers hijack accounts just by sending an email

This GE Appliances plant couldn't keep workers until it built an app, like an Uber for factory work

Firefox is switching to a faster release schedule, just like Chrome and Edge